Publications

Publications

Filter Results: (6,863) Arrow Down
Filter Results: (6,863) Arrow Down Arrow Up

Show Results For

Show Results For

← Page 21 of 6,863 Results →
  • 01 Jun 2014
  • News

Case Study: A Souped-Up Strategy

Bookalokal is a social dining platform that launched in Brussels in 2012. The initial concept: Connect travelers with locals through home-cooked, gourmet meals in people's homes. Prospective diners search through Bookalokal's online database of hosts, choose a favorite... View Details

    Uncovering the roots of innovation

    As the Alfred D. Chandler Jr. International Visiting Scholar at Harvard Business School in 2023, I had the unique opportunity to delve into the history of the life sciences industry in the Cambridge-Boston area. My research focused on how... View Details
    • May 2014 (Revised November 2014)
    • Case

    Houston We Have A Problem: NASA and Open Innovation (A)

    By: Michael Tushman, Hila Lifshitz-Assaf and Kerry Herman
    Jeff Davis, director of Space Life Sciences Directorate (SLSD) at NASA, has been working for several years to raise awareness amongst scientists and researchers in his organizations of the benefits of open innovation as a successful and efficient way to collaborate on... View Details
    Related
    • 13 Jun 2016
    • News

    Cos must focus on innovation and production

    • 2019
    • Book

    Creative Construction: The DNA of Sustained Innovation

    By: Gary P. Pisano
    Creative Construction tackles the myth that larger enterprises are inherently incapable of transformative innovation and are doomed to be disrupted by nimble start-ups. If larger enterprises seem incapable of transformative innovation, it is due to how we design... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Business Growth and Maturation; Innovation Strategy; Organizational Culture; Management Systems; Creativity; Leading Change
    Related
    • June 2017 (Revised October 2017)
    • Case

    Becton Dickinson: Innovation and Growth (A)

    By: Raffaella Sadun, Michael Beer and James Weber
    In late 2015, CEO Vince Forlenza was reviewing Becton Dickinson’s transformation efforts designed to enable the company to innovate and grow in a changing environment. Becton Dickinson had been a successful medical device company for over 100 years. In recent years,... View Details
    Keywords: Transformation; Change Management; Innovation Leadership; Mergers and Acquisitions; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Design; Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Health Industry; Manufacturing Industry; United States
    Related
    • Web

    Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

    instrument that will both disrupt traditional business models and potentially preserve them. The early works of William Abernathy on roadblocks to innovation and Richard Rosenbloom on technology and information transfers in the 1960's and... View Details
    • September 2023 (Revised January 2024)
    • Case

    AI21 Labs in 2023: Strategy for Generative AI

    By: David Yoffie, Orna Dan and Elena Corsi
    Israeli generative artificial intelligence company AI21 Labs was founded in 2017 to realize the vision of true machine intelligence. It sought to reinvent writing and reading and in 2020 it launched Wordtune, an app using GenAI software to offer alternate text... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Making; AI and Machine Learning; Innovation Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Applications and Software; Competitive Strategy; Technology Industry; Israel
    Related
    • February 2003 (Revised August 2005)
    • Case

    UCB (A): Managing Information for Globalization and Innovation

    By: F. Warren McFarlan and Brian DeLacey
    This case presents a complex total MIS strategy case for a $3 billion European pharmaceutical/chemicals company based in Brussels. It covers corporate strategy alignment of IT portfolio, IT operations issues, and global coordination of IT. View Details
    Keywords: Information Technology; Operations; System; Corporate Strategy; Investment Portfolio; Globalization; Pharmaceutical Industry; Information Technology Industry; Brussels
    Related
    • January 2014
    • Supplement

    Amgen Inc.: Pursuing Innovation and Imitation? (B)

    By: Ian Mackenzie
    The (B) case reveals that Sharer decided that Amgen should enter the emerging biosimilars business. However, he took the better part of a year to syndicate the decision across the senior team while in parallel investing in some time-critical process development. The... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Pharmaceutical Industry; Biotechnology Industry; United States
    Related
    • August 1994 (Revised May 2001)
    • Case

