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- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
meals and lodging planned, and their daily productivity measured and monitored. These findings disrupt prevailing narratives in business history, challenging the primacy that Alfred Chandler awarded the railroad as the testing ground for...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
the supply of capital create the need for increased upfront financing, but this protection lowers the real option value of the new venture. In equilibrium, financing risk disproportionately impacts innovative ventures with the greatest...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Can LEGO Snap Together a Future in Asia?
Both the managers and the students had to consider areas of potential risk for LEGO in Asia, including: Uncertainty of market growth forecasts. LEGO senior director John Kelley argues in the case that to supply the most optimistic sales...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
opportunities that would be created by Covid or seeking expertise as to how they reconfigure their supply chains to respond to the real disruption in historical patterns of trade. So all of those things put...
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- 22 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 22, 2006
authors describe how organizational biases arise from the different incentives, agendas, and blind spots of the various functional areas of a business, and how they compromise forecast accuracy and disrupt the View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 14 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog
decisions, remember information, and control mood are all affected by diet. What you need: Nearly all research on nutrition converges on one point: Eat as many vegetables and fruits as you can. Beyond that, avoid processed food (to whatever extent possible, given View Details
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by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 14 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 14, 2010
that the missing link is perturbation: novel stimuli that disrupt the execution of specialized routines. Perturbation creates opportunities for organizations to invoke exploratory, general-purpose problem-solving routines. In mature...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
platform systems, showing that, in contrast to step processes, this technology rewards the multiplication of options, increasing risk, and modularity. Moreover, given a modular architecture, a platform system can be open, with different components View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
Ganesh Natarajan (AMP 169, 2005), Chairman of 5F World, Lighthouse Communities Foundation, and Honeywell Automation India. Navaldi’s highlighted contributions include “delivering medicines, oxygen concentrators, and medical supplies to...
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- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
competence—expertise in technology—and its skilled people to accomplish what government and relief agencies could not: an information system and supply chain that tracked and managed the flow of relief supplies. Its efforts were crucial...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
demanding a custom feature that would be unusually disruptive to develop. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/811075-PDF-ENG Utilis: Designing, Producing, and Selling Rapid Deployment Shelters for a Troubled World...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
iStock The faculty, students, and staff of Harvard Business School are thinking about the people of Turkey and Syria who were impacted by the recent earthquake. We have all been touched by the loss of life, the hopeful stories of survival, and the rapid response of...
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- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
and Robert S. Kaplan Abstract—Previous studies have documented wide variation in health-care spending and prices; however, the causes for the variation in supply purchase prices across providers are not well understood. The purpose of...
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Carmen Nobel
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
our prior research, there aren’t that many studies that simultaneously look at the way workers or the supply side of the labor market and the demand side employers view the same phenomena. And so, really, as a regular principle, we always...
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- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
2018 Boston: Harvard Business Review Press Driving Digital Strategy: A Guide to Reimagining Your Business By: Gupta, Sunil Abstract—Disruption and transformation get a lot of hype and for good reason. Digital technologies have disrupted...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
development of a business model based on "software as a service" (SaaS) for security solution distributed through Internet Service Providers (ISPs). F-Secure disruptively entered a mature business with dominant players by...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution
and best options in-store along with the electrical supplies and tools you will need to install the fixture. Online they carry an endless aisle of products and they provide videos and expert advice to help with installation. They do not...
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- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
ODM provider. The case is a vehicle for discussing new market disruption and the impact of modularity and the evolution of the value network in the global PC supply chain. Purchase the case:...
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Martha Lagace
- 16 Oct 2013
- Op-Ed
Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
with shale gas development can be incredibly disruptive locally, and fracking water usage clearly competes with local values and legacy uses. But shale gas production appears environmentally manageable, (including the risks from fugitive...
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- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
Or should Grace respond to buy-out offers? Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=309075 Backchannelmedia: Making Television 'Clickable' Harvard Business School Case 509-026 Backchannelmedia (BCM), a three-year-old start-up,...
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Martha Lagace