Micro-foundations Of Innovation - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2017
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What’s New in Educational Innovation? A Few Highlights

A student team pitches its venture to a panel of instructors, entrepreneurs, and investors on the final day of the Startup Bootcamp program. (photo by Susan Young) MBA Program Startup Bootcamp This is the... View Details

01 Feb 2002
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New Porter Prize Awarded in Japan

On December 6, four firms became the first recipients of the Porter Prize, a new award that recognizes innovation in Japanese companies. Matsui Securities Co., Ltd., and Mabuchi Motor Co., Ltd., were named... View Details

Keywords: awards

01 Mar 2024
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What is Web3?

Web3, a new era of the internet, uses blockchains, tokens, and wallets (tools for storing and managing digital assets) to facilitate a wide range of services and functionalities, including the transfer of assets from person-to-person. It represents a paradigm shift... View Details

01 Mar 2015
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Ink

Book Review: The Future of Learning To educate America’s youth, we treat them like products in a factory, according to the education experts who wrote Blended: Using Disruptive Innovation to Improve Schools.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Arts, Entertainment; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Feb 2000
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Youth Movement: HBS Clubs Make Students a Top Priority

On opposite coasts of the United States, two HBS clubs have developed innovative programs to help MBA students broaden their career options. "I am confident that I will get a job in Seattle when I graduate,"... View Details

Keywords: Amy E. Dean

30 Mar 2016
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Alumni in Middle East Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS

films – My HBS and The Case for the Future – highlighted the impact of the School and its faculty and alumni on the major challenges facing business and society today. The Harvard Business School Campaign was launched in April 2014 to... View Details

01 Jun 2016
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How Do We Win the Cyberwar?

Your credit card has already been stolen. You just don’t know it yet. Thomas knows it, though. (A 12-year IT security veteran, Thomas requested anonymity to protect the reputation of his employers, which have included Fortune 100... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai

01 Jun 2000
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Flexibility Is Key to Product Development in Internet Time

When the number of Internet-based businesses took off in the mid-1990s, many long-standing rules for product innovation were blown away. Previous models of development based on... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 Jun 2022
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Closing the 'Network Gap'

longer underrepresented,” says Hu. “This is an opportunity to get the whole community involved and help change minds as well as create the seeds of more equitable systems in the long term.” STUDENTS READY TO MAKE AN IMPACT Empowering... View Details

Keywords: April White

26 Jun 2013
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Upstarts Raise Money for Startups

Keywords: Finance; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Dec 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019

University, and T-Mobile, among them. Their stories make it clear that organizations don’t have to be tech startups or have the latest innovations to transform. What they need to do is develop a disruptive mindset that permeates every... View Details

01 Dec 2004
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Getting Personal

HBS associate professor Youngme Moon teaches the MBA elective Consumer Marketing and several Executive Education marketing courses. With her research and course development work focusing on innovative consumer-marketing strategies, she is... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

13 Feb 2020
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Not Throwing Away My Shot

about the history of innovation in America. But sitting around a makeshift bar with some of the other executives who had just laid out rosy scenarios and hockey-stick returns... View Details

01 Apr 1998
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World Class Learning

Turkey. When the video ends, Janice McCormick, director of Academic Services, flicks on the lights and leads the group on its first foray into case method learning. Despite McCormick's encouragement, it is an awkward exercise, marked by... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

01 Sep 2015
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Ink

end, though, all the tools in the world won’t make you a successful mix-master. For that, you need to bring your own creativity and insights to the table. The master? Steve Jobs. When the exiled CEO returned to yank Apple out of near... View Details

01 Jun 2009
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Dispatches from the Global Classroom

Nemak employs 14,300 workers at 29 plants around the world; 2008 revenues totaled $3 billion. We round out our day back at the hotel, where we hear from Dr. Paulino Decanini Garza, founder of Primedic, as well as its COO, Fernando García.... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

05 May 2022
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Lesson Plans

Khan Academy across 190 countries and 50 languages. In this special edition of Skydeck honoring recipients of the Alumni Achievement Award, Associate Editor Julia Hanna talks to Khan about how the nonprofit... View Details

01 Dec 2017
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Bridging Domains

Karen and Sanjeev (MBA 1986) Mehra Karen and Sanjeev Mehra (MBA 1986) perceive both great opportunities and serious challenges at the nexus of business, science, and engineering. Their endowment of the Mehra... View Details

28 May 2019
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3-Minute Briefing: Tom Hulme (MBA 2007)

Above: Hulme on the rooftop of Google’s London offices (photo by Jon Enoch) What the design-thinking approach at IDEO taught me is that perfection is the enemy of progress. Great entrepreneurs realize that... View Details