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- 24 Apr 2014
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Addressing roadblocks to innovation in health care
convenes health care management educators to develop and implement new curricula for health care management education. She also recommends policy changes, such as standards for health care IT and transparency to consumers on the price and...
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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Fast Casual
electrical engineering, who designs the procedures and logistics that ensure smooth, efficient operations. Of PRG and its husband-wife leadership team, Peggy said, “We had to standardize everything from recipes to kitchens.... I think...
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- 30 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Retirement Planning
She'd say that he was worth 4,000 pounds a year. That's how we usually think of our standard of living." Merton says we're used to the mutual fund industry as a vehicle for getting to our retirement goal, yet few of us have a deep...
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How to Capture Value from Innovation: Shaping Intellectual Property and Industry Architecture
By: Gary P. Pisano and David J. Teece
Capturing value from innovation requires innovators to figure out how to blunt inroads into the profit stream by imitators, customers, suppliers, and other providers of complementary products and services. In making strategic decisions around technology...
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Technological Innovation;
Intellectual Property;
Knowledge Management;
Knowledge Sharing;
Industry Structures;
Standards;
Commercialization;
Value
Pisano, Gary P., and David J. Teece. "How to Capture Value from Innovation: Shaping Intellectual Property and Industry Architecture." Special Issue on Leading Through Innovation (50th Anniversary Issue). California Management Review 50, no. 1 (Fall 2007): 278–296.
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Timothy C. Draper | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
the successes of Hotmail, and has been adopted as a standard marketing technique by hundreds of businesses. Tim credits the idea to his case study education at HBS. He talked about his experiences in venture capital in an interview at HBS...
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- 25 Jun 2024
- News
On the Move: Alexis DePree (MBA 2007)
When Nordstrom announced the promotion of Alexis DePree (MBA 2007) to COO in early June, media outlets noted DePree’s expanded, end-to-end role in managing operations and customer experience in an increasingly complex retail environment. DePree joined Nordstrom in...
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- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Managing a Master
"And there were virtually no standards or requirements for managers. It's no wonder you'd hear about famous musicians dying penniless." Arrendell renegotiated Marsalis's contract, hired a new booking agent, and laid out a long-term career...
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Jeff Lazar
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Southern Dpt. Orient Insurance Company Hartford CT Insurance H. A. Redfield, agent, Dover, NH W. A. Pease Boston MA Insurance Life and Fire Insurance Agent T. S. Peck's General Insurance Agency Burlington VT Insurance Springfield Fire and Marine Insurance Co....
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Leading a Family Business (LFB) - Course Catalog
Forming a family enterprise Failure in a family business: danger zones and warning signs Each of those topics will involve a case discussion. Some of the cases will be of the standard variety and some will be “live cases” where the...
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- 01 Aug 2014
- News
A closer look at the industry of beauty
entrepreneurial imagination: the ability to understand values and trends and to shape them into brands people want," says Jones. Jones describes how, as the industry gained momentum, it played a significant role in standardizing beauty...
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- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Five Receive 2013 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
School has selected a number of outstanding men and women to receive its most important honor, the Alumni Achievement Award. Throughout their careers, these distinguished graduates have contributed significantly to their companies and communities while upholding the...
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- 01 Aug 2017
- News
Finding Purpose in Profit
the Colorado field office of B Lab, a nonprofit organization that seeks to redefine the meaning of success in business. B Lab’s mission is to assemble a global community of Certified B Corporations—companies that meet certain prescribed View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
White knight in the rye
minimal standards of civility. So it was like a breath of fresh air when, as the New York Times (June 23, 1999) reported, the winning bidder for the letters, Peter Norton (13th OPM), announced his intention "to do whatever Mr. Salinger...
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2023 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Abraham presents "Gender-Based Double Standards in Defining High Status: How Educational Status Shapes the Gender Pay Gap" (Flash Talk) Malissa Alinor presents "Just a Race Hire? The Effects of Competency Microaggressions on Workplace...
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- 01 Dec 2018
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Competencies and Credentials
degree inflation: Over the last decade, changes in employment expectations have created a powerful combination of underachievement and misalignment that is costing both US competitiveness and working-class Americans aspiring to a decent View Details
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Resources on Indian Business History - Creating Emerging Markets
Conferences Lessons from History Lessons from History Video Clips & Discussion Questions Resources on Indian Business History Standard Reference Works Feb 2004 New Delhi: Oxford University Press Oxford History of Indian Business Dwijendra...
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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Ideas
universalities in the decisions that founders faced. He also saw that the “fundamental implications of those decisions were getting the start-ups into trouble down the road.” More Case Study: Good as Our Word For most of the 20th century, three bond ratings...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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Multiple generations of computing
Palm Computing to found Handspring, creator of the Treo smartphone, a handheld device that set the standard for next-generation smartphones. They teamed up again in 2005 to found the software company Numenta, to become the catalyst for...
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- 11 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing
definite advance over the arbitrary overhead allocations done by traditional standard cost systems, many companies abandoned ABC or updated their model only infrequently, because of the high time and cost associated with re-estimating the...
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by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- September 2011 (Revised July 2012)
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Building Watson: Not So Elementary, My Dear!
By: Willy Shih
This case is set inside IBM Research's efforts to build a computer that can successfully take on human challengers playing the game show Jeopardy! It opens with the machine named Watson offering the incorrect answer "Toronto" to a seemingly simple question during the...
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Keywords:
Technological Innovation;
Standards;
Product Development;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Mathematical Methods;
Research and Development;
Information Technology
Shih, Willy. "Building Watson: Not So Elementary, My Dear!" Harvard Business School Case 612-017, September 2011. (Revised July 2012.)