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  • 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
  • 2012
  • Book

The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity Revisited

By: Josh Lerner and Scott Stern
While the importance of innovation to economic development is widely understood, the conditions conducive to it remain the focus of much attention. This volume offers new theoretical and empirical contributions to fundamental questions relating to the economics of... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Opportunities; Nonprofit Organizations; Resource Allocation; Economic Growth; Research and Development
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  • 05 Apr 2016
  • First Look

April 5, 2016

politicians in the years after its publication. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50916 Creativity Under Fire: The Effects of Competition on Creative Production By: Gross, Daniel P. Abstract—Though fundamental to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
  • November 2007 (Revised January 2010)
  • Case

ThedaCare: System Strategy

By: Michael E. Porter and Sachin H. Jain
Over the 1980s and 1990s, America's changing health care payer environment resulted in mergers of numerous community hospitals into hospital systems. Based in Appleton, Wisconsin, ThedaCare stood out among community hospital systems in its pursuit of service... View Details
Keywords: Value Creation; Health Care and Treatment; Problems and Challenges; Innovation and Invention; Health Industry; Wisconsin
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    The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity Revisited (National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report)

    While the importance of innovation to economic development is widely understood, the conditions conducive to it remain the focus of much attention. This volume offers new theoretical and empirical contributions to fundamental questions relating to the economics of... View Details
    • 08 Aug 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    The Death of the Global Manager

    assume that all the smart people in the world are born within a 20-mile radius of their headquarters." This last factor—of being able to develop and diffuse innovation rapidly around the world—has... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna
    • 14 Feb 2012
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Relational Contracts and Organizational Capabilities

    Keywords: by R. Gibbons & R. Henderson
    • Research Summary

    Do Leaders Lead in Business Process Innovation? The Case(s) of E-Business Adoption

    This paper investigates how market position influences firm propensity to adopt new process innovations. Using detailed data from the U.S. Census of Manufactures, I study the adoption of frontier e-business practices during the early diffusion of the commercial... View Details

      Migrant inventors and the technological advantage of nations*

      We investigate the relationship between the presence of migrant inventors and the dynamics of innovation in the migrants’ receiving countries. We find that countries are 25 to 60% more likely to gain advantage in patenting in certain technologies given a twofold... View Details
      • 29 Jan 2021
      • Op-Ed

      How Influencers, Celebrities, and FOMO Can Win Over Vaccine Skeptics

      central premise of the diffusion of innovations framework is that customer or patient segments that adopt early will influence later adopters. Innovators will influence early... View Details
      Keywords: by Rohit Deshpandé, Ofer Mintz, and Imran S. Currim
      • 15 Sep 2015
      • First Look

      September 15, 2015

      an associated 90% confidence interval of (2.3%, 17.8%). Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49523 2015 The Changing Frontier: Rethinking Science and Innovation Policy Information Technology and the... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • January 2008
      • Case

      Procter & Gamble Brazil (A): 2 1/2 Turnarounds

      By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Matthew Bird
      Juliana Azevedo Schahin, a local marketing director for Procter & Gamble in Sao Paulo, had worked closely with Tarek Fahahat, a regional executive based in Caracas, to solve the growth and profitability problems of P&G Brazil. They did so through the creation of... View Details
      Keywords: Innovation and Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Demand and Consumers; Product Development; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Expansion; Consumer Products Industry; Caracas
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      • Research Summary

      Managing Workplace Reforms and Organization-Wide Transformations

      Richard E. Walton is studying (with doctoral candidate Scott Hamlin and research associate Kathleen Scharf) the development and diffusion of new forms of union-management partnership together with other new practices in the steel industry. To test and elaborate... View Details
      • Research Summary

      Firm and aggregate volatility

      US publicly traded companies have become more volatile over the postwar period. This trend has been the result of increased competition in product markets through deregulation, through more intensive innovation activity, and through easier access to capital markets.... View Details

      • 2024
      • Working Paper

      Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting—Impossible to Routine: Case Histories of Transformational Advances

      By: Amar Bhidé, Srikant M. Datar and Fabio Villa
      We describe how Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG, or more popularly, “bypass”) operations revolutionized the treatment of coronary disease (that can produce fatal heart attacks and debilitating angina). Specifically, we chronicle the: 1) development of the... View Details
      Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Technological Innovation; Innovation Strategy; Technology Adoption; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Invention; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
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      • 19 Jun 2018
      • First Look

      New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018

      Summer 2018 RAND Journal of Economics Scale versus Scope in the Diffusion of New Technology: Evidence from the Farm Tractor By: Gross, Daniel P. Abstract—Although tractors are now used in nearly every agricultural field operation and in... View Details
      Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
      • Research Summary

      Overview

      By: Joshua Lev Krieger
      In examining the competitive dynamics of R&D strategy, Josh has become particularly interested in how the introduction of new knowledge generated by rivals impacts the direction of R&D efforts. Understanding how new information alters project portfolio decisions is... View Details
      • 19 Feb 2008
      • Research & Ideas

      Radical Design, Radical Results

      within the organization. "Rather than being pulled by user requirements," he wrote recently, "design-driven innovation is pushed by a firm's vision about possible new product meanings and languages that could View Details
      Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Consumer Products
      • 11 Mar 2015
      • HBS Seminar

      Ernest Wilson, University of Southern California, Annenberg School

      • 15 May 2009
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Barriers to Household Risk Management: Evidence from India

      Keywords: by Shawn Cole, Xavier Giné, Jeremy Tobacman, Petia Topalova, Robert Townsend & James Vickery