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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
HBS Faculty Approves Curriculum Innovations
(FIELD) course offering small-group learning experiences that are experiential, immersive, and field-based. The course will become the primary vehicle for developing further innovations in the Required Curriculum. The second-year... View Details
- October 2006 (Revised October 2007)
- Case
Information Technology and Innovation at Shinsei Bank
Shinsei Bank was rebuilt from the ashes of a failed predecessor, and pioneered new levels of customer service in retail banking in Japan. The bank's information technology, however, was vestigial at best and not well suited to the new service models Shinsei was... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Banks and Banking; Innovation and Invention; Banking Industry; Japan
Upton, David M., and Virginia Fuller. "Information Technology and Innovation at Shinsei Bank." Harvard Business School Case 607-010, October 2006. (Revised October 2007.)
- 2009
- Working Paper
Breakthrough Inventions and Migrating Clusters of Innovation
By: William R. Kerr
We investigate the speed at which clusters of invention for a technology migrate spatially following breakthrough inventions. We identify breakthrough inventions as the top one percent of US inventions for a technology during 1975-1984 in terms of subsequent citations.... View Details
Keywords: Geographic Location; Immigration; Disruptive Innovation; Technological Innovation; Patents; Industry Clusters; United States
Kerr, William R. "Breakthrough Inventions and Migrating Clusters of Innovation." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-020, September 2009.
- 18 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
Central Banks Missed Inflation Red Flags. This Pricing Model Could Help.
environments.” If central banks had used economic models that account for variations in the speed of firm’s pricing decisions rather than their traditional forecasting tools, policymakers might have detected rising inflation sooner,... View Details
- 07 Oct 2015
- What Do You Think?
What is the Best Immigration Model for the US?
beliefs that they share are different.” Bowlweevils, injecting a political note into a discussion intended to deal with economics, argued that Germany has no model for dealing with immigrants and asylum seekers. As he put it, “Germany ...... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 Jan 2015
- News
Boost the right kind of innovation
- May 2000
- Case
CMGI: Organizational and Market Innovation
By: Josh Lerner
CMGI is considering acquiring yesmail, an e-mail marketing firm. In assessing the potential acquisition, it must assess the fit with its own organization, which consists of a unique blend of venture capital investments and publicly traded subsidiaries. View Details
Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Mergers and Acquisitions; Organizational Structure; Venture Capital; Business Subsidiaries
Lerner, Josh. "CMGI: Organizational and Market Innovation." Harvard Business School Case 200-064, May 2000.
- 12 Feb 2015
- News
Strong Leadership Can Unleash Group Innovation
- February 2017 (Revised June 2017)
- Case
ExxonMobil: Business as Usual? (A)
By: George Serafeim, Shiva Rajgopal and David Freiberg
Climate change was becoming an important societal and business issue as more governments were introducing climate change related regulations and investors became increasibly worried about stranded assets within oil and gas firms. In September 2016, the U.S. Securities... View Details
Keywords: Oil ＆ Gas; Oil Prices; Oil Companies; Asset Impairment; Predictive Analytics; Sustainability; Environmental Impact; Innovation; Disclosure; Accounting; Valuation; Climate Change; Renewable Energy; Environmental Sustainability; Financial Reporting; Energy Industry
Serafeim, George, Shiva Rajgopal, and David Freiberg. "ExxonMobil: Business as Usual? (A)." Harvard Business School Case 117-046, February 2017. (Revised June 2017.)
- 01 Jun 2020
- What Do You Think?
Will Challenged Amazon Tweak Its Retail Model Post-Pandemic?
establish new policies for treating Prime members differentially in the next distribution crisis? Will we see Amazon go after its retail competitors by increasing its retail store network beyond Whole Foods and some high tech test stores? Or will we see a major move to... View Details
- Article
Breakthroughs and the 'Long Tail' of Innovation
The largely erroneous perception that breakthroughs are impossible to predict arises from the tendency to focus on just the breakthroughs while ignoring the iterative process of invention and its distribution of outcomes. When all inventions are considered, they... View Details
Keywords: Diversity; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Independent Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Business Processes; Performance Capacity; Performance Improvement
Fleming, Lee. "Breakthroughs and the 'Long Tail' of Innovation." MIT Sloan Management Review 49, no. 1 (Fall 2007).
- 23 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings
support every low- to moderate-income family, says Tufano. Beyond valuable programs like Social Security, tax breaks for savers, or auto-enrollment initiatives, there are more innovative and exciting projects: Prize-linked savings... View Details
- Web
Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research
instrument that will both disrupt traditional business models and potentially preserve them. The early works of William Abernathy on roadblocks to innovation and Richard... View Details
- 28 Jan 2011
- News
HBS Faculty Approves Curriculum Innovation
(FIELD) course offering small-group learning experiences that are experiential, immersive, and field-based. The course will become the primary vehicle for developing further innovations in the Required Curriculum. The second-year... View Details
- 20 Apr 2018
- News
What if ordinary corporate innovation holds the key to success?
- November 2000
- Article
A Buy-Side Model of M&A Lockups: Theory and Evidence
By: Guhan Subramanian and John C. Coates
Subramanian, Guhan, and John C. Coates. "A Buy-Side Model of M&A Lockups: Theory and Evidence." Stanford Law Review 53, no. 2 (November 2000): 307–396. (Selected by academics as one of the 'top ten' articles in corporate/securities law for 2001, out of 300 articles published in that year.)
- November 2024
- Supplement
Clara Wu Tsai and Brooklyn Loan Innovation (B)
By: Archie Jones, Mathieu Davis, Mourya Mamidala and Max Hancock
This (B) case provides an update on “Clara Wu Tsai and Brooklyn Loan Innovation (A)” View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
MBA Program:Rapid Innovation in '96
In its role as a leader in business education, the School has brought dynamic change and innovation to the MBA Program this past year, most notably in admissions, the cohort structure, the Foundations... View Details
Don't Just Survive - Thrive: Leading Innovations in Good Times and Bad
Battered by contracting markets and frozen credit, many businesses today are fighting for survival. Indeed, the current global financial crisis provides a mandate for restructuring. But survival is not the end goal. In fact, cost cutting and restructuring are simply... View Details