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Business Model Innovation and Competitive Imitation
Published:July 22, 2010Paper Released:July 2010Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Feng Zhu Executive Summary: When and why should an entrant adopt a new business model when the innovation could be...
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Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn
Q&A with:Frank Cespedes, Benson P. Shapiro, and Elliot RossPublished:July 26, 2010Author:Sean Silverthorne As economic turmoil continues, many companies are reconsidering their strategies with an...
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As a non-partisan plan of action, The Squam Lake Report: Fixing the Financial System (Princeton University Press) collects in one volume the insights of 15 leading economists including HBS professor...
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Disagreement about the Team's Status Hierarchy: An Insidious Obstacle to...
Published:July 28, 2010Paper Released:June 2010Author:Heidi K. Gardner Executive Summary: What happens when team members disagree about how much status each of the other members actually deserves?...
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Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market
Q&A with:Mukti KhairePublished:August 2, 2010Author:Sean Silverthorne Market categories—SUVs, smartphones, hip replacement surgeons—help facilitate commerce and other "market exchanges" by...
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Given the high stakes of patient safety, how can hospital staff be encouraged to speak up to report problems and offer suggestions for process improvement? In a working paper available for download...
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The Effect of Market Leadership in Business Process Innovation: The Case(s)...
Published:August 4, 2010Paper Released:June 2010Author:Kristina McElheran Executive Summary: The connection between market leadership and the adoption of new technologies is central to understanding...
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What Is Customer Opinion Good For?
Published:August 5, 2010Author:Jim Heskett Is it my imagination, or is marketing research and interest in customer views on anything of importance on the wane? The thought was triggered by Steve Jobs'...
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How to Speed Up Energy Innovation
Q&A with:Rebecca HendersonPublished:August 9, 2010Author:Julia Hanna Is there a special sauce for stimulating innovation in the energy sector, a concoction to spur cost-effective developments...
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If you're one of the approximately 50 million viewers who has enjoyed the hilarious and heart-warming video "JK Wedding Entrance Dance" posted on YouTube, you can perhaps understand the dilemma facing...
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The Influence of Prior Industry Affiliation on Framing in Nascent Industries:...
Published:August 11, 2010Paper Released:July 2010Authors:Mary J. Benner and Mary Tripsas Executive Summary: Firms entering a new product market face tremendous ambiguity and competitive uncertainty,...
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HBS Introduces Marketing Analysis Tools for Managers
Q&A with:Thomas J. SteenburghPublished:August 16, 2010Author:Sarah Jane Gilbert Harvard Business Publishing has released new toolkits to help managers make key marketing decisions on market...
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Organizational realities can both liberate and constrain employees' best efforts. In a working paper posted this past week, HBS professor Toby E. Stuart and Christopher C. Liu describe how scientists...
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Leniency in Private Regulatory Enforcement: The Role of Organizational Scope...
Published:August 18, 2010Paper Released:July 2010Authors:Lamar Pierce and Michael W. Toffel Executive Summary: Governments have long debated which tasks should be outsourced to the private sector....
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The Drive to Acquire's Impact on Globalization
Published:August 23, 2010Author:Paul R. Lawrence "Humans have evolved a leadership brain," says HBS professor emeritus Paul R. Lawrence. "Good leaders are people with a conscience who respect and...
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Extroverted leaders get the best results, right? Not so fast. Research to be published in a forthcoming Academy of Management Journal finds that team performance improves under extroverted leaders if...
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Speaking Up Constructively: Managerial Practices that Elicit Solutions from...
Published:August 25, 2010Paper Released:July 2010Authors:Julia Rose Adler-Milstein, Sara J. Singer, and Michael W. Toffel Executive Summary: How can front-line workers be encouraged to speak up when...
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Turning Employees Into Problem Solvers
Published:August 30, 2010Author:Julia Hanna Ten years ago, the Institute of Medicine published To Err is Human [PDF], a groundbreaking report that pushed the issue of medical errors into the public...
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Comparatively little attention has been given to how managers can allocate work across tasks and time to improve workers' performance, especially on repetitive tasks. Researchers Bradley R. Staats of...
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Multinational Firms, Labor Market Discrimination, and the Capture of...
Published:August 31, 2010Paper Released:August 2010Authors:Jordan I. Siegel, Lynn Pyun, and B.Y. Cheon Executive Summary: Women and ethnic minorities are frequently discriminated against in the labor...
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