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    Creating ‘Smart’ Policy to Promote Entrepreneurship and Innovation

    The heterogeneity of America’s small businesses has led to some confusion and missteps in policy circles regarding the best strategies to promote entrepreneurship and innovation. We describe three policy areas: improving access to capital, delivering entrepreneurship... View Details
    • July 2008 (Revised March 2009)
    • Case

    elBulli: The Taste of Innovation

    By: Michael I. Norton, Julian Villanueva and Luc Wathieu
    Ferran Adrià, chef at elBulli, the highest-ranked restaurant in the world for two consecutive years, faces two related decisions. First, Adrià and his team must continue to develop new and different dishes for the ground-breaking cuisine at elBulli to guarantee a... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Creativity; Food and Beverage Industry; Spain
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    • January 2012 (Revised June 2013)
    • Case

    Dow Chemical: Innovating for Sustainability

    Dow Chemical is one of the few major American industrial corporations that was founded in the late 19th century that is still in existence. From its origins producing bromine out of the brine underneath Midland, Michigan, the company has evolved from a diversified... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation Strategy; Environmental Sustainability; Chemical Industry
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    Strategies for Cross-National Regions - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    HBS ISC Competitiveness & Economic Development CED Competitiveness & Economic Development Frameworks & Key Concepts Research & Applications Research & Applications Research & Applications National Competitiveness Strategies for... View Details

      Journal of Economics & Management Strategy (JEMS)

      Together with Prof. Daniel F. Spulber (Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University), I edit the Journal of Economics & Management Strategy (JEMS), the leading academic journal on the economics of strategy. JEMS is based at Harvard Business... View Details
      • 22 Jun 2020
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Iterative Coordination and Innovation

      Keywords: by Sourobh Ghosh and Andy Wu
      • Research Summary

      Technological Change and Competitive Strategy

      Richard S. Rosenbloom continues to explore issues in the strategic management of technology and the relationship between technological change and competitive strategy. He is currently investigating the histories of radical technological innovations and their... View Details
      • 23 May 2012
      • Research & Ideas

      Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative

      But companies shouldn't count on people succeeding despite the odds; they should shift the odds. Here are three ways to do that. Put innovation at the heart of strategy, and tout it in every message. Think of View Details
      Keywords: by Garry Emmons, Julia Hanna & Roger Thompson
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      Creating ‘Smart’ Policy to Promote Entrepreneurship and Innovation

      By: Karen Mills
      Entrepreneurship is a key to unlocking innovation and fostering regional and national economic productivity. Extensive studies demonstrate that small and young firms contribute to innovation and employment growth. But which of the many types of small firms are... View Details
      • 02 Aug 2022
      • Research & Ideas

      6 Strategies for Building Socially Responsible—and Profitable—Companies

      A dozen years ago, Harvard Business School Professor George Serafeim wondered why some companies operated with an eye toward the greater good, while most did not. Back then, he always got the same response: Corporate leaders thought social and environmental practices... View Details
      Keywords: by Lane Lambert
      • November 2014
      • Teaching Plan

      Diageo: Innovating for Africa

      By: David E. Bell, Damien P. McLoughlin, Mary Shelman and Andrew Otazo
      This teaching plan is designed to help students understand the challenges and opportunities of launching products and building businesses in developing markets. View Details
      Keywords: Africa; Diageo; Nigeria; Kenya; Guiness; Sourcing; Supply Chain; Business Government Relations; Developing Markets; General Management; Agribusiness; Supply Chain Management; Business and Government Relations; Marketing; Developing Countries and Economies; Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry; Africa; Kenya; Nigeria; United Kingdom
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      • 01 Jun 2009
      • Lessons from the Classroom

      The Challenges of Investing in Science-Based Innovation

      In economic downtimes, businesses are apt to cut R&D projects that don't promise a speedy return on investment. But take a cue from smart science-based businesses, which view the recession as an opportunity to stoke up research and View Details
      Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Auto; Pharmaceutical
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      Strategy Curriculum - Faculty & Research

      Strategy Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students MBA Required Curriculum (FIRST YEAR) Strategy The objective of this course is to help students develop the skills... View Details
      • May 1998
      • Article

      Market Structure, Innovation and Vertical Product Differentiation

      By: Shane Greenstein and Garey Ramey
      We reassess Arrow's (1962) [Economic Welfare and the Allocation of Resources for Invention, in NBER, The Rate and Direction of Innovative Activity (Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ)] results concerning the effect of market structure on the returns from process... View Details
      Keywords: Product; Market Design; Innovation and Invention; Monopoly; Competition
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      • 25 Jul 2011
      • Research & Ideas

      How Disruptive Innovation is Remaking the University

      competition, but because they are are cheaper and easier to use. In The Innovative University, Christensen and Henry J. Eyring take the idea of disruptive innovation to the field of higher education, where... View Details
      Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen & Henry J. Eyring; Education
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      Building Bridges: The Social Structure of Interdependent Innovation

      Multidivisional firms often fail to take advantage of innovations that involve combining resources from distinct divisions. This failure of cross-line-of-business innovation is a consequence of design choices employed to execute the firm’s strategy: in organizing... View Details
      • 22 Nov 2010
      • Research & Ideas

      Seven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better Execution

      Business leaders can't develop and execute effective strategy without first gathering the right information, says Harvard Business School professor Robert Simons. In his new book, Seven Strategy Questions: A... View Details
      Keywords: by Robert Simons
      • 01 Aug 2002
      • News

      The Discipline of Innovation

      Keywords: Peter F. Drucker
      • March 2011 (Revised March 2012)
      • Case

      Fraunhofer: Innovation in Germany

      By: Diego A. Comin, J. Gunnar Trumbull and Kerry Yang
      Fraunhofer is one of the largest applied research organizations in the world. With 17,000 employees and a 1.6 billion euros budget, Fraunhofer has 60 institutes in Germany that cover most fields of science. The case examines the consequences that Fraunhofer has for the... View Details
      Keywords: Economy; Entrepreneurship; Financial Markets; Government and Politics; Labor; Markets; Outcome or Result; Research and Development; Competitive Strategy; Germany
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      • 18 Apr 2019
      • Research & Ideas

      Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool

      article, “Use of Crowd Innovation to Develop an Artificial Intelligence-Based Solution for Radiation Therapy Targeting,” is co-authored by Harvard Business School Professor Karim R. Lakhani and seven colleagues with expertise in radiation... View Details
      Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies