Diffusion Of Innovation - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Nov 2024
Book

Building the Road to 'Small Business Utopia' with AI and Fintech

Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from chapter one of Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream, written by Karen G. Mills, senior fellow at Harvard Business School. The second edition was published in 2024 by Palgrave... View Details

Keywords: by Karen G. Mills; Financial Services

Mo Ibrahim

Keywords: Telecoms, NGO

02 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

Digital Initiative Summit: Who Has the Power in the Music Industry?

business in order to be successful." Other Articles In This Series Big Messages, Small Screens, Many Choices Companies Must Forget—and Borrow The Business of Crowdsourcing Freeing Patient Data to Enable View Details

Keywords: Re: Felix Oberholzer-Gee; Music

26 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

David, Goliath, and Disruption

As elegantly described by HBS professor Clayton M. Christensen in his 1997 bestseller, The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail, so-called disruptive technologies are upstart innovations that manage to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

22 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

Recessions Push Some Entrepreneurs to Launch Too Soon

the quality threshold that the idea underlying the startup needs to pass may be lower than during normal times. Considering our findings from other periods of economic distress, lowering the idea-quality bar may then imply long-term... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

26 Apr 2023
Cold Call Podcast

How Martine Rothblatt Started a Company to Save Her Daughter

Keywords: Re: Debora L. Spar; Pharmaceutical; Medical Devices & Supplies; Health

November 2020
Article

Disrupting the Disruptors or Enhancing Them? How Blockchain Re‐Shapes Two‐Sided Platforms

By: Daniel Trabucchi, Antonella Moretto, Tommaso Buganza and Alan MacCormack

The importance of platform‐based businesses in the modern economy is growing continuously and becoming increasingly relevant. Specifically, the deployment of digital technologies has enhanced the applicability of two‐sided business models, enabling companies to act not... View Details

Keywords: Blockchain; Two-Sided Platforms; Business Model; Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation

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29 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 29

reaping the benefits of FDI (which relate to when FDI will generate growth) and (2) the mechanisms by which FDI creates positive externalities (which relate to how FDI generates growth). Technology and View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Jul 2015
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First Look: July 28, 2015

negative impact on innovation at targeted firms: firms substantially reduce their innovative activity after settling with NPEs (or losing to them in court). Download working paper:... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

August 2019
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Twiggle: E-Commerce with Semantic Search

By: Shane Greenstein and Danielle Golan

Four years after being founded, in 2014, by former Google executives Amir Konigsberg (CEO) and Adi Avidor (CTO), Twiggle had developed a search enhancement that plugged into an online merchant’s existing framework. The company utilized advanced structuring and... View Details

Keywords: Search Technology; Customer Acquisition; Internet and the Web; Technological Innovation; Commercialization; Growth and Development Strategy; E-commerce; Technology Industry; Israel

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30 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 30, 2007

creative ideas from their generation through future use by others. We test the hypothesis that brokered ideas are less likely to be used in future creative efforts. The results illustrate how collaborative brokerage can aid in the generation View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 12

an organizational innovation still in progress can be taken elsewhere and maintain essential ingredients while also accommodating local and state differences. It raises questions about the necessary conditions for View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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The overarching goal of my research is to produce works that are influential and informative to both academics and practitioners in the field of operations management. To accomplish this, I collaborate with industry partners who provide knowledge about their field,... View Details

02 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

Digital Initiative Summit: Companies Must Forget—and Borrow

founder of the Victors & Spoils ad agency in Colorado, who noted that when his agency sold its majority stake to global communications firm Havas in 2012, he was faced with trying to innovate within a... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education; Advertising

21 Oct 2024
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What Happens in Vegas Could Shape the Metaverse

When science fiction writer Neal Stephenson dreamed of the metaverse—a term he coined in his 1992 novel Snow Crash—he envisioned a long city street that’s “always garish and brilliant, like Las Vegas freed from constraints View Details

Keywords: by Scott Nover; Computer; Information Technology

27 May 2014
News

Crowdsourcing the Capitalist's Dilemma

discussion of "The Capitalist's Dilemma"—the challenges of innovating for long-term growth and job creation—in the Harvard Business Review. The team View Details

Keywords: April White; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

19 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Digital Technology’s Profound Game Change for Marketers

technology's impact on their business, the entire customer experience, and leading innovation within their enterprises, not simply following a course set by their IT department. "Madison Avenue meets MIT" and "Revenge View Details

Keywords: by Jeffrey Bussgang; Advertising; Technology