Innovation Teams - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Dec 2015
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Design Thinking: Hands-On Learning At The Harvard Innovation Lab

faculty chair of the Harvard Innovation Lab (i-lab) and Arthur Lowes Dickinson Professor of Business Administration. “It’s like learning how to swim—you actually need to get into the pool and practice.” Students in the initial fall... View Details

16 Dec 2014
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Why Top-Down Management Doesn’t Work in the Fight Against Ebola

Keywords: management; ebola; government; leadership; teaming; collaboration; crises; Health, Social Assistance; Government; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

23 Oct 2019
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Hands-on Simulations Complement the Case Method

During a hands-on simulation, first-year MBA students work in teams to design and implement a complex process to produce electronic circuit boards. During a hands-on simulation, first-year MBA students work in View Details

Keywords: Educational Innovation

23 Oct 2019
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Understanding Business Firsthand in South Korea

launched an upscale version of the cake and enlisted a team of first-year MBA students to help refine the product’s marketing strategy. The six-person team was among a group of 180 students, led by two HBS... View Details

Keywords: Global Understanding; Internationalization; Educational Innovation

01 Jun 2023
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Buy Big, Sell Small

If you live in a rural village or small city in India and run low on toothpaste, rice, or cooking oil, you’ll likely visit your local kirana, the equivalent of a US neighborhood variety store and a mainstay of the country’s $932 billion retail economy. The shops are... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; retail; supply chain management; entrepreneurship; leadership; innovation; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

01 Jun 2024
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Quantum Leap

“This is the first new kind of computer in 75 years,” says John Levy (MBA 1979), CEO of the quantum computing startup SEEQC. “And we’re building it on a chip!” Strolling through his company’s design and testing facility in Elmsford, New York, Levy looks less like a... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Chris Sorensen; quantum computing; innovation; leadership; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Dec 2006
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Inside Intel

problematic. Far larger than Intel, it was a proud company with a rich history. Worst of all, the microprocessor it had positioned against the 8086, its 16-bit 68000, was believed by many to be a technically superior product. The 8086 sales View Details

Keywords: Richard S. Tedlow; Hanna, Julia; technology; manufacturing; innovation; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Mar 2023
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The Latest Model

Hurder, who then headed to a coffee shop and began scribbling equations on a pad of paper. (The team has worked remotely from the outset, with Hurder based in Pasadena, California, and Barrera in Jersey City, New Jersey.) In the end,... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; blockchain; cryptocurrency; economic models; innovation; consulting; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services