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  • 05 May 2009
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First Look: May 5, 2009

the early 1990s, but to reposition the company to lead the industry. The powerful lesson from the IBM story is that innovation is not a side business to running the real business. Innovation is the business.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”

This confirmed the rationale back in 1970 for PARC's charter as a separate research center. As Robert Adams, then a Xerox senior vice president, recalled, "The laser printer alone paid for all of the other PARC research projects many times over. If some of the... View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Bright Ideas: The Creative Power of Groups

and execute truly creative solutions. Perhaps the traditional image of the creative genius working alone to create great breakthroughs is not so accurate after all. To shatter conventional wisdom about group creativity is one purpose of... View Details
Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron
  • 20 Sep 2016
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September 20, 2016

find that the effects are stronger among innovating Massachusetts firms, particularly those facing greater Wall Street scrutiny. The evidence is consistent with staggered boards improving managers' incentives to make long-term... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Aug 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

crowd-based collaborations. Case examples include Google, SK Telecom, DaVita, UPS, and GSK. This note can be paired with Core Curriculum Reading: Leading Breakthrough Innovation in Established Companies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 24

  Publications August 2013 Harvard Business Review Press Collective Genius: The Art and Practice of Leading Innovation By: Hill, Linda A., Greg Brandeau, Emily Truelove, and Kent Lineback Abstract—Why can some organizations View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 4

working solutions to a complex innovation problem over 10 days, with varying monetary incentives. We find that levels of effort are driven by cash incentives and the presence of other interacting teammates. The level of collaboration, by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
  • 11 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 11

slavery. Rather, innovation was, in a sense, a byproduct of bondage. The immense control of planters over their slaves enabled the development of management "controls." Slaves became the subjects of management experiments, their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 8, 2008

breakthrough it needs. The team's leader, Stanley Carmine, who has managed to get a few weeks' extension from management, needs to figure out how best to manage Grady under the looming deadline. He studies Grady's past "daily... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Nov 2024
  • In Practice

Layoffs Surging in a Strong Economy? Advice for Navigating Uncertain Times

pressured circumstances, such as a layoff, are also less likely to be innovation-driven. These firms tend to underperform in creating patents or bringing breakthrough ideas to market because they often prioritize existence and survival... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology; Information Technology
  • 30 Aug 2016
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August 30, 2016

in Malaysia, Lum provides a rare case of an entrepreneurial success in a country whose economic success has primarily rested on state-owned and foreign firms. The case describes the formidable challenges she initially faced, her subsequent View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 22 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23

advisors consider the important perspective of the CEO looking across the whole company. An example is Leading Breakthrough Innovation in Established Companies (Harvard Business School Press), which provides... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 28

Authors:Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim Publication:Business Strategy Review (May 2011) Abstract We are exploring the value of forcing corporations to issue sustainability reports, which provide information about corporate performance in terms of social,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing

foundations of strategic costing systems. The breakthrough came by combining an idea I had while writing Cost & Effect with an innovation developed by Steve Anderson, an HBS MBA, who was a student in my... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • 23 Dec 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard

financial and non-financial measurements in four perspectives: financial, customer, internal process, and learning and growth. The approach quickly evolved into a new system for describing and managing strategy.2 Many of the organizations that adopted this new approach... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
  • 22 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 22, 2008

monetary policy rules are no short-cut to credibility in situations where vulnerability to economic and political shocks, not time-inconsistency, are overarching concerns for investors. Download the paper from SSRN ($5) http://papers.nber.org/papers/w13918 Using... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 17, 2006

a family that owns a family business. Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807020 Innovating in Health Care—Glossary Harvard Business School Note 307-011 Provides a glossary of terms used in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 15

published field studies of men doing dangerous work, to induce a model of how organizational cultures equip men to "do" and "undo" gender at work. Breakthrough Inventions and the Growth of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 23

Publisher's link: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo16956514.html 2006 Harvard Business Review Using the Crowd as an Innovation Partner By: Boudreau, Kevin J., and Karim R. Lakhani Abstract—No abstract available.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 24

excitement and uncertainty of entrepreneurial life. The case also details the innovative marketing the company created to expand its customer base, the means it devised to cultivate and maintain customer loyalty, and the strategies it... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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