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- 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
- 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
- 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
- 26 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Can AI Match Human Ingenuity in Creative Problem-Solving?
When ChatGPT and other large language models began entering the mainstream two years ago, it quickly became apparent the technology could excel at certain business functions, yet it was less clear how well artificial intelligence could handle more creative tasks. Sure,... View Details
- 16 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Nitin Nohria: Why US Competitiveness Matters
that our friends abroad cheer for America with foreboding and pessimism, the way sports fans nervously pull for a team whose lead is slimming and whose energy is fading. These outsiders recognize that the system of democratic capitalism... View Details
Keywords: by Nitin Nohria
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Quantum Leap
excited to see this next wave of computing arrive. He has been at the forefront of a number of tech innovations over the course of his career, all of which made grand claims: Back in 1998, he was leading a startup View Details
- 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
- 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
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
The Western Front
the creation of powdered cheese.) And just decades ago, Washington was involved in two-thirds of all research and development in America; only one-third came from private industry. But today, those R&D ratios have flipped. Both private companies and governments around... View Details
Keywords: Jason Feifer
- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
No matter how many brilliant thinkers a company may employ in-house, sometimes the most innovative solution to a problem can be found from seeking answers outside–from the crowd. “Crowds appear to reliably produce cheaper, faster, and... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Excellence At The Intersection Of Disciplines
Across Harvard University, rapid innovation and technological change, among other factors, are prompting important collaborations that enhance learning and deepen understanding. Under the mantle of “One Harvard,” students, faculty... View Details
- 26 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
If a Car Can Drive Itself, Can It Make Life-or-Death Decisions?
Silicon Valley startups have adopted the “fail fast” approach of releasing innovative products quickly rather than waiting for perfection. Badaracco disagrees: “It’s a potentially catastrophic mistake, with technology like this, to have... 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
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth
evolved into a complex solution instead of the simple small business software that originally was envisioned. Its features got specified and locked in before a single paying customer had used the product. The Pandesic team did a lot of... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Raynor
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Angels Face the Innovator’s Dilemma
the mark. "Microsoft can innovate faster than your life can change," Christensen observed dryly. The only thing we know for sure is that nobody knows the right strategy as the disruption takes root.—Clayton M. Christensen When... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf
large should initial innovation teams be? (Just a few people, but include seasoned members.) Should new projects be kept close to the core organization or set up shop on the periphery? (Depends if the View Details
- 18 Oct 2016
- News
China, artificial intelligence, and Jim Breyer
billions in return. “Mark epitomizes courage and intensity and isn’t afraid to be wrong,” Breyer said. “And he also made the decision in 2008 to hire Sheryl Sandberg (MBA 1995) . The combination of Mark and Sheryl is the single best team... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 29 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Inventing Products is Less Valuable Than Inventing Ideas
not commercialize the innovations. It was Steve Jobs and his Apple team that saw the possibilities during visits in 1979 and made them the cornerstone of the Macintosh. In other words, while Xerox may have invented many wonderful things,... View Details
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Bank of America Turned Branches into Service-Development Laboratories
America's Innovation & Development Team quickly realized that it would be very difficult to conduct a diverse array of experiments within the confines of a traditionally designed bank branch. Experiments... View Details
- 15 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of New-Market Disruption
backing, the thing is never going to happen." In choosing a target market for Aurora, the team was guided by d'Arbeloff's financial expectations for the new division; Aurora's initial revenue expectations after product launch were $1... View Details