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  • 11 Oct 2010
  • News

It Pays to Hire Women in Countries That Won't

  • 2008
  • Working Paper

Wellsprings of Creation: How Perturbation Sustains Exploration in Mature Organizations

By: David James Brunner, Bradley R. Staats, Michael L. Tushman and David M. Upton
Organizations struggle to balance simultaneous imperatives to exploit and explore, yet theorists differ as to whether exploitation undermines or enhances exploration. The debate reflects a gap: the missing mechanism by which organizations break free of old routines and... View Details
Keywords: Disruption; Innovation and Management; Business Processes; Opportunities; Creativity
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Brunner, David James, Bradley R. Staats, Michael L. Tushman, and David M. Upton. "Wellsprings of Creation: How Perturbation Sustains Exploration in Mature Organizations." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-011, July 2008. (Revised June 2009, September 2010.)
  • 26 Sep 2018
  • HBS Seminar

Gustavo Manso, University of California Berkeley Haas School of Business

  • 13 Apr 2017
  • News

Candidates already know who you're going to vote for, and it's not through surveys

    Bridging Present Capabilities and Future Success: Organizational Ambidexterity

    IESE presentation - 21 September 2014 - Madrid

    Large, incumbent firms are often handicapped by their inability to explore new opportunities. Great firms, on the other hand, are able to overcome the tension between present and future success by exploiting and... View Details
    • February 2001 (Revised February 2002)
    • Case

    Estee Lauder and the Market for Prestige Cosmetics

    By: Nancy F. Koehn
    Opens with a brief history of the U.S. cosmetics market and its rapid development in the 1920s. Also recounts Lauder's initial involvement in the sector, making skin care products and selling them in Manhattan beauty parlors during the Great Depression. Pays particular... View Details
    Keywords: Fluctuation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Market Entry and Exit; Entrepreneurship; Luxury; Business Strategy; Society; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; United States
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    Koehn, Nancy F. "Estee Lauder and the Market for Prestige Cosmetics." Harvard Business School Case 801-362, February 2001. (Revised February 2002.)
    • 09 Jun 2020
    • News

    Brands under pressure to make a stand on racism

    • 13 May 2018
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Corporate Tax Cuts Increase Income Inequality

    Keywords: by Suresh Nallareddy, Ethan Rouen, and Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato
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    Leading Professional Service Firms

    By: Andy Wu
    As entry barriers rapidly disappear, competition is accelerating and reshaping the business landscape for professional service firms. Navigating this continual change successfully requires extraordinary leadership abilities. This professional service firm... View Details
    • April 2012
    • Article

    Celebrate Innovation, No Matter Where It Occurs

    By: Nitin Nohria
    The author offers opinions on technological innovations and innovations in business. It is argued that the country of origin of a technological innovation is less economically important than the ability of a society to capitalize on that innovation and convert it into... View Details
    Keywords: Technological Innovation; Profit; Commercialization; Marketing; Distribution
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    Nohria, Nitin. "Celebrate Innovation, No Matter Where It Occurs." Harvard Business Review 90, no. 4 (April 2012).
    • 12 Oct 1999
    • Research & Ideas

    Throwing Your Opponent: Strategies for the Internet Age

    instantaneously," the Internet has created a world in which competitive advantage can appear and disappear overnight. Yoffie and Cusumano use the term "judo strategy" to encompass the combination of capabilities that competing on Internet time demands—speed,... View Details
    Keywords: by Daniel Penrice
    • April 18, 2022
    • Article

    Will mRNA Technology Companies Spawn Innovation Ecosystems?

    By: Christoph Grimpe, Timo Minssen, W. Nicholson Price, II and Ariel Dora Stern
    The mRNA technologies that helped rapidly create effective COVID-19 vaccines could become technology platform businesses, which has tremendous implications for players in the world of drug development. These platforms could attract other companies interested in... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care; Digital Health; Technology; Innovation; Health Care and Treatment; Technological Innovation; Digital Transformation; Health Industry; United States
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    Grimpe, Christoph, Timo Minssen, W. Nicholson Price, II, and Ariel Dora Stern. "Will mRNA Technology Companies Spawn Innovation Ecosystems?" Harvard Business Review (website) (April 18, 2022).
    • Fall 2013
    • Article

    Spurring Innovation Through Competitions

    By: Alan MacCormack, Fiona Murray and Erika Wagner
    Alan MacCormack, Fiona Murray, and Erika Wagner examine the phenomenon of corporations using innovation contests. They write: "Companies are searching for better ways to identify and exploit novel solutions. Increasingly, they are discovering that many of the very best... View Details
    Keywords: Competition; Innovation Strategy; Innovation and Management
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    MacCormack, Alan, Fiona Murray, and Erika Wagner. "Spurring Innovation Through Competitions." MIT Sloan Management Review 55, no. 1 (Fall 2013): 25–32.
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    Strategy: Building and Sustaining Competitive Advantage

    By: Andy Wu
    In the fight for market leadership, your company must be able to build a winning strategy—and execute it seamlessly across multiple business lines. This program prepares you to identify and exploit sources of competitive advantage and implement game-changing... View Details
    • 21 Jul 2006
    • Op-Ed

    Enron Jury Sent the Right Message

    mention those who engage in other competitive endeavors) are fixated on exploiting rules to their advantage, instead of thinking about how best to build a sound business while complying with the principles that underlie the legal rules.... View Details
    Keywords: by Malcolm S. Salter
    • 2016
    • Working Paper

    Reviews, Reputation, and Revenue: The Case of Yelp.com

    By: Michael Luca
    Do online consumer reviews affect restaurant demand? I investigate this question using a novel dataset combining reviews from the website Yelp.com and restaurant data from the Washington State Department of Revenue. Because Yelp prominently displays a restaurant's... View Details
    Keywords: Revenue; Network Effects; Reputation; Social and Collaborative Networks; Food and Beverage Industry; Service Industry; Washington (state, US)
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    Luca, Michael. "Reviews, Reputation, and Revenue: The Case of Yelp.com." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-016, September 2011. (Revised March 2016.)
    • 2024
    • Article

    Crucibles, Multiple Sensitive Periods, and Career Progression

    By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Sunasir Dutta, Hise O. Gibson and Eric Lin
    We study the effects of crucible experiences along multiple sensitive periods on career progression. While prior literature has hinted that individuals can be imprinted during multiple sensitive periods, not just during the early career, there has been scant attention... View Details
    Keywords: Military Service; Personal Development and Career; Transformation; Power and Influence; Learning; Human Capital
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    Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Sunasir Dutta, Hise O. Gibson, and Eric Lin. "Crucibles, Multiple Sensitive Periods, and Career Progression." Academy of Management Proceedings (2024).
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    Sustaining innovation in mature organizations

    A theoretical investigation of how mature organizations can prevent exploitation (refinement of existing capabilities) from driving out exploration (development of new capabilities). We propose that perturbations create opportunity for organizations to learn. To... View Details
    • 02 Mar 2022
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    Harvard Census Identifies Most Commonly Used Open Source Packages

    • 2021
    • Working Paper

    Going to Extremes: Crucibles, Multiple Sensitive Periods, and Career Progression

    By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Sunasir Dutta, Hise O. Gibson and Eric Lin
    We study the effects of crucible experiences along multiple sensitive periods on career progression. While prior literature has hinted that individuals can be imprinted during multiple sensitive periods, not just during the early career, there has been scant attention... View Details
    Keywords: Jobs and Positions; Personal Development and Career; Management Skills; Human Capital
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    Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Sunasir Dutta, Hise O. Gibson, and Eric Lin. "Going to Extremes: Crucibles, Multiple Sensitive Periods, and Career Progression." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-006, August 2021.
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