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- 08 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
You Won't Make It If You Fake It
ship” career ladder Holmes pursued, Sandberg’s career path took on the shape of a “jungle gym” that she described in Lean In. “I could never have connected the dots from where I started to where I am today,”... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
PublicationsThe Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup Authors:Noam Wasserman Publication:The Kauffman Foundation Series on Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Princeton University Press, in... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 4
his latest collection available to the broader entrepreneur community. Divided into 13 areas of focus, the book's contributors explore the metrics you need to run your startup, discuss lean prototyping techniques for hardware, identify... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part One]
The puzzle, they explain, has to do with the explanation for Japan's extraordinary economic success in the post-World War II period. The country was heralded around the world for creating what looked like "a new and superior form of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 04 Mar 2014
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation
Should managers lead innovation or get out of the way? It's not an either/or decision. Executives of some great innovative companies—Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg—are active participants in creation, getting their hands... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 02 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Stories 2007
2.0" turned up on the online encyclopedia one day—and was recommended for deletion—McAfee and colleague Karim R. Lakhani knew they had the makings of an insightful case study on collaboration and governance in the digital world.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
judgment accuracy; little is known about the interpersonal consequences of the advice-seeking process. In this paper, we investigate the interpersonal consequences when an advisor believes his or her advice will be ignored. We find that... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 5
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/812111-PDF-ENG Georges Doriot and American Venture Capital Tom Nicholas and David ChenHarvard Business School Case 812-110 Following the lean years of the Great Depression when bankruptcies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
The challenge then becomes enabling this alignment, which requires the CEO to prioritize based on the mission of the organization. In practice, we find that many leaders have trouble prioritizing because they're View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 25 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Developing the Global Leader
world." Being able to overcome the dominant thinking at headquarters. "Leadership has to lean in favor of nondominant thinking," says George. "That requires a tremendous amount of... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
between two competing investments, which differ in size, maturity, and rate of return. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=207066 Lean at Wipro Technologies... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Nov 2011
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Organizational Design
data network, the easier it is for workers to lean on superiors and rely on them to make decisions. It's also easier for executives to micromanage and keep all the decisions in the corporate office. Trust is... View Details
Keywords: Re: Ranjay Gulati & Raffaella Sadun
- 13 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 13
invention and innovation. We then describe how these factors are frequently measured in the data and some resulting empirical regularities. Innovative activity tends to be more concentrated than industrial activity, and we discuss... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward
Here's another bit of conventional wisdom on proper sequencing: "Get your own house in order first." Yet this was not the path that President George H. W. Bush followed in preparing for the first... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 30 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
India’s Ambitious National Identification Program
and people in the bureaucracy and government sometimes look askance at the private sector, believing them to be pursuing purely private gain." Nilekani is intent on keeping the UIDAI organization lean... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 22, 2006
improving inventory management for its network of small and large retailers. Set just after the announcement of the Adidas-Reebok transaction in 2005, with New Balance having recently initiated a companywide effort to improve operational... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
Working PapersThe Global Networks of Multinational Firms Authors:Laura Alfaro and Maggie Chen Abstract In this paper we characterize the topology of global multinational networks and examine the macro and micro patterns of multinational... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Ground Game, Air Wars, and Other Marketing Lessons From Presidential Elections
New research from Harvard Business School shows that mass advertising is better at swaying undecided consumers while face-to-face personal selling is more suited at closing the deal for those already leaning toward a particular product.... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Porsche’s Risky Roll on an SUV
quality, or particular excellence in its price?" Reinvention German companies have also had to reinvent themselves, as Porsche accomplished between '93 and the present, he continues. In a sense Porsche... View Details
- 22 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 22, 2008
David M. Upton Abstract This paper examines how a company sets out to build an operations-based advantage. In particular, we investigate the implementation of a lean operating system at an Indian software... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace