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  • 19 Feb 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Radical Design, Radical Results

within the organization. "Rather than being pulled by user requirements," he wrote recently, "design-driven innovation is pushed by a firm's vision about possible new product meanings and languages that could View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Consumer Products
  • 11 Mar 2015
  • HBS Seminar

Ernest Wilson, University of Southern California, Annenberg School

  • 15 May 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Barriers to Household Risk Management: Evidence from India

Keywords: by Shawn Cole, Xavier Giné, Jeremy Tobacman, Petia Topalova, Robert Townsend & James Vickery
  • 20 May 2013
  • Op-Ed

Making America an Industrial Powerhouse Again

As part of his administration's strategy to rejuvenate American manufacturing, President Obama has called for the creation of a National Network of Manufacturing Innovation (NNMI) to advance and diffuse... View Details
Keywords: by Gary Pisano; Manufacturing

    Michael E. Porter

    Michael Porter is an economist, researcher, author, advisor, speaker and teacher. Throughout his career at Harvard Business School, he has brought economic theory and strategy concepts to bear on many of the most challenging problems facing corporations, economies... View Details

    Keywords: biotechnology; e-commerce industry; health care; information; information technology industry; internet; nonprofit industry; service industry; state government
    • October 2024
    • Article

    Global Mobile Inventors

    By: Dany Bahar, Prithwiraj Choudhury, Ernest Miguelez and Sara Signorelli
    The number of Global Mobile Inventors (GMIs), inventors moving across borders during their career, has increased more than tenfold over the past two decades, and the corridors of mobility have shifted towards a growing presence of emerging markets. We document that... View Details
    Keywords: Emerging Markets; Immigration; Patents; Knowledge; Technological Innovation
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    • 16 Sep 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: September 16

      Publications September 2014 The Oxford Handbook of Innovation Management Mergers and Acquisitions and Innovation By: Ahuja, Gautam, and Elena Novelli Abstract—This article (a) identifies the different... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 2015
    • Chapter

    Information Technology and the Distribution of Inventive Activity

    By: Chris Forman, Avi Goldfarb and Shane Greenstein
    We examine the relationship between the diffusion of advanced Internet technology and the geographic concentration of invention, as measured by patents. First, we show that patenting became more concentrated from the early 1990s to the early 2000s and, similarly, that... View Details
    Keywords: Patents; Geographic Location; Internet and the Web; Innovation and Invention
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    • 2013
    • Working Paper

    Entrepreneurs, Firms and Global Wealth since 1850

    By: G. Jones
    This working paper integrates the role of entrepreneurship and firms into debates on why Asia, Latin America and Africa were slow to catch up with the West following the Industrial Revolution and the advent of modern economic growth. It argues that the currently... View Details
    Keywords: Institutional Change; Political Economy; Emerging Economies; Developing Countries; Industrial Development; Culture; Human Capital; Economic History; History; Wealth and Poverty; Business History; Emerging Markets; Globalization; Developing Countries and Economies; Manufacturing Industry; Mining Industry; Service Industry; Latin America; Asia; North and Central America; Africa; South America; Europe
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    • September 2007
    • Article

    Collaborative Brokerage, Generative Creativity, and Creative Success

    Analyzing data on utility patents from 1975 to 2002 in the careers of 35,400 collaborative inventors, this study examines the influence of brokered versus cohesive collaborative social structures on an individual's creativity. We test the hypothesis that... View Details
    Keywords: Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Patents; Personal Development and Career; Creativity; Power and Influence; Social and Collaborative Networks
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    • August 1988 (Revised July 1990)
    • Case

    Optical Distortion, Inc. (C): The 1988 Reintroduction

    In 1988, Optical Distortion, Inc. was ready to reintroduce its only product, contact lenses for chickens. Tests had shown that the lenses significantly reduced bird aggression and feed costs, leading to potentially huge cost savings for egg producers. In the years... View Details
    Keywords: Animal-Based Agribusiness; Ethics; Sales; Innovation and Invention; Product Marketing; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
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    • 11 Oct 2013
    • HBS Seminar

    Sen Chai, Post-Doc Labor & Worklife Program at the Harvard Law School, and NBER

    • 25 Oct 2016
    • First Look

    October 25, 2016

    analysts, to consumers—need to know about how new products and services are expected to perform in the marketplace. The book develops a compelling framework that connects the rich academic knowledge on innovation View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 23 May 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

    substantial variation exists across organizations with regard to management, suggesting frictions in the broader diffusion of management knowledge. We argue that peer networks may allow for the diffusion of... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 21 Sep 2012
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Public Procurement and the Private Supply of Green Buildings

    Keywords: by Timothy Simcoe & Michael W. Toffel
    • 31 Mar 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: March 31, 2009

    Dilemma revolutionized the business world—presents The Innovator's Prescription, a comprehensive analysis of the strategies that will improve health care and make it affordable. Christensen applies the principles of disruptive innovation... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 06 May 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: May 6

    capital-good market externality and technology diffusion play a more important role in the offshore agglomeration of multinationals than the agglomeration of domestic firms. These findings remain robust when we address potential reverse... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 22 Jan 2019
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019

    experimentation that is required for the initial commercialization and diffusion of technologies. A New Categorization of the U.S. Economy: The Role of Supply Chain Industries in Innovation and Economic... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 12 Feb 2014
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Management Practices, Relational Contracts, and the Decline of General Motors

    Keywords: by Susan Helper & Rebecca Henderson; Auto
    • Web

    Technology & Operations Management - Faculty & Research

    discuss how rising industrial concentration and the diffusion of artificial intelligence may reshape the program’s comparative advantage in the innovation policy toolkit. Citation Read Now Related Myers,... View Details