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  • 2016
  • Book

Building the Future: Big Teaming for Audacious Innovation

By: Amy C. Edmondson and Susan Salter Reynolds
Machiavelli famously wrote, "There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things." That's what this book is about—innovation far more audacious... View Details
Keywords: Teaming; Innovation; Leadership; Groups and Teams; Innovation and Invention
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  • 27 Aug 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses

and research, it can best contribute to what will be a major new force in the American economy. For several decades, the view from the HBS campus across Western Avenue has been decidedly "old... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Biotechnology; Health

    Trevor Fetter

    Trevor Fetter is a Senior Lecturer and the Henry B. Arthur Fellow at Harvard Business School, where he has been on the faculty since 2019. He teaches two MBA required courses: Financial Reporting and Control and Leadership and Corporate Accountability. He has also... View Details

    • 09 Nov 2010
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Unbundling of Advertising Agency Services: An Economic Analysis

    Keywords: by Mohammad Arzaghi, Ernst R. Berndt, James C. Davis & Alvin J. Silk; Advertising
    • 27 Jun 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    Gen AI Marketing: How Some 'Gibberish' Code Can Give Products an Edge

    It’s the new way of comparison shopping in the age of large language models (LLM): Tapping into AI-driven search engines for research and advice on which products to buy. But can consumers trust the recommendations to be impartial? View Details
    Keywords: by Ben Rand; Technology
    • September 2016 (Revised September 2017)
    • Case

    Collage.com: Scaling a Distributed Organization

    By: Christopher Stanton and Shikhar Ghosh
    Kevin Borders and Joe Golden, co-founders and co-CEOs of Collage.com, must decide how to grow their custom photo-products startup in the face of fierce competition. From 2011 through 2016, the business evolved from a hobby to a startup with $22 million in revenue and... View Details
    Keywords: Remote Work; Internet and the Web; Organizational Structure; Competitive Strategy; Employees; Business Startups; Growth and Development Strategy; Consumer Products Industry; Service Industry
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    • May 1996 (Revised March 1998)
    • Case

    SaleSoft, Inc. (A)

    By: Das Narayandas
    SaleSoft, a start-up firm, markets Comprehensive Sales Automation Solutions (CSAS) that automate a firm's sales, marketing, and service functions. Even though the product has received very favorable responses from prospects, product complexity and a long buying cycle... View Details
    Keywords: Business Startups; Decisions; Revenue; Marketing Strategy; Product Launch; Sales; Opportunities; Information Technology; Technology Industry
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    • 07 Jun 2004
    • What Do You Think?

    How Important are Big Ideas?

    Summing Up Judging from responses to the June column, big ideas rank high on a list including technology and intellectual property as sources of competitive advantage. But they are only a starting point,... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 25 Jul 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    How Disruptive Innovation is Remaking the University

    universities. In this excerpt, they discuss the idea of a university's DNA. In the absence of a disruptive new technology, the combination of prestige and loyal support from donors and legislators has... View Details
    Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen & Henry J. Eyring; Education
    • 2014
    • Working Paper

    The Organizational and Geographic Drivers of Absorptive Capacity: An Empirical Analysis of Pharmaceutical R&D Laboratories

    By: Francesca Lazzeri and Gary P. Pisano
    Scholars and practitioners alike now recognize that a firm's capacity to assimilate and use know-how from external sources—what Cohen and Levinthal (1990) called "absorptive capacity"—plays a central role in innovation performance. In recent years, a common strategy... View Details
    Keywords: Geographic Location; Industry Clusters; Knowledge Acquisition; Pharmaceutical Industry; San Francisco; San Diego; Massachusetts
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    • 30 Mar 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    Readers Ask: I Need Tips for Working at Home

    Shifting to remote work raises many questions for managers and employees, especially when it happens quickly as a result of a crisis. Prithwiraj “Raj” Choudhury, the Lumry Family Associate Professor of Business Administration in the View Details
    Keywords: by Kristen Senz

      Michael A. Wheeler

      Mike Wheeler joined the HBS faculty in 1993 and has taught extensively in its MBA, Executive, and distance learning programs. His highly interactive 8-week/40-hour HBS Online Negotiation... View Details

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      • June 1998 (Revised April 2000)
      • Case

      GM Powertrain

      By: Amy C. Edmondson and Mikelle Eastley
      Discusses a young MBA plant manager who is improving the operations of a small General Motors components plant in Fredericksburg, Virginia. At 29 years old, Joe Hinrichs is the youngest plant manager at GM, and in his new assignment, he is faced with the daunting... View Details
      Keywords: Service Operations; Labor Unions; Problems and Challenges; Technological Innovation; Change Management; Machinery and Machining; Manufacturing Industry; Auto Industry; United States
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      • 04 Feb 2016
      • Blog Post

      Meet the HBS Tech Club

      At HBS, the Tech Club aims to educate the community on the latest technology trends and skills, to facilitate recruiting opportunities, and to foster social and professional networking within HBS, greater Harvard, and the Boston area. The... View Details
      • 07 Sep 2016
      • What Do You Think?

      How Can the Threat of Networks Be Reduced?

      SUMMING UP Are Computers and Tech-Driven Networks In Their Twilight Years? Issues raised by the ascendancy of network technology are many and varied, judging from responses to this month’s column based on... View Details
      Keywords: by James Heskett
      • Research Summary

      The Process of Managing Business Transformation

      By: Richard L. Nolan
      Richard L. Nolan is examining the process of business transformation, which he characterizes as the creative destruction of industrial economy management principles and the evolution of a set of workable management principles for the information economy. According to... View Details

        Richard G. Hamermesh

        Richard Hamermesh was the MBA Class of 1961 Professor of Management Practice at the Harvard Business School. While at HBS Richard served as co-chair of the HBS Healthcare... View Details

        Keywords: health care
        • 04 Sep 2007
        • Research & Ideas

        Jumpstarting Innovation: Using Disruption to Your Advantage

        also teaches courses on innovation and building new ventures to seasoned executives in the School's Executive Education Program. This excerpt from a recent presentation encourages executives to leverage... View Details
        Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate
        • September 2006 (Revised December 2006)
        • Case

        Arizona Department of Public Health: The Challenges of Preparing for a Public Health Emergency

        By: Lynda M. Applegate, Ajay Vinze, T. S. Raghu and Minu Ipe
        In the post-9/11 era information technology enablement for emergency preparedness and response have taken on increased significance. Public health organizations like ADHS play a critical role in any statewide preparation for large scale emergencies. With issues like... View Details
        Keywords: Problems and Challenges; Information Technology; Health Care and Treatment; Business Processes; Service Delivery; National Security; Health Industry; Public Administration Industry; Arizona
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        • August 1998
        • Case

        Electronic Commerce at Air Products

        By: F. Warren McFarlan and Melissa Dailey
        In 1998,chief information officers (CIOs) in the highly competitive international gases and chemicals business faced the reality that electronic commerce capability was a strategic necessity. The results of annual surveys of technology officers in the chemical industry... View Details
        Keywords: Management Teams; Information Technology; Globalized Markets and Industries; Infrastructure; Internet and the Web; Technology Adoption; Business Strategy; Chemical Industry; United States
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