Systemic Innovation - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Jun 2023
Blog Post

Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - Leapfrogging Traditional Agricultural Development in Africa

population will require significant agricultural development on the continent, which “[possesses] 65% of the Earth's uncultivated arable land.” Given the studied relationship between global food systems and greenhouse gas emissions, is it... View Details

25 Jun 2020
News

Covering All Corners

patients. Fortunately, I am a member of an MBA alumni association that has addressed the problem of providing the Egyptian health care system with ventilators, which are prohibitively expensive and have been in short supply since the... View Details

19 Jul 2011
First Look

First Look: July 19

Read the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/lcohen/pdffiles/pomalco.pdf Achieving Sustainability Through Integrated Reporting Authors:Robert G. Eccles and Daniela Saltzman Publication:Stanford Social Innovation Review (summer 2011) An... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Mar 2004
Research & Ideas

Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”

he had to refine that prediction downward to every eighteen months or so, his words received celebrity status and came to be called Moore's Law. Drawing on Moore's Law, technological innovation and billionaire wealth took on an obsessive... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson

26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008

co-founders, and outsourcing system development work. The abridged version does not include the introduction and final sections of the full case in order to give casewriting workshop participants practice writing those sections. Purchase... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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

29 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018

disruptive innovation has gained considerable currency among practitioners despite widespread misunderstanding of its core principles. Similarly, foundational research on disruption has elicited frequent citation and vibrant debate in... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

18 Nov 2021
News

Strength in Numbers

opportunity to invest in preventative care, earlier diagnosis, and a support system closer to the onset of illness.” The data also reveals that, despite such apparent needs, mental health philanthropy is rarely prioritized; most large... View Details

Keywords: April White

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Harvard Business School and Polaroid - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

industry, and government—laid the foundation upon which entrepreneurship and innovation thrived in Eastern Massachusetts. Colleges and universities provided a wealth of resources through their research facilities, libraries, and... View Details

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Teaching Cases - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Health Delivery Project The Institute for Cancer Care Innovation MOC Network ICIC U.S. Cluster Mapping Project U.S. Competitiveness Project FSG Shared Value Initiative Social Progress Imperative AllWorld Network VBHCD Initiative VBHCD... View Details

01 Feb 2000
News

Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care

addressed one of four topics: different models of consumer-driven health care; the role of consumer-driven health care in supporting innovative solutions to chronic problems in the industry; the new breed of consumer information and... View Details

11 Sep 2018
News

Bringing Government Up to Code

is one of the keys to fixing the system is having technologists want to work in government and having government have the ability to hire those technologists, and it becomes either a virtuous cycle or an unvirtuous cycle where once you... View Details

01 Jun 2014
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014

Life by David M. Culver (MBA 1949) with Alan Freeman (McGill-Queen's University Press) Innovation Zeitgeist: Digital Business Transformation in a World of Too Many Competitors by Alistair Davidson (MBA 1976) (Eclicktick Consulting) Denial... View Details

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Winning with Digital Platforms Online Course | HBS Online

This course is part of the Entrepreneurship & Innovation track. Introduction to Winning with Digital Platforms ENROLL NOW No application needed for our certificate programs. Start your journey today! Winning with Digital Platforms $1,850... View Details

01 Sep 2016
News

How I Got to Google

end of the day, product managers are judged on execution and the quality of their launch. SS: Any advice for people who want to be a PM but don’t have a technical background? PR: I’m a computer and biomedical engineer by training, and spent two years working as a View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

16 Jul 2008
Op-Ed

What Should Employers Do about Health Care?

cannot get out of health care, no matter what kind of health insurance system is put in place. They bear the cost of poor health in the form of sick days, absenteeism, reduced productivity at work, and early retirements of skilled... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter, Elizabeth O. Teisberg & Scott Wallace; Health

11 Jan 2021
News

Strengthening Democracy

it poses. HBS Club of Dallas Explores Election Reform and Political Innovation The nonpartisan group Reform Elections Now (REN)—led by HBS alumni—gave a virtual presentation to the HBS Club of Dallas in early September to educate and... View Details

14 Apr 2021
News

The First Five Years: Mike Gandy Auzenne (MBA 2016)

executive director to build the processes and systems to enable us to onboard and serve these organizations. Know any HBS alumni interested in jumping on board?!” What inspired the creation of PowerUP? MGA: “Austin’s profound impact on my... View Details

16 Dec 2014
First Look

First Look: December 16

money-maximizing evaluation procedure. Our findings are compatible with a behavioral model of information processing and with the System 1/System 2 distinction in behavioral decision research where people have two distinct modes of... View Details