    ITT Automotive: Global Manufacturing Strategy (1994)

    By: Gary P. Pisano and Sharon L. Rossi
    ITT Automotive is in the process of developing a new-generation antilock brake system (ABS), designated the MK-20. The case focuses on the level of automation to be used in the production of this new system, and whether all plants should use the same process... View Details
    Keywords: Information Technology; Innovation Strategy; Production; Product Development; Globalized Firms and Management; Performance Productivity; Manufacturing Industry; Auto Industry; Belgium; Germany; United States
    Related
    • 2010
    • Book

    Seven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better Execution

    By: Robert L. Simons
    To stay ahead of the pack, you must translate your organization's competitive strategy into day-to-day actions that will enable your company to win in the marketplace. This means channeling resources into the right efforts, striking a balance between innovation and... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Innovation and Management; Resource Allocation; Business Processes; Organizational Culture; Competitive Strategy
    Related
    • Research Summary

    Innovations in Logistics: The Impact of Channel Coordination

    By: Roy D. Shapiro
    Roy D. Shapiro 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 to characterize these channels. His research... View Details
    • December 2024
    • Case

    Core Innovation Capital: Investing in Fintech for Good

    By: Ray Kluender, Natalia Rigol, Benjamin Roth and Nicole Tempest Keller
    In 2017, Arjan Schütte, founder of Core Innovation Capital, faced a decision on whether to invest in Hugo Insurance, an auto insurance startup. Core, an early-stage social impact VC firm, focused on “fintech for good,” by investing in financial services for low- to... View Details
    Keywords: Fintech; Venture Capital; Social Entrepreneurship; Insurance; Measurement and Metrics; Investment; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Product Positioning; Financial Services Industry; Technology Industry; Insurance Industry; United States
    Related
    • Research Summary

    Innovation and Performance Improvement in Health Care

    By: Robert S. Huckman
    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
    • 21 Mar 2019
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Advancing Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Research Through Open Innovation Competitions

    Keywords: by Blasco, Andrea, Michael G. Endres, Rinat A. Sergeev, Anup Jonchhe, Max Macaluso, Rajiv Narayan, Ted Natoli, Jin H. Paik, Bryan Briney, Chunlei Wu, Andrew I. Su, Aravind Subramanian, and Karim R. Lakhani; Health
    • 07 Jul 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron

    "In the end, Enron was at the center of a truly delinquent society. Once Enron's ethical drift took hold, its collapse was only a matter of time," says HBS professor emeritus Malcolm S. Salter. As he explains in this Q&A and in his new book, View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities
    • October 2015
    • Article

    Exposed: Venture Capital, Competitor Ties, and Entrepreneurial Innovation

    By: Emily Cox Pahnke, Rory McDonald, Dan Wang and Benjamin Hallen
    This paper investigates the impact of early relationships on innovation at entrepreneurial firms. Prior research has largely focused on the benefits of network ties, documenting the many advantages that accrue to firms embedded in a rich network of inter-organizational... View Details
    Keywords: Competition; Intellectual Property; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
    Related
    • January 2007
    • Case

    AMD: A Customer-Centric Approach to Innovation

    By: Elie Ofek and Lauren Barley
    AMD's launch of the Opteron microprocessor in 2003 has allowed the company to make inroads into the lucrative server segment. A long-time follower to Intel, AMD management felt it was in a position to lead the microprocessor industry in new directions. However, in 2006... View Details
    Keywords: Customer Focus and Relationships; Price; Leadership; Brands and Branding; Product Launch; Product Development; Competitive Strategy; Customization and Personalization; Semiconductor Industry
    Related
    • Research Summary

    Investment and marketing strategies of American multinationals in Argentina (1890c-1939)

    Andrea Lluch is undertaking a major research project on American business expansion in Argentina up to the beginning of World War II. The first part of the project focuses on the American companies investment strategies. The second part analyses of the evolution of... View Details