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  • 2016
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Denver Public Schools 2015: Innovation and Performance?

By: Michael Tushman, Colin Maclay and Kerry Herman
Keywords: Innovation; Education Reform; Education; Secondary Education; Middle School Education; Early Childhood Education; Innovation Strategy; Education Industry; Colorado
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Tushman, Michael, Colin Maclay, and Kerry Herman. "Denver Public Schools 2015: Innovation and Performance?" Harvard Business Publishing Case, 2016. (No. PEL-076.)
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Scaling Up Analogical Innovation with Crowds and AI

By: Aniket Kittur, Lisa Yu, Tom Hope, Joel Chan, Hila Lifshitz - Assaf, Karni Gilon, Felicia Ng, Robert Kraut and Dafna Shachaf
Analogy—the ability to find and apply deep structural patterns across domains—has been fundamental to human innovation in science and technology. Today there is a growing opportunity to accelerate innovation by moving analogy out of a single person’s mind and... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Artificial Intelligence; Crowdsourcing; Analogy; Innovation and Invention; Technology; Science
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Kittur, Aniket, Lisa Yu, Tom Hope, Joel Chan, Hila Lifshitz - Assaf, Karni Gilon, Felicia Ng, Robert Kraut, and Dafna Shachaf. "Scaling Up Analogical Innovation with Crowds and AI." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116, no. 6 (February 5, 2019): 1870–1877.
  • July 2010
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The Supply Side of Innovation: H-1B Visa Reforms and U.S. Ethnic Invention

By: William R. Kerr and William F. Lincoln
This study evaluates the impact of high-skilled immigrants on U.S. technology formation. We use reduced-form specifications that exploit large changes in the H-1B visa program. Higher H-1B admissions increase immigrant science and engineering (SE) employment and... View Details
Keywords: Engineering; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Immigration; Innovation and Invention; Patents; Business and Government Relations; Science; United States
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Kerr, William R., and William F. Lincoln. "The Supply Side of Innovation: H-1B Visa Reforms and U.S. Ethnic Invention." Journal of Labor Economics 28, no. 3 (July 2010): 473–508. (Winner of H. Gregg Lewis Prize for Best Paper in Journal of Labor Economics 2010-2011.)
  • 2015
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Leave No Slice of Genius Behind: Selecting and Developing Tomorrow's Leaders of Innovation

By: Linda A. Hill
More than ever, leaders of nearly every kind of organization view their human resources teams as essential to institutional well-being and long-term growth and sustainability. That's the central and animating theme of "The Rise of HR: Wisdom from 73 Thought Leaders," a... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Talent Management; Talent Development And Retention; Innovation Leadership; Human Resources; Talent and Talent Management; Leadership; Leadership Development
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Hill, Linda A. "Leave No Slice of Genius Behind: Selecting and Developing Tomorrow's Leaders of Innovation." In The Rise of HR: Wisdom from 73 Thought Leaders, edited by Dave Ulrich, William A. Schiemann, and Libby Sartain, 233–240. Alexandria, VA: HR Certification Institute, 2015. Electronic.
  • November 2021 (Revised January 2022)
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Nicole M. Jones and The Hangar℠: Delta Air Lines' Global Innovation Center

By: Linda A. Hill and Emily Tedards
In 2016, Nicole M. Jones was hired to lead The Hangar, Delta Air Lines’ new innovation center in Atlanta, Georgia. Delta’s leadership had intended for The Hangar to catalyze a new approach to innovation at the company. After conducting three months of research on... View Details
Keywords: Innovation Lab; Breakthrough Innovation; Biometric Technology; Innovation and Invention; Leadership; Innovation and Management; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Georgia (state, US)
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Hill, Linda A., and Emily Tedards. "Nicole M. Jones and The Hangar℠: Delta Air Lines' Global Innovation Center." Harvard Business School Case 422-042, November 2021. (Revised January 2022.)
  • 18 Jun 2021
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Who do we invent for? Patents by women focus more on women’s health, but few women get to invent

  • 2025
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The Invention of Corporate Governance

By: Yueran Ma and Andrei Shleifer
The analysis of corporate governance begins with a central feature of modern capitalism—the separation of ownership and control in large corporations—first empirically documented by Berle and Means (1932). Such separation entails several agency problems reflecting... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Governance; Law; Business and Shareholder Relations
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Ma, Yueran, and Andrei Shleifer. "The Invention of Corporate Governance." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 33710, April 2025.
  • November 17, 2009
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Inventing a Better Patent System

By: Robert C. Pozen
Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Patents; System
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Pozen, Robert C. "Inventing a Better Patent System." New York Times (November 17, 2009).
  • May–June 2014
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The Magic of Innovation

By: Stefan Thomke and Jason Randal
Why do certain product and service experiences seem to have that undeniable "wow" factor, while others disappoint customers? Perhaps there's no better place to turn to than the world of magic. Consider that leading magicians are constantly under pressure to come up... View Details
Keywords: Innovation Management; Innovation and Management
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Thomke, Stefan, and Jason Randal. "The Magic of Innovation." European Business Review (May–June 2014): 2–6.
  • February 2007 (Revised May 2007)
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Accidental Innovation

Describes the role accident has historically played in invention and discovery, and raises questions about the importance of variation in business innovation processes. View Details
Keywords: Business Processes; Innovation and Invention
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Austin, Robert D., Lee Devin, and Erin Sulllivan. "Accidental Innovation." Harvard Business School Background Note 607-082, February 2007. (Revised May 2007.)
  • 03 Jun 2011
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Inducement Prizes and Innovation

