Cambridge Innovation Center - Publications - Faculty & Research

August 2003 (Revised August 2024)
Case

Fighting the Battle of the Bulge—Evaluating Do Good/Do Well Innovations in Morbid Obesity Treatment

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and John McDonough

Many health care innovations appear successful; but fail. This is the first case in the Innovating Health Care course that investigates how to create successful health care innovations. It is part of the first module in the course. This module focuses on how to... View Details

Keywords: Three Pillars; Industry Analysis; Health Care and Treatment; Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Medical Specialties; Health Industry

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18 Dec 2019
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6 Skills That Wise Companies Harness for World-Changing Innovation

eventually evolved from manufacturing motorcycles to inventing a revolutionary light business jet—fulfilling a lifelong dream to improve mobility and exemplifying the longevity and continuous innovation that characterizes so many Japanese... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

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Seen and Unseen | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Skip to Main Content Contemporary Black Artists at Harvard Business School Search Baker Library Search Search Search Overview SEEN AND UNSEEN REPRESENTATIONS OF NATIVE AMERICANS IN ART, ADVERTISING, AND COMMERCE November 2022 - February 2023 Second Floor Mezzanine... View Details

15 Nov 2020
News

Fostering Innovation in Social Enterprise Across Harvard

quality of the entries were as strong as ever. The Social Enterprise Track, which is sponsored by HBS’s Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI), fosters innovation across Harvard University. This year’s competitors included 53 teams comprising... View Details

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Lehman Brothers Archives | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

with Lehman Brothers are also part of these archives. These materials are not a comprehensive record of the company but they represent what is extant of this innovative and influential firm. The business records highlight the... View Details

21 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Grundfos: Innovation & Inspiration for Sustainable Product Design

In January 2023, Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel led more than 40 HBS MBA students on site visits to witness the energy transition and innovative sustainable production activities throughout Denmark and the Netherlands, in their new... View Details

18 Aug 2020
Blog Post

Innovating in the Hot Market of Cold Brew

this. HBS provided an opportunity to meet willing co-founders, gave us tools for prototyping and hard dollars to fund our work, and connected us with a laundry list of students, alumni, and professors to help hone our idea. The entrepreneurial community at the Rock... View Details

23 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

Product Disasters Can Be Fertile Ground for Innovation

In 2009, a stroke victim at a Los Angeles medical center started losing his hair following a CT brain perfusion scan. After some confusion, doctors determined he had been subject to a radiation overdose—a serious accident that might lead... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies

01 Jun 2005
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Christensen Center: Open for Business

teaching provides an extra-ordinary starting point for this new initiative,” he observes with pride. “The donors who supported the Christensen Center will enable the School to continue to build its global leadership in best practices and... View Details

Keywords: Chris Christensen; Christensen Center; case teaching; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

15 Nov 2016
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HBS and SEAS Explore Opportunities for Innovative Thinking

highlighted existing partnerships, and explored ways to foster innovation even before two-thirds of SEAS moves to its new campus adjacent to HBS and the Harvard Innovation Labs in 2020. More than 100 HBS and... View Details

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The Supply Chain Economy: A New Industry Categorization for Understanding Innovation in Services

By: Karen Mills

An active debate has centered on the importance of manufacturing for driving innovation in the U.S. economy. This paper offers an alternative framework that focuses on the role of suppliers of goods and services (the “supply chain economy”) in national performance. We... View Details

25 Feb 2020
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The Influence of Geography on Work and Innovation

research and development centers fostered more patents than those who had not crossed borders. Since then, the geography of work and innovation has been the focus of his research. These days, Choudhury, the... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Apr 2021
Blog Post

An Aerospace Engineer Provides a Lift for Underrepresented Innovators and Entrepreneurs

and told me she’d noticed I seemed to be much more passionate about my AP physics course than I was about biology,” Shodiya said. “She told me her friend over at the NASA Goddard (Space Flight) Center had let her know about an internship... View Details

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Case Method - Research Resources | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Center for Teaching and Learning The Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning maintains its own list of resources for faculty and students. Copeland, Melvin T., And Mark an Era: The Story of the Harvard... View Details

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IFC: Singapore; Shaping a Global Innovation Hub - Course Catalog

of government programs and financial investment in driving this growth, exploration, and learning will center on a few key questions: The State of Singapore – How does the country’s industrial policy work? Singapore’s industrial policy... View Details

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Business Education & The Case Method | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

The American Economic Review , March 1922, vol. 12, no. 1, 58. 3 Melvin T. Copeland, And Mark an Era: The Story of Harvard Business School (Boston: Little Brown, 1958), 256. 4 Copeland, And Mark an Era , 255. 5 Donham, The American Economic Review , 63. Title image:... View Details

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Post-war PR Campaigns Reaching Wide Audiences | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

1930s. 43 HBS faculty used photographs contributed by U.S. Steel for exhibition and classroom instruction. They also drew on the images as a source of illustrations in case studies, the HBS instructional method centered on students... View Details

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Digital Innovation and Transformation: Resources useful for Course Assignments

Center is recently developed and very interesting. View Details

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IT Strategy: IT Modernization Drives Academic Library Innovation | Information Technology

IT Strategy: IT Modernization Drives Academic Library Innovation Strategic Initiative: 2.01 Baker Architecture Modernization Program By Annie Harrison on April 23, 2024 Share via Facebook Share via LinkedIn Print Share via email The... View Details

January 2014 (Revised May 2014)
Case

Rethinking Cities: Chicago on the Move

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone

It is impossible to discuss national competitiveness without considering cities and the regions they anchor. Cities are transportation hubs, centers of commercial exchange, and the locus of lives. They thrive by the ways they connect to the world. Demographic changes... View Details

Keywords: Innovation; Management; Strategy; Infrastructure; Innovation and Invention; Chicago