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  • May–June 2025
  • Article

Sustainability as a Business-Model Transformation

By: Ivanka Visnjic, Felipe Monteiro and Michael L. Tushman
Many global companies have made public commitments to sustainability targets. Fulfilling these commitments will require firms to transform their business models and organizational architectures. A few pioneers are leading the way, demonstrating that companies can make... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Business Model
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    The Transparency Trap

    To get people to be more creative and productive, managers increase transparency with open workspaces and access to real-time data. But my research shows that less-transparent work environments can actually yield more-transparent employees who solve problems more... View Details

      The Everything Token: How NFTs and Web3 Will Transform the Way We Buy, Sell, and Create

      A Harvard Business School professor and a16z crypto research partner and a career marketer and Web3 entrepreneur demystify the coming digital revolution, showing how NFTs will transform our online and offline... View Details
      • 19 Apr 2011
      • First Look

      First Look: April 19

      http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-120.pdf The Contingent Effect of Absorptive Capacity: An Open Innovation Analysis Authors:Andrew A.King and Karim R. Lakhani Abstract Technological advancement and View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

        David B. Yoffie

        Professor David B. Yoffie is the Max and Doris Starr Professor of International Business Administration at Harvard Business School. A member of the HBS faculty since 1981, Professor Yoffie received his Bachelor's degree summa cum laude and Phi Beta... View Details

        Keywords: communications; computer; e-commerce industry; electronics; financial services; information; information technology industry; internet; retail financial services; semiconductor; soft drink; telecommunications; video games
        • 27 Oct 2009
        • First Look

        First Look: October 27

        to the emerging literature on open and distributed innovation by demonstrating the value of openness, at least narrowly defined by disclosing problems, in removing barriers to entry to non-obvious... View Details
        Keywords: Martha Lagace
        • 21 Aug 2019
        • Blog Post

        Leveraging Academic Opportunities to Attain My Post-HBS Job

        immense value for businesses that need to assess an individual’s financial information, such as lenders. Ultimately, Plaid’s mission is to empower innovators by democratizing access to the financial system.   I had always been interested... View Details
        • 2017
        • Book

        Extreme Teaming: Lessons in Complex, Cross-Sector Leadership

        By: Amy C. Edmondson and Jean-François Harvey
        Today's global enterprises increasingly involve collaborative work by teams of experts operating across different professions, organizations, and industries. Extreme Teaming provides new insights into the world of complex, cross-industry projects and the ways... View Details
        Keywords: Groups and Teams; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Leadership; Complexity
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        • April 2012 (Revised February 2017)
        • Case

        Dovernet

        By: Robert Simons and Natalie Kindred
        This case illustrates the implications of using stringent performance measurement systems to create performance pressure, motivate employee achievement, and sharpen a firm's competitiveness. It opens by describing the downsides of the ruthlessly competitive culture at... View Details
        Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Information Technology; Competitive Advantage; Decision Choices and Conditions; Organizational Culture; Performance Evaluation; Compensation and Benefits; Web Services Industry; Information Technology Industry; Vancouver
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        • September 2017 (Revised March 2018)
        • Case

        Chai Point: Disrupting Chai

        By: Shikhar Ghosh, Ramana Nanda and Rachna Tahilyani
        Chai Point is India’s largest organized chai retailer. It has missed its target for retail store openings by approximately 25%, goals that are very important to its investors who are also board members. However, it has developed an exciting new internet-based tea... View Details
        Keywords: Strategy; Venture Capital; Stock; Business Model; Mobile Technology; Technological Innovation; Marketing; Marketing Strategy; Internet and the Web; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Food; Selection and Staffing; Employee Stock Ownership Plan; Resignation and Termination; Compensation and Benefits; Resource Allocation; Product Positioning; Distribution Channels; Product Design; Supply Chain; Governing and Advisory Boards; Food and Beverage Industry; Retail Industry; Asia; India; Karnataka; Bangalore
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        • 2007
        • Chapter

