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01 Jun 2009
News

Crisis and Creativity

innovation in a new set of industries. It would be a shame, after all, to let a serious crisis go to waste. —HBS senior lecturer Bhaskar Chakravorti is a partner at McKinsey & Co. Reprinted from The Wall... View Details

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Inventing the Future of Management

Bhaskar Chakravorti speaks on a "design flaw" in large organizations and the need to renew a business by selectively "burning down" elements of the model to enable islands of entrepreneurial activity that will regenerate its ability... View Details

The Slow Pace of Fast Change: Bringing Innovations to Market in a Connected World (HBS Press; Boston 2003)

FOR EXECUTIVES, strategists, and students of technology-driven industries, this is a powerful playbook for the high-stakes innovation game. The market is full of fluctuating, and seemingly illogical, fortunes: A long shot like eBay catches fire, while a... View Details

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The Slow Pace of Fast Change: Bringing Innovations to Market in a Connected World

By: Bhaskar Chakravorti

Innovation's encounter with the market results in a game of both high risk and high stakes. Often its outcome defies common sense: Superior new products flop, unlikely ideas become runaway hits, and—despite rapid technological advances and intense... View Details

Keywords: Game Theory; Network Effects; Innovation and Invention; Product Marketing; Economics

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The New Rules for Bringing Innovations to Market, Harvard Business Review, March 2004

It's tough to get consumers to adopt innovations--and it's getting tougher all the time. That's because more and more markets are taking on the characteristics of networks. The interconnections among today's companies are so plentiful that often a... View Details

23 Feb 2009
Research & Ideas

Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn

Whatever the headlines predict these days, there may still be good news for entrepreneurs. Many successful products, services, and pivotal ideas have been launched during an economic lull, according to Bhaskar Chakravorti, a senior... View Details

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April 2010
Class Lecture

Letting No Serious Crisis Go to Waste: Innovation and Entrepreneurship After the Great Recession (FSS)

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August 11, 2006
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Evolution of a Mighty Nation

By: Bhaskar Chakravorti

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March 2010
Supplement

Looking for Opportunity in Adversity: Iqbal Quadir and Grameenphone (B)

By: Bhaskar Chakravorti and David Lane

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March 2010 (Revised March 2010)
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Looking for Opportunity in Adversity: Iqbal Quadir and Grameenphone (A)

By: Bhaskar Chakravorti and David Lane

Iqbal Quadir, a former New York investment banker, set about to bring universal telecommunications to his native Bangladesh. He was convinced that, GSM, the same advanced wireless technology that penetrated developed countries in Europe was also the right solution for... View Details

Keywords: Decisions; Personal Development and Career; Entrepreneurship; Problems and Challenges; Wireless Technology; Telecommunications Industry; Bangladesh

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18 May 2010
First Look

First Look: May 18

food production by 2030. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/510025-PDF-ENG Life Journey Profile: Amee Chande Bhaskar Chakravorti and Shirley M. SpenceHarvard Business School Case... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

November 2009
Case

The HLB Turnaround

By: Lynda M. Applegate, Bhaskar Chakravorti and Laura Winig

Ford Pearson has recently taken over as CEO of HLB, a Chicago-based product design and development firm (and once one of the largest in the business), to help turn it around after a series of crises that had seriously threatened its survival. Pearson has personally... View Details

Keywords: Business Organization; Business or Company Management; Private Equity; Restructuring; Product Design; Corporate Finance

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21 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 21, 2010

element of organizational control systems. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-021.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsBlue Man Group: Creativity, Life and Surviving an Economic Meltdown Bhaskar View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 May 2010
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First Look: May 11

Course MaterialsOpportunities in Business and Life after Virgin Money: Asheesh Advani Bhaskar Chakravorti and Shirley M. SpenceHarvard Business School Case 810-072 Asheesh Advani is in an enviable position... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

08 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 8, 2010

forego one for the other? And what would this imply for the types of handsets and services they would need to offer? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/710429-PDF-ENG Dr. Cameron Powell and AirStrip Technologies: After the Apple Worldwide... View Details

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03 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 3

Bhaskar Chakravorti and Laura WinigHarvard Business School Case 810-079 When Jonathan Bush and his partner, Todd Park, realized that their revolutionary approach to delivering clinical care was being stymied... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

08 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 8

that shifting equity and credit market conditions play an important role in dictating corporate finance and investment. Of Gods and Small Things: Closing the Gap in Corporate Entrepreneurship Author: Bhaskar View Details

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20 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 20

and other distributions as opposed to purely growth. What, if anything, could Woolf and other farmers do to influence the outcome? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/510033-PDF-ENG Looking for Opportunity in Adversity: Iqbal Quadir and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace