Firm Innovation - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Sep 2009
First Look

First Look: September 22

Series, No. 15325, September 2009 Abstract Evidence on the "funding gap" for investment innovation is surveyed. The focus is on financial market reasons for underinvestment that exist even when externality-induced... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 1996
News

New Releases

Technology Fountainheads by E. Raymond Corey (Harvard Business School Press) As corporate research and development costs rise, many firms choose to participate in R&D; consortia - collaborative ventures with academic institutions and... View Details

01 Oct 2000
News

Mario A. Corti: Global Reconnaissance

improvement in the areas of communication with consumers, operational efficiency, and product availability, as well as renovation and innovation throughout the company. In addition to his financial duties, he helps to implement... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

Web

Managing International Trade and Investment - Course Catalog

interdependence of technology and digital markets. We will look at how firms confront markets and politics in technological innovation and competition (data access and management, financial technology,... View Details

04 May 2023
Blog Post

Why Business Travel Still Matters in a Zoom World

and Trademark Office—when nonstop flights increase by 10 percent. The firms that benefitted most from nonstop flights tended to be bigger innovators overall, with more inventor stock and higher R&D... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Jun 2022
News

Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students

settle into the new Science and Engineering Complex, which is right across the street from the Harvard Innovation Labs and adjacent to Harvard’s planned Enterprise Research Campus, the future home of company labs, startups, and venture... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Jul 2008
First Look

First Look: July 1, 2008

enabling conditions required for each to work in practice. In the final section of the paper, we discuss how firms can "mix and match" multiple modes of collaboration into coherent "architectures" that lie at the heart... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Oct 1999
News

Running on empty

Does an invention that would guarantee motorists they'd never run out of gas sound like a good investment? Hundreds of venture capital firms didn't think so, but that didn't stop Maryland retiree William Hubbard (MBA '49), a former... View Details

09 Feb 2016
First Look

February 9, 2016

The firm has also innovated in sourcing capital from a variety of limited partners. Blackstone's culture of centralized investment processes and risk management coupled with entrepreneurial leadership... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Digital Operations - Course Catalog

improve workflows, enhance decision-making, redesign processes, and fundamentally restructure value chains. The course will expose students to how traditional firms are using digital technologies to transform their operations, and how... View Details

28 Jul 2015
First Look

First Look: July 28, 2015

inventors. However, the model also shows that as NPEs become effective at bringing frivolous lawsuits, the resulting defense costs inefficiently crowd out some firms that, absent NPEs, would produce welfare-enhancing View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

Student-Faculty-Profile

Lauren Taylor & Rebecca Henderson

and from organizational theory and second, I’m particularly interested in the role that “relational contracts” or “trust” play in supporting innovative performance. I believe that so called “purpose-driven” or “mission-driven” View Details

01 Sep 2017
News

Is Private Equity Blockchain’s Killer App?

they need. “It’s all about who gives the other person access to what is essentially their ‘page,’ ” says O’Grady. These days, though, O’Grady rarely needs to shorthand blockchain. Its most famous application, bitcoin, has become an increasingly mainstream investment,... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

16 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Surveying the VC Landscape

and the Impact on Innovation, you explore the implications of the recent collapse in venture activity on innovation. Given recent cuts in corporate support for R&D, do you feel this is cause for concern to the innovation process? Or... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

26 Apr 2011
Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day

Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Energy; Utilities

01 Feb 2002
News

New Porter Prize Awarded in Japan

On December 6, four firms became the first recipients of the Porter Prize, a new award that recognizes innovation in Japanese companies. Matsui Securities Co., Ltd., and Mabuchi Motor Co., Ltd., were named... View Details

Keywords: awards

01 Apr 1997
News

How Green Is the Valley: HBS Students Explore Booming California Industries

meetings with representatives of firms such as Kleiner Perkins, Summit Partners, and Pacific Venture Group. "At Pacific Venture," says Weil, "Managing Partner John S. Lewis (MBA '74) had just raised a new $100-million fund focused on... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

01 Jun 1998
News

Excitement Building for HBS Global Conference in Chicago

Entrepreneurship is the focus for the 1998 Global Alumni Conference, "2000+: Global Innovation & Entrepreneurial Leadership," scheduled for June 16-19 at the Fairmont Hotel in Chicago. Over one thousand alumni and guests are expected at... View Details

01 Jun 1998
News

How the Ron Brown Award Was Born

leaders established a board that included McKinsey managing partner Rajat K. Gupta (MBA '73), whose firm provided a pro bono study of the issue. "When they realized the extent of our experience in such matters," Cavanagh says, "they asked... View Details

01 Dec 2017
News

The Future of VR is Animated Bunnies

forecasts: According to the research firm SuperData, the sector, driven by early adopters, is on track to make $3.7 billion in revenue this year, and the firm estimates it could swell to more than $28... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos

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