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  • 01 Jan 2020
  • What Do You Think?

Why Not Open America's Doors to All the World’s Talent?

that requires several years. During this period, immigrants can have weaker job mobility and thus be at a negotiating disadvantage. On the other hand, there is ample evidence that global talent is a major source of View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology
  • 01 Mar 2018
  • News

Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?

revenues compared to third-party traders who orchestrated sales between the two. “It felt fundamentally unfair to us,” Eykher says. “We figured there had to be a better way to do things.” In September 2017, they launched Open Mineral, a... View Details
Keywords: Nicole Torres

    Uncovering the roots of innovation

    As the Alfred D. Chandler Jr. International Visiting Scholar at Harvard Business School in 2023, I had the unique opportunity to delve into the history of the life sciences industry in the Cambridge-Boston area. My research focused on how key actors influenced changes... View Details
    • February 2022 (Revised July 2022)
    • Supplement

    InstaDeep: AI Innovation Born in Africa (B)

    By: Shikhar Ghosh and Esel Çekin
    Karim Beguir and Zohra Slim were the co-founders of InstaDeep, a deep tech startup focusing on artificial intelligence (AI) solutions. Instadeep was one of the few companies globally that were partnering with DeepMind, an AI subsidiary of Google [Alphabet Inc.].... View Details
    Keywords: AI; Artificial Intelligence; Entrepreneurship; Operations; Business Subsidiaries; Brands and Branding; Innovation and Invention; Growth and Development Strategy; AI and Machine Learning; Technology Industry; Africa
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    • 24 Oct 2007
    • Sharpening Your Skills

    Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation

    Solutions? Open Source Science: A New Model for Innovation Borrowing a practice that is common in the open source... View Details
    • June 2012 (Revised February 2014)
    • Case

    Low-Carbon, Indigenous Innovation in China

    By: Richard H.K. Vietor
    For the past seven years or so, the Chinese government has been powering ahead with industrial policies to promote low-carbon energy technologies—wind, solar, electric batteries and vehicles, nuclear power, and even carbon capture and sequestration. In 2009, the... View Details
    Keywords: Energy; Renewables; Carbon; Environment; Industrial Policy; Competitiveness; Environmental Sustainability; Policy; Renewable Energy; Competition; Globalized Markets and Industries; Energy Industry; China
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    • 23 Jun 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings

    support every low- to moderate-income family, says Tufano. Beyond valuable programs like Social Security, tax breaks for savers, or auto-enrollment initiatives, there are more innovative and exciting projects: Prize-linked savings... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services
    • September 2014
    • Case

    Havas: Change Faster

    By: Karim R. Lakhani and Michael L. Tushman
    As of 2013, Havas was the 6th largest global advertising, digital, and communications group in the world. Headquartered in Paris, France, the group was highly decentralized, with semi-independent agencies in more than 100 countries offering a variety of services. The... View Details
    Keywords: Advertising Agency; Open Innovation; Commercials; Digital Media; Digital Transition; Advertising; Digital Marketing; Advertising Campaigns; Acquisition; Change Management; Disruption; Transformation; Advertising Industry; Communications Industry
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    • 2010
    • Chapter

    Unlocking the Slices of Genius in Your Organization: Leading for Innovation

    By: Linda A. Hill, Maurizio Travaglini, Greg Brandeau and Emily Stecker
    There is a widespread consensus that innovation is fast becoming the principal source of differentiation and competitive advantage in today's knowledge-intensive economy. But until we reframe our understanding of what innovation and leadership are all about, we fear... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Leadership; Practice; Competitive Advantage
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    • September 2020 (Revised June 2021)
    • Case

    GreenFire Energy, 2020: Geothermal Innovation

    By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
    In June 2020, GreenFire Energy Inc. (GreenFire) presented its report to the California Energy Commission indicating that its proof of concept project to demonstrate its new geothermal electricity generation technology, ECO2G™, had been a success. While conventional... View Details
    Keywords: Geothermal Electricity; Renewable Energy; Energy Generation; Technological Innovation; Commercialization; Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions
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    • September 2022
    • Article

