Publications

Educators

May 2021
Article

Evolution of the Indian LPG Industry: Exploring Conditions for Public Sector Business Model Innovation

By: Renu Agarwal, Neeraj Mittal, Eric Patterson and Michela Giorcelli

2019
Chapter

Punishing Robots: Issues in the Economics of Tort Liability and Innovation in Artificial Intelligence

By: Alberto Galasso and Hong Luo

May 2017
Teaching Note

From Start-Up to Grown-Up Nation: The Future of the Israeli Innovation Ecosystem and (Abridged)

By: Elie Ofek and Margot Eiran

Teaching Note for HBS Nos. 517-103 and 517-066. View Details

2008
Chapter

Innovation and the Evolution of Market Structure for Internet Access in the United States

By: Shane Greenstein

2015
Report

The Value of Data: Consequences for Insight, Innovation & Efficiency in the U.S. Economy

By: John A. Deighton and Peter A. Johnson

2002
Working Paper

The Policymaker's Dilemma: The Impact of Government Intervention on Innovation in the Telecommunications Industry

By: Scott D. Anthony, Erik A. Roth and Clayton M. Christensen

29 Jan 2015
News

Innovation In Health Care Education: A Call To Action

March 2011
Article

Do Sell-Side Stock Analysts Exhibit Escalation of Commitment?

By: John Beshears and Katherine L. Milkman

This paper presents evidence that when an analyst makes an out-of-consensus forecast of a company's quarterly earnings that turns out to be incorrect, she escalates her commitment to maintaining an out-of-consensus view on the company. Relative to an analyst who was... View Details

Keywords: Escalation Of Commitment; Stock Market; Updating; Behavioral Economics; Motivation and Incentives; Behavior; Consumer Behavior; Financial Markets; Forecasting and Prediction

November 2012
Article

The Organization of Firms Across Countries

By: Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen

We argue that social capital as proxied by trust increases aggregate productivity by affecting the organization of firms. To do this we collect new data on the decentralization of investment, hiring, production, and sales decisions from Corporate Headquarters to local... View Details

Keywords: Decentralization; Social Capital; Theory Of The Firm; Firm Objectives, Organization, And Behavior; Business Economics; Management Of Technological Innovation And R＆D; Technological Change: Choices And Consequences; Diffusion Processes; Organizational Structure; Performance Productivity; Trust; Technology Adoption; Multinational Firms and Management

April 2006 (Revised May 2009)
Case

Inverness Medical Innovations - Born Global (A)

Ron Zwanziger has just started his third company, having just sold the last one for $1.3 billion to Johnson & Johnson. As part of the deal with J&J, certain assets were transferred to the new company, Inverness Medical Innovations, which, at the time of its creation,... View Details

Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Mergers and Acquisitions; Entrepreneurship; Health Care and Treatment; Corporate Finance; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Health Industry; Waltham

Educators

14 Jun 2017
News

For IT Summit, a focus on innovation

August 2022
Article

Regulatory Considerations to Keep Pace with Innovation in Digital Health Products

By: John Torous, Ariel Dora Stern and Florence T. Bourgeois

Rapid innovation and proliferation of software as a medical device have accelerated the clinical use of digital technologies across a wide array of medical conditions. Current regulatory pathways were developed for traditional (hardware) medical devices and offer a... View Details

Keywords: Emerging Technologies; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Innovation and Invention; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry