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18 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

Leading Innovation is the Art of Creating ‘Collective Genius’

of Leading Innovation, was written by Hill, the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration, with Greg Brandeau, former CTO of The Walt Disney Studios and current COO/president of Media Maker; Emily Truelove, a PhD candidate... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

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Michael R. Bloomberg

only full-time job I’d ever had—a job I loved. But I never let myself look back, and the very next day I took a big risk and began my own company based on an unproven idea that nearly everyone thought would fail; making financial information available to people, View Details

11 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

The Paradoxical Quest to Make Food Look 'Natural' With Artificial Dyes

A few years ago, a food blog reported that Starbucks’ popular Strawberry and Crème Frappuccino got its pink color not from strawberries, but from a dye made of crushed-up cochineal insects. Vegan consumers cried foul, and mainstream media... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

14 May 2007
Research & Ideas

The Key to Managing Stars? Think Team

naturally become increasingly concerned that they attract, leverage, and retain the best knowledge workers. In addition, our culture is very enamored of stars and with the idea that extraordinary talent accounts for individuals' extraordinary performance. The business... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

08 Mar 2019
Blog Post

Reclaiming Feminism: A Celebration of International Women’s Day

want you to join us in building. Thus, this campaign was born: to reclaim the word feminist to mean “a believer in equal rights for all genders,” without regard to race or religion or ethnicity, sexual orientation or sex assignment at... View Details

04 Dec 2013
Research & Ideas

The Fantastic Horizon: How to Invest in a New City

outside Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. In front of me a young couple posed for wedding photos in a pretty park. To my left was the bustle of the former Saigon. To my right was the Saigon River and beyond that, coconut swamp and the remains of... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction; Real Estate

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Can Private Equity Reach Regular People? One Company’s Mission | Working Knowledge

competitors hoping to follow its early success. Ivashina herself is an independent director for the Carlyle AlpInvest Private Markets Fund. “There is a demand and a supply at the right moment in history for this to kind of start... View Details

21 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

How to Sink a Startup

degrees of outside influence they will and should tolerate. A Rich founder whose firm is lacking in human capital, experience, and capital may benefit greatly from a VC's experience, contacts, and financial resources. A downside is that... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

26 Mar 2025
Blog Post

How to Approach Your Equity Compensation

shares for at least one year (there is not). Rather, this is just a confusion between how ordinary income and capital gains taxation works. Forgetting that market returns are generated by outliers. The vast majority of companies... View Details

16 Jul 2014
HBS Case

Marketing Obamacare

healthcare legislation in the US ensured that it would be complex and tough to sell to the public, Quelch says. But that was just the problem: Congress and the Obama Administration didn't sell it. "Fundamentally, it's a marketing issue," he says. "First... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

24 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

The Surprising Link Between Language and Corporate Responsibility

ESG—factors), both because of its importance to socially conscious investors and as an indicator of long-term corporate health. Firms such as Morgan Stanley Capital International crunch hundreds of factors from carbon emissions to the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Field Course: Field X - Course Catalog

scale. Give and receive feedback from other highly motivated student teams. Meet frequently as a team with the faculty advisor. Receive feedback and counsel from outside business advisors. Have opportunities to pitch your work to angel, seed, and venture View Details

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Field Course: Ideation and Prototyping for Innovation - Course Catalog

existing products as PMs or in other roles within established organizations Advising early-stage startups as venture capital investors or corporate innovation teams as consultants In teams of two or three, students will work on a... View Details

01 Jun 2020
News

How Sports Should Use Its Timeout

industries to truly be off-the-grid in some ways: Not digital-first, not adhering to regular market forces—because it's sports. It's live. And I think now the silver lining for this industry is that opportunity to move away from calling it a sports industry. This is a... View Details

16 Jun 2009
First Look

First Look: June 16

economic theory of GAAP under the assumption that GAAP's objective is to facilitate efficient capital allocation within an economy. The theory predicts that GAAP, as shaped by the economic forces of demand for and supply of financial... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

15 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

A Better Business Model for Fighting Cancer

this stickiest of bottlenecks? Create business partnerships by framing the right questions, says Giusti, and then identifying and combining existing datasets for analysis to answer those questions. The organization also rallies individual... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health; Pharmaceutical

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Rapid Response: Inside the Retailing Revolution

advance of a selling season," write Hammond and her coauthors. "Now firms receive periodic ongoing orders based on actual consumer expenditures. Lean retailing allows department stores, mass merchandisers, and other retail outlets to View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Consumer Products; Manufacturing; Retail

01 Dec 1997
News

Making Real Progress in the Middle East: The Bottom-Up, Economic Solution

the Middle East today to capitalize on decades of missed economic and business opportunities. In how many other regions of the world can a company establish a manufacturing base only 150 km from its head office and significantly reduce... View Details

Keywords: Michael Porter, Yagil Weinberg, and Noreena Hertz

19 Mar 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019

NFL, sported an acclaimed broadcast unit, and had affiliates in virtually all important U.S. markets. Yet acquisition of these NFL rights directly enabled the expansion of Fox, then a minor broadcaster, into the View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

16 Feb 2012
Op-Ed

Nitin Nohria: Why US Competitiveness Matters

that our friends abroad cheer for America with foreboding and pessimism, the way sports fans nervously pull for a team whose lead is slimming and whose energy is fading. These outsiders recognize that the system of democratic capitalism... View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria

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