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- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
of discovery and creative progress rapidly accelerated in the wake of professionalization. In an open society, moreover, there will always be room for "rogue" entrepreneurs to challenge the existing order, as practitioners of...
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- 18 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
How New Managers Become Great Managers
self-development. In the course of my work, I have had the privilege of developing teaching materials about many experienced leaders and their career development. This chapter builds on stories from some of the talented managers I've...
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by Linda Hill
- 13 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
Science: The Unlikely Frontier for New Business Ideas
Entrepreneurial Management Unit. “I hope it opens some eyes to the value of hard, risky, in-the-weeds science for commercial innovation, as opposed to ‘let’s just go build the thing and make it work on the fly.’” What does basing an...
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by Avery Forman
- 19 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
How Mercadona Fixes Retail’s ’Last 10 Yards’ Problem
money to spend on groceries. So if we were opened seven days a week, we wouldn't necessarily sell any more, and we would have to increase prices to cover our expenses." The Mercadona case inevitably raises the question: Can this...
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- 13 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Kind of Blue: Pushing Boundaries with Miles Davis
Adderley, et al. How could he give them more freedom, more empowerment? Maybe he realized that playing easier material would in itself help emancipate the players—even if he was dealing with the best talent in the business. I think the...
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- 22 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients
zero-sum dynamic at play. This is true even—especially—if all relationships had been collegial and warm. Some of the worst legal mistakes are made out of a desire to be open and aboveboard, or from the simple habits of friendship. It can...
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- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard
ideas and approaches that promote growth. Employees can become inspired with their understanding of how their organization creates value and intends to be a healthy, growing entity. For example, at Duke Children's Hospital Dr. Jon Meliones had to cope with the View Details
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by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Building Competitive Advantage Through Operations
It's the set of processes that transforms either materials or information into a product or service. EE: How has this definition evolved over the past decade? Upton: There have been some exciting changes in recent years. First, operations...
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by Staff
- 03 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance
reality of global firms, most finance scholarship and pedagogic material conceives of firms as being entirely locally focused and ignores the many questions prompted by global operations. International considerations are typically only...
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- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
forthcoming Cambridge, MA: MIT Press Revolutionizing Innovation: Users, Communities, and Open Innovation By: Harhoff, Dietmar, and Karim R. Lakhani, eds. Abstract—The last two decades have witnessed an extraordinary growth of new models...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Identify Emerging Market Opportunities
framework—that lets executives map the institutional contexts of any country. Economics 101 tells us that companies buy inputs in the product, labor, and capital markets and sell their outputs in the products (raw materials and finished...
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- 19 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 19, 2016
the years, with the number of proposals filed doubling from 1999 to 2013. We use recent innovations in accounting standard setting to classify 2,665 shareholder proposals that address environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues as financially View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World
Great chefs, like great artists, go far beyond their materials (in this case, food) to provoke an experience that fulfills their creative vision. Unlike artists, however, they are running a business that requires putting diners in the...
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- 13 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Dark Side of Trust
floor drain (-6 percent). Interest in the product was much less when the promotional materials featured a black individual: 3 percent said they would consider the product when the brochure featured a black person, 14 percent in the other...
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- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 29, 2008
situation facing Gary Gottlieb, president of Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH), prior to the opening of BWH's integrated cardiovascular center. This case allows students to develop an appreciation of the strategic, financial,...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Do I Dare Say Something?
survival) to "flee" too often from threats that weren't really there than to not flee the one time there was a significant risk. So, we've inherited emotional and cognitive mechanisms that motivate us to avoid perceived risks to our psychological and View Details
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by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 02 Mar 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership?
reluctance to open up the banking system and promote the yuan as a global reserve currency. These were the conclusions of nearly all respondents to this month’s column. Nevertheless, there was an undertone to the comments suggesting that...
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by James Heskett
- 13 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Government Can Restore the Faith of Citizens
government are at their lowest ever," says Buell. "There is a danger that that disgust can lead to disengagement. Showing the ways in which government materially affects people's lives through its actions has the potential to...
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by Michael Blanding
- 02 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019
Abstract—This study seeks to better understand the impact that government technology procurement regulations have on social value and national competitiveness. To do this, it examines the impact of a change in France’s technology procurement policy that required...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 26
ways of understanding the world and as sets of varying methods for achieving that understanding. It rejects the assumption that material interests either linearly or simply determine economic outcomes and demands that analysts consider,...
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Martha Lagace