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    Birth and Re-birth in Business

    Joe Lassiter, Harvard Business School Professor and Faculty Chair of Harvard's Innovation Lab, discusses how businesses can seize on new opportunities and re-invent themselves quickly and effectively at the Better by Design CEO Summit 2015 in Aukland, New Zealand.... View Details

    • 07 Jul 2015
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    First Look: July 7, 2015

    economies. But only a handful of companies have managed to do it successfully until now. In this article, an MIT engineering professor and a Tuck professor of management explain why. After conducting a three-year study of reverse View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 16 Sep 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: September 16

      Publications September 2014 The Oxford Handbook of Innovation Management Mergers and Acquisitions and Innovation By: Ahuja, Gautam, and Elena Novelli Abstract—This article (a) identifies the different... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • September 2013 (Revised February 2016)
    • Case

    GlaxoSmithKline: Sourcing Complex Professional Services

    By: Heidi K. Gardner and Silvia Hodges Silverstein
    Pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) uses an innovative new approach to procuring outside legal counsel: it replaces relationship-based selection and law firms' traditional time-based billing with data-driven decision making and an online reverse auction. In... View Details
    Keywords: Legal Industry; Procurement; Professional Service Firms; Pricing; Competition; Change Management; Supply Chain Management; Legal Liability; Business Processes; Legal Services Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry
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    • 2007
    • Working Paper

    Noncompetes and Inventor Mobility: Specialists, Stars, and the Michigan Experiment

    Several scholars have documented the positive consequences of job-hopping by inventors, including knowledge spillovers and agglomeration and the concentration of spinoffs. This work investigates a possible antecedent of inventor mobility: regional variation in the... View Details
    Keywords: Contracts; Laws and Statutes; Intellectual Property; Innovation and Invention; Michigan
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    • July 1997
    • Case

    We've Got Rhythm! Medtronic Corporation's Cardiac Pacemaker Business

    By: Clayton M. Christensen
    Illustrates how a new management team at Medtronic's Cardiac Pacemaker business reversed a steep decline in market share by adopting certain management principles for new product development: clarifying strategy, aggregating project planning, accommodating the number... View Details
    Keywords: Management Teams; Innovation Strategy; Innovation and Management; Product Development; Health; Technology; Change Management; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; United States
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    • 2011
    • Working Paper

    Do Powerful Politicians Cause Corporate Downsizing?

    By: Lauren H. Cohen, Joshua D. Coval and Christopher J. Malloy
    This paper employs a new empirical approach for identifying the impact of government 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... View Details
    Keywords: Economic Growth; Investment; Spending; Government Administration; Employment; Managerial Roles
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    Recruiting specialized inventors into young organizations

    Commercializing nascent technologies may require the expertise of those intimately involved in the original invention, especially when tacit knowledge is essential. Yet the organization home to the original invention may not serve as the best commercialization... View Details

    • 14 Aug 2008
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Agglomeration of U.S. Ethnic Inventors

    Keywords: by William R. Kerr; Technology
    • October 2005 (Revised March 2006)
    • Case

    Strategic Inflection: TiVo in 2005

    By: David B. Yoffie, Pai-Ling Yin and Barbara Mack
    In the late 1990s, TiVo pioneered the digital video recorder (DVR), a new consumer electronics category. By 2005, the company was the clear leader in technology and installed base. It had also built extraordinary loyalty among its customers. However, TiVo lost a half... View Details
    Keywords: Technological Innovation; Competition; Partners and Partnerships; Information Infrastructure; Television Entertainment; Brands and Branding; Consumer Products Industry; Electronics Industry
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    • 2008
    • Working Paper

    The Agglomeration of U.S. Ethnic Inventors

    By: William R. Kerr
    The ethnic composition of US inventors is undergoing a significant transformation—with deep impacts for the overall agglomeration of US innovation. This study applies an ethnic-name database to individual US patent records to explore these trends with greater detail.... View Details
    Keywords: Information Technology; Geographic Location; Patents; Ethnicity; City; Innovation and Invention; United States
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    • 05 Mar 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    Is JC Penney’s Makeover the Future of Retailing?

    tree. Johnson (HBS MBA'84) comes to Penney after more than a decade of leading Apple's retail effort, where his innovations included the Genius Bar. Johnson is also credited with making Target chic. This makes his launching of the new... View Details
    Keywords: by Kim Girard; Retail
    • 2010
    • Chapter

    The Agglomeration of U.S. Ethnic Inventors

    By: William R. Kerr
    The ethnic composition of US inventors is undergoing a significant transformation - with deep impacts for the overall agglomeration of US innovation. This study applies an ethnic-name database to individual US patent records to explore these trends with greater detail.... View Details
    Keywords: Information Technology; Geographic Location; Patents; Ethnicity; City; Innovation and Invention; United States
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    • November 2019 (Revised January 2020)
    • Supplement

    Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited: A Global Company's China Strategy (B)

    By: William C. Kirby, Billy Chan and Dawn H. Lau
    After the legendary founder of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) retired, the new chairman had to grapple with fresh challenges related to its China market: a recently opened factory in China had to find ways to reverse its financial loss and meet its... View Details
    Keywords: Cross-cultural; Foreign Investment; Government; Business and Government Relations; Globalization; Change Management; Customer Relationship Management; Innovation Strategy; Global Strategy; Leadership; Semiconductor Industry; Taiwan; China
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    • 08 Jan 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    NFL Head Coaches Are Getting Younger. What Can Organizations Learn?

    leadership, but will it last? Are older workers doomed forever to have younger bosses, or will this trend reverse after a few high-profile failures? Are organizations making the right choices by seeking more View Details
    Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Evan M.S. Hecht, and Abhijit Naik; Sports
    • 27 Apr 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    Building Businesses in Turbulent Times

    Launching New Ventures: Jump-Starting Innovation for Entrepreneurs and Business Owners. Staff: Why is innovation important today? Lynda Applegate: The global financial crisis we are experiencing provides a... View Details
    Keywords: by Staff
    • 02 Oct 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

    in much the same way that historical perspectives helped to shape the first generation of endogenous growth theories. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55039 September 21, 2018 Harvard Business Review View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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    Faculty & Research

    Gulati and Caroline de Lacvivier In 1997, Patrick Awuah had a dream: to bring liberal arts education to Ghana. Amid the country’s declining economy and pervasive corruption problems, Awuah saw education as an opportunity to reverse its... View Details
    • 13 Nov 2018
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    New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018

    immigrants. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54963 Reverse the Curse of the Top-5 By: Kaplan, Robert S. Abstract—The past 40 years has seen a large increase in the number of articles submitted to... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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    Curriculum - MBA

    mechanisms that govern organismal aging and contemporary strategies to delay or reverse this process. The Translational Science of Stem Cells Through a series of lectures and assigned papers, students will be introduced to a broad view of... View Details