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    Innovation and Design in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

    At the heart of any innovation process lies a fundamental practice: the way people create ideas and solve problems. This “decision making” side of innovation is what scholars and practitioners refer to as “design.” Decisions in innovation processes have so far been... View Details

    • 2016
    • Working Paper

    Foreign Competition and Domestic Innovation: Evidence from U.S. Patents

    By: David Autor, David Dorn, Gordon H. Hanson, Pian Shu and Gary Pisano
    Manufacturing is the locus of U.S. innovation, accounting for more than three quarters of U.S. corporate patents. The rise of import competition from China has represented a major competitive shock to the sector, which in theory could benefit or stifle innovation. In... View Details
    Keywords: Patents; Competition; System Shocks; Trade; Innovation and Invention; Manufacturing Industry; China; United States
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    • January 2002 (Revised March 2011)
    • Case

    Finland and Nokia: Creating the World's Most Competitive Economy

    By: Michael E. Porter and Orjan Solvell
    Finland, with a special language and culture, has developed as a country in between the west (the Nordic region and Europe) and the east (especially its neighbor Russia). In the 1980s, a process started of moving out of an investment-driven economy into an... View Details
    Keywords: Development Economics; Economic Growth; Growth and Development Strategy; Industry Clusters; Business and Government Relations; Competitive Strategy; Telecommunications Industry; Finland
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    • 2024
    • Case

    Christiana Figueres and the Paris Climate Negotiations (A)

    By: James K. Sebenius, Laurence A. Green, Hannah Riley-Bowles, Lara SanPietro and Mina Subramanian
    This three-part, stop action case study, structured for classroom discussion, centers on Harvard’s Program on Negotiation 2022 Great Negotiator, Christiana Figueres, and her efforts as Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change... View Details
    Keywords: Climate Change; Negotiation; Environmental Regulation; International Relations; Leadership
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    • 2016
    • Teaching Note

    Advanced Leadership Pathways: David Weinstein and Write the World

    By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Tessa Natanay Hamilton and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
    Teaching Note for Case 314-030. Following a successful career as a lawyer, Chief Administrative Officer of Fidelity Investments, and law school instructor, David Weinstein became a 2011 Advanced Leadership Fellow at Harvard University. During his Advanced Leadership... View Details
    Keywords: Writing; Online Platform; Social Entrepreneurship; Education; Internet and the Web; Competency and Skills; Leadership; Change Management
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    • 11 Oct 2023

    2+2 Program and Admissions Information Session

    Do you know where an MBA can take you? Open your mind to the breadth of career opportunities available in business and feel the flexibility of the MBA degree. Come learn more about the MBA program at HBS including the 2+2 Program, a... View Details
    • May 2011
    • Article

    Incentives and Problem Uncertainty in Innovation Contests: An Empirical Analysis

    By: Kevin J. Boudreau, Nicola Lacetera and Karim R. Lakhani
    Contests are a historically important and increasingly popular mechanism for encouraging innovation. A central concern in designing innovation contests is how many competitors to admit. Using a unique data set of 9,661 software contests, we provide evidence of two... View Details
    Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Problems and Challenges; Risk and Uncertainty; Innovation and Invention; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Value; Applications and Software; Competition; Performance; Theory; Practice
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    • April 2015
    • Supplement

    Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp: Redefining Success in the U.S. (B)

    By: Gautam Mukunda, Thomas DeLong and Aldo Sesia
    This (B) case describes the actions André Wyss, president of Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, took in early 2012 to transform the company's General Medicines group and build its specialty medications, marketing the selling capabilities in the face of falling... View Details
    Keywords: LEAD; Leadership And Change Management; Talent Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leadership; Change Management; Talent and Talent Management; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States
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    • September 2013
    • Article

    Status Boundary Enforcement and the Categorization of Black-White Biracials

    By: Arnold K. Ho, Jim Sidanius, Amy J.C. Cuddy and Mahzarin R. Banaji
    Individuals who qualify equally for membership in more than one racial group are not judged as belonging equally to both of their parent groups, but instead are seen as belonging more to their lower status parent group. Why? The present paper begins to establish the... View Details
    Keywords: Hypodescent; Social Dominance Orientation; Intergroup Threat; Hierarchy Maintenance; Equality and Inequality; Race; Rank and Position; Attitudes; Identity
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    • 21 Aug 2000
    • Research & Ideas

    Inside the OR: Disrupted Routines and New Technologies

    technology. Much of the research to date on innovation has focused on factors in an organization—timing of adoption decisions, overall organizational support of innovation, and an organization's history of innovation—that are one step... View Details
    Keywords: by Hilah Geer
    • 2024
    • Case

    Christiana Figueres and the Paris Climate Negotiations (B)

    By: James K. Sebenius, Laurence A. Green, Hannah Riley-Bowles, Lara SanPietro and Mina Subramanian
    This three-part, stop action case study, structured for classroom discussion, centers on Harvard’s Program on Negotiation 2022 Great Negotiator, Christiana Figueres, and her efforts as Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change... View Details
    Keywords: Climate Change; Negotiation; Environmental Regulation; International Relations; Leadership
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    • June 2013
    • Article

    Unconscious Thought Reduces Intrusion Development: A Replication and Extension

    By: Julie Krans, Dorte Janecko and Maarten W. Bos

    Background and Objectives: Intrusive images after a traumatic event, a hallmark feature of post-traumatic stress disorder, are suggested to develop because the trauma memory is disorganized and not integrated into autobiographical memory. Unconscious Thought... View Details

    Keywords: Health Disorders; Cognition and Thinking
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    • October 2000 (Revised December 2000)
    • Exercise

    Participant and Leader Behavior: Group Decision Simulation (D)

    This series provides the instructions for a group decision-making simulation in which students experience four different methods for leading a group decision process. In the simulation, all students work in groups, with one person designated as the team leader. All... View Details
    Keywords: Groups and Teams; Decision Making
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    • October 2000 (Revised December 2000)
    • Exercise

    Participant and Leader Behavior: Group Decision Simulation (F)

    This series provides the instructions for a group decision-making simulation in which students experience four different methods for leading a group decision process. In the simulation, all students work in groups, with one person designated as the team leader. All... View Details
    Keywords: Groups and Teams; Decision Making
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    • Research Summary

    Team, Individual, and Organizational Learning From Experience in Two High-Hazard Industries

    High-hazard industries such as nuclear power and chemical process plants must learn and improve without sole reliance on trial-and-error. Considerable attention and resources are placed on learning from operating experience, including exchange of best practices, peer... View Details
    • 29 Aug 2012
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Entrepreneurship and Urban Growth: An Empirical Assessment with Historical Mines

    Keywords: by Edward L. Glaeser, Sari Pekkala Kerr & William R. Kerr; Manufacturing
    • August 2012
    • Supplement

    William Jeffrey: Departing Bay Colony (C)

    By: Lena G. Goldberg
    The decision-making process, policies and procedures, and legal obligations of the Board, the company's inside counsel and the company's outside counsel are explored in connection with on-boarding, investigating alleged misconduct of, and terminating a company's CEO,... View Details
    Keywords: Leadership And Managing People; Employment Law; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Resignation and Termination; Governance Compliance; Leadership; Insurance Industry; Financial Services Industry; United States
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    • 2008
    • Working Paper

    The Small World of Investing: Board Connections and Mutual Fund Returns

    By: Lauren Cohen, Andrea Frazzini and Christopher J. Malloy
    This paper uses social networks to identify information transfer in security markets. We focus on connections between mutual fund managers and corporate board members via shared education networks. We find that portfolio managers place larger bets on firms they are... View Details
    Keywords: Asset Pricing; Investment Portfolio; Governing and Advisory Boards; Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Social and Collaborative Networks; Financial Services Industry
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    • October 2018 (Revised January 2019)
    • Case

    The Financial Crisis: Timothy Geithner and the Stress Tests

    By: Samuel G. Hanson, Robin Greenwood, David Scharfstein and Adi Sunderam
    In February and March 2009, the U.S. economy was in the midst of a terrifying financial and economic crisis. Between the beginning of 2008 and early 2009, four of the 25 largest U.S. financial institutions had failed, and nine of these 25 institutions had taken... View Details
    Keywords: Bailout; Regulation; Stress Test; Financial Crisis; History; Economy; Policy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Decision Making; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; Real Estate Industry; United States
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    • 09 Jul 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization

    insights and practices as pandemic recovery plans are developed. Consider these five elements of organizational decision-making: information gathering; strategy; combining long-term thinking with short-term actions; clear communication... View Details
    Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott