Publications

20 Jun 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 20

New inventors received more patent citations than incumbent inventors, suggesting a cycle of creative destruction. The financial returns to technological development were high. At the macro level we identify... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

September 2014 (Revised March 2015)
Case

Managing Multi-Media Audiences at WHDH (Boston)

By: Thales Teixeira and V. Kasturi Rangan

WHDH's Channel 7 News rose to the #1 position in Boston-area news broadcasting through its embrace of an innovative format and for affiliating with NBC. Since the early 2000s, however, other news programs had copied their format, and young audiences had begun to use... View Details

Keywords: Online News; Television Advertising; Attention Economics; Cross-media Efforts; Competition; Internet and the Web; Consumer Behavior; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Change Management; Marketing Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions; Digital Marketing; Television Entertainment; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Boston

October 2002 (Revised June 2003)
Background Note

New Frontiers in Target Discovery and Validation

By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Niv Caviar, Jon Chatterton and Andrea Lynn

Explains Immusol and Novartis's technology. View Details

Keywords: Information Technology; Technological Innovation; Pharmaceutical Industry

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01 Sep 2003
News

New Editor Takes Helm at HBS Bulletin

Roger Thompson, a longtime editor at Nation’s Business magazine and, more recently, a Web site developer and manager for Cox Interactive Media, is the new editor of the HBS Bulletin. In July, he assumed the position formerly held by... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

21 Nov 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017

in other revenue management settings and beyond. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49779 Technology Reemergence: Creating New Markets for Old Technologies, Swiss... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Video

Edwin Land in a new factory space. Produced for Polaroid, Dr. land Stockholders Meeting, 1969-1970

13 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

Science: The Unlikely Frontier for New Business Ideas

shrinking product lifecycles and rapidly changing technology are under pressure to bring new goods to market faster. Corporate spending on research and development (R&D) in the United States has also... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

13 Jun 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13

between immigration and innovation. We construct a measure of foreign born expertise and show that technology areas where immigrant inventors were prevalent between 1880 and 1940 experienced more patenting and citations between 1940 and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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

July – September 2003
Article

The Brave New World of Wireless Web

By: Ranjay Gulati and Alex Panas

Keywords: Internet and the Web

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September 2016 (Revised March 2020)
Teaching Note

Fasten: Challenging Uber and Lyft with a New Business Model

By: Feng Zhu

Fasten, a new ridesharing start-up in Boston, entered the scene in September 2015 hoping its unique vision of transparency for both driver and passenger and strategy to keep riders' fares low and charge drivers a flat $0.99 fee per ride, as opposed to the 20%–30%... View Details

Keywords: Information Technology; Transportation; Business Startups; Business Model; Transportation Industry; Boston

16 Nov 2015
HBS Seminar

Vish Krishnan, Professor of Innovation, Technology & Operations, University of California San Diego Rady School of Man

16 May 2017
First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16

phone orders, much could be done by revenue diversification; the company simply had too much valuable data to be ignored. What should the company do to take advantage of its data analysis capabilities and the new View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

Web

Chinese Competition and Emerging Technologies - A Chronicle of the China Trade

Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive... View Details

30 May 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30

2017 Advances in Strategic Management Geography, Location, and Strategy By: Alcácer, Juan, Bruce Kogut, Catherine Thomas, and Bernard Yin Yeung, eds. Abstract—Changes in both technology and global political economy have vastly accelerated... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Jun 2019
News

The New Labor Movement: Pushing Employers to Be Socially Active

April 2016
Teaching Note

IBM and the Reinvention of High School (C): Toward P-TECH's Rapid National Expansion

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Kelsi Stine-Rowe

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 316-130. This Teaching Note accompanies the third case in a 3-case series on P-TECH and the Reinvention of High School. The case focuses on the development and early diffusion of organizational innovation—how to create pilot projects for... View Details

Keywords: IBM; P-TECH; Stanley Litow; Robin Wilner; Cuomo; Scaling; Innovation; New York State; New York City; Business Model; Innovation Strategy; Innovation Leadership; Education; Business and Community Relations; Change; Technology Industry; New York (state, US); New York (city, NY)

April 1998 (Revised April 2004)
Case

NEC: A New R&D Site in Princeton

In 1992, Daizburo Shinoda, a senior R&D manager at NEC, has to deal with a succession issue regarding the leadership of NEC's R&D site in Princeton, N.J. In deciding whom to appoint as the next leader of NEC's most important R&D site abroad, Shinoda has to consider a... View Details

Keywords: Management Succession; Corporate Strategy; Research and Development; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Information Technology Industry; New Jersey

November 2024
Case

AlphaGo (A): Birth of a New Intelligence

By: Shikhar Ghosh and Shweta Bagai

This case, the first of a three-part series, traces DeepMind's evolution from its 2010 founding through its acquisition by Google in 2014. Often referred to as the "Apollo project" of artificial intelligence, DeepMind used games as a testing ground to develop AI... View Details

Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Technology Adoption; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Technological Innovation; Creativity; Technology Industry; South Korea; China; United States