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- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: “The Architecture of Innovation”
The key to managing innovation starts, and probably ends, with incentives. In his new book, The Architecture of Innovation: The Economics of Creative Organizations, Harvard Business School Professor Josh Lerner puts it this way:... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Welcome to the Future
creativity in mind. These spaces are designed to enable and facilitate HBS’s new required FIELD course, which focuses on intensive small-group exercises and team dynamics, activity not well-suited for Aldrich-style amphitheater... View Details
- 13 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
From Turf Wars to Learning Curves: How Hospitals Adopt New Technology
influential
, PTCA has been used less frequently than in hospitals with less influential surgeons." And even if PTCA and other innovations make it past initial gatekeepers, it's a long road to adoption because of learning curves... View Details
- 06 Oct 2003
- What Do You Think?
Is “the Innovator’s Solution” to Sustained Corporate Growth an Unnatural Act?
spending your time on disruptive innovations!" M. P. Singh, a manager in the public sector, suggests, "Expecting corporate culture to tolerate or encourage radical change or innovation is like expecting a country to encourage... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Balanced Scorecard and Beer Game Go High-Tech
Investing in HBS Great Expectations Model Teamwork Donor Spotlight FIELD 2: Global Intelligence FAQ For one day last November, it was every hand on deck and every eye on screen inside the war room set up by HBS’s Educational Technology Group. The View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Reimagining the MBA
knowledge into action and, at the same time, be aware of their own character and values. In short, the School’s vision for 21st-century leadership requires a commitment to three dimensions of learning: knowing, doing, and being (see sidebar next page). View Details
- 04 Mar 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar
famous." After graduation, Huber didn't expect their career paths to cross again. But several years later, Christensen would realize that the OnStar story was a great example of navigating innovation within a large company. A... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sometimes Success Begins at Failure
discovered these negative results, some firms might have thrown in the towel and moved on to other projects. But Pfizer's scientists picked up on—and decided to pursue—what they thought might be an interesting side effect. That side effect led the process of View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Research Brief: Better Brainstorming
Assistant Professor Rembrand Koning (photo by Russ Campbell) Assistant Professor Rembrand Koning (photo by Russ Campbell) Innovative ideas often come from brainstorming with peers—but does who you brainstorm with matter? Yes, say... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 27 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
What Happens When Ordinary People Get Creative?
Teresa Amabile argues that average folks deserve careful investigation, especially in the age of user innovation and crowdsourced problem-solving, when big ideas routinely come from the masses. The article appears in a forthcoming issue... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Future Tech Leaders Dive into New Program
a team project in the new MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program, offered jointly by HBS and the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS). With just three days to complete a prototype, Batt’s View Details
- 03 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Fierce Competitors Apple and Amazon Became ’Frenemies’ Over eReaders
Let's get one thing straight from the start: Apple and Amazon are not friends. If they were high school students, they'd be mean girls glaring at each other from opposite sides of the cafeteria, jealously forcing their friends to pick sides between View Details
- 19 Sep 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Say Again? Uncommon Advice for Common Business Problems
showed, adopting radical simplicity can be the best approach to team creativity. Perhaps the best way to bolster innovation in employees is to draw a curtain around them, literally. It could well be that the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Making Finance Personal
Cook Main article: Where Innovation Rules Necessity may be the mother of invention, but as Scott Cook (MBA 1976) can attest, an unhappy spouse can be a powerful prompter of innovation. Spurred by the complaints of his wife, Signe Ostby... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Ready, Set, Launch
at stake, such as honing the core concept and attracting a founding team, investors, press, and industry supporters. If you’re not really, really, really into your idea, no one else will be either.” —Eric Grosse (MBA 1995), serial entrepreneur, CEO and Co-Founder,... View Details
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Agility Hacks
By: Amy C. Edmondson and Ranjay Gulati
In the past 20 years, the agile approach to improving products, services, and processes has swept the business world. Rooted in software development, agile has spread to many other functions, and some companies have turned much of their organization, including the... View Details
Keywords: Agile Practices; Agile Project Management; Projects; Management Practices and Processes; Groups and Teams; Innovation Strategy
Edmondson, Amy C., and Ranjay Gulati. "Agility Hacks." Harvard Business Review 99, no. 6 (November–December 2021).
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
How Sports Should Use Its Timeout
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Angela Ruggiero (MBA 2014) is cofounder and CEO of the market research firm the Sports Innovation Lab, and when we spoke in May, it... View Details
- 25 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity
together to facilitate visibility. The idea was that watching the workers would help managers improve operations and replicate innovations on one line across others, thus increasing productivity and driving down production costs. A... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
A New Approach to Contact Tracing
the fight against COVID-19. Government-led innovation such as this is a subject that fascinates Mitchell Weiss (MBA 2004), a professor of management practice and Richard L. Menschel Faculty Fellow at HBS. Upon hearing that Singapore’s... View Details
- 02 Dec 2010
- News
Ten Rules for Entrepreneurs
start by choosing the product they want to make or the service they want to provide and then try to convince the market to buy it. It makes more sense to start a business the other way around: Identify what the market needs first, and then develop a solution. 3. Focus... View Details