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- 08 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 8
Working Papers Modeling a Paradigm Shift: From Producer Innovation to User and Open Collaborative Innovation Authors: Carliss Y. Baldwin and Eric von Hippel Abstract In this paper we assess the economic viability of innovation by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
opening several “desal” plants a year worldwide, costing up to $300 million each. “Seawater desalination provides the ultimate answer for water-supply problems because its source is effectively limitless,”... View Details
- 27 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
creativity and innovation in the world: open innovation, user innovation, and citizen innovation. Research into this phenomenon could do much to advance the study and practice of creativity. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
electricity—enough to power approximately 150 households. The turbines are the spinning heart of the Roosevelt Island Tidal Energy (RITE) Project, an initiative undertaken by Verdant Power, the startup that Smith cofounded in 2000 to commercialize tidal energy, a clean... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Ready for Launch
$25,000 of in-kind accounting and legal services. Traditional Track OFF AND RUNNING: Matthew Prince and Michelle Zatlyn have opened shop in the Bay Area. Business: CloudFlare, a Web security venture that will help Web sites protect... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Research Brief: Unveiling the Truth about Transparency
Transparency in a Simple Labor Market,” she and Brown University’s Bobak Pakzad-Hurson drew on data from online platforms used by employers seeking temporary workers; they also conducted an experiment that involved managers and... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Jun 2020
- What Do You Think?
Will Challenged Amazon Tweak Its Retail Model Post-Pandemic?
organization and prepared to challenge its own doctrines about how it operates to drive more resilient features into the entire platform (e.g. supplier partnerships and sourcing under duress, prime... View Details
- 28 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Minimum Wage Hikes Drive (Lousy) Restaurants Out of Business
Yelp on a number of research projects, ranging from pinpointing restaurants with hygiene issues to finding ways to make Yelp itself more accurate. Improving policy analyses with new data sources Beyond the findings on the minimum wage,... View Details
- Web
Buy Now, Pay Later: The Secondary Credit Market
universally recognized symbol was three golden balls. In twenty-first century China, where the demand for investment capital exceeds the capacity of the nation’s state-controlled financial sector, pawnshops and other informal sources of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
HBS Issues Upbeat 2006 Annual Report
million. These and many more details are laid out in charts, tables, and narrative in the recently released HBS 2006 Annual Report. Revenue from all sources for fiscal 2006, which ended last June 30, topped $368 million. HBS is unique in... View Details
- 12 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers
societal problems. Identify the metrics that are a measure of success and compensate on those,” says Gompers. Keep an open mind when building a team. “For someone like me, we need to pull in people with complementary skills who know... View Details
- 14 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
Recruiting During Uncertainty: How to Meet Students Where They Are
will I hear back? The key to managing this uncertainty is transparency. Including hiring timelines within job postings, sharing information about the number of open positions with Career & Professional Development, and keeping View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 17 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - The Future of Green Building
as a pivotal point of discussion towards reducing global carbon emissions. The push to decarbonize the building sector stems from statistics compiled by sources such as Architecture 2030, which indicate that activities related to... View Details
- 28 Oct 2021
- News
Capital Considerations for Black Entrepreneurs; Pivoting for Gender Equity
Fellow at HBS and the former Secretary of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), opened the case discussion by asking what the BNVC creators had done well, and what they could do better. This sparked a robust conversation that... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 05 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 5, 2007
site: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=R0706E&referral=2340 The Emergence of Governance in an Open Source Community Authors:Siobhan O'Mahony and Fabrizio Ferraro... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2015
tackles one of the most difficult questions in the startup world: How can you tell if a new business will succeed? The Year’s 10 Most Popular Articles from Our Archives What Is Management’s Role in Innovation? (31,511 visits in 2015) It's an View Details
- Profile
James Reinhart
disastrous. For James Reinhart, HBS MBA 2009, the foray into online resale began as a virtual swapping platform for grownups looking for a way to empty their closets and upgrade their wardrobes. The idea came to Reinhart when he was at... View Details
- 28 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Microfinance: A Way Out for the Poor
vanquish a problem, we have to understand it." Start with the question, "How do people eat?" suggested Chu. People develop economic activities that are of worth to someone else, he continued. "That's the source of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Dec 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is Growth Good?
decline"? Growth at the organizational level opens up opportunities for new customers, new hiring, acquisitions, increased profitability, and generally more liberal policies as a result of the removal of constraints associated with... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
forthcoming Cambridge, MA: MIT Press Revolutionizing Innovation: Users, Communities, and Open Innovation By: Harhoff, Dietmar, and Karim R. Lakhani, eds. Abstract—The last two decades have witnessed an extraordinary growth of new models... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne