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- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Toolkit for Customer Innovation
Thomke and Eric von Hippel Tapping into customer innovation can certainly generate tremendous value, but capturing that value is hardly a simple or straightforward process. Not only must companies develop the right tool kit, they must... View Details
Keywords: by Stefan Thomke & Eric Von Hippel
- 22 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
Panel on Pedagogical Innovations in MBA Courses
Editor's Note: This is a summary of an HBS Faculty Research Symposium 2010 presentation. View a full summary from the link below. Date of Event:May 10, 2010 Speakers:Ray Gilmartin, Joseph Lassiter, Youngme Moon, Nitin Nohria Multiple pedagogical View Details
- 25 Feb 2011
- News
Building America's Most Innovative Brands
- Article
Platform Competition: Betfair and the U.K. Market for Sports Betting
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Neil Campbell
We examine two episodes of strategic interaction in the U.K. betting industry: (i) Betfair (an entrant multi-sided platform or MSP) vs. Flutter (also an MSP) and (ii) Betfair vs. traditional bookmakers. We find that although Betfair was an underfunded second mover in... View Details
Keywords: Platform Design; Betting; Complements; Competing Business Models; Co-opetition; Entry; Multi-Sided Platforms; Design; Network Effects; Business Model; Competition; Cooperation
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Neil Campbell. "Platform Competition: Betfair and the U.K. Market for Sports Betting." Special Issue on Platforms. Journal of Economics & Management Strategy 28, no. 1 (Spring 2019): 29–40.
- 2007
- Book
When Professionals Have to Lead: A New Model for High Performance
By: Thomas J. DeLong, John J. Gabarro and Robert Lees
For too long, professional services firms (PSFs) have relied on the "producer-manager" model, which works well in uncomplicated business environments. However, today's managing directors must balance conflicting roles, more demanding clients, tougher competitors, and... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Management Practices and Processes; Service Operations; Performance Effectiveness; Strategy
DeLong, Thomas J., John J. Gabarro, and Robert Lees. When Professionals Have to Lead: A New Model for High Performance. Harvard Business School Press, 2007.
- 05 Mar 2008
- What Do You Think?
Where Will Management Innovation Take Us?
Alternatively, will the drive for management innovation come from a source other than social forces within the organization? As several suggested, these may include new technologies and their mastery for management (or self-management)... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Social Innovation Goes Mainstream
for her opening address at the tenth anniversary Social Enterprise Conference on March 1. The daylong event, heralded in advance by Forbes as one of the top business gatherings for 2009, was organized by students from HBS and the Harvard... View Details
- 13 Jul 2011
- News
Emphasis On Innovation Could Boost U.S. Economy
- March 2008
- Article
Linguistic Network Configurations: Management of Innovation in Design-intensive Firms
By: Claudio Dell'Era, Alessio Marchesi and Roberto Verganti
In today's business and academic arenas, design is more and more viewed as an important strategic resource. In fact, over the last couple of years, we have seen a real explosion in business and research literature that see scholars and companies alike trying to... View Details
- 2019
- Chapter
Interorganizational Collaboration and Start-Up Innovation
By: Vikas A. Aggarwal and Andy Wu
This chapter presents an overview of the literature on collaborative relationships between start-ups and incumbent firms, focusing on the implications of these relationships for start-up innovation and performance. Value creation in such relationships occurs when... View Details
Keywords: Alliance; Corporate Venture Capital; Complementary Assets; Appropriability; Business Startups; Joint Ventures; Knowledge; Innovation and Invention; Value Creation; Entrepreneurship
Aggarwal, Vikas A., and Andy Wu. "Interorganizational Collaboration and Start-Up Innovation." In The Oxford Handbook of Entrepreneurship and Collaboration, edited by Jeffrey J. Reuer, Sharon Matusik, and Jessica F. Jones, 611–627. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
- Web
The Diamond Model - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Strategy The Diamond Model The Diamond Model Every business operates within a playing field—the environment where it is born and where it learns to compete. The diamond is a... View Details
- 09 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Speed Up Energy Innovation
power plant are quite strong. Coming back to innovation, what's striking about chemicals is the role of small, independent engineering firms in transmitting innovation across the industry. So there's an interesting View Details
- 24 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Business Summit: Business Education in the 21st Century
data about the challenges facing the business education marketplace and presented qualitative information on innovations in top MBA programs. On the whole, MBA programs are in decline. Their value is being... View Details
- 23 Jun 2015
- Video
Innovations Wanted: Beating Brain Disease
- 08 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Fashion Your New E-Business Model
and infrastructure to launch new product lines or businesses, or enter new markets. Industrial Age business innovation's favored producers. The innovations included: Physical or analog production and... View Details
Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate
- October 2004 (Revised September 2005)
- Supplement
Sonoco Products Company (B): The Hybrid Model
By: David A. Thomas, Boris Groysberg and Cate Reavis
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Thomas, David A., Boris Groysberg, and Cate Reavis. "Sonoco Products Company (B): The Hybrid Model." Harvard Business School Supplement 405-010, October 2004. (Revised September 2005.)
- 26 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Clear Eye for Innovation
innovations while also making steady improvements to an existing business is so commonplace—and so fascinating—that it has become a battleground of management thought. For decades, scholars have spun... View Details
- 14 Dec 1999
- Research & Ideas
From Spare Change to Real Change: The Social Sector as a Beta Site for Business Innovation
write a check to community residents or a small neighborhood organization to do the work. And that, indeed, is what many companies do. A great deal of business participation in social sector problems derives from the classic View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- January 2014 (Revised June 2015)
- Case
Amgen Inc.: Pursuing Innovation and Imitation? (A)
By: Ian W. Mackenzie
Set in 2009, the (A) case explores whether Amgen, a leading innovator of biotech-based drugs, should enter the emerging business of biosimilars (BS), which are essentially 'me-too' products. There appear to be sound reasons to explore this related diversification:... View Details
Mackenzie, Ian W. "Amgen Inc.: Pursuing Innovation and Imitation? (A)." Harvard Business School Case 714-424, January 2014. (Revised June 2015.)