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  • March 2010
  • Article

The Role of Independent Invention in U.S. Technological Development, 1880-1930

By: Tom Nicholas
Why did independent inventors account for over half of US patents by 1930 and more than three times the number granted to R&D firms? Using new data on patents and historical patent citations, I show that independents supplied high quality innovations to a... View Details
Keywords: History; Technological Innovation; Patents; Urban Scope; Independent Innovation and Invention; Research and Development; United States
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    Linda A. Hill

    Linda A. Hill is the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and Faculty Chair of the Leadership Initiative. Hill is regarded as one of the top experts on leadership and innovation. Hill is... View Details

    • Teaching

    Overview

    By: Brian L. Trelstad
    My teaching focuses on innovation and effectiveness in the social sector. My principal course is on Social Entrepreneurship & Systems Change, and it tries to understand how small teams launch new initiatives to solve big, global, systemic problems. I also teach... View Details
    • 12 Nov 2019
    • Video

    Christoph Schiess

    Christoph Schiess, President of TANICA, a Chilean business group with diversified activities in real estate, tourism and hotels, mineral water, and other activities, discusses his strong commitment to... View Details

      Jung Koo Kang

      Jung Koo Kang is an assistant professor in the Accounting and Management Unit. He teaches the Financial Reporting and Control course in the MBA required curriculum.

      Professor Kang’s research focuses on financial technology and innovation, alternative data,... View Details

      • December 1986 (Revised February 1993)
      • Case

      Scandinavian Airlines System

      Discusses the fostering of entrepreneurship and innovation in the large corporation. It traces the development and history of Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) from 1946 to the present with particular emphasis on the leadership of Jan Carlzon, CEO from 1981 to the... View Details
      Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leading Change; Innovation and Management; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Organizational Culture; Air Transportation Industry; Scandinavia
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        Suraj Srinivasan

        Suraj Srinivasan is the Philip J. Stomberg Professor of Business Administration, a member of the Accounting and Management faculty unit, and chair of the View Details

        Keywords: accounting industry; financial services
        • March 1991 (Revised April 1995)
        • Case

        IBP and the U.S. Meat Industry

        By: David J. Collis and Nancy Donohue
        IBP, the largest U.S. beef and pork processor, is facing deteriorating earnings and undertakes a fundamental strategic review in 1990. Having grown from its founding in 1961 to its current position as a low cost, innovative producer of boxed beef, and more recently... View Details
        Keywords: Business or Company Management; Product; Competition; Business Earnings; Geography; Vertical Integration; Corporate Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
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          Josh Lerner

          Josh Lerner graduated from Yale College with a special divisional major. He worked for several years on issues concerning technological innovation and public policy at the Brookings Institution, for a public-private task force in Chicago, and on... View Details

          Keywords: biotechnology; high technology; venture capital industry

            Dorothy A. Leonard

            Dorothy Leonard*, the William J. Abernathy Professor of Business Administration Emerita, joined the Harvard faculty in 1983 after teaching for three years at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has taught MBA courses in... View Details

            Keywords: computer; consulting; education industry; electronics; federal government; high technology; information technology industry; software; venture capital industry
            • 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; Computer Industry
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            • October 2011
            • Supplement

            An Interview with Jack Hughes, Founder and Chairman of TopCoder

            By: David A. Garvin
            TopCoder's crowdsourcing-based business model, in which software is developed through online tournaments, is presented. The case highlights how TopCoder has created a unique two-sided innovation platform consisting of a global community of over 225,0000 developers who... View Details
            Keywords: Growth and Development; Technological Innovation; Problems and Challenges; Motivation and Incentives; Competition; Online Technology; Information Technology Industry
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              Derek C. M. van Bever

              Derek van Bever is a Senior Lecturer in the General Management Unit of Harvard Business School. He teaches courses in both years of the MBA program (“Leadership and Corporate Accountability” in the first-year required curriculum and “Building and Sustaining a... View Details

                James I. Cash

                Professor Cash received a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from Texas Christian University; a Master of Science in Computer Science from Purdue University's Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences; and a Doctor of Philosophy in Management Information... View Details

                Keywords: accounting industry; computer; e-commerce industry; financial services; health care; information technology industry; software
                • September 2009 (Revised December 2009)
                • Supplement

                Genzyme Center (C)

                By: Michael W. Toffel and Aldo Sesia
                Genzyme Corporation is in the midst of planning its new corporate headquarters, which incorporates many innovative green building features. After learning that the building as planned would likely earn a LEED Silver rating, an intermediate score in the LEED green... View Details
                Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Standards; Cost vs Benefits; Biotechnology Industry; Construction Industry; Real Estate Industry; Green Technology Industry
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                • 18 Sep 2012
                • News

                The Architecture of Innovation: The Economics of Creative Organizations

                  Emily Truelove

                  Emily Truelove is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. She teaches LEAD in the MBA program. She also teaches in executive education programs, including Leadership for Senior Executives,... View Details

                  • 18 May 2011
                  • Working Paper Summaries

                  Embracing Paradox

                  Keywords: Re: Michael L. Tushman
                  • September 2009 (Revised December 2009)
                  • Supplement

                  Genzyme Center (B)

                  By: Michael W. Toffel and Aldo Sesia
                  Genzyme Corporation is in the midst of planning its new corporate headquarters, which incorporates many innovative green building features. After learning that the building as planned would likely earn a LEED Silver rating, an intermediate score in the LEED green... View Details
                  Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Standards; Cost vs Benefits; Biotechnology Industry; Construction Industry; Real Estate Industry; Green Technology Industry
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                    Bharat N. Anand

                    Bharat N. Anand is the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning at Harvard University, and the Henry R. Byers Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

                    Professor Anand is an expert in digital strategy, media and... View Details

                    Keywords: broadcasting; entertainment; information; media; motion pictures; music; publishing industry; sports; television