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- 20 Jul 2022
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Wired to be Inspired
pursuing this kind of deep purpose? Gulati: It’s a great question. And I’d like to kind of borrow from the late Jim March, who was a professor at Stanford. He made an interesting distinction between leaders as plumbers and poets. The idea... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
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Starting Up and Starting Over
Norman A. Berg, OPM's faculty chairman. "The program is devoted entirely to training practicing entrepreneurs and is the most distinctive entrepreneurial offering of any kind anywhere." The predecessor of OPM, the Smaller Company... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
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Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
each for the three runners-up will consist of cash awards and in-kind services from businesses such as law and accounting firms (for example, Arthur Andersen and Foley, Hoag & Eliot). Winners who decide to implement their ideas will be able to draw on these resources... View Details
- 12 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
template; and (3) pause before elaborating the activity system. The insights from our framework contribute to research on optimal distinctiveness and to the learning and evolutionary-adjustment literature on search. More broadly, we blend... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017
working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53636 Scale versus Scope in the Diffusion of New Technology: Evidence from the Farm Tractor By: Gross, Daniel P. Abstract—Using the farm tractor as a case study, I show that lags in technology diffusion... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 13 May 2014
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First Look: May 13
for the Modern Woman (A) Chanel, the iconic haute couture house, founded by Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel in 1913, came to embody its founder's philosophy, taste, and style and set a distinctive and influential tone for women's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2017
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How Women's Basketball Conquered Europe
young, and they learn to play competitive sports. And it's through the clubs, for the most part, that the professional teams are formed and the rivalries begin. So that's an important distinction because United States women's basketball... View Details
- 05 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 5
lasting difference in the world. Distinctive aspects of his career included deep engagement with the world of practice, combination of experience with disciplinary insight to generate practically valuable intellectual capital, research... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 19
and breadth is reconciled by the concept of related diversification (i.e., a firm with multiple operating units, each specializing in distinct but related activities). We consider whether there are similar benefits to related... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 May 2009
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First Look: May 12, 2009
follow these practices successfully will have a distinct advantage over their shortsighted competitors. When Contracts Destroy Trust Authors:Deepak Malhotra Publication:Harvard Business Review 87, no. 5 (May 2009): 25 Abstract Contracts... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 May 2007
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First Look: May 22, 2007
allowed for different rates of evolution in different software modules and in another case conferred distinct strategic advantages on a firm (by permitting substitution of an at-risk software module without substantial change to the rest... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2011
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Local Hero
whose 2010 team ranked only ninth in MLB payroll, makes a distinction between price and performance. “There’s no straight-line equation from money to winning,” he offers. “If there were, the same two or three teams would win the Series... View Details
- 11 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 11
Michael Beer and Lynda St. ClairHarvard Business School Case 913-521 A new Dallas-based health and beauty spa aims to use a highly distinctive human resource system as the foundation of its competitive strategy. By encouraging employees... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jan 2012
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Most Popular Articles of 2011
organization. Key concepts include: Organizations voluntarily adopting environmental and social policies represent a fundamentally distinct type of modern corporation, characterized by a governance structure that takes into account the... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 02 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
well as our video-based facial expression sentiment variables, we conducted factor analysis to construct four distinct CEO oral communication “styles,” which we label Expressive, Stern, Dour, and Contented. We also reveal that CEOs who... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 21
domestic firms. We investigate the roles of the two different mechanisms in determining the aggregate productivity gains by exploring their distinct predictions on the distributions of domestic firms: within-firm productivity improvement... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 3
Program This case examines a distinctive leadership development program within the World Economic Forum. The program, born out of the conviction that the complexity of global challenges at the beginning of the 21st century required a new... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2007
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How Business Schools Lost Their Way
to a conceptual distinction that has proven both popular and enduring. Eventually business schools began responding to the clarion call for developing leaders, not managers. In the early 1990s, for example, Harvard Business School... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
sustainability to abandoning for-profit business entirely and re-wilding and conserving millions of acres of lands in Latin America. The book’s distinctiveness lies in the use of original empirical data and the willingness to engage with... View Details
- 08 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 8, 2008
informal organization arising from reorganization can help create ambidextrous organizations. We argue that under some conditions, the informal organization can compensate for the formal organization by motivating a distinct but valuable... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace