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- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
emphasize users over producers. Large parts of the knowledge economy now routinely rely on users, communities, and open innovation approaches to solve important technological and organizational problems. This view of innovation, pioneered...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
that we’re smart in the things we’re attacking, and to try to solve real-world problems that make an impact.” Watson General Manager David Kenny (MBA 1986) adds: “The tech sector tends to reward short-term thinking.” But Watson is different, he says: A View Details
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Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
you see the most potential gains in productivity terms? And also where are the big misconceptions? People come to you and say, “We would really like your company to help us do the following.” And you know that that’s probably not going to...
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- 12 Jul 2020
- Book
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020
World One Smart Innovation at a Time When institutions let us down, look for leadership outside of hierarchies, says Rosabeth Moss Kanter. These leaders "don’t wait to be asked; they just get moving." Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Drive Performance and...
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by Staff
- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
responsibilities—including product management, marketing, growth, and sales—to help you figure out if you want to join a startup and what to expect if you do. You'll gain insight into how successful startups operate and learn to assess...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
long-term study of successful CEOs, some of them outlined in the August 2008 Harvard Business Review article, "The Uncompromising Leader," cowritten with Russell A. Eisenstat, Nathaniel Foote, Tobias Fredberg, and Flemming Norrgren. He also offers HBS Working...
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by Martha Lagace
- Web
Commencement 2015 Address | About
you are doing, and by the knowledge that your work has a greater Purpose. I learned this lesson as a young child in India, watching my father at his work. My father grew up in a village with no electricity. He had to read by...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
dramatically, is about equal to the time it takes to master a new technology, which is a juxtaposition we’ve never seen before, where through things like software as a service, that many more technologies are almost disposable. New View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
United States and five other countries. "We definitely think of ourselves as an entrepreneurial company, even though we've been around for a while," says Thompson. "It's been a productive and exciting time." Many observers believe that...
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- 12 May 2022
- News
Onboarding
women total on Fortune 500 boards. And diversity wasn’t particularly thought to be an important or desirable thing, even for a company whose business was focused on women. I mean, a good example would be Avon, which sold beauty products...
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- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
How can nonprofit leaders address such conflicting demands? Harvard Business School Working Knowledge recently spoke with two leaders in the field of nonprofit performance management. Mario Morino is cofounder and chairman of Venture...
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by Julia Hanna
- 26 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 26, 2016
excellence with high-volume experts. Finally, we need better health information technology systems to facilitate knowledge transmission and communication. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51385 forthcoming...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?
portions of the code that would rarely be developed spontaneously by members of the Linux-developer community. Q: From your modelling, what can Microsoft do strategically to remain competitive against a product that is argued to be of...
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- 27 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 27, 2016
forthcoming Measuring Entrepreneurial Businesses: Current Knowledge and Challenges Venture Capital Data: Opportunities and Challenges By: Kaplan, Steven N., and Josh Lerner Abstract—This paper describes the available data and research on...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
ragged gypsies would set up their tents near the village and with a great uproar of pipes and kettle drums, they would display new inventions. First they brought the magnet." Today in Latin America, as elsewhere, pipes and drums for View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
Reports" section of HBS Working Knowledge at www.workingknowledge.hbs.edu. Technology and Tradition at Cyberposium If attendance at the 2002 Cyberposium is any indication, student interest in the high-tech sector remains intense despite...
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- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
Everything depends on oil: Without a boost in output, there will be insufficient electricity, little money, and few well-paying jobs. Production is still below 1990 levels. But sanctions and secrecy are gone. Iraq’s urgent need is to...
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- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
create value. We extend this theory to address value appropriation. A product or process design that is modular with respect to intellectual property (IP) allows firms to better capture value in situations where View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
Business School Case 806-044 Fred Khosravi is a serial medical device entrepreneur. In his latest venture, he must decide whether to sell now or continue to develop his current product and whether to market it, sell the company, or IPO....
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Team MBA
who could speak to a particular process in more detail than even a case could. To Sonia’s point, getting that contextual knowledge firsthand from my peers has been awesome. The people here are a different kind of smart, where they pick...
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