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- 29 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Managing Innovation is Like Theater
that groups create by thinking, talking, and collaborating. Artful Making Any activity that involves creating something entirely new requires artful making. Whenever you have no blueprint to tell you in detail what to do, you must work... View Details
Keywords: by Rob Austin & Lee Devin
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Rapid Response: Inside the Retailing Revolution
and John T. Dunlop of the Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and David Weil of Boston University. Their recent book, A Stitch in Time: Lean Retailing and the Transformation of Manufacturing—Lessons from the Apparel and Textile Industries (Oxford... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
it hit me right there.” That moment, the moment Wilcox fell in love, was the starting point for a wild ride called E Ink, which manufactures the electronic “paper” used in e-readers like Amazon’s Kindle, cell phones, and graphic displays of all kinds. View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Preparing Global Leaders
and diverse business issues,” he says. Wahl, an investor based in Oslo, Norway, was cofounder and partner of the private equity firm IK Investment Partners Ltd. from 1989 to 2009. Presently he runs Stromstangen AS, a privately owned... View Details
- 09 Mar 2023
- News
Four Alumni Clubs Mark Milestone Year
Clubs News Clubs News HBS Association of Boston Commemorates Centennial In 2023, the HBS Association of Boston (HBSAB) is commemorating its Centennial Year with activities and events aimed at celebrating a century of alumni... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Promoting a Deeper Understanding
“Once you understand the environment each of us is coming from, it makes it a lot easier to communicate, which is what business is all about. Communication is key to solving problems,” says Bullard, chairman of E.D. Bullard Co., a family-owned manufacturer of personal... View Details
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
very polarized” That said, our research revealed that offshoring and constructing global supply chains is really complicated—it is challenging to accurately figure out the total costs of locating in China or another country versus in the... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 18 Oct 2016
- Op-Ed
Why Business Should Invest in Community Health
improve health in their communities. The business case for investing in community health is compelling, especially for companies that depend on communities for workers and customers. Sick and absent workers cost American firms some $225... View Details
- Web
1.12 Clearance for Return | MBA
and reasonably call into question their ability to function as a student in the Harvard Business School (HBS) environment, HBS ordinarily will not permit that student to return to residence and enrollment or participation in any Harvard-related programs or View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits
dollars to spend in a given year, you're better off making 100 movies that each cost $10 million, or 20 that each cost $50 million. But it turns out that it's much safer to make a handful of really, really... View Details
- 22 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 22
agency that funds partnerships between universities and private companies to develop technologies important to Danish industry. We assess the effect of a particular "mediated funding" scheme that combines project grants with View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”
allowing him and his team to scan Xerox's technology base and identify investment opportunities that might otherwise have been missed. 38 This structure was called Xerox Technology Ventures (XTV). Fumbling the Future was published in... View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough
- 02 Apr 2001
- What Do You Think?
Telecommuting: Dangerous to Health?
get reconnected back to something more "social" than a home office. Organizations too have benefited from the telecommuting phenomenon, increasing their ability to hire scarce talent that otherwise would be out of reach. But are there View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 22 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 22, 2016
November 2016 Quarterly Journal of Economics Stereotypes By: Bordalo, Pedro, Katherine Baldiga Coffman, Nicola Gennaioli, and Andrei Shleifer Abstract—We present a model of stereotypes based on Kahneman and Tversky's representativeness... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=509024 Breaking through Action Plan Harvard Business School Exercise 409-059 The "Breaking Through Action Plan" is a developmental tool based on... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
Jumpstarting Innovation: Using Disruption to Your Advantage
wallet" by adding new business models—for example, if you currently have a product business, can you add information, services, or solutions? Can you expand into adjacent businesses by either taking over activities that used to be... View Details
Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate
- 13 Feb 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
2018 Pearson Education Horngren's Cost Accounting: A Managerial Emphasis By: Datar, Srikant M., and Madhav Rajan Abstract—Horngren’s Cost Accounting defines the cost accounting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Dark Side of Trust
concluded that trust has important positive consequences. For example, trusted automakers spend significantly less time contracting and haggling with their suppliers. Similarly, we know that trust lowers the costs of negotiation and... View Details
- 01 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 1
that this tradeoff is shifted towards the reseller-mode when marketing activities create spillovers across products and when network effects lead to unfavorable expectations about supplier participation. If the reseller has a variable... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Alumni Books
deliver breakthrough innovations and new products in large, mature organizations. The authors detail who these serial innovators are and how they develop novel products. Based on interviews with many of them and their coworkers and... View Details