Technological Transfer - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool

potential for multiple breakthroughs related to the specific tumor segmentation task of radiation oncologists while also addressing technological issues (e.g., reframing and conducting sequential competition phases). Lagace: What made... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies

01 Mar 2006
News

Faculty Research Online

Time Pressure and Creativity: Why Time Is Not on Your Side Even as time pressures increase in corporate life, the need for creative thinking has never been greater, says Professor Teresa Amabile in this Q&A. IPR: Protecting Your View Details

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

01 Jun 2004
News

Cyberposium: Pros and Cons of Outsourcing

percent outsourced. “We are absolute converts,” he said, citing the benefits of cost reduction, quality, and flexibility. The end of a contract is always a new opportunity to make improvements, demand more, and reprice. If IT workers were to View Details

Keywords: cyberposium; cost; Corporate Services

17 Jul 2007
First Look

First Look: July 17, 2007

Periodical:Review of Economics and Statistics (forthcoming) Abstract This study explores the importance of knowledge transfer for international technology diffusion by examining ethnic scientific and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

11 Jan 2000
Research & Ideas

Calling All Managers: How to Build a Better Call Center

call centers, with their attendant voice response units (VRUs—also known as automated voice response systems), need not be so inefficient. When a company manages its call center well, effectively linking a triad of service, information View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Service; Financial Services

Profile

Andrew Boudreau

different: a student-run startup researching intellectual property. “Technology Commercialization enthralled me,” says Andy. After he and his friends failed to land jobs at Hopkins’ technology transfer... View Details

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Weekend Sprint: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Blog - Business & Environment

Blog Blog Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author HBS Faculty Author HBS Staff Author Students Topics Topics Accelerating Climate Solutions Conference 2023 Alumni Alumni Programs Alumni in Climate Networking Series Business & Environment... View Details

01 Dec 2015
News

Research Brief: What Makes a Mobile Money Service Thrive in an Emerging Market?

for individuals to save money safely, transfer funds inexpensively, and lift themselves out of poverty. So what is it that can make a much-needed service flourish? After studying 10 mobile money services—half successful, half not—in... View Details

Keywords: Erin Peterson

01 Oct 1998
News

A Career to Smile About

covers an impressive amount of territory, for the energetic Juliber, it's only a start. "One of the main challenges for a global company is how to accelerate the transfer of experience and information from one part of the world to... View Details

Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.

01 Dec 1998
News

Year 2000 Computer Problem and You: Disaster for Some, Lessons for All

if we had been more alert. Fortunately, the benefits gained from confronting the problem will outweigh the pain. What benefits do you foresee? We're learning lessons that will change future behavior. Some of us are finally understanding not only how reliant we are on... View Details

29 Jul 2008
First Look

First Look: July 29, 2008

unique data set on the career histories of Indian bureaucrats supports the key predictions of our framework. We find that politicians use frequent reassignments (transfers) across posts of varying importance as a means of control. High-skilled bureaucrats face less... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Building Competitive Advantage Through Operations

potential is offered my outstanding operations. Federal Express and L. L. Bean are superb examples of this. Finally, the operations landscape, like everything else, is being revolutionized by information technology (IT) and the Internet.... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

25 Feb 2020
News

Q&A: William Kerr and Joseph Fuller

project focuses on six key forces: technology trends such as automation and artificial intelligence, contingent workforces and the gig economy, workforce demographics and the “care economy,” the middle-skills gap and worker investments,... View Details

25 Feb 2020
News

The Influence of Geography on Work and Innovation

effects of organizations allowing employees to “work from anywhere” and why geographic mobility has led to increased innovation. The movement of employees, Choudhury found in one study, promoted tacit knowledge transfer across... View Details

Keywords: April White

02 Apr 2001
What Do You Think?

Telecommuting: Dangerous to Health?

other…Technology robs us of the close contact we seek, and are reinforced by, in the learning cycle." But respondents who telecommute don't see it that clearly. Alan Carswell points out that: "One main characteristic of tacit knowledge View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

08 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

The Civic Benefits of Google Street View and Yelp

use it. In the paper, Luca, Edward L. Glaeser and Scott Duke Kominers (PhDBE 2011) of Harvard University, and PhD student Nikhil Naik of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab, cite three trends that make cities particularly... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consumer Products

Profile

Krishna Yeshwant

technology transfer issues, which in turn led him to the joint MD/MBA program at Harvard. "My focus," says Krishna, "is on bringing new technology to bear on... View Details

01 Dec 2004
News

Ideas: Books

The loss of these “deep smarts” will become more urgent as baby boomers retire and the economy recovers. Professor Emerita Leonard and her coauthor, her husband, discuss how deep smarts are developed and expressed, how they can be assembled or grown, and how knowledge... View Details