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  • September 2016 (Revised March 2020)
  • Teaching Note

Fasten: Challenging Uber and Lyft with a New Business Model

By: Feng Zhu
Fasten, a new ridesharing start-up in Boston, entered the scene in September 2015 hoping its unique vision of transparency for both driver and passenger and strategy to keep riders' fares low and charge drivers a flat $0.99 fee per ride, as opposed to the 20%–30%... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Transportation; Business Startups; Business Model; Transportation Industry; Boston
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  • Web

Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

instrument that will both disrupt traditional business models and potentially preserve them. The early works of William Abernathy on roadblocks to innovation and Richard Rosenbloom on technology and... View Details
  • 06 Jul 2023
  • News

Lessons from Major League Baseball's Game-Changing Innovations

MLB, where he's worked since he graduated from HBS in 2008. And he's helped lead some of the transformational innovations the sport has undergone in the last decade, both on the field and off. In this episode of Skydeck, taped in front of... View Details

    Experimentation Matters: Unlocking the Potential of New Technologies for Innovation

    Every company's ability to innovate depends on a process of experimentation whereby new products and services are created and existing ones improved. But the cost of experimentation is limiting. New technologies—including computer modeling and simulation—promise to... View Details
    • 2013
    • Book

    Beyond the Idea: How to Execute Innovation in Any Organization

    By: Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble
    By offering specific action steps, Beyond the Idea extends the elegant conceptual insights from How Stella Saved the Farm, Govindarajan and Trimble's parable. Beyond the Idea shows exactly how to: - Build a team with a very particular structure, one... View Details
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    • 2009
    • Working Paper

    Patent Policy, Patent Pools, and the Accumulation of Claims in Sequential Innovation

    By: Gaston Llanes and Stefano Trento
    We present a dynamic model where the accumulation of patents generates an increasing number of claims on sequential innovation. We study the equilibrium innovation activity under three regimes: patents, no-patents and patent pools. Patent pools increase the probability... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Patents; Rights; Mathematical Methods
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    • 24 Oct 2007
    • Sharpening Your Skills

    Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation

    Solutions? Open Source Science: A New Model for Innovation Borrowing a practice that is common in the open source software community, HBS professor Karim Lakhani and colleagues decided to see how... View Details
    • 2009
    • Working Paper

    Technology Innovation and Diffusion as Sources of Output and Asset Price Fluctuations

    By: Diego A. Comin, Mark Gertler and Ana Maria Santacreu
    We develop a model in which innovations in an economy's growth potential are an important driving force of the business cycle. The framework shares the emphasis of the recent "new shock" literature on revisions of beliefs about the future as a source of fluctuations,... View Details
    Keywords: Business Cycles; Economic Growth; Asset Pricing; Technological Innovation; Mathematical Methods; System Shocks; Technology Adoption
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    • 28 Sep 2006
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Architectural Innovation and Dynamic Competition: The Smaller “Footprint” Strategy

    Keywords: by Carliss Y. Baldwin & Kim B. Clark; Computer

      The Emergence of Charismatic Business Leadership

      The Emergence of Charismatic Business Leadership is an examination of how the role of the  business leader in the U.S. has changed from World War II to the present.  A small number of high-profile individuals have transformed the face of modern-day... View Details

      • 07 Oct 2015
      • What Do You Think?

      What is the Best Immigration Model for the US?

      beliefs that they share are different.” Bowlweevils, injecting a political note into a discussion intended to deal with economics, argued that Germany has no model for dealing with immigrants and asylum seekers. As he put it, “Germany ...... View Details
      Keywords: by James Heskett
      • October 2006 (Revised October 2007)
      • Case

      Information Technology and Innovation at Shinsei Bank

      Shinsei Bank was rebuilt from the ashes of a failed predecessor, and pioneered new levels of customer service in retail banking in Japan. The bank's information technology, however, was vestigial at best and not well suited to the new service models Shinsei was... View Details
      Keywords: Information Technology; Banks and Banking; Innovation and Invention; Banking Industry; Japan
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      • 25 Apr 2023
      • Op-Ed

      How SHEIN and Temu Conquered Fast Fashion—and Forged a New Business Model

      methods. “The success of Amazon, Shopify, and social commerce sites such as Instagram convinced consumers to move much of their purchasing power online. ” That the model was born in China is not surprising because China has long had the... View Details
      Keywords: by John Deighton; Fashion; Retail; Consumer Products
      • 2002
      • Report

      Technology Strategy: The Theory and Application of the Christensen Model

      By: C. M. Christensen and Steven Milunovich
      Keywords: Technology; Business Strategy; Disruptive Innovation
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      • 23 Mar 2021
      • News

      Managing Future Growth at an Innovative Workforce Education Start-up

      • 2007
      • Working Paper

      Innovation through Global Collaboration: A New Source of Competitive Advantage

      By: Alan MacCormack, Theodore Forbath, Peter Brooks and Patrick Kalaher
      Many recent studies highlight the need to rethink the way we manage innovation. Traditional approaches, based on the assumption that the creation and pursuit of new ideas is best accomplished by a centralized and collocated R&D team, are rapidly becoming outdated.... View Details
      Keywords: Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Groups and Teams; Research and Development; Performance Improvement; Management Practices and Processes; Partners and Partnerships; Competency and Skills; Framework; Competitive Advantage; Global Strategy; Opportunities; Cost
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      Disruptive Innovation Online Course | HBS Online

      This course is part of the Entrepreneurship & Innovation and Strategy track. Introduction to Disruptive Strategy LIMITED TIME ONLY Extra learning at no extra cost. Enroll now and unlock a GenAI Bonus Bundle featuring complimentary lessons... View Details
      • November, 2022
      • Article

      Role of Context in Knowledge Flows: Host Country versus Headquarters as Sources of MNC Subsidiary Knowledge Inheritance

      By: Mike Horia Teodorescu, Prithwiraj Choudhury and Tarun Khanna
      We respond to calls in the strategy and international business literature for elucidating how multinational subsidiaries develop contextual intelligence in host countries and how they use the local context as a source of valuable opportunities for learning. Applying... View Details
      Keywords: MNCs; Knowledge Flows; Innovation; Gravity Model; Absorptive Capacity; Multinational Firms and Management; Business Subsidiaries; Knowledge Management; Business Headquarters; Innovation and Invention
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      • 01 Sep 2006
      • News

      Innovative Loan Fund Yields Big Returns

      Through its use of Harvard’s innovative Green Campus Loan Fund, HBS has cut energy expenditures and provided a model for conservation-minded schools around the University to follow. The loan fund provides... View Details
      Keywords: Paul Massari; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
      • 22 Dec 2016
      • Op-Ed

      The Small Business Administration is a Model for How to Drive Economic Growth

      public-private partnership model that increases US economic growth and helps create access and opportunity for all Americans. Related reading: Where Could More Regulation Help Small Businesses? Online Lending. The State of Small Business... View Details
      Keywords: by Karen Mills