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      • 05 Jan 2021
      • Cold Call Podcast

      Using Behavioral Science to Improve Well-Being for Social Workers

      For child and family social workers, coping with the hardships of children and parents is part of the job. But that can cause a lot of stress. Is it possible for financially constrained organizations to improve social workers’ well-being using non-cash rewards, recognition, and other strategies from behavioral science? Assistant Professor Ashley Whillans describes the experience of Chief Executive Michael Sanders’ at the UK’s What Works Centre for Children’s Social Care, as he led a research program aimed at improving the morale of social workers in her case, “The What Works Centre: Using Behavioral Science to Improve Social Worker Well-being.”  Open for comment; 0 Comment(s) posted.

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      • 27 Feb 2020
      • Sharpening Your Skills

      How Following Best Business Practices Can Improve Health Care

      by Sean Silverthorne

      Why do Harvard Business School scholars spend so much time and money analyzing health care delivery? Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 25 Feb 2020
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Reinventing Retail: The Novel Resurgence of Independent Bookstores

      by Ryan Raffaelli

      Independent booksellers in the United States have proven resilient in the face of multiple technological and business model shifts in the bookselling industry. By tapping into a larger social movement that promotes the value of shopping local and a desire to cultivate community, successful booksellers are differentiating themselves from online and big box competitors.

      • 28 Jan 2020
      • Book

      Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking

      by Sean Silverthorne

      In a new book, Rosabeth Moss Kanter encourages leaders to "think outside the building" to overcome establishment paralysis and generate powerful innovation. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 26 Jan 2020
      • Research & Ideas

      Clayton M. Christensen, Acclaimed Author and Teacher, Dies At 67

      • 14 Aug 2019
      • Sharpening Your Skills

      The Manager's Guide to Leveraging Disruption

      by Sean Silverthorne

      Clayton M. Christensen's seminal book, The Innovator's Dilemma, helped ignite the idea of innovative disruption. His Harvard Business School colleagues have been adding to innovation research ever since. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 21 May 2019
      • Cold Call Podcast

      If the Key to Business Success Is Focus, Why Does Amazon Work?

      Re: Sunil Gupta

      Sunil Gupta explores the infiltration of Amazon into dozens of industries including web services, grocery, and movie production. What’s the big plan? Is the company spread too thin? Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 17 Apr 2019
      • Cold Call Podcast

      Would You Live in a Smart City Where Government Controls Privacy?

      Toronto is experimenting with smart-city concepts envisioned by Google spinoff Sidewalk Labs. Leslie John and Mitch Weiss discuss the tradeoffs of using technology to improve modern city life. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 20 Feb 2019
      • Research & Ideas

      Rocket-tunity: Can Private Firms Turn a Profit in Space?

      by Scott Wallask

      Private rocket companies are competing to be the first to send paying tourists into space, perhaps even this year. Matthew Weinzierl lays out the strategic roadmap to the stars. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 18 Feb 2019
      • Book

      What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology

      by Danielle Kost

      Technology doesn't drive disruption—customers do. In a new book, marketing professor Thales Teixeira argues that successful disruptors are faster to spot and serve emerging customer needs than larger competitors. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 03 Jan 2019
      • Research & Ideas

      Everyone Knows Innovation is Essential to Business Success—Except Board Directors

      by Michael Blanding

      In a recent survey of 5,000 board members, innovation was not ranked high on their list of priorities. What are they not seeing? ask Boris Groysberg and Yo-Jud Cheng. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 20 Dec 2018
      • Cold Call Podcast

      Using Fintech to Disrupt Eastern Bank from Within

      Re: Karen Mills

      When Eastern Bank decided to battle a threat from new competitors, it hired a fintech executive to set up Eastern Labs and start innovating. Karen Mills discusses her case study on what happened next. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 28 Nov 2018
      • HBS Case

      On Target: Rethinking the Retail Website

      by Dina Gerdeman

      Target is one big-brand retailer that seems to have survived and even thrived in the apocalyptic retail landscape. What's its secret? Srikant Datar discusses the company's relentless focus on online data. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 31 May 2017
      • What Do You Think?

