Government Innovation - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 12

the type of organizational form surrounding innovation and influence when innovation is more likely to occur. These factors not only govern how much experimentation is... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2014
News

Business and business leaders are now being called upon to solve more social problems, says Matt Segneri (MBA 2010). Segneri, who worked on public- and social-sector innovation at Bloomberg Philanthropies, was recently named director of... View Details

Keywords: April White; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

03 Apr 2019
Book

Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business

United States economy, and how innovation in financial services will reduce the friction and barriers in small-business lending, helping more of them thrive. In our Q&A, Mills, who served as a member of the Obama Cabinet and headed... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Banking; Financial Services

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

22 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018

economic force is the selection between high- and low-type firms, which differ in terms of their innovative capacity. We estimate the parameters of the model using U.S. Census microdata on firm-level output, R&D, and patenting. The... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

January 2017 (Revised June 2017)
Case

Chicago and the Array of Things: A Fitness Tracker for the City

By: Rajiv Lal and Scott Johnson

The city of Chicago has recently launched a project called the Array of Things. The program involves a series of sensor nodes placed around the city that capture a massive amount of data including pedestrian and vehicle flow, air quality, and cloud cover. The Array of... View Details

Keywords: Smart Connected Products; Smart Cities; Internet Of Things; Sensors; Govenment; Government Administration; Technological Innovation; Digital Platforms; Applications and Software; Information Infrastructure; Internet and the Web; Public Administration Industry; Technology Industry; Chicago; United States

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Educators

01 Dec 2015
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015

innovations that made this possible came from entrepreneurs and iconoclasts who were outside the mainstream—and how the commercialization of the Internet was by no means a foregone conclusion at its outset. MBA Class of 1957 Professor... View Details

October 18, 2021
Article

To Regulate Network-Based Platforms, Look at Their Data

By: Chiara Farronato and Daniel Björkegren

Historically, antitrust authorities have taken a laissez-faire approach under the assumption that it is better to err on the side of not intervening when there is uncertainty. This has allowed companies like Google and Facebook to go on a shopping spree to acquire... View Details

Keywords: Antitrust Issues And Policies; Risk and Uncertainty; Digital Platforms; Competitive Advantage; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Innovation and Invention; Information Technology Industry

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25 Feb 2020
News

Beyond the Plastisphere

Above: illustration by Brian Stauffer In 2008, Sarah Kauss (MBA 2003) attended a presentation on climate change and the global water crisis at her five-year HBS reunion. Harvard Professor Daniel Schrag, who directs the University’s Center for the Environment, argued... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; Plastics and Rubber Products Manufacturing; Manufacturing

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

04 May 2010
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First Look: May 4

Reexamination of Tunneling and Business Groups: New Data and New Methods Authors:Jordan I. Siegel and Prithwiraj Choudhury Abstract The last decade of corporate governance research has been focused in large part on identifying what leads... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 May 2015
News

How Crowdfunding Kickstarts the Arts

Alberto Grimoldi

Keywords: Clothing, Shoes, Retail

01 Jun 2017
News

The Exchange: Venture Forth

VC industry so influential? Paul Gompers: From the early 20th century to the mid- to late-20th century, most innovation happened in large firms. Then because of both managerial and organizational changes, View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Mar 2019
News

Tools and Training for a “Wicked Problem”

wicked problem.” Launched in 2017 and funded by Michael Bloomberg’s (MBA 1966) Bloomberg Philanthropies, the initiative aims to inspire and strengthen city leaders by giving them the necessary tools to lead high-performing, innovative... View Details

Keywords: homelessness

10 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 10

PublicationsHow Will You Measure Your Life? Authors:Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth, and Karen Dillon Publication:HarperBusiness, forthcoming Abstract In 2010 world-renowned innovation expert Clayton M. Christensen gave a... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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

09 Apr 2021
Blog Post

Reflections on Student Conferences in 2020

across business, finance, tech, entrepreneurship, and policy joined panels spanning an array of topics from energy policy and circular economy to breakthrough innovations and investing. Industry expert Ted Wiley, Co-Founder, President,... View Details

01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1

Science (forthcoming) Abstract This paper contributes large-sample evidence to an emerging discussion on open innovation and firm strategy. We ask why a startup should participate in an open standards community. We propose four ways that... View Details

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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

explore... Insights on the Art of Driving Performance and Innovation Annabelle Cloutier 17 Jun 2024 Annabelle Cloutier is Head of Strategy, Communications and Corporate Governance at Canada’s Natio... DNPIV... View Details

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