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- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Lesson Plans
Patrick Mullane (MBA 1999) Patrick Mullane (MBA 1999) The COVID-19 pandemic has necessarily thrust online learning to the forefront. As executive director of HBS Online—which has reached more than 70,000 learners in 170 countries since 2015—Patrick Mullane (MBA 1999)...
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Jen Mele
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Watching the Brain Think and the Surprises of Science
“ One unstated objective of science is to make a difference: to learn something, or make something, that changes the way people think or behave. Many of the biggest discoveries — the most important scientifically and the most consequential socially — are surprises, and...
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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Faculty Research Online
HBS Working Knowledge is an online forum for innovation in business practice, offering a first look at new thinking from HBS faculty. Read the complete articles summarized below by visiting their Web links. What Is Management’s Role in Innovation? It’s an open question...
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- 01 Dec 2014
- News
@Soldiers Field
(HBS Archives Photograph Collection) Shad Hall, named in honor former SEC chairman John Shad (MBA 1949), celebrated its 25th anniversary in September. An early Boston Globe review cheered the entrance’s “powerful concrete column that holds up a heavy steel girder, in...
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- 01 Sep 2014
- News
@Soldiers Field
View Video Dean Nitin Nohria took the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge on August 19 in honor of Avi Kremer (MBA 2007) and nominated Harvard President Drew Faust, HBS Professor Bill George, and Harvard College Dean Rakesh Khurana. Baker Library Historical Collections Among a...
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Georges F. Doriot
- 18 Jun 2014
- News
Behind GE's Vision For The Industrial Internet Of Things
- 11 Mar 2010
- News
Health Care: The Simple Solution
- 09 Apr 2012
- News
Rethinking Women's Clothing Sizes
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Innovation Lab to Open in ’11
Related Links Dean Nohria on Innovation at HBS (video) - June 4, 2010 Harvard Business School is working to launch a lab for innovation and entrepreneurship in the building that housed public broadcasting’s WGBH on Western Avenue in Allston. The Harvard Innovation Lab...
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- 12 Aug 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
Case Histories of Significant Medical Advances
- 06 Aug 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
Field-Level Paradox and the Co-Evolution of an Entrepreneurial Vision
- 25 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Will Machine Learning Make You a Better Manager?
Credit: PhonlamaiPhoto Thirty years ago, the idea of a machine learning on its own would have stoked the worst kind of sci-fi nightmares about robots taking over the planet. These days, machine learning is so commonplace, we barely notice it. Computers routinely learn...
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- November 14, 2022
- Article
Policies for Adapting to the ‘New Normal’ of the Anthropocene
By: Andrew J. Hoffman, P. Devereaux Jennings and Nicholas A. Poggioli
Keywords:
Natural Environment;
Environmental Management;
Economic Systems;
Behavior;
Technological Innovation
Hoffman, Andrew J., P. Devereaux Jennings, and Nicholas A. Poggioli. "Policies for Adapting to the ‘New Normal’ of the Anthropocene." Behavioral Scientist (November 14, 2022).
- April–May 2021
- Article
Labor Mobility and Antitakeover Provisions
By: Aiyesha Dey and Joshua White
How do firms protect their human capital? We test whether firms facing an increased threat of being acquired strengthen their antitakeover provisions (ATPs) in order to bond with their employees. We use the adoption of the Inevitable Disclosure Doctrine (IDD) by U.S....
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Labor Mobility;
Antitakeover Provisions;
Trade Secrets;
Implicit Contracting;
Employee Bonding;
Corporate Governance;
Acquisition;
Human Capital;
Strategy;
Innovation and Invention;
Intellectual Property;
Safety
Dey, Aiyesha, and Joshua White. "Labor Mobility and Antitakeover Provisions." Art. 101388. Journal of Accounting & Economics 71, nos. 2-3 (April–May 2021).
- 2019
- Working Paper
Immigrant Networking and Collaboration: Survey Evidence from CIC
By: Sari Pekkala Kerr and William R. Kerr
Networking and the giving and receiving of advice outside of one’s own firm are important features of entrepreneurship and innovation. We study how immigrants and natives utilize the potential networking opportunities provided by CIC, formerly known as the Cambridge...
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Immigrants;
Networking;
Advice;
Entrepreneurs;
Inventors;
Start-up Employees;
Venturing;
Co-working;
Agglomeration;
Immigration;
Entrepreneurship;
Networks;
Innovation and Invention;
Social and Collaborative Networks
Kerr, Sari Pekkala, and William R. Kerr. "Immigrant Networking and Collaboration: Survey Evidence from CIC." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-078, January 2019.
- November 2018
- Teaching Note
reMarkable: e-Writing the Future
By: Elie Ofek
Teaching Note for HBS No. 517-018.
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- November 2018
- Case
frog design
By: Srikant M. Datar and Caitlin N. Bowler
The case follows the genesis and development of Palo, a radical urban communications hub designed to replace payphone booths on Manhattan’s city streets, through a joint venture between frog design and a venture-backed firm LQD WiFi. The case explores the complexity of...
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Innovation;
Prototyping;
User Experience Design;
Design Heuristics;
Telecommunications;
Urban Systems;
Communication Technology;
Urban Scope;
Innovation and Invention;
Design;
Product Development
Datar, Srikant M., and Caitlin N. Bowler. "frog design." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 118-707, November 2018.
- August 1, 2015
- Article
New Product Development Flexibility in a Competitive Environment
By: Janne Kettunen, Yael Grushka-Cockayne, Zeger Degraeve and Bert De Reyck
Managerial flexibility can have a significant impact on the value of new product development projects. We investigate how the market environment in which a firm operates influences the value and use of development flexibility. We characterize the market environment...
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Product Development;
Projects;
Management Style;
Situation or Environment;
Innovation and Invention;
Competition
Kettunen, Janne, Yael Grushka-Cockayne, Zeger Degraeve, and Bert De Reyck. "New Product Development Flexibility in a Competitive Environment." European Journal of Operational Research 244, no. 3 (August 1, 2015): 892–904.
- February 2015
- Case
TouchTunes and the Connected Digital Jukebox Platform
By: Alan MacCormack and Noah Fisher
The case describes innovation and new product development at TouchTunes, the leader in the Digital Jukebox market. In March 2013, after releasing its innovative "Virtuo" jukebox developed in collaboration with frog design, TouchTunes was at a crossroads. Having...
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- Spring 2012
- Article
Sustainability at Dow Chemical
By: Robert G. Eccles, Kathleen M. Perkins and Mark Weick
Dow Chemical Company, which was founded in 1894, is now the second-largest chemical company in the world. From the outset, the company has been committed to high-technology research and commercial innovation in chemistry, advanced materials, and agro-sciences. But if...
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Value Creation;
Corporate Strategy;
Chemicals;
Environmental Sustainability;
Innovation and Invention;
Chemical Industry
Eccles, Robert G., Kathleen M. Perkins, and Mark Weick. "Sustainability at Dow Chemical." Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 24, no. 2 (Spring 2012): 38–44.