Technology Commercialization - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

commercial bank with 4,500 branches across India. Pre-COVID, the bank had no organizational or technological measures in place to enable work from remote locations. Only 30 to 40 users (mostly senior... View Details

Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa

Web

2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

to many different types of stimuli ranging from exercise to microbiome manipulation to factors circulating in blood. Professors Lee Rubin and Amy Wagers will describe some of this work along with its commercial implications. Generative AI... View Details

27 May 2014
First Look

First Look: May 27

principles. In particular, I show how Google used these tactics to enter numerous markets, to compel usage of its services, and often to dominate competing offerings. I explore the technical and commercial implementations of these... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Jan 2023
News

Free Spirits

for a year, first with commercial formulators, and ultimately finalized the recipes in Woods’s Cambridge kitchen. Each of their launch products—the Eden, Lacewing, and Tandem—satisfies one of three major flavor profiles (fruity, herbal,... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

19 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Alfred Chandler on the Electronic Century

Europe, the United States, and Japan. The continuing evolution of both consumer electronics and computers resulted from continuous learning in the commercializing of new technologies and enhancing of... View Details

Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler, Takashi Hikino & Andrew Von Nordenflycht; Technology; Technology; Technology; Technology; Technology

01 Mar 2025
News

Forward Thinking

private companies that have drastically lowered launch costs while pioneering new technologies. This infusion of competition and innovation has led to an increasingly symbiotic relationship between the government and the commercial space... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; Illustrations by Franziska Barczyk; Space Research and Technology; Space Research and Technology

12 Feb 2020
News

Culture Shift at Big Blue

together to grow a business.” While others have struggled, Red Hat has been a huge success in the open source business, managing to retain a careful balance between the vastly different worlds of the commercial businesses that buy their... View Details

Keywords: Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Dec 2001
News

BOOK: Ruling the Waves

technology, Spar asserts, four sequential phases typically occur: innovation (a technology's invention and initial development); commercialization (introduction of the technology to the mainstream); creative... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Jun 2022
News

Eyes in the Skies

custom-built satellites and a proprietary analytics platform to gather and analyze satellite images for commercial customers. Image by Lincoln Agnew Image by Lincoln Agnew Minnick credits several View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand

12 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

The Broadband Explosion: Thinking About a Truly Interactive World

co-chaired the conference and co-edited the book, with the idea of capturing as much as possible of the excellent thinking that came out during this event. By "broadband explosion" we mean the coming together of real-time communication and rich media View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Technology; Technology; Technology

15 Aug 2019
Blog Post

Stan Chang: “A Guided Experience into the World of Entrepreneurship”

role as Product Manager Intern with responsibilities he describes as “a mix of technology development and business analysis. I work with a team focused on developing products aimed at lowering energy usage in View Details

Keywords: Technology; Technology

03 Oct 2019
News

Skydeck Live: Galactic Returns

the development via NASA to an era where industry leads has sped up the pace of growth and primed the space sector for investment. Co-founder of space technology company Escape Dynamics and a longtime investor in the industry, Garriott de... View Details

Keywords: Space Research and Technology; Space Research and Technology

01 Jun 2013
News

Accelerating Therapies

and Chief Technology Development Officer Isaac Kohlberg, and HBS Professor of Management Practice Vicki Sato about how to bridge the work of the Accelerator with that of MBA students who are passionate about the life sciences. Professor... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Scientific Research and Development Services

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

Citation

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12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 16 Mar 2016
Webinars: Trending@HBS

How the Internet Became Commercial: Innovation, Privatization, and the Birth of a New Network

logic. All major technologies deploy when they overcome the circular conundrum and an adaptation conundrum. The circular conundrum arises because maximum value from the commercial View Details

04 Apr 2018
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Why Private Investors Must Fund 'New Nuclear' Power Right Now

Drbouz In June 2016, I gave a TED Talk called We Need Nuclear Power to Solve Climate Change. The talk discussed the world’s realistic options for reducing fossil CO2 emissions soon enough to contain climate change’s more severe effects. To my surprise, that talk has... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Lassiter; Energy; Green Technology

01 Dec 2014
News

Innovation: The Fish-Farming Fix

is developing technology to cool the eggs and make them available on demand. “We’re basically turning fish eggs into seeds you can plant anytime and use whenever you want,” says CEO Dmitry Kozachenok (MBA 2013). Since cofounding Cryoocyte... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs; aquaculture; Fishing, Hunting and Trapping; Agriculture

July 2006 (Revised August 2007)
Case

The Mozilla Foundation: Launching Firefox 1.0 (A)

Explores the Mozilla Foundation's decisions leading up to the launch of Firefox 1.0, including its default browser, managing corporate partnerships, managing product development, and moving toward a revenue-based model. Mitchell Baker, president of the Mozilla... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Commercialization; Open Source Distribution; Partners and Partnerships; Information Technology; Social Entrepreneurship; Applications and Software; Innovation and Invention; Information Technology Industry; United States