Independent Innovation and Invention - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Dec 2018
Cold Call Podcast

Using Fintech to Disrupt Eastern Bank from Within

Keywords: Banking; Financial Services

May 2008 (Revised March 2010)
Supplement

Palm (D): Epilogue as of 2008

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Kevin Boudreau and Jordan Mitchell

This case series looks at three important inflection points in Palm's history that relate to decisions about its platform: when the company was debating whether to open its operating system (OS) for licensing to third-party hardware manufacturers; 2001, when the... View Details

Keywords: History; Decisions; Business Model; Technological Innovation; Value Creation; Digital Platforms; Rights; Competition

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20 Oct 2015
First Look

October 20, 2015

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49873 forthcoming Innovation, Intellectual Property, and Economic Development U.S. High-Skilled Immigration, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship: Empirical... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

December 2009
Article

The Innovator's DNA

By: Jeffrey H. Dyer, Hal B. Gregersen and Clayton M. Christensen

Keywords: Innovation and Invention

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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

09 Jan 2007
First Look

First Look: January 9, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b02/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=R0701H Innovation and Incentives: Evidence from Corporate R&D Authors:Josh Lerner and Julie Wulf... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2013
News

Collective Wisdom

according to Karim R. Lakhani, is that thanks to the Internet, crowdsourcing has moved into new and unexpected industries and organizations, establishing itself as a mainstream strategy for View Details

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

22 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 22

on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, edited by David Audretsch, Oliver Falck, and Stephan Heblich. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc., forthcoming Abstract... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Minding the Muse: The Impact of Downsizing on Corporate Creativity

found that the creative environment, and creativity itself, remained depressed four months after the layoffs had been completed. To corroborate this conclusion, Amabile and Conti compared how many View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs

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Discouraging Opportunistic Behavior in Collaborative R&D: A New Role for Government

The traditional role attributed to government in collaborative R&D has been one of funding. This paper explores a new role for government in facilitating collaborative R&D, one of discouraging opportunistic behavior. Given the nature of R&D, concerns about... View Details

Keywords: Behavior; Government and Politics; Managerial Roles; Research and Development; Framework; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Opportunities; Italy

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10 Sep 2014
News

Startup Founded by HBS Students Wins TechCrunch Disrupt Competition

Keywords: Personal and Laundry Services; Personal and Laundry Services

April 2003 (Revised October 2004)
Case

Novartis: The Challenge of Success (A)

By: Sandra J. Sucher and Stacy McManus

Preliminary results from Phase 1 clinical trials of a newly developed compound, STI571, showed that 31 out of 31 patients with chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) had their blood counts return to normal. In the world of oncology, this was unheard of. This was the... View Details

Keywords: Decision Making; Health Testing and Trials; Innovation and Invention; Markets; Distribution; Product Development; Production; Problems and Challenges; Research; Research and Development; Complexity; Biotechnology Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry

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13 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 13

invention and innovation. We then describe how these factors are frequently measured in the data and some resulting empirical regularities. View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 27

profit implications for the entrant of inventing a new business model and for the incumbent of responding with business model reconfigurations could be substantial. In particular, the value of business model... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

19 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Alfred Chandler on the Electronic Century

Century. Inventing the infrastructure for the Electronic Century became an epic story because some national industries died while others conquered. By the end of the twentieth century, no European-owned and... View Details

Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler, Takashi Hikino & Andrew Von Nordenflycht; Computer; Consumer Products; Electronics; Manufacturing; Technology

16 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History

economies. They have made major contributions to understanding the routines and competencies that drive innovation in specific firms. Business historians have also debated the question of where View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman

05 May 2003
Research & Ideas

How Bank of America Turned Branches into Service-Development Laboratories

America's Innovation & Development Team quickly realized that it would be very difficult to conduct a diverse array of experiments within the confines of a traditionally designed bank branch. Experiments require frequent changes in... View Details

Keywords: by Stefan Thomke; Banking; Financial Services

06 Oct 2020
News

Clearing the Path to Citizenship

appropriate federal forms, which can sometimes exceed 600 pages, and independent immigration attorneys review the applications to ensure all the necessary supporting documents are included. The company... View Details

Keywords: April White

January 2025
Teaching Note

Vytal: Packaging-as-a-Service

By: George Serafeim, Michael W. Toffel and Stacy Straaberg

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 124-007. The Germany-based startup Vytal operated the largest digital-native reusable packaging-as-a-service network globally, having raised nearly €15 million, established a large network of restaurant partners, and prevented the use of... View Details