Independent Innovation and Invention - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Dec 2016
Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular 'Cold Call' Podcasts

covering world-class brands, innovative start-ups, and social enterprises, and the most popular of the more than 30 episodes produced in the past year are listed below. The... View Details

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November–December 1991
Article

How Capital Budgeting Deters Innovation--And What To Do About It

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin

Keywords: Capital Budgeting; Innovation and Invention

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December 1999
Article

A Structural Perspective on Organizational innovation.

Keywords: Perspective; Organizations; Innovation and Invention

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March 1991 (Revised May 1991)
Case

Charles Schwab: Financial Advisors Service

By: Steven C. Wheelwright

Keywords: Product Development; Innovation and Invention; Financial Services Industry

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January 1987 (Revised February 1992)
Case

New Technology at World Aluminum Corp.: The Jumping Ring Circulator

By: Dorothy Leonard-Barton

Keywords: Operations; Management; Information Technology; Innovation and Invention

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December 2010
Teaching Note

The Export-Import Bank of the United States (TN)

By: C. Fritz Foley and Matthew Johnson

Teaching Note for 211032. View Details

Keywords: Groups and Teams; Financing and Loans; Sales; Problems and Challenges; Credit; Markets; Innovation and Invention; Organizational Structure; Value; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; United States; United Arab Emirates

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07 Sep 2011
First Look

First Look: Sept. 7

responsibility of individual firms. The authors call for business to be both innovator and activist in protecting and strengthening market capitalism. Instead of seeing... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

1992
Chapter

A Case Study in the Assimilation of Technology Support for Teams

By: L. M. Applegate

Keywords: Groups and Teams; Information Technology; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Technological Innovation

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2000
Chapter

Measuring Competence? Exploring Firm Effects in Drug Discovery

By: Rebecca M. Henderson and Iain Cockburn

Keywords: Competency and Skills; Measurement and Metrics; Research and Development; Innovation and Invention; Pharmaceutical Industry

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January 2004
Background Note

Why Developers Don't Understand Why Consumers Don't Buy

By: John T. Gourville

Looks at the psychological biases developers bring to the new product development process. Identifies three reasons why developers may do a poor job of identifying the demand for an innovative, new concept or product: (1) the self-selection bias, (2) differing initial... View Details

Keywords: Customer Focus and Relationships; Innovation and Invention; Knowledge Management; Product Marketing; Consumer Behavior; Product Development; Perspective; Prejudice and Bias

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02 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2011

Harvard Business School and Marc Epstein of Rice University. Key concepts include: Tightly monitored employees were less likely to make independent decisions, even if their job descriptions allowed them to... View Details

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October 30, 2023
Article

How Susan Tynan Disrupted a Dusty Old Industry

By: Ranjay Gulati

Keywords: Leadership; Management Skills; Entrepreneurship; Risk and Uncertainty; Disruptive Innovation

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05 Nov 2024
Research & Ideas

AI Can Help Leaders Communicate, But Can't Make Employees Listen

to replicate the unique characteristics of a specific person’s writing style, says Prithwiraj Choudhury, the Lumry Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. “We trained an algorithm to write using the same words View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Information Technology; Technology

September 2009
Teaching Note

iZumi (TN)

By: Robert F. Higgins

Teaching Note for [809105]. View Details

Keywords: Perspective; Intellectual Property; Venture Capital; Innovation and Invention; Investment; Financing and Loans; Information Technology; Mergers and Acquisitions; Commercialization; Biotechnology Industry

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14 Oct 2014
First Look

First Look: October 14

for set periods of experimentation (zones of time). By balancing transparency and privacy, organizations can encourage just the right amount of "deviance" to foster innovative behavior View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

December 2007 (Revised June 2010)
Case

Tascot Ties: Going Neck-and-Neck with Tradition

Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Product Launch; Problems and Challenges

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November 14, 2022
Article

Policies for Adapting to the ‘New Normal’ of the Anthropocene

By: Andrew J. Hoffman, P. Devereaux Jennings and Nicholas A. Poggioli

Keywords: Natural Environment; Environmental Management; Economic Systems; Behavior; Technological Innovation

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January 2024
Supplement

Frank Cornelissen: The Great Sulfite Debate (B)

By: Tiona Zuzul and Susan Pinckney

In 2018, artisanal Italian vineyard Frank Cornelissen was one of the world’s leading natural wine vineyards. Its founder, Frank Cornelissen, faced weather related conditions that forced him to have to decide between staying true to the tenets of the natural wine... View Details