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Creating Emerging Markets (Business History)

By: Tarun Khanna

Professor Tarun Khanna is faculty co-chair of the Creating Emerging Markets (CEM) Project. The project provides a unique research and teaching resource on business leadership in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East over recent decades.... View Details

• 16 Jun 2014
• Research & Ideas

The Unfulfilled Promise of Educational Technology

technological innovation. “The question is with 50 million public school students in America, how can you provide a more individualized learning experience?” "If you go to the smallest mom-and-pop restaurant, you'll find a... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

• 21 Apr 2014
• Research & Ideas

Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine

art." Choudhury recently teamed up with colleague Tarun Khanna, the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at HBS, to examine and highlight the history of herbal patent applications. From a policy perspective, they wanted to challenge a common paradigm that characterizes... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Legal Services; Biotechnology

• June 2023
• Article

Managing Medical Device Liability Through Innovation: A Strategic Approach

By: Alberto Galasso and Hong Luo

In this article, we discuss several aspects of the relationships among product liability risk, safety, and innovation strategies of medical device companies. View Details

Keywords: Safety; Public Opinion; Legal Liability; Product; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry

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Galasso, Alberto, and Hong Luo. "Managing Medical Device Liability Through Innovation: A Strategic Approach." Health Management, Policy and Innovation 8, no. 1 (June 2023).

• 18 Jan 2021
• Book

How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems

startup in govtech or a public sector group at a large company working on public sector cloud solutions, for example. Another reason is that people not in government, such as private business leaders or... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

• February 2022 (Revised March 2022)
• Case

National Electric Vehicles Sweden (NEVS): Materializing a Vision

By: Shane Greenstein and Elena Corsi

In 2021, the car manufacturer National Electric Vehicle Sweden (NEVS) faced the challenge of securing funding from its investor to launch an innovative mobility solution based on fleets of shared autonomous driving (AD) cars. The system was complex as it required the... View Details

Keywords: Autonomous Vehicles; Product Design; Sustainable Cities; Transportation Networks; Auto Industry; Sweden; Europe

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Greenstein, Shane, and Elena Corsi. "National Electric Vehicles Sweden (NEVS): Materializing a Vision." Harvard Business School Case 622-076, February 2022. (Revised March 2022.)

• April 2011 (Revised May 2012)
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City Year: The Journey

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and James Weber

Throughout its first two decades, City Year, a non-profit organization, was dedicated to recruiting young adults to give a year of public service. It had passed through several growth phases but by 2010 a new challenge, and opportunity, had arisen when City Year and... View Details

Keywords: Education; Service Operations; Nonprofit Organizations; Growth and Development Strategy; Performance Efficiency; Resource Allocation

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Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and James Weber. "City Year: The Journey." Harvard Business School Case 311-080, April 2011. (Revised May 2012.)

• 12 Oct 2006
• First Look

First Look: October 12, 2006

and if they were provided with immunity from prosecution for self-disclosed violations. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-020.pdf   Cases & Course MaterialsBang & Olufsen: Design Driven Innovation Harvard... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Andy Zelleke

Andy Zelleke is the MBA Class of 1962 Senior Lecturer of Business Administration. A member of the General Management unit, he is the Faculty Chair of HBS’ Middle East & North Africa Research Center.

Since Spring 2021, Dr. Zelleke has taught “Unpacking... View Details

Keywords: federal government; professional services; defense; financial services

• 04 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 4

"going public" and "going private'" transactions. We then find that majority PE-backed private firms engage in less book-tax nonconforming tax planning than public years; nonetheless, they exhibit substantially lower... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

• 13 Jun 2017
• First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13

between immigration and innovation. We construct a measure of foreign born expertise and show that technology areas where immigrant inventors were prevalent between 1880 and 1940 experienced more patenting and citations between 1940 and 2000. The contribution of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

• 16 Sep 2014
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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... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

• October 2021 (Revised February 2023)
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Ant Group (A)

By: Krishna G. Palepu, Feng Zhu, Susie L. Ma and Kerry Herman

In 2004, Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba created Alipay, an app to facilitate payments on its e-commerce sites. As Alibaba grew, so did Alipay, until Alipay spawned its own ecosystem of financial technology products and services under the name of Ant Group. By 2020,... View Details

Keywords: Payment Systems; Information Technology; Value Creation; Network Effects; Strategy; Disruptive Innovation; Initial Public Offering; Technology Industry; Financial Services Industry; China

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Palepu, Krishna G., Feng Zhu, Susie L. Ma, and Kerry Herman. "Ant Group (A)." Harvard Business School Case 122-003, October 2021. (Revised February 2023.)

American Stories: A Large-Scale Structured Text Dataset of Historical U.S. Newspapers

Existing full text datasets of U.S. public domain newspapers do not recognize the often complex layouts of newspaper scans, and as a result the digitized content scrambles texts from articles, headlines, captions, advertisements, and other layout regions. OCR quality... View Details