Continuous Innovation - Publications - Faculty & Research

Research Summary

Overview

The overarching goal of my research is to produce works that are influential and informative to both academics and practitioners in the field of operations management. To accomplish this, I collaborate with industry partners who provide knowledge about their field,... View Details

06 Oct 2003
What Do You Think?

Is “the Innovator’s Solution” to Sustained Corporate Growth an Unnatural Act?

be managed effectively on a continuing basis. As Richard Eckel put it, "'Disruptive' is the clue for why the proposed method of sustained growth will fail in most organizations ... B-schools graduate and laud those who are risk... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

10 Nov 2008
Research Event

Social Media Leads the Future of Technology

technology meant that innovation to solve a problem could arrive from any quarter: prominent companies, nonprofit enterprises, "two students in a dorm room, or mothers or fathers after they have done their school pickups." He... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

07 Jan 2009
What Do You Think?

Is the World Really Flat?

efficiency, and being close to the technology is efficient." Further, William Halveson pointed out that "CRADA agreements can limit how fast the high level discoveries escape." Abbey Mutumba, on the other hand, said that "Most View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

01 Mar 2007
News

Microsoft’s Ballmer Makes His Pitch

without notes while pacing back and forth along the edge of the stage, Ballmer made his case for Microsoft’s continued leadership in technology innovation to a somewhat skeptical audience, as revealed by... View Details

Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

22 Feb 2011
Research & Ideas

The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century

including emerging economies like China, India, and Brazil. This list will continue to grow. A by-product of the intertwining of globalization and technology enabled networks is that events are no longer isolated, the impact of which was... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

27 Sep 2017
Research & Ideas

What Happens When Ordinary People Get Creative?

economy continues to make it easier for users to share new ideas with companies, society, and each other. Large firms routinely host open innovation contests to solve problems big and small, and forums like... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

18 Oct 2021
News

Alumnae-founded Fintech Startup Secures $29M in New Financing

Photo via Harvard Innovation Labs Lara O’Connor Hodgson (MBA 1998), cofounder of Now, recently spoke to Yahoo Finance Live to discuss its recent $29 million funding round. Hodgson cofounded Now in 2010 with former Georgia gubernatorial... View Details

01 Dec 2014
News

Nimble, Quick, and Adaptable

an innovation in the MBA curriculum that gives students an opportunity to test their entrepreneurial chops. FIELD 3 is part of a larger effort by the School to set the pace in a field it has helped define. The Arthur Rock Center for... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

08 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

Who Is the Chief Sustainability Officer?

shows. Innovation: A select number of companies shift to a more advanced innovative stage by integrating sustainability into the core of the business in ways that transform the company. Strategies tend to be driven by the market with an... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Manufacturing

10 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

Lessons from the Browser Wars

In a famous example of how first movers can lose their advantage, second-mover Microsoft won the Web browser wars from Netscape and continues to dominate the market today. But that competition was the subject of another "war,"... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Computer; Consumer Products; Technology

26 Aug 2024
Research & Ideas

Can AI Match Human Ingenuity in Creative Problem-Solving?

When ChatGPT and other large language models began entering the mainstream two years ago, it quickly became apparent the technology could excel at certain business functions, yet it was less clear how well artificial intelligence could handle more creative tasks. Sure,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Information Technology; Information; Technology

19 Jan 2022
In Practice

7 Trends to Watch in 2022

As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and deployment of new health care technologies and delivery... View Details

Keywords: by HBS News

01 Mar 2013
News

Alumni News | Bookshelf

Assembly-Line Innovation The title of the 2012 e-book Building a Growth Factory (Harvard Business Review Press) conjures an image of raw materials being dumped into a black box and emerging on conveyor belts as fully formed iPhones,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

25 Feb 2020
News

How Artificial Intelligence is Changing Business

Administration. “The traditional model has been turned upside down. Having the data to innovate at scale is now the main thing.” Lakhani and Marco Iansiti, the David Sarnoff Professor of Business Administration, are frequent... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

13 Aug 2007
Research & Ideas

The Dark Side of Trust

It's called TrapGuard—a special kind of floor drain developed by a Georgia company that prevents sewer gases from entering homes. On the great spectrum of innovative products, it's probably not keeping company with the iPod or Segway... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Service

06 Dec 2021
News

Monaco's Digital Transformation

is emerging, and Monaco has to continue to be this magical place where people come to build their enterprises.” EMBRACING DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION Leadership in the Digital Age Digitalization: The Key to the Future of HBS HBS Curricula... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

17 Mar 2023
News

Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in New York

Starting this past fall and continuing through the coming year, Dean Srikant Datar is traveling to meet with alumni around the world. On Tuesday, March 14, more than 200 alumni in the New Your area gathered to celebrate and connect with... View Details

04 Dec 2014
News

Hacking Health Care

participation fee) to take part in the hackathons. “To have a movement of so many people who chose to join, just for the cause—it’s mind boggling,” he says. As the movement continues to evolve, Sirois hopes to deliver impactful View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

28 May 2013
Research & Ideas

Can LEGO Snap Together a Future in Asia?

more localized products coupled with licensing agreements linked to specific movie franchises might be an option, but an expensive one. The company also had to consider that "diminishing play time and the threat of a disruptive educational product View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation

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