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- 07 Aug 2018
- News
Seeking a Way to Treat a Gene-based Hearing Loss
- 27 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
What Happens When Ordinary People Get Creative?
Source: FangXiaNuo The topic of creativity tends to conjure conversations about individual geniuses whose artistic or scientific contributions have rocked history—the Ludwig Van Beethovens, the Emily Dickinsons, or the George Washington Carvers of the world. So it’s... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 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
- 02 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 2
years. It analyzes the effects of patent laws and innovation prizes that were designed to promote technical progress. It explores the challenge associated with the changing organizational structure of innovation and the shift from independent View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- October 2016 (Revised March 2017)
- Case
uberPOOL
By: Marco Iansiti, Michael W. Toffel and Amram Migdal
This case describes Uber's uberPOOL service, which let multiple Uber users who were headed in the same direction share a ride and pay substantially lower fares. View Details
Keywords: Uber; uberPOOL; Innovation and Invention; Disruptive Innovation; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Digital Platforms; Transportation; Transportation Networks; Information Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Transportation Industry
Iansiti, Marco, Michael W. Toffel, and Amram Migdal. "uberPOOL." Harvard Business School Case 617-009, October 2016. (Revised March 2017.)
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth
We suspect that the mistakes happen when firms choose managers at any level—from CEO to business unit head to project manager—based on what we call "right stuff" thinking, borrowing the term from Tom Wolfe's famous book and the 1983 movie of the same name.4... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Raynor
- October 27, 2022
- Article
4 Types of Innovators Every Organization Needs
By: Andy Wu, Goran Calic and Min Basadur
Every company strives to be innovative, but most are missing key ingredients. How can you identify which ingredients your organization needs — and which employee styles can fill in the gaps? The authors’ research distills four key innovation styles that can lead to... View Details
Wu, Andy, Goran Calic, and Min Basadur. "4 Types of Innovators Every Organization Needs." Harvard Business Review (website) (October 27, 2022).
- Article
How History Shaped the Innovator's Dilemma
By: Tom Nicholas
In 1993, four years prior to the publication of Clayton Christensen’s highly influential book, The Innovator’s Dilemma, the Business History Review (BHR) published an article by Christensen titled “The Rigid Disk Drive Industry: A History of... View Details
Nicholas, Tom. "How History Shaped the Innovator's Dilemma." Business History Review 95, no. 1 (Spring 2021): 121–148.
- January 2018
- Supplement
Transformation at ING (B): Innovation
By: William R. Kerr, Federica Gabrieli and Emer Moloney
Supplement to HBS No. 818-077. Together with the agile methodology, innovation at ING was an enabler for the company’s purpose of empowering people to stay a step ahead in life and business. The case explores ING's innovation priorities and strategy as well as the... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Agile; Fintech; Innovation and Invention; Strategy; Technological Innovation; Banking Industry
Kerr, William R., Federica Gabrieli, and Emer Moloney. "Transformation at ING (B): Innovation." Harvard Business School Supplement 818-078, January 2018.
- November 2019
- Supplement
Innovation at Uber: The Launch of Express POOL
By: Chiara Farronato, Alan MacCormack and Sarah Mehta
This multimedia supplement accompanies the case “Innovation at Uber: the Launch of Express POOL” (case no. 619-003). Set in March 2018, the case follows ride-sharing company Uber as it develops and launches a new product called Express POOL. This multimedia supplement... View Details
Keywords: Innovation and Management; Innovation Leadership; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Information Technology; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Applications and Software; Digital Platforms; Technology Industry; California; San Francisco
Farronato, Chiara, Alan MacCormack, and Sarah Mehta. "Innovation at Uber: The Launch of Express POOL." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 620-702, November 2019.
- 26 Apr 2023
- Cold Call Podcast
How Martine Rothblatt Started a Company to Save Her Daughter
- 2019
- Working Paper
Breaking and Reconfiguring the Boundaries Between Domain Experts and Crowds to Solve Complex R&D Problems through Partial Decomposition
By: Hila Lifshitz - Assaf and Zoe Szajnfarber
The need for domain experts is all but universally assumed when organizing for scientific and technological innovation. In contrast, we are witnessing a burgeoning of citizen science, crowdsourcing, and other “open” methods based on the opposite assumption that crowds... View Details
- 2019
- Working Paper
Why Do User Communities Matter for Strategy?
By: Sonali K. Shah and Frank Nagle
User communities represent a unique organizing structure for the exchange of ideas and knowledge. They are organizations composed primarily of users working collaboratively, voluntarily, and with minimal oversight to freely and openly develop and exchange knowledge... View Details
Keywords: Strategic Management; Knowledge Sharing; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Organizations; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Strategy
Shah, Sonali K., and Frank Nagle. "Why Do User Communities Matter for Strategy?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-126, June 2019.
- Article
A Field Experiment on Search Costs and the Formation of Scientific Collaborations
By: Kevin Boudreau, Tom Brady, Ina Ganguli, Patrick Gaule, Eva C. Guinan, Anthony Hollenberg and Karim R. Lakhani
We present the results of a field experiment conducted at Harvard Medical School to understand the extent to which search costs affect matching among scientific collaborators. We generated exogenous variation in search costs for pairs of potential collaborators by... View Details
Keywords: Search Costs; Cost; Marketplace Matching; Groups and Teams; Science; Collaborative Innovation and Invention
Boudreau, Kevin, Tom Brady, Ina Ganguli, Patrick Gaule, Eva C. Guinan, Anthony Hollenberg, and Karim R. Lakhani. "A Field Experiment on Search Costs and the Formation of Scientific Collaborations." Review of Economics and Statistics 99, no. 4 (October 2017): 565–576.
- August 2017
- Case
Hacking Heroin
By: Mitchell Weiss and Sarah Mehta
"Hacking Heroin" was the first hackathon that Annie Rittgers, founder of Cincinnati-based 17a, had organized or even attended. "There will continue to be a lot of preventable overdose deaths and wasted potential if the opioid crisis continues unabated," she said.... View Details
Keywords: Public Entrepreneurship; Hackathon; Heroin; Opioids; Crowdsourcing; Public Sector; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Health Pandemics; Public Administration Industry; Health Industry; Ohio; Cincinnati
Weiss, Mitchell, and Sarah Mehta. "Hacking Heroin." Harvard Business School Case 818-010, August 2017.
- 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
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
student—had been awarded the 2020 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said “Their discoveries have benefited sellers, buyers,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Billion-Dollar Question
Jobs said, "Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new." Fortunately, we don't need to die to enjoy some of Death's benefits. Many of us "died" when we... View Details