by Henry Chesbrough - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

Jumpstarting Innovation: Using Disruption to Your Advantage

executive programs on jumpstarting innovation that I chair for executives in large firms and owners of small to midsize businesses are all oversubscribed. This interest in innovation is confirmed by an IBM study in 2006 that asked over... View Details

Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate

01 May 2006
What Do You Think?

Who Will Cast a Longer Shadow on the 21st Century: Friedman or Galbraith?

century." But I was struck by the number of respondents who suggested that the ideas of both Friedman and Galbraith had relevance, perhaps at different times and in different places. Henry Kwok wrote,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

21 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Are Crummy Products Your Next Growth Opportunity?

How's this for a mission statement: We make crummy products for non-consumers. But if you think that's the idea for an "F" paper in business school, you haven't been paying attention to success stories ranging from Henry Ford's... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

03 Dec 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Against the Grain

many people. “There is a central tension in the case between the student feeling at once helpless against a corrupt system and surprisingly powerful given his novitiate status.” The case, Against the Grain: Jim Teague in Tanzania, was written View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Food & Beverage

02 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?

presented by the rise of the man-of-action hero. Salls: What is the man-of-action hero, and why is this manhood ideal so important in American culture? You say the man-of-action hero is a synthesis of two other popular models of American... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

22 May 2020
In Practice

Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?

techniques, the changes in reimbursement for free-standing ambulatory surgery centers, the rise of telemedicine, and consumers’ preferences for surgery outside of the hospitals, will be accelerated by the closing of hospitals for... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

22 Jun 2009
Research & Ideas

“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms

on specific proposals begin the week of June 22.] Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner's proposals for fixing the broken financial system closely resemble those found in Moss's own playbook. In this instance, the book is a Special Report on Regulatory Reform,... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services

February 2001 (Revised October 2002)
Background Note

Entrepreneurial History: A Conceptual Overview

By: Nancy F. Koehn

Analyzes HBS cases on five entrepreneurs and the companies they built: Josiah Wedgwood, Henry Heinz, Marshall Field, Howard Schultz of Starbucks, and Michael Dell. These five cases and their accompanying teaching notes comprise a course module on entrepreneurial... View Details

Keywords: Transition; Demand and Consumers; Competition; Business History; Entrepreneurship; Customer Focus and Relationships; Business Strategy; Society

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09 Aug 2013
Research & Ideas

Read All About It: Digital CEO Buys Traditional Media!

that Bezos has shown in his leadership at Amazon, including constant commitment to the customer and a long-term approach to innovation, are good news for DC's paper of record. Three Ingredients For Success By: Bharat Anand Henry R. Byers... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Journalism & News; Publishing

29 Mar 2010
Research & Ideas

Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial

Henry Ford think he could keep selling black-only Model Ts? "Denial has always been a problem," writes Harvard Business School historian Richard S. Tedlow in a new book, Denial: Why Business Leaders Fail to Look Facts in the Face-and What... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Auto; Retail; Technology

04 Oct 2006
Lessons from the Classroom

Surviving Success: When Founders Must Go

entrepreneur-in-residence Henry McCance (MBA '66) focus on events surrounding the key moment at which a founder hands off his or her "baby" to a new CEO. "In my initial research on founders, I focused on the question of... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Technology

23 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS

faculty, whose scholarship and teaching skills attract hundreds of Harvard MBA students to their classrooms each year. Among the latest books by HBS historians are publications by Professor Chandler,... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

04 Mar 2015
What Do You Think?

Can a Laissez-Faire Approach Fix Labor Market Inequality?

be found." This was tried by Henry Ford, Nanninga continued, "who reasoned that by paying higher wages there would be more people on the streets who could afford his... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

02 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

Digital Initiative Summit: Companies Must Forget—and Borrow

effective business strategies. Companies might ultimately find more power in adopting a nuanced approach that borrows tested traditional tactics and combines them with fresh, new ideas, said Bharat N. Anand, Henry R. Byers Professor of... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education; Advertising

16 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

The Unfulfilled Promise of Educational Technology

inventory without the use of technology," says John Jong-Hyun Kim, a senior lecturer and William Henry Bloomberg fellow at Harvard Business School. "And yet, schools have been slow to adopt and integrate technology in the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

10 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

Breakthrough Negotiation: Don’t Leave It On the Table

understand the delicate interplay between negotiation and coercive power. Speaking of the U.S. failure in Vietnam, Henry Kissinger said, "Treating force and diplomacy as discrete phenomena caused our power to lack purpose and our... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Watkins

31 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?

national leadership can be, I recommend Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Leadership: In Turbulent Times, which I’m delighted to say accompanies my new book on JP Morgan’s list of 14 picks for summer reading. Henry McGee I've just started reading a... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Information; Publishing

12 Aug 2002
Research & Ideas

‘Let the Buyer Beware’ Doesn’t Protect Investors

The American regulatory agencies, described by Henry Kaufmann as "...less than robust... Understaffed, under-funded, and badly fragmented," have been, in his words, "slow to recognize some of... View Details

Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills

March 2021
Case

Founders Factory

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport and James Barnett

In January 2020, Founders Factory (FF) Executive Chairman Brent Hoberman and CEO Henry Lane Fox were considering FF’s expansion strategy. FF operated as a venture capital (VC) fund built around an accelerator and incubator, and organized around sectors within... View Details