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Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice
By: Clayton M. Christensen, Taddy Hall, Karen Dillon and David S. Duncan
The foremost authority on innovation and growth presents a path-breaking book every company needs to transform innovation from a game of chance to one in which they develop products and services that customers want to buy and are willing to purchase at a premium price.... View Details
Christensen, Clayton M., Taddy Hall, Karen Dillon, and David S. Duncan. Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice. New York: Harper Business, 2016.
- January 2014 (Revised March 2014)
- Teaching Note
Cancer Screening in Japan: Market Research and Segmentation
By: John A. Quelch
- September 1975
- Background Note
Market Analysis
Describes the nature and purposes of market analysis. Among topics briefly discussed are primary and selective demand, determinants of demand, market segmentation, the product life cycle, and temporal or cyclical demand variations. Intended as background reading in an... View Details
Lovelock, Christopher H. "Market Analysis." Harvard Business School Background Note 576-056, September 1975.
- June 2015
- Article
You Need an Innovation Strategy
By: Gary P. Pisano
Why is it so hard to build and maintain the capacity to innovate? The reason is not simply a failure to execute but a failure to articulate an innovation strategy that aligns innovation efforts with the overall business strategy. Without such a strategy, companies will... View Details
Keywords: Innovation Strategy
Pisano, Gary P. "You Need an Innovation Strategy." Harvard Business Review 93, no. 6 (June 2015): 44–54.
- April 2021 (Revised July 2021)
- Case
StockX: The Stock Market of Things (Abridged)
By: Chiara Farronato, John J. Horton, Annelena Lobb and Julia Kelley
Founded in 2015 by Dan Gilbert, Josh Luber, and Greg Schwartz, StockX was an online platform where users could buy and sell unworn luxury and limited-edition sneakers. Sneaker resale prices often fluctuated over time based on supply and demand, creating a robust... View Details
Keywords: Markets; Auctions; Bids and Bidding; Demand and Consumers; Consumer Behavior; Analytics and Data Science; Market Design; Digital Platforms; Market Transactions; Marketplace Matching; Supply and Industry; Analysis; Price; Product Marketing; Product Launch; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Fashion Industry; North and Central America; United States; Michigan; Detroit
Farronato, Chiara, John J. Horton, Annelena Lobb, and Julia Kelley. "StockX: The Stock Market of Things (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 621-107, April 2021. (Revised July 2021.)
- February 2022
- Article
Taxation and Innovation in the 20th Century
By: Ufuk Akcigit, John Grigsby, Tom Nicholas and Stefanie Stantcheva
This paper studies the effect of corporate and personal taxes on innovation in the United States over the twentieth century. We build a panel of the universe of inventors who patent since 1920, and a historical state-level corporate tax database with corporate tax... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Income Taxes; Corporate Taxation; Firms; Inventors; State Taxation; Business Taxation; R＆D Tax Credits; Taxation; Innovation and Invention; History; United States
Akcigit, Ufuk, John Grigsby, Tom Nicholas, and Stefanie Stantcheva. "Taxation and Innovation in the 20th Century." Quarterly Journal of Economics 137, no. 1 (February 2022): 329–385.
- Teaching Interest
Leading Product Innovation
By: Stefan H. Thomke
For several years, Apple has ranked as the most innovative business in the world. How does this winning company continue to achieve success in its quest to develop—in the words of Steve Jobs—insanely great products? This program takes a deep dive into the latest... View Details
- 19 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Finding Success in the Middle of the Market
provider of premium-priced products tailored to a particular customer segment, or you have to shoot for scale, using low prices and volume purchasing to attract a mass market and drive down your cost... View Details
- Article
Entry into Platform-based Markets
By: Feng Zhu and Marco Iansiti
This paper examines the relative importance of platform quality, indirect network effects, and consumer expectations on the success of entrants in platform-based markets. We develop a theoretical model and find that an entrant's success depends on the strength of... View Details
Keywords: Platform-based Markets; Winnter-take-all; First-mover Advantage; Indirect Network Effects; Video Game Industry; Quality; Network Effects; Market Entry and Exit; Digital Platforms; Motion Pictures and Video Industry
Zhu, Feng, and Marco Iansiti. "Entry into Platform-based Markets." Strategic Management Journal 33, no. 1 (January 2012): 88–106.
- December 2014
- Article
The Real Product Market Impact of Mergers
By: Albert Sheen
I document sources of value creation in mergers by analyzing novel data on the quality and price of goods sold by merging firms. When two competitors in a product market merge, their products converge in quality, and prices fall relative to the competition. These... View Details
Sheen, Albert. "The Real Product Market Impact of Mergers." Journal of Finance 69, no. 6 (December 2014).
- September 2019 (Revised January 2020)
- Case
Gun Safety in America: Three Leaders Propose Innovative Solutions
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Joseph Paul
Gun violence was a significant problem in America. Three Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative Fellows Christy Wood, Russell Sternlicht, and Gareth Glaser each decided to do something about gun safety. They each used their professional and leadership experience to... View Details
Keywords: Gun Violence; Guns; Advanced Leadership; Advanced Leadership Initiative; Innovation; Innovation ＆ Entrepreneurship; Social Change; Social Responsibility; Leadership; Change Management; Experience and Expertise; Social Entrepreneurship; Values and Beliefs; Policy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Leading Change; Non-Governmental Organizations; Social Issues; Innovation and Invention; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; United States
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Joseph Paul. "Gun Safety in America: Three Leaders Propose Innovative Solutions." Harvard Business School Case 320-004, September 2019. (Revised January 2020.)
- 1984
- Article
The Cultural Context of Marketing Management
By: Rohit Deshpandé and A. Parasuraman
Deshpandé, Rohit, and A. Parasuraman. "The Cultural Context of Marketing Management." AMA Educators' Proceedings (1984): 176–179.
- 2011
- Chapter
Conceptual Foundations of Capital Market Anomalies
By: Mozaffar N. Khan
Khan, Mozaffar N. "Conceptual Foundations of Capital Market Anomalies." Chap. 1 in The Handbook of Equity Market Anomalies: Translating Market Inefficiencies into Effective Investment Strategies, edited by Leonard Zacks. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2011.
- August 2018 (Revised September 2019)
- Case
Magnus Resch: Transforming the Art Market Through Transparency
By: Henry McGee and Sarah Mehta
Economist and entrepreneur Magnus Resch was on a mission to make the art market more transparent. To that end, in 2014, he began building the Magnus app, which catalogued the price and transaction history of millions of works of art. Users could download the app, take... View Details
Keywords: Art Market; Transparency; Art Pricing; Business Startups; Decision Making; Innovation Strategy; Culture; Business Strategy; Mobile Technology; Fine Arts Industry; Information Technology Industry
McGee, Henry, and Sarah Mehta. "Magnus Resch: Transforming the Art Market Through Transparency." Harvard Business School Case 319-002, August 2018. (Revised September 2019.)
- 2007
- Working Paper
Innovation through Global Collaboration: A New Source of Competitive Advantage
By: Alan MacCormack, Theodore Forbath, Peter Brooks and Patrick Kalaher
Many recent studies highlight the need to rethink the way we manage innovation. Traditional approaches, based on the assumption that the creation and pursuit of new ideas is best accomplished by a centralized and collocated R&D team, are rapidly becoming outdated.... View Details
Keywords: Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Groups and Teams; Research and Development; Performance Improvement; Management Practices and Processes; Partners and Partnerships; Competency and Skills; Framework; Competitive Advantage; Global Strategy; Opportunities; Cost
MacCormack, Alan, Theodore Forbath, Peter Brooks, and Patrick Kalaher. "Innovation through Global Collaboration: A New Source of Competitive Advantage." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 07-079, July 2007. (revised August 2007.)
- April 2011
- Article
Private Equity and Long-Run Investment: The Case of Innovation
By: Josh Lerner, Morten Sorensen and Per Stromberg
A long-standing controversy is whether LBOs relieve managers from short-term pressures of dispersed shareholders, or whether LBO funds themselves are driven by short-term profit motives and sacrifice long-term growth to boost short-term performance. We investigate 495... View Details
Lerner, Josh, Morten Sorensen, and Per Stromberg. "Private Equity and Long-Run Investment: The Case of Innovation." Journal of Finance 66, no. 2 (April 2011): 445–477.
- 1988
- Book
Readings in the Management of Innovation
By: Michael Tushman and William L. Moore
Keywords: Innovation and Management
Tushman, Michael, and William L. Moore. Readings in the Management of Innovation. 2nd ed. Cambridge, MA: Ballinger Publishing Company, 1988.
- Article
Organizational Culture, Market Orientation, Innovativeness and Firm Performance: An International Research Odyssey
By: Rohit Deshpandé and John U. Farley
Keywords: Markets; Innovation and Invention; Organizational Culture; Performance; Business Ventures; Research
Deshpandé, Rohit, and John U. Farley. "Organizational Culture, Market Orientation, Innovativeness and Firm Performance: An International Research Odyssey." International Journal of Research in Marketing 21, no. 1 (March 2004): 3–22.
- Research Summary
Innovations in Logistics: The Impact of Channel Coordination
Roy D. Shapiro (with Janice H. Hammond and Marshall L. Fisher) is studying innovative systems and management approaches that integrate and coordinate material and information flows through the supply chain so as to reduce or eliminate the redundant activities that tend... View Details
- August 2016 (Revised March 2019)
- Case
Tom Kalil: Leading Technology & Innovation at the White House
By: Linda A. Hill and Allison J. Wigen
This case explores the role of Tom Kalil as Deputy Director for Technology & Innovation at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. With the end of President Obama's Administration drawing near, Kalil and his team of "policy entrepreneurs" must work to... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Innovation Leadership; Government Innovation; Talent Management; Collaboration; Policy-making; Public Sector Management; Leadership And Managing People; Public-Private Partnerships; Ecosystems; Science And Technology Studies; Public Entrepreneurship; Business And Government; Entrepreneurship; Government and Politics; Leadership; Networks; Partners and Partnerships; Science; Technology; Technology Industry; North and Central America; United States; District of Columbia
Hill, Linda A., and Allison J. Wigen. "Tom Kalil: Leading Technology & Innovation at the White House." Harvard Business School Case 417-021, August 2016. (Revised March 2019.)