        Creativity in Product Development

        Managing new product development is a key area of management, straddling strategy, innovation and entrepreneurship and macro-organizational behaviour. All of the contributors in the Handbook of New Product Developmet Management are well-known and leading exponents to... View Details
        Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Product Development; Problems and Challenges; Research; Creativity
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        • 07 Dec 2022
        • Blog Post

        2022 Climate Symposium: Tackling Climate Together

        The theme of the 2022 Annual Climate Symposium was “Tackling Climate Together” with a focus on the intersectionality of climate change and the critical need for businesses, individuals, policy makers, and consumers to come together to develop View Details
        • 06 Apr 2009
        • Research & Ideas

        Cheers to the American Consumer

        countries may be the most important of all enablers of entrepreneurship and innovation in America. Why is the American consumer more venturesome? Six factors come to mind. Wealth. The average American consumer has more disposable income... View Details
        Keywords: by John Quelch
        • September–October 2024
        • Article

        The Crowdless Future? Generative AI and Creative Problem-Solving

        By: Léonard Boussioux, Jacqueline N. Lane, Miaomiao Zhang, Vladimir Jacimovic and Karim R. Lakhani
        The rapid advances in generative artificial intelligence (AI) open up attractive opportunities for creative problem-solving through human-guided AI partnerships. To explore this potential, we initiated a crowdsourcing challenge focused on sustainable, circular economy... View Details
        Keywords: Large Language Models; Generative Ai; Crowdsourcing; AI and Machine Learning; Creativity; Technological Innovation
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        • 08 Nov 2021
        • Blog Post

        4 Ways the MS/MBA is Preparing Me for a Career in Health Care and the Life Sciences

        The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, focusing on neuroscience. There I was part of two academic labs, one focusing on the impact of stress on the immune system, and the other on translational bioengineering. Looking at my long-term goals, which include View Details
        • 2010
        • Working Paper

        Boundary Spanning in a For-profit Research Lab: An Exploration of the Interface Between Commerce and Academe

        By: Christopher C. Liu and Toby E. Stuart
        In innovative industries, private-sector companies increasingly are participants in open communities of science and technology. To participate in the system of exchange in such communities, firms often publicly disclose what would otherwise remain private discoveries.... View Details
        Keywords: For-Profit Firms; Higher Education; Information Publishing; Innovation and Invention; Science-Based Business; Social and Collaborative Networks; Boundaries; Biotechnology Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry
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        • 08 Jul 2008
        • First Look

        First Look: July 8, 2008

        Innovation Authors:Joel West and Karim R. Lakhani Periodical:Industry & Innovation 15, no. 2 (April 2008) Abstract Research on open source software, user View Details
        Keywords: Martha Lagace
        • 13 Feb 2007
        • First Look

        First Look: February 13, 2007

          Working PapersAdding Bricks to Clicks: The Effects of Store Openings on Sales through Direct Channels Authors:Jill Avery, Mary Caravella, John Deighton, and Thomas Steenburgh Abstract We assess the effect of View Details
        Keywords: Martha Lagace
        • 18 Jul 2018
        • Research & Ideas

        No More General Tso's? A Threat to 'Knowledge Recombination'

        blocked from more traditional work, opened restaurants. But they had to cater to the American palate by adding sweetness to their dishes and combining Chinese and American ingredients into innovations like... View Details
        Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Food & Beverage; Accounting
        • January – February 2011
        • Article

        Creating Shared Value

        By: Michael E. Porter and Mark R. Kramer
        The capitalist system is under siege. In recent years business has been criticized as a major cause of social, environmental, and economic problems. Companies are widely thought to be prospering at the expense of their communities. Trust in business has fallen to new... View Details
        Keywords: Customer Value and Value Chain; Economic Growth; Economic Systems; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Trust; Human Needs; Welfare; Competitive Advantage; Value Creation
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