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Lone Inventors as Sources of Technological Breakthroughs: Myth or Reality?

Are lone inventors more or less likely to invent breakthroughs? Recent research has attempted to resolve this question by considering the variance of creative outcome distributions. It has implicitly assumed a symmetric thickening or thinning of both tails, i.e., that... View Details
Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Independent Innovation and Invention; Patents; Groups and Teams; Creativity
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  • May 2006
  • Case

A123Systems

By: H. Kent Bowen, Kenneth P Morse and Douglass Cannon
A 123Systems was a young company that was founded on basic materials science research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A co-founder of the company, Yet-Ming Chiang, was a full professor at MIT and served as scientific adviser. Intellectual property based... View Details
Keywords: Intellectual Property; Business Startups; Research and Development; Commercialization; Technological Innovation; Science-Based Business; Product Development; Battery Industry; Electronics Industry; Massachusetts
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  • 16 Jun 2021
  • Interview

Harvard Business School: How to Build Fearless Organizations

By: Amy C. Edmondson and Ron Lovett
Our guest is Amy Edmondson - Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School. Amy has authored multiple books, including her most recent, The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation and... View Details
Keywords: Psychological Safety; Organizational Culture; Leadership; Diversity; Communication
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  • August 1999 (Revised May 2000)
  • Case

E Ink

By: Teresa M. Amabile and Susan Archambault
E Ink is a high-technology start-up attempting to revolutionize print communication through electronic ink displays. The founders and top managers of this two-year-old firm are striving to translate a technological breakthrough into a working prototype, move from... View Details
Keywords: Customer Focus and Relationships; Entrepreneurship; Technological Innovation; Business or Company Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Industry Structures; Organizational Structure; Commercialization; Technology; Information Technology Industry
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  • July 2000 (Revised April 2011)
  • Case

Greeley Hard Copy, Portable Scanner Initiative (A)

By: Michael L. Tushman and Daniel Radov
Hewlett-Packard's Greeley Hard Copy Division is the market leader in the production of desktop flatbed scanners for personal computers. The division has been working to develop a portable scanner product for the past five years with mixed results. The new general... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Leading Change; Product Development; Organizational Structure; Hardware; Technology Industry
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  • 24 Jul 2006
  • Research & Ideas

How Kayak Users Built a New Industry

kayaking was a wonderful example of how "user innovations" evolve and eventually become commercial products. Hienerth is a professor at Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, while von Hippel is a professor at MIT Sloan School of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 19 Dec 2018
  • News

When Your Moon Shots Don’t Take Off

    Deborah M. Winshel

    Deborah Winshel is a Senior Lecturer in the General Management Unit of Harvard Business School.  She teaches several MBA required courses: Leadership and Organizational Behavior (LEAD), Leadership and Corporate Accountability and the Field Immersion course (2025 in... View Details

    • February 2024
    • Article

    Representation and Extrapolation: Evidence from Clinical Trials

    By: Marcella Alsan, Maya Durvasula, Harsh Gupta, Joshua Schwartzstein and Heidi L. Williams
    This article examines the consequences and causes of low enrollment of Black patients in clinical trials. We develop a simple model of similarity-based extrapolation that predicts that evidence is more relevant for decision-making by physicians and patients when it... View Details
    Keywords: Representation; Racial Disparity; Health Testing and Trials; Race; Equality and Inequality; Innovation and Invention; Pharmaceutical Industry
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    • January 2018
    • Case

    Flying into the Future: HondaJet

    By: Gary P. Pisano and Jesse Shulman
    This cases examine Honda’s diversification into the light jet market. In 1985, Honda initiated a secret program to develop a small jet. Over the years, the program had many ups and downs (it was almost canceled several times). Then, a breakthrough in the configuration... View Details
    Keywords: Diversification; Technological Innovation; Growth and Development Strategy; Innovation and Management; Air Transportation Industry
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    • 10 Jul 2007
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Platform Envelopment

    Keywords: by Thomas Eisenmann, Geoffrey Parker & Marshall Van Alstyne; Technology
    • Program

    Program for Leadership Development

    Summary Innovative companies know that long-term success requires a pipeline of visionary leaders who can help build and secure a competitive edge. The Program for Leadership Development (PLD) prepares emerging executives to become more... View Details
    • November 2007 (Revised May 2008)
    • Case

    Creativity under the Gun at Litmus Corporation

    By: Teresa M. Amabile and Yana Litovsky
    Teaches students to diagnose the circumstances under which time pressure can facilitate or hinder creativity. A team's creative "genius", Miles Grady, who previously conceptualized a revolutionary material for an important new product, must now significantly change... View Details
    Keywords: Situation or Environment; Creativity; Innovation and Management; Problems and Challenges
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    • March 2002 (Revised January 2003)
    • Case

    Microsoft: Positioning the Tablet PC

    By: Youngme E. Moon and Christina L. Darwall
    Microsoft is preparing for the launch of the Tablet PC, which allows users to use a pen (stylus) to run Windows and Windows applications, annotate documents, and create handwritten documents for later reference or even conversion to text. Microsoft's original equipment... View Details
    Keywords: Technological Innovation; Product Positioning; Market Entry and Exit; Information Infrastructure; Applications and Software; Computer Industry
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    • 02 Oct 2014
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Bitcoin

    Keywords: by Rainer Böhme, Nicolas Christin, Benjamin Edelman & Tyler Moore; Banking
    • July 2013
    • Case

    Novozymes: Establishing the Cellulosic Ethanol Value Chain

    By: Willy Shih and Sen Chai

    As the world's largest producer of industrial enzymes, Novozymes had invested heavily for many years to bio-engineer enzymes that could break down cellulose into fermentable sugar. In 2010, the company had launched what it thought would become a breakthrough product... View Details

    Keywords: System Complexity; Industrial Enzymes; Ethanol; Collulosic Ethanol; Fermentation; Genomics; Genetic Engineering; Value Chain; Assembling Value Chain; Energy Sources; Renewable Energy; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Industry Growth; Production; Research; Research and Development; Science; Genetics; Natural Environment; Environmental Sustainability; Science-Based Business; Business Strategy; Commercialization; Vertical Integration; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Biotechnology Industry; Energy Industry; Denmark; United States
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    • 18 Jun 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    Book Excerpt: ‘Collective Genius’

    book excerpt Leading Innovation From Collective Genius: The Art of Practice of Leading Innovation By Linda A. Hill, Greg Brandeau, Emily Truelove and Kent Linebeck Though each of our leaders and their firms... View Details
    Keywords: by Linda Hill; Entertainment & Recreation
    • Program

    Owner/President Management

    capabilities Formulate optimal financing strategies Embrace digital transformation to drive breakthrough innovation Lead organizational change and drive profitable growth Identify and exploit opportunities... View Details
    • Program

    Managing Health Care Delivery

    Summary Today's health care organizations need leaders who can respond to the challenge of delivering greater value through a combination of higher quality, lower cost, and broader access. Managing Health Care Delivery will help you View Details
    Keywords: Health Care; Health Care
    • 22 Aug 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity

    innovate if they are going to maintain their edge, or maintain their existence at all. "For the University as well as for the economy and our nation, the importance of innovation cannot be... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding