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February 2015
Article

'Open' Disclosure of Innovations, Incentives and Follow-on Reuse: Theory on Processes of Cumulative Innovation and a Field Experiment in Computational Biology

By: Kevin J. Boudreau and Karim R. Lakhani

Most of society's innovation systems―academic science, the patent system, open source, etc.―are "open" in the sense that they are designed to facilitate knowledge disclosure among innovators. An essential difference across innovation systems is whether disclosure is of... View Details

Keywords: Open Innovation; Cumulative Innovation; Incentives; Search; Disclosure And Access; Knowledge Sharing; Motivation and Incentives; Collaborative Innovation and Invention

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01 Oct 1999
News

New Chairman Updates Development in MBA Program

students - the CitiAssist Loan Program - that has made aid available to a wider cross section of students. In addition, we are working even harder to reach women and minority candidates. Is there a View Details

31 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Encouraging Niche Content in an Ad-Driven World

more likely to be bookmarked by readers after they joined the ad-sharing program. In that sense, Zhu contends, there was a positive aspect to the ad-revenue-sharing program. An essential difference between... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Information; Publishing; Journalism & News

15 Nov 2020
News

Fostering Innovation in Social Enterprise Across Harvard

nonprofit, for-profit, and hybrid business plans. “The SEI aims to educate, inspire, and support leaders across all sectors to tackle society’s toughest challenges and make a difference in the world,”... View Details

10 Mar 2021
News

In My Humble Opinion: A Timely Tension

pandemic and climate change: “The awareness of climate change, and the motivation to do something about it, has increased hugely in the last few years. COVID-19 has helped society realize how interconnected we are, and—even more... View Details

Keywords: April White

28 May 2019
News

The Physical Campus in a Virtual World

On the north wall of my office hangs a series of framed architectural drawings that date from the early 1920s. Each of these antique blueprints depicts a different architect’s vision for what would become the first buildings of the... View Details

Keywords: Nitin Nohria

01 Mar 2019
News

Napkin Finance: Say It in a Picture

around Initial Coin Offerings, or ICOs, made that particular napkin a challenge, for example. “In first-year Finance at HBS there was a lot of focus on spreadsheets and numbers,” says Hay, who studied communications at UCLA and worked in... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Jun 1996
News

Capitalist Revolutions Analyzed in MBA "Foundations" Course

for help. McCraw, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, enlisted his colleagues in the effort, and the group immersed itself in the project. All together, eight different authors... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

09 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

Chance Encounters: What's at Stake in Return-to-Office Decisions

Late one day in the fall of 2021, as she was packing up to head home, Assistant Professor Maria Roche bumped into Andy Wu, a colleague in the Strategy Unit whose office is next to hers. Roche asked how his... View Details

Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint, HBS Alumni Bulletin

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Innovating in Health Care - Course Catalog

escalating cost and uneven quality and access of health care systems globally. Innovating in Health Care (IHC) enables students to: Identify the one primary purpose of the innovation—technology-commercializing, consumer-facing, or... View Details

02 Feb 2007
What Do You Think?

Is There Too Little “Know Why” In Business?

man who also knows Why will always be his boss," before concluding that it's a "balance of 'Know Why' and 'Know How' that will generate results." Wisdom Chitedze, however, put purpose in a somewhat View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

01 Nov 2019
Blog Post

Confronting Climate Change in the Classroom and Beyond

experimenting with different approaches: a series of alumni conversations on the role of business leaders in climate change, the exhibit, the Climate Rising podcast. We need to grow and refine what we're... View Details

22 Sep 2015
News

Investing in Scalable Impact on K-12 Education

video, Wu talks about what inspired her decision to focus her career on making a difference in education. “I realized a few years ago, because of a friend who asked me what problem View Details

19 Apr 2016
Blog Post

First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation

workforce. For example, will the results differ if employees reflect on their weaknesses as well as their strengths? If you think your company would be interested in participating View Details

Keywords: All Industries

22 Nov 2019
Blog Post

Avant Ski Makes Turns in Ski Media Objectivity

extreme skiers, and we’re not a mommy blog,” said Widman. “We’re rolling out a whole line of content about multigeneration ski trips, how to get the kids involved, and how to do so without going to 10 different websites and making 10... View Details

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Investing in Life Sciences - SIP Resources

Market research: BCC Research - Reports on major economic, scientific, and technological developments in industrial, pharmaceutical, and high technology worldwide. Frost & Sullivan - Reports and market trends encompassing various... View Details

2022
Working Paper

Causal Inference During A Pandemic: Evidence on the Effectiveness of Nebulized Ibuprofen as an Unproven Treatment for COVID-19 in Argentina

By: Sebastian Calonico, Rafael Di Tella and Juan Cruz Lopez Del Valle

Many medical decisions during the pandemic were made without the support of causal evidence obtained in clinical trials. We study the case of nebulized ibuprofen (NaIHS), a drug that was extensively used on COVID-19 patients in Argentina amidst wild claims about its... View Details

Keywords: COVID-19; Drug Treatment; Health Pandemics; Health Care and Treatment; Decision Making; Outcome or Result; Argentina