Open Innovation - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 Nov 2024
HBS Case

What Wartime Service Taught These Historic Leaders

War I, Eisenhower created a miniature battlefield replica and slept out in the open with his men as they practiced their strategic maneuvers. In that early officer role, he adopted a leadership strategy that he would carry all the way to... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Entertainment & Recreation

17 Nov 2022
News

Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change

ever seen. By offering 10 years of policy certainty, the IRA encourages technology innovators to form companies and it reassures larger corporates to be their buyers. So as early-stage investors in clean energy, electrified... View Details

16 May 2017
First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16

in innovative capabilities, and increased employee engagement as a result. The programs vary but have seven major elements in common. Companies should 1) team with governments or nonprofits experienced in working with people with... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

01 Dec 1999
News

A Class Act

these riveting tales grew the idea for a column "voice," leading to the innovation of class secretaries. "Upon election, the Class Secretary accepts a long-term commitment to perform a liaison function within the class and between the... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

12 Jul 2019
News

The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster

16 million internet properties pass through the company’s network, which acts like a neighborhood watch for the internet—spotting potential threats but also helping websites run faster and better. It was named one of the world’s most View Details

01 Jun 2013
News

Five Bright Ideas

ISSUE FOCUS: EDUCATION INNOVATION Bright Idea #1 Training the Global Workforce, Gratis Mike Feerick (MBA 1993) FEERICK: At the grade school he attended in Ireland. "Knowledge and understanding," he says, "are being unleashed via the web... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

22 Nov 2022
Blog Post

Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combatting Climate Change

How the US’s Inflation Reduction Act has opened new business opportunities across multiple sectors Re: Julia Brady (MBA 1997); Christian Weeks (MBA 2010); Matt Arnold (MBA 1995); Heather March Takle (MBA 2006); Monica Varman (MBA 2016);... View Details

10 Jan 2011
Research & Ideas

Is Groupon Good for Retailers?

practical steps that merchants can take to prevent multiple purchases? A: In practice, it's not easy to prohibit the purchase of multiple vouchers. A voucher service can configure its systems so that a single account only lets a user purchase a given offer once. But... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising; Technology

01 Dec 2019
News

Capitalizing the Corner Shop

photo by Getty Images photo by Getty Images When Samuel Ejeh decides to open a new location for his Lagos-based supermarket chain Grocery Bazaar, he likes to move quickly. But expansion is capital-intensive, constraining his cash flow,... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

01 Dec 2001
News

A Close-Up Look at the Men behind the Empire

Giants of Enterprise: Seven Business Innovators and the Empires They Built (HarperBusiness), a new book by HBS professor Richard S. Tedlow, presents fascinating biographical essays of seven men whose products and practices have... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

06 Feb 2007
First Look

First Look: February 6, 2007

Karl Ulrich, Wharton professor, must decide between a commercial and "open source" model for his new business case venture. Students analyze a variety of open source and proprietary business models and formulate strategic... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Web

Financial Report 2018 - Financial Report 2018

Harvard Business School delivered strong financial results in fiscal 2018. Revenues exceeded our forecast, driving double-digit growth in cash from operations for the fourth consecutive year. This cash flow enabled HBS to continue providing robust support for... View Details

01 Mar 2014
News

The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria

untapped power of smallholders—increasing their yields, rebuilding supply chains, and opening access to economies of scale—Masha believes he is on the way to helping more than a million Nigerian farmers climb out of poverty. Ibrahim... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs; John H. Davis; Michael Halse; Crop Production; Agriculture; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

13 Jan 2009
First Look

First Look: January 13, 2009

Long-Run Investment: The Case of Innovation Authors:Josh Lerner, Morten Sørensen, and Per Strömberg Abstract A long-standing controversy is whether LBOs relieve managers from short-term pressures from public shareholders, or whether LBO... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2020
News

Prognosis

factor into governments’ decisions about what to open up. RH: Absolutely. The stress on so many resources that we might consider to be commodity products—surgical masks, hand sanitizer, gowns, and other forms of PPE—exposed a broader... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; COVID-19; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

25 Feb 2020
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020

ethical dilemma without fear of being mired in the consequences? How would you answer an inconvenient question? Courage and Conviction deals with the subject of ethical dilemmas in personal and work life. Opening with a discussion on the... View Details

24 Nov 2008
Research & Ideas

Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA

you need to think critically about what you are doing every 100 years or so, whether you need to or not," Dean Jay Light wryly observed in opening remarks to an unprecedented campus gathering last March of business school deans,... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson & HBS Bulletin; Education

05 Feb 2013
First Look

First Look: Feb. 5

negotiators' focus to aspects of the situation that reliably generate helpful prescriptions. Left to others were careful assessments of the conditions under which his advice applied-and did not. While Fisher's writings are open to various... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Mar 2016
News

The New Space Race

continue to examine the planet, and send back information that will be useful in helping NASA understand how astronauts—and possible future colonists—will be able to survive the intense radiation that bombards its surface. By choosing to look farther out into space,... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

13 Oct 2010
First Look

First Look: October 13, 2010

education program has modest effects, increasing demand for bank accounts only for those with low levels of education or financial literacy. In contrast, small subsidies greatly increase demand. A follow-up survey confirms these findings, demonstrating that the newly... View Details