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Teamwork and Innovative Behavior with Professor Jeff Polzer and Hila Lifshitz
In a field setting, we explore how teamwork could enhance team members' interpersonal relationships and work performance. We collect longitudinal survey data and measure creative performance of a US company's employees before, during, and after they... View Details
- 6 PM – 7 PM EST, 04 Mar 2021
- Virtual Programming
Water & Climate Change: Innovating for Access and Efficiency
The Harvard Business School Business & Environment Initiative and Food, Agriculture, & Water Club invite you to join us for Water & Climate Change: Innovating for Access and Efficiency. This discussion will aim to highlight the connection between climate change and... View Details
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Exploring the Tail of Creativity: An Evolutionary Model of Breakthrough Invention
This research, under the direction of Lee Fleming, argued for a distributional approach to new product development and has formed the basis for my subsequent research. View Details
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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
- 13 Mar 2015
- News
If Greece Embraces Uncertainty, Innovation Will Follow
- April 2017
- Supplement
Q&A with Tom Kalil, Deputy Director for Technology & Innovation
By: Linda A. Hill and Allison J. Wigen
In this video supplement to the HBS case study "Tom Kalil, Deputy Director for Technology & Innovation," case protagonist Tom Kalil discusses leading a team of policy entrepreneurs at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy from 2008-2016. View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Government; Government Innovation; Leading Teams; Collaboration; Cross-sector Collaboration; Innovation Strategy; Innovation Leadership; Leadership; Leadership Development; Groups and Teams; Policy; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; United States
Hill, Linda A., and Allison J. Wigen. "Q&A with Tom Kalil, Deputy Director for Technology & Innovation." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 417-712, April 2017.
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Extending the Role of Headquarters Beyond the Firm Boundary: Entrepreneurial Alliance Innovation
By: Jaeho Kim and Andy Wu
Prior research on corporate headquarters (CHQ) characteristics identifies the impact of CHQ location and composition on the innovation outcomes of internal subsidiaries. However, given that external strategic alliances with high-tech entrepreneurial firms represent a... View Details
Keywords: Alliance; Innovation; Corporate Headquarters; Geographic Proximity; Entrepreneurship; Corporate Strategy; Alliances; Joint Ventures; Innovation and Invention; Business Headquarters; Geographic Location
Kim, Jaeho, and Andy Wu. "Extending the Role of Headquarters Beyond the Firm Boundary: Entrepreneurial Alliance Innovation." Art. 15. Special Issue on Corporate Headquarters. Journal of Organization Design 8 (2019): 1–35.
- May 2013
- Article
The Performance Frontier: Innovating for a Sustainable Strategy
By: Robert G. Eccles and George Serafeim
By now most companies have sustainability programs. They're cutting carbon emissions, reducing waste, and otherwise enhancing operational efficiency. But a mishmash of sustainability tactics does not add up to a sustainable strategy. To endure, a strategy must address... View Details
Keywords: Sustainability; Innovation; Environment; Corporate Reporting; Corporate Social Responsibility; Governance; Strategy; Value; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Performance; Environmental Sustainability; Innovation and Invention
Eccles, Robert G., and George Serafeim. "The Performance Frontier: Innovating for a Sustainable Strategy." Harvard Business Review 91, no. 5 (May 2013): 50–60.
- 12 PM – 1 PM EST, 09 Jan 2019
- Webinars: Trending@HBS
How Better Immigration Policies Foster Business Innovation and Growth
Talent is a critical factor in driving innovation in science, engineering, and today's knowledge economy. Professor Bill Kerr explores the data and ideas that should drive the next wave of policy and business practice around high-skill immigration. View Details
- Fall 2013
- Article
Spurring Innovation Through Competitions
By: Alan MacCormack, Fiona Murray and Erika Wagner
Alan MacCormack, Fiona Murray, and Erika Wagner examine the phenomenon of corporations using innovation contests. They write: "Companies are searching for better ways to identify and exploit novel solutions. Increasingly, they are discovering that many of the very best... View Details
MacCormack, Alan, Fiona Murray, and Erika Wagner. "Spurring Innovation Through Competitions." MIT Sloan Management Review 55, no. 1 (Fall 2013): 25–32.
- 20 Nov 2014
- News
3 Boston Startups Named to TIME's Best Inventions of 2014
- November 2007
- Article
Innovation and Incentives: Evidence from Corporate R&D
By: Josh Lerner and Julie Wulf
Beginning in the late 1980s, American corporations began increasingly linking the compensation of central research personnel to the economic objectives of the corporation. This paper examines the impact of the shifting compensation of the heads of corporate research... View Details
Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Motivation and Incentives; Goals and Objectives; Research and Development; Patents; Employee Stock Ownership Plan
Lerner, Josh, and Julie Wulf. "Innovation and Incentives: Evidence from Corporate R&D." Review of Economics and Statistics 89, no. 4 (November 2007): 634–644.
- September 2019
- Teaching Note
Gun Safety in America: Three Leaders Propose Innovative Solutions
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Joseph Paul
This is a teaching note to the original case: 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... 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; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; United States
- 1998
- Article
Dominant Designs, Innovation Types and Organizational Outcomes
By: Michael Tushman and P. Murmann
Tushman, Michael, and P. Murmann. "Dominant Designs, Innovation Types and Organizational Outcomes." Research in Organizational Behavior 20 (1998). (Winner of Stephan Schrader Best Paper Award presented by Academy of Management.)
- 26 Nov 2019
- News
Collective Genius: Leading Innovation and Digital Transformation
question, “What do exceptional leaders of innovation do?” More specifically, “What is the connection between leadership and innovation?” Many of these ideas are examined in the book Hill coauthored,... View Details
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Innovation and Performance Improvement in Health Care
This stream of Professor Huckman's work examines how organizations delivering health care can structure and manage their activities to improve operational performance. It addresses issues including the impact of various forms of familiarity on performance, the impact... View Details
- 30 Apr 2012
- News
Boston's innovation swagger
- July 2013 (Revised July 2015)
- Background Note
Innovating in Health Care—Framework
Contains the framework for the second-year Innovating in Health Care course. Delineates the role of six exogenous forces on new ventures: structure, financing, regulations, consumers, accountability, technology, and public policy and presents the essential elements of... View Details
Herzlinger, Regina E. "Innovating in Health Care—Framework." Harvard Business School Background Note 314-017, July 2013. (Revised July 2015.)