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- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company
following words with deeds, and he was not liked by the unions. (With hindsight, it is debatable whether he really intended to pursue the more radical restructuring plan; however, what matters is that the unions believed he would.) In... View Details
Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson
- 27 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 27
of technology. It reviews some opportunities for innovation that will solve the pain points and bottlenecks facing the system and outlines high-priority policy areas. It becomes clear that individual airlines have often been managed back... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
human capital are also important for the effect of FDI on economic growth. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-013.pdf Architectural Innovation and Dynamic Competition: The Smaller "Footprint" Strategy... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Kind of Blue: Pushing Boundaries with Miles Davis
only two short sessions in 1959. At the age of 32, Davis coaxed innovative ideas out of his players—among them greats including John Coltrane and Bill Evans—that took everyone by surprise. He also remade the industry, introducing longer,... View Details
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Restoring a Global Economy, 1950–1980
United States made major efforts to secure radical reductions in tariff rates. During the middle of this decade there was a comprehensive reduction of barriers to trade in manufactured goods. By the end of the 1960s, however, the... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
- 04 Apr 2011
- HBS Case
Reinventing the National Geographic Society
for NGS, radical step. The position will be responsible for coordinating web-based offerings and outreach across the Society's numerous departments, integrating several direct-mail efforts into a cohesive e-commerce strategy, and... View Details
- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-005.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsAmerican Cancer Society: Access to Care Harvard Business School Case 109-015 CEO John Seffrin decides to radically change the strategy of the American Cancer... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
robust evidence that market leaders were significantly more likely to adopt the incremental innovation of e-buying but commensurately less likely to adopt the more radical practice of e-selling. The findings... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 20, 2007
the field of technology management. The analysis of the analogies between these two types of radical innovations (of meanings and technologies) allow to set a research agenda for exploration of design-driven... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
How the FBI Reinvented Itself After 9/11
enforcement agency. Its official fact sheet read, “The primary function of the FBI is law enforcement.” Today, the fact sheet reads “national security.” LESSONS ABOUT THE INTERPLAY OF DESIGN AND IDENTITY IN TIMES OF RADICAL CHANGE At each... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 15 Dec 2021
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular Articles of 2021
venture capital investment continued at a steady clip. After several heady months for startups, Jeffrey Bussgang offered radical advice for founders: just chill. 3. The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021 At the start of a... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 28 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Unilever: Transformation and Tradition
that their options for radical change appeared highly constrained. During the years of Cole and Tempel, the key to improving performance was believed to lie in diversification. The Unilever "fleet" sailed in a variety of... View Details
- 06 May 2021
- HBS Case
How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups
Noting that many urban youth lacked tech skills, she and her husband Derek Pearson launched Code Fever, a company offering training camps and hackathons for young people, and transformed a vacant building in a historically Black neighborhood into a co-working space and... View Details
Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo
- 06 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Innovator’s Battle Plan
innovation to an incumbent's best customers. There are no asymmetric motivations here. Incumbents are very motivated to go after this market. The incumbent's processes are relative strengths, not relative weaknesses. A new firm that... View Details
- 22 Feb 2018
- Book
The New History of American Capitalism
questions with the tools generated by the innovation of past decades, including the relationship between money and power, commerce and politics, exchange and social status. Its effort is to find new ways of exploring how institutions,... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 17 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Being the Boss
responsibility for the relationship, because it's definitely two-way. I'm building on the traditions of [HBS professors emeriti] John Kotter and John Gabarro, who [in 1980] wrote an article about managing your boss, which was very radical... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
stereotype-incongruent information. Implications for impression formation are discussed. Inducement Prizes and Innovation Authors:Liam Brunt, Josh Lerner, and Tom Nicholas Publication:Journal of Industrial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 7
respond? The business ran on a radically new model in which a stable of 10,000 freelance contributors supplied content, the Internet's search engines brought it 75 million readers each month, and advertising generated revenue. It took the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
diffusion of the commercial internet. Theory predicts that firms with greater market share will be more likely to adopt innovations that build on their existing strengths, while they will resist more radical... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
proactive effort to be as effective and clear as possible in their communication to both internal and external stakeholders. Importantly, a vast majority of the initiatives that companies in our sample are implementing do not require large capital investments or View Details