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- 04 Oct 2024
- In Practice
Research-Based Advice for the Seasonally Overwhelmed and Schedule Challenged
inability to do so for just as long. How can someone overcome that cultural inheritance? It starts with managing one’s time at work. Technology allows work to encroach relentlessly on employees’ personal lives. If a person fails to put View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Foreign Multinationals in the U.S.: A Rocky Road
learning processes within multinational firms. For example, there is evidence that foreign firms, and perhaps U.S. ones also, find it easier to transfer knowledge within their boundaries from the United... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston & Martha Lagace
- 29 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors
Six degrees of separation seems to work well for B-list actors—but does it have anything to say about innovation and business? HBS associate professor Lee Fleming believes it does, and his work looks specifically at how ideas and innovation flow across company View Details
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
Information Costs Approach Zero By: Altman, Elizabeth J., Frank Nagle, and Michael L. Tushman Abstract—Innovation has traditionally taken place within an organization's boundaries and/or with selected partners. This Chandlerian approach... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Nov 2022
- Op-Ed
Feeling Separation Anxiety at Your Startup? 5 Tips to Soothe These Growing Pains
if you want to go deeper on a topic, let’s schedule a specific time to discuss and include others as needed.” Set boundaries for early-timers when they try to end-around new bosses Be open to listening to their ideas or complaints, but... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
Harvard Business Publishing, forthcoming No abstract is available at this time. Collaboration Across Knowledge Boundaries within Diverse Teams: Reciprocal Expertise Affirmation as an Enabling Condition... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
undermines creative thinking in tasks that draw on knowledge from multiple cultures. Three studies (a network survey and two experiments) found that ambient cultural disharmony decreased individuals' effectiveness at connecting ideas from... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 14
research on firm entry into new domains by examining heterogeneity in firms' framing and feature-level entry choices. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-007.pdf Modularity for Value Appropriation—How to Draw the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
centralization." Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-059.pdf Open Innovation and Organizational Boundaries: The Impact of Task Decomposition and Knowledge Distribution on the Locus of Innovation Authors:Karim R.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured
team boundaries to include clients. In my ongoing research across industries, I have found that the very best teams actually include clients as members of the core team, giving them joint accountability for helping to develop the team's... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 27 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
Gen AI Marketing: How Some 'Gibberish' Code Can Give Products an Edge
boundaries lie.” “Is a product getting ranked at the top because it genuinely has more desired features? Or is it just because I’m putting in some gibberish?” She says some of the urgency revolves around the fact that LLMs word their... View Details
- 11 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 11
than department-level-performance measures; (2) internal supply department routines that respond to specific patients' needs rather than to predetermined stocking routines; (3) knowledge that is necessary for efficient handoffs of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Best Practices of Global Innovators
to shorten development lead times and increase capacity; it can facilitate access to skills, capabilities, and intellectual property (IP) that a firm does not possess internally; and it can allow a firm to acquire relationships and View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Building Bridges: New Dimensions in Negotiation
establish a demilitarized buffer zone under the Egyptian flag rather than continue a vain zero-sum search over where to draw the boundary line in the sand. Although shared interests matter, Sebenius says, skilled two-dimensional... View Details
Keywords: by Anita M. Harris
- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
vertically integrated); (2) purchase goods for downstream units from other firms in the sector; and (3) sell goods from upstream units to other firms in the sector. We conjecture that having two-way vertically permeable boundaries may... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55004 Shifting Centers of Gravity: Host Country versus Headquarters Influences on MNC Subsidiary Knowledge Inheritance By: Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Mike Horia Teodorescu, and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 13, 2007
the organizational benefits of NPD teams, and identify five attributes of these teams that hinder attainment of their potential: (1) project complexity, (2) cross-functionality, (3) temporary membership, (4) fluid team boundaries and (5)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
If a Car Can Drive Itself, Can It Make Life-or-Death Decisions?
says. “These are boundaries or parameters you don’t want to cross. They could involve privacy, safety, or bias. Tell your team which issues you want to hear about as they arise.” Leaders who delegate tasks to human subordinates are still... View Details
- 10 May 2016
- First Look
May 10, 2016
not universal. However, there is evidence of a mirroring “trap”: firms focused on the current technical architecture may fall victim to architectural innovations arising outside their boundaries. Thus in technologically dynamic industries, partial mirroring, where... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
intermediate markets. Our comparative analysis suggests that firms elect the strategy of vertically permeable boundaries when they face low transaction costs and high rates of product innovation, but at the same time believe there are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne