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- 31 Aug 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
Innovation through Global Collaboration: A New Source of Competitive Advantage
- September–October 2024
- Article
The Crowdless Future? Generative AI and Creative Problem-Solving
The rapid advances in generative artificial intelligence (AI) open up attractive opportunities for creative problem-solving through human-guided AI partnerships. To explore this potential, we initiated a crowdsourcing challenge focused on sustainable, circular economy... View Details
- 2019
- Chapter
The Art of (Creative) Thought: Graham Wallas on the Creative Process
BOOK ABSTRACT: The Creativity Reader is a necessary companion for anyone interested in the historical roots of contemporary ideas about creativity, innovation, and imagination. It brings together a prestigious group of international experts who were tasked with... View Details
- February 2009 (Revised March 2009)
- Case
AFSCME vs. Mozilo...and "Say on Pay" for All! (A)
By: Fabrizio Ferri and James Weber
Union seeks to protect its pension funds through shareholder activism focused on corporate governance and executive compensation. The case uses Countrywide Financial as an example. Richard Ferlauto, director of pensions and benefits policy at the AFSCME, the largest... View Details
- Web
HBS - The year in Review
faculty members, companies, practitioners, and ideas outside of HBS; and a core that provides key data and administrative services. The Institute’s 14 research labs, which include 30 faculty across nine units, are dedicating themselves to... View Details
- Web
The Women in the Relay Assembly Test Room – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
Room The Women in the Relay Assembly Test Room I had no idea there would be so much happening and so many people watching us. Theresa Layman Zajac, Relay Assembly Test Room Operator, 1976 Women in the Relay Assembly Test Room, ca. 1930... View Details
- 02 Jun 2022
- Research & Ideas
Blissful Thinking: When It Comes to Finding Happiness, 'Your Dreams Are Liars'
success, which leads you to burnout. And it’s based on the mistaken idea that you can actually find ultimate satisfaction through success. Happiness science helps people break that cycle because it helps them to understand the nature of... View Details
Keywords: by Dan Morrell
- 04 Sep 2013
- What Do You Think?
How Relevant is Long-Range Strategic Planning?
confronting large corporations facing innovative upstarts with disruptive ventures, the non-innovator's dilemma. But it also dealt with the challenges of achieving innovation in a world of entrenched ideas about how products are developed... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Web
2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
discussion, participants considered the specific issue of reparations for the Tulsa Massacre, the idea of reparations generally, and the use of reparations to respond to the effects of slavery and racist governmental policies in the US.... View Details
- 15 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 15
PublicationsBuilding Sustainable Hybrid Organizations: The Case of Commercial Microfinance Organizations Authors:Julie Battilana and Silvia Dorado Publication:Academy of Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract We explore how new types of hybrid organizations... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Teaching Interest
Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Combining the tools of philanthropy, business and advocacy (or mission, margin and mandate), social entrepreneurs have tackled long-standing societal issues like teacher training, college access, global public health, renewable energy and sanitation. Social... View Details
- Article
Adaptive Machine Unlearning
By: Varun Gupta, Christopher Jung, Seth Neel, Aaron Roth, Saeed Sharifi-Malvajerdi and Chris Waites
Data deletion algorithms aim to remove the influence of deleted data points from trained models at a cheaper computational cost than fully retraining those models. However, for sequences of deletions, most prior work in the non-convex setting gives valid guarantees... View Details
- 16 Jun 2021
- Interview
Harvard Business School: How to Build Fearless Organizations
By: Amy C. Edmondson and Ron Lovett
Our guest is Amy Edmondson - Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School. Amy has authored multiple books, including her most recent, The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation and... View Details
- March 2016
- Teaching Note
Advanced Leadership Pathways: Laurent Adamowicz and Bon'App
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Tessa Natanay Hamilton and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
After a successful career as Chairman and CEO of Paris-based luxury food company, Fauchon, Laurent Adamowicz sought to provide a solution to a large scale complex problem. Ultimately, Adamowicz created a mobile application to provide consumers with more accessible and... View Details
- 2009
- Article
Acting Globally but Thinking Locally? The Enduring Influence of Local Communities on Organizations
By: Christopher Marquis and Julie Battilana
We develop an institutionally oriented theory of how and why local communities continue to matter for organizations in a global age. Since globalization has taken center stage in both practitioner and academic circles, research has shifted away from understanding... View Details
Moving Forward: The Future of Consumer Credit and Mortgage Finance
The recent collapse of the mortgage market revealed fractures in the credit... View Details
The Error at the Heart of Corporate Leadership
Agency theory, a new model of governance promulgated by academic economists in the 1970s, is behind the idea that corporate managers should make shareholder value their primary concern and that boards should ensure they do. The theory regards shareholders as... View Details
- 05 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Raise Their Prices: Because They Can
inflation in prices since the onset of the pandemic, consumers are still buying, likely reflecting a lower price sensitivity. This could continue to allow companies to raise prices faster,” MacKay says. Feedback or ideas to share? Email... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Career Change
When Wakana Tanaka (MBA 2003) was 13 years old, her father’s new job took the family from their home in Tokyo to Jakarta. It was a big change, not just geographically but also culturally. Tanaka enrolled in an international school where she was encouraged to have her... View Details
- 14 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
Amazon vs. Whole Foods: When Cultures Collide
best yet to come? Campbell stresses that the ideas in their case are speculative, based on second-hand reports in the press. They can’t be sure how much Amazon tried to integrate its culture with that of Whole Foods, or what its ultimate... View Details