Open Source Innovation - Publications - Faculty & Research

September 2019
Case

Shell: A Company of Opportunity?

The Opportunity Hub was a cloud-based platform that enabled managers to market projects they were working on and associated resourcing needs as “Opportunity Owners” and employees, or “Opportunity Seekers,” to browse these statements of need and engage when they had... View Details

Keywords: Business Divisions; Change Management; Competency and Skills; Experience and Expertise; Talent and Talent Management; Energy; Energy Sources; Non-Renewable Energy; Renewable Energy; Human Resources; Employees; Retention; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Jobs and Positions; Job Design and Levels; Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Labor; Human Capital; Labor Unions; Leading Change; Resource Allocation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Evaluation; Performance Productivity; Strategic Planning; Projects; Motivation and Incentives; Business Strategy; Social and Collaborative Networks; Technology Platform; Chemical Industry; Energy Industry; Information Technology Industry; Technology Industry; United Kingdom; Netherlands

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February 2024
Supplement

Can Cities Beat the Heat? (B9): Nashville Climate Action Snapshot

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jacob A. Small

Climate snapshots provide a summary of climate actions that occurred between 2018 and 2024, highlighting major green initiatives, innovations, carbon mitigation strategy, and action across multiple levels of government and the private sector. Snapshots also provide an... View Details

Keywords: Mitigation Policies; Carbon Footprint; Climate Finance; Mobility; Adaptation; Renewable Energy; Climate Change; Problems and Challenges; Sustainable Cities; City; Innovation Strategy; Investment; United States; Tennessee

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01 Mar 2005
News

Answering the Call

(“Rocky”) Aoki fell in love with New York City. The son of a restaurateur in Japan, Aoki eventually opened his own four-table unit in Manhattan in 1964 and called it Benihana (after a Japanese flower), the name of his father’s first... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

22 Jul 2014
First Look

First Look: July 22

and impact of non-practicing entities (NPEs) in the intellectual property space. Heterogeneity in innovation, given a cost of commercialization, results in NPEs that choose to act as "patent trolls" that chase operating firms' View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2014
News

All For One

The first thing Linda Hill noticed when she walked into Pixar Animation Studios was the energy. Pixar’s cavernous office in Emeryville, California, is totally open and organized around a huge central atrium, allowing a diverse group of... View Details

Keywords: Michael Blanding; faculty; research; Market Research, Photo, Translation, Veterinary and Other Services; Professional Services

Web

Driving Profitable Growth - Course Catalog

preserved, and which should be changed. Module 3: Growth Through Expanding Scope: Finding New Sources of Demand Expanding the scope of the enterprise into new line of business (diversification) is the other common strategy for growth. In... View Details

06 Apr 2023
Blog Post

Circularity in Denmark

hill open to the public. Source: Amager Bakke onsite presentation materials. ----- Read more posts in the IFC Series: Deconstructing LEGO’s Decarbonization Port Esbjerg: Deploying Offshore Wind HySynergy and Crossbridge Energy Grundfos:... View Details

19 Mar 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: Tata Power - Trombay Thermal Power Plant Takeaways

greater energy security. Indeed, from an energy security perspective, Trombay’s value proposition is unmatched with its reliability as a baseload power source and its ability to flex between imported and domestic coal. This brings us to... View Details

24 Apr 2014
News

Nurturing students who can think outside of the box

memorization to teaching that emphasizes critical and creative-thinking skills. Chen’s college, which opened in 2012, is modeled after American liberal arts schools, with classes taught by American professors. “We want students who have... View Details

16 Mar 2023
Blog Post

HySynergy and Crossbridge Energy

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 2004
News

Luxe Redux

refreshing their product lines and extending their brand to more affordable items. Pressure to innovate is intense, says HBS professor Nancy F. Koehn, a business historian and author of Brand New: How Entrepreneurs Earned Consumers’ Trust... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; luxury; Retail Trade

20 Jul 2017
News

Life Lab Nurtures Early Stage Startup Day Zero Diagnostics

Harvard Life Lab when the facility opened in November 2016, appreciates the state-of-the-art lab space and the community of innovators who are tackling important life science problems. “The question is... View Details

Keywords: Scientific Research and Development Services

01 Oct 2001
News

Dean Clark on the New Academic Year

the last six years that already have proven fruitful. These innovative efforts are allowing us to seize opportunities we only had begun to imagine at the outset but now have become vital to the mission of the School. Support for these... View Details

Keywords: Kim B. Clark; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

29 Mar 2023
News

Giving Hope and Comfort

bigger challenge today is sourcing these vital products in the face of inflation and snags in the supply chain. Today, Hope and Comfort is still one of the few nonprofits distributing hygiene products, says Feingold, who retired from his... View Details

05 May 2009
First Look

First Look: May 5, 2009

the response of U.S. multinational firms to the formation of the ASEAN free trade agreement. Observed patterns guide the development of a model in which heterogeneous firms from a source country decide how to serve two foreign markets.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Profile

Jeremy Andrus

them? A little bit of both. We certainly are aware of trends that exist, but great brands and great product companies are always innovating and leading their consumers. How do you connect with consumers? We interact with them in... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Consumer Products; Entertainment / Media

20 Oct 2016
News

Smart Moves

fuel and lost business included—to be $124 billion annually, or about $2,000 per commuter. Mistele and INRIX aren’t in the business of delivering bad news, however. They have been trying to do something about traffic congestion since the Kirkland, Washington–based... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Support Activities for Transportation; Transportation

11 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

How AI Could Ease the Refugee Crisis and Bring New Talent to Businesses

easing the transition for refugees, the results could help businesses, too, Paulson says, since finding a better way to anticipate where refugees will thrive and how to support them in success potentially offers fresh sources of talent.... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Technology; Information Technology

23 Apr 2013
First Look

First Look: April 23

MIT Sloan Management Review Experiments in Open Innovation at Harvard Medical School By: Guinan, Eva C., Kevin J. Boudreau, and Karim R. Lakhani Abstract—Harvard Medical School seems an unlikely organization... View Details