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- 07 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure
justifiable groan I have nothing to oppose but the question whether he expected to find it easy." But however much an author's reach should exceed his grasp, it is not by this much.15 His method of writing resembles that of the American novelist Thomas Wolfe,... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw
- 29 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Is the Digital Age Making Us Petty?
you’re OK with leaving room for error, and that in turn can signal ... that you want there to be future exchanges.” However, in the context of relationships that have the potential to cross the business boundary and become personal, the... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 05 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
mostly, but not entirely, settled. Some, but not all, of the key hospital leaders had signed on to participate in the event. Rittgers wondered what she could do to nudge the hackathon towards success. Were these just expected hurdles, and it would all View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 9
theoretical extensions of the proposed integrated theory. Read the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-056.pdf Turning Waste into By-Product Author:Deishin Lee Publication:Manufacturing and Service Operations Management... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 2
were directed towards supporting business goals. This required developing a set of structured work process guidelines and tasks for each major type of work performed internally and for clients. Increasing awareness of C2 among its clients has led the company to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship
sparse. Economists have turned only recently to the question of how to boost entrepreneurship. In contrast to other government interventions designed to boost economic growth, such as privatization, programs to promote entrepreneurship... View Details
- 04 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 4, 2008
Abstract In the continuing quest for business growth, many CEOs are turning to their CIOs and IT organizations because technology is absolutely essential to two compelling sources of growth: innovation and enterprise integration. The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Do I Dare Say Something?
survival) to "flee" too often from threats that weren't really there than to not flee the one time there was a significant risk. So, we've inherited emotional and cognitive mechanisms that motivate us to avoid perceived risks to our psychological and material... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 14 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Can Start Ups Grow?
high levels of entrepreneurial activity, which in turn gave me a large enough sample to work with. Second, it is not an industry where venture capital activity is very high, making it a good setting to study growth in the absence of... View Details
- 12 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Religion and Business Learn From Each Other?
responsibility of management is something that can be addressed, rather than swept under the carpet. And the third thing that religious professionals can learn is a kind of pragmatic problem solving. Our sense was, you really need both of these voices; it's not that... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”
the sponsorship of Adams, and armed with funding from XTV, Domit got the opportunity to develop his strategy outside Xerox's internal development units. Domit became the CEO of AWP, which gave him the resources to turn the... View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
analyzed on a case-by-case basis in order to account for the unique characteristics of every business, corporations turned elsewhere to satisfy their craving for standardized approaches to strategy making.18 A study by the Stanford... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 01 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Judgment Calls
wanted to avoid turning Tweezerman into one more failure in what had been a previous career of multiple entrepreneurial misfires. What if this last and greatest airplane, which had finally begun to fly—and fly high—now crashed and burned... View Details
- 31 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 31
mathematical models has turned the negotiated order of organizational activities, which necessarily include particularistic elements, into abstract generalizations that favor quantifiable variables. This paper offers another logic, a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Banning Big-box Stores Can Hurt Local Retailers
protect local businesses from the crushing competition of "big-box" stores. But it turns out such rules often backfire, according to research by Raffaella Sadun, an assistant professor in the Strategy unit at Harvard Business... View Details
- 02 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019
television and websites did to print? Two former public radio producers launch a podcast network, entering what they call the last frontier of digital media. What needs to be added to their creative hothouse if it is ever to become a massive media company? What... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 May 2016
- First Look
May 10, 2016
last decade has seen a sharp rise in patent litigation in the U.S., with 2015 having one of the highest patent lawsuit counts on record. In theory, this could be a consequence of growth in the commercialization of technology and innovation—patent lawsuits increase as... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax
experiences with the flat tax. He also gave advice on what he believed the flat tax should be linked with (privatization and access to a free trade area) in order to turn the economy around and make it grow. Jensen: Former Finance... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Feb 2006
- HBS Case
Oprah: A Case Study Comes Alive
impact with Jeannette Wagner, former vice chair of The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. and member of the HBS Board of Dean's Advisors. Wagner recommended that they send a copy of the case to Leonard Lauder, chairman of Estée Lauder. The chain of personal contacts began to... View Details
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
Here is an excerpt from the chapter, "The Dangers of Going for the Max." One of the most ironic aspects of the fiftieth anniversary of Sir Edmund Hillary's scaling of Mt. Everest was how ephemeral the standards of climbing success View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson