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- 28 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 28, 2007
advantage. We propose several frameworks to help firms develop and exploit this new ability. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-079.pdf Cases & Course Materials Royal DSM N.V.: Information Technology Enabling... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It
value appropriation to value creation. As information and knowledge came to provide competitive advantage, the game shifted. Unlike capital, knowledge actually increases when shared, thus eliminating the zero-sum game. Clearly, the focus... View Details
- 22 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrant Technologist: Studying Technology Transfer with China
circles. Q: What makes technology transfer happen? Is it entrepreneurial opportunity in the home country, a loyalty to the home country, or government policies that encourage or require people to come home? A: It's all of those. Surveys of these diasporic View Details
- 15 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Find Your Pragmatic Path through Radical Uncertainty
communicating with those who depend on us for advice and leadership. We must be willing to explain why we can’t answer all the questions. Credibility is a critical commodity in a crisis and it must not be wasted. “Who to trust” is a... View Details
- 12 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 12
shared value: focus on relationships, not on transactions, by using pricing to communicate that you value customers as people; set prices proactively to discourage detrimental behavior and to encourage behavior that is beneficial to both... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Workshop Encourages Corporate Reporting on Environmental and Social Sustainability
computing, can make a major contribution in the production of information by companies and its use by investors and other stakeholders," Eccles said after the conference. "The question is more one of will and commitment rather... View Details
- 29 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Creativity, Entrepreneurship, and Organizations of the Future
addressed in the future through excellent research informed by and communicated to insightful practitioners of creative entrepreneurship in organizations of all types. What will be published or other output... View Details
Keywords: by Teresa M. Amabile & Mukti Khaire
- 08 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Is That Really Your Best Offer?
behavior on an ongoing basis. Communication is a central part of that story. Negotiators can have good reasons for not saying everything they're thinking. Holding back information can be a simple matter of... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
- 08 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019
help him understand themes across the deals that can inform construction of new deals in the future. Topics include unsupervised learning; similarity and proximity; K-means clustering, with measures of Euclidean distance and cosine... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
2011) Abstract In this paper, we assess the economic viability of innovation by producers relative to two increasingly important alternative models: innovations by single-user individuals or firms and open collaborative innovation. We analyze the design costs and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Business Leaders Can Strengthen American Schools
sponsor of the National Math and Science Initiative, helped to scale two projects: one focusing on improved training for science, technology, and math teachers, the other on improving advanced placement test results in the same areas. Reinventing the local education... View Details
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
dynamic occurs because an organization's problem-solving routines and normal patterns of communication tend to constrain the space of designs within which it searches for new solutions. Such a link, if confirmed empirically, would be... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
is similar to those used by many organizations to encourage employees to communicate about operational problems. We find that process-improvement campaigns prompt employees to speak up and that campaigns increase the frequency of voicing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
No one is penalized for asking for help or making a mistake. These companies also employ four distinct approaches to day-to-day work: They use the best available knowledge (which is understood to be a moving target) to inform the design... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
Deconstructing the Price Tag
together” "By unpacking the costs, you have the opportunity to explain everything you did for the customer in putting that product or service together," says Bhavya Mohan, a Harvard Business School doctoral student in marketing. "When firms View Details
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Research Looks to Latin America
you: more police equals less crime. But there has been no evidence to support that [in previous studies]. "In 1994 there was a terrible terrorist attack on the Jewish community in Buenos Aires. Afterwards, the government placed one... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
because they were a chain, they were a business; they had very advanced processes like very good information systems. Health Stop grew to be a $100 million company. But these guys were run out of business by the hospitals and by the View Details
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
argue that this rule is feasible despite the limited powers of central authorities. We also offer a framework for reasoning about future prices of IP addresses and then explore the role of rentals in sharing information about the value of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and deployment of new health care technologies and delivery... View Details
Keywords: by HBS News
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
candidates are ready to provide information about their preferences for particular employers, and employers value and are prepared to act on this information. In this paper we study how a signaling mechanism, where each worker can send a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne