Innovation Management - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 1999
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Myra Hart Named to Professorship

Myra M. Hart, an expert in entrepreneurship, has been named MBA Class of 1961 Professor of Management Practice. She holds the MBA Class of 1961 Professorship concurrently with William J. Poorvu, who has been its incumbent since 1989. A... View Details

01 Dec 2000
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Books

have implemented balanced scorecards, the performance management system that the pair developed in 1992. In The Strategy-Focused Organization: How Balanced Scorecard Companies Thrive in the New Business Environment, the authors delve into... View Details

Keywords: Rogelio Fussa; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

14 Mar 2019
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The Merchant of Osaka

Mediva (for Medical Innovation and Value-Added). The medical branch remains a legally separate nonprofit, according to Japanese regulation, but in practice the two entities operate as one: Mediva handles View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

06 Feb 2025
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How to Judge Your Next Job

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Clay Christensen was a legendary professor and thinker and his “Jobs to Be Done” theory—this idea that customers buy products to solve problems—was one of his iconic intellectual contributions.... View Details

01 Dec 2002
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Bad Times for Business

note that this is not the first time that Americans have gone through intense questioning about the system and the conduct of its actors. For example, in the latter part of the 19th century, the railroad, the telegraph, and a host of other View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

27 Aug 2019
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A Shot at Success

environment to the work environment. Trey introduces these athletes to others in similar situations through Trey Academy, an interactive curriculum that focuses on the particular challenges that high school and college stars face, from public speaking and social-media... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Sep 2018
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Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods

limits innovation and efficiency. Stay tuned to the political debate to see whether the USPS will be allowed to improve. What complementary businesses need to be built? Let the market drive the answer to that question, whether it’s new... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Dec 2016
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Ask the Expert: Energy’s Next Era

is the kind of question that RMI is tackling as a member of the Energy Transitions Commission—a global coalition of energy companies, nonprofits, academics, and innovators working toward the goal of “reforming the energy system.” RMI CEO... View Details

27 Jul 2017
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Seeing a Way Forward

opportunities,” Leger says. “I believe the idea that there is an inevitable tradeoff between profit and impact is fundamentally flawed and can be challenged through innovative social enterprises that will tackle markets and needs... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

01 Sep 2012
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An Intellectual Capital: Some Influential HBS Ideas, at a Glance

Civilization (1933) and Roethlisberger’s Management and the Worker (1939) document. 1948 Research Center in Entrepreneurial History launched at HBS by Harvard economist Joseph Schumpeter and Baker Librarian Arthur Cole. 1953 More than 30... View Details

Keywords: Professor Elton Mayo: Professor Fritz Roethlisberger; George M. Moffett Professor of Agriculture and Business, Professor Emeritus Ray A. Goldberg; Professor Abraham Zaleznik; Professor Alfred Chandler; Professor Michael Porter; Professor Robert S. Kaplan; Professor Michael C. Jensen; Professor C. Roland Christensen; Professor Robert Menton; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2011
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Welcome to the Future

creativity in mind. These spaces are designed to enable and facilitate HBS’s new required FIELD course, which focuses on intensive small-group exercises and team dynamics, activity not well-suited for Aldrich-style amphitheater classrooms. On the building’s first floor... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Construction of Buildings; Construction

01 Sep 2005
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Clark Bids Farewell to HBS

new. It, too, has a long tradition and a rich heritage — based on carving a life out of a difficult environment — that is deeply grounded in that community. Yet it’s very new, in that it only recently became a four-year school. The challenge is to build and View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

25 Aug 2022
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Labs Enable Large-scale Research

Serafeim, Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration Michael Toffel, Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management Peter Tufano, Baker Foundation Professor Crypto, Fintech, and Web3 Lab How will crypto shape the... View Details

01 Jun 1998
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Long-Term Interest: Bill Crozier, a Banker Pegged to the Customer

An innovative thinker who created BayBanks, one of the most successful retail banking franchises in the United States, William M. Crozier, Jr. (MBA '63) has a lot to say about the evolution of banking. As head of BayBanks for 21 years,... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

01 Oct 1999
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Finance Conference Explores Research Methodologies

strong contingent from HBS provided examples of the intensive use of field-based methods of inquiry. In a session on corporate restructuring, HBS professor Stuart C. Gilson discussed how financial analysts and the financial media responded to an View Details

25 Apr 2023
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Class of 2022 Startups Sweep Alumni New Venture Competition

and Vanessa Royle In the end, Ilana Springer Borkenstein and Eric Gruskin, from the New York region, took the Grand Prize of $75,000 with their startup, M7 Health, an innovative nursing-workforce management... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jun 1998
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How the Ron Brown Award Was Born

leaders established a board that included McKinsey managing partner Rajat K. Gupta (MBA '73), whose firm provided a pro bono study of the issue. "When they realized the extent of our experience in such matters," Cavanagh says, "they asked... View Details

01 Feb 2000
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Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care

addressed one of four topics: different models of consumer-driven health care; the role of consumer-driven health care in supporting innovative solutions to chronic problems in the industry; the new breed of consumer information and... View Details

01 Mar 2013
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A Mission in Motion

Since its beginnings 20 years ago, the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative has been a focal point for applying innovative business practices to drive sustainable, high-impact social change. Conceived by John Whitehead (MBA 1947), the SEI was... View Details

Keywords: summary

01 Dec 2010
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Record Gift to HBS from India’s Tata Group

to me,” said Tata. “HBS is the preeminent place to learn about the world’s most innovative companies and to be exposed to the world’s best thinking on management and leadership. By supporting the Harvard... View Details

Keywords: Tata Hall

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