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Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Combining the tools of philanthropy, business and advocacy (or mission, margin and mandate), social entrepreneurs have tackled long-standing societal issues like teacher training, college access, global public health, renewable energy and sanitation. Social... View Details
- 16 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Resolving Patent Disputes that Impede Innovation
Harvard Business School and coauthor (with Jean Tirole of the Toulouse School of Economics) of the paper Standard Essential Patents. "In the free market, where there's a lot of entry of new firms and new players, having the ability... View Details
- Article
Digital Ubiquity: How Connections, Sensors, and Data Are Revolutionizing Business
By: Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani
When Google bought Nest, a maker of digital thermostats, for $3.2 billion just a few months ago, it was a clear indication that digital transformation and connection are spreading across even the most traditional industrial segments and creating a staggering array of... View Details
Keywords: Digital Innovation; Digitization; Industrial Internet; Technological Innovation; Production; Competitive Strategy; Engineering; Aerospace Industry
Iansiti, Marco, and Karim R. Lakhani. "Digital Ubiquity: How Connections, Sensors, and Data Are Revolutionizing Business." Harvard Business Review 92, no. 11 (November 2014): 90–99.
- August 2012 (Revised February 2021)
- Case
Hub and Spoke, HealthCare Global and Additional Focused Factory Models for Cancer Care
By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Amit Ghorawat, Meera Krishnan and Naiyya Saggi
This case compares and contrasts four different models for delivering cancer care in India and the US. Students are asked to select the best model in its alignment with the Six Forces in those two countries and Africa, to which one of the models is considering... View Details
Keywords: Cancer Care Services; Focused Factories For Cancer Care; Hub And Spoke Cancer Care; Cancer Care In The U.S.; Cancer Care In Africa; Cancer Care In India; Health Care and Treatment; Business Model; Six Sigma; Health Disorders; Health Industry; United States; India; Africa
Herzlinger, Regina E., Amit Ghorawat, Meera Krishnan, and Naiyya Saggi. "Hub and Spoke, HealthCare Global and Additional Focused Factory Models for Cancer Care." Harvard Business School Case 313-030, August 2012. (Revised February 2021.)
- 24 Nov 2020
- Cold Call Podcast
Evaluating Innovative Health Care Solutions for Obesity
- Article
Platform Competition: Betfair and the U.K. Market for Sports Betting
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Neil Campbell
We examine two episodes of strategic interaction in the U.K. betting industry: (i) Betfair (an entrant multi-sided platform or MSP) vs. Flutter (also an MSP) and (ii) Betfair vs. traditional bookmakers. We find that although Betfair was an underfunded second mover in... View Details
Keywords: Platform Design; Betting; Complements; Competing Business Models; Co-opetition; Entry; Multi-Sided Platforms; Design; Network Effects; Business Model; Competition; Cooperation
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Neil Campbell. "Platform Competition: Betfair and the U.K. Market for Sports Betting." Special Issue on Platforms. Journal of Economics & Management Strategy 28, no. 1 (Spring 2019): 29–40.
- August 2012 (Revised August 2024)
- Module Note
Evaluating the Viability of Innovative Technology-Commercializing Ventures
A guide for how a person who is not an expert in either technology nor business can, nevertheless, exaluate whether two promising innovative medical technologies are technically and/or financially feasible.
Hint: I would not invest in either. View Details
Keywords: Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
Herzlinger, Regina E. "Evaluating the Viability of Innovative Technology-Commercializing Ventures." Harvard Business School Module Note 313-070, August 2012. (Revised August 2024.)
- 2003
- Conference Paper
Follow the Money: What Really Drives Technology Innovation in Construction
By: John D. Macomber
Technology enthusiasts, academics, and software companies remain concerned about the slow pace of innovation in the construction industry. Tools are widely available that seem to provide eminently sensible and clearly apparent improvement to the process of design and... View Details
Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Technological Innovation; Construction; Design; Performance Improvement; Motivation and Incentives; Knowledge Management; Adoption; Business Model; Capital Structure; Supply Chain
Macomber, John D. "Follow the Money: What Really Drives Technology Innovation in Construction." Paper presented at the American Society of Civil Engineers, 2003.
- Teaching Interest
Applied Business Analytics
Course Overview:
Business Analytics has become a core function in many firms today and is driving innovation in the form of new business and operating models. Data-driven decision-making requires understanding of statistics, computer... View Details
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Toolkit for Customer Innovation
Thomke and Eric von Hippel Tapping into customer innovation can certainly generate tremendous value, but capturing that value is hardly a simple or straightforward process. Not only must companies develop the right tool kit, they must... View Details
Keywords: by Stefan Thomke & Eric Von Hippel
- 2016
- Working Paper
Meet the Oligarchs: Business Legitimacy, State Capacity and Taxation
By: Rafael Di Tella, Juan Dubra and Alejandro Lagomarsino
We analyze the role of people’s beliefs about the rich in the determination of public policy in the context of a randomized online survey experiment. A question we study is the desirability of government-private sector meetings, a variable we argue is connected to... View Details
Keywords: Business Legitimacy; State Capacity; Meetings; Taxes; Top 1%; Regulation; Prejudice and Bias; Values and Beliefs; Taxation; Business and Government Relations
Di Tella, Rafael, Juan Dubra, and Alejandro Lagomarsino. "Meet the Oligarchs: Business Legitimacy, State Capacity and Taxation." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-046, December 2016.
- 09 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Speed Up Energy Innovation
Is there a special sauce for stimulating innovation in the energy sector, a concoction to spur cost-effective developments toward solving the climate change problem? HBS professor Rebecca Henderson doesn't claim to know all the ingredients for that special sauce. But... View Details
- 05 Mar 2008
- What Do You Think?
Where Will Management Innovation Take Us?
Alternatively, will the drive for management innovation come from a source other than social forces within the organization? As several suggested, these may include new technologies and their mastery for management (or self-management)... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 08 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Fashion Your New E-Business Model
and infrastructure to launch new product lines or businesses, or enter new markets. Industrial Age business innovation's favored producers. The innovations included: Physical or analog production and... View Details
Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate
- 24 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Business Summit: Business Education in the 21st Century
data about the challenges facing the business education marketplace and presented qualitative information on innovations in top MBA programs. On the whole, MBA programs are in decline. Their value is being... View Details
- October 2004 (Revised September 2005)
- Supplement
Sonoco Products Company (B): The Hybrid Model
By: David A. Thomas, Boris Groysberg and Cate Reavis
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Thomas, David A., Boris Groysberg, and Cate Reavis. "Sonoco Products Company (B): The Hybrid Model." Harvard Business School Supplement 405-010, October 2004. (Revised September 2005.)
- 05 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Changing Face of American Innovation
new research based on patent and trademark data by Harvard Business School professor William Kerr drills down to further identify the probable ethnic composition of U.S. inventors, the industries they influence, and the geographies they... View Details
- 2000
- Working Paper
The Role of the Business Model in Capturing Value Innovation: Evidence from Xerox Corporation's Technology Spinoff Companies
Chesbrough, Henry W., and Richard S. Rosenbloom. "The Role of the Business Model in Capturing Value Innovation: Evidence from Xerox Corporation's Technology Spinoff Companies." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 01-002, July 2000.
- 26 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Clear Eye for Innovation
innovations while also making steady improvements to an existing business is so commonplace—and so fascinating—that it has become a battleground of management thought. For decades, scholars have spun... View Details