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  • 03 Jan 2017
  • First Look

January 3, 2017

research and technological innovation, this approach is misguided and potentially risky. This article argues that View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • January 2009
  • Article

Spatial Diversity in Invention: Evidence from the Early R&D Labs

By: Tom Nicholas
This article uses historical data on inventor and firm R&D lab locations to examine the technological and geographic structure of corporate knowledge capital accumulation during a formative period in the organization of US innovation. Despite the localization of... View Details
Keywords: Factories, Labs, and Plants; Geographic Location; Innovation and Invention; Patents; Knowledge Acquisition; Research and Development; United States
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  • 08 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 8

granted a U.S. patent for a "flying-machine," which changed the industry irrevocably. While American manufacturers diverted resources from science and technology to patent wars View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2006
  • Other Unpublished Work

Does Competition Increase Patent Litigation? Empirical Evidence of Strategic Patenting in the Telecom Equipment Industry

By: Juan Alcacer and Rachelle C. Sampson
Anecdotal evidence suggests that patent litigation has increased in the last 20 years as firms in knowledge intensive industries use patents more frequently to protect their knowledge stocks and managers focus on extracting new revenue streams from existing patent... View Details
Keywords: Patents; Competition; Lawsuits and Litigation
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  • 26 Sep 2006
  • First Look

First Look: September 26, 2006

the economy that have occurred during the same time and argue that they are consistent with an increased use of information technology (IT) in general and enterprise... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Jul 2010
  • First Look

First Look: July 20

motorbikes, which posed a threat to the company's core business. Sourcing the technology for these e-bikes, and hiring and retaining the management View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • September 2010 (Revised January 2012)
  • Case

OPOWER: Increasing Energy Efficiency through Normative Influence (A)

By: Amy J.C. Cuddy, Kyle Todd Doherty and Maarten W. Bos
The case profiles OPOWER, an energy efficiency software company that applies Cialdini's principles of social influence to successfully encourage consumers to reduce their energy usage. OPOWER was co-founded in 2008 by two young Harvard graduates, Dan Yates and Alex... View Details
Keywords: Mathematical Methods; Applications and Software; Attitudes; Entrepreneurship; Energy Conservation; Power and Influence; Growth and Development Strategy; Energy Industry; United States
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    Nitin Nohria

    Nitin Nohria served as the tenth dean of Harvard Business School from 2010-2020. He previously served as co-chair of the Leadership Initiative, Senior Associate Dean of Faculty Development, and Head of the Organizational Behavior unit.

    As Dean, building on... View Details

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    • 06 Nov 2017
    • Research Event

    Who is Responsible for the Future of Cities?

    Design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Panelist Efosa Ojomo clearly believed that the path to urban growth and improvement has long been spearheaded by innovations in the private sector, rather than by municipal governments.... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • Profile

    Henry McCance

    a few FDA-approved drugs for Alzheimer’s disease, and they won’t help,’” he recalls. McCance, a venture- capital pioneer with Greylock Partners, had spent 40 years as eyewitness to advances in technology... View Details
    Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity; Financial Services; Health Care

      William A. Sahlman

      William Sahlman is a Baker Foundation Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

      Mr. Sahlman received an A.B. degree in Economics from Princeton University (1972), an M.B.A. from Harvard University (1975), and a Ph.D. in Business... View Details

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      • 2010
      • Working Paper

      Accelerating Energy Innovation: Insights from Multiple Sectors

      By: Rebecca Henderson and Richard G. Newell
      A combination of concerns about climate change and energy security has recently led to significant increases in public funding for energy R&D. Some commentators are suggesting that these increases need to be sustained, and are advocating for increases of as much as... View Details
      Keywords: Innovation and Management; Technological Innovation; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Research and Development; Pollutants; Climate Change; Energy Industry
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      • 2012
      • Book

      The Culture Cycle: How to Shape the Unseen Force That Transforms Performance

      By: James Heskett
      The contribution of culture to organizational performance is both substantial and quantifiable. This book presents the results of field research that demonstrates how an effective culture can account for up to half of the differential in performance between... View Details
      Keywords: Customer Focus and Relationships; Learning; Framework; Policy; Retention; Books; Analytics and Data Science; Innovation and Invention; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Culture; Performance Expectations; Research
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      • 04 Apr 2016
      • HBS Seminar

      Shelley Correll, Stanford University

      • November 2023 (Revised January 2024)
      • Case

      Bridgit: Persevere or Pivot?

      By: Reza Satchu and Patrick Sanguineti
      In late 2012, Mallorie Brodie and Lauren Lake, two young women in their final year of college, founded Bridgit, a technology startup that developed solutions to simplify vital but laborious processes within the construction industry. In the Fall of 2013, after months... View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneur; Founder; Co-founders; Women Executives; Pivot; Startup; Business Model; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Applications and Software; Product Launch; Research and Development; Competition; Technology Industry; Technology Industry; United States; Canada
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      • 16 Dec 2015
      • Research & Ideas

      What Happens When Zambian Schoolgirls Receive Negotiation Training

      MIT and a conflict resolution program at Mercy Corps), McGinn and her colleagues laid the foundation for Girls Arise, expanding and strengthening it through rigorous field... View Details
      Keywords: Re: Kathleen L. McGinn
      • 04 Mar 2014
      • Sharpening Your Skills

      Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation

      Skills that Distinguish Great Innovators Clay Christensen on "The Innovator's DNA." WORKING PAPERS Leading Innovation in Good Times and Bad Innovation is not a side business, says Lynda Applegate. Mechanisms of View Details
      Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
      • 05 Feb 2024
      • Research & Ideas

      The Middle Manager of the Future: More Coaching, Less Commanding

      Middle managers aren’t going extinct. They’re evolving. Once a wasteland where careers stalled or abruptly ended in layoffs, middle management has adapted and is thriving, seeing double-digit growth in some industries. Managing others is... View Details
      Keywords: by Ben Rand
      • Web

      Admissions & Financial Support - Doctoral

      deep rigorous study. Applicants are evaluated on their academic records, letters of recommendation, research and work experience, statement of purpose, and potential to conduct... View Details
      • 13 Feb 2017
      • Research & Ideas

      Paid Search Ads Pay Off for Lesser-Known Restaurants

      accessing Yelp data and running experiments, with the goal of producing managerially relevant academic research with the freedom to publish it. Example of a Yelp ad for a restaurant Restaurants were given... View Details
      Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage