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- February 2003 (Revised August 2005)
- Case
UCB (A): Managing Information for Globalization and Innovation
By: F. Warren McFarlan and Brian DeLacey
This case presents a complex total MIS strategy case for a $3 billion European pharmaceutical/chemicals company based in Brussels. It covers corporate strategy alignment of IT portfolio, IT operations issues, and global coordination of IT. View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Operations; System; Corporate Strategy; Investment Portfolio; Globalization; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; Brussels
McFarlan, F. Warren, and Brian DeLacey. "UCB (A): Managing Information for Globalization and Innovation." Harvard Business School Case 303-091, February 2003. (Revised August 2005.)
- Research Summary
Technology and Operations Strategy
By: Marco Iansiti
Marco Iansiti studies the evolving nature of strategy, innovation and operations in the modern enterprise. Over the past 20 years, he has researched the processes for technology adoption, development, and integration in hundreds of firms across a wide... View Details
- March 2023 (Revised June 2023)
- Case
Pratham 2.0: Sustaining Innovation
By: Brian Trelstad, Samantha Webster and Malini Sen
Pratham is a Mumbai-based nonprofit, which focuses on high-quality, low-cost, and replicable interventions to address gaps in India’s education system. From inception, it has pioneered innovation, from early childhood learning centers to adaptive literacy programs, to... View Details
- April 2002
- Teaching Note
Managing Technology Ventures - Module Teaching Note (TN)
Describes the conceptual foundations for a module on venture design, which forms part of an MBA course called Managing Technology Ventures. The objective of the course is to teach students how to think critically about the design of a technology venture, using cases... View Details
- 18 Nov 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
Innovation Network
- 22 Jun 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
Iterative Coordination and Innovation
Keywords: by Sourobh Ghosh and Andy Wu
- 04 Mar 2014
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation
Applegate teaches "innovation is not an option." We've identified articles and working papers covering a wide range of thinking about innovation management to answer some... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- March 1998
- Teaching Note
Managing Innovation at Nypro (A) and (B) TN
By: Clayton M. Christensen
Teaching Note for (9-696-061) and (9-697-057). View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing Industry
- July 2005
- Teaching Note
UCB: Managing Information for Globalization and Innovation (A)(TN)
Teaching Note to (9-303-091). View Details
- June 1995 (Revised August 1995)
- Background Note
Managing IT in the 1990s: Communications Technology
By: Lynda M. Applegate and Geoffrey Bock
Provides an overview of the basic technologies that comprise the communications infrastructure of a firm. Network architecture, wide area networks, local area networks, communication media, network protocols, and basic principles of data transmission over networks are... View Details
Applegate, Lynda M., and Geoffrey Bock. "Managing IT in the 1990s: Communications Technology." Harvard Business School Background Note 195-270, June 1995. (Revised August 1995.)
- 2015
- Chapter
Innovation and Business Growth
By: William R. Kerr
Innovation and the pursuit of new business opportunities are essential for growth at the firm level; moreover, they provide the foundation for an economy to achieve new levels of technological prowess, productivity, and ultimately prosperity. This chapter describes... View Details
Kerr, William R. "Innovation and Business Growth." In Designing the Future: Economic, Societal and Political Dimensions of Innovation, edited by Austrian Council for Research and Training Development, 137–156. Vienna, Austria: Echomedia Buchverlag, 2015.
- 2016
- Chapter
Managing Communities and Contests to Innovate with Crowds
By: Karim R. Lakhani
Lakhani, Karim R. "Managing Communities and Contests to Innovate with Crowds." Chap. 6 in Revolutionizing Innovation: Users, Communities, and Open Innovation, edited by Dietmar Harhoff and Karim R. Lakhani, 109–134. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2016.
- 2012
- Other Unpublished Work
Technology Innovation and Diffusion as Sources of Output and Asset Price Fluctuations
By: Diego A. Comin, Mark Gertler and Ana Maria Santacreu
- February 2015
- Article
'Open' Disclosure of Innovations, Incentives and Follow-on Reuse: Theory on Processes of Cumulative Innovation and a Field Experiment in Computational Biology
By: Kevin J. Boudreau and Karim R. Lakhani
Most of society's innovation systems―academic science, the patent system, open source, etc.―are "open" in the sense that they are designed to facilitate knowledge disclosure among innovators. An essential difference across innovation systems is whether disclosure is of... View Details
Keywords: Open Innovation; Cumulative Innovation; Incentives; Search; Disclosure And Access; Knowledge Sharing; Motivation and Incentives; Collaborative Innovation and Invention
Boudreau, Kevin J., and Karim R. Lakhani. "'Open' Disclosure of Innovations, Incentives and Follow-on Reuse: Theory on Processes of Cumulative Innovation and a Field Experiment in Computational Biology." Research Policy 44, no. 1 (February 2015): 4–19.
- 19 Jun 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
Migrant Inventors and the Technological Advantage of Nations
- May 2018
- Teaching Note
AT&T: Managing Technological Change and the Future of Telephone Operators in the 20th Century
By: Daniel P. Gross and William R. Kerr
Teaching Note for HBS No. 718-486. View Details
Keywords: AT＆T; Bell Telephone; Phone Lines; Phone Operators; Mechanical Switching; Layoffs; Technological Change; Transition; History; Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Information Technology; Disruption; Change Management; Communications Industry; Telecommunications Industry; United States
- September 2022
- Article
A Spanner in the Works: Category-Spanning Entrants and Audience Valuation of Incumbents
By: Rory M. McDonald and Ryan T. Allen
Previous work has examined how audiences evaluate category-spanning organizations, but little is known about how their entrance affects evaluations of other, proximate organizations. We posit that the emergence of category-spanning entrants signals the advent of an... View Details
Keywords: Emerging Industries; Industry Dynamics; Organization And Management Theory; Technology Strategy; Technology And Innovation Management; Entrepreneurship; Information Technology; Strategy; Management; Theory; Innovation and Management
McDonald, Rory M., and Ryan T. Allen. "A Spanner in the Works: Category-Spanning Entrants and Audience Valuation of Incumbents." Strategy Science 7, no. 6 (September 2022): 190–209.
- 2022
- Book
The Role of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Economic Growth
By: Michael J. Andrews, Aaron Chatterji, Josh Lerner and Scott Stern
We live in an era in which innovation and entrepreneurship seem ubiquitous, particularly in regions like Silicon Valley, Boston, and the Research Triangle Park. But many metrics of economic growth, such as productivity growth and business dynamism, have been at best... View Details
Keywords: Productivity Growth; Production Technologies; Innovation and Invention; Entrepreneurship; Economic Growth; Competition; Organizational Design; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation
Andrews, Michael J., Aaron Chatterji, Josh Lerner, and Scott Stern, eds. The Role of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Economic Growth. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022.
- Article
The Middle Manager as Innovator
By: R. M. Kanter
Kanter, R. M. "The Middle Manager as Innovator." Harvard Business Review 60, no. 4 (July–August 1982): 95–105. (Reprintings include: Entrepreneurship, Creativity, and Organization, edited by J. Kao. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1989; Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation, edited by R. Burgelman and M. Maidique. Homewood, Ill.: Irwin, 1988; The Entrepreneur in Local Government, edited by B.H. Moore. Washington, D.C.: International City Management Association, 1983; Trials and Rewards of the Entrepreneur. Boston: Harvard Business Review Reprint Series, 1983; Strategic Management, edited by Richard G. Hamermesh. N.Y.: Wiley, 1983.)