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- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
about innovation. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55477 November–December 2018 Organization Science Slack Time and Innovation By: Agrawal, Ajay, Christian Catalini, Avi Goldfarb, and Hong Luo Abstract— View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
develop new ways of working together. To bolster out-of-the-box thinking at their companies, boards should promote diversity among members. They should foster "creative abrasion" to keep ideas flowing and rethink traditional methods of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
connect with each other and share good practices peer-to-peer, rather than relying on traditional hierarchical lines of communication or IT repositories. From 2004 to 2007, Mougin and his team had found that 5,000 Danone managers around... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
realization that his products were not meeting the needs of women customers (including particularly his wife). As a result, Lo commissioned his CFO Bonnie Tu to open the first all-women's bicycle store in Taipei (owned by corporate, not the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn
have told the Wright brothers, "Don't do it: it's a bad use of capital!" Yet over the past two decades, Ryanair's ROE was often comparable to the best returns in the pharmaceutical business—a traditional example of a... View Details
- 19 Nov 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Moral Leader
decidedly moral flavor, involving tradeoffs between near-term infrastructure costs and long-term (possibly very long-term) benefits, and impacts that extend well beyond the traditional constituencies of the firm. To meet these challenges,... View Details
- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=507021 Where to Get Your News and Information: The Digital Disruption Harvard Business School Note 707-442 What is the response by traditional news and information deliverers... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
focus of negotiators to aspects of the situation that generate helpful insights. Level Two Negotiations: Helping the Other Side Meet Its 'Behind the Table' Challenges Author:James K. Sebenius Publication:Negotiation Journal 29, no. 1 (forthcoming) Abstract A long... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
process. With a tradition of being the market leading text and professional standard, the new edition has deepened its strategic focus and emphasis and invested in market-breaking MyAccountingLab tutorial support. Publisher's site:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
core of the traditional bookmakers' business model. The case examines two aspects of the industry: (1) What specific choices did Betfair make to become the dominant betting exchange, winning the competitive battle over Flutter.com? (2) At... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
owned homes or could borrow under such conditions. As a response, the modern housing finance system undergirded by the federal government arose during the New Deal to make credit and liquidity available to people wanting to buy a home. "In the 1980s a View Details
- 04 Apr 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?
trust in traditional media is at its highest point in the past decade at 66 percent. But trust in social media platforms languishes at around 43 percent, and in this era of fake news, fixed elections and fraudulent data, regaining the... View Details
Keywords: Re: Andi Wang
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
infrastructure development came from traditional international sources like the World Bank or African Development Bank, those lenders would worry about foreign exchange, interest rates, and political risk and would almost always seek... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
hit-or-miss at most firms. Tackling the problem systematically, of course, will improve the odds of success. Traditional ways of framing this search examine competencies, customer needs, and shifts in the landscape. This article proposes... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
http://hbr.org/search/113094-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 613-031 Microsoft Server & Tools In 2011, Microsoft's Server & Tools Business (STB) was large, fast growing, and highly profitable on the strength of traditional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
influenced by a vast array of factors: schools, roads, regulatory complexity, almost everything matters—not just the traditional macroeconomic policies. If you don't have a good public-education system, for example, you lack the... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
http://hbr.org/2012/04/retail-doesnt-cross-borders-heres-why-and-what-to-do-about-it/ar/1 Teamwork on the Fly Authors:Amy C. Edmondson Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 4 (April 2012). Abstract In a fast-paced and ever-changing business environment, View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
adopting a traditional business model. We show that the value of business model innovation may be so substantial that an incumbent may prefer to compete in a duopoly rather than to remain a monopolist. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
systematic variation in inventory record inaccuracy (IRI) observed both within and across stores. Traditional inventory models, with a few exceptions, do not account for the existence of IRI and those that do treat record inaccuracy as... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
influence when the vast majority can't? The authors tracked 68 change initiatives in the UK's National Health Service, an organization whose size, complexity, and tradition can make reform difficult. They discovered several predictors of... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino