Publications

December 1999
Case

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (B): Nurturing Entrepreneurs and Change Agents

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Jane Roessner

Thirty-one "change agents" at Sun Microsystems, Inc. told the story of their most recent significant change project: its origins and goals, the project team, the chronology of the work, the challenges, results, and lessons learned. Their stories answer two questions:... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Projects; Problems and Challenges; Outcome or Result; Learning; Experience and Expertise; Independent Innovation and Invention; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Technology Industry; Technology Industry

09 Mar 2017
News

IDEO is Changing the Way Managers Think About Thinking

19 Feb 2020
News

Capitol Ideas to Combat Climate Change

opportunity to drive innovative environmental policy, Professor Michael W. Toffel told an audience of HBS and Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) alumni at the University Club of Washington DC, on February 12, 2020. “The traditional approach firms use to address... View Details

Keywords: April White; photos by Jack Conroy

22 Nov 2011
Working Paper Summaries

Carbon Tariffs: Impacts on Technology Choice, Regional Competitiveness, and Global Emissions

Keywords: by David F. Drake; Manufacturing

Web

Jerren Chang Archives | Social Enterprise

Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact 1 Results A Day in the Life of a Social Entrepreneur and First-Year HBS Student: Jerren View Details

04 Jun 2024
Cold Call Podcast

How One Insurtech Firm Formulated a Strategy for Climate Change

Keywords: Re: Lauren H. Cohen; Insurance

August 2024
Background Note

Mitigating Climate Change with Machine Learning

By: Michael W. Toffel, Kelsey Carter, Amy Chambers, Avery Park and Susan Pinckney

This note highlights how machine learning is being used to decarbonize (reduce GHG emissions) several key sectors including electricity, transportation, building, industrial processes, and agriculture -- and how machine learning is being used to accelerate efforts to... View Details

Keywords: Climate; Artificial Intelligence; Adaptation; Climate Change; AI and Machine Learning; Innovation and Invention

Web

Vinalhaven: The Downtown Project | Information Technology

categories. The course highlights the role of capitalism and markets, and one of the goals is to teach about the impact of consequences on market economies, including the impact of climate change. This case puts the debate about climate View Details

November 2011
Case

Celeritas, Inc.: Leadership Challenges in a Fast-Growth Industry

By: Michael Beer and Ingrid Vargas

In 2011, Celeritas is a leading data communications company in the crowded, highly competitive, and ever-evolving enterprise-network optimization market. Having experienced rapid growth since its founding in 2003, Celeritas has recently seen sales decline and has begun... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Morale; Conflict; Organizational Change; Team Building; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Information Technology; Leadership; Communication; Groups and Teams; Attitudes; Conflict and Resolution; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry

09 Jun 2015
News

Building change from the ground up

endured years of poverty, conflict, and corruption. “I’m passionate about the difference technology can make in people’s lives,” he says. In six months, Khoja and his workforce of willing yet largely untrained workers had cleared roads of... View Details

Web

Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit and Information Technology

the Courts Credit and Information Technology Credit in a Consumer Society Research Links Credits “The ratings given by the large commercial ratings agencies are on the whole remarkably exact.” — Peter P. Wahlstad, Credit and the Credit... View Details

25 May 2023
News

Podcast: How Generative AI Changes Strategy

09 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

Overcoming the Challenges of Selling Brand New Technology (Hey, Need a 3-D Printer?)

collateral design, launches the product, and then “throws it over the wall” to sales and marketing. “This process is product-centric and a bucket-brigade approach where the groups work serially and in silos in a rapidly changing tech... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology; Technology; Technology; Technology; Technology; Technology; Technology; Technology

January 2024
Article

Fencing Off Silicon Valley: Cross-Border Venture Capital and Technology Spillovers

By: Ufuk Akcigit, Sina T. Ates, Josh Lerner, Richard Townsend and Yulia Zhestkova

The treatment of foreign investors is a contentious topic in U.S. entrepreneurship policy. We model a setting where foreign corporate investments in Silicon Valley may allow U.S. entrepreneurs to pursue technologies that they could not otherwise, but may also lead to... View Details

Keywords: Innovation; Corporate Venture Capital; Knowledge Spillovers; Foreign Direct Investment; Innovation and Invention; Venture Capital; Entrepreneurship; Policy

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05 Aug 2016
News

Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier

programs that speed innovation by providing exactly what the early-stage neuroscience entrepreneurs indicate they are lacking. There are more than 200 accelerators operating worldwide, and many of them have been working with technology... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

25 Feb 2020
News

How Artificial Intelligence is Changing Business

Algorithms and Networks Run the World, presents a framework for rethinking business and operating models. “AI is not just displacing human workers, it is changing the nature of firms, how they operate, and how they interact with the rest... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

2019
Working Paper

Using Technology to Augment Professionals, Instead of Replacing Them, for Innovative Problem Solving

By: Hila Lifshitz - Assaf, Felicia Ng, Aniket Kittur and Robert Kraut

While in some technological and scientific areas innovation is flourishing, in others it is stalling, leaving important problems unsolved for decades. One explanation is professionals’ limitations as problem solvers, as accumulating depth of knowledge enhances one’s... View Details

Keywords: Innovation; Expertise; Future Of Work; Crowdsourcing; Artificial Intelligence; Problem Solving; Professionalism; Experience and Expertise; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Problems and Challenges; Research and Development

05 Apr 2022
News

How the Metaverse Could Change Work

Keywords: Hybrid; metaverse

July 2019
Teaching Note

AT&T, Retraining, and the Workforce of Tomorrow

By: William R. Kerr and Carl Kreitzberg

A Teaching Note for the "AT&T, Retraining, and the Workforce of Tomorrow" case study (HBS#820-017). The case describes how AT&T designed and implemented a program to retrain 100,000 of its workers. The case first reviews the technological forces that compelled AT&T to... View Details