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- 14 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove on the Confident Leader
knowledge of the business is not what got you where you are. So you're less likely to have confidence in your own intuition. This is an intuitive process, because the numbers aren't in and the evidence isn't in. CC: The problem with the... View Details
- 12 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 12, 2006
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=607010 Note on Health Savings Accounts, Flexible Spending Accounts, and Health Reimbursement Account Vendors Harvard Business School Note 307-034 Purchase this note:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/617018-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 517-018 reMarkable: e-Writing the Future Magnus Wanberg is the creator of reMarkable, a breakthrough e-writer device set apart from similar products on the market by having View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
where people are both willing and able to do the hard work that innovative problem solving requires. Collective Genius will not only inspire you; it will give you the concrete, practical guidance you need to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
Vijay Govindarajan (MBA 1976, DBA 1978) (Harvard Business Review Press) Leaders understand that creating a new business and optimizing an already existing one are two fundamentally different management challenges. The real problem for... View Details
- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
and compensation committees didn't do their jobs responsibly. But boards can only do so much — their members, after all, are part-timers. And while they're expected to be independent, they have to rely heavily on managers and auditors for information. One View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
government: one viewing the government as inefficient, invasive, and easily corrupted, and another seeing it as a vehicle for solving people's problems. Yet the ideological divide may not be the true source of the breakdown. A look at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 16
Specifically, products tend to "mirror" the architectures of the organizations in which they are developed. This dynamic occurs because the organization's governance structures, problem solving... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Sorting Out the Patent Craze
One of the fascinating challenges today is in the life sciences. In many areas related to biotechnology, there are conflicting patents covering areas such as the tools necessary to do research. Yet there is far less of a tradition of using mechanisms such as standard... View Details
- 19 Aug 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #8: The Role of Solar and Wind Farming (and Other Tools) in the United States’ Clean Energy Future
she works in electricity, but her career fulfills her goal of problem solving in a practical way. “I wanted to focus on practical and process-oriented engineering, how to eliminate waste and be more... View Details
- 07 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 7
is revealed to students so the unfolding of events keeps students interested and engaged in how to solve the various problems that arise, including a near mutiny. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis
face reality, engage in real debate and help solve our nation's problems? As citizens (and voters), I believe we must insist on it. william A. Sahlman, Dimitri V. D'arbeloff-mba Class Of 1955 Professor Of Business Administration I don't... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
world as it is? Who are we? What can I live with? All five questions must be answered. According to the author, “Each question is an important voice in the centuries-long conversation about what counts as a sound decision regarding a hard View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 16, 2016
experience. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50573 2015 Shaping Entrepreneurial Mindsets: Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Leadership Development Design Thinking and Innovative Problem View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Winners & Success Stories | New Venture Competition
because they cannot access diagnostic tools to manage their health. DFA aims to solve this problem with an elegantly simple solution that puts the power of a diagnostic lab at a patient’s fingertip. DFA has... View Details
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
implementation of radical routines and resource configuration. Structural arrangements, pre-set change routines, and existing decisional priorities are insufficient to fashion relevant capabilities into new core activities. Ad-hoc problem... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 May 2020
- In Practice
Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On
find that entrepreneurial leadership is key. To attract people to work with you, it is important to demonstrate that you are taking steps to address the crisis. At the same time, they must inspire people to find innovative ways to solve... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 15 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 15
but related through their connection with an underlying, evolving technical system. In the future, I believe the key problem for organization design will be the management of distributed innovation in such dynamic systems. Organization... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 11 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Hackathons Help Decide Platform Winners and Losers
mass of consumers and producers. “If I was a tech company, I would sponsor every single hackathon I could find.” The researchers used an innovative dataset to show that the social environment of hackathons can solve a number of View Details
- 02 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2006
item popularity curve. Jim Heskett asks: Does the Long Tail represent a paradigm shift for business and consumer behavior? What are its implications for management going forward? Is MySpace.com Your Space? Social networking sites such as MySpace.com have demographics... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne