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  • November 2004 (Revised July 2006)
  • Case

Patrimonio Hoy

By: Arthur I Segel, Michael Chu and Gustavo Herrero
Patrimonio Hoy is a program targeting the housing needs of the low-income population by CEMEX, a major Mexican company and a leading global cement producer. Originally conceived as a project to understand the customers in the self-construction segment better, a major... View Details
Keywords: Housing; Construction; Product Design; Globalized Firms and Management; Microfinance; Income; Market Entry and Exit; Emerging Markets; Entrepreneurship; Construction Industry; Mexico
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  • 10 Apr 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018

benefit from mimicking the showroom concepts started by online-first retailers and why online-first retailers can benefit from opening more traditional stores. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54316 March... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

    The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity Revisited (National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report)

    While the importance of innovation to economic development is widely understood, the conditions conducive to it remain the focus of much attention. This volume offers new theoretical and empirical contributions to fundamental questions relating to the economics of... View Details
    • 25 Jun 2018
    • Research & Ideas

    In America, Immigrants Really Do Get the Job Done

    helps drive innovation and growth—and could even become more vital to global competitiveness in the future. “The debate is red-hot right now, but in the background, the workforces are rapidly aging in most advanced countries, and public... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Technology; Service
    • March 2019 (Revised June 2019)
    • Case

    Global Sourcing at Nike

    By: Nien-hê Hsieh, Michael W. Toffel and Olivia Hull
    This case explores the evolution of Nike’s global product sourcing strategy, in particular ongoing efforts to improve working conditions at its suppliers’ factories. When the case opens in July 2018, Vice President of Sourcing Amanda Tucker and her colleagues in Nike’s... View Details
    Keywords: Sourcing; Factory Conditions; Trade; Geography; Geographic Scope; Globalized Firms and Management; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Governance Compliance; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation Strategy; Labor; Human Capital; Working Conditions; Supply Chain Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Labor and Management Relations; Complexity; Sports Industry; Fashion Industry; Oregon; Portland; Asia; North and Central America
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    • December 2008
    • Article

    Which Kind of Collaboration Is Right for You?

    By: Roberto Verganti and Gary P. Pisano
    Nowadays, virtually no companies innovate alone. Firms team up with a variety of partners, in a wide number of ways, to create new technologies, products, and services. But what is the best way to leverage the power of outsiders? To help executives answer that... View Details
    Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Framework; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Partners and Partnerships; Social and Collaborative Networks; Strategy
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    • November – December 1998
    • Article

    Clusters and the New Economics of Competition

    By: Michael E. Porter
    This article explains how clusters foster high levels of productivity and innovation and lays out the implications for competitive strategy and economic policy. Economic geography in an era of global competition poses a paradox. In theory, location should no longer be... View Details
    Keywords: Economics; United States
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    • Sep 28 2017
    • Testimonial

    Finding New Ways to Solve Familiar Problems

    • 14 Nov 2006
    • First Look

    First Look: November 14, 2006

      Working PapersThe Business of Free Software: Enterprise Incentives, Investment, and Motivation in the Open Source Community Authors:Marco Iansiti and Gregory L. Richards Abstract In this paper, we examine the motivations of large... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Dec 21 2015
    • Testimonial

    Gaining Personal Insight Through Professional Development

    • 11 Feb 2019
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The IBM PC

    Keywords: by Carliss Y. Baldwin; Computer
    • 22 Feb 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Lack of Female Scientists Means Fewer Medical Treatments for Women

    scientist.” Missed innovation opportunities Koning, an assistant professor of business administration in the Strategy Unit at HBS, teamed up with John-Paul Ferguson of McGill University and Sampsa Samila of IESE Business School on... View Details
    Keywords: by Kristen Senz
    • 29 Jan 2021
    • Op-Ed

    How Influencers, Celebrities, and FOMO Can Win Over Vaccine Skeptics

    central premise of the diffusion of innovations framework is that customer or patient segments that adopt early will influence later adopters. Innovators will influence early adopters, who then influence the... View Details
    Keywords: by Rohit Deshpandé, Ofer Mintz, and Imran S. Currim
    • 13 Sep 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    Science: The Unlikely Frontier for New Business Ideas

    “Fail fast” has become the corporate innovation mantra, but new research suggests that inventions that build on science, with its systematic observation and methodical experiments, may deliver more value to companies. US patent filings... View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman
    • 13 Dec 2022
    • HBS Seminar

    Christine Beckman, USC Price School of Public Policy

    • 2013
    • Article

    Industry Equilibrium with Open-Source and Proprietary Firms

    By: Gaston Llanes and Ramiro de Elejalde
    We present a model of industry equilibrium to study the coexistence of open-source and proprietary firms. Two novel aspects of the model are (i) participation in open source arises as the optimal decision of profit-maximizing firms, and (ii) open-source and proprietary... View Details
    Keywords: Open Source Distribution; Balance and Stability; Software; Knowledge Management; Supply and Industry; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Research and Development; Cooperation
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    Rebecca Henderson Videos

    By: Rebecca M. Henderson

    "Reimagining Capitalism" USM Foundation 2018

    "Rebecca Henderson: Professor, Harvard University" The Innovation Centre 2017

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    • 07 Feb 2019
    • Book

    How Big Companies Can Outrun Disruption

    manufacturing, which allowed them to exploit the potential of carbon fiber. Lagace: Where can companies get better ideas? Pisano: The problem is often not where they look but where they don’t look for ideas. If you ask where ideas for View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • 14 Aug 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: August 14

    http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/13-010.pdf IP Modularity: Profiting from Innovation by Aligning Product Architecture with Intellectual Property Authors:Joachim Henkel, Carliss Y. Baldwin, and Willy C. Shih Abstract Distributed value... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 23 Jul 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    Sam Walton: Great From the Start

    and astute). The real explanation for his success was that he had the courage of his convictions. Butler Brothers had a training program for variety store franchisees, so Walton was off to Arkadelphia, Arkansas, for two weeks of education prior to View Details
    Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow; Retail