Government Innovation - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Mar 2008
First Look

First Look: March 4, 2008

Vayanos Abstract We examine empirically how the maturity structure of government debt affects bond yields and excess returns. Our analysis is based on a theoretical model of preferred habitat in which clienteles with strong preferences... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

09 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off

Corporations have responded to society's plea to provide innovative solutions to deep-seated problems of human misery. Organization and management scholarship can play an important role in understanding and guiding this corporate action.... View Details

Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh

01 May 2007
First Look

First Look: May 1, 2007

countries. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-073.pdf Open vs. Integrated Innovation: A Model of Discovery and Confinement Authors:Esteve Almirall and Ramon Casadesus-Masanell Abstract We present a simple formal model to address the question:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2007
News

Up from the Ashes

sometimes tragic personal life. “Light and chipper in public,” McCraw writes, the charming and generous Schumpeter “lived an altogether different life in private — a continuing, desperate internal struggle with melancholy.” Excerpts from Prophet of View Details

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

Article

Big Names or Big Ideas: Do Peer-Review Panels Select the Best Science Proposals?

By: Danielle Li and Leila Agha

This paper examines the success of peer-review panels in predicting the future quality of proposed research. We construct new data to track publication, citation, and patenting outcomes associated with more than 130,000 research project (R01) grants funded by the U.S.... View Details

Keywords: Patents; Research; Entrepreneurship; Forecasting and Prediction; Innovation and Invention; Business and Government Relations; United States

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25 Jan 2011
First Look

First Look: Jan. 25

high-beta stocks. An Empirical Analysis of Innovation Contests: Strategic Incentives, Problem Uncertainty and Independent Experimentation along Parallel Paths Authors:Kevin J. Boudreau, Nicola Lacetera, and Karim R. Lakhani... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Feb 2025
Blog Post

IFC India 2025: Building Resilience - Mumbai’s Journey to Sustainable Water Management

energy and transport, which attract significantly higher private investment, water management is often overlooked due to its limited profitability. Key barriers include political resistance to raising tariffs on a public good, pervasive water theft, and fragmented... View Details

12 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization

Excerpt Second, I wanted to demonstrate the relative importance of business compared to governments and other institutional actors in building global capitalism. In both the historical and economics literatures, firms are typically... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics; Manufacturing; Consumer Products; Pharmaceutical

15 Dec 2024
News

Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Power of Imperfect Eating By Kavita Bhatnagar (SELP 11, 2022) Penguin Enterprise Rather than dictating which foods are good or bad, this book weaves together stories that mirror the intricate, emotional, and often imperfect... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

12 Aug 2014
First Look

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

Runa Khan

Keywords: NGO; Development

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Building Bridges: New Dimensions in Negotiation

relevant government ministers at the table in a culturally sensitive process. Instead, the company took innovative actions away from the table that significantly improved its negotiating position.... View Details

Keywords: by Anita M. Harris

12 Jul 2020
Book

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020

of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein, which describes the complicity of the federal government in redlining policies that confined Black people in segregated neighborhoods with low... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

15 Dec 2015
First Look

December 15, 2015

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50234 December 2015 Harvard Business Review What Is Disruptive Innovation? By: Christensen, Clayton M., Michael Raynor, and Rory McDonald Abstract—For the past 20 years, the theory of disruptive View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

22 May 2018
First Look

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

04 Sep 2019
News

In My Humble Opinion: Status Update

services to working on a reduce, reuse, and recycle campaign. The job really showed me how government could be a force for good.” Network effects: 2.1 billion people use Facebook, WhatsApp, Messenger, or Instagram every day. Podcast... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Mar 2004
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors

15–17 in Shanghai. The forum presents a terrific opportunity for alumni to hear from Fortune 500 global business leaders, government officials, HBS faculty, and prominent U.S. and Chinese leaders. Outside the conference, attendees have a... View Details

Keywords: Ted Fischer; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

12 Nov 2024
HBS Case

Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers

up providing the inspiration for his next business opportunity: a tech business that put “justice-involved” individuals to work. “Tech startups are so concentrated in a small number of places with a small number of types of people, so there’s View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Employment