Government Innovation - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 20, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807018 Goodyear and the Threat of Government Tire Grading Harvard Business School Case 707-494 In the spring of 1977, Goodyear CEO Charles J. Pilliod Jr. was looking at an... 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 Dec 1999
News

The Way You See It

innovations of the last 75 years, as well as some thoughts about the coming decades.* * Total responses from MBAs and Executive Education participants who graduated in or before 1975 and those who graduated between 1976 and 1999 were... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons. Data collection by Ericka Webb.

13 Nov 2012
First Look

First Look: November 13

PublicationsMisvaluing Innovation Authors:Lauren Cohen, Karl Diether, and Christopher Malloy Publication:Review of Financial Studies (forthcoming) Abstract We demonstrate that a firm's ability to innovate... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Jun 2024
Blog Post

Alumni Career Journey: Ben Schutzman (MBA 2016) - Driving Positive Impact on Community and Climate

services, non-profits, or a business, so I took advantage of the HBS Leadership Fellows Program. The program offered me the unique opportunity to work in government through the MBTA at a time when they were looking to try something new... View Details

01 Jun 2014
News

What’s Next

experimenting with teaching courses open to undergraduates. Perhaps the best example of collaboration, though, is the Harvard Innovation Lab (i-lab) that HBS launched in 2011. It has become a magnet for students, faculty, and alumni from... View Details

Keywords: HBS Campaign; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

Web

Tools & Resources | Institute for Business in Global Society

economic policy (pdf) This report highlights the growing consensus among leaders that strategic industrial policies are essential for addressing key national challenges, offering insights on designing effective government actions that... View Details

28 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

Earth Day Reflections

on a company's financial, environmental, social, and governance performance and shows the relationships between them. This kind of Integrated reporting also involves leveraging the Internet to provide more detailed information to all a... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

13 Jun 2014
Op-Ed

World Cup Soccer: 770 Billion Minutes of Attention

to haunt them as advertisers become frustrated by the lack of innovation and specter of corruption that can prevail in a monopoly. As a result, they may be getting unwanted attention from government and... View Details

Keywords: by Thales Teixeira; Sports

14 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

New Agenda for Corporate Accountability Reporting

How do you measure corporate accountability? And can you do it credibly? Since the financial crisis of 2008-2009, for-profit corporations are facing greater demand to disclose more than revenues and expenses on annual financial reports. In response, some are pointing... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting; Energy; Utilities

01 Dec 2003
News

Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?

base. As a result, they get cost savings, and we get sales.” Welcome to the new reality in U.S. manufacturing, where, more than ever, intense foreign competition is driving product and strategy innovations. Even those firms without direct foreign competition find... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Manufacturing

16 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

What Happens When Zambian Schoolgirls Receive Negotiation Training

Girls Arise, an innovative negotiation skills training program designed specifically to help Sub-Saharan African women communicate effectively in high-pressure situations with complex power dynamics. “It is, in many ways, a typical... View Details

Keywords: Re: Kathleen L. McGinn

01 Jun 2010
News

Alumni Books

how companies use innovative business models to achieve transformational growth by fulfilling customer needs in current markets; serving new customers and creating new markets; and responding to shifts in market demand, View Details

Keywords: mathematics; statistics; Finance

11 Dec 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018

the business models of traditional incumbents and those of potential innovative MSP entrants. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55341 Oral History and Writing the Business History of Emerging Markets... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

14 May 2019
Research & Ideas

Ethics Bots and Other Ways to Move Your Code of Business Conduct Beyond Puffery

helps cultivate the kind of behavior and culture the firm wants to support on a day-to-day basis,” Soltes says. “That requires a different and more innovative approach than many firms are currently deploying.” About the Author Michael... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Apr 2002
News

Q&A - Mark Fields

Japan’s fifth-largest automaker and employer of more than 38,000 people, Fields was named 2001 Asian Business Innovator of the Year (by CNBC Asia Pacific and TNT, a business logistics company).. A New York and New Jersey native, Fields... View Details

Keywords: auto; Mazda; Ford; Mark Fields; Machinery Manufacturing; Manufacturing

23 Apr 2013
First Look

First Look: April 23

Publisher's link: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo16956514.html 2006 Harvard Business Review Using the Crowd as an Innovation Partner By: Boudreau, Kevin J., and Karim R. Lakhani Abstract—No abstract available.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2007
News

2020 Vision

for the 1996 Atlanta Olympics; and served as EVP at Dunk.net, Shaquille O’Neal’s footwear and apparel company. She is currently the CEO of Insomnia Consulting LLC, an Atlanta-based firm specializing in investment, development, and consulting for complex and View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

Profile

Danelle Radney

Minnesota Christian groups “into one organization with centralized governance so that we could leverage our resources together.” She had already turned a summer merchandising internship at Target – “where I was the youngest intern, at... View Details

01 Dec 2016
News

HBS Alumni On Leading Their Alma Mater

at an inflection point. How can the modern educational institution encourage innovation and experimentation? What are the practical steps you take? SG: I recently met with the IT Strategy Board—a governance... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

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