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National Innovative Capacity and the Ideas Production Function

Joint research with Scott Stern (MIT) is exploring the determinants of innovative capacity across countries using time series/cross-section data ("Measuring the "Ideas" Production Function: Evidence from International Patent... View Details

07 Jun 2012
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Keeping America's Best Ideas Under Wraps

14 Nov 2012
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Wonks dust off radical revenue-raising ideas

20 Feb 2019
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Where Do Good Ideas Come From?

10 Sep 2018
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Why big companies squander good ideas

30 Jan 2024
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‘Intrinsic Joy’ Sparks Ideas Better than Cash

November 2014
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Evidence on Self-Stereotyping and the Contribution of Ideas

By: Katherine Baldiga Coffman

We use a lab experiment to explore the factors that predict an individual's decision to contribute her idea to a group. We find that contribution decisions depend upon the interaction of gender and the gender stereotype associated with the decision-making domain:... View Details

Keywords: Groups and Teams; Decision Choices and Conditions; Organizations; Gender

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24 Feb 2014
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A Capital Idea for Small Business

managements, and form groups around common interests." "I like the idea of the crowd vetting ideas, and determining winners and losers by voting with their capital," says McGee. "This project got its start back in 2011. I had been... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; crowd-funding; online communities; Finance; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

May 1986 (Revised February 1989)
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Gillette Co.: Dry Idea Advertising (B), The Bake-Off

Presents the second of two cases describing the struggle to find "the right advertising" for the Dry Idea antiperspirant brand introduced in 1978 by the Gillette Co. and its advertising agency, Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborne (BBDO). The case begins with Gillette's... View Details

Keywords: Advertising; Product Marketing; Consumer Products Industry; United States

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13 Nov 2013
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Sustainability and the Corporation: Big Ideas

November 2019
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Conversations and Idea Generation: Evidence from a Field Experiment

By: Sharique Hasan and Rembrand Koning

When do conversations lead people to generate better ideas? We conducted a field experiment at a startup boot camp to evaluate the impact of informal conversations on the quality of product ideas generated by participants. Specifically, we examine how the personality... View Details

Keywords: Peer Effects; Field Experiment; Interpersonal Communication; Creativity; Personal Characteristics; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention

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01 Dec 2023
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Thinking Ahead

As we wind down 2023, there’s talk everywhere of generative AI and how it will fundamentally alter the world as we know it; but how does that translate for your corner of the business world? Is TikTok something you need to take seriously? (Is it time to dance?) We... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Illustrations by Chris Gash; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

08 Jun 2011
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Fixing America's Economy: Nine Ideas from Around the World

24 Nov 2014
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Inventing Products is Less Valuable Than Inventing Ideas

09 Jan 2019
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Why New England Needs New Ideas

In a recent piece in the Boston Globe Magazine, Professor Clay Christensen, Karen Dillon, a senior researcher at Christensen’s Institute for Disruptive Innovation, and Efosa Ojomo (MBA 2015), a research fellow at the Institute, use New England’s history of innovation... View Details

Keywords: New England

20 Jun 2017
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Conversational Peers and Idea Generation: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Keywords: by Sharique Hasan and Rembrand Koning

25 Jun 2018
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Incubating Ideas for the ‘Water Economy’

technologies––things like data analysis, using the internet to carry signals of information, advanced treatment technologies––things like that, and how to build sustainable businesses that improve the way water and wastewater are managed. “Every year, Imagine H2O... View Details

21 Sep 2016
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Ideas with Economic and Social Impact

in place. “My research is focused on ideas that can be put into practice,” notes Wilson, “so seeing that interest in the report was very rewarding.” Whether she is lecturing at Oxford or the Stockholm School of Economics, presenting... View Details

13 Oct 2022
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4 Business Ideas That Changed the World: Disruptive Innovation

By: Amy Bernstein, Rita McGrath, Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Derek van Bever

A roundtable conversation takes stock of Clayton Christensen’s influential theory. This first in a series of roundtable conversations assessing the origins and impact of four breakthrough ideas.

In the 1980s, Clayton Christensen cofounded a startup that... View Details

Keywords: Disruptive Innovation

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