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  • Article

Little Patents and Big Secrets: Managing Intellectual Property

By: James J. Anton and Dennis A. Yao
Exploitation of an innovation commonly requires some disclosure of enabling knowledge (e.g., to obtain a patent or induce complementary investment). When property rights offer only limited protection, the value of the disclosure is offset by the increased threat of... View Details
Keywords: Patents; Management; Innovation and Invention; Knowledge; Rights; Value; Information; Corporate Disclosure
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  • April 2024 (Revised November 2024)
  • Case

Moderna: Pioneering a People Platform to Accelerate Science Innovation

By: Tatiana Sandino, Emil Dy and Samuel Grad
Moderna was founded in 2010 to explore how messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) could be used to create breakthrough medicines by encoding instructions for the body to create antibodies. When Stéphane Bancel (HBS 2000) took over in 2011, he bet on the potential of this... View Details
Keywords: Disruptive Innovation; Talent and Talent Management; Selection and Staffing; AI and Machine Learning; Digital Strategy; Innovation and Management; Leadership Development; Management Practices and Processes; Management Systems; Organizational Culture; Performance Evaluation; Alignment; Employee Relationship Management; Science-Based Business; Expansion; Pharmaceutical Industry; Biotechnology Industry; United States
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  • December 2012
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Grand Innovation Prizes: A Theoretical, Normative, and Empirical Evaluation

By: Alan MacCormack, Fiona Murray, Scott Stern and Georgina Campbell
This paper provides a systematic examination of the use of a Grand Innovation Prize (GIP) in action—the Progressive Automotive Insurance X PRIZE—a $10 million prize for a highly efficient vehicle. Following a mechanism design approach we define three key dimensions for... View Details
Keywords: Design; Motivation and Incentives; Goals and Objectives; Performance; Auto Industry
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  • 28 Nov 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Challenging the Belief that Liability Laws Kill Medical Device Innovation

incentivized to produce safer products to help them manage risk” “When physicians are under pressure from high liability, innovators are incentivized to produce safer products to help them View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Medical Devices & Supplies
  • Research Summary

The role of the manager in cross-sector interactions

My second stream of research takes the individual manager as the unit of analysis in examining cross-sector interactions.  Two papers explore processes and mechanisms that allow managers to cross sectoral boundaries more effectively.

The first paper... View Details
  • September – October 2011
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Manage the Culture Cycle

By: James L. Heskett
Organizational culture—the shared assumptions, values, and behaviors that determine "how we do things around here"—can be measured and shaped. In organizations with large numbers of customer-facing employees, it can account for up to half of the difference in operating... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Culture; Value; Behavior; Retention; Customer Focus and Relationships; Change Management; Learning; Innovation and Invention; Labor
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  • December 2015
  • Case

IDEO: Human-Centered Service Design

By: Ryan W. Buell and Andrew Otazo
The case describes IDEO, one of the world's leading design firms, and its human-centered innovation culture and processes. It is an example of what managers can do to make their own organizations more innovative. In reaction to a rapidly changing competitive landscape,... View Details
Keywords: Design Thinking; Innovation; Service Management; Service; Design; Service Delivery; Innovation and Management; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Peru
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  • June 2009 (Revised March 2011)
  • Module Note

The Creative Industries: Managing and Marketing Talent

By: Anita Elberse
This module note examines issues concerning the management and marketing of talent in the creative industries. It describes the characteristics of the market for creative talent, discusses how individual talent creates and captures value, and explores how professional... View Details
Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Entertainment; Innovation and Management; Marketing; Creativity; Value
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  • 26 Sep 2023
  • Book

Digital Strategy: A Handbook for Managing a Moving Target

excitement and the growing enthusiasm, at times even the frenzy, about these new phenomena, on the grounds of the pressing demands on managers to deal with the new reality and on academics to understand these phenomena. “Existing strategy... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Information Technology; Technology
  • Research Summary

Managing Multiple Identities at Work

By: Lakshmi Ramarajan
Peoples’ work identities, which are often a deep source of meaning for them, may conflict with or complement cultural, familial, or personal identities they value. A central focus of Professor Ramarajan’s work is understanding, on the individual level, how these... View Details
  • 07 Jan 2020
  • News

Indie booksellers innovate to survive the age of Amazon

  • 2009
  • Article

Marketing and Innovations Management: An Integrated Perspective

By: Elie Ofek and Olivier Toubia
Keywords: Marketing; Innovation and Invention; Management; Integration; Perspective
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  • Web

Accounting & Management - Faculty & Research

Accounting & Management Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students March 2025 Case Harvey: AI for Lawyers By: Suraj Srinivasan , Charles Krumholz and Radhika Kak In early 2025, Winston Weinberg... View Details
  • 2013
  • Book

Beyond the Idea: How to Execute Innovation in Any Organization

By: Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble
By offering specific action steps, Beyond the Idea extends the elegant conceptual insights from How Stella Saved the Farm, Govindarajan and Trimble's parable. Beyond the Idea shows exactly how to: - Build a team with a very particular structure, one... View Details
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  • Web

Online Management Course | HBS Online

and innovate Manage and lead change in organizations of varying sizes Who Will Benefit Newly Appointed Managers Seasoned Managers Aspiring View Details
  • 20 Nov 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Open Source Science: A New Model for Innovation

innovation and product development strategies. His latest research analyzes how open source norms of transparency, permeable access, and collaboration might work with scientists. What he and his coauthors discovered:... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 24 Mar 2011
  • News

Managing in Asia

Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Telecommunications; Information
  • September 2017
  • Case

Dr. William Carson— Intrapreneurial Innovation in the Pharmaceutical Industry

By: Steven Rogers and Alyssa Haywoode
Dr. William Carson, an African-American alum of Harvard University became the President and CEO of a multi billion dollar division of Otsuka, a Japan based pharmaceutical company. His ascension to this leadership position followed a thriving career in academic medicine... View Details
Keywords: Dr. Williams Carson; Otsuka America Pharmaceutical; Harvard; Abilify; Aripiprazole; Health Testing and Trials; Globalized Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Decision Choices and Conditions; Pharmaceutical Industry; Japan
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Managing Workplace Reforms and Organization-Wide Transformations

Richard E. Walton is studying (with doctoral candidate Scott Hamlin and research associate Kathleen Scharf) the development and diffusion of new forms of union-management partnership together with other new practices in the steel industry. To test and elaborate... View Details
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Launching New Ventures—Jump-Starting Innovation for Entrepreneurs and Business Owners (Executive Education)

By: William R. Kerr
Starting up a new venture amid rapid change is fraught with challenges. Whether you are starting a new business, launching a new business line, or building an entrepreneurial culture within a small-to-midsize company, this program provides a new perspective and core... View Details