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- 22 Jun 2011
- News
"Recession Has Speeded Up The Process Of change"
- November 2005 (Revised May 2007)
- Case
HP Nanotech: Partnership with CNSI
Stan Williams, leading nanotech researcher at Hewlett Packard Laboratories, must decide whether to renew the firm's sponsorship of California NanoSystems Institute, spend the funds on internal R&D, or fund foreign universities. Illustrates the challenge of managing... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Partners and Partnerships; Investment; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Business and Community Relations; Financial Strategy; Technology Industry; California
Fleming, Lee, Marie Thursby, and James Quinn. "HP Nanotech: Partnership with CNSI." Harvard Business School Case 606-045, November 2005. (Revised May 2007.)
James E. Austin
Dr. Austin holds the Eliot I. Snider and Family Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School. Previously he held the John G. McLean Professorship and the Richard P. Chapman Professorship. He has been a member of the Harvard... View Details
Keywords: agribusiness
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Connecting With Nonprofits
first set forth a framework for understanding alliances between companies and nonprofits. It will then examine how such cross-sector collaborations relate to four strategic and interrelated marketing areas:... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
- November 2012
- Teaching Plan
The Langer Lab: Commercializing Science (TP)
By: Vicki L. Sato and Annelena Lobb
The Langer Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was a unique operation. Its head, Robert Langer, had always focused on selecting ideas to research that would have the greatest positive impact for humanity, and he encouraged an unusual... View Details
Keywords: Computers; Industry Evolution; Entrepreneurship; Intellectual Capital; R＆D; Technology Transfer; Patents; Research and Development; Massachusetts
Sato, Vicki L., and Annelena Lobb. "The Langer Lab: Commercializing Science (TP)." Harvard Business School Teaching Plan 613-014, November 2012.
- 05 Jul 2006
- Working Paper Summaries
Bankers, Industrialists, and Their Cliques: Elite Networks in Mexico and Brazil During Early Industrialization
Leemore S. Dafny
Leemore Dafny is the Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Business Administration and the Mary Ellen Jay and Jeffrey Jay Fellow at the Harvard Business School, and Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. Dafny is an... View Details
Keywords: health care
Ashley V. Whillans
Ashley Whillans is the Volpert Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, where she teaches the Motivation and Incentives course to MBA students. Professor Whillans earned her PhD in Social Psychology from the University of... View Details
- September 2011
- Article
A Cancer Center Puts the New Approach to Work: Pilot
By: Heidi W. Albright and Thomas W. Feeley
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center is a National Cancer Institute–designated Comprehensive Cancer Center, located in Houston, Texas. Seeing more than 30,000 new patients every year, MD Anderson accounts for approximately 20% of
cancer care within the... View Details
Keywords: Health Care; Health Care Quality; Measurement; Costing; Accounting; Health; Quality; Health Industry; North and Central America
Albright, Heidi W., and Thomas W. Feeley. "A Cancer Center Puts the New Approach to Work: Pilot." R1109B. Harvard Business Review 89, no. 9 (September 2011): 15–16. (This article is a sidebar description of a pilot of time-driven activity-based costing in the HBR article "How to Solve the Cost Crisis in Health Care" by Robert S. Kaplan and Michael E. Porter.)
- 21 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
Machine Learning and Behavioral Economics
This is a repost from the recruiting blog. For John Bracaglia, his academic and professional careers have been driven by two themes: “machine learning and behavioral economics,” he says. “The two work together. Machine learning is about... View Details
- June 2016
- Article
Wicked Problem Solvers: Lessons from Successful Cross-industry Teams
By: Amy C. Edmondson
Companies today increasingly rely on teams that span many industries for radical innovation, especially to solve “wicked problems.” So leaders have to understand how to promote collaboration when roles are uncertain, goals are shifting, expertise and organizational... View Details
Edmondson, Amy C. "Wicked Problem Solvers: Lessons from Successful Cross-industry Teams." Harvard Business Review 94, no. 6 (June 2016): 53–59.
- 04 May 2021
- Blog Post
Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS
Association (AABA), in collaboration with students and organizations across campus, is proud to share and honor the stories of our community members. We hope these stories showcase the history, richness, and diversity of the AAPI... View Details
- May 2014 (Revised November 2014)
- Case
Houston We Have A Problem: NASA and Open Innovation (A)
By: Michael Tushman, Hila Lifshitz-Assaf and Kerry Herman
Jeff Davis, director of Space Life Sciences Directorate (SLSD) at NASA, has been working for several years to raise awareness amongst scientists and researchers in his organizations of the benefits of open innovation as a successful and efficient way to collaborate on... View Details
Tushman, Michael, Hila Lifshitz-Assaf, and Kerry Herman. "Houston We Have A Problem: NASA and Open Innovation (A)." Harvard Business School Case 414-044, May 2014. (Revised November 2014.)
- 06 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Behavioral Finance—Benefiting from Irrational Investors
typical patterns in investor psychology and respond accordingly, Baker says. Institutional money managers, for example, can find an edge in exploiting the stock price patterns created by irrational investor... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 15 Aug 2018
- News
Problem-solving techniques take on new twist
Joseph B. Fuller
Joseph Fuller is a Professor of Management Practice in General Management and co-leads the school’s initiative, Managing the Future of Work. He currently teaches the Becoming a General Manager course in the second year of the MBA program and formerly headed The... View Details
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
YaleGlobal piece mentions Growing Sustainable Business and the Investment Climate Facility for Africa as positive collaborations between business, government, and nongovernmental organizations. Are there... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
Rafael M. Di Tella
I received my first degree in Economics in 1990 from the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina and a D.Phil in Economics from Oxford University in 1996. After a short stay in Argentina I joined Harvard Business School in July 1997, where I... View Details