Our Strategy Lab translates business ideas that offer real impact by capturing, developing, and applying cutting edge thinking from within and beyond business.
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LEARN MORELoizos Heracleous, professor at the Warwick Business School and Associate Fellow of Green Templeton College and Saïd Business School, probes how some organizations manage to break tradeoffs between competing goals like cost and differentiation. He also explains the mindset and moves leaders need to help their organizations achieve this.
In her new book, Rebecca Henderson, professor at Harvard Business School, argues why and how we need to reimagine capitalism if we want to solve today’s big issues.
Capital reallocation becomes even more important in times of crisis—such as the COVID-19 pandemic—when new opportunities are likely to emerge. To shed light on just how much and how, we studied the role of capital allocation in the top 500 US companies during and after the last two financial crises.
Why do we need ethical and fair algorithms? A thought-provoking conversation with Michael Kearns of the University of Pennsylvania on the pervasiveness of algorithms, differential privacy, and the importance of socially aware algorithm design.
Harvard Business Review Press author Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg says that 85% of companies he surveyed for his new book don’t consider themselves to be good at framing problems correctly. The good news: according to his research, you can learn how to get better at solving the right problems.
Margaret Heffernan, a Texas-born, Cambridge-educated author and former media CEO argues that because the future is inherently unpredictable we need to stop force-fitting models for prediction onto business strategy and elsewhere, as doing so only provides us with a false sense of certainty and security.
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