Technological And Scientific Innovation - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Nov 2021
Blog Post

Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate

and innovators alike grapple with both the impacts of climate change and how to build a more sustainable system for the future. Right now there is enormous opportunity (and... View Details

02 Jul 2019
Blog Post

Summer Listening - HBS Podcasts to Take to the Beach

After Hours Harvard professors discuss news at the crossroads of business and culture. Facial Recognition Fears and Rihanna + LVMH Youngme, Felix, and Mihir debate the pros... View Details

17 Feb 2022
Blog Post

The Fifth Year of Short Intensive Programs (SIPs) at HBS

Leschly led students through conversations, Q+A sessions, and presentations aimed at inspiring change and innovation in the sector. The lauded American dream, Leschly posed,... View Details

06 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

Where Do Workers Go When the Robots Arrive?

paper, The Impact of Technology and Trade on Migration: Evidence from the US, was co-authored by Marco E. Tabellini, Harvard Business School; Marius Faber, Basel University; View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Manufacturing

06 Jan 2012
Op-Ed

Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail

scientific consensus on climate change (as represented by the IPCC reports), or attempted to undermine public policy frameworks that aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions." And ClimateCounts ratings... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler; Information; Publishing

22 Feb 2022
News

The Well-Healed Athlete

to studying athletes of different ages, genders, and ethnicities to better understand the potential of the healthy human body and to improve knowledge of injury prevention and... View Details

Keywords: April White; Health and Personal Care Stores; Health and Personal Care Stores

24 Jan 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017

there were strong financial returns to technological development. Finally, we document an inverted-U shaped relationship between inequality and innovation but also show that... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Apr 2005
Research & Ideas

New Learning at American Home Products

Home Products with a technical learning base in the innovative technologies of the 1970s and 1980s that it could hardly have built with its own internal resources.31 (In 2002,... View Details

Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.; Chemical; Health; Manufacturing; Pharmaceutical

07 Apr 2015
News

Digital Summit Explores the New Economy

01 Dec 2014
News

Innovation: The Fish-Farming Fix

is developing technology to cool the eggs and make them available on demand. “We’re basically turning fish eggs into seeds you can plant anytime and use whenever you want,”... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs; aquaculture; Fishing, Hunting and Trapping; Fishing, Hunting and Trapping

22 Jul 2014
News

Hungry for Change

technical solution or a cure for something that isn't scientifically possible or known," says Zeaske. "We have a resource scarcity and distribution problem, not a production problem." That last point is... View Details

Keywords: Agriculture

01 Dec 2013
News

Curing Health Care

city's Mission Bay neighborhood.) In addition to a current portfolio of 60 companies, Rock Health organizes industry events such as its annual Health Innovation Summit and offers aspiring entrepreneurs free... View Details

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

November 1994 (Revised April 1995)
Case

Flat Panel Display Initiative, The

By: George C. Lodge and Sharon Novak

Keywords: Technological Innovation

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26 May 2015
First Look

First Look: May 26

hiring more workers. Publisher's link: http://people.hbs.edu/mluca/oDesk.pdf May 2015 HR Certification Institute Leave No Slice of Genius Behind: Selecting and Developing Tomorrow's Leaders of Innovation By:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Feb 2007
First Look

First Look: February 13, 2007

deployment of their technology abroad. The paper demonstrates that when firms want to exploit technologies abroad, multinational firm (MNC) activity and foreign direct... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

04 Oct 2004
What Do You Think?

Does Speed Trump Intellectual Property?

intellectual property? Does it discourage innovation by limiting the rewards to such efforts? Should it be discouraged by either new laws or the more diligent application of existing ones? Or does it provide a spur to the development of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

05 Jan 2010
First Look

First Look: January 5

outcome measurement, reimbursement, and strategic alliances. Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/710424-PDF-ENG Low-k Dielectrics at IBM Willy Shih and Giovanni CarraroHarvard Business... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

04 Mar 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar

products to perform a particular job, and that it behooves companies to focus on the job rather than the product. For Project Beacon, which would become OnStar, that job was to provide peace of mind. While Huber knew next to nothing about... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Auto

October 2002 (Revised December 2003)
Case

eShip-4U

By: Roy D. Shapiro and Timothy M. Laseter

eShip is a small Israeli start-up with a potentially exciting new concept for the residential package-delivery value chain--the Automatic Delivery Machine (ADM). Much like today's ubiquitous ATMs, ADMs would allow consumers to have parcels delivered to a nearby ADM... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Business Model; Service Operations; Logistics; Corporate Strategy; Information Technology; Competitive Strategy; Value Creation; Saving; Innovation and Invention; Transportation Industry; Service Industry; Shipping Industry; Israel; United States

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February 1985
Case

General Electric--Thermocouple Manufacturing (B)

By: David A. Garvin

Describes what has happened since the introduction of just-in-time production techniques were developed to reduce inventory. Reviews the progress to date in such areas as process rationalization; set-up reduction; quality improvement and leveling the scheduling; and... View Details

Keywords: Supply Chain; Logistics; Production; Business Processes; Technological Innovation; Quality; Performance Improvement; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Manufacturing Industry

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