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Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship | About

heart of Silicon Valley. His landmark 2003 gift to establish the Rock Center funded not only a home base for entrepreneurship faculty, but also a lasting foundation for innovative course development, MBA and... View Details
  • October 2020
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The Supply Chain Economy: A New Industry Categorization for Understanding Innovation in Services

By: Mercedes Delgado and Karen G. Mills
An active debate has centered on the importance of manufacturing for driving innovation in the U.S. economy. This paper offers an alternative framework that focuses on the role of suppliers of goods and services (the “supply chain economy”) in national performance. We... View Details
Keywords: Supply Chain Industries; Business-to-consumer Industries; Services; Innovation; Economy; Framework; Supply Chain; Service Operations; Innovation and Invention; Economic Growth; United States
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  • July–September 2020
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Innovation Contest: Effect of Perceived Support for Learning on Participation

By: Olivia Jung, Andrea Blasco and Karim R. Lakhani
Background: Frontline staff are well positioned to conceive improvement opportunities based on first-hand knowledge of what works and does not work. The innovation contest may be a relevant and useful vehicle to elicit staff ideas. However, the success of the... View Details
Keywords: Contest; Innovation; Employee Engagement; Organizational Learning; Health Care; Health Care Delivery; Innovation and Invention; Organizations; Learning; Employees; Perception; Health Care and Treatment
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  • 01 Sep 2024
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Fueling Innovation

By giving to the HBS Fund, alumni and friends support the School’s core priorities and help catalyze the launch of new programs and initiatives and sustain their growth. Featured here are a few key examples of innovations at HBS that... View Details
  • July 2002 (Revised August 2002)
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Washington Hospital Center (B): The Power of Insight

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Michelle Heskett
Dr. Craig Feied considers how to take a major technical innovation beyond his own department into a large hospital system. Reviews how proprietary information systems became indispensable in the department of emergency medicine and what it took to introduce the change... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Health Care and Treatment; Nonprofit Organizations; Medical Specialties; Organizational Culture; Crisis Management; Technological Innovation; Higher Education; Adoption; Health Industry; District of Columbia
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  • December 2020 (Revised April 2021)
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IBM Watson at MD Anderson Cancer Center

By: Shane Greenstein, Mel Martin and Sarkis Agaian
After discovering that their cancer diagnostic tool, designed to leverage the cloud computing power of IBM Watson, needed greater integration into the clinical processes at the MD Anderson Cancer Center, the development team had difficult choices to make. The Oncology... View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Innovation Strategy; Knowledge Management; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Operations; Failure; Information Technology; Applications and Software; Health Care and Treatment; Product Development; Health Industry; Information Technology Industry; Technology Industry; United States; Houston; Texas
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  • 24 Jan 2013
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Q&A: Why U.S. Companies Fail to Innovate

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Harvard Environmental Centers - Business & Environment

Clinic The Emmett Environmental Law and Policy Clinic at Harvard Law School offers students the opportunity to practice environmental law through work on a variety of litigation, administrative, legislative, and policy projects. Food Law & Policy Clinic The View Details
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Resources - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

Teaching and Learning Centers, Additional Case Resources, Professional Organizations and Journals. The Christensen Center for Teaching and Learning is not responsible for content on external links. Teaching & Learning View Details
  • May 2016
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Return Migration and Geography of Innovation in MNEs: A Natural Experiment of Knowledge Production by Local Workers Reporting to Return Migrants

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury
I study whether return migrants facilitate knowledge production by local employees working for them at geographically distant R&D locations. Using unique personnel and patenting data for 1,315 employees at the Indian R&D center of a Fortune 500 technology firm, I... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Innovation and Invention
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Entrepreneurship & Innovation - MBA

also a New Venture Competition Alumni Track which serves as a launch pad for innovative new ventures from HBS alumni, providing access and exposure to potential investors, mentors, and advisors. New Venture Competition An annual student... View Details
  • September 2024
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The Health Equity Accelerator at Boston Medical Center

By: Susanna Gallani, Mary Witkowski and Katie Sonnefeldt
This case describes how Boston Medical Center, a hospital and safety net organization, changed its strategic approach to health equity after realizing that previous efforts were not sufficient to address the health disparities among their patients. In 2021, the Health... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Health Disorders; Innovation and Management; Innovation Leadership; Innovation Strategy; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Mission and Purpose; Decisions; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Diversity; Race; Ethnicity; Urban Scope; Local Range; Health Industry; Boston
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  • July 2002 (Revised August 2002)
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Washington Hospital Center (D): Emergency Medicine After September 11

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Michelle Heskett
The all-risks-ready emergency room prototype project becomes widely accepted as a need after September 11, 2001. The already operational medical informatics system, Insight, comes under heavy demand after its strong performance during crises and is noticed by various... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Health Care and Treatment; Nonprofit Organizations; Medical Specialties; Organizational Culture; Crisis Management; Technological Innovation; Higher Education; Performance Productivity; Health Industry; District of Columbia
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  • 25 Apr 2014
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Investing in Innovation

Fund for Leadership and Innovation or made gifts directed to specific priorities. A multiyear series of Campaign events will be held in more than 20 locations around the world, each designed to connect alumni in learning about and sharing... View Details
Keywords: HBS Fund; Educational Services
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FAQs - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

Frequently Asked Questions Do you offer services for students as well as faculty?The Christensen Center is primarily for faculty teaching development. However, we understand the critical role played by students in the case method. We take... View Details
  • 30 Sep 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Breakthrough Inventions and Migrating Clusters of Innovation

Keywords: by William R. Kerr; Technology
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HBS Global Initiative & Research Centers - MBA

Research Center has been so integral to Professor Takeuchi’s Japan Immersive Field Course (IFC) that they just published a book on the experience describing how the program (now 6 years running!) ties into curriculum View Details
  • 22 Aug 2024
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LM Wind Power Test and Validation Center

In January 2024, Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel led 45 HBS MBA students on site visits to witness the energy transition and innovative sustainable production activities throughout Denmark and the Netherlands, in the second year of... View Details
  • October 2022
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Ceibal: Sustaining and Scaling Educational Innovation in Uruguay

By: John J-H Kim, Michael Chu and Mariana Cal
Ceibal was founded in 2007 in Uruguay, as an initiative to reduce the digital gap in the country. After playing an important role providing a smooth transition to remote learning during COVID, Ceibal in 2022 must now determine the best way to fulfill its mission to "be... View Details
Keywords: Digital Gap; COVID-19 Pandemic; Education; Teaching; Digital Platforms; Technology Adoption; Technological Innovation; Social Issues; Transformation; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Education Industry; Latin America; South America; Uruguay
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  • 01 Sep 2011
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The Innovation Imperative

If you want to understand what’s driving Dean Nitin Nohria’s emphasis on innovation for the School, look no further than HBS professor Bill Kirby’s writings on the rise and decline of great universities. While Nohria spent his first... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services