Defense Innovation Unit - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Aug 2024
News

Quantum Leap

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our... View Details

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Andrew Kinard

of Defense (DOD). We struck up a conversation; I mentioned I was interested in law school, and he gave me his card. I didn't think much of it at first, but when I showed the card to a friend, he got all excited. ‘General Counsel? That... View Details

04 Jul 2016
Research & Ideas

Is Your Org Chart Stuck in a Rut? Try a Scientific Experiment

the Organizational Behavior unit at Harvard Business School, who spent five years as a management consultant at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) before joining the HBS faculty. “And so we have this sort of binge diet kind of process of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

04 Apr 2014
News

Increasing Access to Education

career opportunities and experiences I have had,” says Mount, president of San Francisco–based Jawbone, a leading innovator in wearable technology and smart audio devices. “It gave me the opportunity to change my career path from... View Details

Marty Blue

Electric Vehicle’s battery health. Marty is a Senior Advisor at Boston Consulting Group where she is working with companies in the Automotive Sector. She is currently an Expert at the Harvard Innovation Labs and is a former... View Details

Keywords: Fitness & Sports;#68;#Transportation & Logistics;#20;#Ecommerce

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

01 Mar 2011
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Making Their Way

but from Mexico, South Korea, and elsewhere — was coming in at a lower price point than our unionized operations could match,” Chirchirillo recalls. “And many of my OPM classmates were from outside the United States, so I was getting a... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Rail Transportation; Transportation

05 Dec 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53548 November 14, 2017 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Handgun Waiting Periods Reduce Gun Deaths By: Luca, Michael, Deepak Malhotra, and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019

rethinking how your firm competes and operates in the era of AI. The Wise Company: How Companies Create Continuous Innovation by Ikujiro Nonaka and Hirotaka Takeuchi, Professor of Management Practice, Strategy View Details

30 Oct 2007
First Look

First Look: October 30, 2007

multiple research projects and field observations to analyze problems facing the United States in recent years and to create an agenda for renewing American strengths through returning to core American principles—but in new ways suitable... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Feb 1998
News

New Releases

success of the United States, Britain, Germany, and Japan? What can be learned from the long-term championship performances of leading business firms in each country? How important were specific innovations... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

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

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

14 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

Understanding Users of Social Networks

If the ongoing social networking revolution has you scratching your head and asking, "Why do people spend time on this?" and "How can my company benefit from the social network revolution?" you've got a lot in common with Harvard Business School... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Advertising; Publishing

January 2018 (Revised May 2018)
Case

AT&T Managing Technological Change and the Future of Telephone Operators in the 20th Century

By: Daniel P. Gross and William R. Kerr

By the 1930s, AT&T dominated the American phone industry, serving 10 million telephones and employing over 100,000 switchboard operators. But beginning in the mid-1910s, the company began changing from manually operated switchboards to mechanical switching systems that... View Details

Keywords: AT＆T; Bell Telephone; Phone Lines; Phone Operators; Mechanical Switching; Layoffs; Technological Change; Transition; History; Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Information Technology; Disruption; Change Management; Communications Industry; Telecommunications Industry; United States

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Educators

Purchase

01 Jun 2012
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Around the World

opportunities for MBA graduates. “It became clear that innovation was no longer taking place only in the United States, and that there were different kinds of innovations in... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

13 Dec 2016
First Look

December 13, 2016

Property Rights Protection, Ownership, and Innovation: Evidence from China By: Fang, Lily, Josh Lerner, and Chaopeng Wu Abstract—Using a difference-in-difference approach, we study how intellectual property right (IPR) protection affects View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

18 Aug 2015
News

New HBS Fund Chairs

numerous leadership positions including launching the firm’s European Leveraged Finance unit in 1997 and leading it for three years. He has held his current position, head of Global Private Equity, since 2007. The couple is eager to help... View Details

17 Dec 2015
News

A Bridge to the Future

Returning to the place where their HBS experience began, students in the MBA Class of 2015 convened with sectionmates in their first-year classrooms in late April to participate in an innovative new capstone course. Bridges, part of a... View Details

01 Mar 2011
News

James McNerney Jr.

Australia, and Wichita, Kansas. "Boeing Company: Moonshine Shop" - A case by HBS professors Robert Austin and Richard Nolan details front-line innovations implemented at Boeing by a small group of creative generalists. Sailing instructor,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; interview; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Air Transportation; Transportation

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