Innovation Adoption - Publications - Faculty & Research

29 Oct 2019
Sharpening Your Skills

Robots in the Boardroom

effective codes of business conduct. But technology isn't the only answer. Why Artificial Intelligence Isn't a Sure Thing to Increase Productivity As companies adopt artificial intelligence to increase efficiency, are their employees... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

13 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 13

diffusion of the commercial internet. Theory predicts that firms with greater market share will be more likely to adopt innovations that build on their existing strengths, while they will resist more radical... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

25 Sep 2012
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their manufacturing operations in order to reduce costs. But we are now seeing the alarming long-term effect of those choices: in many cases, once manufacturing capabilities go away, so does much of the ability to innovate and compete.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

April 2021
Teaching Note

Drinkworks: Home Bar by Keurig

By: Sunil Gupta and Jonathan Levav

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 521-010. In the summer of 2018, Drinkworks CEO Nathaniel Davis needed to make a number of go-to-market decisions ahead of his company’s upcoming product launch. Formed through a joint venture between Keurig Dr. Pepper and Anheuser-Busch... View Details

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August 2004 (Revised June 2005)
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Fate of the Vasa, The

By: Alan D. MacCormack and Richard Mason

In 1628, the royal warship Vasa was launched. It was Sweden's most expensive naval vessel ever built, costing over 5% of GNP. On its maiden voyage, the ship sailed 1,400 yards in its own harbor, heeled over to the side, and then sank. One third of the 150 crew and... View Details

Keywords: History; Risk and Uncertainty; Technological Innovation; Ship Transportation; Product Design; Technology Adoption; Failure; Business and Government Relations; Product Development; Sweden

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Published CSV Cases - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

settings. CVS had to navigate a rapidly shifting competitive environment. Discovery Limited by Michael E. Porter, Mark R. Kramer, and Aldo Sesia Discovery Ltd. is a South-African based insurance company. Started in the early 1990s, Discovery used behavioral economics... View Details

11 Apr 2023
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BTG Bioliquids: Creating Fast Pyrolysis Bio-Oil from Biomass Residue Streams

In January 2023, Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel led more than 40 HBS MBA students on site visits to witness the energy transition and innovative sustainable production activities throughout Denmark and the Netherlands, in their new... View Details

13 Nov 2019
News

Don't Turn Your Marketing Function Over to AI Just Yet

Keywords: Artificial intelligence

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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

MAR 2017 The standard expectation hypothesis posits that long term interest rates are expected sum of all the short term interest rates between issuance and maturity. Researchers Hanson, Lucca, and Wright document that the correlation of long term interest rates to... View Details

17 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 17

multiple identities as a result. The outcomes of relational pluralism can include greater flexibility in building network ties, more stable exchange relationships, and the ability to adopt tailored innovations. We develop a typology of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

31 Jul 2023
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Striving for Imperfection

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Since he left HBS in 1990, Charles Conn (MBA 1990) has built a full and varied portfolio career. Early on, he was a partner at McKinsey and then a tech executive, founding Ticketmaster-Citysearch. Today,... View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

17 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

Why a Blended Workforce May Be Key to Lasting Competitive Advantage

In recent years, companies have been anxious about the lack of skilled workers to fill pivotal jobs. But then came COVID-19 and a subsequent recession. The ensuing business turmoil and record-high unemployment may have temporarily distracted companies from their... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller

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Electricity - Business & Environment

for alternatives to fossil fuels, especially renewables. Innovation Innovations are needed to generate vast amounts of carbon-free electricity and to use electricity much more efficiently. There is massive... View Details

29 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 29

are increasingly examining the adoption and impact of ERM, but the studies are inconsistent and inconclusive, due, we believe, to an inadequate specification of how ERM is used in practice. Based on a ten-year field project, over 250... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Oct 2010
Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

country-specific data rather than an adoption of general policy principles from abroad. It implies to identify which policies are truly critical at a given point in time, instead of trying to do everything in parallel. And it implies... View Details

Keywords: by Christian Ketels

February 2023 (Revised May 2023)
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Accelerating the Accelerator: Raja Al Mazrouei at DIFC Fintech Hive

By: Linda A. Hill, Emily Tedards and Lydia Begag

In January 2023, Raja Al Mazrouei became the Managing Director and Acting CEO of Etihad Credit Insurance (ECI) in Dubai, UAE. In her previous role as the Executive Vice President of the DIFC Fintech Hive, she successfully built and led an accelerator program for... View Details

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16 Apr 2013
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for distributing E-Books? The case allows students to probe the dynamics of platform-based industries, as well as what happens in traditional industries when attacked by new competitors adopting new digital technologies. It is developed... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Delivery Project The Institute for Cancer Care Innovation MOC Network ICIC U.S. Cluster Mapping Project U.S. Competitiveness Project FSG Shared Value Initiative Social Progress Imperative AllWorld Network Affiliated Organizations &... View Details

01 Oct 2013
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review analysis for predicting restaurant inspection results. Publisher's link: http://people.hbs.edu/mluca/hygiene.pdf August 2013 MIT Sloan Management Review Using Open Innovation to Identify the Best Ideas By: King, Andrew, and Karim... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Nov 2013
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find that GPs are associated with higher expected acquisition premiums and that this association is at least partly due to the effect of GPs on executive incentives. However, we also find that firms that adopt GPs experience negative... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Robots in the Boardroom

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Drinkworks: Home Bar by Keurig

Fate of the Vasa, The

Published CSV Cases - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

BTG Bioliquids: Creating Fast Pyrolysis Bio-Oil from Biomass Residue Streams

Don't Turn Your Marketing Function Over to AI Just Yet

Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

First Look: June 17

Striving for Imperfection

Why a Blended Workforce May Be Key to Lasting Competitive Advantage

Electricity - Business & Environment

First Look: October 29

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

Accelerating the Accelerator: Raja Al Mazrouei at DIFC Fintech Hive

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Affiliated Organizations & Institutions - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

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