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- 18 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 18
address this threat: trust, licensing, and paying agents to stay loyal. We show how the principal can influence the value of these options by modularizing the system and by hiring clans of agents, thus exploiting relationships among them.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 15, 2016
protection affects innovation in China in the years around the privatizations of state-owned enterprises (SOEs). Innovation increases after SOE privatizations, and this increase is larger in cities with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn
formation, and innovation. He is also a partner of the international management consulting firm McKinsey & Company, where he is a leader of its Innovation practice. Chakravorti has advised over 30 Fortune 500 companies on innovation,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
fundamental firm value, which is gradually revealed into prices. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51971 December 2016 Harvard Business Review Health Care Needs Real Competition By: Dafny, Leemore S., and Thomas H. Lee Abstract—The U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
Publications The Architecture of Innovation: The Economics of Creative Organizations Author: Josh Lerner Publication: Harvard Business Press Books, 2012 Abstract Innovation is a much-used buzzword these days, but when it comes to creating... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Important Is the “Service Sector Effect” on Productivity?
emphasis on services naturally accompany the growth of a knowledge society, representing an insurance policy for the continuance of innovation and progress necessary to maintain world economic leadership? What do you think? Original... View Details
- 05 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Fixing the ‘I Hate Work’ Blues
highly bureaucratic, multilayered organizations that companies are using to execute their plans. There is so much pressure to realize short-term results that middle managers are consumed by making this month's numbers rather than building teams that focus on achieving... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
A. Malachi Mixon, III, MBA 1968
different items such as customized and computerized wheelchairs, beds and bedside equipment, ambulatory aids, respiratory devices for patients with sleep disorders, and a revolutionary new system that enables emphysema patients and others... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
management's focus extends beyond strategy, structure, and systems to purpose, processes, and people. All of the restructuring, reengineering, downsizing, and delayering that has occurred during the last decade, Bartlett attests, is the... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
technology was used illegally on 70-80 percent of the soybean area in southern Brazil. Under pressure from U.S. soybean growers, who were paying to license the technology, the firm implemented an innovative delivery-based collection View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
intent on what Gotsch and her colleague, a senior capital markets consultant at Accenture, had to say—or more precisely, what they had come to ask: Where, exactly, do you look for new and innovative financial technology? The response was... View Details
- 14 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina
of opportunities that education entrepreneurs are coalescing around. One of the sessions in the course is a thought experiment—if we could start from scratch, what kind of education system would we build? After Katrina, the New Orleans... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Alumni Books
Like Shampoo for Job Seekers: The Proven Personal Branding System to Help You Succeed in any Interview and Secure the Job of Your Dreams by Brenda Bence (MBA ’91) (Global Insight Communications) Strategic Customer Service: Managing the... View Details
- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
medical devices after they are approved by the appropriate regulatory authorities. Historically, such surveillance was based on voluntary reports by medical practitioners, but with the widespread adoption of electronic medical records and comprehensive patient... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Mar 2025
- Blog Post
IFC India 2025: Sustainability in Action: Inside Hindustan Unilever’s Public Sanitation and Plastic Recycling Facilities
societal consequences. Despite these challenges, we were inspired by the innovation and resilience at both sites. As MBA students, we saw the immense potential of businesses as a force for good and the power of partnerships. Both... View Details
- 17 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
New Associate Director: Courtney Fairbrother
Massachusetts Water Resource Authority, installing and maintaining renewable energy systems across the state. I also worked for a non-profit think tank, the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), on renewable energy policy and convening of... View Details
- 20 Feb 2013
- News
Thanking Veterans Online
eureka moment: when we realized that the lack of digital identification has blocked innovation in the military community," Hall said. "Having to rely on face-to-face verification undermined the main benefits of online transactions: speed... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
in organizational success and personal growth. He also provides a 28-day program for mastering innovation’s key steps: finding insight, generating ideas, building businesses, and strengthening innovation prowess in the workforce and... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic
Children learning remotely often have to rely on parents or a sibling for help. The pandemic has caused the largest disruption of education systems in history, affecting more than one billion learners in more than 190 countries, according... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
NYC Club Hosts Nonprofits
the September 23 summit, “New Directions in Non-profit Leadership,” to give the city’s nonprofit leaders an opportunity to hear innovative thinking and best practices from a trio of HBS professors and nearly fifty practitioners. Sessions... View Details