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  • 01 Dec 2020
  • News

The Camel and the Unicorn

predecessors to modern computers. The computing revolution naturally followed, in part fueled by government projects like ARPANet, the Defense Department initiative that would lay the foundation for the modern internet. But powering all... View Details
  • 05 Apr 2011
  • First Look

First Look: April 5

years, several different intermediation business models have emerged for the intellectual property (IP) market. This note describes the most prominent ones: non-practicing entities (or patent trolls), defensive patent aggregators, online... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Past Issues - Alumni

Four Legendary HBS Professors on the School’s Past and Future How Business Schools Lost Their Way Complete Table of Contents September 2007 Ali Allawi Former Minister of Defense and Finance in Post-Saddam Iraq To the Rescue Complete Table... View Details
  • 07 Jun 2019
  • Book

Are You a Digital Manager?

might be working with peers in pharmaceuticals or defense to accelerate the development of virtual reality capabilities. In my work, I use the ethnographic methods of anthropology to study transformation as it takes place through shared... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 30 Oct 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018

the early technical challenges associated with napalm were solved by experimentation under the guidance of the National Defense Research Committee (NDRC), created to coordinate scientific research into the problems of modern warfare.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 16 Jan 2019
  • Research & Ideas

What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant

The team was initially very focused on defense and a running-dominated offensive scheme, which they used to win Super Bowls in 2002, 2004, and 2005. Partially in response to New England’s dominant defense, the NFL introduced a new set of... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Evan M.S. Hecht, and Abhijit Naik; Sports
  • 03 Feb 2009
  • First Look

First Look: February 3, 2009

when compared to defense and healthcare expenditures, not to mention the costs incurred recently rescuing failing banks and automakers, among others. But the picture changes when we consider the long-run consequences of policies that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Nov 2014
  • First Look

First Look: November 11

operational scope and political complexity. As he reviewed the after-action reports, George Topic, the Vice Director of the Center for Joint and Strategic Logistics at the National Defense University wondered how the performance of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Educating Leaders - Georges F. Doriot:Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Margaret Rudkin, founder of Pepperidge Farms; and John Deutsch, chemist and provost of MIT, and later Deputy Secretary of Defense and Director of the CIA. For fieldwork assignments, teams of eight to ten students studied and consulted... View Details
  • 09 Nov 2010
  • First Look

First Look: November 9, 2010

channels instead persist, with strong odds against upstream suppliers waging a successful defense of material interests. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-042.pdf Growth through Heterogeneous Innovations Authors:Ufuk... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 9, 2016

the leading proxy advisor Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS). Lastly, the case discusses the critique and defense of the board's role and is designed to allow for a discussion of the causes and consequences of the cyber breach and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Disruption: The Art of Framing

When we perceive a competitor's groundbreaking innovation as a threat, we may act defensively and hastily. But if we see that same event as an opportunity, our response might be more deliberate and unhurried. As a leader, how you frame... View Details
Keywords: by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower
  • 07 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Sept. 7

Fragmented upstream and downstream channels instead persist, with strong odds against upstream suppliers waging a successful defense of material interests. Such distinctive industrial structures, we show, were a direct result of whether... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Winners & Success Stories | New Venture Competition

analyze, and understand complex information, guiding them to unexpected insights and better decisions. More than 500 leading global organizations including ABN AMRO, Boeing, Cox Newspapers, the (US) Defense Intelligence Agency, Dell, Ford... View Details
  • Web

Credential of Digital Innovation and Strategy | HBS Online

marketplace challenges arise Sketch an idea for a platform that a company you’re familiar with might launch and determine the transition’s feasibility and obstacles Explore defensive strategies companies can use to ward off platform... View Details
  • 29 Sep 2015
  • First Look

September 29, 2015

evolved in those markets. New business processes had to be created from scratch as a network originally intended for research and military defense had to deal with network interconnectivity, the needs of commercial users, and a host of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Jul 2015
  • First Look

First Look: July 28, 2015

inventors. However, the model also shows that as NPEs become effective at bringing frivolous lawsuits, the resulting defense costs inefficiently crowd out some firms that, absent NPEs, would produce welfare-enhancing innovations without... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 29 Nov 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors

categorize as trust or litigate. Since I am an engineer and not a lawyer, I fall into the trust camp, but there are obviously minimal legal defenses that you absolutely have to build. If things become overly litigious, however, it really... View Details
Keywords: by Sara Grant; Publishing
  • 14 Feb 2012
  • First Look

First Look: February 14

creating psychological safety, and overcoming defensive interpersonal dynamics that inhibit the sharing of ideas. Further, they can use practical management strategies to help organizations realize the benefits inherent in both success... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 24 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 24

expertise, defensible turf, and organizational support. We demonstrate that these elements must be combined in specific pathways for knowledge-based innovative structures to emerge and embed. These pathways emerge from practitioner... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne