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- 03 Oct 2016
- News
Clayton Christensen On What He Got Wrong About Disruptive Innovation
- 21 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Grundfos: Innovation & Inspiration for Sustainable Product Design
In January 2023, Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel led more than 40 HBS MBA students on site visits to witness the energy transition and innovative sustainable production activities throughout Denmark and the Netherlands, in their new... View Details
- 27 Feb 2015
- News
Why U.S. Firms Are Dying: Failure To Innovate
- 2011
- Other Unpublished Work
Innovation and Regulative Ambiguities in the U.S. Geothermal Power Sector
By: Shon R. Hiatt
While prior institutional research has focused on institutional ambiguity as an exogenous condition under which organizations exercise agency, this study examines the state's exercise of agency in making legal institutions more or less ambiguous and its impact on... View Details
- 17 Dec 2015
- News
Applying Strategy Concepts In Innovative Ways Through Technology
market, and devising a competitive advantage. The simulation, incorporated into the required MBA Strategy course, was introduced in March 2015 to all 900+ first-year students during a two-day event in the Batten Hall hive classrooms.... View Details
- Web
Shared Value Initiative - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Delivery Project The Institute for Cancer Care Innovation MOC Network ICIC U.S. Cluster Mapping Project U.S. Competitiveness Project FSG Shared Value Initiative Social Progress Imperative AllWorld Network... View Details
- Web
Executive Education Courses - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Executive Education Courses Executive Education Courses Strategy for Health Care Delivery (Fall) November 16 -18, 2022 Summary Innovative health care organizations worldwide are moving toward better value measurement models to improve... View Details
- 2007
- Working Paper
Global Competitors as Next-Door Neighbors: Competition and Geographic Concentration in the Semiconductor Industry
By: Minyuan Zhao and Juan Alcacer
Despite the many advantages offered by technology clusters, firms located in them face the risk of losing valuable knowledge to nearby competitors. In this study, we argue that multi-location firms strategically organize their R&D activities to appropriate the value of... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Industry Clusters; Innovation and Invention; Geographic Location; Competitive Strategy; Globalization; Semiconductor Industry
Zhao, Minyuan, and Juan Alcacer. "Global Competitors as Next-Door Neighbors: Competition and Geographic Concentration in the Semiconductor Industry." Michigan Ross School of Business Working Paper, No. 1091, March 2007. (Available at SSRN.)
- 15 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
These VC Partners May Make Your Firm Less Innovative
of students, the researchers surmised it may dampen innovation among competitive companies. To test that hypothesis, McDonald, Pahnke, Hallen and Wang looked at close to 200 medical device startups that... View Details
- 17 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why a Blended Workforce May Be Key to Lasting Competitive Advantage
In recent years, companies have been anxious about the lack of skilled workers to fill pivotal jobs. But then came COVID-19 and a subsequent recession. The ensuing business turmoil and record-high unemployment may have temporarily distracted companies from their... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller
- July–August 2018
- Article
Learning by Contributing: Gaining Competitive Advantage Through Contribution to Crowdsourced Public Goods
By: Frank Nagle
As the economy becomes more information based, firms are increasingly using crowdsourced public goods as inputs for innovation and production. Counterintuitively, some firms pay their employees to contribute to the creation of these goods, which can be used freely by... View Details
Keywords: Open Source Distribution; Applications and Software; Competitive Strategy; Learning; Competitive Advantage
Nagle, Frank. "Learning by Contributing: Gaining Competitive Advantage Through Contribution to Crowdsourced Public Goods." Organization Science 29, no. 4 (July–August 2018): 569–587.
- 10 Sep 2014
- News
Startup Founded by HBS Students Wins TechCrunch Disrupt Competition
- 11 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Cheap, Fast, and In Control: How Tech Aids Innovation
what are some of the possible negative consequences of remaining stagnant? Stefan Thomke: Competitive environments and technologies are constantly changing, which creates both wonderful opportunities to View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild
- Web
Accelerating Innovation | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
social investing. New Venture Competition 1_ujm0fcc5 It All Starts Here The Social Enterprise Track of the New Venture Competition provides an opportunity for students to explore social entrepreneurship and... View Details