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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Case Study: Sweat the Technique
are more performance and training related. Next, make sure there is good patent protection. And finally, develop a strategy for longer-term digital partnerships and begin the search. Find partners that will license the technology and... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
A Close-Up Look at the Men behind the Empire
mid-19th century. I selected individuals from different parts of the country who became true titans through the relentless pursuit of a vision or mission. My subjects either were inventors themselves or had leveraged technology in a new... View Details
- 04 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Your Org Chart Stuck in a Rut? Try a Scientific Experiment
If you want to be awed by the pace of technological advancement over the past few decades, compare the capabilities of a bulky PC from 1984 with those of a sleek smartphone in 2016. You’ll find stark differences. But if you want to be... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
course of history—and their own lives. The Captain, Linda and the Tiger Shark: Their Love Was His Armor by Carlos M. Lago (MBA 1977) Mill City Press A novel about love almost lost to the sea—and what lurks within. Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream: How View Details
- 29 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial
necessarily need an outsider to provide an outside perspective, however. Occasionally a creative, clear-headed insider can break free of both his company's and his own preconceptions by adopting a novel point of view. This was... View Details
- 08 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Europe Lags in Pharmaceuticals and Biotech
healthcare allows you to do something that means a great deal to the consumer. In a September speech, FDA Commissioner Mark McClellan said that low drug prices charged elsewhere in the world results in U.S. consumers paying more. He urged countries to View Details
- 27 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 27, 2009
innovations that allow local sectors to catch up with frontier technology. In poor countries, catching up requires the cooperation of a foreign investor who is familiar with the frontier technology and a domestic entrepreneur who is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
explore the role of organizational identity in the adoption of new sustainability practices, focusing on how identity functions as a driver of (or sometimes a drag on) adoption. Drawing on illustrations from the U.S. hotel industry, we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Value Added
percent of its revenues coming from abroad. In establishing its global presence, Gupta explains, McKinsey has adopted a modus operandi to ensure that the all-important values of the organization - "a meritocracy dedicated to the highest... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 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, outweighed by methods and the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Blockbuster! Why Star Power Works
blockbuster products. We're in a very interesting time—how the power struggle plays out will have great consequences for the future of media and sports. Q: Does the advance of digital technologies bolster or threaten the blockbuster... View Details
- 20 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 20, 2007
collective research process. In particular we show that the process of creating breakthrough innovations of meanings partially mirrors the process of creating breakthrough technological innovations. Studies of design-driven innovation may... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 2, 2007
anticipated that digital media using rich profiling data would intrude marketing messaging more deeply and more precisely into consumer lives than broadcast media had been able to do. But the technology that threatened intrusion is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
loved ones. However, widespread adoption of new medical innovations goes through three phases: Fear, Value, and Acceptance. Patients, physicians, and payers are understandably skeptical at first and fearful about how innovations may... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Alumni Books
requirements with life obligations and to persuade managers to adopt these custom-fit work strategies to improve their bottom line. Telling the stories of people at companies like JetBlue, Ernst & Young, and Best Buy, the authors discuss... View Details
- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement
Technological Eclecticism Could Help Journal of Applied Corporate Finance Amar Bhidé “Keynes thought it would be ‘splendid’ if economists became more like dentists. Disciplinary economics has instead become more like physics in focusing... View Details
- 05 Mar 2001
- What Do You Think?
Fine Coupling: Can Human Resource Management Learn from Supply Chain Management?
important." Scott Lichtman agrees, pointing out that "to be efficient in this fast-moving era rather requires longer-term investment in skills and strategy adoption by longstanding employees ..." On the other hand, Ryan... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Case Study: The Credit Bureau
the building manager project on a tablet what your apartment would look like furnished by Mobley. The furniture ultimately becomes a line item added to your monthly bill. That kind of B2B2C play is easily scaled, Ramírez says, but it’s a much longer selling cycle and... View Details
- 2024
- Working Paper
HIV Tests and AIDS Treatments—Containing a Fearsome Pandemic: Case Histories of Transformational Advances
By: Amar Bhidé, Srikant M. Datar and Katherine Stebbins
This case history describes how a diverse cast of characters, including public health organizations, research laboratories, for-profit healthcare companies, activists, and regulators, rolled back the outbreak of HIV/AIDS in just fifteen years. Moreover, as the case... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Technological Innovation; Innovation Strategy; Technology Adoption; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Invention; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
Bhidé, Amar, Srikant M. Datar, and Katherine Stebbins. "HIV Tests and AIDS Treatments—Containing a Fearsome Pandemic: Case Histories of Transformational Advances." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-007, July 2019. (Revised May 2024.)
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
negative outcomes in knowledge and technology transfer. Business enterprises emerge both as important drivers of international economic growth and as significant agents in the divergent patterns of wealth and poverty that have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne