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- 15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15
circumscribe citizen-employees, and they engage in production and trade. But individual corporations are no longer adequate to serve as the primary unit of analysis. Over the years, systems of distributed innovation-so-called business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jan 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Should Management Deal With “Anonymous”?
large-size organization that has become wedded to the economies and convenience of the Internet? For example, assuming that email even exists five years from now, will we be able to use it for business purposes? Will large data files have... View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
applications available on it. Our model is based on the observation that even if users prefer application variety, applications often also exhibit direct network effects. When there are direct network... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 11 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure
Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many agree that the need for infrastructure change is... View Details
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Caught in the Cogs: When Manufacturing and IT Meet
support to network management and disaster recovery. Start With Simple Steps SupplierInsight's Bart Blackburn warned that the reams of information flowing from the Internet did not, in fact, make the manager's job less difficult or the... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
compare those clicks with users' subsequent purchases. Ever-cheaper IT makes this tracking cost effective and routine. In addition, a web of interlocking ad networks trades inventory and offers to show the right ad to the right person at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Upgrading School with a Startup Mentality
launch his own network of schools because he believed typical elementary education was not preparing students adequately for the future. Instead, Ventilla created "microschools," each with 80 to 150 K-8 students, with a focus on... View Details
- 03 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 3
PublicationsTalk, Inc.: How Trusted Leaders Use Conversation to Power Their Organizations Authors:Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind Publication:Harvard Business Review Press, 2012 Abstract How can leaders make their big or growing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 20, 2007
therefore implies to manage the interaction with these interpreters, in order to access, share and internalize knowledge on product languages and influence shifts in socio-cultural models. Second, we propose a possible direction to scientifically investigate the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
majority/minority status, disproportionately affecting women and underrepresented minorities. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-066.pdf PublicationsHandbook of Leadership Theory and Practice Authors:Nitin Nohria and Rakesh Khurana, eds.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
theoretical frameworks arrived at via in-class discussion; 3) identification of a set of core issues vital to practice that collectively approximate IS management as a business discipline; and 4) design for student engagement, in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 28
Chi-ho WongHarvard Business School Case 312-102 Midway through its current three-year plan, Li & Fung stop to assess the path it is taking in extending its distribution network View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
Gerson Lehrman Group: Managing Risks Boris Groysberg, Paul M. Healy, and Sarah L. AbbottHarvard Business School Case 412-004 It was June 2011 and Alexander Saint-Amand, president and CEO of Gerson Lehrman Group, the largest expert View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’
communicate with them in a dynamic, two-way fashion. Fifth, there is technological change. As digital networks make instant connectivity the norm of business life, and as social media platforms grow more... View Details
Keywords: Re: Boris Groysberg
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
When In-House Research Isn’t Enough
research must be much more thoughtful about accessing external resources. What I'm advocating is an expanded view of R&D, blending the external with the internal." Exemplifying one of Chesbrough's outward-looking approaches was panelist Les Vadasz; a graduate... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 09 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Career Advancement Without Experience
used by contract workers to obtain stretchwork. O'Mahony is an assistant professor at Harvard Business School while Bechky is an assistant professor at the Graduate School of Management at the University of California, Davis. "More... View Details
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
by networks of other people who can supply the thousand things it takes to fuel a business. Here is how William Sahlman, business educator and scholar, began a paper, "Some Thoughts on View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 21 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 21
Cases & Course MaterialsAnalyzing New Venture Opportunities Harvard Business School Note 809-163 The note describes a systematic process for framing and researching the issues that should be analyzed in the course of considering a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 9
Authors:Diego Comin, Mark Gertler, and Ana Maria Santacreu Abstract We develop a model in which innovations in an economy's growth potential are an important driving force of the business cycle. The framework shares the emphasis of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
Cuts Harvard Business School Case 709-037 As his inauguration approached, President-elect Obama faced a financial sector meltdown, a costly bailout, and massive government deficits. With the economy in recession, interest rates near zero,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace