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Reflections on the 2013 Decade Award: 'Exploitation, Exploration, and Process Management: The Productivity Dilemma Revisited' Ten Years Later
By: Mary Benner and Michael Tushman
This paper reflects on Benner and Tushman (2003): "Exploitation, Exploration, and Process Management: The Productivity Dilemma Revisited." Our paper received the Academy of Management Review's best paper award in 2003 and the decade award in 2013. We consider the... View Details
Keywords: Organizations; Innovation and Invention; Performance Productivity; Innovation and Management
Benner, Mary, and Michael Tushman. "Reflections on the 2013 Decade Award: 'Exploitation, Exploration, and Process Management: The Productivity Dilemma Revisited' Ten Years Later." Academy of Management Review 40, no. 4 (October 2015): 497–514.
- November 1994 (Revised November 1995)
- Case
SweetWater
By: H. Kent Bowen and Thomas D. Everett
Focuses on developing a promising idea into a viable product design by considering customer needs early in the design process. Following an Alaskan fishing trip, Sandy Platter, a computer peripherals engineer, has a new idea for a portable water-filter device for use... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Independent Innovation and Invention; Product Design; Customers; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Colorado
Bowen, H. Kent, and Thomas D. Everett. "SweetWater." Harvard Business School Case 695-026, November 1994. (Revised November 1995.)
- 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
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) says that 2012 was the year that climate change started really showing up on the balance sheet. “This is a horrible... View Details
- 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.)
- 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).
- 23 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 23, 2016
Hong Luo Abstract— In this paper, we study the effect of invention disclosure through patent publication on the market for ideas. We do so by analyzing the effects of the American Inventor's Protection Act of 1999 (AIPA)—which required... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Digital Exhibits | Baker Library
printing technologies and marketing strategies. Through Baker's collections, the role these inventive forms played in marketing mass-produced products to the evolving American consumer is explored. Railroads and the Transformation of... View Details
- March 2021 (Revised August 2021)
- Supplement
Wendell Weeks at Corning Inc. (B): Valor Glass and the COVID-19 Pandemic
By: Ryan Raffaelli and Aldo Sesia
The (B) case offers a detailed account of Wendell Weeks’s innovation strategy at Corning, and how his approach played a critical role in the COVID-19 pandemic. It illustrates the company’s philosophy of making long-term investments in promising new technologies and... View Details
Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Disruptive Innovation; Information Technology; Leadership; Health Pandemics; Technology Industry; United States; New York (city, NY)
Raffaelli, Ryan, and Aldo Sesia. "Wendell Weeks at Corning Inc. (B): Valor Glass and the COVID-19 Pandemic." Harvard Business School Supplement 421-078, March 2021. (Revised August 2021.)
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 25 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 25
inventors exhibited but did not win a prize. We also compare changes in technology areas for inventions that were advertised in 1851 as lead articles in the Scientific American, a major science journal of the time. We find comparable... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne