Systemic Innovation - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Nov 2007
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First Look: November 14, 2007

Working PapersNone Available This Week Cases & Course MaterialsAssessing and Enhancing Individual Power in the Family Business System Harvard Business School Note 808-026 Describes how to asses and enhance an individual's bases,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

22 Oct 2013
News

Pulling the Plug

decades of his career, he cofounded and ran Brooktrout, growing it to a $150-million-a-year company that designed voicemail systems when everyone else was still using cassettes. After retiring, he became CEO of Groove Mobile, the first... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs; Telecommunications; Information; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

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Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Founders Forum The HBS New Venture Competition Social Enterprise Track or President’s Innovation Challenge HBS Elective Curriculum courses: Social Entrepreneurship and Systems Change, Public... View Details

14 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society

processes of production and distribution. This was a massive innovation over the older model of a single owner who tried to oversee everything. Under managerial capitalism, ownership became dispersed, but control remained concentrated in... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Feb 2011
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diagnostic tests for screening. Screening games can apply to the cases where by-products, partner fidelity feedback, or host sanctions do not apply, therefore explaining the evolution of mutualism in systems where it is impossible for... View Details

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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

their classroom training as they explore... Insights on the Art of Driving Performance and Innovation Annabelle Cloutier 17 Jun 2024 Annabelle Cloutier is Head of Strategy, Communications and Corporate Governance at Canada’s Natio...... View Details

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Middle East & North Africa - Global Activities 2021

or by cleaning up its streets? Hsieh, who is now course head for Leadership and Corporate Accountability, wrote the case “Cedar Environmental: Innovation vs. Corruption” with Youssef Abdel Aal of HBS’s Middle East and North Africa... View Details

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Medium of Artistic Expression - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

from those present." 81 Edwin Land remained dedicated to the science and the art of creating a transformative photographic process that would capture the imagination of amateurs and earn the recognition of professionals. "The criticism leveled at the Land View Details

30 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Mapping Your Board’s Effectiveness

Exchange Commission-approved NYSE and Nasdaq governance listing standards. The risk now is that boards will become overly focused on regulatory compliance and not perform their broader and more managerial responsibilities adequately. Can companies—especially those that... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan

25 Feb 2020
News

Profits and Purpose

in my spare time, and we were trying to find our way. Right from the beginning, the question was: What is the role of business in the broader systemic conversation? My own work has always been focused on climate change, and if I have to... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Mar 2011
News

Making Their Way

Kirlin received a patent for recessed lighting, to this day a landmark innovation for Kirlin and its customers. Throughout Detroit’s ups and downs, Kirlin has remained a stalwart manufacturing presence and loyal member of the community.... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Rail Transportation; Transportation

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Early Years at HBS - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Education Alumni Baker Library Historical Collections MORE EXHIBITS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS RESEARCH LINKS SITE CREDITS GEORGES F. DORIOT Introduction EDUCATION Early Years at HBS Educating Leaders INNOVATION & VC Wartime View Details

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Instant Photography Is Launched | Baker Library

positive and created a single, dry print in sixty seconds. 1 Patent 2,435,717, Feb. 10, 1948. Polaroid Corporation Records Related to Meroe Morse, b. VII.10, f. 24. Research chemist Frederick J. Binda helped develop the pod, a critical element of the View Details

20 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 20

self-report of a licensee. Self-reporting gives rise to demand for auditing by the licensor or third-party attestation by the licensee. We characterize the optimal royalty contract, accounting system choice by the licensee, and audit... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

28 Aug 2012
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while more equal ones dislike competitive groups and do not necessarily respect them as competent. Unequal societies may need ambivalence for system stability: income inequality compensates groups with partially positive social images.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2009
News

Up on the Green Roof

leak-detection system can pinpoint holes in the waterproof membrane within a foot, minimizing the need to disturb established plantings during repairs. While it’s hard to imagine today, the thumb-sized seedlings planted in September will... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Construction of Buildings; Construction

09 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Port Esbjerg: Deploying Offshore Wind

In January 2023, Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel led more than 40 HBS MBA students on site visits to witness the energy transition and innovative sustainable production activities throughout Denmark and the Netherlands, in their new... View Details

01 Jun 1998
News

Short Takes

companies with such plans do not perform better financially. Further analysis prompted Beer and Katz to conclude that the real role of bonuses is simply to attract highly qualified executives to a corporation. "Companies are forced into incentive View Details

Keywords: Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey

09 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 9, 2010

channels instead persist, with strong odds against upstream suppliers waging a successful defense of material interests. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-042.pdf Growth through Heterogeneous Innovations Authors:Ufuk... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne