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  • 13 Jun 2017
  • Blog Post

Benefits of the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program

Rock Accelerator Program and the Harvard Innovation Lab’s Venture Incubation Program; and pursued an Independent Project—a second-year faculty-supervised project for academic credit—focused on the development View Details
  • 2015
  • Chapter

Deep Smarts as the Underpinnings of Dynamic Capabilities

By: Dorothy A. Leonard and Michelle Barton
Both ordinary and dynamic capabilities depend upon the deep smarts, i.e., business-critical, experience-based knowledge, held in the heads of an organization’s top talent. This chapter examines the links between individual and organizational capabilities and presents... View Details
Keywords: Management Skills; Experience and Expertise; Innovation and Invention
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  • 2016
  • Working Paper

Are 'Better' Ideas More Likely to Succeed? An Empirical Analysis of Startup Evaluation

By: Erin L. Scott, Pian Shu and Roman M. Lubynsky
This paper studies the uncertainty associated with screening early stage ventures. Using data on 652 ventures in high-growth industries, we examine whether experienced entrepreneurs, executives, and investors can predict the outcomes of early stage ventures by reading... View Details
Keywords: Commercialization; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups
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  • 10 Jan 2017
  • News

A Side of Data with Your Dinner

Damian Mogavero (MBA 1996) was a frustrated restaurateur. The MBA grad wanted to answer simple business questions such as "Why did food costs go up?" but he was greeted, he tells Bloomberg Pursuits, with “blank stares and wrong answers.” His frustration led to the 1999... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2015
  • News

Greater Than the Sum of its Parts

large-scale challenges such as health care, global poverty, and climate change. In addition, cross-registration and joint degree programs are on the rise. The Harvard Innovation Lab, which has engaged nearly 20 percent View Details
  • 21 Mar 2016
  • Blog Post

MBA/MPA-ID: The Intersection of Policy and Business

given me a tightly knit group of friends that is passionate about these issues, and is committed to sharing, exploring, and innovating together.  With the bar set high in my first year, I chose to enter the... View Details
  • August 2021
  • Article

Information Seeding and Knowledge Production in Online Communities: Evidence from OpenStreetMap

By: Abhishek Nagaraj
The wild success of a few online communities (like Wikipedia) has obscured the fact that most attempts at forming such communities fail. This study evaluates information seeding, an early-stage intervention to bootstrap online communities that enables contributors to... View Details
Keywords: Online Communities; Knowledge Production; Crowdsourcing; Innovation; Digitization; Internet and the Web; Digital Platforms; Social and Collaborative Networks; Analytics and Data Science; Knowledge Dissemination
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  • Web

Partners - Managing the Future of Work

network – Accenture works at the intersection of business and technology to help clients improve their performance and create sustainable value for their stakeholders. With approximately 425,000 people serving clients in more than 120... View Details
  • 24 Aug 2018
  • Blog Post

Meet the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Class of 2020

& BS, Bioengineering, University of Illinois "As an aspiring technology leader in healthcare, I'm extremely excited for this program to be an incubator for students to build skills around entrepreneurship and View Details
  • 14 Mar 2014
  • News

Start-up Takes the Legwork out of Shopping

Keywords: fashion; start-up; Personal Services; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade
  • 2021
  • Chapter

Governing for Growth in Scope: Cultivating a Comparative Understanding of How Peer Production Collectives Evolve

By: Rebecca Karp, Amisha Miller and Siobhan O'Mahony
One of the early challenges for any peer production collective is how to govern the growth of new members or contributors. Scope growth was not a topic of concern when scholars were focused on understanding the emergence of peer production collectives as a phenomenon... View Details
Keywords: Peer Production Collectives; Scope Growth; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Governance; Growth Management
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  • 19 Jan 2013
  • News

Coming Home—A Growing Number of American Companies are Moving their Manufacturing Back to the United States

  • 01 Mar 2018
  • News

Alumni Connections: Photos of Recent Alumni Events

networking reception in New York City in January at Ten Degrees bringing together alumni working in the energy sector and current students to discuss the future of the industry, the latest innovations in the... View Details
  • October 2023 (Revised November 2023)
  • Case

Recycle & Re-Match: The Future of Soccer Turfs

By: George Serafeim, Lena Duchene and Carlota Moniz
By August 2023, Re-Match, an artificial turf waste-to-value company, had operations in Denmark and the Netherlands and had recycled over 160,000 tons of waste and plastic fiber. With recent capital injection from the VC firm Verdane and a dual revenue business model,... View Details
Keywords: Carbon Emissions; Carbon Abatement; Sustainability; Recycling; Waste Management; Technology; Entrepreneurial Management; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Decisions; Energy Conservation; Investment Return; Profit; Technological Innovation; Patents; Growth and Development Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Digital Platforms; Wastes and Waste Processing; Business Strategy; Competition; Expansion; Technology Adoption; Sports; Environmental Sustainability; Entrepreneurship; Green Technology Industry; Service Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Rubber Industry; Sports Industry; Denmark; Netherlands; France; United States; Pennsylvania; Europe
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  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Bright Ideas: The Creative Power of Groups

engineers, for example, brought in anthropologists to help them design copiers that were more user-friendly. And Genzyme leavened the impact of the lawyers on its regulatory team with a sprinkling of... View Details
Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron
  • 01 Jun 2020
  • News

Effective Communication in the Age of Zoom

lot since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. At sort of its most basic level, how has this crisis changed how we communicate? Rachel: Well, this is an important time for human connection, a great... View Details
Keywords: Zoom
  • 31 Mar 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Can a ‘Basic Bundle’ of Health Insurance Cure Coverage Gaps and Spur Innovation?

By the early 1980s, several high-income countries—including Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand—had universal health insurance covering 100 percent of the population. Meanwhile, 40 years later, the United... View Details
Keywords: by Kasandra Brabaw; Insurance; Health
  • 01 Dec 2006
  • News

Inside Intel

GROVE Born in Hungary in 1936, András István Gróf survived Nazi and Communist regimes before fleeing to the United States at the age of twenty. In 1997, as chairman and CEO of Intel, Andrew Stephen Grove was... View Details
Keywords: Richard S. Tedlow; Hanna, Julia; technology; manufacturing; innovation; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 27 Mar 2008
  • Working Paper Summaries

Exploring the Duality between Product and Organizational Architectures: A Test of the Mirroring Hypothesis

Keywords: by Alan D. MacCormack, John Rusnak & Carliss Y. Baldwin

    Do Bonuses Enhance Sales Productivity? A Dynamic Structural Analysis of Bonus-Based Compensation Plans

    We estimate a dynamic structural model of sales force response to a bonus based compensation plan. Substantively, the paper sheds insights on how different elements of the compensation plan enhance productivity. We find evidence that: (1) bonuses enhance productivity... View Details