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When information is digitized, it can be aggregated and shared nearly instantly. I am interested in how this acceleration in the aggregation and availability of information, via digitization, affects firms and firm strategy.
Platforms have emerged as marketplaces for...
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Market Platforms;
Social Media;
Information Disclosure;
Platform Strategy;
Innovation Strategy;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Technological Innovation;
Intellectual Property;
Information;
Technology Platform;
Information Industry;
Information Technology Industry;
Technology Industry;
Web Services Industry
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Site Credits - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
EXHIBIT EXPLORE x HOME EMERGENCE OF A NEW TECHNOLOGY The Invention of the Polarizer A RESEARCH & MANUFACTURING COMPANY Commercialization of the Polarizer Innovation and the War Effort A Rewarding Working Life INSTANT PHOTOGRAPHY The Idea...
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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
A Juicy Story
sector. “What Apple is great at is figuring out how to invent cool technology and making it wonderfully easy to use,” he told the Wall Street Journal in June 2004. By then, sales of its iPod, introduced in 2001, had nearly quadrupled over...
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Bharti Kher The Intermediary Family 2018 | About
technique,” and a way “to resist old patriarchal regimes and to invent new hybrid worlds and hybrid creations.” Her sculpture The Intermediary Family of 2018 is based on a group of small clay objects from South India. For Kher, the...
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- 27 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
What Happens When Ordinary People Get Creative?
Source: FangXiaNuo The topic of creativity tends to conjure conversations about individual geniuses whose artistic or scientific contributions have rocked history—the Ludwig Van Beethovens, the Emily Dickinsons, or the George Washington Carvers of the world. So it’s...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 11 Apr 2020
- News
Reading Together, Apart
director of Teach for America Miami-Dade before becoming CEO of Caribu, landed among the Inc Female Founders 100 list in 2019; Caribu made it to TIME Magazine’s best inventions of that year. Then, in March 2020, as people across the globe...
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- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
is accentuated when people engage in a holistic processing style, whether measured as an individual difference (Study 5A) or experimentally induced (Study 5B). Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55670 The Consequences of View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Collective Genius’
innovation is most often a group effort. Thomas Edison, for example, is remembered as prob¬ably the greatest American inventor of the early twentieth century. From his fertile mind came the light bulb and the phonograph, along with more than a thousand other patented...
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How History Shaped the Innovator's Dilemma
By: Tom Nicholas
In 1993, four years prior to the publication of Clayton Christensen’s highly influential book, The Innovator’s Dilemma, the Business History Review (BHR) published an article by Christensen titled “The Rigid Disk Drive Industry: A History of...
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Nicholas, Tom. "How History Shaped the Innovator's Dilemma." Business History Review 95, no. 1 (Spring 2021): 121–148.
- January 2018
- Supplement
Transformation at ING (B): Innovation
By: William R. Kerr, Federica Gabrieli and Emer Moloney
Supplement to HBS No. 818-077. Together with the agile methodology, innovation at ING was an enabler for the company’s purpose of empowering people to stay a step ahead in life and business. The case explores ING's innovation priorities and strategy as well as the...
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Keywords:
Innovation;
Agile;
Fintech;
Innovation and Invention;
Strategy;
Technological Innovation;
Banking Industry
Kerr, William R., Federica Gabrieli, and Emer Moloney. "Transformation at ING (B): Innovation." Harvard Business School Supplement 818-078, January 2018.
Business and Society
It taught me about key entrepreneurs and inventions that shaped civilization. And through this class I gained a better understanding of key points in time that have shaped history. Those learnings, in their own right, are incredibly...
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- July 2018
- Case
Leading Open Innovation at BT
By: Amy C. Edmondson, Jean-François Harvey and Johnathan R. Cromwell
This case focuses on the genesis and development of the open innovation unit at BT, the strategic value of the unit, and its operating model. As the business environment becomes increasingly dynamic and firms are pressured to achieve faster innovation rates, there may...
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Collaboration;
Open Innovation;
Inter-organizational Relationships;
Organizational Culture;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Innovation and Management;
Information Technology Industry;
Technology Industry;
United Kingdom;
United States
Edmondson, Amy C., Jean-François Harvey, and Johnathan R. Cromwell. "Leading Open Innovation at BT." Harvard Business School Case 619-013, July 2018.
- 05 Oct 2016
- What Do You Think?
Can the US Economy Regain the Growth and Prosperity of the Past?
believes we will have: Less innovation of real importance (so much for Brynjolfsson’s and McAfee’s digital technologies, particularly the kind that create jobs and distributes the spoils widely) Fewer social and economic changes--such as the View Details
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by James Heskett
- 21 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine
In May 1995, two scientists at the University of Mississippi were granted an American patent for the use of turmeric to treat flesh wounds. Soon thereafter, an Indian research organization won a lawsuit challenging the novelty of the patent. As it turned out, Indians...
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- July 12, 2011
- Article
Look to Chile, Asia for Defined Contribution Innovation
By: Robert C. Pozen and Theresa Hamacher
Pozen, Robert C., and Theresa Hamacher. "Look to Chile, Asia for Defined Contribution Innovation." Pensions & Investments (July 12, 2011).
- March 2011 (Revised March 2012)
- Teaching Note
Fraunhofer: Innovation in Germany (TN)
By: Diego A. Comin and J. Gunnar Trumbull
Teaching Note for 711022.
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- January 2009 (Revised May 2009)
- Supplement
Innovation at Mahindra & Mahindra (C)
By: Stefan H. Thomke and Briana Doerr Luthra
Supplement to 609065
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Thomke, Stefan H., and Briana Doerr Luthra. "Innovation at Mahindra & Mahindra (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 609-068, January 2009. (Revised May 2009.)
- July 2007 (Revised April 2008)
- Teaching Note
Innovation at Progressive (TN) (A) & (B)
By: Frances X. Frei