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- 09 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale
transactional, etc., etc. You play the role of leader if that's what the company needs of you. His own analogy is to a tennis player. A tennis player has a backhand and a forehand. You're a manager when you need to manage. You're a leader...
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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
emeritus Tom McCraw, the School’s Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, has made the analogy between McArthur and Dwight Eisenhower — a style of “hidden-hand” leadership that few understand, let alone master. In a book published after...
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- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part One]
than eliminate or relax it. The analogy to the keiretsu system has been widely touted in the Internet era. Companies such as CMGI billed themselves as new economy keiretsu. We are seeing a similar outcome as in Japan. The model turned out...
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by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 19 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 19
explores the changes that have taken place in the consumer television receiver market and the challenges faced by leaders of the analog market, like Sony. It is intended for use with the technical note, "Competency-destroying...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
base. But many ventures simply partition markets based on what is identifiable and accessible via purchased customer lists, SIC codes, LinkedIn, Facebook, or the sheer number of cold calls. Sales may be made, but it's the result of a random-walk process View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation
call center they saw in Houston. Having identified contractors' need for just-in-time delivery, the team reasoned by analogy that emergency response teams faced a similar problem of quickly reacting to urgent requests from unpredictable...
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- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
the analogy of the force field that used to protect Jurassic Park. It goes down, and the raptors run loose. You're the raptors, and I'm a raptor trainer. The VCs are a bunch of raptor feeders out there, and they're attacking all the...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
analogous problem. I’d say the second part is the whole renaissance of machine learning and AI. There’s a lot of building blocks we have today that we wouldn’t have had in 2007.Kerr: So tell us about how you’re thinking about leveraging...
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- 20 Jun 2019
- News
Reframing Modern Art
ask them to loan you a painting for an exhibit. I imagine that being challenging. In some ways, you're kind of asking them to release this very valuable baby in their collection to you. Murrell: The process of convincing museums to lend major works of art is very much...
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- 11 Sep 2018
- News
Bringing Government Up to Code
analogy that Jen Pahlka who's our executive director here uses, is the house is on fire right now. That means we actually need to run towards it, not away from it. Luna: And how does Code for America work? What are the fires that you're...
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- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
strategic alliances could be optimal. We expect that, given institutional knowledge about a particular setting, our broad theoretical framework can be specialized to deliver testable predictions for that setting (as has occurred in some View Details
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Martha Lagace
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
thinking of it using that Amazon analogy and thinking that expansively—that eventually you’d be covering such a wide category of work, even though you started with the focus on digital professionals?Kaufman: Freelancing in general, back...
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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
international League of Legends tournament (photo courtesy of Riot Games) Almost everyone relies on traditional sports analogies when discussing esports. “Esports,” like the term “sports,” refers to the entire universe of competitive...
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- 16 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16
Markets By: Menon, Anoop R., and Dennis Yao Abstract—This paper explores how mental models affect the analysis of dynamic strategic interactions. We develop an explanation-based view of mental models founded on a regression analogy and...
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- 07 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits
to Cummins. One way to analogize this is to imagine if a fraction of your mortgage interest deduction was disallowed, and that fraction reflected the number of days you spent abroad. Such a disallowance would increase your taxes and...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act
catalog that professors would employ "an analogous method [to the 'case method' used at the Law School], emphasizing classroom discussion, supplemented by lectures and frequent reports, which may be called the problem method."...
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by David A. Garvin
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
and fundamental to Kodak’s identity. In January 2016, Clarke and his executive team traveled to Las Vegas, Nevada, for the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) where the company unveiled a prototype of its new Super 8 camera—an analog...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
impressed by the public health community's ability to communicate this virus to the population. As someone who spends my time thinking about how to communicate an invisible, deadly crisis that's creeping up on us, I have been so impressed by the flattening-the-curve...
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- 04 May 2018
- News
How to Win the Kentucky Derby
and a Pro Bowl player. And that's the analogy I garner with her. She broke her maiden after, I think, six or seven starts. All of a sudden everything changed. She was a different filly. She was eating better. She had a lot more...
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horse racing
- 14 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2007
the early years of the 21st century. From a state-owned enterprise earning 97% of its revenue from television sets and other analog consumer electronics, Thomson had become a publicly traded company providing digital video services and...
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Martha Lagace