      Can Amazon Do What Walmart Couldn’t, Stop the 'Wheel of Retailing'?

      by James Heskett

      SUMMING UP Is Amazon's growing retail power capable of breaking the "wheel of retailing" theory? James Heskett's readers weigh in. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 03 Oct 2016
      • Book

      Clayton Christensen: The Theory of Jobs To Be Done

      by Dina Gerdeman

      Clayton M. Christensen's The Innovator's Dilemma was a classic text on how companies fail. In a new book, Competing Against Luck, Christensen tackles the opposite challenge: how companies succeed. First lesson, discover what job consumers are hiring your product to do. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 26 Sep 2016
      • Book

      Is Company Failure Inevitable?

      by Dina Gerdeman

      Companies don’t generally fail because of competition; it’s out-of-touch leadership that kills them. Lead and Disrupt coauthor Michael L. Tushman discusses how companies must continue to invest in their core products while innovating in new areas. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 02 Feb 2015
      • Research & Ideas

      Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t

      by Michael Blanding

      By "decoupling" activities that consumers value from the ones they don't, enterprising digital startups are wreaking havoc on established firms. Thales Teixeira discusses his research on the second wave of Internet disruption. Open for comment; 8 Comment(s) posted.

      • 09 May 2012
      • Research & Ideas

      Clayton Christensen’s “How Will You Measure Your Life?”

      World-renowned innovation expert Clayton M. Christensen explores the personal benefits of business research in the forthcoming book How Will You Measure Your Life? Coauthored with James Allworth and Karen Dillon, the book explains how well-tested academic theories can help us find meaning and happiness not just at work, but in life. Open for comment; 75 Comment(s) posted.

      • 08 Apr 2009
      • Research & Ideas

      Clayton Christensen on Disrupting Health Care

      by Deborah Blagg

      In The Innovator's Prescription, Clayton Christensen and his coauthors target disruptive innovations that will make health care both more affordable and more effective. From the HBS Alumni Bulletin. Closed for comment; 0 Comment(s) posted.

      • 09 Mar 2009
      • Research & Ideas

      How to Revive Health-Care Innovation

      by Clayton M. Christensen, Jerome H. Grossman, M.D. M.D. & Jason Hwang

      Simple solutions to complex problems lead to breakthroughs in industries from retailing to personal computers to printing. So let's try health care, too. According to HBS professor Clayton M. Christensen and coauthors of The Innovator's Prescription, such disruption to an industry might look like a threat, but it "always proves to be an extraordinary growth opportunity." Book excerpt. Key concepts include: Most disruptions have three enablers: a simplifying technology, a business model innovation, and a disruptive value network. Business model innovations are almost always forged by new entrants to an industry. Disruption of an industry rarely happens piecemeal. It is more common that entirely new value networks arise, displacing the old. Always, the technological enablers of disruption are successfully deployed against an industry's simplest problems first. Health care is no different. Closed for comment; 0 Comment(s) posted.

      • 18 Aug 2008
      • Research & Ideas

      How Disruptive Innovation Changes Education

      by Martha Lagace

      HBS professor Clayton M. Christensen, who developed the theory of disruptive innovation, joins colleagues Michael B. Horn and Curtis W. Johnson to advocate for ways in which ideas around innovation can spur much-needed improvements in public education. A Q&A with the authors of Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns. Key concepts include: As an industry, education has certain elements that have made the market difficult to penetrate and lasting reform hard to come by. As a general rule, the most promising areas for innovation are pockets or areas that appear unattractive or inconsequential to industry incumbents and where there are people who would like to do something but cannot access the available offering. To improve education as an industry, businesspeople might consider investing in technological platforms that will allow for robust educational user networks to emerge. Closed for comment; 0 Comment(s) posted.

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