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Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
crystals, called herapathite, were too small and expensive to create a useful material. Land's breakthrough came in 1928 when he discovered that with a magnetic field he could align microscopic crystals suspended with a lacquer solution... View Details
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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
"Privately-Owned Battery Storage - Reshaping the Way We Do Electricity" with Serguei Netessine. Christian Kaps : Awarded Second Place in the 2023 TIMES Best Working Paper Competition from the Technology, Innovation Management and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The Internet's Next Frontier
While the Crypto, Fintech, and Web3 Lab—one of 13 labs contained within Harvard’s Digital Data Design Institute—might not have the Bunsen burners and test tubes found in science and engineering labs, it does share a philosophical construct: it is a sandbox—an... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 19 May 2015
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First Look: May 19
traditional Chinese private business was launched and developed into a globalizing, multi-industry corporation. It also highlights how second generation entrepreneurs successfully developed an innovative industry model to sustain a green... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
we will define the concept of value innovation and highlight its beliefs as well as limitations as a technique for breakthrough growth in crowded, competitive spaces. CASE STUDY The Tulsa Massacre and the... View Details
- 24 Feb 2022
- Op-Ed
Want to Prevent the Next Hospital Bed Crisis? Enlist the SEC
COVID-19-Related Hospital Capacity Issues in Health Affairs. About the Authors Regina E. Herzlinger is the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and author of Innovating in Healthcare: Creating... View Details
- 11 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 11
a fictional case study on new product development and improvement after the successful launch of a first breakthrough product. Topics include business planning for brand name products, finance and investment for the development of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Jun 2008
- What Do You Think?
Why Don’t Managers Think Deeply?
Jeffrey Immelt, GE's CEO, has received a lot of publicity recently for fostering "imagination breakthroughs" by encouraging managers to think deeply about innovations that will ensure GE's longer-term success. He has vowed that... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
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Commercialization of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
development, patents, sales, personnel, mass production, and marketing would serve him well in his subsequent breakthrough with instant photography. But in the early 1940s, the research and manufacturing efforts of the Polaroid... View Details
- 22 Nov 2016
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November 22, 2016
and the University of California, Berkeley were in the middle of a contentious patent dispute over which entity controlled a breakthrough gene editing technology called CRISPR-Cas9. With CRISPR-Cas9, scientists might soon be able to cure... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
similarly in U.S. and international samples. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53447 November–December 2017 Harvard Business Review The Board's New Innovation Imperative: Directors Need to Rethink Their... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
Like many business leaders, Donovan Neale-May routinely seeks out information on business innovation and management trends. He reads reports from market analysis firms, white papers from companies in his field, and articles in online... View Details
- 27 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
What Happens When Ordinary People Get Creative?
Business School, Emerita, who has studied workplace creativity for more than 40 years. “Those breakthroughs will be made by collaborative groups of ‘ordinary people,’ by open innovation contests and other... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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Kraft Accelerator
Find More Resources Find More Resources Recent Publications Partnering with the VA to Accelerate Cures and Reduce Disparities HBS Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator Innovative Funding Approaches to Get View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
To Market, to Market
BLAVATNIK Photo courtesy of Blavatnik Family Foundation Universities are ripe with new advances in science and technology, and Harvard is no exception. But developing those findings into breakthrough therapies and cures for disease is a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Alumni Books
out in India over the next few decades. Serial Innovators: How Individuals Create and Deliver Breakthrough Innovations in Mature Firms by Abbie Griffin (MBA 1981), Raymond L. Price, and Bruce A. Vojak... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Alumni Books
The Innovator’s Guide to Growth: Putting Disruptive Innovation to Work by Scott D. Anthony (MBA ’01), Mark W. Johnson (MBA ’96), Joseph V. Sinfield, and Elizabeth J. Altman (HBS Press) Building on HBS professor Clayton Christensen’s The... View Details
Keywords: Management
- 15 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of New-Market Disruption
Teradyne and HP forced their organizations to focus on these new technologies. The CEOs of both companies got involved, creating separate, financially autonomous divisions for the projects to ensure that the technological breakthroughs... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
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Pursuing a passion
professions — from physicists to cooks — to understand how creative breakthroughs happen,” she notes. “He found that very often the most important creative breakthroughs happen where different perspectives... View Details
- Mar 2012
- Article
Rethinking School
school systems are improving, it will take 80 years to catch up to where China is now. New approaches, including personalized technology, online videos, and innovations that combine software with classroom programs, could be the View Details