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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
described as "American icons" by moderator Tom Davenport, director of the Accenture Institute for Strategic Change. Jack Duffy, SVP of corporate strategy at UPS, noted that the process of integrating technology into the company's... View Details
- 25 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
recall leads to a one-month reduction in time to major innovation. Our results suggest that product failures influence subsequent innovation but that their impact is dependent upon recall source, proximity, and severity. The strategic and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Oct 2016
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October 11, 2016
firms’ institution-seeking behavior by documenting how they make strategic use of weaker institutions. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51721 Surfacing the Submerged State:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
A Silent Workplace Crisis
in the health, productivity, and retention of their experienced employees, addressing the issue of aging and elder care makes both economic and strategic sense. Yet the number of employers offering elder-care referrals is declining... View Details
- 03 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 3
in bringing their products to market, yet we know very little about the kinds of strategies they can employ to influence regulatory actor decision making. In this paper, we highlight a firm's strategic use of symbolic signaling in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Takeaways
imitation to innovation, and Western companies need to know how to deal with that.” —George S. Yip (MBA 1976, DBA 1980), China’s Next Strategic Advantage “The future should not be about what you have to do in the future.” —Vijay... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Derek Bouchard-Hall (MBA 2004)
strategic form of endurance competition. It’s bit of a cliché, but the most memorable moment was at the starting line at the Sydney Olympics, as the clock beeped down to the start of the race. I always knew there was going to be something... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Scott Clark
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Richard Edelman (MBA 1978)
reskilling blue-collar workers—which is perfect in a time of automation. It’s genuine, because it fits with who their customer is, and it means something. Companies need to stay in their own swim lane. I still love doing crisis work,... View Details
- Profile
Craig Baker
Craig Baker grew up in southeastern Idaho, and he finds it perfectly fitting that his first career assignment after completing his undergraduate degree in business and information-systems management took him into the potato field. “Double L manufactured View Details
- December 2017
- Case
Clover Food Lab in 2016
By: Lena G. Goldberg, Sonia Smith and Sandra Bahous
Ayr Muir, founder and CEO of Clover Food Lab, has grown his restaurant chain from a single food truck to 11 thriving stores but he has no interest in running a regional chain. His ambition is to change the way America eats and his goal is national expansion. As he... View Details
Keywords: Restaurant Industry; Food; Growth Management; Strategic Planning; Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy; Innovation and Management; Customer Satisfaction; Small Business; Expansion; Decision Choices and Conditions; Food and Beverage Industry
Goldberg, Lena G., Sonia Smith, and Sandra Bahous. "Clover Food Lab in 2016." Harvard Business School Case 318-094, December 2017.
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
May 2017 Journal of Financial Economics The Value of Trading Relations in Turbulent Times By: Di Maggio, Marco, Amir Kermani, and Zhaogang Song Abstract—This paper investigates how dealers’ trading relationships shape their trading View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 23, 2007
technologies and partners. Focuses on the partnership tensions between global firms and local family-dominated conglomerates. Addresses new venture financing in an asset-intensive business through the assembly of strategic contracts. More... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Blog
Inside the Learning: How Faculty Prepare for Class
experience that engages everyone in the room in a powerful and memorable exploration of the topic, every time? Three Executive Education faculty members shared their secrets. WHAT KEY STEPS DO YOU TAKE JUST BEFORE THE START OF A NEW PROGRAM SESSION? John Beshears (JB)... View Details
- 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009
on four behavioral patterns through which they acquire information: (1) questioning; (2) observing; (3) experimenting; and (4) idea networking. We develop operational measures of each of these behaviors and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Books
failures as well as successes. A final chapter examines how some companies — even whole industries, like integrated circuits — literally have shifted the locus of experimentation to their customers and created billions of dollars of new... View Details
- 11 Jun 2018
- Blog Post
Meet the 2018-2019 Blavatnik Fellows in Life Science Entrepreneurship
on a Fulbright Scholarship. David Mou (MD/MBA 2014) Click Here David Mou is the co-founder and medical director of Valera Health, a behavioral health company that allows providers and payers to better manage chronic medical and mental... View Details
- 30 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 30
Publications 2013 pub Rx: Human Nature: How Behavioral Economics Is Promoting Better Health Around the World By: Ashraf, Nava Abstract—Why doesn't a woman who continues to have unwanted pregnancies avail herself of the free contraception... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 13 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Create Winning Streaks
Overview Confidence in an organization is more than just a spirit of "We can do it." It is the foundation, systems, and culture involving positive behaviors such as open communication, self-scrutiny, respect, teamwork,... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel
- 19 Dec 2016
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2016
and Donald Trump attracted lots of attention. Here are the year’s 10 most popular research-related stories, columns, and op-eds on Working Knowledge: How Uber, Airbnb, and Etsy Attracted Their First 1,000 Customers Thales Teixeira studies... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 20 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 20, 2007
about the incentives and behaviors of managers, analysts, and investors. The authors highlight three features of the distributional properties of Street earnings data, which are that (i) differences between Street and GAAP earnings are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace