Innovation Strategy - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Apr 2023
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Step Change

managing other accelerators. The effort is a continuation of the government's investment of 5 billion Egyptian pounds in creating a strong startup ecosystem that includes education programs at six Creativa Innovation Hubs located... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

14 Sep 2015
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Cold Call: The Launch of a New Podcast Series

01 Mar 2008
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Negotiating with Wal-Mart

negotiations to supply Wal-Mart with her family farm’s pumpkins and watermelons. Like Muccio, Talley confronted some of the same hardball price challenges, and like Muccio, she acquired a deep understanding of the Wal-Mart culture while finding “new money” in the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; General Merchandise Stores; Retail Trade

01 Apr 2001
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Ed Tian: Boardroom Revolutionary

network — not just the backbone, but the access, too. The Internet right now runs too slowly, which is why building a new infrastructure is so critical.” That mission won’t be easy. For one thing, innovative and entrepreneurial business... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes; Telecommunications; Information

01 Jun 2020
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Unleashed

That’s it. That’s the secret.” Morriss is the executive founder of The Leadership Consortium; Frei, the consortium's co-founder, served as senior vice president of leadership and strategy at Uber. They draw from their work with companies... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

28 Mar 2018
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Fueling the Future

recruiter and marketing director to head of innovation. Today, she runs Fueled for Growth, an innovation consulting company, which assists financial firms with due diligence in the energy and industrials sector and helps companies solve... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Sep 2014
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Afghanistan’s Hope and Light

Hekmatullah Ebrahimkhil prays next to a network tower on a hill overlooking Qargha Lake, outside Kabul. Ebrahimkhil is helping his father guard and service one of the mobile communication towers on the hill—part of an innovative community... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

15 Nov 2020
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Podcasts Engage New Audiences with HBS

technology for creating podcasts, videos, and webinars. During the pandemic, podcasts are being recorded remotely. Popular Episodes Walmart’s Strategy to Beat Amazon; and Millennial Socialism Three professors discuss how Walmart is trying... View Details

01 Dec 2008
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NYC Club Hosts Nonprofits

the September 23 summit, “New Directions in Non-profit Leadership,” to give the city’s nonprofit leaders an opportunity to hear innovative thinking and best practices from a trio of HBS professors and nearly fifty practitioners. Sessions... View Details

01 Jun 2013
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Alumni Books

sports, education, health, and economics. He shows what questions to ask, which data to collect, how to mold data to yield answers, and how to interpret numbers computed by others. Social Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century: Innovation... View Details

01 Dec 2015
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Giving Advice

might approach this question in a spirit of inquiry; don’t feel pressured to narrow to one cause too quickly. Begin by picking a few causes that you find yourself drawn to and then create a 12-month learning agenda for yourself. Learn about the best and most View Details

01 Dec 2015
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Leading Boston and Beyond

Koh’s fifth floor office, cooking up a communications strategy ahead of the looming Boston winter. “We want to avoid what happened last year,” warns Koh, Chief of Staff to Mayor Marty Walsh. Last winter, the Hub’s snowiest on record, left... View Details

Keywords: Jen Myers; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

09 Mar 2021
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Empowering School Leaders to Meet Today's Challenges

figure out which innovations will be with the school forever.” Navigating Complexities As principal of the Ira A. Murphy Elementary School, a K–8 public school in suburban Phoenix with the highest poverty level in its district, Mills,... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

31 Mar 2022
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A Community Hunger Solution with Global Ambitions

meet the residents’ needs—whether that’s feeding folks in a homeless shelter or bringing meals to a local orphanage. That push to innovate proved important during the pandemic as the Robin Hood Army tried to reach senior citizens in... View Details

01 Dec 2020
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In Review

five Is. What are your reflections on your progress on each one? Let’s start with Innovation. We launched some significant innovations, including the FIELD program and HBS Online. Other lesser-known innovations worth mentioning include... View Details

01 Dec 2002
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To Educate Leaders Who Make a Difference in the World

concerns facing 21st century business, including the impact of technological innovation on society, the complexities of globalization, and the challenges of leadership as corporate America tries to regain public confidence. A midday... View Details

01 Oct 2001
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Dean Clark on the New Academic Year

the last six years that already have proven fruitful. These innovative efforts are allowing us to seize opportunities we only had begun to imagine at the outset but now have become vital to the mission of the School. Support for these... View Details

Keywords: Kim B. Clark; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Sep 2015
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Faculty Q&A: The Working World

patents. If you look at the PhD workforce for science and engineering, the immigrant share is even higher at roughly 50 percent. The math and science skills behind many of these innovations are relatively easy to port across... View Details