    Energy Innovation Funding and Institutions in Major Economies

    By: Jonas Meckling, Clara Galeazzi, Esther Shears, Tong Xu and Laura Diaz Anadon
    Accelerating energy innovation for decarbonization hinges on public investment in research, development and demonstration (RD&D). Here we examine the evolution and variation of public energy RD&D funding and institutions and associated drivers across eight major... View Details
    Keywords: Research and Development; Innovation and Invention; Energy Policy; Government Legislation; Energy Sources
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    • July 2006
    • Article

    Dynamic Mixed Duopoly: A Model Motivated by Linux vs. Windows

    By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Pankaj Ghemawat
    This paper analyzes a dynamic mixed duopoly in which a profit-maximizing competitor interacts with a competitor that prices at zero (or marginal cost), with the cumulation of output affecting their relative positions over time. The modeling effort is motivated by... View Details
    Keywords: Open Source Software; Demand-side Learning; Network Effects; Linux; Mixed Duopoly; Competitive Dynamics; Business Models; Duopoly and Oligopoly; Information Technology; Applications and Software; Business Model; Mathematical Methods; Digital Platforms; Profit; Balance and Stability; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; SWOT Analysis; Competition; Price; Information Technology Industry
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    • 2022
    • Case

    Mandalay Homes: Building Sustainable Innovation in Residential Construction

    By: Andrew J. Hoffman
    Mandalay Homes, a home builder based in northern Arizona, is a market leader in energy efficiency based construction. The company is now at a crossroads for developing a strategy for the future. Internal leadership is in agreement that quality is better than quantity... View Details
    Keywords: Green Building; Renewable Energy; Environmental Sustainability; Business Strategy; Construction Industry
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    • May 2024
    • Article

    Financial Innovation in the 21st Century: Evidence from U.S. Patents

    By: Josh Lerner, Amit Seru, Nick Short and Yuan Sun
    We develop a unique dataset of 24 thousand U.S. finance patents granted over the last two decades to explore the evolution and production of financial innovation. We use machine learning to identify the financial patents and extensively audit the results to ensure... View Details
    Keywords: Banking; Investment Banks; Information Technology; Regulation; Patents; Innovation and Invention; Trends
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    • 06 Jul 2023
    • News

    Lessons from Major League Baseball's Game-Changing Innovations

    MLB, where he's worked since he graduated from HBS in 2008. And he's helped lead some of the transformational innovations the sport has undergone in the last decade, both on the field and off. In this episode of Skydeck, taped in front of... View Details
    • April 2021
    • Teaching Note

    GreenFire Energy, 2020: Geothermal Innovation

    By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
    In June 2020, after ten years of effort, GreenFire Energy Inc. (GreenFire) demonstrated its new geothermal electricity generation technology, ECO2G™. While conventional geothermal electricity only supplied 0.5% of US demand, the new technology promised to increase this... View Details
    Keywords: Green Energy; Geothermal; Entrepreneur; Renewables; Geothermal Electricity; Green Technology; Renewable Energy; Energy Generation; Technological Innovation; Entrepreneurship; Strategy; Commercialization
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    • 16 Nov 2010
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    Data.gov: Matching Government Data with Rapid Innovation

    Innovation happens fast and slowly. The GPS applications so prevalent today to guide us from Point A to Point B took their first baby steps nearly three decades ago when President Ronald Reagan encouraged the release of military GPS... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Technology
    • Article

    Moving Beyond Schumpeter: Management Research on the Determinants of Technological Innovation

    By: Gautam Ahuja, Curba Morris Lampert and Vivek Tandon
    Schumpeter's conjecture that large monopolistic firms were the key source of innovation in modern industrial economies has been the underpinning for much work on the topic of innovation. In this review paper we consciously move beyond the Schumpeterian tradition of... View Details
    Keywords: Technological Innovation; Management; Strategy
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    • 20 Mar 2017
    • Book

    Why Companies Are Placing Users at the Core of Their Innovation Strategies

    who took notice: Harvard Business School Professor Karim Lakhani. As a doctoral student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the late 1990s, he took von Hippel’s class on innovation. After reading Lakhani’s paper describing the rising View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • Web

    Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

    path for our research today, which focuses on value creation of platforms and two-sided markets; use of open architecture and leverage of its collective value; development and execution of innovation... View Details