Digital Innovation - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Oct 2021
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Tackling the World’s Most Difficult Challenges

2000) in the first days of 2020 to show how Moderna’s considerable investments in AI and other digital tools allowed them to design and deliver a COVID-19 vaccine in just 41 days. Reimagining Capitalism Over the last 15 years, Rebecca... View Details

20 Feb 2013
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Thanking Veterans Online

eureka moment: when we realized that the lack of digital identification has blocked innovation in the military community," Hall said. "Having to rely on face-to-face verification undermined the main benefits... View Details

Keywords: veterans; identity; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services; Retail Trade

01 Dec 2017
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Case Study: The Doctor Deficit

help your startup stand out from the rest, listen to the innovation heads at Boston Children’s Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital discuss what hospitals want from digital partners. View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Sep 2017
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The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of

and Beasts and Heroes, a battlefield strategy game—and a technology platform that Norwood hopes will unite the fragmented gaming world. On that platform, she says, players would navigate every game using the same avatar, an innovation... View Details

Keywords: April White; illustration by Brian Stauffer; esports; Twitch; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

05 May 2022
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Lesson Plans

into a digital platform that not only offers video lessons, but educational tools and tests for teachers, students, and parents through its Khan Academy Districts program, which at last count was in use by more than 280 districts across... View Details

10 Mar 2021
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In My Humble Opinion: A Timely Tension

as a ship engineer. In time, she moved into business to, as she puts it, “understand how the world worked,” even as her passion for the environment continued. After two decades in the for-profit sector, including consulting work and marketing for Mars Confectionery and... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Dec 2012
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Alumni Book Briefs

today's global economy, knowledge and other resources critical to innovation may lie far outside a company's home territory. This distance makes it harder to obtain and integrate these resources, eating away at a firm's competitive edge.... View Details

Keywords: Broadcasting (except Internet); Information

22 Feb 2022
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March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

marketplace status quo. Demanding a voice and sometimes a hand in the products they buy, these digitally empowered consumers― “Me’s”―have inverted the traditional power dynamics of retail into metail. To put it simply, your customers are... View Details

28 May 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019

HarperBusiness The Business of Platforms explores the strategic, economic, and technology management challenges of digital platform businesses. The authors explore five major themes: 1) the world’s most valuable companies are all... View Details

10 Jul 2024
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Next Level

Gina Joseph (GMP 29, 2020), chief strategy officer for the technology media company VentureBeat, was recently honored by the San Francisco Business Times in their “40 Under 40” issue. Joseph is thriving in the media, tech, and gaming world—all industries traditionally... View Details

Keywords: Catherine O’Neill Grace

13 Feb 2020
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Not Throwing Away My Shot

about the history of innovation in America. But sitting around a makeshift bar with some of the other executives who had just laid out rosy scenarios and hockey-stick returns to potential investors, the truth came out. One of the... View Details

22 Feb 2022
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The Well-Healed Athlete

innovation hubs will focus on “translating” its research for health care professionals, coaches, and trainers, as well as the everyday athlete. For instance, the University of Kansas’s Jayhawk Athletic Performance Laboratory will put... View Details

Keywords: April White; Health and Personal Care Stores; Retail Trade

05 Mar 2020
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Green Light

filled with leafy greens and fed by precisely tuned LED lights. An intricate digital system measures the room’s temperature and the CO2 levels inside the units every 30 seconds, adjusting as necessary; another delivers computer-calculated... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Scott Nobles

15 Jun 2020
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020

system clash with the digital age, and how to take action. Presenting examples of companies already making a difference, the authors show how business must serve both as innovator and activist, developing... View Details

01 Dec 2015
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Golden State of Mind

my ideas, maybe some of them will become reality in 15 years.” He can keep investing, too. While he no longer devotes time to DFJ’s early-stage venture fund, he has already backed two startups through Innovate Your State. Placeavote, for... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Apr 1996
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Technology for Learning's Sake

would really enable us to take it to the next level - the ability to combine integrated digitized text and exhibits - was only developed very recently." "We're at a juncture today in the technology where all the work we've been doing over... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig

01 May 2015
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Celebrating and Supporting Leadership

articulating aspirations and pursuing priorities." The goal of the five-year Harvard Campaign is $6.5 billion; the financial goal for the HBS Campaign is $1 billion. At HBS, gifts are being directed to the HBS Fund for Leadership and View Details

Keywords: Educational Services

01 Dec 2016
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Carving a Niche

for a long time, the major ski manufacturers just kept doing what worked last year.” Meanwhile, snowboarding companies were pushing the limits of production technology and design. The Faction Collective, where Hoye is cofounder and CEO, has built its business on... View Details