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- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Angels Face the Innovator’s Dilemma
limited by how quickly customers can learn and how quickly their lives and needs can change. At the same time, he said, the pace of technological progress almost always outstrips the ability of customers to use any particular new...
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- 07 Apr 2011
- What Do You Think?
When Should the Public Sector Take Over in a Meltdown?
the management provided by nuclear power provider Tokyo Electric Power Co. in efforts to control a meltdown at its Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. At the same time, the global public sector stood on...
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- May–June 2011
- Article
The Uninvited Brand
By: Susan Fournier and Jill Avery
Brands rushed into social media, viewing social networks, video sharing, online communities, and microblogging sites as the panacea to diminishing returns for traditional brand building routes. But, as more branding activity moves to the web, marketers are confronted...
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Marketing;
Brands;
Brand Building;
Brand Management;
Digital Marketing;
Advertising Campaigns;
Brands and Branding;
Marketing Communications;
Marketing Strategy;
Internet and the Web;
Social Media;
Advertising Industry;
Consumer Products Industry
Fournier, Susan, and Jill Avery. "The Uninvited Brand." Business Horizons 54, no. 3 (May–June 2011): 193–207.
- 28 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
HBS Celebrates Social Enterprise Initiative
What are the greatest challenges facing leaders of nonprofits today? A: One of the greatest complexities in managing social-purpose organizations or social undertakings by for-profit companies is measuring...
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by Manda Salls
- 13 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Create Winning Streaks
turn, winning breeds greater confidence and raises the company to an even higher level. Building organizational confidence, especially in turnaround situations where organizations have been on losing streaks, is the work of leaders. Leaders must instill confidence...
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by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel
- 04 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
Jumpstarting Innovation: Using Disruption to Your Advantage
required. Define a plan for evolving strategy and capabilities to exploit long-term value potential. Implement to reduce risk and manage uncertainty: Successful entrepreneurs are not risk seekers. Instead, they have learned to View Details
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by Lynda M. Applegate
- 07 Jun 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
The Institutional Logic of Great Global Firms
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by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 20 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Are Company Founders Underpaid?
research with 1,200 executives at 500 companies concludes founder pay is on average $30,000 less than that of non-founder executives. (The pay discrepancy disappears as the business matures.) What's the reason for such founder discounts? One reason is that non-founders...
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- 31 Oct 2004
- What Do You Think?
Should the Wisdom of Crowds Influence Our Thinking About Leadership?
the top of an organization? Is it the best argument yet for the idea of diversity, broadly defined, in organizations? Or is it a utopian dream forged in the laboratory by organization theorists in support of the mantra of decentralized...
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by James Heskett
- 16 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Applied Economics Save Homeless Puppies?
an animal shelter near her hometown. “I visited the shelter to earn a Girl Scout badge, but it immediately became a passion,” she says. More than a decade later she was sitting in a behavioral economics class at Stanford University,...
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- Third Quarter 2018
- Article
Why and How Investors Use ESG Information: Evidence from a Global Survey
By: Amir Amel-Zadeh and George Serafeim
Using survey data from a sample of senior investment professionals from mainstream (i.e., not SRI funds) investment organizations, we provide insights into why and how investors use reported environmental, social, and governance (ESG) information. Relevance to...
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Keywords:
ESG;
ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance;
Sustainability;
Investment Management;
Investment Strategy;
Metrics;
Standard Setting;
Accounting Standards;
Finance;
Investment;
Information;
Environmental Sustainability;
Governance;
Performance Effectiveness;
Strategy
Amel-Zadeh, Amir, and George Serafeim. "Why and How Investors Use ESG Information: Evidence from a Global Survey." Financial Analysts Journal 74, no. 3 (Third Quarter 2018): 87–103.
- 16 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Resolving Patent Disputes that Impede Innovation
protest," Lerner says. "But if such a policy is encouraged by antitrust bodies and courts, it could be beneficial for society as a whole and for technological regulation."
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- 06 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Renewable Energy: Winds at Our Back?
When American energy entrepreneur Jim Gordon envisioned the first offshore wind farm lining the horizon a few miles off the coast of the eastern United States, he perhaps did not factor in blowback from almost every angle. Gordon's nearly 10-year battle to gain...
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- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Connecting With Nonprofits
collaborations are characterized by clear purpose, mission congruency, high and mutually balanced value creation, effective communication, and deep reciprocal commitment." —James Austin It is important to note that progression along...
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by James Austin
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Rapid Response: Inside the Retailing Revolution
trucks unload their just-in-time goods from automated distribution centers on a weekly basis, and the variety of products available is seemingly infinite. A typical department store now stocks some 800,000 items, with that number climbing to one to two million in...
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- 11 Feb 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Goals Gone Wild: The Systematic Side Effects of Over-Prescribing Goal Setting
- January 2016 (Revised November 2018)
- Case
Match Next: Next Generation Middle School?
By: John J-H Kim and Daniel Goldberg
This case is set in 2015 as a team at Match Education, a high performing charter middle school in Boston, explores new staffing and technology approaches in their quest to obtain what they term "jaw dropping" results. The team hopes to test and model for other schools...
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General Management;
K-12;
Charter Schools;
Public Schools;
Edtech;
Education;
Information Technology;
Management;
Public Sector;
Entrepreneurship;
Education Industry;
Boston
Kim, John J-H, and Daniel Goldberg. "Match Next: Next Generation Middle School?" Harvard Business School Case 316-138, January 2016. (Revised November 2018.)
- 09 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Marketing a Country: Promotion as a Tool for Attracting Foreign Investment.
by acquiring permits and approvals from other government departments. Indeed, neither the wholly public nor the wholly private approach to the management of investment promotion is ideal. Regardless of the...
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by Louis T. Wells & Alvin G. Wint
- March 2014
- Article
Choosing the Right Customer
By: Robert Simons
Companies that win in competitive markets identify a primary customer and dedicate maximum resources to meeting that customer's needs. This article will show you how to identify the best primary customer for your business by analyzing perspective, capabilities, and...
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Strategy Execution;
Customer Focus;
Organization Design;
Accountability;
Management Control Systems;
Customer Relationship Management;
Organizational Design
Simons, Robert. "Choosing the Right Customer." Harvard Business Review 92, no. 3 (March 2014): 48–55.
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
The Creativity Maze
just impelled by curiosity. They've got to know what the answer is." Albert Einstein talked about intrinsic motivation as "the enjoyment of seeing and searching." The novelist John Irving, in discussing the very long hours...
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by Teresa Amabile