Collaborative Innovation and Invention - Publications - Faculty & Research

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... View Details

Keywords: HBS Fund; Educational Services

24 Feb 2016
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Did William Alden Invent the Car of the Future in the 1960s?

William Alden (MBA 1952) was sorting mail when he had the thought: The concept behind the automated conveyer system he was perfecting for routing letters could be used to move people. It was the 1950s, a time of great investment in automobiles View Details

01 Mar 2012
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Where Innovation Rules

Kiva Systems Intuit Angie’s List Rakuten athenahealth Pandora Bloomingdale's and Gilt Groupe Social Finance Innovation is the real business of Harvard Business School. It begins with the School’s bias toward... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg;Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Corporate Services; Educational Services; Management

01 Dec 2018
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Innovation Outside the Boundaries

Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) “one of the most interesting examples of innovations that encourage students to take advantage of the breadth of Harvard’s offerings. Whether it’s in View Details

01 Sep 2011
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Innovation has a New Home: The Harvard Innovation Lab

Set to open this fall in a newly renovated building on Western Avenue in Allston, the Harvard Innovation Lab is stirring up excitement at HBS and across the University. The “i-lab” will foster collaborative,... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

01 Dec 2013
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Innovation as Antidote

that can't afford any lost time. You know—the perfect kind of challenge for the HBS community. Last year, HBS and Harvard Medical School's Forum on Healthcare Innovation brought together everyone from... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 2022
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'Rooted' In Innovation

in 2019 that is already creating jobs and expanding economic opportunities in his home country of Cameroon. In May, CassVita was honored with a Harvard President’s Innovation Challenge Award funded by the... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Mar 2012
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The Accidental Innovator

Sal Khan (MBA 2003) Sal Khan (MBA 2003) is an energetic, amiable young man, with a twinkle in his eye and a fondness for jokes and self-deprecation. He’s unpretentious and... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services

16 Sep 2021
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Dean Datar on Design Thinking and Innovative Problem Solving

Courtesy Patrick McGinnis Courtesy Patrick McGinnis Dean Srikant Datar recently spoke to author, podcast host, and venture capitalist Patrick McGinnis (MBA 2004) about design thinking and View Details

08 Mar 2013
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The Accidental Innovator

paper, or the wrestling team, the teachers in those situations were more like mentors with whom you worked collaboratively to achieve personal and team goals. Teammates would help, too. Everybody was trying... View Details

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.... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

17 Nov 2016
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Wired for Innovation

long-distance oil and gas pipelines are guided by modern regulations and an infrastructure blueprint,” Skelly explains. “But existing US electric lines were erected by utility companies several decades ago,... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

23 Oct 2018
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How the U.S. Can Rebuild Its Capacity to Innovate

01 Dec 2007
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A Call to Innovation

BIG BETS: Kao proposes investment in research and education. Robert Gumpert/NB Pictures As innovation guru and former HBS faculty member John Kao (MBA ’82) sees it, the United... View Details