Defense Innovation Unit - Publications - Faculty & Research

March 2021
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Facebook's Libra (B): The Privatization of Money?

By: Marco Di Maggio, Ethan Rouen, George Serafeim and Amy Klopfenstein

This case addresses the events that took place following the conclusion of the case “Facebook’s Libra (A): The Privatization of Money?” In October 2019, several months after the conclusion of the A case, multiple members of the Libra Association announced that they... View Details

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13 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Can We Get To Where We Need To Go?

When Harvard Business School Dean Nitin Nohria first moved from India to the United States more than 30 years ago, he was impressed with how well the highways and airports hummed along in this country. Yet Nohria said in recent years he... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Transportation; Air Transportation; Auto

06 Dec 2019
Blog Post

Moving to the States with My Daughter to Pursue an MBA and Switch Careers

It was the summer of 2017, and after working at Mars in R&D for eight years, I started to think about the next step for my career. I enjoyed my role as a product innovation manager in the Consumer Packaged Goods industry because it... View Details

15 Jul 2025
Blog Post

Outrage at the Death of a Tree

helped me build an antique map collection over the past decade – happened to have recently written to several of us of his outrage at a unique crime – two vandals had just been convicted for callously sawing down the famed 150-year old Sycamore Gap tree in... View Details

01 Dec 2014
News

3-Minute Briefing: Nagisa Manabe (MBA 1991)

I think this will be the one and only time that I’ll ever be able to say that everybody in the United States of America is my customer. Even back in the day, when I started at Procter & Gamble, it wasn’t 100 percent of households that... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

27 Jun 2024
Research & Ideas

Gen AI Marketing: How Some 'Gibberish' Code Can Give Products an Edge

engine would begin providing AI summaries of most search queries to users across the United States; Users immediately noted that the AI summaries sometimes included nonsense results. “If it’s allowing a small vendor to get their products... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Technology

25 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

Will Machine Learning Make You a Better Manager?

have to be, say, United Airlines to take advantage of these tools. Managers can now purchase off-the-shelf products that can mine Twitter or Yelp and develop a detailed analysis of how sentiment is changing in real time. “It has basically... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Information Technology

28 Apr 2011
Op-Ed

While Waiting for Japan’s Recovery, Let’s Enhance Supplier Competitiveness at Home

distribution chains. Big companies also tap promising ideas for innovation through their relationships with entrepreneurial growth companies, whether as suppliers or as investment targets for corporate venture capital. To help small... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

26 Aug 2008
First Look

First Look: August 26, 2008

Working PapersApplicant and Examiner Citations in U.S. Patents: An Overview and Analysis Authors:Juan Alcacer Abstract Researchers studying innovation increasingly use indicators based on patent citations. However, it is well known that... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Aug 2015
What Do You Think?

What Happened to the ‘Innovation, Disruption, Technology’ Dividend?

produced innovations in information and other technologies. Some questioned the data. Others counseled patience. David Caulfield sees productivity improvement, but not necessarily among workers. In questioning the way we measure... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer; Technology

01 Jan 2003
News

Greylock

retired U.S. Army brigadier general) Georges F. Doriot, who had founded American Research & Development Corp. (AR&D) in 1946, the first public venture capital firm in the United States. As the American economy began to soar after World... View Details

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2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Director of The Center for Urban Entrepreneurship & Economic Development. Dr. Robinson is a passionate advocate for social entrepreneurship, inclusive innovation and economic development. He is the author of books and articles on such... View Details

01 Mar 2025
News

Heartland

Let me tell you what’s fantastic about offal.” Jordan Kraft Lambert (MBA 2016), Colorado State University’s first director of agricultural innovation, is a full-body talker, and the topic of organ meat has her fired up. The parts of the cow typically seen as... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photos by Vance Jacobs. OPEN CONCEPT: Lambert at Quail Ridge Dairy in Fort Morgan, Colorado.

27 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work

Sara J. Singer show that the commonly accepted "analysis" approach, wherein great attention is given to identifying and prioritizing a large number of problems, is not associated with success. Instead, an "action" approach is preferable. According to their research,... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Guttry

01 Jun 1998
News

Long-Term Interest: Bill Crozier, a Banker Pegged to the Customer

An innovative thinker who created BayBanks, one of the most successful retail banking franchises in the United States, William M. Crozier, Jr. (MBA '63) has a lot to say about the evolution of banking. As... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

16 Dec 2020
Blog Post

Faculty Books Published in 2020

became common to describe the United States as a "business civilization." President Coolidge in 1925 said, "The chief business of the American people is business." More recently, historian Sven Beckert characterized Henry Ford's massive... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Jun 2003
News

Up Against The Firewall

policies, and procedures to detect if anyone successfully intrudes, and then to know how to respond. Security is not just firewalls.” Indeed, a reliance on technological defenses can breed a false sense of security, since constant View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Robert Austin; Corporate Services; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services

Career Coach

Philippe Taieb

Media, Sports & Entertainment, and CPG) on the entire career transition continuum, from self-assesment to salary negotiation. He has also coached participants of Executive Education programs and he has mentored over a dozen teams of entrepreneurs at Harvard... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Consumer Products; Education; Emerging Markets; Entrepreneurship; Government; Health Care; Manufacturing; Social Enterprise; Sports; Clean Technology; Energy

25 Feb 2020
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020

application to the U.S. National Park Service (NPS). The framework covers many benefits provided by NPS units and programs, including on-site visitation, carbon sequestration, and intellectual property such as in education curricula and... View Details

01 Dec 2017
News

Enhancing Students’ Cultural Intelligence

his classmates’ FIELD Global Immersion (FGI) projects. But in retrospect, he says, conducting field research in Mexico and developing and presenting innovative product ideas to senior executives at Colgate’s Consumer View Details

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