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  • 20 Oct 2021
  • News

Drive Innovation with Better Decision-Making

  • 9 AM – 10 AM EDT, 19 Oct 2017
  • Webinars: Trending@HBS

Innovative Finance for the Common Good

Whether it's a vaccine or green bond, drought insurance, pay-as-you-go financing for solar electricity in Kenya, or discounted metro cards in New York, innovative finance is as much about incentives and sound decision making as it is about money; when it works,... View Details
  • 10 Feb 2016
  • News

Investing in Sustainability

produced in the United States is never eaten; 3.8 million gallons of fuel are wasted everyday from unnecessary idling. The nonprofit’s investment strategy is far less typical. Sustainable America makes direct View Details
  • 01 Mar 2012
  • News

Social Investing Pioneers

Palandjian Photo courtesy Tracy Palandjian Cohen Main article: Where Innovation Rules Governments and philanthropies have long sought to improve the lives of society’s least fortunate and most vulnerable, often with discouraging results.... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance
  • 01 Dec 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Modeling a Paradigm Shift: From Producer Innovation to User and Open Collaborative Innovation

Keywords: by Carliss Y. Baldwin & Eric von Hippel
  • 28 Apr 2022
  • Blog Post

Harvard Team Wins Second Place in MIINT Impact Investing Competition

On March 24, five teams of Harvard students came together to pitch innovative impact investment opportunities in early-stage social enterprises. The students were participants in a hands-on impact View Details
  • January 2015 (Revised January 2017)
  • Case

Curriculum Associates: Turning the Page from Tradition to Innovation

By: John J-H Kim and Christine S. An
Set in Fall 2014, the traditional textbook publishing industry is being transformed by technological innovations and new student achievement standards. This case chronicles how Rob Waldron, CEO, and his team bring Curriculum Associates (CA), a traditional supplemental... View Details
Keywords: Education Technology; SaaS; Turnaround; Textbook Publishing; Innovation; Sales Cycle; HR Strategy; Privately-funded Businesses; Sustainable Growth; Product Development Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Technological Innovation; Competitive Advantage; Publishing Industry
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  • 12 Apr 2013
  • News

How to Fund Innovation

  • 2010
  • Chapter

The Financing of R&D and Innovation

By: Bronwyn H. Hall and Josh Lerner
Evidence on the “funding gap” for investment innovation is surveyed. The focus is on financial market reasons for underinvestment that exist even when externality-induced underinvestment is absent. We conclude that while small and new innovative firms experience high... View Details
Keywords: Research and Development; Innovation and Invention; Venture Capital; Corporate Finance
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  • June 2014
  • Article

The Capitalist's Dilemma

By: Clayton M. Christensen and Derek C. M. van Bever
Sixty months after the 2008 recession ended, the economy was still sputtering, producing disappointing growth and job numbers. Corporations seemed stuck: Despite low interest rates, they were sitting on massive piles of cash and failing to invest in new initiatives. In... View Details
Keywords: Capital Investments; Creating Markets; Evaluating Business Investments; Innovation; Emerging Markets; Investment; Economic Growth; Capital; Innovation and Invention
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  • 15 Nov 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Lessons Not Learned About Innovation

must contribute to the other. Q: What is the innovation pyramid and how does it work? A: The innovation pyramid is an innovation strategy that works at three levels. The lion's... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • September 2024
  • Case

TechEnergy Ventures: Innovating Through Corporate Venture Capital

By: Rebecca Karp and Lena Duchene
This case examines TechEnergy Ventures, the corporate venture capital (CVC) arm of the Techint Group, and its role in scaling innovation within the energy sector. Founded in 2021, TechEnergy Ventures operates with a mandate to invest in disruptive technologies to... View Details
Keywords: Transition; Alternative Energy; Renewable Energy; Metals and Minerals; Mining; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Finance; Venture Capital; Financial Strategy; Investment Portfolio; Growth and Development Strategy; Adaptation; Diversification; Innovation Strategy; Energy Industry; Financial Services Industry; Italy; Europe; Latin America; Argentina
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  • 11 Nov 2018
  • Interview

Investment in South Africa [eNCA interview]

By: Euvin Naidoo
Partner and MD at Venture University and VU Fund, Euvin Naidoo, discusses the impact innovation can have on the growth of the South African economy. View Details
Keywords: Investment; Innovation and Invention; Economic Growth; South Africa
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  • June 2000
  • Case

Intel Capital: The Berkeley Networks Investment

By: Henry W. Chesbrough and David Lane
Discusses how Intel Corp. uses corporate venture capital to explore new technologies in new markets. Intel combines external investments with internal research and development. View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Venture Capital; Investment; Research and Development; Semiconductor Industry
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  • October 2024 (Revised November 2024)
  • Case

SWEN Blue Ocean: Impact Investing Goes to Sea

By: Vikram S Gandhi and David Allen
In August 2023, SWEN Blue Ocean, a €170 million impact fund that invested in startups contributing to ocean sustainability, faced a critical investment decision. Part of SWEN Capital Partners, an €8 billion, Paris-based private equity fund, Blue Ocean was co-founded in... View Details
Keywords: Communication Technology; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology; Finance; Capital; Venture Capital; Private Equity; Investment; Investment Funds; Science-Based Business; Financial Services Industry; France; Paris; Italy
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  • 11 Jan 2016
  • News

The Future of Cities Depends on Innovative Financing

Keywords: social impact bonds; urban development; developing economies; infrastructure; social impact investing
  • 10 Nov 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Hard Numbers on Social Investments

on a variety of social and environmental issues, and the companies receiving investments were involved in businesses as diverse as clean energy technologies, sustainable agriculture, educational toys, and View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • 09 Aug 2004
  • Research & Ideas

A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation

Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth, disruptive innovations typically take advantage of "asymmetries of motivation" by entering markets that incumbents are motivated to exit or ignore. Looking at a competitor's income... View Details
Keywords: by Scott D. Anthony, Mark W. Johnson & Matt Eyring
  • Web

Innovation & Innovative Capacity - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

with outside organizations should not be driven by input costs, taxes, subsidies or even the wage rates for scientists and engineers, as they often are. Instead, R&D investments should flow preferentially to the locations with the... View Details
  • Web

Our Team - Impact Investments

with an emphasis on agricultural and financial management. Josh Lerner Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking Unit Head, Entrepreneurial Management Josh Lerner is the Head of the Entrepreneurial Management Unit and the Jacob H.... View Details