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November 2018 (Revised April 2019)
Case

Nike: Changing the Sneakers Game

By: Anita Elberse, Bryce Aiken and Howard Johnson

“Our goal is to be the kind of start-up that would terrify Nike—if Nike didn’t already own us.” Ron Faris, general manager of S23NYC, a Manhattan-based digital studio owned by sports apparel giant Nike, is on the phone with Adam Sussman, Nike’s chief digital officer.... View Details

Keywords: Digital Technology; Apparel; Fashion; Superstar; Innovation; General Management; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Innovation and Invention; Management; Sports; Entertainment; Digital Strategy; Apparel and Accessories Industry

October 2010 (Revised June 2015)
Teaching Note

MINTing Innovation at NewYork-Presbyterian (A) and (B)

By: Richard G. Hamermesh and David Kiron

Teaching Note for 810004 and 815113. View Details

Keywords: Commercialization; Technological Innovation; Health Industry

June 2010 (Revised September 2010)
Case

athenahealth: Innovating in Response to a Crisis in Healthcare

When Jonathan Bush and his partner, Todd Park, realized that their revolutionary approach to delivering clinical care was being stymied by the inefficiencies in the healthcare system and insurance red tape, they turned their proprietary technology, athenaNet, to a new... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Health Care and Treatment; Information Management; Innovation and Invention; Brands and Branding; Product Development; Health Industry; United States

23 Oct 2018
News

How the U.S. Can Rebuild Its Capacity to Innovate

February 2002
Case

NeuroTherapy Ventures: Catalyzing Neurologic Innovations

Discusses the impact of limited market size on epilepsy therapies and shows how an early-stage venture fund can catalyze faster development of new treatments. View Details

Keywords: Information Technology; Commercialization; Innovation and Management; Business Startups; Pharmaceutical Industry

24 Oct 2007
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation

introduce innovations that transform the way companies do business and consumers behave. Disruptive changes that might serve as the source of innovation include technology... View Details

20 Nov 2016
News

Simplivity Raises $58 Million in Additional Capital

Keywords: technology; innovation; entrepreneurship; venture capital

December 2003 (Revised April 2004)
Case

Blockbuster Inc. & Technological Substitution (D): The Threat of Direct Digital Distribution

Examines the emergence of technologies for delivering video content to consumer homes via direct digital distribution and investigates the strategic options facing video rental giant Blockbuster Inc. as it tries to respond to the new technological substitutes. Examines... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Risk and Uncertainty; Decisions; Technological Innovation; Competition; Change Management; Service Industry; Motion Pictures and Video Industry

15 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Business IT Innovation is so Difficult

Harvard Business School professor Kristina Steffenson McElheran studies the effect of information technology on business process innovation. It's a topic, she is sometimes told, that is, well, less than exciting. "I've had people say to... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

June 2005 (Revised July 2006)
Background Note

Note on the Convergence Between Genomics & Information Technology

By: David B. Yoffie, Dharmesh M Mehta and Rachel Sha

Focuses on the convergence between the genomics and semiconductor industries, in particular organ printing, DNA computing, biomolecular sensory networks, and DNA microarrays. Explains what this newly converged world looks like based on current research and findings in... View Details

Keywords: Genetics; Information Technology; Business Model; Disruptive Innovation; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry

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01 Dec 2007
News

Where Are the Innovators in Health Care?

No sector of our economy is more in need of innovation than health care, yet its many regulations handcuff entrepreneurs. A consumer-driven health-care system will unlock these shackles to bring about a much-needed entrepreneurial... View Details

Keywords: Regina E. Herzlinger; Health, Social Assistance; Management

26 Jan 2004
Research & Ideas

What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation

goal is to reach 800,000 more within five years. Innovate Around—rather Than Through—the Technology Companies such as Samsung or Novartis can drive innovation from their... View Details

Keywords: by Donald N. Sull, Alejandro Ruelas-Gossi & Martin Escobari

1989
Chapter

Technocratic Organization and Technological Development in China, 1928-1953

By: William C. Kirby

Keywords: History; Information Technology; Technological Innovation; Organizational Design; Developing Countries and Economies; China

2002
Chapter

Organizational Technology: Technological Change, Ambidextrous Organizations and Organizational Evolution

By: M. Tushman and W. Smith

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Design; Technological Innovation