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- 29 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 29, 2007
Cases & Course MaterialsAccidental Innovation Harvard Business School Note 607-082 Describes the role accident has historically played in invention and discovery, and raises questions about the importance of variation in business...
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 23
family of objectives that have been well studied in the literature for their fairness properties. We deal with the problem of selecting the appropriate objective from this family. We characterize the trade-off achieved between efficiency...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 20
generated in the rubber chain, it was mostly appropriated by foreigners. This view is in tune with the global commodity chain approach that argues that manufacturing/core economies absorb the bulk of surplus generated in the commodity...
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Martha Lagace
- 25 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 25
effectively, where they can be damaging, and where additional complementary mechanisms to spur innovation may be appropriate. Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/tnicholas/patents_creative_destructive.pdf Working Papers Does...
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Carmen Nobel
- 15 Dec 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Surprisingly Successful Marriages of Multinationals and Social Brands
arrangements from the perspective of the "elephants"? A: Most successful large companies excel at business planning, allocation of capital, and execution. Many are also good at product innovation in the small, continuous...
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- 31 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 31, 2007
Working PapersCoupled Search Processes: Why Is It So Difficult to Find that Organizational Design Matters? Authors:Nicolaj Siggelkow and Jan W. Rivkin Abstract Organizational design affects performance via coupled search processes. At low frequency, managers search...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
Corporate Leaders Need to Step Up on Climate Change
responding to climate change in the appropriate way. Nike, for example, moved beyond operational greening by helping to create BICEP (Business for Innovative Climate and Energy Policy), which brings its...
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by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Repurposing Leaders to Attack Social Problems
enterprise. Its fifteen core faculty members intend for the ALI’s innovative new curriculum — “life-stage appropriate and taking experience into account,” as Kanter put it — to serve as a model for other...
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- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
http://www.people.hbs.edu/lalfaro/SurvivingGlobalFinancialCrisis.pdf Picking Green Tech's Winners and Losers Authors:Clayton M. Christensen, Shuman Talukdar, Richard Alton, and Michael B. Horn Publication:Stanford Social Innovation Review...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Market for Babies
Meanwhile, those who are outside the market generally don't even know what's going on. Q: Are you worried that regulation could stifle innovation in reproductive medicines? A: Actually, I'm more worried about regulation in the stem cell...
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- 01 Mar 2017
- News
How Deep Brain Stimulation Could Change Medicine
communicating appropriately to maximize the therapeutic effects. The electrodes are placed inside the brain at the precise spot where the issue originates and communicate to a wireless monitor that tracks the neurotransmitter changes to...
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Janelle Nanos
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Additional alumni books for your consideration.
revenue, and industry, Ferracone provides boards and individuals evaluating executive pay with the ability to analytically determine an appropriate compensation package. The Other Side of Innovation: Solving the Execution Challenge by...
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- 07 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 7, 2006
helped give 'made in Germany' a sheen of quality rather than shoddiness. Managing Innovation in Small Worlds Authors:Lee Fleming and Matt Marx Periodical:MIT Sloan Management Review 48, no. 1 (fall 2006): 8-9 Abstract View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 22
on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, edited by David Audretsch, Oliver Falck, and Stephan Heblich. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc., forthcoming Abstract Financing constraints are one of the biggest concerns impacting...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Articles - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Health Delivery Project The Institute for Cancer Care Innovation MOC Network ICIC U.S. Cluster Mapping Project U.S. Competitiveness Project FSG Shared Value Initiative Social Progress Imperative AllWorld Network VBHCD Initiative VBHCD...
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- 15 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 15, 2006
carburetors. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-009.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsInnovating in Health Care—Framework Harvard Business School Note 306-042 Contains the framework for the second-year Innovating...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
exit. A new and central economic force is the selection between high- and low-type firms, which differ in terms of their innovative capacity. We estimate the parameters of the model using U.S. Census microdata on firm-level output,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019
history of creativity studies. Indeed, an examination of these seminal papers helps the new generation of creativity and innovation researchers to be mindful of the past and unafraid to explore it. Publisher's link:...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 31 Jan 2018
- Blog Post
Tiffany Nida’s Amazon Journey: “I Continue to Grow Because They Keep Giving Me Responsibility.”
between her Required Curriculum and Elective Curriculum years. “My hypothesis,” says Tiffany, “was that I’d enjoy it.” Having arrived at HBS with an interest in technology, she had hoped to find an environment in which she could apply her non-technology background to...
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problems included insufficient salary, lack of appropriate work, employer discrimination, and lack of flexible hours.35 148, 186 Value of Business Education Directors, Faculty, and administrators at Radcliffe College and HBS shaped and...
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