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- 10 Apr 2019
- News
Rakuten’s Mikitani Bets $5.5 Billion To Shake Up Japan’s Telecom Industry
A recent feature in Forbes outlines Rakuten CEO Hiroshi Mikitani’s plan to disrupt Japan’s mobile phone market. Named Rakuten Mobile, the company hopes to build the network in “half the time and at a cost of up to 40% less than what it... View Details
- July 2013 (Revised November 2021)
- Module Note
Exploration vs. Exploitation
By: Willy Shih
This module note introduces James March's concept of exploration and exploitation, and the management challenge of balancing the allocation of resources to the two activities in the firm. The note also touches on the O'Reilly and Tushman paper on the ambidextrous... View Details
Keywords: Exploration And Exploitation; Exploitation; Research; Scientific Research; Product Commercialization; Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Innovation Leadership; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Knowledge Acquisition; Growth and Development Strategy; Resource Allocation; Strategic Planning; Research and Development; Science-Based Business; Corporate Strategy; Knowledge Sharing; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; United States
Shih, Willy. "Exploration vs. Exploitation." Harvard Business School Module Note 614-004, July 2013. (Revised November 2021.)
- 18 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool
potential for multiple breakthroughs related to the specific tumor segmentation task of radiation oncologists while also addressing technological issues (e.g., reframing and conducting sequential competition phases). Lagace: What made... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Batteries Included
then that makes a lot of sense.” James Morton Turner, an environmental scholar and author of Charged: A History of Batteries and Lessons for a Clean Energy Future, adds that drawing power from LFP batteries is “a promising technology for... View Details
- 08 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Clayton Christensen on Disrupting Health Care
An acclaimed author and expert on the development and commercialization of technological and business innovation, HBS professor Clayton Christensen has written a new book aimed at changing our national conversation about health care. In... View Details
- January 1999
- Case
Bell Atlantic and the Union City Schools (D): Results and Replication
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Ellen Pruyne
The last in a five-part series about Bell Atlantic Corp.'s technology-in-education partnership with the Union City, New Jersey school system. Reviews the various outcomes of the partnership called Project Explore, from the perspective of Bell Atlantic managers and... View Details
Keywords: Mobile and Wireless Technology; Strategic Planning; Change Management; Leadership Development; Outcome or Result; Horizontal Integration; Partners and Partnerships; Trends; Education; Technological Innovation; Telecommunications Industry; Education Industry; New Jersey
Kanter, Rosabeth M., and Ellen Pruyne. "Bell Atlantic and the Union City Schools (D): Results and Replication." Harvard Business School Case 399-084, January 1999.
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Cash flow struggles can take down a company or spark ideas that transform an industry
Plans that Jonathan Bush (MBA 1997) had for an obstetrics practice ran into trouble when faced with unpaid claims and problems tracking patient records. In that, Bush saw an opportunity that forever changed the health records services... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
“Some decent-looking pixels and a really excellent vision.” That’s all it took for Russ Wilcox to fall for the technology that would become E Ink, a company supplying the electronic ink for a new world of digital reading devices. Now, as... View Details
- 14 May 2013
- Blog Post
“What does it take for us to support our beliefs?” – Johnny Bowman
the messier the problem though, the more excited people here are to solve it, and so I can’t wait to leverage my classmates’ and faculty’s knowledge to bring us closer and closer to action. After HBS I plan on continuing to work on my... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Harvard’s Future in Allston
f44a2f21f41f1b61595fd016e6eaa7c7 Harvard University’s proposed expansion across the Charles River onto land flanking HBS has entered a new phase, with four task forces hard at work on refining planning assumptions outlined by President... View Details
- 20 Jan 2011
- News
Oil Spill Solution
report. But at least one HBS graduate needed no reminder of the environmental devastation caused by the tragic explosion. He had already become part of the solution. Scott C. Smith (MBA ’91) is president and CEO of Cellect Technologies... View Details
- September 2004
- Case
Valhalla Partners Due Diligence
By: William A. Sahlman and Dan Heath
The Valhalla Partners venture capitial firm introduced a new approach to the due-diligence process. An internal due-diligence report analyzes Telco Exchange, a startup company in the IT software space. An extended excerpt examines the trade-offs involved in the new... View Details
Keywords: Communication Technology; Risk Management; Venture Capital; Business Plan; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Investment; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Corporate Finance; Financial Services Industry; Telecommunications Industry
Sahlman, William A., and Dan Heath. "Valhalla Partners Due Diligence." Harvard Business School Case 805-033, September 2004.
- September 2011 (Revised May 2012)
- Case
GoodGuide
By: George Serafeim, Robert G. Eccles and Tiffany A. Clay
GoodGuide, a high-technology start-up company, founded by University of California Professor at Berkley Dara O'Rourke is at a critical junction. The venture capital funded company has yet to find the business model to monetize a very promising product that provides... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Strategic Planning; Venture Capital; Goods and Commodities; Business Model; Information Technology; Knowledge; Education Industry; California
Serafeim, George, Robert G. Eccles, and Tiffany A. Clay. "GoodGuide." Harvard Business School Case 112-031, September 2011. (Revised May 2012.)
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Innovation: Crowdfunding College Costs
noted, Cordero started GradSave, an online college savings registry that makes it possible for family and friends to contribute directly to a child's 529 plan or savings account. Parents can send digital reminders of the account's... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Up by the Roots
When he graduated from high school in 1994, Will Hsu (MBA 2006) had no plans to take over his father’s ginseng farm—there just didn’t seem to be a future in it. Hsu’s Ginseng Enterprises Inc. was one of the largest operations in central... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The New Venture Competition Crowns a New Crop
NVC 20: This year marked the 20th anniversary of the New Venture Competition, which began in 1997 as the HBS Business Plan Contest. (photo by Susan Young) After surviving among a pool of 171 alumni teams from 14 different regions, four... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
When being a good neighbor means economic development
Rescued in the early 1990s and revived by president and CEO Jonathan Larry Baer (MBA 1985), the San Francisco Giants are baseball champions, with World Series wins in 2010 and 2012. Now Baer is poised to spread the success with a $1.6 billion View Details
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Field Course: Innovating in Health Care - Course Catalog
access, ripe for massive technological and consumer-facing innovations—is one of the largest and ripest sectors for innovation. This course focuses on the creation of a business plan for an innovation in... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Tech Trekker
Digital abandoned plans to spin off the company, Lang resigned. "My vision was to take AltaVista public," she explains. "I don't believe in staying in a job where you can't be passionate about the results." Lang has spent the past year... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 24 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Watsons: IBM’s Troubled Legacy
The world's fair in New York City at the end of the depression decade was a big deal. Planning began in 1935. The fairgrounds covered 1,216.5 acres in what had been a garbage dump in Queens. By opening day, April 30, 1939, the moonscape... View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow