Technology Commercialization - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 Feb 2014
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A Capital Idea for Small Business

together in online communities to provide the financial and commercial resources necessary for business success, with networks of supportive peers, suppliers, investors, and customers. At the same time, iCrowd will provide investors with... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; crowd-funding; online communities; Finance; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

04 May 2010
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First Look: May 4

fundamentally new product line. In 2005, Tennant Company had developed an innovative, environmentally friendly cleaning technology that could potentially revolutionize cleaning. Historically, Tennant was a producer of floor and carpet... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2000
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Flexibility Is Key to Product Development in Internet Time

When the number of Internet-based businesses took off in the mid-1990s, many long-standing rules for product innovation were blown away. Previous models of development based on a sequential process of planning and execution are not workable in the Internet age, where... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

13 Jan 2021
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Stress Test

what we do,” says Andrew Kelley, III (MBA 2002), the chief commercial officer for BoxLock. He’s spent a lot of time thinking about what it means to do things right in the midst of a pandemic. Atlanta-based BoxLock began as a B2C company... View Details

February 2014
Case

BGI: Data-driven Research

By: Willy Shih and Sen Chai

BGI has the largest installed gene-sequencing capacity in the world, and to Zhang Gengyun, general manager of the Life Sciences Division, this represented an opportunity to apply his training as a plant breeder and his early career work as a biochemist to improving... View Details

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Field Course: Private Equity Projects and Ecosystems: Company, Industry, Market and Transaction Research

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01 Mar 2009
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Your Taxi Is Waiting

less than 10,000 pounds, VLJs typically have a range of about 1,200 nautical miles before refueling, accommodate three or four passengers, cruise at about the same altitudes as commercial airliners, and have the capacity to land on... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Air Transportation; Transportation

01 Jun 1998
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Renewing Baker: Tom Michalak, Executive Director of Baker Library

beginning to be recognized as a leader in the delivery of electronic information to the desktops of students and faculty. Do you agree with those who predict the decline of libraries as technology proliferates? No, not at all. Rather, the... View Details

01 Jun 1996
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New Releases

Engines of Innovation edited by Richard S. Rosenbloom and William J. Spencer (HBS Press) In past decades, industrial laboratories such as AT&T's Bell Labs and the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center were wellsprings of powerful new View Details

13 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

Making Biotech Work as a Business

low return. He also offered strategic pointers for companies immersed in the field. Suddenly, with the ability to monetize IP, there was a new freedom.— Gary P. Pisano At moments during Pisano's talk, titled "The Biomedical Revolution: From Scientific Promise to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Technology; Technology; Technology

25 Apr 2005
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New Learning at American Home Products

and pharmaceutical industries since the 1970s. Without new learning from chemical science and engineering, the chemical companies have defined their strategic boundaries in a number of specialty chemicals whose basic technologies were... View Details

Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.; Chemical; Health; Manufacturing; Pharmaceutical

14 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society

range of adaptation, however. As markets and technologies undergo historic change, so too must the current model of capitalism. Each new episode of capitalism emerges from the complex interplay of three forces: (1) New human yearnings... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

15 Aug 2006
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First Look: August 15, 2006

expect bankers to have been less central than in Mexico and, perhaps, the United States. Second, I test if the availability of financing alternatives, like a well-developed bond market in Brazil, reduced the average importance of corporate connections to View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Jun 2018
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Meet the 2018-2019 Blavatnik Fellows in Life Science Entrepreneurship

to work with Harvard inventors to promote the commercialization of life science technologies with significant market potential. Harvard's i-lab serves as the hub, providing fellows with space and the... View Details

01 Feb 2002
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Telling the Electronic Century's Unfinished Story

wanted to record where, when, how, and by whom technical knowledge was commercialized into the new products that laid the foundation for this era. I realized that I ran the risk of telling a story that isn't yet finished, but for the... View Details

Keywords: Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

January 2013
Supplement

Cabot Corporation: The Fuel Cell Decision (B)

By: Willy Shih and Ying Zhou

Managers at Cabot Corporation are faced with deciding the future of its fuel cell program. The (A) case recounts the view of the business manager and the technical project lead, and the (B) case describes the perspective of a senior manager who is the head of the New... View Details

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01 Mar 2016
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Reinventing the Wheel

the air or clogging landfills appealed to Cardozo. He’d worked extensively in startups and spent some time in the corporate world, but now he wanted more than commercial success—he wanted to lead a company that had what he calls a “strong... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

01 Sep 2003
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An Electrifying Tale

through it, because my family was absolutely mortified.” In 1989, out of the remains of a bankrupt commercial electric company for which she worked, Cataldo started City Lights Electrical Company. The company grew modestly while she was... View Details