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- 2021
- Chapter
Governing for Growth in Scope: Cultivating a Comparative Understanding of How Peer Production Collectives Evolve
By: Rebecca Karp, Amisha Miller and Siobhan O'Mahony
One of the early challenges for any peer production collective is how to govern the growth of new members or contributors. Scope growth was not a topic of concern when scholars were focused on understanding the emergence of peer production collectives as a phenomenon... View Details
Keywords: Peer Production Collectives; Scope Growth; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Governance; Growth Management
Karp, Rebecca, Amisha Miller, and Siobhan O'Mahony. "Governing for Growth in Scope: Cultivating a Comparative Understanding of How Peer Production Collectives Evolve." Chap. 11 in The Handbook of Peer Production, edited by Mathieu O'Neil, Christian Pentzold, and Sophie Toupin, 137–152. John Wiley & Sons, 2021.
- Summer 2018
- Book Review
Leslie Berlin, Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming of Age
Leslie Berlin's book Troublemakers, is an engaging and insightful people-first exploration of the roots of Silicon Valley, from the late 1960s to the early 1980s. Berlin portrays seven individuals who played important roles at critical junctures in the... View Details
Sahlman, William A. "Leslie Berlin, Troublemakers: Silicon Valley's Coming of Age." Business History Review 92, no. 2 (Summer 2018): 343–353.
- September 2003 (Revised February 2007)
- Case
Photovoltaic Breakthrough
Illustrates the technological and organizational challenges of breakthrough innovation. Students discuss the benefits, disadvantages, and management of various approaches to technological breakthroughs. View Details
Fleming, Lee. "Photovoltaic Breakthrough." Harvard Business School Case 604-034, September 2003. (Revised February 2007.)
- 2006
- Chapter
Ancient History of Experimental Economics and Social Psychology: Reminiscences and Analysis of a Fruitful Collaboration
By: J. Keith Murnighan and Alvin E. Roth
Murnighan, J. Keith, and Alvin E. Roth. "Ancient History of Experimental Economics and Social Psychology: Reminiscences and Analysis of a Fruitful Collaboration." In Social Psychology and Economics, edited by David de Cremer, J. Keith Murnighan, and Marcel Zeelenberg, 321–333. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2006.
- 04 Sep 2013
- News
From HBO to HBS
disc and digital technologies hadn't even been invented when I joined the company." With that experience under his belt, McGee will embark on an entirely new adventure when he joins the HBS faculty in fall 2013 as a senior lecturer. "In a... View Details
- July 2018
- Case
Leading Open Innovation at BT
By: Amy C. Edmondson, Jean-François Harvey and Johnathan R. Cromwell
This case focuses on the genesis and development of the open innovation unit at BT, the strategic value of the unit, and its operating model. As the business environment becomes increasingly dynamic and firms are pressured to achieve faster innovation rates, there may... View Details
Keywords: Collaboration; Open Innovation; Inter-organizational Relationships; Organizational Culture; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Information Technology Industry; Technology Industry; United Kingdom; United States
Edmondson, Amy C., Jean-François Harvey, and Johnathan R. Cromwell. "Leading Open Innovation at BT." Harvard Business School Case 619-013, July 2018.
- April 2006
- Case
Medical Innovation Beyond MedStar: Mobilizing for National Impact
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Ryan Raffaelli and Michelle Heskett
Dr. Craig Feied, director of MedStar Health's Medical Informatics programs, wanted his innovations to influence national health care. Since joining Washington Hospital Center's Emergency Department in 1995 with Dr. Mark Smith, their information system had become the... View Details
- 13 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 13, 2007
Authors:Lee Fleming and Mark Charles Szigety Periodical:Advances in Strategic Management 23 (2006): 335-362 Abstract Where are the ultimate sources of technological breakthroughs? What makes a firm more likely to invent a breakthrough or... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Shaping the Corporate Image | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
challenges inherent to large corporations, it continued to turn to photography. The more than 1,200 images at Baker Library testify to the corporation’s inventive deployment of the medium and the emerging profession of public relations to... View Details
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
own, however, and another to work effectively with another person from a different background. In another series of studies, Chua looked at how culturally dissimilar participants collaborated on a series of tasks, such as inventing a... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 2010
- Other Unpublished Work
Spitzencluster in der globalen Innovationslandschaft
By: Christian H.M. Ketels
Discussion of the German "Spitzencluster-Wettbewerb" (Excellence cluster competition) in the context of changes in the global market for innovation View Details
Keywords: Globalized Markets and Industries; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Independent Innovation and Invention; Competitive Strategy
Ketels, Christian H.M. "Spitzencluster in der globalen Innovationslandschaft." Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, Berlin, 2010.
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
investigate nine open source programming contests in which 875 software programmers submit over 4.7 million lines of code. We conduct our analysis at the individual level and identify how programmers gain the ability to adopt and invent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine
In May 1995, two scientists at the University of Mississippi were granted an American patent for the use of turmeric to treat flesh wounds. Soon thereafter, an Indian research organization won a lawsuit challenging the novelty of the patent. As it turned out, Indians... View Details
- July 12, 2011
- Article
Look to Chile, Asia for Defined Contribution Innovation
By: Robert C. Pozen and Theresa Hamacher
Pozen, Robert C., and Theresa Hamacher. "Look to Chile, Asia for Defined Contribution Innovation." Pensions & Investments (July 12, 2011).
- March 2011 (Revised March 2012)
- Teaching Note
Fraunhofer: Innovation in Germany (TN)
By: Diego A. Comin and J. Gunnar Trumbull
Teaching Note for 711022. View Details
- January 2009 (Revised May 2009)
- Supplement
Innovation at Mahindra & Mahindra (C)
By: Stefan H. Thomke and Briana Doerr Luthra
Supplement to 609065 View Details
Thomke, Stefan H., and Briana Doerr Luthra. "Innovation at Mahindra & Mahindra (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 609-068, January 2009. (Revised May 2009.)
- July 2007 (Revised April 2008)
- Teaching Note
Innovation at Progressive (TN) (A) & (B)
By: Frances X. Frei
- 1998
- Chapter
The Evolution of Innovation
By: Clayton M. Christensen
Keywords: Innovation and Invention
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our... View Details