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- Working Paper
The Contingent Effect of Absorptive Capacity: An Open Innovation Analysis
By: Andrew A. King and Karim R. Lakhani
Technological advancement and innovation requires the integration of both external knowledge and internal inventiveness. In this paper, we unpack the concept of absorptive capacity and separately explore the effect of different types of prior experience on the capacity...
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Experience and Expertise;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Technological Innovation;
Knowledge Use and Leverage;
Performance Capacity;
Technology Adoption
King, Andrew A., and Karim R. Lakhani. "The Contingent Effect of Absorptive Capacity: An Open Innovation Analysis." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-102, April 2011.
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
staff are well positioned to conceive improvement opportunities based on first-hand knowledge of what works and does not work. The innovation contest may be a relevant and useful vehicle to elicit staff ideas. However, the success of the...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
and the design and construction of leading-edge buildings. I have identified the leadership practices that make successful cross-industry teams work: fostering an adaptable vision, promoting psychological safety, enabling knowledge...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
Repugnant Markets and How They Get That Way
Unfair. Undignified. Inappropriate, unprofessional, distasteful—and most of all, repugnant. To the wonder and surprise of Alvin E. Roth, a Harvard economist, these harsh words are often hoisted to describe an important task of his: View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 2011
- Working Paper
How Foundations Think: The Ford Foundation as a Dominating Institution in the Field of American Business Schools
By: Rakesh Khurana, Kenneth Kimura and Marion Fourcade
The question of institutional change has become central to organizational research (Powell, 2008). Recent scholarship has demonstrated, often through carefully researched cases, that institutions can and sometimes do change. According to this research, there are two...
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Change;
Business Education;
Business History;
Organizations;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Structure;
Relationships;
Behavior
Khurana, Rakesh, Kenneth Kimura, and Marion Fourcade. "How Foundations Think: The Ford Foundation as a Dominating Institution in the Field of American Business Schools." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-070, January 2011.
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
international institutions, a bank and a museum, adds value to both in terms of interaction with customers and breadth of audiences. The paper further points to key aspects of resource integration in a co-marketing partnership. Design /...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
a comprehensive sample of shareholder activism between 2004 and 2011, we find that directors are almost twice as likely to leave over a two-year period if the firm is the subject of a shareholder activist campaign. While it has been argued that proxy View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Experts Play It Too Safe: Innovation Lessons from a NASA Experiment
of whether managers should aim to deliberately increase the diversity of their evaluator pools,” the researchers write. Experts prefer feasible robot designs To test how open experts are to unique ideas, the researchers worked with NASA...
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- 23 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2008
this is one aspect that the good design of policies on the extraction of oil and mineral resources should take into account. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-035.pdf PublicationsEntrepreneurial Ventures and...
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Martha Lagace
- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations
example, offering large financial incentives to the winners of intergroup contests would predictably pull these relationships into cutthroat competition. In addition, in an effort to keep the competition from becoming cutthroat or the...
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by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
- 11 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Branding Sells Cereal, Handbags, and Vacations. Can It Sell a Country?
complicated history still dominate public consciousness. Memories of failed peace talks tend to loom larger than Israel’s image as a startup nation. Thousands of Instagram posts from Tel Aviv’s gay pride festivities or the buzz from winning the recent Eurovision song...
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- 24 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Yelp Factor: Are Consumer Reviews Good for Business?
restaurants of gaming the system by stacking reviews by friends and family, or simply falling prey to a popularity contest by uninformed palates. "Given the evidence, I don't think many people would dispute Yelp's influence,"...
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- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
I. Levine, 241-267. Cambridge University Press, 2010 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Publisher's Link: http://www.cambridge.org/gb/knowledge/isbn/item2708038/?site_locale=en_GB Organizational Sustainability: Organization Design...
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- 16 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Crowdsourcing Is Helping Hollywood Reduce the Risk of Movie-Making
credibility on the screenwriter, and gives producers confidence that a movie might succeed. But should it? In fact, says Luo, the way the list is constructed is inherently flawed (from an ideal design standpoint). No one knows how many...
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- 15 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
What You Don’t Know About Making Decisions
Alternatively, the group may designate "intellectual watchdogs" who are assigned the task of scrutinizing the process for unchecked assumptions and challenging them on the spot. Well-Defined Criteria. Without crisp, clear goals,...
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by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
attributable to comparability. Together, the findings are consistent with mandatory IFRS adoption improving comparability and thus leading to capital market benefits by reducing insiders' ability to exploit private information. Epistemic View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now
colleagues, even if they’re not being overtly sexual. “You see these masculinity contests in workplaces, where people who victimize others are rewarded for their aggressive displays and are seen as leaders precisely because they bully...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
The House Wants to Squelch Voices of ‘Small’ Shareholders. Research Shows Those Voices Matter.
Source: iStock In June 2017, the US House of Representatives passed the Financial CHOICE Act, a 589-page bill designed to repeal many of the regulations in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010. Buried on...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 10 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 10
the economy to organize production and innovation. We study individual contestant-level data from 2,796 contestants in 774 software algorithm design contests with random...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
Lakhani said the question comes down to this: Do we have the right labor force? His research team recently held a three-weeklong contest that looked to improve the accuracy and processing speed of an algorithm View Details
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by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel