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- 29 Sep 2014
- News
The Facebook gambit
- 05 Dec 2013
- Op-Ed
Encourage Breakthrough Health Care by Competing on Products Rather Than Patents
between the "intellectual commons" that benefits us all, and the intellectual property protection that encourages innovation and investment. What should be opened to the commons? What should be held by private interests? “The... View Details
- 29 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors
Six degrees of separation seems to work well for B-list actors—but does it have anything to say about innovation and business? HBS associate professor Lee Fleming believes it does, and his work looks specifically at how ideas and View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
How Deep Brain Stimulation Could Change Medicine
Mayo’s Neural Engineering Laboratory began to make dramatic improvements to the technology behind the treatment. Instead of requiring constant tweaking like a typical deep brain stimulation device, Harmoni’s sensors work to keep the brain... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 11 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure
Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many agree that the need for infrastructure change is... View Details
- Portrait Project
Smriti Jayaraman
freedom, and allowed Praveen to efficiently juggle English classes, two jobs, and four children; my social independence and his social mobility, both empowered by a single wild and precious device. I will empower technology and enable... View Details
- 24 Apr 2022
- News
Artificial Intelligence Is Stuck In A Narrow Rut
- 23 Sep 2020
- News
The Next Big Breakthrough in AI Will Be Around Language
Keywords: Artificial intelligence
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Scott D. Cook
Scott Cook Even as a kid, Scott Cook was interested in figuring out how computers could help ordinary people. In high school, he sketched a tablet-style computer that could read handwriting and calculate math problems. "Of course I had no idea how to build such a... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
of innovation in fields as diverse as real estate law and songwriting. But it is in the health sector where Watson’s impact is most tangible, where its benefits are literally the difference between life and death. “What I focus on,” says... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Market for Babies
a book called Ruling the Waves. It was an examination of the Internet, and looked in particular at the politics that surrounded this technology. Unlike most other books about the Net, I tried to examine it in historical perspective, tracing out a whole line of other... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
The Western Front
summer, Hendrickson and a colleague opened an office in Silicon Valley called the Defense Innovation Unit Experimental, or DIUx for short. Their mission: discover new technologies that can be useful to the... View Details
Keywords: Jason Feifer
- 06 Dec 2018
- Cold Call Podcast
Honda Created a Civic for Very Light Jets. How High Will It Fly?
- Profile
Tiffany Niver
technology and pushing forward the envelope and innovation in consumer-facing technology businesses. I also think that HBS makes us think about our broader legacy and the ways... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf
Assembly-Line Innovation The title of the 2012 e-book Building a Growth Factory (Harvard Business Review Press) conjures an image of raw materials being dumped into a black box and emerging on conveyor belts as fully formed iPhones,... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Health Industry Alumni Convene for Conference
and CEO of Mediconsulting, Inc., spoke about creating a better model for business collaborations between biotech and pharmaceutical firms. Said Klietmann, the conference's biotechnology chair and a lecturer in pathology at Harvard Medical School, "The challenge will be... View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
between ideas and then visualizing and building maps to explain those correlations. These cartography skills have proved vital to her career. In the late 1990s, Lo was working on innovation and ventures for a media company in London when... View Details
- October 2004
- Case
World Wide Licenses Ltd.: From Disney to Polaroid
World Wide Licenses (WWL) was a low-technology firm that licensed famous brands, which it then applied to timepieces, stationery, and back-to-school products. It transformed into a digital imaging company and landed worldwide rights to the Polaroid brand name. Explores... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leadership Development; Brands and Branding; Technology Adoption; Technological Innovation; Transformation
Tripsas, Mary. "World Wide Licenses Ltd.: From Disney to Polaroid." Harvard Business School Case 805-060, October 2004.
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
products, and even day–to–day operations. Just when you think you understand the technology landscape, you see a major disruption.” For business leaders who are willing to take an imaginative leap of their own, Artful Making provides a... View Details