Publications

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February 1990 (Revised June 1990)
Case

Prudential: Organizing for Technology Innovation (B)

By: Lynda M. Applegate

Keywords: Information Technology; Innovation and Invention; Strategy

1 May 1995
Conference Presentation

Remarks on the Development, Validation, and Application of a Model of Innovation

By: Teresa M. Amabile

Keywords: Growth and Development; Innovation and Invention

2008
Book

Innovation Corrupted: The Origins and Legacy of Enron's Collapse

By: Malcolm S. Salter

Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Crime and Corruption; Energy Industry

September 2005 (Revised October 2005)
Module Note

The Marketing of Innovations Module I: The Risk of Innovation

By: John T. Gourville

Aids classroom instructors in teaching the first module of the Marketing of Innovations course. View Details

Keywords: Innovation and Management

1997
Book

Innovation: Breakthrough Thinking at 3M, GE, DuPont, Pfizer, and Rubbermaid

By: R. M. Kanter, J. Kao and F. Wiersema

Keywords: Innovation and Management

1982
Book

Readings in the Management of Innovation

By: Michael Tushman and William L. Moore

Keywords: Innovation and Management

15 Nov 2024
News

Driving Change

Speaking to nearly 700 alumni at the Women’s Leadership Summit last week, HBS Professor Robin Ely addressed both current and emerging challenges facing women in leadership roles, while emphasizing the critical importance of continued progress. “Today, we face a fresh... View Details

01 Oct 1996
News

Tedlow on Tires and the Meaning of Life

edited and abridged version of his remarks follows. The Model T was invented in 1908. Since you had to change your tires every nine months in those days, the tire industry was a good one to be in. By 1970, however, you only had to replace... View Details

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

1994
Chapter

Developing New Process Capabilities

By: D. A. Leonard-Barton and W. Smith

Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management

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

Keywords: Clayton Christensen; Impact; Innovation and Invention; Disruptive Innovation; Research

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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

February 2003 (Revised January 2004)
Case

Mission to Mars (A)

By: Alan D. MacCormack and Jay Wynn

This case is set in spring 2000, several months after two successive, failed missions to the planet Mars. Students are asked to evaluate the reasons for these failures in the context of NASA's "Faster, Better, Cheaper" program, which was initiated in 1992. They are... View Details

Keywords: Failure; Change Management; Innovation Strategy; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Projects; Management; Risk Management; Risk and Uncertainty; Aerospace Industry; Technology Industry

Educators

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

Educators