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- 09 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 9
function while others are only peripheral. The dynamics of how such "core-periphery" structures evolve and become embedded in a firm's innovation routines has been shown to be a major factor in predicting survival, especially in...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009
consumption fluctuations faced by individuals, households, and firms. Yet much of this promise remains unrealized. In this paper, we study the adoption of an innovative rainfall insurance product designed to compensate low-income Indian...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
It's No Joke: AI Beats Humans at Making You Laugh
each other for decades. I was really rooting for spouses to have an edge!” Computers make good recommendations, but do people want to listen? Businesses are investing heavily in sophisticated computer algorithms that rely on past consumer...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- Fall 2018
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What Problems Will You Solve with Blockchain?: Before Jumping on the Bandwagon, Companies Need to Carefully Consider how Ledger Technologies Fit into their Overall Strategy
By: Teppo Felin and Karim R. Lakhani
Distributed ledger technologies — collectively known as blockchain — have burst onto the business scene, accompanied by a significant amount of hype.They are widely expected to disrupt existing industries and lead to the creation of new types of companies. Some of the...
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Felin, Teppo, and Karim R. Lakhani. "What Problems Will You Solve with Blockchain? Before Jumping on the Bandwagon, Companies Need to Carefully Consider how Ledger Technologies Fit into their Overall Strategy." Reprint 60115. MIT Sloan Management Review 60, no. 1 (Fall 2018).
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the insights, programs and resources available to you HBS Angels Alumni Association : Connect with alumni members who are interested in researching and investing in early stage companies. Harvard Launch Lab (iLab) : Alumni incubator space...
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- 12 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
In a Landscape of 'Me Too' Drug Development, What Spurs Radical Innovation?
ubingruo New research finds that large pharmaceutical companies, typically conservative in their pursuit of novel drug development, are more willing to undertake radical innovation after receiving an unexpected cash windfall. The...
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Loeb House | About
Learning, established to promote and support teaching excellence and innovation at HBS and at institutions around the globe. The center is named for a longtime HBS faculty member, the late C. Roland (“Chris”) Christensen (MBA 1943, DCS...
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- 11 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The IT Leader’s Hero Quest
Richard L. Nolan are professors at Harvard Business School while Shannon O'Donnell is a consultant with Cutter Consortium's Innovation Practice and a PhD fellow at Copenhagen Business School. The three teamed up via email for the...
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by Martha Lagace
- 06 Sep 2022
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Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business & Environment
is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage climate tech start-ups that reduce CO2 emissions by at least 2.5 Gt by 2050. The $110M fund focuses on early-stage companies commercializing novel technologies and View Details
- 23 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 23, 2008
positive note, however, healthcare companies were commonly thought to be recession proof and thus might be a sound investment in the event of a down-turning economy. Burnham had to decide if this was the right time for an exit, and if so,...
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Martha Lagace
- 09 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Industry Self-Regulation: What’s Working (and What’s Not)?
about what they're doing will invite more targeting. And I think this concern is well founded, which unfortunately leaves consumers in the dark about many of the innovative programs that companies have deployed to address these concerns....
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2024
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Competing in the Age of AI
tech and 30 percent organizational when, in fact, it’s going to be the opposite,” he says. “To really take advantage of these tools, you are going to have to change your organization and make learning investments in AI, both personally...
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April White
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: Winner of the 2022 First Prize in the Chicago Quantitative Alliance Academic Paper Competition for "Hidden Alpha" with Manuel Ammann, Alexander Cochardt, and Stephan Heller. Lauren H. Cohen : Winner of an Institute for Quantitative View Details
- 28 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 28, 2009
from the risk that they will live a long time. The funds that individuals contribute to a MIF are invested in a mutual fund. The proceeds from the fund's underlying assets are reinvested until the contributor dies or he turns an age...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 May 2012
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First Look: May 15
Distributed Innovation Author:Carliss Y. Baldwin Abstract Systems of distributed innovation-so-called business ecosystems-have become increasingly prevalent in many industries. These entities generally encompass numerous corporations,...
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Carmen Nobel
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across the spectrum, from entrepreneurial ventures to more established firms. Publications Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors: Bringing Systematic Investment to Philanthropy By: Lauren Cohen, Hao Gao, Alexander Bischoff and Sophia Pan July...
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News & Events Productivity Staff Spotlight Strategy Student Profiles Technology Work-Life Balance Courses Courses AI Essentials for Business Alternative Investments Business Analytics Business Strategy Business and Climate Change CLIMB...
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Hellman Family Fellowship awards for research excellence. Josh Lerner Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking Unit Head, Entrepreneurial Management Josh Lerner is the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of View Details
- 22 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 22
latter's poor behavior in other relationships is unlikely to have much marginal effect. We test the resulting hypotheses by examining how a venture capital firm's reputation for unreliability, triggered by repeated withdrawals from View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
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Wisdom or Madness? Comparing Crowds with Expert Evaluation in Funding the Arts
By: Ethan Mollick and Ramana Nanda
In fields as diverse as technology entrepreneurship and the arts, crowds of interested stakeholders are increasingly responsible for deciding which innovations to fund, a privilege that was previously reserved for a few experts, such as venture capitalists and...
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Decision Choices and Conditions;
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Fine Arts Industry;
Technology Industry
Mollick, Ethan, and Ramana Nanda. "Wisdom or Madness? Comparing Crowds with Expert Evaluation in Funding the Arts." Management Science 62, no. 6 (June 2016): 1533–1553.