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- 18 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Disruptive Innovation Changes Education
book, coauthored with Michael B. Horn (HBS MBA '06) and Curtis W. Johnson, shows how the theory of disruptive innovation-which in a nutshell explains why organizations experience difficulty with particular types View Details
- 11 Feb 2011
- News
The Impact of Financing Risk on Innovative Startups
- 15 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Lessons Not Learned About Innovation
innovation and what companies can do to avoid the innovation traps that snare so many. Sean Silverthorne: Companies and executives seem doomed to repeat the past when it comes to innovation. What are some... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
The Future of Cities Depends on Innovative Financing
Today’s mega-cities have a footprint problem. They are developing horizontally, not vertically, with vast areas of low sprawl reaching out for miles from Sao... View Details
- October 2003 (Revised April 2005)
- Case
Innovation Corrupted: The Rise and Fall of Enron
Presents an historical overview of Enron's rise and fall and summarizes what is currently known about (1) the evolution of Enron's business model, (2) the organizational processes Enron officials relied on to drive and monitor the business, (3) emergent behavior... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Behavior; Governing and Advisory Boards; Success; Transformation; Failure; Business Processes; Energy Industry; United States
Salter, Malcolm S. "Innovation Corrupted: The Rise and Fall of Enron." Harvard Business School Case 904-036, October 2003. (Revised April 2005.)
Experimentation Matters: Unlocking the Potential of New Technologies for Innovation
Every company's ability to innovate depends on a process of experimentation whereby new products and services are created and existing ones improved. But the cost of experimentation is limiting. New technologies—including computer modeling and simulation—promise to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Education Innovation
CHILDRESS (MBA 2000) Illustration by Peter Hoey Related Links 5 Bright Ideas Charter Revolution Redux Lesson Plans Minding the Gap In an article for Harvard Business Review last year, former HBS lecturer Stacey Childress (MBA 2000) offered a rather stark assessment... View Details
Open Innovation and Organizational Boundaries: The Impact of Task Decomposition and Knowledge Distribution on the Locus of Innovation
(with Karim Lakhani and H. Lifshitz-Assaf), 2013, in A. Grandori (ed), Handbook of Economic Organization: Integrating Economic and Organizational Theory. Northhampton, Ma. Edward Elgar Publishing, 355-382. View Details
- 09 Dec 2015
- News
Towards interdisciplinary medical innovation
- January–February 2021
- Other Article
Stand-up Meetings Inhibit Innovation
By: Andy Wu and Dagny Dukach
An interview with Harvard Business School professor Andy Wu is presented. Wu discusses the usefulness of stand-up meetings, their role in agile management practices, and their impact on innovations and creativity by the participants. View Details
Keywords: Agile Practices; Meetings; Management Practices and Processes; Creativity; Innovation and Invention
Wu, Andy, and Dagny Dukach. "Stand-up Meetings Inhibit Innovation." Harvard Business Review 99, no. 1 (January–February 2021): 26–27. (Interview.)
- November 2007
- Article
Building Bridges: The Social Structure of Interdependent Innovation
By: Adam M. Kleinbaum and Michael Tushman
Kleinbaum, Adam M., and Michael Tushman. "Building Bridges: The Social Structure of Interdependent Innovation." Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal 1, nos. 1-2 (November 2007): 103–122.
- Article
Advancing Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Research Through Open Innovation Competitions
By: Andrea Blasco, Michael G. Endres, Rinat A. Sergeev, Anup Jonchhe, Max Macaluso, Rajiv Narayan, Ted Natoli, Jin H. Paik, Bryan Briney, Chunlei Wu, Andrew I. Su, Aravind Subramanian and Karim R. Lakhani
Open data science and algorithm development competitions offer a unique avenue for rapid discovery of better computational strategies. We highlight three examples in computational biology and bioinformatics research where the use of competitions has yielded significant... View Details
Keywords: Computational Biology; Bioinformatics; Innovation Competitions; Research; Collaborative Innovation and Invention
Blasco, Andrea, Michael G. Endres, Rinat A. Sergeev, Anup Jonchhe, Max Macaluso, Rajiv Narayan, Ted Natoli, Jin H. Paik, Bryan Briney, Chunlei Wu, Andrew I. Su, Aravind Subramanian, and Karim R. Lakhani. "Advancing Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Research Through Open Innovation Competitions." PLoS ONE 14, no. 9 (September 2019).
- April 2017
- Article
Financing Risk and Innovation
By: Ramana Nanda and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
We provide a model of investment into new ventures that demonstrates why some places, times, and industries should be associated with a greater degree of experimentation by investors. Investors respond to financing risk―a forecast of limited future funding―by modifying... View Details
Nanda, Ramana, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf. "Financing Risk and Innovation." Management Science 63, no. 4 (April 2017): 901–918.
- 15 Jan 2013
- News
Nine Rules for Stifling Innovation
- August 2011 (Revised July 2014)
- Case
Social Innovation at Salesforce.com
By: Christopher Marquis, Marley C. Kornreich and Bobbi Thomason
Salesforce.com recently implemented an innovative social enterprise business model whereby the Salesforce.com Foundation funds its operations and grant budget by selling discounted salesforce.com software licenses to nonprofits and education clients. The case recounts... View Details
Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business Model; Information Technology; Leading Change; Problems and Challenges
Marquis, Christopher, Marley C. Kornreich, and Bobbi Thomason. "Social Innovation at Salesforce.com." Harvard Business School Case 412-049, August 2011. (Revised July 2014.)
- 2009
- Working Paper
Patent Policy, Patent Pools, and the Accumulation of Claims in Sequential Innovation
By: Gaston Llanes and Stefano Trento
We present a dynamic model where the accumulation of patents generates an increasing number of claims on sequential innovation. We study the equilibrium innovation activity under three regimes: patents, no-patents and patent pools. Patent pools increase the probability... View Details
Llanes, Gaston, and Stefano Trento. "Patent Policy, Patent Pools, and the Accumulation of Claims in Sequential Innovation." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-005, July 2009.
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Fueling Innovation
By giving to the HBS Fund, alumni and friends support the School’s core priorities and help catalyze the launch of new programs and initiatives and sustain their growth. Featured here are a few key examples of innovations at HBS that would not have been possible... View Details
- 2012
- Working Paper
When Do User Innovators Start Firms? A Theory of User Entrepreneurship
A rich and distinguished body of research has documented the importance of user innovations. For the most part, this literature has found that users innovate but do not commercialize their innovations. Instead, users benefit from using their innovations and allow... View Details
Keywords: Customers; Commercialization; Emerging Markets; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention
Shah, Sonali, and Mary Tripsas. "When Do User Innovators Start Firms? A Theory of User Entrepreneurship." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-078, March 2012.