User Innovation - Publications - Faculty & Research

Research Summary

Mastering Strategy Execution

Professor Robert Simons’ research encompasses three areas of management accountability that are the foundation for successful strategy execution: organization design, performance measurement and control, and risk management. In addition, Simons is interested in the... View Details

10 Nov 2008
Research Event

Social Media Leads the Future of Technology

Internet-connected televisions, social media, and the power of simplicity were all cited as launch pads for future innovation in technology, according to a panel of experts that convened at Harvard Business School as part of the HBS... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

27 Sep 2017
Research & Ideas

What Happens When Ordinary People Get Creative?

Teresa Amabile argues that average folks deserve careful investigation, especially in the age of user innovation and crowdsourced problem-solving, when big ideas routinely come from the masses. The article... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

10 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

Lessons from the Browser Wars

for new challengers to take root. Sara Grant: Why did you choose to study Web browsers to look at the idea of diffusion of innovation in a market? Pai-Ling Yin: Web browsers were the turning point in mass commercializing the Internet.... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Computer; Consumer Products; Technology

02 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

Digital Summit Explores the New Economy

discussions held during the event. ©iStock.com/VioletKaipa big Messages, Small Screens, Many Choices How do companies profit from the fact that mobile users are more engaged than ever? Panelists discuss "Monetization in a Mobile... View Details

02 Jun 2011
News

Serious Fun

green pigs. If the ultimate outcome of that frantic gaming also teaches us something (probably not the case with Angry Birds), our brain is likely too engaged in the task of winning to rebel against some higher purpose. Nick Maynard (MBA/MPP ’02) harnesses that power... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Arts, Entertainment; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

22 Feb 2011
Research & Ideas

The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century

and services they consume. In many cases, collaborative user innovators are vying with producers for intellectual property rights and the control of standards and innovation... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

19 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Digital Technology’s Profound Game Change for Marketers

technology's impact on their business, the entire customer experience, and leading innovation within their enterprises, not simply following a course set by their IT department. "Madison Avenue meets MIT" and "Revenge of... View Details

Keywords: by Jeffrey Bussgang; Advertising; Technology

18 Nov 2013
Op-Ed

Twitter IPO: Overvalued or the Start of Something Big?

communicate and made abbreviations like RT (retweet) and ICYMI (in case you missed it) part of the lingo of Twitter users everywhere. What to make of all this? Senior Lecturer Chet Huber, who joined the School's General Management unit... View Details

Keywords: by Chet Huber; Technology

01 Sep 2024
News

Elevator Pitch: Forget Me Not

Illustration by Drue Wagner Illustration by Drue Wagner Charlie Greene (MBA 2021) Cofounder and CEO, Remento Concept: Remento helps families collect and preserve the stories of loved ones. An annual subscription allows users to upload photos and select prompts for the... View Details

17 Aug 2015
News

The Play Alchemist

sponsored is used. “It's using this technology to deepen the connection between the person who made the purchase and the actual giving that’s happened,” Matthews says. The Plus app will also let users vote to support beneficial social... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

08 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

The Critical Computer Science Principles Every Strategic Leader Needs to Know

early method that today’s engineers can understand thinking abstractly. The computer would convert the punch cards into a series of zeros and ones that it could understand. Over time, punch cards gave way to the command line, allowing View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Technology; Information Technology

02 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Managing the Open Source vs. Proprietary Decision

terms of costs and quality, and companies are heterogeneous. These users do not all attach the same weights to the different dimensions of cost and quality. Moreover the trade-offs regarding the various dimensions of cost and quality, and... View Details

Keywords: by Josh Lerner & Mark Schankerman; Technology

06 Dec 2021
News

Monaco's Digital Transformation

well the challenges that lay ahead. DIGITAL LEADERSHIP: Read how the president and CEO of Trusted Media Brands is spearheading digital innovation at her company in the 3-Minute Briefing: Bonnie Kintzer (MBA 1987). DIGITAL LEADERSHIP: Read... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

28 May 2019
News

3-Minute Briefing: Tom Hulme (MBA 2007)

market more than superficially. There’s a tension between the way product designers want people to behave and the way that people actually behave. Users will usually take the shortcut to whatever solution they want. The best entrepreneurs... View Details

Keywords: April White

29 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

Inventing Products is Less Valuable Than Inventing Ideas

the potential for building new products out of their existing inventions." Take Xerox, for example. Its research center, Xerox PARC, famously had invented the graphical user interface, mouse, laser printing, and other technologies... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

27 Jun 2024
Research & Ideas

Gen AI Marketing: How Some 'Gibberish' Code Can Give Products an Edge

engine would begin providing AI summaries of most search queries to users across the United States; Users immediately noted that the AI summaries sometimes included nonsense results. “If it’s allowing a... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Technology

01 Dec 2020
News

A New Approach to Contact Tracing

the fight against COVID-19. Government-led innovation such as this is a subject that fascinates Mitchell Weiss (MBA 2004), a professor of management practice and Richard L. Menschel Faculty Fellow at HBS. Upon hearing that Singapore’s... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Government

01 Mar 2012
News

I-Lab Hosts Start-Up Weekend Scramble

Already a well-used venue, the Harvard Innovation Lab has been the site for a full schedule of panels, workshops, and seminars since its opening last fall. In early November, the i-lab hosted its first Start-Up Weekend Scramble, an event... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

14 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

The World in Your Palm?

professor Alan MacCormack took on the question of future "form factors" at the 2005 Cyberposium conference at HBS on January 29th. The general consensus: It's more important for users to be able to easily move digital... View Details