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  • 25 Nov 2015
  • News

HHL Awards Honorary Doctorate to Harvard Professor Stefan H. Thomke

  • 2023
  • Working Paper

How Resilient Is Venture-Backed Innovation? Evidence from Four Decades of U.S. Patenting

By: Sabrina T. Howell, Josh Lerner, Ramana Nanda and Richard Townsend
Despite theoretical predictions to the contrary, corporate innovation is strongly pro-cyclical. In this paper, we compare innovation in the economy as a whole to that of firms backed by venture capital (VC), a source of capital associated with the most impactful young... View Details
Keywords: Recessions; Venture Capital; Innovation and Invention; Patents; Business Cycles; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation
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    Producing Prosperity: Why America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance

    Companies compete on the decisions they make. For years—even decades—in response to intensifying global competition, companies decided to outsource their manufacturing operations in order to reduce costs. But we are now seeing the alarming long-term effect of those... View Details
    • February 2022
    • Case

    Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi: Leading Through the Fog of the COVID-19 Pandemic

    By: Linda A. Hill and Emily Tedards
    As COVID-19 began to take lives, destroy healthcare systems, and shut down economies across the globe, Dr. Rakesh Suri, Chief Executive Officer of Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, and his executive team adapted their leadership to instill the new levels of agility and... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Behavior; Culture; Organizational Culture; Organizational Adaptation; Organizational Effectiveness; Alignment; Leadership; Innovation; Diversity; Collaboration; Co-creation; Learning Organizations; Empowerment; Teamwork; Ecosystem; Agility; Partnerships; Data-driven Decision-making; Operating Model; Risk Management; Virtual Work; Team Dynamics; Telemedicine; Metrics; Globalization; Pandemic; COVID-19; Hospital; Healthcare; United Arab Emirates; Middle East; Health Care and Treatment; Health Pandemics; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Crisis Management; Leading Change; Leadership Style; Digital Transformation; United Arab Emirates; Middle East
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    • March 2010
    • Article

    The Role of Independent Invention in U.S. Technological Development, 1880-1930

    By: Tom Nicholas
    Why did independent inventors account for over half of US patents by 1930 and more than three times the number granted to R&D firms? Using new data on patents and historical patent citations, I show that independents supplied high quality innovations to a... View Details
    Keywords: History; Technological Innovation; Patents; Urban Scope; Independent Innovation and Invention; Research and Development; United States
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    • 17 Aug 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    Quantifying the Economic Impact of the Internet

    Internet provides to the rest of the U.S. economy is estimated at $175 billion. It comprises $20 billion of advertising services, $85 billion of retail transactions (net of cost of goods), and $70 billion of direct payments to Internet... View Details
    Keywords: by John Quelch; Advertising; Publishing
    • 26 Sep 2014
    • News

    Makers, unite

    • January 2017
    • Case

    Exotic Interest Rate Swaps: Snowballs in Portugal

    By: Boris Vallee, Patrick Augustin and Philippe Rich
    This case explores a complex swap transaction implemented by Metro do Porto in 2007. It represents an opportunity to study fixed income derivative instruments, such as plain-vanilla swaps and structured swaps, as well as understand the opportunities and challenges of... View Details
    Keywords: Swaps; Public Finance; Structured Finance; Credit Derivatives and Swaps; Public Sector; Transportation Industry; Rail Industry; Portugal
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      Feng Zhu

      Feng Zhu is the MBA Class of 1958 Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, where he leads the Platform Lab within the Digital, Data, and Design Institute, co-chairs the Harvard Business Analytics Program, and serves as the course head for the... View Details

      • 2012
      • Case

      Advanced Leadership Pathways: Richard Fahey and Robert Saudek (A): Lighting Liberia

      By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Anne Arlinghaus
      After successful careers as lawyers Richard Fahey and Robert Saudek set out to tackle a large-scale infrastructure challenge in a complex environment by increasing Liberian citizens’ access to lighting solutions. They developed the Liberian Energy Network, which aimed... View Details
      Keywords: Solar; Solar Power; Electricity; Clean Technology; Scaling-up; Economic Development; Partnerships; Sustainability; Innovation; Leadership Skills; Renewable Energy; Energy; Infrastructure; Information Technology; Economy; Partners and Partnerships; Distribution; Innovation Leadership; Leadership; Energy Industry; Africa; Liberia
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        Gunnar Trumbull

