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  • 04 Oct 2004
  • What Do You Think?

Does Speed Trump Intellectual Property?

Summing Up This month's column, in the eyes of several respondents, represents the struggle of competitive strategies based on process versus product. When seen in this light, the triumph of speed over ideas, which many see as a reality,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • October 2001
  • Article

Speeding Up Team Learning

By: Amy C. Edmondson, Richard Bohmer and Gary P. Pisano
Keywords: Learning
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  • 16 Sep 2015
  • News

Built for Speed

“You can sell it. You can patent it. You can do your business. We don’t restrict it at all. That is unique,” says Nolan. (Does this create competition? “If your clock speed is faster you’re going to build before they build,” says Rogers.)... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; Machinery Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 06 May 2010
  • News

Speed Dial: Nitin Nohria

  • 09 Aug 2010
  • Research & Ideas

How to Speed Up Energy Innovation

exists, and the change needs to happen at enormous scale. Q: So why take the trouble to consider the other sectors if they're so different? A: They're the best examples we have of innovation at the speed and order of magnitude that is... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities
  • 2008
  • Case

IBM: Computing at the Speed of Life

By: Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble
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  • July 1, 2024
  • Article

Research: Speed Matters When Companies Respond to Social Issues

By: Alison Wood Brooks, Jimin Nam, Maya Balakrishnan and Julian De Freitas
Companies and their leaders face new pressures to make public statements about controversial and sometimes divisive social and political issues. New research shows that timing matters: consumers perceive a relationship between speed and authenticity, and discount... View Details
Keywords: Perception; Social Issues; Public Opinion; Communication Strategy
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  • January 2012 (Revised March 2012)
  • Case

Speeding Ahead to a Better Place

By: Elie Ofek and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld
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  • 01 Mar 2015
  • News

Case Study: The Speed of Light

and values. But when we found that person, we struck with lightning speed and pulled out all the stops to have him accept our offer. The moral in my story: We knew we had to be willing to leave some revenues on the table by being... View Details
Keywords: Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities
  • 09 Aug 2010
  • News

How to Speed Up Energy Innovation

  • May–June 2021
  • Article

Getting Up to Speed in Your Sales Efforts

By: Frank V. Cespedes and Zoran Latinovic
In a study before the pandemic, Pricewaterhouse Coopers found that companies had made little progress in the previous decade in speeding up their cash-conversion cycle, as the cash crunch generated by the pandemic painfully demonstrated. In most firms, sales velocity... View Details
Keywords: Sales Velocity; Opportunity Selection; Deal Size; Win Rate; Sales; Management; Cash Flow
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  • 10 Oct 1999
  • Conference Presentation

Running Product Development at Internet Speed

By: Alan MacCormack
Keywords: Product Development
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  • 08 Feb 2012
  • News

New money fund rules could speed consolidation

  • 28 Jun 2011
  • News

Groupon speeds up rollout of hyperlocal strategy

  • 18 Feb 2016
  • News

Challenge Aims to Speed Drug Trials Process

The HBS Health Care Initiative is seeking innovative ideas from the science, patient, business, and medical communities on how to transform trials for precision medicine. Through the HBS Precision Trials Challenge, it aims to bring diagnostics and therapies to market... View Details
  • January 2025
  • Supplement

A Winning Strategy (B): Innovation in Olympic Speed Skating

By: Rebecca Karp, Maria Roche, Maisie Wiltshire-Gordon and Tom Quinn
This case describes the aftermath of decisions made by two innovators in the Olympic sport of speed skating: the U.S. Men’s team, which devised a new approach to the team pursuit event; and Nils van der Poel, a Swedish skater who created a new training plan that defied... View Details
Keywords: Sports; Disruptive Innovation; Innovation Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Knowledge Sharing; Performance Improvement; Sports Industry; United States; Sweden; Netherlands; Norway
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  • January 2025
  • Case

A Winning Strategy (A): Innovation in Olympic Speed Skating

By: Rebecca Karp, Maria Roche, Maisie Wiltshire-Gordon and Tom Quinn
This case describes two innovators in the Olympic sport of speed skating: the U.S. Men’s team, which devised a new approach to the team pursuit event following their disappointing performance in the 2018 Winter Olympics; and Nils van der Poel, a Swedish skater who... View Details
Keywords: Sports; Disruptive Innovation; Innovation Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Knowledge Sharing; Sports Industry; United States; Sweden; Netherlands; Norway
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  • 22 Jan 2013
  • News

From Inside Out, Speed Your Company's Social Transformation

  • 22 Jun 2011
  • News

"Recession Has Speeded Up The Process Of change"

  • 2020
  • Case

Brightline: Targeting a Successful Future with High Speed Rail

By: Andrew J. Hoffman
High-speed rail (HSR) is a high-performance transportation technology that is time competitive with airplanes and automobiles, and is an environmentally preferable alternative due to its low carbon dioxide emissions. Brightline is a Florida HSR system in Phase II of... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Marketing Strategy; Segmentation; Transportation Industry
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