User Innovation - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2012
News

I-Lab Hosts Start-Up Weekend Scramble

Already a well-used venue, the Harvard Innovation Lab has been the site for a full schedule of panels, workshops, and seminars since its opening last fall. In early November, the i-lab hosted its first Start-Up Weekend Scramble, an event... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

19 Jan 2016
News

Electric Avenues

Illustration by Mario Wagner RELATED Learn about how HBS students and alumni are helping transform Boston Watch alumni discuss innovation inside City Hall Once viewed as an oxymoron, civic innovation has... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

06 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?

this e-mail interview. Sean Silverthorne: Why should OSS ever displace traditional software? Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Pankaj Ghemawat: One main advantage of open source software is that because users can modify the code directly (as... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

02 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2006

and practical implications on the concept of accidental innovation. How Kayak Users Built a New Industry Customers have produced some of the most important innovations in industries ranging from oil refining... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

13 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

From Turf Wars to Learning Curves: How Hospitals Adopt New Technology

influential…, PTCA has been used less frequently than in hospitals with less influential surgeons." And even if PTCA and other innovations make it past initial gatekeepers, it's a long road to adoption because of learning curves... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Health

16 Sep 2014
Research & Ideas

Has Apple Reinvented the Watch?

the Apple Watch, read Ryan Raffaelli's blog: Why the Apple Watch Is a Gift to the Swiss Watch Industry. Christian Camerota: Do you think the Apple Watch will fundamentally change our lives in a similar way the iPhone and iPad did? Betting on the Apple Watch as core to... View Details

Keywords: Re: Ryan L. Raffaelli; Electronics; Retail; Health

17 Jul 2006
Lessons from the Classroom

Developing a Strategy for Digital Convergence

Following the dot-com bust at the turn of the century, the technology business went through a gloomy period, 2001-2002, when innovation dried up, MBAs looked for careers in finance, and investors put their funds in a holding pattern.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer; Education

14 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

The World in Your Palm?

professor Alan MacCormack took on the question of future "form factors" at the 2005 Cyberposium conference at HBS on January 29th. The general consensus: It's more important for users to be able to easily move digital... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

14 Jun 2011
First Look

First Look: June 14

always want to hear that a person is struggling, nor do they necessarily reward risk taking, even though they might pay lip service to innovative initiative. The authors outline several steps that individuals can take to shake off fear... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

Desktop Search and Revenue Streams

information…(but) the problem is at the end of the day, the user wants an answer—he doesn't want more and more of them." Herve Gellaire, chief technology officer of Xerox and president of Xerox View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette

08 Apr 2015
What Do You Think?

Are Technology Companies Ripe for Disruption?

Summing Up What's the Downside to Disruption in High Tech? This month's column gave many readers an opportunity to join my rant about the need for disruption to combat the increasing inscrutability and waste of technological innovations... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer; Technology

10 May 2023
News

Alumna Snags an Emmy

Smith Cochrane (right) accepts the Emmy with her colleague German Cheung Smith Cochrane (right) accepts the Emmy with her colleague German Cheung Kathryn Smith Cochrane’s (MBA 2016) recent Emmy award win didn’t have the anticipatory stress of the ones you see on TV.... View Details

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

01 Dec 2020
News

Quantum Leap

developers greater access to existing quantum computers. To oversimplify, think of it as a translation tool that allows software to run on a variety of quantum computers, optimized for each. “These machines are going to have a very limited set of View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

Student-Profile

Anil Doshi

services. We collected individual performance data and found tremendous potential in providing beneficial services to our users that required the aggregation of that data. I became more interested in understanding how the disclosure,... View Details

24 Apr 2014
News

Seeing glass in a new light

Mulpuri's leadership, View has pioneered the large-scale commercialization of architectural dynamic glass. The company designs, manufactures, and sells a new generation of window-glass nanotechnology that intelligently adjusts in response to external conditions and... View Details

01 Mar 2016
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016

Communities, and Open Innovation edited by Dietmar Harhoff and Karim R. Lakhani (MIT Press) The last two decades have witnessed the growth of new models of managing innovation that emphasize View Details

12 Apr 2012
News

HBS Welcomes Eleven Alumni Startups

midwest and central us HBS Club of Chicago Mickey Freeman, MBA 1993 CEO Bradley Greenwald, MBA 1990 Chairman and founder Education Funding Partners public school funding new england HBS Association of Boston Stephen Kahn, MBA 1978 Sr. VP and CFO TrophoMax seed View Details

Keywords: Bulletin Staff; Alumni New Venture Contest

19 Jan 2016
First Look

January 19, 2016

emphasize users over producers. Large parts of the knowledge economy now routinely rely on users, communities, and open innovation approaches to solve important technological and organizational problems.... View Details