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- 18 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Collective Genius’
innovation is most often a group effort. Thomas Edison, for example, is remembered as prob¬ably the greatest American inventor of the early twentieth century. From his fertile mind came the light bulb and the phonograph, along with more than a thousand other patented... View Details
Business and Society
It taught me about key entrepreneurs and inventions that shaped civilization. And through this class I gained a better understanding of key points in time that have shaped history. Those learnings, in their own right, are incredibly... View Details
- Portrait Project
Christy Gibb
and a stubborn streak. An engineer's mind. From my mother: Strength, vulnerability and empathy. A sensitivity to suffering and a silly side. A nurse's heart. Mine alone: An artistic eye, wanderlust. If I am true to myself - to these things inherited and View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Alumni Books
pioneering inventions — from the first mass-produced economy car to the push-button radio — and breakthroughs in broadcasting and advertising made them wealthy and famous, as did their ownership of the Cincinnati Reds. View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
a button to create a new one. Like any good scientist, he started to imagine and invent what it would take to make that happen. Two MIT students, J.D. Albert and Barrett Comiskey, were the pierced, purple-haired “rebel scientists” who... View Details
- 02 Mar 2023
- News
Carbon's Second Act
Photo credits: Brenae Bowers Brix and Russ Campbell Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: This story starts the way all classic stories of tech entrepreneurship do: In Todd Brix's garage. Brix (MBA 1997) started his career in the... View Details
- Portrait Project
Liz Delozier
invention after the managers in charge had given up. Fifty years later, I graduated from high school and the Fisher Plant was bulldozed after hundreds of layoffs. Grandpa’s pension evaporated. College now meant picking a major that would... View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Putting Entrepreneurial Skills to Work in City Hall
educating them to invent a difference in the world as public leaders and as people who collaborate with them. “I would love it if, a decade from now and maybe sooner, people thought about becoming public entrepreneurs, about leading in... View Details
- 20 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Open Source Science: A New Model for Innovation
came up with a clock that could keep time at sea. Nobody had anticipated that that kind of invention was practical. Most firms and scientists believe that the problems they work on are their most important things. The longitude prize was... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2006
and scientists has caused the extended social networks of inventors to become increasingly connected. As a result, invention increasingly occurs within small worlds (or social networks) that straddle firm boundaries. Small worlds provide... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- December 2016
- Background Note
Reaching Beyond Your Organization: Empowering Innovation
By: William R. Kerr
Forward-thinking established companies utilize new routes for external innovation with start-ups and crowds. The reading reviews strategic partnerships, strategic investments, strategic acquisitions, and crowd-based collaborations. Case examples include Google, SK... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Corporate Innovation; Collaboration; Partnerships; Innovation and Invention; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation Strategy
Kerr, William R. "Reaching Beyond Your Organization: Empowering Innovation." Harvard Business School Background Note 817-044, December 2016.
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
corporations as the main sources of innovation in our economy. Innovation proceeds differently in business ecosystems than in pre-industrial markets or ring-fenced corporations. Innovation in ecosystems requires collective action to both View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: Galactic Returns
of your vehicle. And it could mean that you’re not going to make it to orbit. Those are mistakes that can be done with very strong engineers. On the people side: It’s easy for engineers to fall prey to the “not made here” syndrome or “not View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Strike Up the Broad(band)
telephone-television-Internet system." Given the success of the Internet, which the authors liken to "a kind of broadband on training wheels," they predict that as broadband technology evolves during the coming years, its power to revolutionize consumer behavior could... View Details
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1475725 Breakthrough Inventions and Migrating Clusters of Innovation Author:William R. Kerr Abstract We investigate the speed at which clusters of invention... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Nov 2019
- Blog Post
Environmental Change and Ground-level Impact
And given my background as an industrial engineer, I looked at roles that had an operations flavor to them. I also realized I really enjoyed inventing things; one of the aspects I had enjoyed most about my work as an analyst was how... View Details
- Profile
Yubo Cui
Karl Benz and Henry Ford. The first one invented the automobile; the second created the automotive industry.” Where others may view the prospects for these aging giants with skepticism, Yubo sees hope. “As long as you learn, you can... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy
- Web
Polaroid Corporation Collection | Baker Library
fostered invention and creativity within the culture of a small, science-based research and manufacturing company. The records of the Polaroid Corporation records span nearly 3500 linear feet of material related to the company’s... View Details
- Fall 2013
- Article
Using Open Innovation to Identify the Best Ideas
By: Andrew King and Karim R. Lakhani
Which parts of your innovation processes should you open up to the wider world? To reap the benefits of open innovation, executives must understand what to open, how to open it, and how to manage the resulting problems. According to authors Andrew King of Dartmouth... View Details
Keywords: Collaborative Innovation and Invention
King, Andrew, and Karim R. Lakhani. "Using Open Innovation to Identify the Best Ideas." MIT Sloan Management Review 55, no. 1 (Fall 2013): 41–48.
- 2021
- Working Paper
The Contribution of High-Skilled Immigrants to Innovation in the United States
By: Shai Bernstein, Rebecca Diamond, Abhisit Jiranaphawiboon, Timothy McQuade and Beatriz Pousada
We characterize the contribution of immigrants to US innovation, both through their direct productivity as well as through their indirect spillover effects on their native collaborators. To do so, we link patent records to a database containing the first five digits of... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Economic Growth; Immigrants; Innovation and Invention; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Patents; Innovation Strategy
Bernstein, Shai, Rebecca Diamond, Abhisit Jiranaphawiboon, Timothy McQuade, and Beatriz Pousada. "The Contribution of High-Skilled Immigrants to Innovation in the United States." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-065, December 2021. (NBER Working Paper Series, No. 30797, December 2022.)