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- 15 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Lessons Not Learned About Innovation
Institutional memories are short. But internal business pressures also play a part as executives balance the need to protect current revenue streams with the imperative to get behind new concepts crucial to future success. And too often...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why ‘Sleep on It’ No Longer Sounds Like Great Advice
the morning and were told to come back in the evening. At no point were they told that the experiment was about sleep—but that’s exactly what the researchers were trying to test. Past psychological research has shown that sleep benefits View Details
- 19 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Analyzing Institutions to Solve Big Problems
Paul R. Lawrence Conference: Connecting Rigor and Relevance in Institutional Analysis honored the memory of a prolific scholar and longtime HBS faculty member who, at the time of his death in 2011, was the Wallace Brent Donham Professor...
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by Carmen Nobel & Anna Secino
- 26 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
David, Goliath, and Disruption
different ways, added Jeffrey Miller, president and CEO of content management firm Documentum, Inc. In the 1980s, Miller told the group, he'd been a marketing manager at Intel when Intel management made the radical decision to throw over their View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 22 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Mind of the Market: Extending the Frontiers of Marketing Thought
thoughts occur as images. Most thought, emotion and learning occur without awareness. Emotion and reason are equally important. Cognition is embodied. Memory is story-based and readily distorted. A sample study does not require a huge...
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by Martha Lagace
- 09 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale
situations where they literally, it seems to me, bet the company, changed its direction to keep it going up. In the mid '80s with the Japanese coming into the market with very cheap memory chips. A: They were inexpensive but of high...
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- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
as big an impact on strategy as corporate-level managers. One of the examples we use in the book is Intel. While the corporate office continued to conceive of Intel as a memory chip company, an operating rule in their manufacturing...
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by Martha Lagace
- 09 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Unconscious Executive
going to sleep and improves your memory of the information. This strategy could potentially act as a study aid for students and professionals alike. So far, though, we have only found results for creativity. People were given instructions...
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by Martha Lagace
- 17 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan
this is temporary, but imagine taking 22% of the global supply of a vital commodity offline. Toshiba is a Japanese company that makes 35% of the flash memory in the world, consumed by devices like Apple's iPad and smartphones. It has not...
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Re: Multiple Faculty
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Three Countries, Three Choices in Post-Soviet Eurasia
national identity is a collective identity of a particular kind: an identity shared among a population and shaped by historical memory and cultural symbols. National identity can include components of language, ethnicity and religion....
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by Martha Lagace
- 30 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Retirement Planning
place an undue burden on workers who don't have the interest, time, or expertise to manage their finances. A pioneer in translating finance and mathematics into practical, Wall Street-ready models, Merton was awarded the 1997 Nobel View Details
- 06 Dec 2006
- Op-Ed
India Needs to Encourage Trade with China
mistake to dismiss such cultural links as being too far back in history to matter, since they inform historical memories in the two countries. Scholars suggest that Buddhism and trade were mutually reinforcing millennia ago, and...
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by Tarun Khanna
- 20 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Moving from Supply Chains to Supply Networks
about processing speed. We also have the capacity to store programs in memory without having to access data from the disc. EE: Does a clear-cut strategy exist for achieving success in supply chain management? Raman: To provide a partial...
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by Staff
- 12 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
John Irving’s Lessons for Business
as well as how to nurture creativity, both in individuals and in organizations. Amabile interviewed John Irving in 1986, when he agreed to share memories of his childhood as part of a research project Amabile was conducting on children...
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by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
parent's strategic focus." The Xerox Corporation originated as a photography-paper business called the Haloid Company. 3 The Haloid Company's entrance into what would later become its principal business came in 1947, when it and the Battelle View Details
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by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 03 Feb 2003
- What Do You Think?
Can Business Schools Teach the Craft of Getting Things Done?
is right and being able to put it into practice in organizations include: (1) the use of memory and custom as a substitute for thinking, (2) fear of making a mistake which prevents employees from acting on knowledge, (3) measurements,...
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by James Heskett
- 30 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Do Mergers Hurt Product Quality?
didn't include smartphones, for example, which have only been around for a few years," Sheen explains, "and I didn't include things like computers, where quality can depend on how much memory it has. It's kind of amorphous. I...
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- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
of performance feedback in motivating productivity in repetitive tasks. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-078.pdf Memory Lane and Morality: How Childhood Memories Promote Prosocial...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Black Swans and Big Trends Can Ruin Anyone's Internet Prediction
nostalgic memories of startups that bring to mind my favorite line from the movie Blade Runner: “The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long.” Remember Boo.com, Webvan, eToys, Pseudo.com, Pets.com, and Kozmo? Disney’s $790...
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- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
their memory of everyday events. By documenting the present, people provide themselves with the opportunity to rediscover mundane moments that may otherwise have been forgotten. Publisher's link:...
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Sean Silverthorne