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  • 21 Jul 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Is a Gap in Small-Business Credit Holding Back the American Economy?

the nation's private sector workforce—about 120 million people—but since 1995 they have created approximately two-thirds of the net new jobs in our country. They are also instrumental in driving the innovation that provides a View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills; Manufacturing
  • 03 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 3

profitability. Using a sample of 42,337 unique firms from 49 countries, we find that corporate profitability mean reverts faster in countries where product and capital markets are more competitive. Moreover, holding constant product, capital, and labor market View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Mar 2007
  • First Look

First Look: March 27, 2007

Japanese competition. In the second research stream, conducted with Wheelwright, Bruce Chew, Takahiro Fujimoto, Kent Bowen and Marco Iansiti, Clark made the case that product development could be managed in new ways that would lead to significant View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • October 2016 (Revised February 2019)
  • Case

PTC: A Transformation to IoT

By: Rajiv Lal and Sarah McAra
In the 2010s, PTC, a leading provider of software for discrete manufacturers, faced maturing markets and changing customer needs as smart, connected products took hold—the rise of the Internet of Things (IoT). PTC saw a first mover advantage in entering the IoT space... View Details
Keywords: Internet Of Things; IoT; Smart; Connected Products; Business Organization; Transformation; Customer Relationship Management; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Leading Change; Marketing; Product Development; Service Operations; Strategy; Competition; Technology Industry
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  • July 2000 (Revised September 2005)
  • Case

BMG Entertainment

By: Jan W. Rivkin and Gerrit Meier
As dramatic changes in technology and customer tastes roil the music industry, the top executives of BMG Entertainment, one of the world's largest record companies, must decide how to organize for digital distribution of music. This case includes a brief history of the... View Details
Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Competitive Strategy; Distribution Channels; Organizational Structure; Technological Innovation; Industry Structures; Customer Focus and Relationships; Growth and Development Strategy; Information Technology; Music Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
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  • 09 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 9, 2016

spending in the United States, accounting for less than 1% of prescriptions filled but nearly 28% of drug spending. Whereas traditional (chemically synthesized, "small-molecule") drugs have historically faced price competition... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Sep 2015
  • First Look

September 29, 2015

powerful commercial engine it is today. This book describes how many of the key innovations that made this possible came from entrepreneurs and iconoclasts who were outside the mainstream—and how the commercialization of the Internet was... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 May 2016
  • First Look

May 10, 2016

property (IP) protection to safeguard their competitive advantages. However, the majority of recent patent litigation is driven by nonpracticing entities (NPEs), firms that generate no products but instead amass patent portfolios for the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • March 2011
  • Teaching Note

TopCoder (A): Developing Software through Crowdsourcing (TN)

By: Karim R. Lakhani and Eric Lonstein
Teaching Note for 610032. View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Applications and Software; Product Development; Competition; Internet and the Web; Problems and Challenges; Perspective; Information Technology Industry; Service Industry
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  • 29 Jul 2014
  • First Look

First Look: July 29

restaurant's margins to make it a more sustainable business. But the question was-how? What options really were available? Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/noma-a-lot-on-the-plate/an/814097-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 314-123 Technology View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Jun 2011
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Motivation

Does Money Lead To Creativity? Inducement Prizes and Innovation Throughout recent history, many foundations have tried to induce innovation through competition, offering massive cash prizes to inventors who... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
  • 17 Apr 2017
  • Research Event

The Most Pressing Issues for Platform Providers in the Sharing Economy

innovation theme, even questions from the audience were handled in a creative process. Rather than raising a hand or grabbing a microphone, audience members submitted questions in writing via an online audience engagement platform called... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Service
  • 04 Feb 2015
  • What Do You Think?

Is There a Stanford-Google-Silicon Valley School of Management?

Gerald Nanninga added: "The pressure to turn a profit in massively competitive mature industries with razor thin margins makes it hard to (do what Google has done). And the business world is a lot more like this than it is like... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Education
  • 03 May 2016
  • First Look

First Look, May 3, 2016

2016 Berrett-Koehler Publishers Building the Future: Big Teaming for Audacious Innovation By: Edmondson, Amy C., and Susan Salter Reynolds Abstract—Machiavelli famously wrote, "There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2010
  • Working Paper

The Influence of Prior Industry Affiliation on Framing in Nascent Industries: The Evolution of Digital Cameras

New industries sparked by technological change are characterized by high uncertainty. In this paper we explore how a firm's conceptualization of products in this context, as reflected by product feature choices, is influenced by prior industry affiliation. We study... View Details
Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Technological Innovation; Product Launch; Market Entry and Exit; Industry Growth; Product Development; Behavior; Competitive Strategy; Electronics Industry
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  • 28 Apr 2015
  • First Look

First Look: April 28

take it from a traditional supplemental publishing company to a competitive player in the educational technology space. Waldron and the CA team-through innovations in curricular design, investments in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jun 2015
  • First Look

First Look: June 23, 2015

  Publications Forthcoming National Bureau of Economic Research Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 16 By: Lerner, Josh, and Scott Stern Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: http://papers.nber.org/books/lern15-1 2015... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Sept. 7

responsibility of individual firms. The authors call for business to be both innovator and activist in protecting and strengthening market capitalism. Instead of seeing themselves as narrowly self-interested players in a system that is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • February 2009 (Revised May 2010)
  • Case

Orange: Read&Go

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann, Toby E. Stuart, Bhaskar Chakravorti, Vincent Marie Dessain, Simon Harrow and Elena Corsi
In late 2008, Orange (aka France Telecom) must decide if launching Read&Go, an electronic newsstand built around an e-paper reader, would be successful. The case describes (1) Orange's strategy; (2) the company's new product development process; (3) e-paper technology,... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Technological Innovation; Demand and Consumers; Product Development; Partners and Partnerships; Competition; Publishing Industry; France
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  • 15 Aug 2005
  • HBS Case

Classic Cases Live On at HBS

reading in a trade publication about Benihana's innovative and efficient use of labor and layout to lower costs and facilitate customer turnaround times, Professor Earl Sasser produced the Benihana case in 1972 with research associate... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons

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