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July 2015 (Revised October 2015)
Case

Building Strong Partnerships at the Inter-American Development Bank

By: Amy C. Edmondson, Erin L. Henry, Andreas Georgoulias and Natalie Bartlett

Building Strong Partnerships at the Inter-American Development Bank details the development of the bank's new Office of Outreach Partnerships to sustain a culture of innovation through maintaining and generating partnerships in order to fulfill the bank's greater... View Details

Educators

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Team Scaffolds: How Mesolevel Team Structures Enable Role-based Coordination in Temporary Groups

By: Melissa A. Valentine and Amy C. Edmondson

This paper shows how mesolevel structures support effective coordination in temporary groups. Prior research on coordination in temporary groups describes how roles encode individual responsibilities so that coordination between relative strangers is possible. We... View Details

Keywords: Groups and Teams; Health Care and Treatment; Cooperation; Health Industry

September 2012
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Food Choices of Minority and Low-Income Employees: A Cafeteria Intervention

By: Douglas E. Levy, Jason Riis, Lillian M. Sonnenberg, Susan J. Barraclough and Anne N. Thorndike

Background: Effective strategies are needed to address obesity, particularly among minority and low-income individuals.

Purpose: To test whether a two-phase point-of-purchase intervention improved food choices across racial, socioeconomic (job... View Details

Keywords: Working Conditions; Safety; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Competitive Advantage; Cost

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January 2005 (Revised August 2006)
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Lean Forward Media

By: Teresa M. Amabile and Victoria Winston

Jeff Norton and Michelle Crames, the co-founders of Lean Forward Media, face several options for producing the world's first interactive DVD film for children. Their vision is to build a company whose products simultaneously entertain children, engage them actively in... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Early Childhood Education; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Management Practices and Processes; Risk Management; Partners and Partnerships; Opportunities; Creativity

09 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

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

would like more information. These interactive sessions allow for feedback that would not be available with one-way communication tools. After-action review Take the time to review how your organization responded to the current situation... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott

21 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

Inside the OR: Disrupted Routines and New Technologies

specialized arena of MICS, but can be applied, they write, to technologies of a much broader scope, such as enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems in manufacturing, or interactive software tools that continue to revolutionize the way... View Details

Keywords: by Hilah Geer

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Online Business Strategy Courses | HBS Online

you’ll leverage course concepts, vital tools and frameworks, and the diversity of your peers’ perspectives to analyze the problem and determine a path forward. Active Immerse yourself in a dynamic, interactive learning experience. You’ll... View Details

09 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Location, Location, Location: The Strategy of Place

they don't have much choice but to cozy near the competition, especially when they need to plug into unique knowledge that exists in certain areas. Biotech companies, for instance, often operate close to top-notch universities to interact... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Jun 2024
News

Quantum Leap

estimate portfolio risk—something that classical computers struggle to do in a timely fashion. Quantum computers also should excel at modeling molecules and their interactions with one another, making it far easier to do everything from... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Chris Sorensen; quantum computing; innovation; leadership; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

04 Aug 2023
Blog Post

Aaron Sabin (MS/MBA 2023): Engineering a Climate Change Solution by Cutting the Cost of Carbon Capture

cells pass electrons to some of the molecules in the solution. The carbon in the CO2 is electrophilic—it’s drawn to the electrons in the liquid. So, when we pass it through the air contactor and the solution interacts with the atmosphere,... View Details

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Knowing Your Students - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

who might have unique contributions to make at specific points. Transcript Getting to Class Early Tom DeLong Many professors find that getting to class early helps them feel more prepared to interact with their students. Transcript Do... View Details

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

Interactive Messaging Unit (IMU), the online industry's catalyst for going "beyond the banner" and standardizing new ad formats that dramatically enhanced both the user experience and ad performance. His influence in this evolution earned... View Details

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People - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

the National Bureau of Economic Research from 2011 to 2018. His research is in the areas of behavioral finance, corporate finance, and capital markets, with a primary focus on the interactions among corporate finance, investor behavior,... View Details

2024
Chapter

Regulating Collective Emotions

By: Amit Goldenberg

When we think of emotion and emotion regulation, we typically think of them as processes occurring at the individual level. Even when emotions are experienced by multiple people who interact with each other, analysis is typically centered around individual-level... View Details

Keywords: Groups and Teams; Emotions; Behavior

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2017
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Institutional Theory and the Natural Environment: Building Research Through Tensions and Paradox

By: P. Devereaux Jennings and Andrew J. Hoffman

The focus of institutional theory is directed towards an understanding of situations where context is strong and binding, yet subtly experienced; where agency is often diffuse, embodied in an arrangement or system of actors rather than in an individual; and where... View Details

Keywords: Institutional Theory; Natural Environment; Research

2016
Book

Revolutionizing Innovation: Users, Communities, and Open Innovation

By: Dietmar Harhoff and Karim R. Lakhani

The last two decades have witnessed an extraordinary growth of new models of managing and organizing the innovation process, which emphasize users over producers. Large parts of the knowledge economy now routinely rely on users, communities, and open innovation... View Details

Keywords: Innovation and Management; Transformation; Collaborative Innovation and Invention