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- 01 Jun 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Challenges of Investing in Science-Based Innovation
Education program called Managing Breakthroughs—From Science to Enterprise. "Wall Street has conventional and not always accurate measures of a company's value." Take Bank of America, which just renewed a $25 million, five-year collaboration with the MIT...
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- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
of companies that are helping create the conditions for the industry’s growth by amassing knowledge about best practices, influencing the development of regulations, exploring new uses for drones, developing a professional workforce, and so forth. The argument is that...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Aug 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
The Manager's Guide to Leveraging Disruption
In 1995, Harvard Business School professors Clayton M. Christensen and Joseph L. Bower wrote a seminal article for Harvard Business Review, Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave. Those words launched the theory of disruptive...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Here Comes Internet2—Time to Shed Dot Vertigo
networks of networks. Currently, he said, universities and labs use it to connect researchers working on collaborative projects. These projects can range from building virtual reality models of the ear—a medical application—to studying...
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by Martha Lagace
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Bank of America Turned Branches into Service-Development Laboratories
were being carefully monitored and measured. Design and production problems should be worked out off-line, in a lab setting without customers, before the service delivery is tested in a live environment. —Stefan Thomke To select and...
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- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
Railways: Building a Permanent Legacy (B)? Aldo Musacchio, Tarun Khanna, and Rachna TahilyaniHarvard Business School Supplement 711-083 Supplement to case 710-008. Purchase this supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/711083-PDF-ENG Reversing the AMD Fusion...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Use Google Street View to See the Future of Cities
safety in images over time, the researchers realized, they could see how and why parts of the city changed. “It was the perfect test lab for a number of theories about urban transformation,” says Kominers, who was an intern at Google...
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- 28 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Begins Teaching Consumer Finance
empirical projects, and experiments—the latter often in conjunction with the Doorways to Dreams Fund, a nonprofit I cofounded that is an R&D lab for new financial products for low-income families. My first outlet for teaching the...
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- 02 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
at Mac’s Convenience Stores, implemented between 2007 and 2017. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/918002-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 318-002 Hulu: Redefining the Way People Experience TV In May 2017, Hulu CEO Mike Hopkins announced...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
founded in 1999, to start Affinity Labs, a global network of online communities. That month, Michel raised a Series A round of venture funding and established a partnership with Monster, which he had sold Military.com to. Within its first year of operations, Affinity...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Incubators Take Notice: Your Entrepreneurs Are Networking with the Wrong People
Companies and government leaders have long tried to recreate the kind of Silicon Valley innovation magic that made Facebook and Google such goldmines. Cities from Cincinnati to Saskatoon have launched startup labs. Companies including...
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by Danielle Kost
- 03 Feb 2018
- Op-Ed
How to Heed BlackRock's Call for Corporate Social Responsibility
do so, investment funds will need to collect new data. The good news is that over the past decades, many initiatives have contributed to developing standards to assess companies’ social performance. The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board, Global Reporting...
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by Julie Battilana
- 18 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light
issue and opportunity is globalization. As business becomes more global, and our students and faculty more international, we need to build on the efforts we've launched and seek new ways to prepare students to lead in a globalized world....
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- 01 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sometimes Success Begins at Failure
In the late 1980s, scientists for New York City-based drug-maker Pfizer began testing what was then known as compound UK-92,480 for the treatment of angina. Although UK-92,480 seemed promising in the lab and in animal tests, the compound...
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- 15 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
A Better Business Model for Fighting Cancer
The Kraft team is conducting interviews to evaluate models at the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (philanthropy); at Stanford’s StartX and MIT’s Sandbox (incubator); and at Breakout Labs and Root Capital (venture philanthropy). “We’re...
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- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation
software, consumer electronics, and pharmaceuticals. Such companies hold many important patents and boast R&D labs that rival facilities at the best universities in the world. They are headquartered in countries with myriad...
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- 27 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
A Politician's Investment Portfolio Might Tip Off Corruption Potential
reporting requirements for US senators and representatives mandate the disclosure of all financial transactions in a given year, which allowed Minor to construct their risk preferences. Coupled with no shortage of examples of misconduct, politicians made ideal View Details
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by Roberta Holland
- 18 Oct 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Venture Capital’s Disconnect with Clean Tech
different from the historically well-funded Internet start-up industry. In the Internet start-up world, VCs can reasonably assume that a company can go from launching a product to getting acquired—or even going public—within a few years....
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- 06 Sep 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mixing Students and Scientists in the Classroom
five or ten universities in the world where you could teach a course like this. We draw on science from labs across Harvard, and our student teams are tasked with determining if there is a market for the science, who the competition is,...
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- 09 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It: Digital CEO Buys Traditional Media!
in the transition to a digital world is the willingness to forego some revenues in print. Experiments require not only creativity and boldness but an ability to self-cannibalize. This is perhaps the biggest roadblock to digital reinvention. Don Graham knows this....
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