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  • 25 Sep 2012
  • First Look

First Look: September 25

framework for understanding the links between manufacturing and innovation that will enable them to make better outsourcing decisions. They also detail how government must change its support of basic View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Aug 2020
  • Cold Call Podcast

Is a Pandemic the Best Time To Try Out a New Idea?

Keywords: Re: Mitchell B. Weiss; Health
  • Web

Asia Pacific - Global

March 2025 EVENT 2025 New Venture Competition Asia-Pacific Regional Final On March 9, at the 2025 New Venture Competition Alumni Track Asia-Pacific Regional Final, eight teams from China, Australia, Indonesia, and India presented their... View Details

    Walter A. Friedman

    Walter A. Friedman is Director of the Business History Initiative and Lecturer.  He edits Business History Review with Geoff Jones. He specializes in business, labor, and economic history. He is author of Fortune Tellers: The Story of America's First... View Details

    Keywords: information technology industry; information technology industry; information technology industry; information technology industry; information technology industry; information technology industry; information technology industry; information technology industry; information technology industry; information technology industry
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    By: Iavor I. Bojinov
    Over the last decade, technology companies like Amazon, Google, and Netflix have pioneered data-driven research and development processes centered on massive experimentation. However, as companies increase the breadth and scale of their experiments to millions of... View Details
    • 28 Nov 2018
    • HBS Case

    On Target: Rethinking the Retail Website

    jimkruger In the mid-1990s, Target was a discount superstore behemoth. The retailer had set itself apart from chief rival Walmart with a focus on more upscale but wallet-friendly fashion and lifestyle lines, spurring double-digit growth... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail
    • 13 Jul 2016
    • News

    Buongiorno, Whyte win Sloan Foundation grant

    • 01 Apr 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: April 1, 2008

    briefly discussing how mortgages were structured and traded in the pre-1990 period, it describes subprime mortgage lending, as well as other innovative mortgages issued in the 1990s. It also discusses how... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 05 Sep 2006
    • First Look

    First Look: September 5, 2006

    across firm boundaries. Now, however, all firms need to learn how to manage innovation in a small world environment. This article offers them advice about how to do so. Global Integration Global Concentration Authors:Pankaj Ghemawat View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • January 2024 (Revised February 2024)
    • Case

    OpenAI: Idealism Meets Capitalism

    By: Shikhar Ghosh and Shweta Bagai
    In November 2023, the board of OpenAI, one of the most successful companies in the history of technology, decided to fire Sam Altman, its charismatic and influential CEO. Their decision shocked the corporate world and had people wondering why OpenAI had designed a... View Details
    Keywords: AI; AI and Machine Learning; Governing and Advisory Boards; Ethics; Strategy; Technological Innovation; Leadership
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    • 06 Sep 2004
    • Research & Ideas

    The Innovator’s Battle Plan

    makes the difference is what a company does with that information. Incumbents usually see the same technologies that entrants do. Because of their processes and values, however, incumbents predictably... View Details
    Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Scott D. Anthony & Erik A. Roth
    • 30 Nov 2007
    • What Do You Think?

    What Is Management’s Role in Innovation?

    Summing Up Can creativity and innovation be managed? Judging from responses to questions posed by practitioner panelists at a recent colloquium on "Creativity, Entrepreneurship, View Details
    Keywords: by Jim Heskett
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    By: Ethan S. Bernstein
    Professor Bernstein currently teaches a second-year MBA course in Managing Human Capital (MHC). He is also the faculty chair for the Harvard Business School Online Developing Yourself as a Leader course and teaches in a variety of executive education... View Details
    Keywords: Leadership; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Innovation Leadership; Management Practices and Processes; Management Succession; Management Style; Management Systems; Management Teams; Managerial Roles; Organizations; Organizational Culture; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance; Information Technology; Strategy; Human Resources; Compensation and Benefits; Employees; Recruitment; Resignation and Termination; Retention; Selection and Staffing
    • February 1992 (Revised March 1993)
    • Case

    Intel Corp.--1992

    By: Kenneth A. Froot
    Intel Corp., the world's dominant designer and manufacturer of microprocessors (the "brains" of the personal computer), has accumulated a large amount of cash (net of debt). Furthermore, it expects to continue to accumulate cash at an unprecedented rate. Has the... View Details
    Keywords: Dividends; Financial Management; Competition; Multinational Firms and Management; Cash; Technological Innovation; Capital Structure; Investment Return; Equity; Financial Strategy; Corporate Finance; Semiconductor Industry; United States
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    Business, Government & the International Economy - Faculty & Research

    of 1857–58. Based on police, ministerial, prefectoral, and judicial archives, I present an alternate account that stresses the twin roles of financial innovation and the... View Details
    • October 2021 (Revised December 2021)
    • Case

    Customer-Centric Design with Artificial Intelligence: Commonwealth Bank

    By: Karim R. Lakhani, Yael Grushka-Cockayne, Jin Hyun Paik and Steven Randazzo
    As Commonwealth Bank (CommBank) CEO Matt Comyn delivered the full financial year results in August 2021 over videoconference, it took less than two minutes for him to make his first mention of the organization's Customer Engagement Engine (CEE), the AI-driven customer... View Details
    Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Customer-centricity; Banks and Banking; Customer Focus and Relationships; Technological Innovation; Transformation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance; AI and Machine Learning; Financial Services Industry; Australia
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    Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

    (1) Information Technology (65) Information Types (1) Information (52) Infrastructure (55) Initial Public Offering (3) Innovation Leadership (22) Innovation Strategy (47) View Details
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    Research Services - Faculty & Research

    distraction of fundraising and the constraints of third-party grants or sponsorship. HBS also provides a wide array of services to support faculty in the development of a large number of breakthrough business ideas, View Details
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    Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research

    and start-up founders. We focus our research on the identification and pursuit of entrepreneurial opportunities; domestic and international funding of entrepreneurial... View Details
    • 05 Oct 2023
    • Blog Post

    A Pathway to Public Service: Brandon Moore (MBA/MPP 2025)

    problems demand public-private cooperation. We’ll only achieve our climate goals if private firms develop innovative technologies and public regulators keep a tight lid on... View Details