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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

  • 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
  • First Look

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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 17 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 17, 2007

who offer innovative products. Buyers who trust their current suppliers are less likely to seek information about the new product and they express less interest in purchasing it. Once the product becomes available, they do in fact make... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 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
  • 23 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 23, 2008

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-005.pdf   Cases & Course MaterialsAmerican Cancer Society: Access to Care Harvard Business School Case 109-015 CEO John Seffrin decides to radically change the strategy of the American Cancer... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 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
  • 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
  • 19 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 19

robust evidence that market leaders were significantly more likely to adopt the incremental innovation of e-buying but commensurately less likely to adopt the more radical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 13

diffusion of the commercial internet. Theory predicts that firms with greater market share will be more likely to adopt innovations that build on their existing strengths, while they will resist more radical... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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