Government Innovation - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2008
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Faculty Research Online

HBS Working Knowledge is an online forum for innovation in business practice, offering a first look at new thinking from HBS faculty. Read the complete articles summarized below by visiting their Web links. Reducing Risk with Online... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

24 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?

but not impede innovations targeted to specific subgroups. Q: What are you working on next? A: I recently joined the Business, Government & International Economy unit at HBS and am in the early stages of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Biotechnology; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage; Health

01 Dec 2013
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14 for '14

will run on inertia with partisan gridlock blocking any change in direction. But in the 50 states there are 25 with a GOP governor, house, and senate (population 165 million), and 13 with complete Democrat control (population 81 million). There, united View Details

Keywords: Government; Government; Government; Government; Government

08 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

Who Is the Chief Sustainability Officer?

shows. Innovation: A select number of companies shift to a more advanced innovative stage by integrating sustainability into the core of the business in ways that transform the company. Strategies tend to be driven by the market with an... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Manufacturing

17 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance

sciences that laid the institutional foundations for innovations in semiconductors, high-speed computers, computer graphics, broadband communications, mobile telephony, the Internet, and modern genomics-based methods of drug discovery.... View Details

Keywords: by Gary P. Pisano & Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing

06 Apr 2007
What Do You Think?

Will Market Forces Stop Global Warming?

Summing Up Debate on this month's questions occurred on at least three levels. Is global warming occurring? Do humans (primarily through CO2 emissions) have much to do with it? Should we rely on market forces to provide appropriate responses, or will this require... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Energy; Utilities

01 Mar 2014
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Everything Old Is a New Opportunity

global organization whose mission is accelerating innovation to improve the lives of older adults. Much of their early work has been nurturing promising entrepreneurs through the aptly named Aging2.0 GENerator—which provides strategic... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Health, Social Assistance; Personal Services

25 May 2016
Research & Ideas

How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health

be headquartered in England in order to achieve a lower corporate tax rate. The British government favored the merger as it would boost the high-priority life sciences sector, but little attention was paid to whether the integration of... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Health

01 Sep 2012
News

Alumni Books

measured? How does India’s accountability rank against other countries? Does accountability affect economic and social performance? He examines the mechanisms that hold governance institutions accountable, explains why many View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Dec 2011
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Faculty Books

Accelerating Energy Innovation: Insights from Multiple Sectors edited by Rebecca M. Henderson and Richard G. Newell (University of Chicago Press for the National Bureau of Economic Research) Studies have suggested that significantly increasing the rate of View Details

Keywords: Utilities

1999
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Biotechnology, Competitiveness and the Regulatory State

By: Arthur A. Daemmrich

Keywords: Technological Innovation; Innovation Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Government and Politics; Policy; Business and Government Relations; Biotechnology Industry

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01 Jun 2009
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Bright Future for Green Business

Partners. “Government can help smaller innovators by pushing utilities to adopt new technologies,” he added. But Prend favors government carrots, not sticks. The other panelists — Jim Matheson (MBA ’01),... View Details

Keywords: Sarah Auerbach; Government; Government; Government; Government; Government

01 Sep 2020
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Reinvigorating Democracy: A Vote for Change

They also cite Pew Research Center data showing that trust in the federal government has gone from 77 percent in 1964 to 17 percent in 2019. But even in the face of these difficult odds, Gehl and Porter offer a solution—and one that can... View Details

Keywords: Young, Susan

01 Dec 2020
News

Two Truths and a Lie About 5G

Frédéric Genta (MBA 2011), a member of Monaco government in charge of digital transformation. In short order, Monaco Telecom made public Wi-Fi available without the need for fiber, and its fire department can now deploy drones with... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

24 Apr 2014
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Transforming the way the social sector innovates, learns, and improves

governments, NGOs, foundations, and other international development organizations, to enable more effective decision-making. IDinsight has offices in three countries and works across a diverse set of development sectors. In India, IDinsight is helping to improve a $200... View Details

01 Mar 2013
News

Sizing Up Social Impact

radical transformations, including a power shift from its headquarters in London to an international secretariat in Johannesburg; a new federated governance structure that increases the influence of units in Africa and Asia; and View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Government; Government; Government; Government; Government; Government; Government; Government

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Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting—Impossible to Routine: Case Histories of Transformational Advances

By: Amar Bhidé, Srikant M. Datar and Fabio Villa

We describe how Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG, or more popularly, “bypass”) operations revolutionized the treatment of coronary disease (that can produce fatal heart attacks and debilitating angina). Specifically, we chronicle the: 1) development of the... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Technological Innovation; Innovation Strategy; Technology Adoption; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Invention; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms

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01 Dec 2006
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The Hard Way

she set out to find a three- to four-story building. At first, no real estate agent returned her calls. She chalked it up to sexism. “They weren’t taking me seriously,” Russo recalls during a recent visit to Harvard’s Kennedy School of View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Government; Government; Government; Government

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Dr. Raghunath Mashelkar

Dr. Raghunath Mashelkar, former Director General of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), speaks on competition between India and China as it relates to innovation, arguing that investment from industry should be increased to bolster India’s global... View Details

05 Aug 2002
Research & Ideas

Five questions for Regina E. Herzlinger

needs; risk-adjustment of payment will make the sick much more attractive enrollees than the present uniform pricing system. All boats rise in a rising sea. Other consumer-driven markets demonstrate that suppliers innovate to reach all... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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