Scaling Innovation - Publications - Faculty & Research

13 Jul 2009
Research & Ideas

Diagnosing the Public Health Care Alternative

to innovate the products that people want at a price they can afford. For example, while public-sector organizations are hardly renowned for convenience—think about the location of your Division of Motor Vehicles—entrepreneurs created... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Health

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Leading Change and Organizational Renewal | HBS Online

This course is part of the Entrepreneurship & Innovation and Leadership & Management track. Introduction to Leading Change and Organizational Renewal ENROLL NOW No application needed for our certificate programs. Start your journey today!... View Details

08 Dec 2009
First Look

First Look: Dec. 8

and conditions and then leveraging that experience to develop disruptive innovations targeted at a global market. Scale and entrepreneurship—god and small things—can, indeed, cohabit and thrive in the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

30 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Venture Investors Prefer Funding Handsome Men

Management; and Fiona E. Murray, associate dean of innovation at Sloan and Kearney's thesis adviser. “Our paper provides concrete proof that gender discrimination exists in the context of entrepreneurial pitching” As a behavioral... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

15 Feb 2023
News

Grand Ambitions in the Great Plains

That's when removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere at scale becomes less a question of science and more a question of economics. The United Nations' climate change commission, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC,... View Details

01 Dec 2010
News

The Transformers

Tierney. But nothing of the scope and scale of what he envisioned. Along the way, Tierney enlisted Bradach, a former Bain consultant then teaching at HBS, as an adviser. “I’ve always lived on the boundary between the social sector and the... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit and Information Technology

merged to form Dun & Bradstreet in 1933, both were early adopters—even drivers—of technological innovations in an emerging information industry. Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) donated its historical corporate records to Baker Library, and this... View Details

30 Mar 2022
News

Giving Hope and Comfort

also leading the charge for transformative solutions through technological innovation in distribution, state and federal legislation, and corporate commitments to ending hygiene insecurity nationwide. “A solution isn’t a solution unless... View Details

07 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

Are Creative People More Dishonest?

behavior. It's a sobering thought in a corporate culture that champions out-of-the-box thinking. "In any organization, especially in contexts that are global and very competitive, there is so much focus on trying to be innovative and... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising

30 Nov 2011
Research & Ideas

Only Capitalists Can Save Capitalism

separating corporate leaders from their rank-and-file workers has become a hot-button issue in the upcoming presidential election. And in public opinion polls, business moguls are cushioned from the bottom of the reputation scale only by... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

04 Sep 2019
News

The School that Donham Built

and 1927. “Donham’s innovations became anchor points for subsequent campus development,” says Executive Dean for Administration Angela Crispi (MBA 1990). “Our unique status as a residential business school has guided decisions about the... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

27 Oct 2020
Blog Post

Creating the Minority Renaissance for Venture Capital: Interview with Henri Pierre-Jacques and Jarrid Tingle, Managing Partners at Harlem Capital

weren’t any VC funds of scale that had partners of color; the VC funds that did have partners of color were smaller,” he said. “And from a diversity perspective, most funds were gender focused versus racially focused.” With an... View Details

01 Oct 1996
News

Uhlmann Award Winners Focus on French Retailer

(Belarus), all members of the MBA Class of 1996 and students in Professor Ray A. Goldberg's Agribusiness Management Research elective, conducted a study of Carrefour, the French mass-market food retailing giant. Founded in 1959 by two French retailers, Carrefour... View Details

05 Mar 2020
News

Green Light

“We have to produce 70 percent more calories than we produce today to feed that population.” Addressing a problem with that kind of span requires scaling beyond the 8' x 40' units—and beyond Millis. “The modular unit that’s going into... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Scott Nobles

24 Jan 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017

realized. Our model aligns with many observed empirical regularities, and we quantify our framework by matching Census Bureau operating data with patent data for U.S. firms. We observe that internal innovation View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Nov 2014
HBS Case

How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World

profit. How do these chefs express the full extent of their culinary innovativeness while at the same time as creating a return for investors? Two recent Harvard Business School case studies explore this tension through the experience of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage

19 Aug 2019
Blog Post

Investing in Breakthrough Technologies to Lead the Energy Transition

contributing to this effort by facilitating multi-million-dollar transactions that brings new energy technologies to Shell. During my internship, I have had the opportunity to work on three M&A deals in the new energy space. These companies have developed View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing; Technology

01 Mar 2011
News

Alumni Books

entrepreneurs, he explores how to evaluate innovative ideas and the entrepreneurs behind them (drawing lessons from Yahoo!, Baidu, Tesla Motors, Measurex, and more). He also discusses the value of political leadership in creating... View Details

12 Nov 2013
First Look

First Look: November 12

GlaxoSmithKline: Sourcing Complex Professional Services Pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) uses an innovative new approach to procuring outside legal counsel: it replaces relationship-based selection and law firms' traditional... View Details