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  • 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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  • 07 Jan 2013
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Culture Changers: Managing High-Impact Entrepreneurs

their organizations are rare birds. Consider how difficult it is to create such culture-shaking products by thinking about other incredible innovations that, while inventive and useful, are not game-changers in the same way. In Khaire's... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics; Food & Beverage; Entertainment & Recreation; Information; Publishing
  • 19 Mar 2018
  • Sharpening Your Skills

8 Ways To Be An Environmentally Conscious Manager

organize a project that spans professions, industries, and even nations? A new book by Amy Edmondson and Susan Salter Reynolds describes the approach of 'big teaming' with a case study of a high-profile smart city. Don’t be afraid to be a little out there Meet the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy
  • 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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  • 2020
  • Working Paper

The Evolutionary Nature of Breakthrough Innovation: Re-Evaluating the Exploration vs. Exploitation Dichotomy

By: Dominika K. Sarnecka and Gary P. Pisano
Over the past few decades, a consensus has emerged that breakthrough innovations emerge from exploration of novel terrain while more routine innovations are the product of exploitation. In this paper, we revisit this explore versus exploit dichotomy with an analysis... View Details
Keywords: Breakthrough Innovation; Exploration And Exploitation; Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation
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  • 27 Jan 2016
  • News

How Big Data Is Changing Disruptive Innovation

Keywords: big data; disruptive innovation
  • 23 Jun 2021
  • Research & Ideas

One More Way the Startup World Hampers Women Entrepreneurs

Before launching new products, entrepreneurs are often filled with doubt: Will their ideas successfully take off in the marketplace—or will they fall flat? To cut down on uncertainty, creators can post their inventions on platforms such... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 26 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

What Your Competition is Telling You

Because it gives GM a better shot at establishing OnStar as the industry standard. And because GM extends its OnStar distribution to market segments they may not otherwise reach with their auto brands." Invent the competitor who... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
  • Web

A Rewarding Work Life - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

process. "An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail," he asserted. "Scientists made a great invention by calling their activities hypotheses and experiments. They made it permissible to fail repeatedly until in the end... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2001
  • News

BOOK: Ruling the Waves

technology, Spar asserts, four sequential phases typically occur: innovation (a technology's invention and initial development); commercialization (introduction of the technology to the mainstream); creative anarchy (conflict over issues... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • Portrait Project

Jessica Gelman

When I was twelve years old I wrote my life aspirations in the back of a journal. I wanted to play Division I college basketball. I also dreamed of going to Harvard Business School and envisioned owning a company. Believe it or not, I wanted to View Details
  • Profile

Danelle Radney

college, Danelle returned to Target where she invented her own position as coordinator and liaison with INROADS, a national organization that prepares minority youth for corporate and community leadership. “When I started,” Danelle says,... View Details
  • 31 Jul 2017
  • Working Paper Summaries

In Pursuit of Everyday Creativity

Keywords: by Teresa M. Amabile
  • Research Summary

Overview

When information is digitized, it can be aggregated and shared nearly instantly. I am interested in how this acceleration in the aggregation and availability of information, via digitization, affects firms and firm strategy. Platforms have emerged as marketplaces for... View Details
Keywords: Market Platforms; Social Media; Information Disclosure; Platform Strategy; Innovation Strategy; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Intellectual Property; Information; Technology Platform; Information Industry; Information Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Web Services Industry
  • 03 Mar 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Facebook’s Future

Editor's note: Now 10 years old, Facebook's growth is starting to slow. That's one reason it purchased What'sApp last month in a jaw-dropping deal valued at $19 billion. What might the next decade be like? Harvard Business School Associate Professor Mikolaj Piskorski,... View Details
Keywords: by Mikolaj Piskorski
  • 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
  • 19 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019

is accentuated when people engage in a holistic processing style, whether measured as an individual difference (Study 5A) or experimentally induced (Study 5B). Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55670 The Consequences of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Sep 2021
  • News

Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1

experience with GE Digital, and coming up against some of those barriers, can teach large organizations about overcoming barriers to innovation. JI: You know, it's a great question because, again, I'd say with GE Digital, we were early, right? So we started in 2009.... View Details
  • Web

Site Credits - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

EXHIBIT EXPLORE x HOME EMERGENCE OF A NEW TECHNOLOGY The Invention of the Polarizer A RESEARCH & MANUFACTURING COMPANY Commercialization of the Polarizer Innovation and the War Effort A Rewarding Working Life INSTANT PHOTOGRAPHY The Idea... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2007
  • News

A Juicy Story

sector. “What Apple is great at is figuring out how to invent cool technology and making it wonderfully easy to use,” he told the Wall Street Journal in June 2004. By then, sales of its iPod, introduced in 2001, had nearly quadrupled over... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services