        Gunnar Trumbull is the Phillip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

        Professor Trumbull’s primary area of expertise in political economy, with a focus on consumer and regulatory politics. His book Strength in... View Details

        Keywords: agribusiness; consumer products; credit card; financial services; food; food processing; grocery; microfinance; retail financial services; retailing
        • September 2020 (Revised December 2020)
        • Case

        Siba Mtongana: A Pioneering Chef in South Africa

        By: Boris Groysberg, Susan Seligson, Katherine Connolly Baden and Robin Abrahams
        For Siba Mtongana, South African celebrity chef, the year 2020 was fraught with challenges and unknowns. Her brand was strong and she was certain it would survive. But as she fine-tuned her growth and innovation strategy in a shaky, unpredictable economy in the midst... View Details
        Keywords: Food; Crisis Management; Health Pandemics; Growth and Development Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry; South Africa
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        • January 2021 (Revised August 2021)
        • Case

        ByteDance: TikTok and the Trials of Going Viral

        By: William C. Kirby and John P. McHugh
        In 2020, TikTok became the most valuable start-up ever. The short-form, video-sharing social media platform emerged as the crown jewel of the Chinese technology firm ByteDance, realizing 850 million monthly users and an estimated worth of $180 billion. However, a... View Details
        Keywords: China; Technology; Startup; Start-up; International Strategy; Global Strategy And Leadership; Innovation; Political Risk; Regulations; Trump; Foreign Policy; Foreign Investment; Chinese Internet Market; Global Strategy; Crisis Management; Risk and Uncertainty; Entrepreneurship; Globalized Economies and Regions; Government Legislation; Innovation and Management; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Internet and the Web; Social Media; Technology Industry; China; United States
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        • 05 Feb 2024
        • Research & Ideas

        The Middle Manager of the Future: More Coaching, Less Commanding

        changes in the economy than it does about firms allowing themselves to return to days of bloated, ineffective managerial ranks. Managers are handling a more complex set of technologically driven tasks that require substantial skill in... View Details
        Keywords: by Ben Rand
        • August 2017 (Revised February 2024)
        • Teaching Note

        Exotic Interest Rate Swaps: Snowballs in Portugal

        By: Boris Vallee, Patrick Augustin and Philippe Rich
        This case explores a complex swap transaction implemented by Metro do Porto in 2007. It represents an opportunity to study fixed income derivative instruments, such as plain-vanilla swaps and structured swaps, as well as understand the opportunities and challenges of... View Details
        Keywords: Swaps; Public Finance; Structured Finance; Credit Derivatives and Swaps; Public Sector; Transportation Industry; Rail Industry; Portugal
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        • 23 Jun 2015
        • News

        Reinvent the Olympics, Boston tech-style

        • 2016
        • Teaching Note

        Advanced Leadership Pathways: Richard Fahey and Robert Saudek—Lighting Liberia

        By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Tessa Natanay Hamilton and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
        Teaching Note for Case 313-032. After successful careers as lawyers and Fellows in Harvard's Advanced Leadership Initiative, Richard Fahey and Robert Saudek set out to tackle a large-scale infrastructure challenge in a complex environment by ultimately using advanced... View Details
        Keywords: Solar; Solar Power; Electricity; Clean Technology; Scaling-up; Economic Development; Partnerships; Sustainability; Innovation; Leadership Skills; Renewable Energy; Energy; Infrastructure; Information Technology; Economy; Partners and Partnerships; Distribution; Innovation Leadership; Leadership; Social Entrepreneurship; Change Management; Energy Industry; Africa; Liberia
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          The Servicification of the U.S. Economy: The Role of Startups versus Incumbent Firms

          Over the last few decades, the U.S. economy has exhibited a significant shift from manufacturing towards services. This transition has been particularly prominent in an important subcategory of services industries that drives innovation and employs many high-wage... View Details
          • 15 Apr 2020
          • News

          Creating a Fearless Organization With Amy Edmondson

          • 25 Jun 2018
          • Research & Ideas

          In America, Immigrants Really Do Get the Job Done

          and other countries could have a damaging effect on their economies by chilling innovation and entrepreneurship by the very foreign-born workers we should be trying to encourage. “Uncertainty lowers... View Details
          Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Technology; Service