Modeling Innovation - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2017
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017

must disrupt the way we think about social change. The author suggests how this can be done by sharing stories and case studies focused on innovative approaches to large-scale social change. Operating Model... View Details

01 Dec 2010
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This Is What I Do

Hood. “Our staff features not only business-trained project managers but also an unusually young group of scientific Ph.D.s whom we value as a new kind of expert. They bring their own innovative ideas about what directions and projects... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; time travel; Health, Social Assistance; Accommodation; Hospitality; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing

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Case Method 100 Years | Baker Library

mission remains to support faculty by providing high quality, high value, efficient, and innovative case research, development, and writing. The CRG has worked with over 240 faculty members on 2,600 projects across all academic units at... View Details

09 Mar 2021
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Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic

pathway to prosperity. STACEY CHILDRESS (MBA 2000) CEO, NewSchools Venture Fund, a nonprofit venture philanthropy that supports educators and innovators who are reimagining public education to give students, particularly those from... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Jun 2020
News

Unleashed

expression of “courage” (number six). By the time McCord left the company after more than a decade in her role, Netflix was behaving exactly as she and CEO Reed Hastings had designed it to behave: curious (number four), innovative (number... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

30 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 30

people believe the risk decreases (negative recency) but at the same time exhibit more cautious behavior (positive recency). The rest of the difference is consistent with two well established mechanisms: judgment error and the use of small samples in choice.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Nov 2008
Research & Ideas

Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA

disciplines, explains Joel Podolny, dean of the Yale School of Management and a participant in the March colloquium. (He previously was a professor at HBS.) "The strict disciplinary model of management education arose at a time of... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson & HBS Bulletin; Education

01 Mar 2018
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‘We were just doing what needed to be done’

FALL 1967–WINTER 1968: Building the Model AASU cofounder George Price passed away in 2012. AASU cofounder George Price passed away in 2012. WILLIS: I went directly to the dean of admissions and asked, “What is going on here? This is... View Details

30 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019

platform businesses. We have five major themes in the book: 1) The world’s most valuable companies are all platforms, in part because platforms have network effects, with the potential for a winner-take-all or winner-take-most outcome. 2) Platforms come in 3 flavors:... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

23 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS

technologies and the eventual creation of a regulatory structure to prevent entrepreneurial chaos. LR: To follow up on that, Professor Spar, you've created a four-phase model of how companies develop along the technological frontier—from... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

09 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

business owners to understand their own cash flow and prospects. Now the fintech innovation cycle is at an inflection point—new streams of data have the power to illuminate the opaque nature of a small business’s finances. The playing... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

09 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off

Corporations have responded to society's plea to provide innovative solutions to deep-seated problems of human misery. Organization and management scholarship can play an important role in understanding and guiding this corporate action.... View Details

Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh

14 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

The World in Your Palm?

Tyneski, Research in Motion "There will always be a need for specialized devices," argued Frank Tyneski, director of design integration at Research In Motion, maker of the popular Blackberry wireless communications handheld. Initially just used for wireless... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

07 Sep 2021
News

Summer Fellowship Recipient is a Changemaker in Tanzania

business and operating models could be used to do this in low-resource settings?” “Through these fellowships, we can make all opportunities open to all students, regardless of financial need. That’s an important part of the HBS... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Jan 2002
News

Raymond V. Gilmartin (MBA '68)

of its HIV/AIDS medicines. In addition, Merck has initiated a unique partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Republic of Botswana-where more than one-third of the population is infected with the virus-to model how the... View Details

01 Dec 2001
News

Reaching Out

on a problem." The burst of entrepreneurial activity that occurred throughout the 1990s has also stimulated innovation in the social sector, she notes, and unprecedented wealth creation has forced people to recognize the widening gap... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Julia Hanna; Health, Social Assistance

17 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 17, 2009

Hipotecario's management and shareholders need to come up with a plan that will satisfy creditors and keep the bank's business model intact. Purchase this case:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

June 2023 (Revised March 2024)
Case

Creating World-Class Board Governance at SECO

By: Krishna G. Palepu and Emer Moloney

In Spring 2023, SECO CEO Massimo Mauri had the ambition to grow the €200 million revenue technology company to a €1 billion company by 2030. Founded in Italy in the 1970s, the family-owned company had gone through a period of growth and internationalization,... View Details

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01 Dec 2008
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Business at the Summit

creative capitalism,” said Gates. “But it’s not just about dollars. It really is about the innovation power” that American businesses could unleash by allowing their most creative and innovative people to... View Details

Keywords: leadership; alumni events; Centennial; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Finance; Management

06 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 6, 2007

Karl Ulrich, Wharton professor, must decide between a commercial and "open source" model for his new business case venture. Students analyze a variety of open source and proprietary business models... View Details