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  • January 2025
  • Case

The Vision of Wonder

By: Michael S. Kaufman and Daniella Bertolotti
Serial entrepreneur Marc Lore successfully disrupted three marketplaces—trading cards, diapers (founded Diapers.com and eventually sold to Amazon for more than $500 million) and ecommerce (founded Jet.com competing directly with Amazon and eventually sold to Walmart... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Exit or Shutdown; Entrepreneurship; Disruptive Innovation; Growth and Development Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry; Technology Industry
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  • 18 Dec 2008
  • Working Paper Summaries

Concentration Levels in the U.S. Advertising and Marketing Services Industry: Myth vs. Reality

Keywords: by Alvin J. Silk & Charles King III; Advertising
  • 12 Jun 2012
  • First Look

First Look: June 12

External risks arise from events outside the company and are beyond its influence or control. Sources of these risks include natural and political disasters and major macroeconomic shifts. Risk events from any category can be fatal to a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 May 2019
  • Blog Post

In the Business of Flexibility

As founder of Prokanga, the innovative recruiting firm that connects companies with experienced, flexible marketing and finance expertise, Jamie Cheney (MBA 2007) understands the value of a fluid workforce. Together with Annie Davis (MBA... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Nonprofit / Government
  • 18 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 18

  Publications August 2013 Oxford Handbook of Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship: Multilevel Linkages Innovating without Information Constraints: Organization, Communities, and Innovation When... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Dec 2006
  • First Look

First Look: December 5, 2006

Science Foundation. The developed platform offers an unprecedented view of the R&D-to-patenting innovation process and a close analysis of the strengths and limitations of the Industry R&D Survey. The files are linked through a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jul 2014
  • First Look

First Look: July 15

  Publications August 2013 Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal Business Model Evaluation: Quantifying Walmart's Sources of Advantage By: Brea-Solís, Humberto, Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, and Emili Grifell-Tatjé Abstract—We develop an... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 21 Jun 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets

with the challenges of scaling up as well as huge opportunities in managing rapid growth. These countries also provide an innovation platform to justify tailoring and inventing products and services just for them. Khanna: Think about... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 26 Nov 2008
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Sciences of Design: Observations on an Emerging Field

Keywords: by Sandeep Purao, Carliss Y. Baldwin, Alan Hevner, Veda C. Storey, Jan Pries-Heje, Brian Smith & Ying Zhu; Technology
  • July 2019 (Revised April 2021)
  • Case

Salary Finance

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
In April 2019, Asesh Sarkar, co-founder and chief executive of Salary Finance Limited, a London-based FinTech, faced tough choices. Sarkar had founded Salary Finance with Dan Cobley and Daniel Shakhani in 2015. The company’s value proposition was quite simple: partner... View Details
Keywords: Credit; Financing and Loans; Wages; Innovation and Invention; Expansion; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Culture; Decision Choices and Conditions; Financial Services Industry
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  • 2014
  • Working Paper

The Organizational and Geographic Drivers of Absorptive Capacity: An Empirical Analysis of Pharmaceutical R&D Laboratories

By: Francesca Lazzeri and Gary P. Pisano
Scholars and practitioners alike now recognize that a firm's capacity to assimilate and use know-how from external sources—what Cohen and Levinthal (1990) called "absorptive capacity"—plays a central role in innovation performance. In recent years, a common strategy... View Details
Keywords: Geographic Location; Industry Clusters; Knowledge Acquisition; Pharmaceutical Industry; San Francisco; San Diego; Massachusetts
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  • August 2011
  • Supplement

InnoCentive.com (B)

By: Karim R. Lakhani and Eric Lonstein
InnoCentive.com enables clients to tap into internal and external solver networks to address various business issues. In 2008, InnoCentive introduced "InnoCentive@Work" (lC@W), which recognized clients' reluctance to share problems and solutions with an external... View Details
Keywords: Digital Platforms; Cost vs Benefits; Intellectual Property; Networks; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Product; Groups and Teams; Communication Technology
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  • 26 Apr 2023
  • In Practice

Is AI Coming for Your Job?

that they understand how to use cognitive AI to transform their operations, the impact on workers promises to be dramatic. White-collar workers whose job security was founded on their knowledge of complex processes and ability to integrate information from various... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Technology
  • 25 Apr 2023
  • Op-Ed

How SHEIN and Temu Conquered Fast Fashion—and Forged a New Business Model

late 1970s, when China ramped up its manufacturing production and began to open its economy to the world, its small and mid-sized factories struggled to gain access to the large consumer markets of the United States and Europe. American... View Details
Keywords: by John Deighton; Fashion; Retail; Consumer Products

    MOVE: Putting America's Infrastructure Back in the Lead

    Americans are stuck. We live with travel delays on congested roads, shipping delays on clogged railways, and delays on repairs, project approvals, and funding due to gridlocked leadership. These delays affect us all, whether you are a daily commuter, a frequent... View Details

    • 02 May 2023
    • What Do You Think?

    How Should Artificial Intelligence Be Regulated—if at All?

    advice while spreading misinformation based on deliberately inaccurate source material? Given the level of uncertainty about AI’s future use, there is a growing concern about its unfettered development. Several weeks ago, a thousand... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett; Information Technology; Technology
    • 10 Jan 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: January 10

    http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-047.pdf Financing Risk and Innovation Authors:Ramana Nanda and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Abstract Technological revolutions and waves of creative destruction are associated with new ventures and the... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • October 2013 (Revised January 2014)
    • Supplement

    Fred Khosravi and AccessClosure (B)

    By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Lauren Barley
    It was January 2013, and Fred Khosravi, chairman of the board of AccessClosure Inc., wondered what the new year had in store for him and AccessClosure, the company he founded in late 2002. Khosravi was cautiously optimistic—the Mountain View, California-based medical... View Details
    Keywords: Medical Devices; Vascular Closure Device; Patent Litigation; Patenting; Biomedical Research; Biotechnology; Biotech; Technological Innovation; Patents; Health Care and Treatment; Biotechnology Industry; United States; California
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    • 22 Feb 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    How to Make AI 'Forget' All the Private Data It Shouldn't Have

    interact with the model via prompting, whereas for classifiers, typically they can only receive predictions, which can be exploited to develop more innovative privacy attacks. That's a tremendous amount of data that is memorized by the... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology; Information Technology
    • Web

    Program Requirements - Doctoral

    selections. Pre-approval by the TOM faculty coordinator is required if a student wishes to fulfill these requirements with alternative courses. Foundational Courses (2 courses) Innovation Track requirements : A comprehensive two semester... View Details