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Manasi Maheshwari | MBA
Manasi Maheshwari Computer Science Currier 2021 Cohort 2 I'm passionate about using technology to address social issues. My favorite classes have been centered on entrepreneurship and design thinking to create tangible solutions and I... View Details
- 15 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Occupy Wall Street Protestors Have a Point
group interested us most. They saw the possibility of building businesses using the kinds of innovation and technology that brought millions of rural poor into the market system (as China Mobile did by bringing mobile phone service into... View Details
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April Chen | MBA
nonprofits and government agencies. Through this course, Harvard Tech for Social Good, and my internships, I've had the opportunity to work with several public interest tech organizations. They've taught me that no matter how View Details
- September 2023
- Teaching Note
Nexleaf Analytics: Saving the World Using the Internet of Things
By: Frank Nagle
Teaching Note for HBS Case 722-414. View Details
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Lone Inventors as Sources of Technological Breakthroughs: Myth or Reality?
Are lone inventors more or less likely to invent breakthroughs? Recent research has attempted to resolve this question by considering the variance of creative outcome distributions. It has implicitly assumed a symmetric thickening or thinning of both tails, i.e., that... View Details
Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Independent Innovation and Invention; Patents; Groups and Teams; Creativity
Singh, Jasjit, and Lee Fleming. "Lone Inventors as Sources of Technological Breakthroughs: Myth or Reality?" Management Science 56, no. 1 (January 2010).
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The Radical Flank Effect and Cross-occupational Collaboration for Technology Development during a Power Shift
By: Emily Truelove and Katherine C. Kellogg
This 12-month ethnographic study of an early entrant into the U.S. car-sharing industry demonstrates that when an organization shifts its focus from developing radical new technology to incrementally improving this technology, the shift may spark an internal power... View Details
Keywords: Groups and Teams; Conflict and Resolution; Power and Influence; Perception; Behavior; Collaborative Innovation and Invention
Truelove, Emily, and Katherine C. Kellogg. "The Radical Flank Effect and Cross-occupational Collaboration for Technology Development during a Power Shift." Administrative Science Quarterly 61, no. 4 (December 2016): 662–701.
- 07 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship
Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed—and What to Do about It. Government has played similar catalytic roles in creating hubs of innovation is places such as Tel Aviv and Singapore. Such success stories... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Thought Leader
logical and linguistic analysis to the study of human nature and consciousness,” the Telegraph reported. Among his central achievements was to shed light on the nature of reality. By persuasively advancing “Wittgenstein’s notion that View Details
- 04 Jan 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
The Digital Commons: Tragedy or Opportunity? A Reflection on the 50th Anniversary of Hardin’s Tragedy of the Commons
Keywords: by Frank Nagle
- June 2009 (Revised March 2011)
- Module Note
The Creative Industries: Managing and Marketing Talent
By: Anita Elberse
This module note examines issues concerning the management and marketing of talent in the creative industries. It describes the characteristics of the market for creative talent, discusses how individual talent creates and captures value, and explores how professional... View Details
Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Entertainment; Innovation and Management; Marketing; Creativity; Value
Elberse, Anita. "The Creative Industries: Managing and Marketing Talent." Harvard Business School Module Note 509-078, June 2009. (Revised March 2011.)
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Road to Recovery
contracting with some more innovative commercial and Medicaid programs while advocating for federal change in billing codes and seeking FDA approval for the company’s offerings. DynamiCare’s biggest victory came in March 2022, when the... View Details
- October 2023
- Teaching Note
Timnit Gebru: 'SILENCED No More' on AI Bias and The Harms of Large Language Models
By: Tsedal Neeley and Tim Englehart
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 422-085. Dr. Timnit Gebru—a leading artificial intelligence (AI) computer scientist and co-lead of Google’s Ethical AI team—was messaging with one of her colleagues when she saw the words: “Did you resign?? Megan sent an email saying that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Enron’s Legacy
billion in revenues. The directors of professionally sponsored buyouts typically have comparable personal wealth at risk. These three innovations can lead to a more arm’s-length relationship between directors and the CEO. The lack of such... View Details
- 18 Mar 2020
- News
Leading Change
1000 companies on digital strategy and transformation and has conducted research on a variety of organizations, including Microsoft, Facebook, IBM, Amazon, Alibaba, and Google. Lakhani is the founder and co-director of the Laboratory for View Details
- 25 Feb 2017
- Blog Post
3 Reasons I Chose to Attend HBS
Greetings! My name is Alonso Lucero, and I’m currently a first year student at HBS. Prior to HBS, I worked in consulting, social impact venture capital, and data analytics. I chose to attend Harvard Business School for three primary... View Details
- 05 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Vanguard Corporation
problems ripe for innovations that can make a difference in the world. It is a privilege to work with enlightened SuperCorps to create partnerships across sectors combining capabilities for the greater good. That has the potential to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Apr 2011
- News
Management Matters In Health Care, Too
opportunities abound. That helps to explain why 372 current students have expressed an interest in the health-care industry. That interest is nurtured by the Health Care Initiative, a multidisciplinary program dedicated to innovative... View Details
- 10 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
New Venture Competition 2022: Business and Environment Ventures
The New Venture Competition is an annual competition sponsored by the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and Social Enterprise Initiative open to all students and alumni who are launching new business and View Details
- 12 Apr 2012
- News
HBS Welcomes Eleven Alumni Startups
compete for a $50,000 grand prize and a $25,000 second prize—plus meet this year's Social Entrepreneurship Fellow. The contest, designed to support promising alumni ventures, is hosted by HBS’s Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and... View Details
- 14 May 2024
- Blog Post
Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - How to Build a Culture of Intrapreneurship
importance of a culture that encourages progress, outlining how “sustainability-oriented innovation involves making intentional changes to an organization's philosophy and values.” But what kind of philosophy and values lead to a... View Details