Publications

07 Feb 2019
HBS Seminar

Chuck Eesley, Stanford University

Teaching Interest

Technology and Operations Management

By: Allison H. Mnookin

This course is taught in the MBA required curriculum. It provides students with the foundations necessary to be effective operating managers. During the course students learn to analyze decisions that drive the design, planning, and execution of the activities that... View Details

3 Feb 2006
Conference Presentation

The Pedagogy of Commercializing Science and Technology

Keywords: Information Technology; Science; Commercialization; Teaching

November 2020
Article

Migrant Inventors and the Technological Advantage of Nations

By: Dany Bahar, Prithwiraj Choudhury and Hillel Rapoport

We investigate the relationship between the presence of migrant inventors and the dynamics of innovation in the migrants’ receiving countries. We find that countries are 25 to 60 percent more likely to gain advantage in patenting in certain technologies given a twofold... View Details

Keywords: Innovation; Migration; Patent; Knowledge; Innovation and Invention; Immigration; Patents; Information Technology; Knowledge Dissemination

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August 2007 (Revised July 2008)
Case

HCL Technologies (A)

By: Linda A. Hill, Tarun Khanna and Emily Stecker

When Vineet Nayar became president of HCL Technologies, a global IT services business, in April 2005, he knew the company needed drastic change. Since its founding as a hardware company in the 1970s, HCL had grown into an enterprise with $3.7 billion in revenues and a... View Details

Keywords: Customer Relationship Management; Multinational Firms and Management; Employee Relationship Management; Leading Change; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Competition; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; India

Educators

15 Apr 2010
News

European Corporate Governance Institute Fellow

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

March 2014 (Revised August 2015)
Technical Note

Technology Innovations in K-12 Education

By: John J-H Kim, Roniesha Copeland and Christine S. An

This background note on technology innovations in education offers a market overview of the edtech sector and discusses trends, common challenges, and criticisms encountered in exploring edtech ventures. The note introduces the promise of educational technology as it... View Details

Educators

Article

Transition to Clean Technology

By: Daron Acemoglu, Ufuk Akcigit, Douglas Hanley and William R. Kerr

We develop a microeconomic model of endogenous growth where clean and dirty technologies compete in production and innovation, in the sense that research can be directed to either clean or dirty technologies. If dirty technologies are more advanced to start with, the... View Details

Keywords: Technological Innovation; Entrepreneurship; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology Industry

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January 2024
Case

BWX Technologies

By: Suraj Srinivasan, Yuan Zou and Aldo Sesia

Rex Geveden and Robb LeMasters, CEO and CFO of BWX Technologies, Inc. (BWXT), were concerned that investors and analysts did not fully appreciate the company's transformation from a nuclear reactor provider to the US Navy and Canadian utilities to a multi-product line... View Details

Keywords: Transformation; Communication Intention and Meaning; Business and Shareholder Relations; Valuation; Diversification; United States; Canada

Educators

2011
Other Unpublished Work

Medium and Message: The Role of the Media in Establishing Institutional Logics

By: Mukti Khaire and Erika Richardson

Research on industry institutional logics has provided insights into the factors that influence organizational behavior and actions. However, we still lack a detailed understanding of how industry logics emerge from societal-level values, get disseminated, and become... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Values and Beliefs; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Media; Organizations; Behavior; Societal Protocols; Fashion Industry; India

15 Jun 2018
News

The Importance of Purpose in Technology & Innovation

2015
Chapter

Information Technology and the Distribution of Inventive Activity

By: Chris Forman, Avi Goldfarb and Shane Greenstein

We examine the relationship between the diffusion of advanced Internet technology and the geographic concentration of invention, as measured by patents. First, we show that patenting became more concentrated from the early 1990s to the early 2000s and, similarly, that... View Details

Keywords: Patents; Geographic Location; Internet and the Web; Innovation and Invention

08 Jan 2013
Working Paper Summaries

Leading Amidst Competing Technical and Institutional Demands: Revisiting Selznick’s Conception of Leadership

Keywords: by Marya L. Besharov & Rakesh Khurana

2003
Class Lecture

The Opportunity and Threat of Disruptive Technologies

By: Clayton M. Christensen

Keywords: Disruptive Innovation; Risk and Uncertainty; Opportunities

2019
Working Paper

Migrant Inventors and the Technological Advantage of Nations

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury

We investigate the relationship between the presence of migrant inventors and the dynamics of innovation in the migrants’ receiving countries. We find that countries are 25% to 50% more likely to gain advantage in patenting in certain technologies given a twofold... View Details

Keywords: Innovation; Migration; Patent; Immigration; Innovation and Invention; Patents; Information Technology; Knowledge Dissemination

December 2010
Article

Acquisitions as Exaptation: The Legacy of Founding Institutions in the U.S. Commercial Banking Industry

By: Christopher Marquis and Zhi Huang

This study focuses on the imprinting of institutional environments, particularly how founding institutions impact intra-organizational capabilities and how such imprints may have different external manifestations in subsequent historical eras. We introduce the concept... View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Commercial Banking; Organizations; Theory; Policy; Government and Politics; Management Practices and Processes; Strategy; Competency and Skills; United States