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  • 18 Aug 2008
  • Research & Ideas

How Disruptive Innovation Changes Education

our schools." The ability of these lenses to shed new light on complicated problems has been proven in contexts ranging from national defense to semiconductors; from health care to retailing; and from automobiles to financial... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education
  • 17 Dec 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The Rise of Medical Tourism

might be more efficient to move the patients to where the doctors are as long as we are not compromising the health care of the patients." Khanna recently sat down with HBS Working Knowledge to discuss the globalization of health care in the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies
  • Research Summary

Understanding Customers

In conventional business case studies, protagonists almost never have the option of stepping back to seek a new understanding of the customer. But to be effective in practice, managers need both the self-assurance and ability to initiate and pursue, with rigor and... View Details
  • 11 Oct 2013
  • HBS Seminar

Sen Chai, Post-Doc Labor & Worklife Program at the Harvard Law School, and NBER

  • 21 Aug 2000
  • Research & Ideas

From Emerging Economies to the Global Market: The Case of Embraer

this is the positive of globalization—the ability to try and transcend the difficulties of your domestic context in order to improve your competitiveness," Ghemawat said, "then one of the downsides, or at least one of the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Manufacturing
  • 04 May 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Is Web Surfing Distracting Your Workers?

the energy spent resisting temptation takes attention away from other tasks, but no one had ever investigated it in the context of a work environment. "Our idea was to investigate this theory that says when we resist temptation we... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • Web

Launching Tech Ventures | HBS Online

provisions on a term sheet 5-6 hrs Module 4 Scaling Post Product-Market Fit Articulate how the competitive context can influence early startup decisions and determine when to apply and leverage a product-led growth strategy. Highlights... View Details
  • 21 Sep 2023
  • Blog Post

Hands-on Learning About Global Markets

is critical,” he observes. “Even with my global experience, there was still that level of learning that I needed to have about Argentina before I could add value because individual countries have nuances that necessitate an understanding of local View Details
  • January 2024
  • Case

National Football League and Private 5G

By: Andy Wu, Grant Son and Shuoyu Chen
On September 9, 2021, the National Football League (NFL) designated Verizon as its official 5G partner in a 10-year deal, committed to enhance the experience for NFL teams, players, and fans in stadiums. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said, “Verizon will help us... View Details
Keywords: Football; National Football League; 5G; Verizon; Communication Technology; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Technology Adoption; Risk and Uncertainty; Business Strategy; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Sports Industry; Telecommunications Industry
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  • 18 Dec 2019
  • Book

6 Skills That Wise Companies Harness for World-Changing Innovation

interactive,” he says. “Leaders should be conscious about creating these contexts to foster a wise company.” Honda knew how to create this kind of buzz. “In the old days,” Takeuchi says, “it was OK to have drinks after work, and he would... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 28 Mar 2024
  • Blog Post

IFC India: RMZ EcoWorld

of sustainability efforts, decarbonization, and net zero in the context of a broader development agenda. The class culminated in a series of site visits in January 2024 in Mumbai and Bangalore and this is one of 14 student essays that... View Details
  • 05 Sep 2018
  • Research & Ideas

The Hidden Benefit of Giving Back to Open Source Software

managers with more information to guide decision-making toward increasing social welfare in areas where it makes sense for the firm and in the context of the new tech-driven business ecosystem. “More and more, firms are having to interact... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Computer
  • Research Summary

Models of optimal experience (flow)

Flow is a state of profound task-absorption, involvement, and intrinsic enjoyment that makes the person feel one with the activity. Csikszentmihalyi's Flow Theory states that flow is more likely to occur in situations in which the person feels that the activity is very... View Details
  • 2015
  • Working Paper

Competitiveness and Clusters: Implications for a New European Growth Strategy

By: Christian H.M. Ketels
This paper develops policy recommendations on the use of cluster-based economic policies and the adoption of a new concept of competitiveness in the context of the new growth path that WWWforEurope aims to outline.
A first section discusses and derives an... View Details
Keywords: Competitiveness; Clusters; Economic Policy; European Union; Competition; Industry Clusters; Policy; Economic Growth; European Union
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  • 21 Nov 2015
  • HBS Case

HBS Cases: Stella McCartney Combines High Fashion with Environmental Values

the context of luxury is just fascinating because on the one hand they seem very contradictory, luxury and sustainability. Luxury for many people is all about excessiveness and waste. “Such products do not feel luxurious to more ethically... View Details
Keywords: by Brian Kenny; Fashion
  • 02 Aug 2020
  • What Do You Think?

Is the 'Experimentation Organization' Becoming the Competitive Gold Standard?

level. Their work has been both influenced by and reported recently by several academics. Harvard Business School professors Michael Luca and Max Bazerman track experimentation in decision-making back to the Book of Daniel, BC 167-164. They put forward a View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology
  • 29 Jul 2013
  • Research & Ideas

A Manager’s Moral Obligation to Preserve Capitalism

the context of an ethical framework that legitimizes self-interested behavior. Our challenge is to provide evidence and arguments for why the 'self-interest' ethical framework does not hold water in the case of 'thin political... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 04 Feb 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Are the Big Four Audit Firms Too Big to Fail?

Big Five era (1999-2002), and the Big Four era (2003-2006). All but the final consolidation were due to mergers and acquisitions; the last contraction was due to the collapse of Arthur Andersen. The researchers studied how often and in what View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting
  • 09 Jun 2024
  • Blog Post

The EC Formula: MBA Class of 2024 Looks Back

was a great time for self-reflection in the context of active exploration of different career paths. What advice would you give to prospective MBA students interested in your field?I encourage anyone interested in entrepreneurship or... View Details
  • Web

Sexual Harassment - Race, Gender & Equity

experiences and reactions in the context of their current workplaces. In the results below, we focus on women who are working full time. About half of alumnae had recently experienced some kind of harassment, ranging from sexually... View Details