Knowledge Use and Leverage - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

Effective Leaders Share the Spotlight with Their Teams

Business School. How managers and employees benefit Using transcripts from earnings conference calls held by Standard & Poor’s 1500 companies, the researchers looked for managers who turned to colleagues... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

Summer 2013
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Strategic Management of Intellectual Property: An Integrated Approach

By: William W. Fisher III and Felix Oberholzer-Gee

In many organizations, the R&D, strategy, and legal functions are poorly integrated. As a consequence, firms miss opportunities to create and exploit the value of intellectual property. Functional silos are one reason for the lack of integration. More important,... View Details

Keywords: Innovation Management; Strategic Management; Legal Aspects Of Business; Licensing; Law; Innovation and Management; Knowledge Management; Intellectual Property; Business Strategy

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01 Apr 2014
First Look

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centers. It uses a transfer-pricing system designed to account for interdependencies between profit centers and to induce coordination. Further, profit center managers are incentivized with own-level... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Sep 2022
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When Experts Play It Too Safe: Innovation Lessons from a NASA Experiment

for the US space agency’s Astrobee system in 2018. Entries proposed solutions to technical issues with a robotic arm for Astrobee, a free-flying robot that handles inventory, documents astronauts’ experiments, View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Aerospace

20 Jan 2014
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Language Wars Divide Global Companies

US software market, the company's core marketing team, and to tech industry analysts. Power struggles were constant. Neeley says that the Indians, overall, in this study were less emotional because they... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

18 Apr 2019
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Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool

like a trained oncologist? How about setting up an online competition to find out? An article being published April 18 in JAMA Oncology, a journal of the American Medical Association, describes the crowdsourcing contest and the potential... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies

29 Nov 2022
Research & Ideas

Is There a Method to Musk’s Madness on Twitter?

technology entrepreneurs and the strategies they use to gain a competitive edge. Wu spoke to the Harvard Gazette about his take on Musk’s recent moves. Interview has been edited for clarity View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Technology

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General Management - Faculty & Research

capital controls. On the positive side, we build a new dataset using textual analysis, from which we document a set of stylized facts of capital controls along their intensive and extensive margins for 21... View Details

03 Jan 2023
Book

Confront Workplace Inequity in 2023: Dig Deep, Build Bridges, Take Collective Action

Despite calls for making the workplace more equitable, women, particularly Black women, continue to get the short end of the stick at work. Only 6 percent of the top 3,000 companies in the US are led by a woman. In 2022, only two Black... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

04 Apr 2011
HBS Case

Reinventing the National Geographic Society

behaviors, and values of a legacy organization, changing a business model from paper to digital, capitalizing on huge brand awareness and international presence, and promoting... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Publishing

01 Sep 2023
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In My Humble Opinion: Futures Investor

In the half-century since his graduation, Theodore Roosevelt IV (MBA 1972) has earned widespread respect as both a forward-thinking investment banker and an influential activist through his efforts to address climate change and preserve public lands. For much of that... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; climate change; investment banking; leadership; carbon tax

28 Nov 2018
HBS Case

On Target: Rethinking the Retail Website

through me and my data science team,’” Datar says. “It was a bold decision because it was much costlier and more complicated to design flexible architecture that managers could easily interact with.” Take a... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail

30 Oct 2014
Blog Post

Alumni: Where are they now? Featuring Robert Leke...

younger members of the team. I hope to one day help in building this investment firm into one which is known for its hands-on management approach, patient capital and deep knowledge in the sectors within... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

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Research Services - Faculty & Research

Research Services 9ms Harvard Business School (HBS) provides unparalleled faculty support to facilitate the creation of enduring knowledge that shapes both business practice and pedagogy. HBS is distinct in... View Details

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Leadership Fellows

Hire Talent Leadership Fellows Hire Talent Leadership Fellows What is the Leadership Fellows Program? The Leadership Fellows program offers nonprofit and public-sector organizations the opportunity to View Details

March 2011 (Revised April 2011)
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BOOKOFF Corporation in 2006

By: Hirotaka Takeuchi and Yoshinori Fujikawa

A visionary founder appoints a former part-time worker and homemaker as his successor in order to keep the corporate culture he created intact. View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Knowledge Use and Leverage

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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

path for our research today, which focuses on value creation of platforms and two-sided markets; use of open architecture and leverage of its... View Details

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Impact | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Influencing practice and advancing the field for over 25 years. Through the work of the faculty, the Social Enterprise Initiative has built a foundation of knowledge that has both responded to View Details

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Volunteer - Alumni

connected, and create ways for younger alumni to engage with each other and with HBS that are substantive and meaningful. Be an Alumni Career Guide Alumni Career Guides are... View Details

09 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Location, Location, Location: The Strategy of Place

as nearby supporting industries; the company's ability to seek and retrieve knowledge in this setting; and its capability to do something better than competitors. An example of... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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