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    Productive Tensions: How Every Leader Can Tackle Innovation’s Toughest Trade-Offs

    How leaders can recast innovation’s toughest trade-offs—efficiency vs. flexibility, consistency vs. change, product vs purpose—as productive tensions.

    Why is leading innovation in today’s dynamic business environment so distressingly... View Details

    • 21 Feb 2012
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    First Look: Feb. 21

    discussed. Read the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/04-054.pdf Innovation Strategy and Entry Deterrence Authors:Ozge Turut and Elie Ofek Publication:Journal of Economics and Management Strategy (forthcoming) We model an incumbent's... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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    Do Leaders Lead in Business Process Innovation? The Case(s) of E-Business Adoption

    This paper investigates how market position influences firm propensity to adopt new process innovations. Using detailed data from the U.S. Census of Manufactures, I study the adoption of frontier e-business practices during the early diffusion of the commercial... View Details

    • June 2025
    • Article

    Ideation with Generative AI—In Consumer Research and Beyond

    By: Julian De Freitas, G. Nave and Stefano Puntoni
    The use of large language models (LLMs) in consumer research is rapidly evolving, with applications including synthetic data generation, data analysis, and more. However, their role in creative ideation—a cornerstone of consumer research—remains underexplored. Drawing... View Details
    Keywords: Large Language Model; AI and Machine Learning; Creativity; Innovation Strategy
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    • 04 Sep 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    Jumpstarting Innovation: Using Disruption to Your Advantage

    established companies can also be a source of salvation: disruptive change. Applegate should know. Her current research and teaching focus on the challenges of building new ventures and leading radical business View Details
    Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate
    • 2022
    • Working Paper

    Are Experts Blinded by Feasibility?: Experimental Evidence from a NASA Robotics Challenge

    By: Jacqueline N. Lane, Zoe Szajnfarber, Jason Crusan, Michael Menietti and Karim R. Lakhani
    Resource allocation decisions play a dominant role in shaping a firm’s technological trajectory and competitive advantage. Recent work indicates that innovative firms and scientific institutions tend to exhibit an anti-novelty bias when evaluating new projects and... View Details
    Keywords: Evaluations; Novelty; Feasibility; Field Experiment; Resource Allocation; Technological Innovation; Competitive Advantage; Decision Making
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    Unraveling the Process of Creative Destruction: Complementary Assets and Incumbent Survival in the Typesetter Industry

    By: M. Tripsas
    When radical technological change transforms an industry established firms sometimes fail drastically and are displaced by new entrants, yet other times survive and prosper. Drawing upon an unusually rich data set that covers the technological and competitive... View Details
    Keywords: Technology; Transformation; Market Entry and Exit; Competition; History; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Business Processes; Competency and Skills; Assets; Perspective; Disruptive Innovation
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    • 22 May 2012
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    First Look: May 22

    http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-100.pdf Open Innovation and Organizational Boundaries: The Impact of Task Decomposition and Knowledge Distribution on the Locus of Innovation Authors:Karim R. Lakhani, Hila... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 04 Nov 2008
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    First Look: November 4, 2008

    created through radical diversification is very different from that required for incremental diversification efforts. Our findings have important implications for studying how View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 22 Dec 2015
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    December 22, 2015

    https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/815129-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 615-022 IDEO: Human-Centered Service Design This case describes the human-centered innovation culture and service design process at IDEO, one of the... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 17 Nov 2015
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    November 17, 2015

    Societal and Political Dimensions of Innovation Innovation and Business Growth By: Kerr, William R. Abstract—Innovation and the pursuit of new business opportunities are essential for growth at the firm... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 29 Jan 2019
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    New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

    opportunities and elicit strategic responses by focal firms. We develop theory and provide empirical evidence of how innovative activity changes in response to product recalls in the U.S. medical device industry. Focal firm recalls slow... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 17 Dec 2013
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    First Look: December 17

    intercede to protect investments in locations such as Central America and the Caribbean. Costs were small-at least at the outset-but with each incremental step, American policy became increasingly entangled with the goals of those they... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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    Placement - Doctoral

    Laboratory for Innovation Sciences at Harvard (LISH), Post-Doctoral Fellow Dissertation: Top-Down Sabotage in Organizations Advisors: V.G. Narayanan (Co-Chair), Tatiana Sandino (Co-Chair), Susanna Gallani , and Karim R. Lakhani 2021... View Details
    • 16 Nov 2015
    • Research & Ideas

    Does Competition Make Us More Creative?

    Competition can bring out the best in salespeople, athletes, and participants in hot dog eating contests—but can it make employees more creative? A recent working paper by Daniel P. Gross finds that competition can motivate creative types to produce View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising
    • 11 Jan 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    Is A/B Testing Effective? Evidence from 35,000 Startups

    so much easier to make all these slight improvements, A/B testing also allows the firm to free up the time it would have spent tinkering with the small stuff, which it now delegates to the A/B testing tool,” he says. “The founders can now think about more View Details
    Keywords: by Kristen Senz
    • 14 May 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    Getting Down to the Business of Creativity

    air-dropped for use by paratroopers in the U.S. military. “There's a construction of creativity that involves many other actors." —Mukti Khaire Radical innovation that creates entirely new industries is... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Entertainment & Recreation
    • 17 Jan 2012
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    First Look: January 17

    spending on the private sector. Our key innovation is to use changes in congressional committee chairmanship as a source of exogenous variation in state-level federal expenditures. In doing so, we show that fiscal spending shocks appear... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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    2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

    movement. Join alumni experts to discuss impact investing innovations across asset classes, hot button topics like the anti-ESG movement, and critical public policy intersections. Alumni will leave this session with a better understanding... View Details
    • 01 Oct 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company

    following words with deeds, and he was not liked by the unions. (With hindsight, it is debatable whether he really intended to pursue the more radical restructuring plan; however, what matters is that the unions believed he would.) In... View Details
    Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson