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  • 2024
  • Working Paper

Cephalosporins—Fighting Hospital Infections: Case Histories of Transformational Advances

By: Amar Bhidé, Srikant Datar and Katherine Stebbins
This case history describes the development of three generations of cephalosporins – antibiotics that have significantly reduced hospital infections. Specifically, we chronicle how: 1) Early (pre-cephalosporin) antibiotics were developed in the first half of the 20th... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Technological Innovation; Innovation Strategy; Technology Adoption; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Invention; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
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  • 2024
  • Working Paper

Laparoscopy—Minimally Invasive Surgery: Case Histories of Transformational Advances

By: Amar Bhidé, Caitlin N. Bowler and Srikant M. Datar
We describe how operations through laparoscopes – tubular instruments inserted into abdominal cavities – revolutionized gynecological and other surgeries inside the abdomen, such as gall bladder removal. Specifically, we chronicle the 1) foundational contributions of... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Technological Innovation; Innovation Strategy; Technology Adoption; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Invention; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
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  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

A business career comes full circle

globe is truly exciting,” he says. McGee points to FIELD (Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development), which immerses students into businesses in emerging markets, as the kind of leading-edge curriculum innovation that helps... View Details
  • 22 Aug 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

A Randomized Field Study of a Leadership WalkRounds™-Based Intervention

Background: Leadership WalkRounds have been widely adopted as a technique for improving patient safety and safety climate. WalkRounds involve senior managers directly observing frontline work and soliciting employees' ideas about... View Details
Keywords: by Anita L. Tucker & Sara J. Singer; Health
  • 24 Sep 2014
  • Op-Ed

Tackling Climate Change Will Cost Less Than We Think

massive shift —of the same order of magnitude as the diffusion of globalization, the mechanization of agriculture, the widespread adoption of computers or the diffusion of the Internet and the digitization of almost everything. It will... View Details
Keywords: by Rebecca Henderson; Energy; Utilities
  • 01 Jun 2010
  • News

Faculty Research Online

been adopted by thousands of private, public, and nonprofit enterprises around the world. Professor Robert S. Kaplan, who created the concept and tool with David Norton (DBA ’73), explains the roots and motivation for their original... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • October 2004
  • Case

World Wide Licenses Ltd.: From Disney to Polaroid

World Wide Licenses (WWL) was a low-technology firm that licensed famous brands, which it then applied to timepieces, stationery, and back-to-school products. It transformed into a digital imaging company and landed worldwide rights to the Polaroid brand name. Explores... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leadership Development; Brands and Branding; Technology Adoption; Technological Innovation; Transformation
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  • 19 Sep 2024
  • Blog Post

A Day at Royal FloraHolland: The Epicenter of the Global Flower Market

employing orange oil and predator insects to fend off pests, ensuring their flowers are pesticide-free—a quality highly prized by retailers. To combat frostbite, RFH adopts innovative techniques such as... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2015
  • News

High Yields

Illustration by Chris Philpot Hobbyist drones might make headlines with their crashes on the White House lawn, but the market for unmanned vehicles is rapidly expanding beyond the niche: Over the next decade, according to industry trade group forecasts, commercial... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
  • Web

Shared Value Initiative - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Delivery Project The Institute for Cancer Care Innovation MOC Network ICIC U.S. Cluster Mapping Project U.S. Competitiveness Project FSG Shared Value Initiative Social Progress Imperative AllWorld Network Shared Value Initiative Shared... View Details
  • 17 Sep 2020
  • News

Are You Ready for the Quantum Computing Revolution?

  • 01 Jun 2011
  • News

Faculty Books

human connection); the destructive behaviors they adopt to relieve their anxiety (busyness, comparing themselves to others, and blaming others for their frustrations); and the behaviors they must adopt to... View Details
Keywords: Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Finance; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance
  • 03 Feb 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Homeland Security: A Ready-made Market

panelists at Harvard Business School's Cyberposium 2003 to address the technology trends, developing markets, and pressing concerns of a swiftly developing market. At this point, panelists agreed little new innovation is necessary.... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Service
  • 09 Jul 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Chance Encounters: What's at Stake in Return-to-Office Decisions

technology-adoption decisions, I’ve been examining how the virtual space can substitute for the physical space, by looking at tech adoption at Stack Overflow, which is like a Q&A website for coders. It’s been surprising to see that... View Details
Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint, HBS Alumni Bulletin
  • 09 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 9

and professional activities of academic biomedical scientists. In qualitative and quantitative analyses, we show that scientists match to their postdoctoral mentors based on two dominant factors, geography and scientific focus. They then View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 2024
  • Working Paper

Moral Incoherence During Category Emergence: The Contentious Case of Connected Toys

By: Ryann Noe
Through a longitudinal study of the emergence of connected toys – physical toys that interact with digital devices – I build theory about moral incoherence: when competing views about the moral worth of a category persist over time. During the course of their... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Technology Adoption; Moral Sensibility; Market Entry and Exit; Consumer Behavior
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  • August 10, 2019
  • Editorial

E-Commerce Promised the World. Are We Happy With Our Purchase?

By: Louis Hyman and Kwelina Thompson
It has been 25 years since the first online transaction, but we are still struggling with the balance between convenience and security. View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Technology Adoption; E-commerce; Consumer Behavior; Internet and the Web
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  • July 2022
  • Teaching Note

TraceTogether

By: Mitchell Weiss and Sarah Mehta
This Note provides guidance for teaching "TraceTogether," HBS Case No. 820-111. View Details
Keywords: Government Administration; Crisis Management; Health; Health Pandemics; Innovation and Invention; Innovation Leadership; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Social Issues; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Technology Adoption; Health Industry; Public Administration Industry; Singapore
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  • 22 Feb 2022
  • News

An Rx for Small Business Recovery

business-focused products and broaden access to lending,” says Mills. Research suggests that fintechs were responsible for some 50 percent of PPP loans to Black-owned businesses. “As the recovery evolves, adopting new technologies will... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
  • 15 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 15

innovations that can be freely adopted by many firms. Firm-level volatility is affected primarily by the Schumpeterian dynamics associated with the development of R&D innovations. On the other hand, the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace