Modeling Innovation - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Dec 2015
Blog Post

Alumni: Where Are They Now? Featuring: Laura Mackay...

career with NeoCare Solutions – a mobile engagement platform that helps parents of NICU babies navigate the NICU and transition home. Interestingly, the business was incubated and is run as a start-up within Healthagen, the innovative... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Health Care; Entrepreneurship

05 Nov 2024
Research & Ideas

AI Can Help Leaders Communicate, But Can't Make Employees Listen

Choudhury and his team built a “CEO Bot” by providing a large language model with all internal and external communications from the real boss, including emails and Slack messages. The idea was to create a machine “stand-in” that could... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Information Technology; Technology

01 Sep 2013
News

High-Level Impact

Beginning this fiscal year, alumni and friends who make an annual commitment at levels of $5,000+, $10,000+, $25,000+, and $100,000+ to the HBS Fund for Leadership and Innovation (formerly known as the Dean's Fund) will be recognized as... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

08 Aug 2017
First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

Barry Abstract—Many markets, including the markets for IPOs and debt issuances, are syndicated, in that a bidder who wins a contract will often invite competitors to join a syndicate that will fulfill the contract. We model syndicated... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2018
News

Democratizing Data to Favor Farmers

analytics model the ways that different variables interact: the number of seeds planted per acre, the amount of nitrogen added to the soil, the crop rotation, and rainfall and tillage practices, among others. With a large enough data set,... View Details

Keywords: Sasha Issenberg

10 Apr 2025
Blog Post

IFC India 2025: SELCO - Decentralized Renewable Energy to Develop While Decarbonizing

Professor Vikram Gandhi’s Immersive Field Course (IFC) “Development while Decarbonizing: India’s Path to Net-Zero" delved into the critical aspect of decarbonization and sustainability goals amid India's rapid development. The course presented an opportunity for... View Details

01 Dec 2014
News

Five Degrees of Doriot

big business ideas had to hit up wealthy private investors for funding. ARD’s model fostered the growth of a new generation of entrepreneurs—a group that Doriot held in high regard. “An average idea in the hands of an able man,” goes one... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; George Doriot; Educational Services

21 Feb 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: February 21

infringement and support small inventors. However, the model also shows that as NPEs become effective at bringing frivolous lawsuits, the resulting defense costs inefficiently crowd out firms that, absent NPEs, would produce... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

24 Sep 2020
News

The Race for a Vaccine

Moderna could create a vaccine for clinical testing in just 60 days. That was three times faster than any vaccine candidate had ever been produced. Fauci didn't believe him. An idea emerged to test Bancel’s record-breaking claims: a mock pandemic. The NIH would provide... View Details

Keywords: April White; COVID-19; Scientific Research and Development Services

17 Jan 2012
First Look

First Look: January 17

traditional, internal organization-centered models of innovation with more recent work on open innovation. These fundamentally different and inconsistent innovation logics are... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

The Critical Computer Science Principles Every Strategic Leader Needs to Know

caught up in bits and bytes and microprocessor architectures is to embrace the concept of abstraction. Abstraction means substituting a simplified model for the full and technically complex reality. It acts as a filter, enabling “MBAs... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Technology; Information Technology

25 Nov 2014
First Look

First Look: November 25

effectively, where they can be damaging, and where additional complementary mechanisms to spur innovation may be appropriate. Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/tnicholas/patents_creative_destructive.pdf Working Papers Does... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

29 Jan 2013
First Look

First Look: Jan. 29

research as well as economic, organizational, and cross-disciplinary methodologies. The innovative process is broadly considered here, as well as the technologies that result from it, including business View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Dec 2015
Research Event

When Hosts Attack: The Competitive Threat of Online Platforms

innovations before bringing them to market. The general lesson for any company that depends on distribution partners: Be wary. As Zhu told the audience at Future Assembly: “Before you build your business View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail; Technology; Web Services

Web

Tools | New Venture Competition

economy, as well as how to skillfully and resiliently adapt models as understanding of these needs changes. Testing Your Social Venture: Iterating Based on Market Feedback How do you test and iterate your idea? Social entrepreneurs and... View Details

Robert L. Crandall

Crandall is credited with several innovations in the airline industry including introducing the original “Super Saver” fares, launching the first frequent flyer program, and developing the first yield management system for maximizing... View Details

Keywords: Transportation

Web

VBHCD Initiative - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

and manage patient-level costs over complete cycles of care for a variety of medical conditions. This innovative approach links costs to clinical outcomes in order to identify opportunities for value improvement and develop reimbursement... View Details

01 Jun 2015
News

3-Minute Briefing: Rehito “Ray” Hatoyama (MBA 2008)

think Hello Kitty is just for kids, but it’s for all ages. For example, a lady might want a Hello Kitty golf bag or jewelry for herself. We also have a licensing partnership with the hard rock band KISS. We don’t believe this is a dilution—it’s really about making... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Hello Kitty; Arts, Entertainment; Special Design Services; Professional Services

11 AM – 12 PM EST, 25 Jan 2018
Webinars: Trending@HBS

Becoming Effective Change Makers: The Power of Networks

Instituting change in an organization or in a sector of society has always been the bane of leaders. However, some leaders do succeed--often spectacularly--at transforming their organizations and even whole sectors of society. What makes some change makers triumph in a... View Details

September 2023 (Revised November 2023)
Case

Seeds of Innovation: GALY's Quest to Cultivate the Future of Agriculture in the Lab

By: George Serafeim and Michael Norris

In 2023, Luciano Bueno, CEO and founder of plant cell culture agriculture company GALY, was considering the best path forward for his company as he planned to pitch Series B investors. GALY, founded in 2019, aimed to produce cotton and other crops from cells grown in... View Details