innovative investing - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Oct 2016
First Look

October 4, 2016

Abstract—We build a tractable growth model where multi-product incumbents invest in internal innovations to improve their existing products, while new entrants and incumbents View Details

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Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator - Health Care

models, and innovate funding methods. The Four Workstreams The KPMA identified four key areas that needed to be addressed: engaging patients, using data and analytics effectively, designing successful clinical trials, and developing sound... View Details

06 Dec 2010
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Doing Business in Emerging Markets

entrepreneurs are innovating products to attract the emerging middle class. Such innovations could potentially benefit consumers living in mature markets. How Important Are Relations With The Host Country?... View Details

13 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth

our corporate parents will willingly continue to make the investments required to fuel our profitable growth. Now, as the second step, let's apply McCall's theory. List the courses that we would want members of Pandesic's management team... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Raynor

Student-Faculty-Profile

Lauren Taylor & Rebecca Henderson

Rebecca and Lauren are working on a book about innovation and change, exploring how to drive innovation in large organizations and uncovering what it is about organizational culture that makes change so... View Details

19 May 2009
First Look

First Look: May 19, 2009

Working PapersDon't Just Survive—Thrive: Leading Innovation in Good Times and Bad (revised) Authors:Lynda M. Applegate and Bruce Harreld Abstract Battered by contracting markets and frozen credit, many businesses today are fighting for... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Financing New Ideas - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

continued to invest in innovative startups. ARD portfolio companies included Textron Electronics (aerospace, industrial, and metal products); Cordis Corporation (therapeutic medical equipment including... View Details

16 Mar 2018
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Enabling The Pursuit of Entrepreneurial Dreams

she worked in real estate investment banking at Goldman Sachs and then pivoted to the Walt Disney Company and AwesomenessTV, a digital studio that produces original programming for the emerging Generation Z. Ng knew she wanted to pursue... View Details

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Visionary, Innovator, Educator - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

new and adventurous attitude on the part of the business community." 67 In 1987, Doriot died at the age of 87. From an era of conservative investment and large corporations, the patient visionary and calculated risk taker paved the way... View Details

25 Jun 2018
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Incubating Ideas for the ‘Water Economy’

Tamin Pechet (MBA 2007) founded and manages a platform of firms that support and invest in innovative water and infrastructure resources. He is CEO of Upwell, chairman of Imagine H2O, and founder of Banyan... View Details

18 Oct 2016
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China, artificial intelligence, and Jim Breyer

investing in fellow HBS alumnus Scott Cook’s (MBA 1976) Intuit Inc. “I tried but I lost the deal and I still think about it 27 years later,” Breyer told a room full of young entrepreneurs and budding venture capitalists in Boston on... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

01 Dec 2019
News

Impact: Business in an Age of Sustainability

across multiple dimensions. And innovative approaches for addressing this impact are being devised, including the use of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) standards in investment today to help... View Details

23 Sep 2024
Blog Post

2024 Summer Internships in Business & Environment

Partners is a BlackRock and Temasek joint venture that will invest in the next generation of innovative decarbonization solutions and businesses to accelerate global efforts to achieve net-zero emissions by... View Details

Lewis W. Lehr

In his first year at the helm of 3M, Lehr presided over a major reorganization of the company’s diversified operations into 4 distinct divisions. The new and improved 3M began to focus on quality and innovation, as Lehr invested heavily... View Details

Keywords: Fabricated Goods

03 Oct 2012
What Do You Think?

Can We Bring Back the “Industrial Commons” for Manufacturing?

Summing Up Where Is the Leadership Necessary to Regenerate the "Industrial Commons" In their book Producing Prosperity, Gary Pisano and Willy Shih pointed to the lack of long-term thinking and investment as well as education... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing

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Carrie Ruh Archives | Social Enterprise

to pitch innovative impact investment o... INITIATIVES focus on societal challenges that are too complex for any one discipline or industry to solve alone. View Details

01 Dec 2017
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Enhancing Students’ Cultural Intelligence

partners, whose involvement was facilitated by HBS’s Mexico City research office. “Many of the companies were surprised by how much they learned about innovation from seeing our students develop insight through design thinking,” he says.... View Details

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Buildings & Cities - Business & Environment

protective barriers—along with novel finance models to support the investments needed to implement these improvements Energy-sourcing innovations that allow for efficiently transitioning from fossil fuels to... View Details

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Gabriel Handel | About

alumni relations. Gabe holds governance roles with the Harvard Innovation Lab and the Advanced Leadership Initiative. He serves on the HBS Tech Board, the Harvard University Electronic Communications Policy Oversight Committee, the MBA... View Details

25 May 2016
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Supporting Critical Initiatives

Elizabeth Raun Schlesinger (MBA 2005) The School’s commitment to educating women leaders was a key reason Liz Raun Schlesinger (MBA 2005) made a 10th Reunion gift to the HBS Fund for Leadership and Innovation. The fund supports View Details

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