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Invention of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

polarized light and mirages and Wood's own way of doing things. . . . I decided that the world needed a synthetic polarizer, an extensive sheet of polarizing material, in order to be able to carry out on a large scale all the things... View Details
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Launching Tech Ventures | HBS Online

This course is part of the Entrepreneurship & Innovation track. Introduction to Launching Tech Ventures START NOW HBS Online now offers this course on-demand, allowing you to begin your learning anytime. No application needed—start your... View Details
  • 20 May 2014
  • First Look

First Look: May 20

Miami-based startup offering online English language learning services, had more than 30,000 active students across Latin America in 2012. The company had just closed a $43 million financing round in order to rapidly scale its service to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Blog - Creating Emerging Markets

Future of Green Building Lynn Schenk and Maxim Pike Harrell 17 Nov 2022 Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - Reducing Plastic Pollution on a Global Scale Maxim Pike Harrell 14 Dec 2022 Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability... View Details
  • 28 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 28, 2009

http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=509034 Mistry Architects: Innovating for Sustainability (C) Harvard Business School Case 609-086 This case is a follow-up to "Mistry Architects: View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Oct 2019
  • News

Bridging Business and Engineering

how to lead a successful business. “I feel that in Israel, we’re very good at creating technology, but not as good at scaling it. We end up getting an early exit, instead of taking the company all the way, which emphasizes the need for us... View Details
  • 15 Mar 2016
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March 15, 2016

forthcoming Boston: Harvard Business Review Press The Three Box Solution: A Strategy for Leading Innovation By: Govindarajan, Vijay Abstract—How to Innovate and Execute. Leaders already know that View Details
  • 2013
  • Working Paper

Clusters and the New Growth Path for Europe

By: Christian Ketels and Sergiy Protsiv
This paper outlines elements of a conceptual framework that clarifies the role that clusters play relative to government policies and actions of individual companies in supporting the emergence of "High Road" strategies that lead to better New Growth Path–related... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Competition; Industry Clusters; Globalization; Economic Growth; Europe
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  • 18 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 18

http://dx.doi.org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.01.041 August 2013 The Changing Frontier: Rethinking Science and Innovation Policy Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Renewable Energy By:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 17

  Publications August 2013 California Management Review What Impact? A Framework for Measuring the Scale & Scope of Social Performance By: Ebrahim, Alnoor, and V. Kasturi Rangan Abstract—Organizations with social missions, such as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 May 2021
  • Op-Ed

Why America Needs a Better Bridge Between School and Career

change among training organizations, our research team at Harvard’s interdisciplinary Project on Workforce analyzed 316 applications to the Postsecondary Innovation for Equity initiative. The grant competition, launched by venture... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller and Rachel Lipson
  • 04 Apr 2023
  • Blog Post

Maersk’s Journey to Decarbonize Shipping

In January 2023, Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel led more than 40 HBS MBA students on site visits to witness the energy transition and innovative sustainable production activities throughout Denmark and the Netherlands, in their new... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2023
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

innovators who are creating and implementing new solutions to these daunting challenges. The only barrier to empowering many of these entrepreneurs is the availability of funding to ensure that their ideas can get off the ground and... View Details
Keywords: podcasts
  • 17 Jan 2019
  • Blog Post

MBA Curriculum Spotlight: Short Intensive Programs (SIPs)

will evaluate innovative strategies to create new marketplaces and opportunities, we will examine the key challenges in competing with large incumbent firms, and how incumbents can defend their market shares. We are going to discuss View Details
  • 06 Oct 2020
  • Sharpening Your Skills

18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters

alike. It is also, however, an opportunity to examine current business practices in order to increase long-term operational efficiency and competitiveness, as well as to innovate for the sake of surviving now and thriving later. It is a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Nov 2021
  • News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

innovation to develop technologies that create energy using the earth’s renewable resources. We can move quickly when a solution is promising. We can deploy capital in flexible ways to scale solutions across... View Details
  • February 2019 (Revised August 2019)
  • Case

KangaTech

By: Karim R. Lakhani, Patrick J. Ferguson, Sarah Fleischer, Jin Hyun Paik and Steven Randazzo
On a warm January afternoon in 2019, Steve Saunders, Dave Scerri, Carl Dilena, and Nick Haslam (see Exhibit 1 for biographies), co-founders of KangaTech, wrapped up the latest round of discussions about the future direction of their sports-technology start-up. Focused... View Details
Keywords: Startup; Technology Commercialization; Prototype; Business Startups; Technological Innovation; Sports; Health; Commercialization; Research and Development; Decision Making; Growth and Development Strategy; Technology Industry; Sports Industry; Health Industry; Australia
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  • 14 Jun 2010
  • Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact

major players by virtue of their scale and the scope of their activities, and in some communities they have been the only consistent service providers in a generation," he observes. "They can assess their performance much further down the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 22 Feb 2022
  • News

New Urban Order

visible places where people can see cars charging out in the wild.” Green Construction Many American cities have ambitious green-building goals, and some states—notably Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, and California—have programs to support View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services
  • 21 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 21

across and within metropolitan areas, but the endogeneity of these measures bedevils interpretation. Chinitz (1961) hypothesized that coal mines near Pittsburgh led that city to specialization in industries, like steel, with significant View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne