Publications

2003
Case

E-Business Innovation at Cisco

By: Vijay Govindarajan, Philip Anderson, Chris Trimble and Katrina Veerman

As of March 2001, Cisco Systems prides itself as an "end-to-end networking company." The phrase describes not only their product line but the way they run their business. They created many of the e-business practices that later became cornerstones of the software... View Details

Keywords: Technology Networks; Technological Innovation; Innovation and Management; Business Strategy; Web Services Industry

2020
Book

Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 20

By: Josh Lerner and Scott Stern

04 Dec 2024
Podcast

Hospitality at work: Bridging opportunity and innovation

How do you foster inclusion, economic mobility, and a sense of purpose across a global organization with both franchise and direct employees? Laura Fuentes, Hilton CHRO, on supporting frontline workers and promoting from within in a traditionally high-turnover... View Details

18 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

How Disruptive Innovation Changes Education

book, coauthored with Michael B. Horn (HBS MBA '06) and Curtis W. Johnson, shows how the theory of disruptive innovation-which in a nutshell explains why organizations experience difficulty with particular types of View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

2013
Book

Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 13

By: Josh Lerner and Scott Stern

2017
Supplement

Denver Public Schools (B): Innovation and Performance?

By: Michael Tushman, Colin Maclay and Kerry Herman

2015
Book

Ethical Innovation in Business and the Economy

By: Georges Enderle and Patrick E. Murphy

15 Feb 2012
News

Social Innovation Challenge

2010
Working Paper

Growth through Heterogeneous Innovations

By: Ufuk Akcigit and William R. Kerr

We study how exploration versus exploitation innovations impact economic growth through a tractable endogenous growth framework that contains multiple innovation sizes, multi-product firms, and entry/exit. Firms invest in exploration R&D to acquire new product lines... View Details

Keywords: Business Ventures; Decision Choices and Conditions; Economic Growth; Investment; Innovation and Invention; Patents; Size; Research and Development; United States

March 2013
Class Lecture

Using Communities and Contests to Stimulate Innovation

By: Karim Lakhani

Professor Lakhani - Harvard Business School - shares his thoughts on the extreme value outcomes born from Open Innovation competitions, Big Data opportunities and the TopCoder... View Details

1997
Article

University versus Corporate Patents: A Window on the Basicness of Invention

By: Rebecca M. Henderson, Adam Jaffe and Manuel Trajtenberg

Keywords: Higher Education; Patents; Innovation and Invention; Business Ventures

Read Now

2010
Chapter

Innovative Conduct in Computing and Internet Markets

By: Shane Greenstein

26 Jul 2014
HBS Conference

12th Annual Open and User Innovation Conference

01 Feb 1998
News

Innovative Course Brings Students and Alumni Together

online dialogues with students via the Internet. Forty-three alumni - all with vivid and fresh insights into their own successes and failures - agreed to participate in the View Details

Keywords: Meg Gardner; photo by Joshua Lavine

March 2021 (Revised December 2021)
Case

Cedar Environmental: Innovation vs. Corruption in Lebanon?

By: Nien-hê Hsieh and Youssef Abdel Aal

The case follows Ziad Abi Chaker, founder and CEO of Cedar Environmental, as he weighs options for how to grow the company in the face of growing economic and political instability in Lebanon in 2019.

Founded after the Lebanese civil war, Cedar... View Details

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