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- 22 Mar 2024
- Research & Ideas
Open Source Software: The $9 Trillion Resource Companies Take for Granted
become, illuminating that the products are often the backbone on which many companies build tech operations and the products they sell, Nagle says. “To be able to say, ‘Look, this is no longer small. This is...
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- 11 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11
their worth from their multisided platforms (MSPs), which facilitate interactions or transactions between parties. Many MSPs are more valuable than companies in the same industries that provide only products or services: For instance,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jan 2013
- News
Why Being a Workaholic is Counterproductive
- 16 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 16
relationship is important, given that product architecture has been shown to be an important predictor of product performance, product variety, process flexibility, and even...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Activist CEOs Are Rising Up—and Their Customers Are Listening
When former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz announced earlier this year he was thinking about running for president of the United States, it wasn’t a new idea. Past CEOs seeking the White House have included Carly Fiorina, Ross Perot, Herman Cain, Steve Forbes, Mitt...
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by Michael Blanding
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
Abstract—New technology ventures often experience deviations from their original plans that oblige them to reorient in pursuit of better fit between their evolving products and target customers. Yet research...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
Is A/B Testing Effective? Evidence from 35,000 Startups
to itself before and after the testing software was implemented, the researchers mitigated the potential for selection bias in their sample—the possibility that companies opting to A/B test are inherently better, for example. To determine...
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by Kristen Senz
- 13 Jan 2023
- Research & Ideas
Are Companies Actually Greener—or Are They All Talk?
Most companies now account for social good in their financial reports in some way, but with regulation scattershot and evolving, it’s complicated for investors to assess so-called ESG reports. The disclosures, known as Environmental, Social, and Governance reports,...
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by Rachel Layne
- 2008
- Simulation
Strategic Innovation Simulation: Back Bay Battery
By: Willy C. Shih and Clayton Christensen
This online simulation allows students to play the role of a business unit manager at Back Bay Battery Company who faces the dilemma of balancing a portfolio of investment strategies across products in the rechargeable battery space. Players have to manage R&D...
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Competitive Strategy;
Disruptive Innovation;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Innovation and Management;
Investment;
Product Development;
Research and Development;
Battery Industry
Shih, Willy C., and Clayton Christensen. "Strategic Innovation Simulation: Back Bay Battery." Simulation and Teaching Note. Watertown, MA: Harvard Business School Publishing, 2008. Electronic. (2656-HTM-ENG.)
- 15 May 2024
- Research & Ideas
A Major Roadblock for Autonomous Cars: Motorists Believe They Drive Better
people ages 2 through 59, with some 98 percent of accidents tied to human error. And accidents cost $340 billion, or 1.6 percent, of US Gross Domestic Product in 2023, according to the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration....
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- 12 Dec 2023
- Research & Ideas
COVID Tested Global Supply Chains. Here’s How They’ve Adapted
addition, there has also been some very preliminary evidence of reshoring amid plans to boost semiconductor manufacturing in the US, says Alfaro, whose research shows that worker headcounts in that space rose by 1.9 percent in the US...
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by Scott Van Voorhis
- February 1996
- Case
Chadwick, Inc.: The Balanced Scorecard (Abridged)
By: Robert S. Kaplan
The pharmaceutical division of a diversified company has been asked to develop a Balanced Scorecard. Research and development projects take about ten years to bring a new product to the marketplace and the division depends on good relations and active feedback from its...
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Balanced Scorecard;
Research and Development;
Product Launch;
Commercialization;
Consumer Behavior;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Performance Evaluation;
Pharmaceutical Industry
Kaplan, Robert S. "Chadwick, Inc.: The Balanced Scorecard (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 196-124, February 1996.
- 17 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Women Receive Harsher Punishment at Work Than Men
The evidence has long shown that women are discriminated against in the workplace. Now it appears that they are even punished more harshly than men when they are in the wrong. A new research paper reveals that when women at Wells Fargo...
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Nien-he Hsieh
Nien-hê Hsieh is the Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration in the General Management Unit at Harvard Business School. His research and teaching aims at helping business leaders and organizations determine and deliver on their responsibilities. He... View Details
- 16 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Most Successful Startups Have Hands-On Founders
how these management skills can be acquired through peer networks, the researchers partnered with the Indian Software Product Industry Roundtable (iSPIRIT), a think tank that promotes the growth of Indian...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Mar 2021
- News
The Long Road Ahead for Women in Corporate India
- 29 Jan 2021
- Op-Ed
How Influencers, Celebrities, and FOMO Can Win Over Vaccine Skeptics
is uncertain about what vaccine supplies, if any, are available or when they will be. The World Health Organization estimates that at least 60 to 70 percent of the population would need to be vaccinated to reach herd immunity. While vaccines are in short supply now,...
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- 26 Mar 2012
- News
What Neuroscience Tells Us About Consumer Desire
- March 17, 2017
- Article
How Economics Can Shape Precision Medicines
By: Ariel Dora Stern, Brian M. Alexander and Amitabh Chandra
Many public and private efforts in coming years will focus on research in precision medicine, developing biomarkers to indicate which patients are likely to benefit from a certain treatment so that others can be spared the cost—financial and physical—of being treated...
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Stern, Ariel Dora, Brian M. Alexander, and Amitabh Chandra. "How Economics Can Shape Precision Medicines." Science 355, no. 6330 (March 17, 2017): 1131–1133.