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  • 24 Feb 2021
  • News

Inside the Morgan Stanley Multicultural Innovation Lab

Keywords: Angels
  • 17 Feb 2021
  • News

Investing in Deep Tech for an Abundant Future

  • 28 Feb 2020
  • News

Filling the White Space

At Able Partners, Amanda Eilian (MBA 2006) and Lisa Blau (MBA 2003) have focused primarily on women-led wellness companies, including businesses such as Goop, Moon Juice, and Daily Harvest. Now the New York–based investment firm has... View Details
Keywords: venture capital; pharmaceutical research; innovative investing
  • 28 Nov 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Challenging the Belief that Liability Laws Kill Medical Device Innovation

Sudok1 In order to investigate the question, Luo and Galasso set up a two-stage model. The first looked at whether and how much an innovator would invest in R&D for a new product, anticipating doctors’... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Medical Devices & Supplies
  • 20 Mar 2025
  • Blog Post

Scaling Climate Tech Innovation with Lee Scott (MBA 2023)

is your current role and what steps and tactics did you use to get hired in your current position? During EC year, I focused my career search on impact investing roles. I was particularly interested in impact-first funds and growth... View Details
  • 2008
  • Article

Market Leadership and Strategic Investments in Innovation: The Adoption of E-Business Capabilities

By: Kristina Steffenson McElheran
This study focuses on whether more-productive firms are more likely to adopt process innovations and why. The empirical context is the adoption of e-business practices among U.S. manufacturing plants in early 2000. Based on detailed data from the U.S. Census of... View Details
Keywords: Investment; Innovation Strategy; Leadership; Motivation and Incentives; Competitive Advantage; Technology Adoption; Manufacturing Industry; United States
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    Divestment or Engagement? New Research on Innovation in the Energy Sector

    Why you should watch: A new and important NBER working paper, by Cohen, Gurun and Nguyen, takes a long hard look at innovation in the energy industry - and concludes that divestment campaigns targeted at fossil fuel companies may not just be ineffective.... View Details
    • September 1995 (Revised May 1998)
    • Case

    RogersCasey Alternative Investments: Innovative Response to the Distribution Challenge

    By: Josh Lerner
    RogersCasey Alternative Investments faces the challenge of managing distributions of stock by the private equity investors in which their clients have invested. These distributed shares appear to behave in complex ways, apparently at odds with market efficiency. A... View Details
    Keywords: Private Equity; Stocks; Financial Strategy; Investment; Innovation Strategy; Management; Distribution; Performance; Behavior
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    • 18 Apr 2024
    • Lecture

    Innovation Opportunities Created by COVID-19 Can Help: And How to Make Them Happen

    By: Regina E. Herzlinger
    The crush of patients created by COVID enabled the creation of sites for care outside the traditional hospital, such as retail pharmacies, ambulatory surgery centers, urgent care centers, telemedicine, and wireless sensors. Public policy mirrored these changes by... View Details
    Keywords: Policy; Health Pandemics; Health Care and Treatment; Innovation and Invention; Health Industry; Insurance Industry
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    • Forthcoming
    • Article

    Catching Outliers: Committee Voting and the Limits of Consensus When Financing Innovation

    By: Andrey Malenko, Ramana Nanda, Matthew Rhodes-Kropf and Savitar Sundaresan
    We document that investment committees of major VCs use a voting rule where one partner `championing' an early-stage investment is sufficient to invest. Their stated reason for this rule is to `catch outliers'. The same VCs use a more conventional `majority' rule for... View Details
    Keywords: Optimal Voting Rules; Innovation and Invention; Venture Capital; Investment; Decision Making; Voting
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    • 2012
    • Other Unpublished Work

    Lost in the Clouds: The Impact of Copyright Scope on Investment in Cloud Computing Ventures

    By: Josh Lerner and Greg Rafert
    Our analysis seeks to understand the impact of changes in copyright scope on investment in new firms. We begin by analyzing the investment effects of the Cartoon Network, et al. v. Cablevision decision in the U.S. and court rulings in France and Germany on venture... View Details
    Keywords: Technological Innovation; Venture Capital; Internet and the Web; Investment; Business Startups; Copyright; France; Germany; United States; European Union
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    • 02 Mar 2016
    • What Do You Think?

    Is Apple’s Real Privacy Challenge Technology Innovation Itself?

    families, presidential candidates, and some citizens on the other. But is this just as much a struggle in which Apple is facing the inexorable consequences of IT innovation itself? For those who may have just returned from a jungle trip,... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology
    • Article

    The Payoff of Pay-for-Success

    By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Lisa Chase
    Pay-for-success contracts also known as social impact bonds, have been widely touted as a clever way to fill the funding gap plaguing social programs by attracting a tranche of the trillions of dollars in private return-seeking capital. This article takes an in-depth... View Details
    Keywords: Impact Investing; Social Impact Bonds; Public Innovation; Social Enterprise; Investment; Innovation and Invention
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    • 2023
    • Working Paper

    Can Digitalization Improve Public Services? Evidence from Innovation in Energy Management

    By: Robyn C. Meeks, Jacquelyn Pless and Zhenxuan Wang
    This paper examines how digitalization impacts public service provision through a study of the U.S. power sector. We exploit the staggered timing of electric utilities’ investments in “smart” meters and find that electricity losses per unit sold decrease by 3.6%. This... View Details
    Keywords: Electric Utility; Energy Management; Smart Meters; Energy; Climate Change; State Ownership; Private Ownership; Technology Adoption; Energy Industry; Utilities Industry; United States
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    • February 2003 (Revised August 2005)
    • Case

    UCB (A): Managing Information for Globalization and Innovation

    By: F. Warren McFarlan and Brian DeLacey
    This case presents a complex total MIS strategy case for a $3 billion European pharmaceutical/chemicals company based in Brussels. It covers corporate strategy alignment of IT portfolio, IT operations issues, and global coordination of IT. View Details
    Keywords: Information Technology; Operations; System; Corporate Strategy; Investment Portfolio; Globalization; Pharmaceutical Industry; Information Technology Industry; Brussels
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    • Web

    IFC: Italy; Tradition and Innovation - Course Catalog

    evolution and the present business, economic and political situation in Italy, (2) explore examples of how Italian companies innovate and compete, (3) gain an understanding of the structure of the Italian industrial landscape setting, (4)... View Details
    • 21 Mar 2023
    • Blog Post

    Grundfos: Innovation & Inspiration for Sustainable Product Design

    In January 2023, Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel led more than 40 HBS MBA students on site visits to witness the energy transition and innovative sustainable production activities throughout Denmark and the Netherlands, in their new... View Details
    • 24 Apr 2014
    • News

    Corporate venture funds invested wisely can propel a company forward

    opportunities and rapid decline. Lerner, author of The Architecture of Innovation (HBS Press, 2012), also found that corporate venture funds invested in start-up companies provide an alternative to in-house... View Details
    • 01 Apr 2021
    • Blog Post

    An Aerospace Engineer Provides a Lift for Underrepresented Innovators and Entrepreneurs

    to invest in people, just like her mentors invested in her. Shodiya is passionate about working in the venture capital community to empower voices that are typically marginalized, and help underrepresented... View Details
    • 15 Jun 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    These VC Partners May Make Your Firm Less Innovative

    much-needed cash but also expertise and advice. In a perfect world, everyone benefits. The VC firm takes an equity stake and makes money when the company succeeds, rewarding limited partners who have invested in the VC firm. But what... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services; Banking