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- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
remains mysterious because of the company's obsession with secrecy. This note considers the ingredients of Apple's success and its quest to develop, in the words of CEO Steve... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
family life, connection to others, and faithfulness to yourself seem doomed to vie in a terminal contest for your exclusive attention. It's easy to feel stupid when you compare yourself to the celebrity successes, easy to feel inadequate... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- 19 Jun 2018
- Research Event
Has Environmental Sustainability Lost its Relevance?
iPhoto For businesses and other organizations seeking to overcome roadblocks to sustainability over the last few decades, much can be learned from the debates I heard at the recent Harvard Business School conference, Understanding and Overcoming Roadblocks to... View Details
- 05 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
In Praise of Marketing
just the domestic mass market, the global mass market. In his landmark 1983 article "The Globalization of Markets," Harvard Business School's Theodore Levitt wrote of "the one View Details
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
the future with great accuracy, they won't say what will cause an event or why. They'll tell you which magazine articles are likely to be shared on Twitter without explaining what motivates people to tweet... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur
they can experiment. But there is also the business side of the operation, which is making sure clients are getting what they want. It’s not great if View Details
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55160 From Immigrants to Americans: Race and Assimilation During the Great Migration By: Fouka, Vasiliki, Soumyajit Mazumder, and Marco Tabellini Abstract— How... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Best Practices of Global Innovators
an outsourcing lens tend to adopt a "transactional" model of organization. They treat partners like component suppliers, and focus their efforts on how to specify what is required from them in great detail. By contrast, successful firms... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine
In May 1995, two scientists at the University of Mississippi were granted an American patent for the use of turmeric to treat flesh wounds. Soon thereafter, an Indian research organization won a lawsuit... View Details
- 08 Apr 2015
- What Do You Think?
Are Technology Companies Ripe for Disruption?
Summing Up What's the Downside to Disruption in High Tech? This month's column gave many readers an opportunity to join my rant about the need for disruption to combat the... View Details
- 16 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant
leveraging equal resources. In hyper-competitive industries, another way that managers can stay relevant and maintain success is by finding ways to get small advantages over their competitors. The NFL stands as a View Details
- 23 Jun 2020
- Book
Beginning America Over Again with a New Electoral System
powerful, wouldn’t we have long ago figured that out and accomplished it? Or wouldn’t I have at least heard of it? But that’s not how innovation works, in politics or in any industry. There is a moment when the idea germinates, but often... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
Publications August 2013 Princeton University Press Fortune Tellers: The Story of America's First Economic Forecasters By: Friedman, Walter A. Abstract—The period leading up to the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes
on making them thoughtfully and deliberately, without remorse. Q: Could you talk a little about the four service "truths"? A: Frei: Companies that excel at service typically do a great job in four... View Details
- 25 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
We May Have Taken Too Much Credit for Easing Workplace Segregation
hiring, and promoting minority workers, and he hopes the research will spur them to re-evaluate ways of reducing segregation. “These research findings are depressing because we value integration as a social goal,” Koning says. “Americans... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19
Drawing on lessons from the battlefield is common practice for business leaders seeking tested strategies to succeed against adversity. Today, the battle against COVID-19, an invisible enemy, feels to many... View Details
Keywords: by Euvin Naidoo
- 25 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Software Platforms Revolutionize Business
by software platforms have been so great that the so-called "old guard" was displaced (or may be on its way to extinction): Typewriters have been all but displaced by PCs, board games have been... View Details
- 18 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
5 Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation
tech-oriented, two-year college degree. “P-TECH is a great example of what I call ‘thinking outside the building,’” says Rosabeth Moss Kanter, the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
assured. The global financial meltdown of 2008 nearly triggered another Great Depression, economies in Europe are still teetering, and powerful forces-income inequality, resource depletion, and mass... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Managing to Learn: How Companies Can Turn Knowledge into Action
Bean, for instance, is a company that has excelled at learning through customer intelligence. The outdoor products retailer has gained success not only by accumulating information in a thorough way but by interpreting it with View Details
Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron