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- 19 Feb 2014
- News
Why China Can't Innovate
- 13 Jan 2021
- Blog Post
Staying Curious with the Harvard Innovation Labs Ahead of the 2021 Virtual President’s Innovation Challenge
& Life Sciences; and the Open Track for ventures that transcend categories. For this upcoming 2021 President’s Innovation Challenge, we’re focused on “staying curious” about the future and designing for...
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- 23 Apr 2016
- News
Tipping His Cap to Open Source
model isn’t about gouging IP but adding value around it,” Whitehurst told The Business Times of Singapore. “It seemed [in 2008] like being a great way to be part of painting a new canvas.” Whitehurst sees big shifts in the business landscape over the coming years, as...
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- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Opening Minds Through Expanded Learning Opportunities
the course, which has an enrollment of 100 and convenes at the Business School. The syllabus covers a wide span of events—from the drafting of the US Constitution to recent disputes over same-sex marriage. Last year, the innovative...
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- 22 Jul 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
Business Model Innovation and Competitive Imitation
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by Ramon Casadesus-Masanell & Feng Zhu
- 08 Jul 2011
- News
The last shuttle for innovation
Innovation Without Borders; Innovations, Summer 2007
The willingness to connect with an external network is key in an environment where products and services are themselves increasingly inter-connected. We see trends in this direction for a variety of reasons, either because uses of multiple products are complementary... View Details
- 2020
- Article
Why Do User Communities Matter for Strategy?
By: Sonali K. Shah and Frank Nagle
In this essay, we explore how strategic management research and practice could benefit from considering the benefits and challenges obtainable through working with user communities. User communities represent a unique organizing structure for the exchange of ideas and...
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Keywords:
User Communities;
Innovation;
Open Source;
Collaboration;
Cooperative Strategy;
Knowledge Sharing;
Strategy;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention
Shah, Sonali K., and Frank Nagle. "Why Do User Communities Matter for Strategy?" Special Issue on Open Innovation. Strategic Management Review 1, no. 2 (2020): 305–353.
- 26 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Best Practices of Global Innovators
related to the possession of deep individual technical skills in hundreds of diverse disciplines," the researchers conclude in their paper, Innovation through Global Collaboration: A New Source of Competitive Advantage. "Boeing's unique...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
An Engine of Innovation
Startup life can often feel like a solo sport, says Matt Segneri (MBA 2010), the Bruce and Bridgitt Evans Executive Director of the Harvard Innovation Labs: “What the three labs in our ecosystem do is to make building a venture something that happens within a truly...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- August 2014
- Case
Opening the Valve: From Software to Hardware (A)
By: Ethan Bernstein, Francesca Gino and Bradley Staats
Valve, one of the world's top video game software companies, has also become an iconic example of an organization with virtually no hierarchy. A 400-person organization, Valve's unique organizational form (described in detail in the case and accompanying employee...
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Valve;
Self-Managed Organizations;
Organization Design;
Strategy;
Flat Organization;
Video Games;
Organization Alignment;
Family Business;
Steam;
Steam Machine;
Design;
Games, Gaming, and Gambling;
Human Resources;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Technological Innovation;
Leadership Style;
Management Practices and Processes;
Organizational Design;
Organizational Structure;
Organizational Culture;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Groups and Teams;
Alignment;
Software;
Hardware;
Video Game Industry;
Seattle
Bernstein, Ethan, Francesca Gino, and Bradley Staats. "Opening the Valve: From Software to Hardware (A)." Harvard Business School Case 415-015, August 2014.
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
'Rooted' In Innovation
in 2019 that is already creating jobs and expanding economic opportunities in his home country of Cameroon. In May, CassVita was honored with a Harvard President’s Innovation Challenge Award funded by the Bertarelli Foundation. Cassava is...
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Deborah Blagg
- 09 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation
Would-be innovators know that one of their biggest challenges is systematically identifying the innovations with the greatest likelihood of creating disruptive growth. Pick the wrong one, and squander a year...
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- 07 Oct 2013
- News
Open brainstorming is the way to go
- 08 Mar 2013
- News
The Accidental Innovator
way learning should happen. You’re soon going to open a brick-and-mortar school? I totally believe in brick-and-mortar schools, and I want my children to attend one, but with a very different environment and setup. Unfortunately,...
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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
The Accidental Innovator
achieve personal and team goals. Teammates would help, too. Everybody was trying to get the best possible result, without that teacher versus student antagonism. That’s the way learning should happen. You’re soon going to open a...
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- January 2007
- Case
AMD: A Customer-Centric Approach to Innovation
By: Elie Ofek and Lauren Barley
AMD's launch of the Opteron microprocessor in 2003 has allowed the company to make inroads into the lucrative server segment. A long-time follower to Intel, AMD management felt it was in a position to lead the microprocessor industry in new directions. However, in 2006...
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Keywords:
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Price;
Leadership;
Brands and Branding;
Product Launch;
Product Development;
Competitive Strategy;
Customization and Personalization;
Semiconductor Industry
Ofek, Elie, and Lauren Barley. "AMD: A Customer-Centric Approach to Innovation." Harvard Business School Case 507-037, January 2007.
- 2011
- Book
Managing Knowledge Assets, Creativity and Innovation
This book pulls together for the first time works on knowledge and innovation, including the implementation of new processes and products, written by Dorothy A. Leonard over more than two decades. It consists of articles from journals in diverse fields (e.g. the...
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Leonard, Dorothy A. Managing Knowledge Assets, Creativity and Innovation. World Scientific Publishing, 2011.
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Where Innovation Rules
Kiva Systems Intuit Angie’s List Rakuten athenahealth Pandora Bloomingdale's and Gilt Groupe Social Finance Innovation is the real business of Harvard Business School. It begins with the School’s bias toward action, as embodied in its...
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