Publications

24 Jun 2015
HBS Case

Upgrading School with a Startup Mentality

Kim, who teaches the MBA elective course Entrepreneurship and Technology Innovations in Education, also believes entrepreneurship can have a significant impact on educational... View Details

Keywords: Re: John Jong-Hyun Kim; Education

November 2010 (Revised April 2011)
Case

WiTricity: Electricity cuts the cord

By: William A. Sahlman and Evan Wade Richardson

Eric Giler, WiTricity CEO, must decide how to grow a company based around an untested but potentially ground-breaking technology for wireless electricity transmission. View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Technological Innovation; Growth and Development Strategy; Wireless Technology; Electronics Industry

Research Summary

Professor Nagle studies how competitors can collaborate on the creation of core technologies, while still competing on the products and services built on top of them. His research falls into the broader categories of the futures of work, the economics of IT, and... View Details

Keywords: Information Technology; Strategy; Technological Innovation; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Economic Growth; Entrepreneurship; Technology; Internet; Mobile Technology; Online Technology; Technology Adoption; Technology Networks

August 2023
Case

Augmenix: Space to Think Differently

By: Satish Tadikonda and Sidhant Jena

Amar Sawhney, a serial medtech entrepreneur, had founded Augmenix to develop and commercialize a hydrogel-based medical device called SpaceOAR as an adjunctive technology to core radiation therapy. This technology was used to protect organs at risk (OAR) during... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Health Care and Treatment; Technology Adoption; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Product Development; Commercialization; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry

06 Apr 2007
What Do You Think?

Will Market Forces Stop Global Warming?

mankind is looking at the actual cause right now, and consequently that human innovation is not focusing on solving the right problem." Others were concerned about the consequences of responses based on imperfect information. P. T.... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Energy; Utilities

29 Apr 2020
Book

The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages

weather an Ebola outbreak. We have lived with the consequences of increasingly visible problems, such as gun violence and the volatile weather of climate change, that make it hard to carry out business as usual. That’s why I wanted a call to action for View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

April 2010
Teaching Note

Dr. John's Products, Ltd. (TN)

By: William A. Sahlman

Teaching Note for [803063]. View Details

Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Production; Distribution; Entrepreneurship; Consumer Products Industry

October 2002 (Revised July 2009)
Case

Dr. John's Products, Ltd.

By: William A. Sahlman

Describes an entrepreneur's attempts to invent, manufacture, and distribute an inexpensive electric toothbrush. View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention; Intellectual Property; Product

15 Nov 2017
Research & Ideas

How Does a Social Startup Decide to Commercialize? It May Depend on the Founder's Gender

Administration at HBS; and Julie Battilana, the Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration at HBS and the Alan L. Gleitsman Professor of Social Innovation at Harvard’s Kennedy School. “Although cultural beliefs that... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

September 2009
Case

ZINK Imaging: 'Zero Ink™'

By: William A. Sahlman and Sarah Flaherty

"ZINK Imaging" describes the issues confronting CEO Wendy Caswell as she uses a partnership model to commercialize ZINK's disruptive printing technology platform, ZINK Paper. The case focuses on the frameworks ZINK has used to decide which markets to target and which... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Capital; Disruptive Innovation; Technological Innovation; Marketing Strategy; Partners and Partnerships; Horizontal Integration; Technology Industry

22 Jun 2010
First Look

First Look: June 22

adequately support many online publishing businesses, and riddled with complex relationships that hinder accountability. Download the paper: http://www.sigecom.org/exchanges/volume_9/1/EDELMAN.pdf Constraints and Entrepreneurship... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

February 2009 (Revised May 2010)
Case

Orange: Read&Go

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann, Toby E. Stuart, Bhaskar Chakravorti, Vincent Marie Dessain, Simon Harrow and Elena Corsi

In late 2008, Orange (aka France Telecom) must decide if launching Read&Go, an electronic newsstand built around an e-paper reader, would be successful. The case describes (1) Orange's strategy; (2) the company's new product development process; (3) e-paper technology,... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Technological Innovation; Demand and Consumers; Product Development; Partners and Partnerships; Competition; Publishing Industry; France

Find at Harvard

18 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Breaking Through a Growth Stall

start a company and never harder to build one," and with Dan Isenberg, who notes that equating entrepreneurship with a start-up is not wrong, but is an incomplete picture of business formation. Significant value creation cannot occur... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

November 2018
Teaching Note

reMarkable: e-Writing the Future

By: Elie Ofek

Teaching Note for HBS No. 517-018. View Details

Keywords: Innovation and Management; Product Development; Product Launch; Entrepreneurship; Computer Industry; Europe; United States

08 Mar 2016
First Look

March 8, 2016

March 2016 Harvard Business Review Lean Strategy By: Collis, David J. Abstract—Strategy and entrepreneurship are often seen as polar opposites. Yet the two desperately need each other: strategy without View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

July 2022
Teaching Note

Netflix: A Creative Approach to Culture and Agility

By: Ranjay Gulati, Matt Higgins and Allison Ciechanover

Teaching Note for HBS Case Nos. 420-055 and 423-026. View Details

Keywords: Netflix; Corporate Culture; Streaming; Media; Technology; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Innovation Leadership; Innovation Strategy; Leadership Style; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; Technology Industry; California

July 2022
Supplement

Netflix: A Creative Approach to Culture and Agility (B)

By: Ranjay Gulati and Matt Higgins

This (B) case, set in summer 2022, was designed as a companion to "Netflix: A Creative Approach to Culture and Agility," a case set in 2018. The purpose of this brief document is to unlock a discussion around how the Netflix culture can be used to weather new... View Details

Keywords: Netflix; Corporate Culture; Streaming; Media; Technology; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Innovation Leadership; Innovation Strategy; Leadership Style; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; Technology Industry; California

August 1984 (Revised June 1986)
Case

Cray Research, Inc.

By: Francis Aguilar

Cray Research faces several management problems as a result of rapid growth and the need for continued growth. Issues to be discussed include 1) whether Cray should be a marketing or a technology company; 2) new and powerful competition; 3) products to offer as Cray... View Details

Keywords: Business or Company Management; Change Management; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Technological Innovation; Growth Management; Product Marketing

April 2014 (Revised June 2014)
Case

Google Glass

By: Thomas Eisenmann, Lauren Barley and Liz Kind

In early 2014, business development executives at Google were formulating a distribution strategy for Glass, a wearable computer that projected information on a display viewable with an upward glance. Options, which were not mutually exclusive, included 1) continuing... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Technological Innovation; Distribution Channels; Strategy; Partners and Partnerships; Technology Adoption