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- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Your Customers: Use Them or Lose Them
competition. Comparison Quote is their clever service design that takes advantage of their data analysis superiority. They can get at the true 'riskiness' of a customer in a more refined way than anyone else can, so they know the true...
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by Martha Lagace
- 26 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Clear Eye for Innovation
well. Most successful enterprises are adept at refining their current offerings, but they falter when it comes to pioneering radically new products and services. Kodak and Boeing are just two of the more recent examples of once dominant...
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- 08 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Four Questions Fundraisers Must be Prepared to Answer
(The book is also a valuable read for donors hoping to refine their giving strategy, and board members of nonprofit organizations.) Stevenson, known as the godfather of entrepreneurship at HBS, is well known for his definition of the term...
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by Julia Hanna
- 26 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Behind India’s Economic and Political Woes
conditions, people are scrambling and realizing that it's tough to refinance their debts. For instance, a landlord of an apartment building in Bangalore has a short -term loan in dollars that is being serviced or paid for in rupee...
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by Zeenat Potia
- 16 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 16
it's benefiting them. Enterprise 2.0 makes clear that the new technologies are good for much more than just socializing—when properly applied, they help businesses solve pressing problems, capture dispersed and fast-changing knowledge, highlight and leverage expertise,...
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Open Office Revolution Has Gone Too Far
Technology—in this case specifically, wearable technology—has enabled us to track individual or dyadic interactions at a really refined level. It’s not just “did you do this?” but “you did X, Y, and Z at this particular time with these...
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Re: Ethan S. Bernstein
- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
teams (in some areas). The case centers on questions of how to adapt this successful model to new demands in a different service domain, specifically, cybersecurity and defense-related areas. The case also explores how the company is innovating and View Details
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing
execution of tests, and other factors for suboptimal sales. When a product testing method is developed with care and refined on a regular basis, the results can substantially improve forecasts. We helped develop a testing method at one...
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- 30 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 30, 2016
endogenous two-way feedback between credit market sentiment and credit market outcomes. This feedback arises because investors’ beliefs depend on past defaults, but beliefs also drive future defaults through investors’ willingness to View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 30 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 30, 2007
exercise that helps them refine their elevator pitches and better understand several key marketing principles. Leads to an engaging and thought-provoking discussion. Purchase this case:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2020
- In Practice
Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On
address the problem at scale. The collective interplay is refined through trial and error over a long period of time. All this goes through the window in a crisis like the one we now face. There is no time to set the rules, no time to...
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by Danielle Kost
- 18 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Collective Genius’
innovation is a process of trial and error, often to embarrassing degrees, even for the most skilled innovators. Thomas Edison used a cut-and-try method—test out an idea to see if it works, reject or refine it, and try again. Hence,...
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- 18 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 18
mid-2012 Lit Motors had created both engineering and design prototypes and conducted initial customer tests on less than $750,000 of investment. Lit Motors' founder, Daniel Kim, had started the company to design and manufacture an efficient electric 2-wheeled vehicle....
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Anna Secino
- 20 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Open Source Science: A New Model for Innovation
and perhaps even refine them more. There's a growing movement and establishment of nonprofit foundations that are participating in drug discovery efforts. These foundations aren't as concerned about intellectual property as they are about...
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by Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Creating a Global Business Code
The team then refined the survey and since 2006 has administered it in 11 cohorts of AMP participants to nearly 900 executives from more than 600 companies. (The results of the AMP surveys have not yet been published since this phase of...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Lessons from the Browser Wars
indirect. While end-users don't know which browser other users are using, the developers of the content that make the browser so useful do care that everyone is using a similar browser. Q: So Firefox and other new browsers, no matter that they have new features and...
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- 13 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
Improving Public Health for the Poor
And so that is another variant. Q: What are your next steps for Project Antares? A: We want to refine the matrix that will allow us to propose what the high-impact interventions are and develop commercial delivery systems for them. Next...
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- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
authenticity is perfect for wealthy customers looking for refinement and inconspicuous luxury in an age of ostentatious logocentric branding. Drawing upon the brand’s extensive associations with previous users, most notably Sir Winston...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 12, 2016
traces the dilemma faced by the favorite, Oracle Team USA (OTUSA), as rumors grew that the challenger was pursuing a revolutionary technology that would enable its six-ton boat to literally fly above waves. With only a year left before the Cup, should OTUSA keep View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 15, 2008
arbitrary bargaining sets and existence is proved. For two or three participants, the expected utilities are unique. For more, under additivity, the geometric mean separates the prices where uniqueness holds and where it fails; it holds for the geometric mean except in...
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Martha Lagace