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- 2013
- Working Paper
Management: Theory and Practice, and Cases
By: Richard L. Nolan
This working paper reports on a major Harvard Business School project designed to enhance MBA and practicing executives in case learning. The work is built on the foundation of HBS field cases employing the monomyth "hero's journey" classic story structure along... View Details
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Innovation;
CIO;
CEO;
Hero's Journey;
Monomyth;
Management;
Practice;
Cases;
Theory;
Innovation and Invention
Nolan, Richard L. "Management: Theory and Practice, and Cases." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-026, September 2013.
- 25 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017
individual ethics and as a specific version of a broader argument made for centuries by theorists from Hume to Hayek. I also provide evidence of an example in which real-world policy judgments are consistent with this theoretical argument. Results from a View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 09 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018
that reduce administrative burden and allow for the introduction of novel cancer therapies. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53706 Credit Supply Shocks, Network Effects, and the Real Economy By: Alfaro,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Markets or Communities? The Best Ways to Manage Outside Innovation
was "jail broken"—allowing developers to create homegrown tools for writing applications for the iPhone—it became quite apparent that there was a significant untapped need among thousands of developers to create applications. Apple...
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- 14 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 14
Working PapersIndustry Equilibrium with Open Source and Proprietary Firms Authors:Gastón Llanes and Ramiro de Elejalde Abstract We present a model of industry equilibrium to study the coexistence of Open Source (OS) and Proprietary (P) firms. Two View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 11 Jun 2024
- In Practice
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2024
about California’s water wars, including conspiracies to dry up the land so it could be bought cheaply. For lighter reading, I will turn to my perennial favorites: gripping novels about the other kind of cases, legal cases, and the other...
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by Avery Forman
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
pure e-tailer as well as two competing multichannel retailers. Even though self-matching is likely to reduce a retailer's profits, with some consumers paying the lower price, we uncover two novel mechanisms that can make self-matching...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
Working PapersSell Side School Ties Authors:Lauren H. Cohen, Andrea Frazzini, and Christopher J. Malloy Abstract We study the impact of social networks on agents' ability to gather superior information about firms. Exploiting novel data...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
based in India, decided to use principles from the Toyota Production System (also known as lean) to fundamentally change their operating model. Looks at why Wipro chose to use lean and how they went about implementing it in a novel...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
affected U.S. innovation. We confront two empirical challenges in assessing the impact. We map all U.S. utility patents granted by March 2013 to firm-level data using a novel Internet-based matching algorithm that corrects for a...
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Carmen Nobel
- 31 Oct 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017
forthcoming Journal of Political Economy The Market for Financial Adviser Misconduct By: Egan, Mark, Gregor Matvos, and Amit Seru Abstract—We construct a novel database containing the universe of financial advisers in the United States...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
app targeted at millennial customers that would include a novel proxy voting feature that allowed clients to vote on shareholder resolutions with a simple swipe. With this technological addition, OpenInvest was well on its way towards...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 5, 2007
provider, health plan, and reimbursement structure. Following new legislation in 2004, which allowed health plans and selected providers to contract outside of the regular group purchasing scheme, KKH and Dr. Deiner of Essen University Hospital developed a View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 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
- 21 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 21, 2015
Lal, Rajiv, and Ishan Sachdev Abstract—Mobile money services are being deployed rapidly across emerging markets as a key tool to further the goal of financial inclusion. Financial inclusion, the development of novel methods to enable...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 9
policies that maintain a low level of average inflation. Cases & Course MaterialsNovoCure Ltd. William A. Sahlman and Sarah Greene FlahertyHarvard Business School Case 810-045 Venture capitalist William Doyle must raise $35 million for a portfolio company with a...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
governance mode (make, ally, or buy) and also promotes substitution effects on governance mode choice while impacting exchange performance. We evaluate hypotheses using a novel three-stage switching regression model and a sample of 222...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 24
further demonstrate that financing risk has the greatest impact on firms with the most real option value. Hence, the mix of projects funded and type of investors who are active varies with the level of financing risk in the economy. We also highlight that some...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 28
cognitive, normative, or regulative mainstays of an organizational field. Institutional innovation, like all innovation, is both novel and useful but differs in that it is also legitimate, credible, and appropriate. Legitimacy is hinged...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Feb 2022
- Book
When Working Harder Doesn’t Work, Time to Reinvent Your Career
fluid intelligence wanes, crystallized intelligence—a different kind of thinking marked by synthesizing and sharing knowledge—grows, writes Brooks, a professor of Management Practice at HBS. He points to Johann Sebastian Bach, a musical...
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by Avery Forman