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  • 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
  • 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
Keywords: Julia Hanna; e-books; e-reading; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 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
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  • 01 Sep 2009
  • News

Building Your Own Dream Team

This era of social networking would surely have been invented by Keith Ferrazzi (MBA ’92) had it not sprouted on its own. Ferrazzi is well known as a professional networker in the best (or worst, depending on whom you’re talking to) HBS... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 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
  • Web

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
  • 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

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

Polaroid, McLean and Smith advised the company on the potential, design specifications, and monetary value of Edwin Land's new instant photography system that would be commercially released in 1948. Their recommendations included developing a marketing strategy for the... View Details
  • 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
Keywords: Space Research and Technology; Government
  • 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
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  • 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
  • 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
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  • 30 Jun 2014
  • Blog Post

Cambridge to Nairobi

African innovation and tech startups. With so much economic growth in Africa, a rising Kenyan middle class, and staggering levels of internet and mobile phone penetration relative to GDP per person (this is after all, the country that View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Nonprofit / Government; Technology
  • August 2016
  • Case

Building Smart Neighborhoods at Bouygues

By: Amy C. Edmondson, Bertrand Moingeon, Guo Bai and Jean-François Harvey
Can a consortium of 16 organizations, including multinational corporations, local government agencies, and startups, turn a rundown Paris suburb into a “smart” (ecologically viable, high-tech, livable) neighborhood? This case explores how Bouygues Immobilier led such a... View Details
Keywords: Collaboration; Teaming; Cross-industry Collaboration; Interorganizatonal Relationships; Innovation; Nascent Industries; Smart Cities; Governance; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Information Technology Industry; Construction Industry; Paris; France
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  • 01 Dec 2010
  • News

The Father of Modern Advertising

copywriters at Lord Thomas invented the “salesmanship in print” business model that sustained the industry for decades to come. In short, the firm convinced clients that print ads should follow a salesman’s approach, offering the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services
  • Web

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
  • 02 Mar 2023
  • News

Carbon's Second Act

without a clear signal about the economics of a project, it's very difficult to entice capital to come in and help that new invention move from proof of concept to a pilot, all the way to a world-scale plant, which requires hundreds of... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2011
  • News

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 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
  • 31 Jul 2017
  • Working Paper Summaries

In Pursuit of Everyday Creativity

Keywords: by Teresa M. Amabile