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Reinvention and "Technology Reemergence"

By: Ryan L. Raffaelli

The prevailing view of industry and technology evolution has emphasized displacement, on the assumption that old technologies and organizational forms will disappear when newer ones arrive. Professor Raffaelli's research challenges this view by illuminating how and... View Details

Keywords: Turnarounds; Innovation And Management; Technology Evolution; Change Management; Disruption; Transformation; Transition

March 2024 (Revised June 2024)
Case

Miami’s Climate Tech Potential (A): The State of Play

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone

Miami-Dade County led the work to get South Florida designated a national climate resilience tech hub, the only one of 31 focused on climate change, an urgent major issue for the region in light of global warming and sea level rise. Venture capitalists saw the... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Climate; Entrepreneur; Development; Startup; Climate Change; Venture Capital; Investment; Entrepreneurship; Green Technology; Government Administration; City; Miami

13 Dec 2018
Blog Post

Working at the Intersection of Business and Environment

ideas and solutions. We have three core goals: catalyze and refine faculty research ideas, educate MBAs on the value of natural resources and the opportunities for innovation and investment, and inform and... View Details

06 Jun 2013
Op-Ed

How to Do Away with the Dangers of Outsourcing

efficient, and customer focused. It also enables faster response to shifts in the market—something especially important as innovation continues to flow globally, rapidly, and often from unknown sources. Most important, this framework... View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati; Manufacturing; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion

2007
Book

Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction

Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Creativity; Disruption

Find at Harvard

01 Oct 1998
News

Class of 1949 Gift Supports HBS Faculty Development

At its 45th Reunion, the MBA Class of 1949 made a generous gift to the School for the purpose of creating a Dean's discretionary fund. Recently, Dean Kim B. Clark announced the name and intention View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

18 Apr 2019
News

Community Celebrates Dedication of Schwartz Common and Pavilion

Significant supporters of higher education at HBS and beyond, the couple recently pledged a $100 million gift to the University of Toronto to help create an Innovation Centre... View Details

December 2010
Teaching Note

The Export-Import Bank of the United States (TN)

By: C. Fritz Foley and Matthew Johnson

Teaching Note for 211032. View Details

Keywords: Groups and Teams; Financing and Loans; Sales; Problems and Challenges; Credit; Markets; Innovation and Invention; Organizational Structure; Value; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; United States; United Arab Emirates

October 2012 (Revised October 2012)
Case

Malaysia: Standing on a Single Leaf

By: Diego Comin, Maurice Kuykendoll and Monne Williams

The case discusses the development of palm oil in Malaysia. This experience provides important insights about when and how government intervention can be successful in developing new sectors in the economy. View Details

Keywords: Malaysia; Industrial Policy; Agriculture; Palm Oil; Innovation; Plantations; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Business and Government Relations; Innovation and Invention; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Malaysia

October 2017
Case

LeBron James: Building a Hollywood Empire

By: Anita Elberse

It is June 2016. Superstar basketball player LeBron James and his childhood friend and business partner Maverick Carter are celebrating James’ third NBA championship. The duo will soon have to decide on a strategy for their media businesses—their film and television... View Details

February 2024
Teaching Note

Fusion Industry Association: Igniting the Future of Clean Energy

By: Kyle Myers, Joshua Lev Krieger, Walter Frick and Jim Matheson

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 624-064. This Teaching Note explores the Fusion Industry Association's efforts to advance commercial fusion energy, highlighting challenges in innovation, regulation, market structure, and financing within the emerging technology sector... View Details

Keywords: Financing and Loans; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Technological Innovation; Industry Growth; Energy Industry

June 2017
Teaching Note

IBM Transforming, 2012–2016: Ginni Rometty Steers Watson

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jonathan Cohen

Ginni Rometty, who became IBM CEO in 2012, led efforts to transform the company around cognitive computing and the AI platform Watson. This Teaching Note helps instructors understand and teach the Harvard Business School case “IBM Transforming, 2012–2016: Ginni Rometty... View Details

Keywords: Digital; Technological Change; Artificial Intelligence; Data; IBM; Watson; Internet Of Things; Innovation and Invention; Management; Sales; Information Technology; Technological Innovation; Transformation; AI and Machine Learning

Dec 01 2020
Testimonial

Participants Share the Experience of a Virtual GMP

01 Apr 1998
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

on the minds of many HBS alumni is the upcoming Global Alumni Conference. To be held at the Fairmont Hotel in Chicago on June 16-19, this year's conference is titled "2000+: Global Innovation &... View Details

November 2009 (Revised December 2009)
Case

GTC Biotherapeutics: Developing Medicines in the Milk of Goats

By: Ray A. Goldberg and Sarah Morton

GTC is the first company in the animal world to receive FDA approval of a transgenic pharmaceutical. What are the implications for other firms in plants and animals and their opportunities to produce new medicines in an economical and safe fashion? View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Animal-Based Agribusiness; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Science-Based Business; Medical Specialties; Product; Technological Innovation; Health Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States

01 Feb 1998
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

Alumni Conference in Chicago, scheduled for June 16-19, 1998. Titled "2000+: Global Innovation & Entrepreneurial Leadership," the conference will feature an impressive lineup of the School's faculty in... View Details

June 2024
Teaching Note

Miami’s Climate Tech Potential (A): The State of Play

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 324-119. Miami-Dade County led the work to get South Florida designated a national climate resilience tech hub, the only one of 31 focused on climate change, an urgent major issue for the region in light of global warming and sea level... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Climate; Entrepreneur; Development; Startup; Climate Change; Venture Capital; Investment; Entrepreneurship; Green Technology; Government Administration; City; Miami

November 2000
Case

Wit Capital: Evolution of the Online Investment Bank (B)

Describes the evolution of Wit Capital from its origins as a small brewery to an online investment bank advising both small technology-based companies seeking to raise capital and large companies seeking to acquire Internet companies, as well as offering retail... View Details

Keywords: Internet and the Web; Disruptive Innovation; Service Delivery; Investment Banking; Entrepreneurship

October 2015
Case

BandPage (A)

By: Karim R. Lakhani, Colin Maclay and Greta Friar

BandPage CEO James "J" Sider is about to receive results from BandPage's targeted advertising campaign on music streaming service Rhapsody and learn whether BandPage's strategy to improve ad click through rates and generate revenue has succeeded. BandPage, which began... View Details

Keywords: Digital Innovation; Digital Music; Digital Marketing; Mobile Marketing; Technological Innovation; Marketing Communications; Music Entertainment; Mobile Technology; Music Industry