Radical Innovation - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Jun 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing

about being a great orator in the classroom, learning to work cooperatively with fellow students is just as important to their future success." Other innovations to help students manage the difficulties of team-based work have been... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

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Dhabi Investment Council Accion Venture Labs Accompany Health Acontor Innovations Private Limited Actis Active Surfaces AdaptHealth Adenia Partners Adept - adept.ai Admaius Capital Partners Adobe Advent International Aid Pioneers AIRS... View Details

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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31 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 31, 2009

Dilemma revolutionized the business world—presents The Innovator's Prescription, a comprehensive analysis of the strategies that will improve health care and make it affordable. Christensen applies the principles of disruptive innovation... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Overcrowded – Designing Meaningful Products in a World Awash with Ideas

We live in a world awash with ideas. Thanks to the web and to powerful ideation approaches such as open innovation, design thinking, or crowdsourcing, organizations have today easy access to an unprecedented amount of novel concepts. In this context, what... View Details

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Placement - Doctoral

Laboratory for Innovation Sciences at Harvard (LISH), Post-Doctoral Fellow Dissertation: Top-Down Sabotage in Organizations Advisors: V.G. Narayanan (Co-Chair), Tatiana Sandino (Co-Chair), Susanna Gallani , and Karim R. Lakhani 2021... View Details

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Strategy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Strategy Strategy Strategy Explained Business Strategy Creating a Successful Strategy Corporate Strategy The Role of Leaders Related Topics Strategy Some companies perform better than others, and keep innovating so they grow and... View Details

03 Feb 2012
HBS Seminar

Dr. Regina Dugan, Director, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

23 Jun 2023
HBS Case

This Company Lets Employees Take Charge—Even with Life and Death Decisions

Is it possible to truly empower employees to make their own decisions—even when those decisions could mean life or death? That is the question posed by Dutch home healthcare organization Buurtzorg, which has radically avoided almost all... View Details

Keywords: by Annelena Lobb; Health

29 Nov 2022
Research & Ideas

Is There a Method to Musk’s Madness on Twitter?

users to reconsider whether they will continue using the platform. Critics say all these radical moves are akin to lighting Twitter investors’ money on fire. But is there a method to Musk’s madness? Andy Wu is an assistant professor of... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Technology

22 Jan 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019

2019 New York: PublicAffairs Creative Construction: The DNA of Sustained Innovation By: Pisano, Gary P. Abstract— Creative Construction tackles the myth that larger enterprises are inherently incapable of transformative View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

16 May 2023
HBS Case

How KKR Got More by Giving Ownership to the Factory Floor: ‘My Kids Are Going to College!’

the road.” “That’s what I remember from growing up, this constant conflict and fight over hours,” recounts Stavros, a partner at private equity firm KKR, in a new series of Harvard Business School case studies that detail his radical... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

31 Jan 2022
Research & Ideas

Where Can Digital Transformation Take You? Insights from 1,700 Leaders

is not for the fainthearted. Most of us know how to drive—we have the basics—but we recognize we are ill-prepared to race against world-class competitors. While data and digital technologies were once enablers of efficiency and cost-cutting, today, they’re the engines... View Details

Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards

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Publications - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Resources Resources Video Courses Data Events & Presentations Frameworks News Publications Publications Resources 20 Nov 2020 Article Utilizing time-driven activity-based costing to determine open radical cystectomy and ileal... View Details

14 May 2008
Research & Ideas

Getting Down to the Business of Creativity

air-dropped for use by paratroopers in the U.S. military. “There's a construction of creativity that involves many other actors." —Mukti Khaire Radical innovation that creates entirely new industries is... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Entertainment & Recreation

08 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

The Death of the Global Manager

When Transnational Management was first published in 1992, the world was a different place. "The global economy was radically restructuring in the wake of an era of accelerating globalization in the 1980s," says Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

26 Sep 2023
Book

Digital Strategy: A Handbook for Managing a Moving Target

in such a context and gaining competitive advantage would “not require a radically new approach to business. It requires building on the proven principles of effective strategy” (Porter, 2001, p. 64). In this sense, digital strategy... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Information Technology; Technology

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Skydeck - Alumni

Takeoff Former Continental Airlines CEO Frank Lorenzo (MBA 1963) recounts the radical ideas and relentless negotiations that transformed the airline industry The Musts of 2024 Alumni recommendations from the year in media Solving the... View Details

29 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

Time Pressure and Creativity: Why Time is Not on Your Side

time pressure might lull people into inaction; under those conditions, top-management encouragement to be creative—to do something radically new—might stimulate creativity. But, frankly, I don't think there's much danger of too little... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education; Fine Arts

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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

movement. Join alumni experts to discuss impact investing innovations across asset classes, hot button topics like the anti-ESG movement, and critical public policy intersections. Alumni will leave this session with a better understanding... View Details

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