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Innovation and Entrepreneurship - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

parallel on inventions of insistent practicality as well as expansions of human perception," Victor McElheny explains. "Riding a storm of ever-altering customer specifications, Polaroid adapted its innovations again and again." 97 Land... View Details

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T. J. Dermot Dunphy | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Transcript (PDF) T. J. Dermot Dunphy, HBS 1956, was recruited by HBS friends Bill Donaldson, Dan Lufkin, and Richard Jenrette, founders of DLJ, to run a business they thought had potential given the right management. The company, Sealed Air, View Details

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Caroline Fay Archives | Social Enterprise

Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact 1 Results Skillist: Changing Hiring For Good Ananth Kasturiraman Caroline Fay 17 May 2018 Fun fact - the resume is about 500... View Details

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Ananth Kasturiraman Archives | Social Enterprise

Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact 1 Results Skillist: Changing Hiring For Good Ananth Kasturiraman Caroline Fay 17 May 2018 Fun fact - the resume is about 500... View Details

01 Dec 2011
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Crazy Days of Summer

invented the fad. Photos of their stunts (do not attempt in winter) had over 500,000 views just hours after being posted on their website. Leisure diving went viral, Foy said, because anyone with access to a pool or lake can do it.... View Details

Keywords: fads; memes

22 Mar 2010
Research & Ideas

One Strategy: Aligning Planning and Execution

comes to creating new ones? A: Answering this question goes back to our definition of innovation. Innovation is invention times impact. Invention is nice, but if it has no economic or social impact it is... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Web Services

Mar 2012
Article

Does America Really Need Manufacturing?

exodus of manufacturing from America, which has weakened the capabilities that domestic firms need to keep inventing high-quality, cost-competitive products. One problem is that it's hard to tell when moving production far from R&D... View Details

Portrait Project

Matthew Mahoney

failure and invite them along for endless adventures. The Dalai Lama's right of course. When we create, we grow. When we grow, we're happy. I want to take growing further, push it beyond me. Chances are I won't be the one who invents the... View Details

01 Dec 2009
News

Losing Our Competitive Edge

the United States to manufacture high-tech products, the erosion of the industrial commons has seriously damaged the country’s ability to invent new ones. The prevailing view of the past 25 years has been that the United States can thrive... View Details

Keywords: Gary P. Pisano; Manufacturing

24 Apr 2014
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The art of thinking creatively

art collection, a practice that enhances the inventive corporate culture. “People are responsive to them,” Schwartz says. His effort at HBS is a collaborative one, and plays out in annual buying trips to purchase works with an art... View Details

22 Sep 2009
First Look

First Look: September 22

sales per worker does not support the higher returns for entrepreneurship rationale. Our evidence suggests that entrepreneurship is higher when fixed costs are lower and when there are more entrepreneurial people. Download the paper:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Walter J. Kohler

Kohler is responsible for many plumbing innovations that are part of everyday life. He invented the one-piece, double shell and built-in bath. His plumbing innovations became standard elements in the burgeoning construction industry. View Details

Keywords: Fabricated Goods

01 Feb 2002
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Telling the Electronic Century's Unfinished Story

Inventing the Electronic Century: The Epic Story of the Consumer Electronics and Computer Industries (The Free Press) is the fourth major book by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., the School's Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, Emeritus.... View Details

Keywords: Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

01 Dec 1997
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A Piece of the Action

know-how. It was here in Santa Clara County that the idea of venture capital was born when Arthur Rock (MBA '51) funded the invention of the silicon-based semiconductor that would give the Valley its name and its identity. It was in a... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Immigrant Innovators: Job Stealers or Job Creators?

"Following the patterns, you can start to say, what's the ethnic composition of Harvard's inventors, IBM's inventors, or Cisco's inventors? This technique allows a much deeper analysis, especially within firms and institutions, than otherwise possible." The researchers... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology

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Patent search: The use of component in Espacenet and Patentscope databases

analysis and network analysis Description Targeted problem, prior art, inventive idea, and embodiments Obtaining technical disclosure, conducting a keyword search and/or text mining to determining semantic concepts and similarity... View Details

Charles E. Hires

Hires invented one of the world’s most popular soft drinks – root beer. He incorporated his company with a capitalization of $300,000, which steadily expanded into millions. He was also a pioneer in the production of condensed milk,... View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

George Eastman

Eastman invented film and the inexpensive camera, and in turn created the multi-billion dollar photography industry. Eastman acquired all the photographic paper producers in America and secured the motion picture film market for Eastman... View Details