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30 Oct 2014
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Collective Genius: The Key to Leading Innovation

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C. Ludens Ringnes Sculpture Collection | About

March 2024
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Expanding the Bicester Collection to New York

By: Boris Vallee

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April 1998
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Becton Dickinson: Worldwide Blood Collection Team (Abridged)

By: Clayton M. Christensen

Becton Dickinson's Vacutainer business was largely based in the United States, but in 1980 management determined to grow the business aggressively first in Europe and then Japan. These areas demanded new products that were tailored to local markets. Despite the change... View Details

Keywords: Resource Allocation; Growth and Development Strategy; Change Management; Product Development; Global Strategy; Expansion; Innovation and Invention; Multinational Firms and Management; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; United States; Europe; Japan

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27 Oct 2015
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The Role of Business in Collective Impact

March 2022
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From Proprietary to Collective Governance: How Do Platform Participation Strategies Evolve?

By: Siobhan O'Mahony and Rebecca Karp

When platform leaders change the rules guiding who can access and control a platform, the strategies of those who create value from the platform can be upended. Little research examines how platform participants adapt their strategies when a platform leader changes the... View Details

Keywords: Platform Governance; Access; Crowdsourcing; Applications and Software; Employees; Leadership Style; Cybersecurity; Risk Management

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04 Mar 2010
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The Determinants of Individual Performance and Collective Value in Private-Collective Software Innovation

Keywords: by Ned Gulley & Karim R. Lakhani; Video Game; Web Services

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The Accidental Entrepreneur: The Emergent and Collective Process of User Entrepreneurship

We develop a process model of how users, an understudied source of entrepreneurship, create, evaluate, share, and commercialize their ideas. We compare and contrast our model to the classic model of the entrepreneurial process, highlighting the emergent and collective... View Details

Keywords: Customers; Commercialization; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention

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November 2007
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The Accidental Entrepreneur: The Emergent and Collective Process of User Entrepreneurship

By: Sonali K. Shah and Mary Tripsas

We develop a process model of how users, an understudied source of entrepreneurship, create, evaluate, share, and commercialize their ideas. We compare and contrast our model to the classic model of the entrepreneurial process, highlighting the emergent and... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Valuation; Business Model; Commercialization; Adoption; Adaptation; Product; Civil Society or Community

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September 24, 2021
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A Labor Movement for the Platform Economy

By: Li Jin, Scott Duke Kominers and Lila Shroff

Platforms are fundamentally changing the contract between workers and companies—and the workers and creatives that create value for platform companies, and rely on platforms for their livelihoods, often have little power when it comes to getting their concerns... View Details

Keywords: Gig Workers; Decentralized Collective Action; Internet and the Web; Labor; Labor and Management Relations; Digital Platforms

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Teach with Special Collections | Baker Library

Teach with Special Collections Serving as a key teaching and learning resource for the Harvard University community, Special Collections & Archives provides a range of course services for the undergraduate... View Details

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Search for Special Collections | Baker Library

Search for Special Collections We have numerous tools to assist you with locating and requesting books, serials, archival and manuscript collections, and other materials in our holdings. Catalogs & Databases The HOLLIS catalog searches... View Details

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Adam Smith - Vanderblue Collection | Baker Library

Adam Smith - Vanderblue Collection The Adam Smith – Vanderblue Collection is one of the most comprehensive collections of the works of Adam Smith in many translations and... View Details

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United Fruit Company Photograph Collection | Baker Library

United Fruit Company Photograph Collection Bringing fruit out to loading platform, Puerto Castilla, Honduras, circa 1920s. United Fruit Company photograph collection. The collection consists of 75 photograph... View Details

26 Jan 2024
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Hiring at HBS: How Summer Interns Make an Impact at Emerson Collective

Emerson Collective is an organization that works toward the equitable development of sectors like education, the environment, immigration, and health care through impact investing, philanthropy, advocacy, and more. The organization brings... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

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HBS Art Program & Collections | Baker Library

HBS Art Program & Collections The art collections at HBS serve as a key teaching and learning resource for the HBS community and beyond. The collections are especially... View Details

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Muriel Siebert Collection Use Agreement | Baker Library

Muriel Siebert Collection Use Agreement We ask all users to complete this form before using the Muriel Siebert Collection . Special Collections & Archives staff will follow up... View Details

04 Apr 2016
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Data Collection is the Ultimate Public Good

September 2024
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Backstage Matters: Collective Energy and Information Sharing on Global Teams

By: Wenjie Ma, Leslie A. Perlow and Eunice Eun

It is well documented that information sharing – which is central to team effectiveness – is complicated by cultural and geographical factors. However, little is known about the process of information sharing between subgroups within global teams. Building on Goffman’s... View Details

Keywords: Knowledge Sharing; Groups and Teams; Geographic Scope