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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Multiple generations of computing
computer-memory system modeled after the human neocortex. The first product, Grok, detects anomalies in IT systems by automatically finding complex patterns in streams of data. In reflecting on her career... View Details
- 10 Apr 2025
- Blog Post
IFC India 2025: SELCO - Decentralized Renewable Energy to Develop While Decarbonizing
need-based solar energy systems tailored to the unique requirements of rural communities. These systems are co-created with stakeholders, including local NGOs and end- users, ensuring effectiveness and... View Details
- 07 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 7
regularities for innovative firms. Quantifying a generalized model for the recent U.S. economy using matched Census Bureau and patent data, we observe a modest departure for external R&D from perfect... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 30, 2007
others. The Principles of Distributed Innovation Authors:Karim R. Lakhani and Jill A. Panetta Periodical:Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization 2, no. 3 (summer 2007) Abstract Distributed View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
systems that place these leaders in positions of power, Indispensable sheds new light on how we may be able to identify the best leaders and what lessons we can learn, from both the process and the result. Profiling a mix of historic and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
America Innovation Network By: Acemoglu, Daron, Ufuk Akcigit, and William R. Kerr Abstract— Technological progress builds upon itself, with the expansion of invention in one domain propelling future work in linked fields. Our analysis... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Does Democracy Need a Marketing Manager?
today provides core benefits that align with the conditions necessary for democracy. A critical takeaway is that billions of marketing transactions help to develop the social glue that holds democratic societies together. Q: How can the two major View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
How Green Is the Valley: HBS Students Explore Booming California Industries
Cisco Systems, Netscape, Wired magazine, and the Palm Computing division of U.S. Robotics - hosted ninety-minute information sessions at their companies. CEOs and other senior managers, including some company founders, presented the HBS... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
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Medium of Artistic Expression - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership Networked Business Research... View Details
- 03 Feb 2018
- Op-Ed
How to Heed BlackRock's Call for Corporate Social Responsibility
the need for change, innovate by developing new standards and certification systems, and orchestrate the diffusion of these changes to have an impact. What is different now is that the movement that they launched is gaining increased... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Battilana
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Donna L. Dubinsky, MBA 1981
prototype PalmPilot, consumers—and investors—were giving up on handheld devices. Just as the pair were running out of options, U.S. Robotics saw their potential and offered to buy Palm and help them deliver their first model. While some... View Details
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
for Improving the Safety and Efficiency of Hospital Work Systems Authors:Anita L. Tucker, Sara J. Singer, Jennifer E. Hayes, and Alyson Falwell Abstract Objective. To link safety-related concerns raised by frontline staff about hospital... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Sep 2018
- News
Lessons Learned 10 Years After the Financial Crisis
event hosted by the Yale School of Management and the Brookings Institute and in an extended interview with public radio's Marketplace. The event, Brookings notes, was “part of an initiative, led by the three former officials, to document how and why the View Details
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Transforming Education through Social Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog
How should schools define success beyond test scores? What are the skills and aptitude necessary for the future? How will the recent ruling by the Supreme Court of the U.S. impact the definitions of success, merit, and equity? Achieving... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
sometimes tragic personal life. “Light and chipper in public,” McCraw writes, the charming and generous Schumpeter “lived an altogether different life in private — a continuing, desperate internal struggle with melancholy.” Excerpts from Prophet of View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
The US Patent System’s Uncertain Fate
but also the patent system serving as a real drag on innovation. LC: You’ll see a shift in innovation to other countries. But you’ll also see continued growth in patent issuances in the United States. If I’m... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Mobile robots revolutionize order fulfillment
launch Kiva Systems in 2003. “We decided products that could walk and talk on their own would be the best way to solve the problem,” says Mountz, who continues as CEO of the company he sold to Amazon.com in 2012. (Published April 2014) View Details
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
work in linked fields. Our analysis uses 1.8 million U.S. patents and their citation properties to map the innovation network and its strength. Past innovation network... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Dec 2015
- What Do You Think?
What Will It Take to Achieve Gender Equality in Leadership?
was the gist of several comments. Observing that the desire to make fortunes is a powerful motivator, Paul wrote that "perhaps when Wall Street has more examples of innovative women, then there will be less focus on gender, which... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 29 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors
Six degrees of separation seems to work well for B-list actors—but does it have anything to say about innovation and business? HBS associate professor Lee Fleming believes it does, and his work looks specifically at how ideas and View Details