Publications

22 Aug 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23

improve their economic value, for some of these issues individual company action is costly. At the same time, for a further subset of those issues, company action coupled with collaboration between companies is value enhancing. However,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Feb 2014
HBS Case

Stressing Safety in South Africa’s Platinum Mines

spoken natively; the supervisors speak the other 2. To bridge the gap, the mining industry long ago adopted the use of Fanagalo, a pidgin language developed in the nineteenth century so colonists could communicate with their servants. “How do you create a culture of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing

03 May 2011
First Look

First Look: May 3

solutions to known problems, the founding team formed an emergent goal that presented an innovative solution to a new problem and became the basis of the new company's business model. We analyze this process to explain how, under conditions of ambiguity, organizational... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

The UK Needs a Bold Strategy Around Competition to Survive Brexit

are large potential employers in fields where jobs are accessible to currently underemployed citizens. Sound government policy can build on these by investing in job training on needed skills, streamlining regulations that will enhance productivity, working View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

23 May 2016
Research & Ideas

A Little Understanding Motivates Copyright Abusers to Pay Up

to legal action.” Helpful in settling small disputes This collaborative approach may not work in every situation, says Luo, but in cases where monetary damages are small, where explicit legal threats are not effective or undesirable, and... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Media & Broadcasting; Publishing

13 Dec 2011
First Look

First Look: Dec. 13

meeting, Guttilla considered the future of integrated reporting for Natura. What should the future of integrated reporting be like at Natura? How could the organization increase society's participation in the collaborative effort to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Non-competes Push Talent Away

non-competes. The Best And Brightest The researchers found that the brain drain was especially pronounced among inventors who held multiple and high-impact patents, and among inventors who also collaborated widely—in other words, those... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology

28 Oct 2009
Lessons from the Classroom

HBS Begins Teaching Consumer Finance

expert in financial institutions. We launched the CFS program two years ago, and it gave Howell and me the confidence that we could pull off an even more ambitious undertaking, a joint JD/MBA course, which we launched last January. This substantive example of... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Financial Services; Education

22 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

The Silo Lives! Analyzing Coordination and Communication in Multiunit Companies

of the intriguing findings from our analysis is that electronic and face-to-face interactions are near perfect complements. In other words, people talk to the very same people they e-mail. As electronic collaboration technologies further... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

16 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

HBS Center Focuses on Europe

has gained importance particularly at the European level; and the European corporate world has to work with the public sector at regional, national, and European levels, and that adds complexity to conducting business. You should know also that for some projects we... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

February 2019 (Revised May 2019)
Case

Schneider Electric: Opening Up to External Innovation

By: Antonio Davila

Schneider Electric competes in tough but stable markets around energy management, automation, and control of infrastructures ranging from homes to production plants. New technologies and new approaches to serving markets are challenging the status quo. To take... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Venture Capital; Accelerator; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Disruptive Innovation; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Organizational Design; Energy Industry; Manufacturing Industry; France; United States

November 2008 (Revised August 2011)
Case

UnME Jeans: Branding in Web 2.0

By: Thomas J. Steenburgh and Jill Avery

This case introduces emerging Web 2.0 social media in virtual worlds, social networking sites, and video-sharing sites and encourages students to explore the opportunities and risks they present for brands. The case allows students to grapple with the strategic and... View Details

Keywords: Digital Marketing; Brands and Branding; Marketing Communications; Marketing Strategy; Consumer Behavior; Risk and Uncertainty; Social and Collaborative Networks; Internet and the Web; Apparel and Accessories Industry

23 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Are Great Teams Less Productive?

learning and improved performance. We've been collecting and analyzing data from a particular setting in which these questions are quite relevant—the neonatal intensive care unit, or NICU—across about two dozen hospitals. This work is pretty far along. A second... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

10 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

American Auto’s Troubled Road

dominance. Toyota, shunning these approaches, took advantage of this Detroit "blind spot." While less generous in its compensation packages for workers, Toyota "strives to use its labor force in flexible, creative, and View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto

18 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

New Hires Lose Psychological Safety After Year One. How to Fix It.

employees believe it’s too risky to speak up, many decide it’s safer to put their heads down and keep their opinions to themselves—but that muting of views creates barriers to learning and collaboration that can be detrimental to both... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

27 Sep 2011
First Look

First Look: September 27

explain how to generate ideas with these skills, collaborate with "delivery-driven" colleagues to implement ideas, and build innovation skills throughout your organization to sharpen its competitive edge. They also provide a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Nov 2021
Op-Ed

How to Tap the Talent Automated HR Platforms Miss

As the global staffing shortage grinds on, corporate recruiters everywhere are relying on their online hiring platforms and automated systems to deliver the candidates they need. Too often, these tools will fail them, sidelining many qualified workers in the process.... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller

02 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Health Care Research and Prospects

one big thing. The next issue was course development. Along those lines, Richard Bohmer and I created a new course, Managing Medicine, back in 1999. I collaborated with Richard, but it was really his idea and his thrust. However, outside... View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild Swearingen; Health

March 2022
Case

The Future of Start-Up Chile

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Ruth Costas and Pedro Levindo

In 2021, public accelerator program Start-Up Chile, which ten years earlier had created a global buzz, might be losing its competitive edge to similar programs or one-year visas for digital nomads offered by other countries. The case follows SUP’s CEO, Angeles Romo, as... View Details