Corporate Innovation - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

Understanding Users of Social Networks

news that gets read by others. Other than that, there is really no difference between users of Facebook and MySpace, except they are poorer on MySpace." Piskorski recently blogged on his findings. From Social Media To Social Strategy View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Advertising; Publishing

11 Aug 2014
News

The First Five Years: Melissa Fensterstock (MBA 2012)

it worked. "We saw an opportunity to bring the fragrance to the United States and to create a new innovative category—a fragrance with a function for the outdoor-chic lifestyle. Once we tracked down our supplier, we learned that the... View Details

01 Jun 2005
News

Mookerjee Picked as First Director of New HBS India Research Center

Mookerjee recently served as managing director of Capital One’s Asia business ventures, based in Bangalore, India. When that assignment ended in June 2004, he decided to remain with his family in India and subsequently launched an analytics offshoring business and... View Details

Keywords: HBS; India Research Center; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

09 May 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 9

governance-related frictions. Collectively, these findings provide new evidence on the explicit practice of using relative performance benchmarks and on its implications for corporate governance and firm performance. Flexing the Frame:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

September 2010 (Revised January 2012)
Case

Mobile Banking for the Unbanked

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Katharine Lee

The case describes in detail the workings of two mobile banking operators in Africa—WIZZIT in South Africa and M-PESA in Kenya. It explores the dimensions of strategy that make for success in the market for the unbanked. It raises questions regarding the portability of... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Financial Institutions; Disruptive Innovation; Marketing Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Banking Industry; Kenya; South Africa

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September 2013 (Revised November 2015)
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Living Proof: Are We a Technology Company or a Beauty Company?

By: Willy Shih

Jon Flint came up with the idea of a science-based beauty company while talking with his hairdresser about the problems with typical hair and skin care products. Together with a small team that included Professor Robert Langer of MIT, he committed to assemble a team... View Details

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01 Mar 2024
News

The Exchange: Takeaways from the Takedown

latest chapter of corporate fraud and the lessons for entrepreneurs operating in the murky spaces between innovation and regulation. As you look at how things fell apart at FTX, do you see anything new or is... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

16 Feb 2021
Research & Ideas

To Fight Climate Change, Should Green Investors Reconsider Big Oil?

Should eco-conscious investors support a company that’s developing innovative solutions to climate change—even if that company is also a major polluter? The market’s answer to this question has been a resounding “no,” as evidenced by the... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Energy

25 Feb 2020
News

The Past Informs the Future of Work

changes in corporate culture needed to embrace innovation, and management of its 100,000-plus workforce, from retraining or relocating workers, to using AI to find candidates for newly created technology jobs. Balanced against these... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Telecommunications; Information

15 Dec 2024
News

After Ozempic

Back before Ozempic, when Kate Mulroney (MBA 1984) spoke at technical conferences about her work at Novo Nordisk, people often assumed she was talking about Novartis. “I’d have to explain that’s a Swiss company; we’re Danish,” says Mulroney, now head of advanced... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Pete Ryan; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

16 Sep 2015
News

Built for Speed

front line of a turnaround. “It was a chance to contribute to my hometown company, which was in great need of young, innovative leaders,” and offered proximity to family as he and his wife, Kristi Jones MBA 2007, started a family. And... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Machinery Manufacturing; Manufacturing

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Annabelle Cloutier Archives | Social Enterprise

Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact 1 Results Insights on the Art of Driving Performance and Innovation Annabelle Cloutier 17 Jun... View Details

23 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Strategy for Small Fish

or multiple keystones, the heart of technology strategy for a niche player is to continually innovate by integrating technology available from the ecosystem to sharpen the niche offering that it is crafting. It is important to examine... View Details

Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien

24 Apr 2014
News

Helping India’s energy crisis, one bulb at a time

new project, with section mate Andrew Schwaitzberg (MBA 2014), aims to replace conventional streetlamps with LED lamps for free in return for 80 percent of the cost-savings over eight years. Yarlagadda and Schwaitzberg are working with Nashik Municipal View Details

01 Sep 2015
News

Greater Than the Sum of its Parts

large-scale challenges such as health care, global poverty, and climate change. In addition, cross-registration and joint degree programs are on the rise. The Harvard Innovation Lab, which has engaged nearly 20 percent of the overall... View Details

01 Jun 2003
News

Bottom-Line Discrepancies

and the Economy, Desai examines the relationship between book and tax income for U.S. corporations over the last two decades. In the past, the discrepancy between book and tax income was associated with different treatments of... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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Courses by Faculty - Course Catalog

Management, Strategy Fall 2025 Q2 1.5 Livia Alfonsi Negotiation Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Tomomichi Amano IFC: Japan; Exploring Japan's Innovation Ecosystem Strategy, Marketing January 2026 J 3.0 View Details

17 Nov 2011
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Organizational Design

Questions To Be Answered: What are the best techniques for fostering innovation in multicultural teams? I want my functional experts to influence high-level strategy. How can managers get the best thinking out of support staff? What role... View Details

Keywords: Re: Ranjay Gulati & Raffaella Sadun

April–May 2021
Article

Labor Mobility and Antitakeover Provisions

By: Aiyesha Dey and Joshua White

How do firms protect their human capital? We test whether firms facing an increased threat of being acquired strengthen their antitakeover provisions (ATPs) in order to bond with their employees. We use the adoption of the Inevitable Disclosure Doctrine (IDD) by U.S.... View Details