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- 20 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 20
Business: Innovating How We Innovate Author: Gary P. Pisano Publication: Special Issue on Management Innovation-Essays in the Spirit of Alfred D. ChandlerIndustrial and Corporate Change 19, no. 2 (2010):... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Football Stars Debate ‘The Social Capital of the Savvy Athlete’
in front of a standing-room-only audience at the Harvard Innovation Lab at Harvard Business School. Other participants included Arizona Cardinals receiver Larry Fitzgerald, Houston Texans running back Arian... View Details
- 25 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 25
opposite way than that suggested by the social norm: they punish transgressors more severely on their birthdays, both in the realm of actual drunk driving enforcement and in an experimental lab setting where participants were given the... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
The tech industry has thrived by capturing our best students—regardless of origin—and giving them exciting jobs, which helps make America one of the most innovative countries in the world. Restricting the free movement of talent does not... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
of companies that are helping create the conditions for the industry’s growth by amassing knowledge about best practices, influencing the development of regulations, exploring new uses for drones, developing a professional workforce, and so forth. The argument is that... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Healthcare Conference Looks At Ailing Industry
in a way that they never were. Twenty years ago, said Lander, information was a trivial component of biomedical research. Most of what a scientist did was based on work taking place in his or her own lab or in a few other labs. Now, of... View Details
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
responsibility of individual firms. The authors call for business to be both innovator and activist in protecting and strengthening market capitalism. Instead of seeing themselves as narrowly self-interested players in a system that is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Weighing Digital Tradeoffs in Private Equity
Value Lab at the Digital Data and Design Institute at Harvard. The researchers found that PE investors often turn to digital transformation strategies and technology to help revamp portfolio firms, and this investment often accelerates... View Details
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
management, and higher ROA. These effects are concentrated at innovating firms—those firms that are early-life-cycle or engage in R&D spending—and especially at those facing Wall Street scrutiny. Collectively, the evidence suggests... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 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
- 01 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 1, 2018
The bedrock of this system is the "patent," a legal document that allows its holder exclusive commercialization rights of a part of the "idea space" granted through the patent. Strong legal protection of IP has made the U.S. a destination of great... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/318002-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 318-068 Eastern Bank: Innovating Through Eastern Labs Eastern Bank is a 200-year-old New England mutual bank... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 21
Hong Abstract—When to sell a novel idea is a difficult decision for many innovators. Selling early has financial benefits. But a later-stage sale of a more fully developed idea may attract greater buyer interest and allow the innovator to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work
analysis approach yields a large number of potential fixes, but only a frustratingly few, from the employee's perspective, are acted upon. And the analysis process can be time-consuming. The paper cites a hospital where lab results took a... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
The book Capitalism at Risk first appeared in 2011. The problems it identified with social inequality, global trade strife, and environmental degradation have only accelerated by 2020. The new edition of Capitalism at Risk, subtitled How Business Can Lead, is expanded... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
working solutions to a complex innovation problem over 10 days, with varying monetary incentives. We find that levels of effort are driven by cash incentives and the presence of other interacting teammates. The level of collaboration, by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 29 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 29, 2015
powerful commercial engine it is today. This book describes how many of the key innovations that made this possible came from entrepreneurs and iconoclasts who were outside the mainstream—and how the commercialization of the Internet was... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It: Digital CEO Buys Traditional Media!
in the transition to a digital world is the willingness to forego some revenues in print. Experiments require not only creativity and boldness but an ability to self-cannibalize. This is perhaps the biggest roadblock to digital reinvention. Don Graham knows this.... View Details
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
founded in 1999, to start Affinity Labs, a global network of online communities. That month, Michel raised a Series A round of venture funding and established a partnership with Monster, which he had sold Military.com to. Within its first year of operations, Affinity... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Ethics Bots and Other Ways to Move Your Code of Business Conduct Beyond Puffery
Creating an ethics chatbot requires an investment of resources and technical capabilities that is likely to be beyond most firms’ capabilities. However, Soltes’ lab at Harvard Business School was able to create a functioning ethics... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding