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  • 07 Aug 2007
  • First Look

First Look: August 7, 2007

community and local entrepreneurs in India's software industry. We find that entrepreneurs located outside software hubs—in cities where monitoring and information flow on prospective clients is harder—rely significantly more on diaspora... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Jan 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Supply Side of Innovation: H-1B Visa Reforms and US Ethnic Invention

Keywords: by William R. Kerr & William F. Lincoln
  • 09 Feb 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

Sustainable Cities: Oxymoron or the Shape of the Future?

Keywords: by Annissa Alusi, Robert G. Eccles, Amy C. Edmondson & Tiona Zuzul

    Malcolm S. Salter

    Malcolm Salter has been a member of the Harvard Business School faculty since 1967. His teaching and research focus on issues of corporate strategy, organization, and governance.

    In addition to teaching at HBS, he has held faculty positions at the Harvard... View Details

    Keywords: arts; automobiles; energy; investment banking industry; retailing; venture capital industry
    • 23 Jul 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future

    Builders Association, 350,000 carriages were sold in New York City alone between 1894 and 1899 compared to 125 cars. The idea that the automobile would someday replace the horse and carriage was, he declared, "a fallacy too absurd to... View Details
    Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow
    • August 2011
    • Article

    Independent Invention During the Rise of the Corporate Economy in Britain and Japan

    By: Tom Nicholas
    Independent inventors accounted for approximately half of all patents in Britain and Japan by 1930, despite the rise of the corporate economy and the spread of industrial R&D. A mixture of patent renewal and historical citations data reveals that the quality of... View Details
    Keywords: Independent Innovation and Invention; Development Economics; Research and Development; Patents; System; Motivation and Incentives; Tokyo; London; United States
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    • 06 Nov 2017
    • Research Event

    Who is Responsible for the Future of Cities?

    fellow at the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation, where he studies how technological innovation can fuel growth in developing cities and nations. “You can’t regulate what you don’t yet... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • 12 Jun 2014
    • News

    Second Wind

    • 19 Dec 2018
    • News

    When Your Moon Shots Don’t Take Off

    • June 2025
    • Article

    Integral Outside: The Financial Curb Market, the Electric Telegraph, and the Politics of Pricing in Second Empire France

    By: Charlotte Robertson
    Financial markets in nineteenth-century France were far more complex than an analysis of the official Bourse or its state-authorized brokers would suggest. Most financial transactions occurred on an illegal yet tacitly tolerated curb market called the coulisse, which... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Markets; History; Communication Technology; Knowledge Dissemination; France
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    • November 2022
    • Case

    Para: Pay Transparency and Gig Drivers' Rights

    By: Christopher Stanton and George Gonzalez
    The case presents the founding vision and early days of a young startup that seeks to empower delivery drivers with tools and transparency. The company's flagship mobile app has been taken up by tens of thousands of delivery drivers across major U.S. cities who use it... View Details
    Keywords: Gig Workers; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Applications and Software; Disruptive Innovation; Compensation and Benefits; Technology Industry; San Francisco
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    • July 2010
    • Article

    The Supply Side of Innovation: H-1B Visa Reforms and U.S. Ethnic Invention

    By: William R. Kerr and William F. Lincoln
    This study evaluates the impact of high-skilled immigrants on U.S. technology formation. We use reduced-form specifications that exploit large changes in the H-1B visa program. Higher H-1B admissions increase immigrant science and engineering (SE) employment and... View Details
    Keywords: Engineering; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Immigration; Innovation and Invention; Patents; Business and Government Relations; Science; United States
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    • 01 Oct 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: October 1

    often cited as a success story of public disclosure. Hygiene grades influence customer decisions and serve as an accountability system for restaurants. However, cities (which are responsible for inspections) have limited resources to... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 08 May 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: May 8

    Peter A. Coles, Elena Corsi, and Vincent DessainHarvard Business School Case 912-022 French advertising company JCDecaux and the city of Paris jointly developed Vélib', a wildly popular bicycle sharing system. Despite Vélib's public... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • October 2019
    • Case

    Agility Africa

    By: Juan Alcacer, Caroline M. Elkins and Esel Çekin
    This case illustrates the challenge and opportunities that firms face when developing and executing new business models in high-risk, low-infrastructure, low-trust countries. It features a global logistics group, Agility, that aimed to become the leader in supplying... View Details
    Keywords: Strategy; Business Model; Innovation and Invention; Expansion; Emerging Markets; Decision Choices and Conditions; Real Estate Industry; Distribution Industry; Africa
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      Dutch Leonard

      Herman B. ("Dutch") Leonard is Eliot I. Snider and Family Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and the George F. Baker, Jr. Professor of Public Sector Management at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. In... View Details

      Keywords: education industry; federal government; health care; nonprofit industry; state government
      • 24 May 2021
      • Blog Post

      Rebekah Emanuel: Host of Season 3 of the Climate Rising Podcast

      Rebekah Emanuel (MBA 2015), Director of Social Entrepreneurship for the Harvard Innovation Labs (i-Lab) and host of the third season of the BEI’s Climate Rising podcast, reflects on the role of entrepreneurship in confronting climate... View Details
      • 14 Aug 2012
      • First Look

      First Look: August 14

      http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/13-010.pdf IP Modularity: Profiting from Innovation by Aligning Product Architecture with Intellectual Property Authors:Joachim Henkel, Carliss Y. Baldwin, and Willy C. Shih Abstract Distributed value... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 12 Jul 2020
      • Research & Ideas

      Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis

      community through board work at Rising Ground and Service Program for Older People, both of which have rallied to help New York City through the crisis,” he says. Pandemic exposes underlying weaknesses in health care In Canada, mental... View Details
      Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Health
      • 25 Jun 2014
      • Lessons from the Classroom

      FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing

      of the back of her house, selling chemical products on the side," laughs Mayo. "To their credit, students were excited to help with the business despite the tiny revenues, but we decided to pull the plug and found a more suitable project with a partner in a... View Details
      Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education