Independent Innovation and Invention - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2016
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How Do We Win the Cyberwar?

ranked 23rd in the world in 2014, besting the likes of Israel and Austria, according to the consulting group Hamilton Place Strategies. It’s not just independent hackers. It’s state-sponsored hackers who put... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai

30 Apr 2025
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A Social Enterprise Talk in DC; Canadian Alumni Talk Trade; Meet the Leader: HBS Club of Colorado

DC Panel Looks at Social Enterprise in a New Government Landscape The HBS Club of Washington, DC teamed up with the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI) on April 2, to present an alumni panel discussion on social impact titled “New Perspectives in Social Enterprise,”... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

15 Jun 2021
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2021

being denied on-campus housing because of his race. Fitzhugh hoped to go into sales and marketing, but companies at the time had little interest in hiring an African American. While working as an independent... View Details

02 Oct 2015
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The ‘F’ Word

(the company that invented voicemail); Jane Fonda’s Workout; and Playboy TV/Video, my most instructive failure was during my year as product manager of Tostitos. Top management had decided that we would... View Details

Keywords: Walt Disney Studios

01 Jun 2010
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How Culture Drives Results

Keywords: Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores

01 Sep 2013
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Leading the Way

offering users the opportunity to more easily find and connect with other alumni. The new website will also highlight stories of alumni—as well as faculty and students—and showcase the difference they are... View Details

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

01 Dec 2019
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Organic Matter

above: Neil Black (left) and N. Ross Buckenham at a California Bioenergy partner dairy in Bakersfield, California (photo by Christina Gandolfo) Cars and coal—not cows—are most frequently cited as drivers of... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; green business; agriculture; alternative energy; Agriculture

01 Jun 2017
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The Exchange: Venture Forth

VC industry so influential? Paul Gompers: From the early 20th century to the mid- to late-20th century, most innovation happened in large firms. Then because of both managerial and organizational changes,... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Jun 1997
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Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference

prices have been going up." Fung ran through a list of positives: Hong Kong won't be governed under Chinese law but will retain its common law system; its status as a separate customs and immigrations territory will continue; View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes

22 Oct 2013
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Pulling the Plug

Eric Giler by Francis Storrs Standing on the stage of TEDGlobal in Oxford, England, WiTricity CEO Eric Giler (MBA 1982) is nervous. It's July 2009, and he's about to show how his company's technology can beam electricity through the air... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services

02 Dec 2010
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Ten Rules for Entrepreneurs

start by choosing the product they want to make or the service they want to provide and then try to convince the market to buy it. It makes more sense to start a business the other way around: Identify what the market needs first, View Details

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

01 Dec 2007
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How Business Schools Lost Their Way

Stanford’s business school now aims to “develop innovative, principled, and insightful leaders who change the world,” and MIT’s Sloan School of Manage-ment, “to develop principled, View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Abraham Zaleznik; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Mar 2009
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Model Patient

again: As the very first person to enroll in an innovative new health-care program in Massachusetts, she may be leading the way to medical coverage and care for the 47 million Americans who are currently... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 2018
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A Strong Foundation: Message from Dean Nohria

Harvard Business School was launched as a “delicate experiment” in 1908. In the years since, we have defined—and refined—management education so as to meet the needs of a changing world. Today, as we begin our 12th decade, we recognize the broader role that business... View Details

01 Oct 2000
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Timothy G. Brier: The Price is Right

As a young man, Tim Brier was so smitten with flying that he used to take dates to watch planes land and take off when he was growing up in Staten Island, New York. It's not surprising, therefore, that he would later embark on a career in... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

25 Aug 2021
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Reimagining Chicago’s Schools

challenge. In 2012, she launched the Intrinsic Schools, a network of public charter schools with an innovative approach to the middle school and high school experience. Rather than employ the data from... View Details

01 Dec 2011
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Making the Case for Leadership

the workers’ allegiance. She does so in part by meeting one-on-one with every employee and introducing innovations such as pairing a shift worker with a manager in coleadership roles. “This is an unusual... View Details

01 Dec 2000
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Core Values Keep Airline Flying High

innovations like ticketless seating and online reservations, as well as snacks-only food service. This has not, as critics predicted, precluded Southwest from introducing a coast-to-coast service with the... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Air Transportation; Transportation

10 Aug 2022
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Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age

increasing lifespans—and why companies needed a more thoughtful strategy for addressing these consumers. Today, Golden is an expert on innovation and entrepreneurial opportunities created by the new... View Details

01 Apr 2001
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Books: A Nation Transformed by Information

of information that makes recent technological innovations seem measured by comparison. Television, computers, and the Internet would later continue this tradition of information as a driver of the country’s... View Details

Keywords: Information

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