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  • 24 Jul 2006
  • Research & Ideas

How Kayak Users Built a New Industry

The sport of rodeo kayaking—the use of specialized kayaks to perform acrobatic tricks and maneuvers in rough white water—began around 1968 when an avid sportsman by the name of Walt Blackader developed... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation
  • June 2023
  • Article

How New Ideas Diffuse in Science

By: Mengjie Cheng, Daniel Scott Smith, Xiang Ren, Hancheng Cao, Sanne Smith and Daniel A. McFarland
What conditions help new ideas spread? Can knowledge entrepreneurs’ position and develop new ideas in ways that help them take off? Most innovation research focuses on products and their reference. That focus ignores the ideas themselves and the broader ideational... View Details
Keywords: Innovation Adoption; Natural Language Processing; Knowledge; Science; Innovation and Invention; Knowledge Sharing; Analytics and Data Science
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  • 06 Aug 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels

polesnoy As technology commoditization begins speeding up again, it’s a great time to be a consumer in search of a state-of-the-art flat panel TVs, but less comfortable for manufacturers hoping to make a profit. That’s according to recent View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing; Electronics

    Suraj Srinivasan

    Suraj Srinivasan is the Philip J. Stomberg Professor of Business Administration, a member of the Accounting and Management faculty unit, and chair of the View Details

    Keywords: financial services; financial services
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    Navigating Your Worth: AI, Negotiations, and the Nature of Expertise - Course Catalog

    capabilities, enhanced over time, duplicated at no cost and commoditized to destroy its uniqueness and value This change could shift how you should navigate your career and... View Details

      Alan D. MacCormack

      Alan MacCormack is the MBA Class of 1949 Adjunct Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, a member of The Digital, Data, and Design (D^3) Institute at Harvard, and a core faculty member... View Details

      Keywords: automotive; communications; computer; e-commerce industry; electronics; high technology; information technology industry; internet; semiconductor; software; telecommunications; venture capital industry
      • 14 Nov 2023
      • Research & Ideas

      The Network Effect: Why Companies Should Care About Employees’ LinkedIn Connections

      the value they produce. The researchers correlated the network data to measures of success in innovation, such as investments in research and View Details
      Keywords: by Ben Rand

        Michael Beer

        MICHAEL BEER

        Mike Beer is the Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School and author Fit to Compete: Why Honest Conversations About Your Company’s... View Details

          Frank Nagle

          Frank Nagle is an assistant professor in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. Professor Nagle studies how competitors can collaborate on the creation of core technologies, while still competing on the products and services built on top of them - especially... View Details

          • 11 Jul 2019
          • Sharpening Your Skills

          Deconstructing 'Customer Experience'

          evolved to the concept of the “customer experience,” essentially the ability to capture customer loyalty and promote evangelism by offering top-notch service and a delightful... View Details
          Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Service; Service
          • May 2006
          • Case

          A123Systems

          By: H. Kent Bowen, Kenneth P Morse and Douglass Cannon
          A 123Systems was a young company that was founded on basic materials science research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A co-founder of the company, Yet-Ming Chiang, was a full professor at MIT and served as scientific adviser. Intellectual property based... View Details
          Keywords: Intellectual Property; Business Startups; Research and Development; Commercialization; Technological Innovation; Science-Based Business; Product Development; Battery Industry; Electronics Industry; Massachusetts
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          Preface - Coin and Conscience – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

          staff in advance via email at histcollref@hbs.edu or by phone at 617-495-6411. Please review the Information and Services section of the Historical Collections website for more information on preparing for a... View Details
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          Student Spotlight: 2023 HCC Co-Presidents Reflect on Their Time at HBS and the Current Health Care Systems - Blog: Health Supplement

          the lens of early therapeutics development and clinical trials execution. I had a very limited grasp of digital health, payors and providers, hospital systems, View Details
          • 27 Jan 2015
          • First Look

          First Look: January 27

          The Effect of Service Quality and Competition on Demand By: Balasubramanian, Karthik, and David F. Drake Abstract—The use of electronic money transfer through cellular networks... View Details
          Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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          Harvard Business School and Polaroid - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

          Education Alumni Baker Library Historical Collections MORE EXHIBITS HOME RESEARCH LINKS POLAROID FILMS SITE CREDITS “Mr. Land's intense interest in scientific research View Details
          • 2009
          • Article

          Modeling Expert Opinions on Food Healthfulness: A Nutrition Metric

          By: Jolie M. Martin, John Beshears, Katherine L. Milkman, Max H. Bazerman and Lisa Sutherland

          Research over the last several decades indicates the failure of existing nutritional labels to substantially improve the healthiness of consumers' food and beverage choices. The difficulty for policy-makers is to encapsulate a wide body of scientific knowledge in a... View Details

          Keywords: Judgments; Food; Nutrition; Labels; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Demand and Consumers; Measurement and Metrics; Mathematical Methods
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            Gary P. Pisano

            Gary Pisano is the Harry E. Figgie, Jr. Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School where he has been on the faculty since 1988. From 2018-2023, Pisano was Harvard Business School’s Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Promotion and... View Details

            Keywords: biotechnology; electronics; health care; manufacturing; pharmaceuticals

              Luis M. Viceira

              Luis M. Viceira is the George E. Bates Professor in the Finance Unit  and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research, course development, and teaching focus on the areas of investment management... View Details

              Keywords: financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services

                Joseph B. Fuller

                Joseph Fuller is a Professor of Management Practice in General Management and Entrepreneurship. He founded and co-leads the school’s project, Managing the Future of Work, as well as the Harvard Project on the Workforce. He currently leads the FIELD Global Capstone... View Details

                • 30 Sep 2008
                • First Look

                First Look: September 30, 2008

                and service quality. Using longitudinal data from stores of a large retailer, I find that increasing the amount of labor at a store is associated with an increase in profitability through its impact on... View Details
                Keywords: Martha Lagace