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- 01 Dec 2004
- News
A Life by Design
don’t have a clue. “What kills me is that there are all these companies using buzzwords like ‘innovation’ in their annual reports. And I believe that 98 percent of them don’t know what innovation really means,” says Ross. “It’s not as... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Uhlmann Award Winners Focus on French Retailer
that were revolutionary to the French marketplace -- innovations such as "one-stop shopping, self-service, discount prices, quality products, and free parking," the Uhlmann Award winners noted in their 171-page report on the company. In... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
A Message from Dean Clark
have just expanded our reach with the opening in August of the Latin America Research Center in Buenos Aires. The center will support our faculty's research on important business issues in South America, Central America, and Mexico. As... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
model reconfigurations. We consider three business models: the proprietary model (where all software modules offered by the firm are proprietary), the open source model (where all modules are open source),... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
In The Community | About
to the public Harvard Innovation Labs The Harvard Innovation Labs provide a multitude of in-kind support for local entrepreneurship, health and life sciences, and offer a variety of partner programming and... View Details
- 11 Aug 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Melissa Fensterstock (MBA 2012)
it worked. "We saw an opportunity to bring the fragrance to the United States and to create a new innovative category—a fragrance with a function for the outdoor-chic lifestyle. Once we tracked down our supplier, we learned that the... View Details
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Social Enterprise Track | New Venture Competition
an opportunity for eligible graduate students across Harvard University to explore social entrepreneurship and test ideas for social innovation in a rigorous and supportive environment. Social Enterprise Track entries may include... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
In Brief
Q&A with Daniel Vasella. Initially regarded by critics as too inexperienced to lead a major pharmaceutical company, Daniel Vasella (PMD 57, 1989) has set a new standard for innovation as CEO of Novartis. The Winning Season. Last year, St.... View Details
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The Case for Creative Risk-Taking, Even When the Stakes Are High | Working Knowledge
Strategy and Innovation The Case for Creative Risk-Taking, Even When the Stakes Are High Featuring Goran Calic . By Sean Silverthorne on May 23, 2025 . Surgeons are so inclined to follow standard operating procedures that they’re less... View Details
- 18 Sep 2019
- News
Level Up
industry, suddenly ripe for disruption,” she says. Ruggiero cofounded the Sports Innovation Lab in late 2016, determined to ready the industry for the revolution. The lab is a research firm, but it’s not churning out quarterly white... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Courting the Poor
while reading the New York Times. An article on the front page of the Business section about an innovative Brazilian retailer prompted an immediate e-mail to Gustavo Herrero (MBA ’76), executive director of the School’s Latin America... View Details
- 18 Dec 2023
- Blog Post
Climate Symposium 2023: Adopting Climate Solutions at Scale
hope during the opening session, emphasizing that: “While 2023 was the hottest year on record, we have also seen incredible innovations and collaborations in this space. Today, we are here to explore the... View Details
- 05 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
2022 Climate Symposium: Tackling Climate Together
The theme of the 2022 Annual Climate Symposium was “Tackling Climate Together”, with a focus on the intersectionality of climate change and the critical need for businesses, individuals, policy makers, and consumers to come together to develop View Details
- 10 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World
profit. How do these chefs express the full extent of their culinary innovativeness while at the same time as creating a return for investors? Two recent Harvard Business School case studies explore this tension through the experience of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Adapting to Meet Changing Needs
it across in a very limited amount of time—typically threeto five-minute learning segments that build on each other. That turned out to be a complicated challenge,” says Mayo, the Thomas S. Murphy Senior Lecturer of Business Administration. “The methodology is View Details
- 21 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Music Downloads: Pirates—or Customers?
file sharing has robbed them of billions of dollars after four consecutive years of falling music sales, they criticized the team's methodology, which consisted of monitoring 1.75 million downloads over 17 weeks in 2002, scouring through server logs from OpenNap (an... View Details
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
Both personally and professionally, right? So I wonder, where do you see opportunity and what gives you hope? TS: Yeah. What gives me hope is my great confidence in human ingenuity and innovation and capitalist incentive that will reward... View Details
- 23 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
A Summer of Peaks and Swells: Interning at Patagonia
unconventional thinkers. One of the texts was from Patagonia’s founder, Yvon Chouinard. I was enamored by his honesty on business, particularly his stance on the role businesses had in addressing environmental issues. In the opening... View Details
- 19 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 19
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nejo.12003/abstract Working PapersInvestment Incentives in Open-Source and Proprietary Two-Sided Platforms Authors:Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Gaston Llanes Abstract We study incentives to invest in platform quality in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Apr 2014
- News
Increasing Access to Education
Describing HBS as “one of the best experiences in my life,” Melinda J. Mount wanted to help the next generation of leaders transform their lives by earning an MBA from HBS. In honor of her 25th Reunion, she established a fellowship to support women students. “HBS View Details