Keywords: by Liam Brunt, Josh Lerner & Tom Nicholas
  • 07 Feb 2017
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How Immigrants Have Contributed to American Inventiveness

  • March–April 2013
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Unlocking Innovation Through Business Experimentation

By: Stefan Thomke
There is a downside to businesses that focus heavily on standardization, optimization, and driving out variability: Such organizations leave themselves vulnerable to underinvesting in experimentation and variation, which are the lifeblood of innovation. Good... View Details
Keywords: Experimentation; Innovation Management; Learning And Development; Research; Innovation and Management; Business Processes
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Thomke, Stefan. "Unlocking Innovation Through Business Experimentation." European Business Review (March–April 2013): 55–58.
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Breakthroughs and the 'Long Tail' of Innovation

The largely erroneous perception that breakthroughs are impossible to predict arises from the tendency to focus on just the breakthroughs while ignoring the iterative process of invention and its distribution of outcomes. When all inventions are considered, they... View Details
Keywords: Diversity; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Independent Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Business Processes; Performance Capacity; Performance Improvement
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Fleming, Lee. "Breakthroughs and the 'Long Tail' of Innovation." MIT Sloan Management Review 49, no. 1 (Fall 2007).
  • June 2008
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Decomposability in Knowledge Structures and Its Impact on the Usefulness of Inventions and Knowledge-base Malleability

By: Sai Yayavaram and Gautam Ahuja
We use patent data from the worldwide semiconductor industry from 1984 to 1994 to study the effect of the structure of organizational knowledge bases, or the patterns of coupling between their elements of technical knowledge, on the usefulness of inventions and... View Details
Keywords: Patents; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Semiconductor Industry
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Yayavaram, Sai, and Gautam Ahuja. "Decomposability in Knowledge Structures and Its Impact on the Usefulness of Inventions and Knowledge-base Malleability." Administrative Science Quarterly 53, no. 2 (June 2008): 333–362.
  • 2015
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Advanced Leadership Pathways: Issa Baluch and the African Agribusiness Knowledge and Innovation Leadership Initiative (AKILI)

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Renee Vuillaume
A veteran of the freight forwarding industry, Issa Baluch wanted to transform the education space in Africa by introducing hands-on practical teaching in agriculture and agribusiness. In the summer of 2015 his vision of a practical learning institute for African... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture; Institutions For Collaboration; Innovation; Innovation And Strategy; Farming; International Development; Stakeholder Engagement; Youth; Environmental And Social Sustainability; Environment; Social Impact Investment; Agribusiness; Education; Training; Leadership; Knowledge; Environmental Sustainability; Innovation Strategy; Knowledge Management; Finance; Africa
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Kanter, Rosabeth M., and Renee Vuillaume. "Advanced Leadership Pathways: Issa Baluch and the African Agribusiness Knowledge and Innovation Leadership Initiative (AKILI)." Harvard Business Publishing Case 316-056, 2015. (Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative.)
  • December 2016
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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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Kerr, William R. "Reaching Beyond Your Organization: Empowering Innovation." Harvard Business School Background Note 817-044, December 2016.
  • August 2009 (Revised June 2015)
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MINTing Innovation at NewYork-Presbyterian (A)

By: Richard G. Hamermesh and David Kiron
Several top surgeons at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital (NYP) are receiving financial and administrative support to advance their surgical device inventions through the earliest stages of commercialization. View Details
Keywords: Health Care; Innovation & Entrepreneurship; Hospital; Entrepreneurship; Financing and Loans; Investment; Health Care and Treatment; Innovation and Invention; Intellectual Property; Commercialization; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; New York (state, US)
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Hamermesh, Richard G., and David Kiron. "MINTing Innovation at NewYork-Presbyterian (A)." Harvard Business School Case 810-004, August 2009. (Revised June 2015.)
  • March 2001
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Technological Acquisitions and the Innovation Performance of Acquiring Firms: A Longitudinal Study

By: Gautam Ahuja and Riitta Katila
This paper examines the impact of acquisitions on the subsequent innovation performance of acquiring firms in the chemicals industry. We distinguish between technological acquisitions, acquisitions in which technology is a component of the acquired firm's assets, and... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Acquisitions; Knowledge; Strategy; Knowledge Acquisition; Acquisition; Innovation and Invention; Chemical Industry
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Ahuja, Gautam, and Riitta Katila. "Technological Acquisitions and the Innovation Performance of Acquiring Firms: A Longitudinal Study." Strategic Management Journal 22, no. 3 (March 2001): 197–220.
  • September 2023 (Revised September 2023)
  • Teaching Note

Roche: Innovation and Access to Healthcare

By: George Serafeim
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 123-075. In May 2022, Roche Group, one of the largest healthcare companies in the world, hosted its first investor event focused exclusively on its efforts to impact access to healthcare. While Roche had recently set an ambitious goal to... View Details
Keywords: ESG; Access To Care; Healthcare; Healthcare Access; Innovation; Social Impact; Affordable; Health Care and Treatment; Innovation and Invention; Product Development; Resource Allocation; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Health Industry
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Serafeim, George. "Roche: Innovation and Access to Healthcare." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 124-028, September 2023. (Revised September 2023.)
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