Institutional Innovation - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 19, 2007

questions the appropriate role for the AHA and cause marketing. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=507026 The Harvard Stem Cell Institute Harvard Business School Case 807-096 Describes a set... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

20 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School

have been the envy of the world for their ability to minimize transaction costs, maximize liquidity and access, and fund a lot of very innovative and complex businesses. Unfortunately, the same forces that made markets so liquid may have... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

13 Mar 2018
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March 13, 2018

specifically, the volume focuses on the economic institution of the business group and aims at understanding the factors behind its rise, growth, resilience, and/or fall; its behavioral and organizational characteristics; and its... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2025 Commencement Remarks | About

experience, knowledge, and insights international students bring to case discussions enable all students, from the US and around the globe, to develop the knowledge, judgment, and skills that are needed to lead in a rapidly changing world. We are a much stronger View Details

01 Dec 1996
News

Starting Up and Starting Over

innovation within such a structure. In the 1930s and 1940s, Deans Wallace B. Donham and Donald K. David oversaw significant research on the importance of innovators to business. Much of this material was... View Details

08 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 8

a broad range of issues including innovation and acquisitions in addition to labor practices and resource sustainability. A close examination of Nike's experience has led the author to conclude that a dedicated board-level committee of... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Jun 1999
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Where Main Street Meets Wall Street

management capability and skills once reserved for institutions or wealthy individuals. They provide a strong incentive to save and invest and have been a great source of wealth accumulation for individuals. Mutual funds also represent an... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Apr 1996
News

Technology for Learning's Sake

capacity to deliver digital video on the desktop, Windows 3.1 operating systems were scrapped for Windows 95, and twenty new SUN server workstations were added to support the newly installed systems. "We're looking at the best practice of other View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig

05 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 5, 2008

Have Persistent Effects Over Time? A Look at Law and Finance around the World c. 1900 Author:Aldo Musacchio Abstract How persistent are the effects of legal institutions adopted or inherited in the distant past? A substantial literature... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 16, 2008

is therefore more likely to succeed, they will be more willing to commit resources to the firm. In this way, success breeds success and strengthens performance persistence. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-028.pdf The Litigation of Financial View Details

20 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

other groups have proven to be despots, tyrants, and men who destroy the values and institutions that lie at the heart of democracies. Homing in on Trump’s reputation as a hard-charging man of action, we can perhaps think about his... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese

21 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018

new world. Typical approaches used by legacy players such as using technology to improve efficiency, encouraging business units to do digital experiments, or launching independent units to spur innovation have met with limited success.... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

06 Feb 2025
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How to Judge Your Next Job

distinguished fellow at the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation and a lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and Bernstein, an associate professor in the Organizational... View Details

March 2024
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Nomad: A License to Bank

By: Paul A. Gompers and Pedro Levindo

In late 2023, Lucas Vargas, CEO and co-founder of Nomad, a fintech that offered financial services in the United States for Brazilian residents, had to decide what to do to ensure the company’s continued expansion. Nomad launched its first product, a U.S. digital bank... View Details

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09 Dec 2021
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Higher Returns

technology company, for about 10 years and sold it to another company. We then took that company public. And along the way, I was advising the White House Business Council, and I had worked on innovation policy and economic policy. And... View Details

01 Apr 1996
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Stewards of the Seventh Generation

com-pany's local dump site is piped to the factory and burned for fuel. In the Dutch factory, liquid waste has been reduced to nearly zero through an innovative retrieval, recycling, and reuse system. Johnson acknowledges, however, that... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso, Garry Emmons, Linda Goodspeed, and Elaine Gottlieb

22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22

practitioners alike now recognize that a firm's capacity to assimilate and use know-how from external sources-what Cohen and Levinthal (1990) called "absorptive capacity"-plays a central role in innovation performance. In recent... View Details