Global Innovation - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2024
News

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Thirteen years ago, Marcelo Claure, founder of wireless services company Brightstar, discussed with a reluctant Steve Jobs the idea of launching a trade-in and recycling program for iPhones. It was a business move that expanded the market and created a new profit... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Meyers

01 Mar 2008
News

Avoiding a Succession Crisis

Citigroup appear to be. One survey of human resource directors of large corporations indicated that 60 percent lacked CEO succession planning. This situation is hardly optimal — not when global competition and technical change, in the... View Details

Keywords: Joseph L. Bower; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

19 Apr 2017
News

Chicago Becomes a Hub of Startup Action

developing “ecosystem” for starting new ventures. HBS professor Lynda Applegate moderated the event, which was inspired by a case she coauthored with Alexander Meyer (MBA 2005), SAP vice president of global business development. “Rising... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Emmanuel

01 Mar 2017
News

In My Humble Opinion: Arunma Oteh (MBA 1990)

assets. “Our leadership understands that you can bring innovation from the private sector and capital markets to solve the world’s most difficult challenges,” says Oteh. She describes visiting World Bank projects in India that mitigate... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

21 Aug 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018

new world. Typical approaches used by legacy players such as using technology to improve efficiency, encouraging business units to do digital experiments, or launching independent units to spur innovation have met with limited success.... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

16 Jan 2025
Blog Post

Alumni Career Journey: Sophie Levin (MS/MBA 2022) - How Risk Can Be the Key to a Sustainable Future

venture firm called The Engine. During my second internship at The Engine, I discovered cell-cultured meat. I was immediately captivated by the potential of growing meat without animals! It felt like a revolutionary solution to multiple View Details

01 Mar 2003
News

All in a Day's Work

results in a short period of time. One of the biggest surprises at HBS, Oakes remarks, was learning about the creative aspects of financing — an important tool in her current role at BCC. “Part of our focus is on crafting innovative... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Boston Community Capital; Samsung; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Real Estate

26 Aug 2014
First Look

First Look: August 26

results in NPEs that choose to act as "patent trolls" that chase operating firms' innovations even if those innovations are not clearly infringing on the NPEs' patents. We support these predictions... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?

they hear the words "national health insurance," but it is disturbing that we fail to provide health care to so many of our citizens. At the same time, firms in the United States are global leaders in inventing and bringing to market new... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Biotechnology; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage; Health

01 Dec 2002
News

To Educate Leaders Who Make a Difference in the World

concerns facing 21st century business, including the impact of technological innovation on society, the complexities of globalization, and the challenges of leadership as corporate America tries to regain public confidence. A midday... View Details

16 Dec 2020
Blog Post

Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

help Black unicorns ‘team up’ and find innovative ways to support one another as they climb, what research shows, are lonely, stressful, jagged yet ultimately rewarding ladders of opportunity.” “Teaming up is a mindset,” Stewart observes... View Details

11 Jun 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching the Next Generation of Energy Executives

You may think that being an energy executive—especially a manager in a leading oil company—might be the easiest job around. Just flip the production switch, and watch gas prices head toward $4 a gallon. But students enrolled in Harvard Business School professor Forest... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities

19 May 2022
News

Leading to Salvation

president and CFO of Medtronic, overseeing a number of acquisitions and sales at the medical device company and broadening its reach to include a more global investor base. In this special edition of Skydeck honoring recipients of the... View Details

26 Mar 2008
First Look

First Look: March 26, 2008

Working PapersDiffusing Management Practices within the Firm: The Role of Information Provision Authors:Michael J. Lenox and Michael W. Toffel Abstract A key role of corporate managers is to encourage subsidiaries to adopt innovative... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 Dec 2010
First Look

First Look: December 21

which eventually homogenizes the information space and decreases actors' propensity to form bridging ties, creating a globally separated network; (2) self-containment of the small-world network, or increasing homogenization of the social... View Details

16 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 16

in similar straits. When they do, many feel torn. Should they be directive, taking charge and commanding action? Or should they be empowering, enabling innovation and experimentation? As the successful example of André Sougarret, the... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

31 Jan 2018
Blog Post

Tiffany Nida’s Amazon Journey: “I Continue to Grow Because They Keep Giving Me Responsibility.”

between her Required Curriculum and Elective Curriculum years. “My hypothesis,” says Tiffany, “was that I’d enjoy it.” Having arrived at HBS with an interest in technology, she had hoped to find an environment in which she could apply her non-technology background to... View Details

Keywords: Technology

01 Dec 1996
News

Faculty Symposium Honors McArthur

Management Professor Robert H. Hayes and Associate Professor Marco Iansiti Global Financial Systems Professor Robert C. Merton and Associate Professor Peter Tufano Organizations and Markets Professors George P. Baker III, Carliss Y.... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

21 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

Is a Gap in Small-Business Credit Holding Back the American Economy?

the nation's private sector workforce—about 120 million people—but since 1995 they have created approximately two-thirds of the net new jobs in our country. They are also instrumental in driving the innovation that provides a competitive... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills; Manufacturing

January 2009 (Revised April 2009)
Case

The Carlyle Group

By: Robert G. Eccles and Carin-Isabel Knoop

This case describes the investment philosophy, organizational structure, management processes and culture of the largest private equity firm in the world measured in terms of assets under management ($89 billion). The Carlyle Group is distinctive in several ways,... View Details