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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
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. What Is Management’s Role in... View Details
- 28 May 2014
- News
Using Microorganisms to Extract Oil
- 05 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: iPads, Kindles, and the Close of a Chapter in Book Publishing
future? Olson has some thoughts—but no easy answers—to those questions. What About The Customer? E-book pricing is one of the biggest sources of friction. In a recent dustup between Amazon and Macmillan, the online retailer briefly... View Details
- 08 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
The Critical Computer Science Principles Every Strategic Leader Needs to Know
important part of how businesses operate, and that can only increase going forward.” “Increasingly, the tech architectures inside firms are a source of competitive advantage.” In a new industry and background note written with HBS... View Details
- 21 Sep 2016
- News
Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
Frustrated by the slow pace and poor success rate of entrepreneurial startups bringing innovation from bench to bedside in his field, Jordan Amadio (MD/MBA 2010) and two partners founded NeuroLaunch, the world’s first neuroscience-focused... View Details
- 19 Aug 2011
- News
i-lab Buzz
Approaching the i-lab on the walkway from Aldrich and Spangler. A kitchen lounge and video gaming area. There’s a small army of workers putting the finishing touches on the Harvard Innovation Lab, which will soon welcome MBA students... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Case Study: Declawing the Competition
Illustration by Peter Arkle KitNipBox is a monthly subscription service for cat owners. Each box contains products designed to keep cats happy, healthy, and fit: toys, treats, health and hygiene products, must-have accessories, innovative... View Details
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Technological Disruption Changes Everything
HBS Professor Clayton Christensen sees disruptive innovation as a threat to everything from Microsoft to Japan—and even to a certain prominent business school. But through that disruption comes improved quality of life—and major... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Porter's Paradox
during the past decade. "Absolutely," Porter replied. "It's a very interesting paradox. In a global economy where it's easy to move goods and information around the world, these things become givens available to any enterprise. As a result, they are no longer a View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A U.S. Turnaround?
from fossil fuels to alternative sources of energy. We will need to finance research in technology innovation and biotechnology, including stem cell research. We will need to generate most of our electricity... View Details
- 18 Sep 2019
- News
Level Up
industry, suddenly ripe for disruption,” she says. Ruggiero cofounded the Sports Innovation Lab in late 2016, determined to ready the industry for the revolution. The lab is a research firm, but it’s not churning out quarterly white... View Details
- 06 Nov 2014
- News
Building a Startup Community Beyond Commencement
As director of the Harvard Innovation Lab (i-lab), Jodi Goldstein (MBA 1996) has watched a number of innovative student businesses thrive at the space in its three years of operation. But watching those... View Details
- 21 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Are Crummy Products Your Next Growth Opportunity?
explored how great companies often lose their ability to innovate and eventually fail at the hands of much smaller, "disruptive" competitors. "Basically any stock you wish you have owned started out as a disruptive... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2013
- Op-Ed
Encourage Breakthrough Health Care by Competing on Products Rather Than Patents
between the "intellectual commons" that benefits us all, and the intellectual property protection that encourages innovation and investment. What should be opened to the commons? What should be... View Details
- 08 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 8
Working Papers Modeling a Paradigm Shift: From Producer Innovation to User and Open Collaborative Innovation Authors: Carliss Y. Baldwin and Eric von Hippel Abstract In this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them
business models; an enhanced focus on organizational innovation and implementation; and increased field-based learning." The Diagnosis As source material for the conference, Herzlinger arranged for market... View Details
- 29 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Symposium Showcases Breadth of Research
hosting contests to find solutions to problems ranging from automotive design to cleaning up oil spills. Karim R. Lakhani has spent the past five years working with NASA, Harvard Medical School, and TopCoder to determine the most effective ways to solve View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and... View Details
- 10 May 2017
- Research & Ideas
Amazon Web Services Changed the Way VCs Fund Startups
“Supercomputing has opened up massive innovations in nuclear startups by allowing us to simulate the inside of a nuclear reactor for a mere $200 million instead of $6 billion!” As new technologies such as... View Details
- 17 Aug 2015
- News
The Play Alchemist
When Jessica Matthews (AB 2010, MBA 2014) was 19 and in her junior year of college, she and some classmates invented the Soccket, a soccer ball that generates and stores electricity during play. It was designed to provide a clean source... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman