Radical Innovation - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

Unilever: Transformation and Tradition

that their options for radical change appeared highly constrained. During the years of Cole and Tempel, the key to improving performance was believed to lie in diversification. The Unilever "fleet" sailed in a variety of... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products

22 Feb 2018
Book

The New History of American Capitalism

questions with the tools generated by the innovation of past decades, including the relationship between money and power, commerce and politics, exchange and social status. Its effort is to find new ways of exploring how institutions,... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

Web

The Gift of Global Talent

continues to grow, the three core approaches taken by corporations so far offer a playbook for companies that find themselves outside the action in today’s concentrated innovation geography. How can companies most effectively harness the... View Details

23 Dec 2008
First Look

First Look: December 23, 2008

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-005.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsAmerican Cancer Society: Access to Care Harvard Business School Case 109-015 CEO John Seffrin decides to radically change the strategy of the American Cancer... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2024
News

Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

Ideas) By Thomas Ramge and Rafael Laguna de la Vera (TGMP 3, 1998) The MIT Press We live in less innovative times than we think. Despite having made major technological advancements in a few areas, we are still left with enormous unsolved... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

17 Jan 2011
Research & Ideas

Being the Boss

responsibility for the relationship, because it's definitely two-way. I'm building on the traditions of [HBS professors emeriti] John Kotter and John Gabarro, who [in 1980] wrote an article about managing your boss, which was very radical... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

15 Dec 2021
Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular Articles of 2021

venture capital investment continued at a steady clip. After several heady months for startups, Jeffrey Bussgang offered radical advice for founders: just chill. 3. The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021 At the start of a... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

17 Jan 2019
Blog Post

MBA Curriculum Spotlight: Short Intensive Programs (SIPs)

will evaluate innovative strategies to create new marketplaces and opportunities, we will examine the key challenges in competing with large incumbent firms, and how incumbents can defend their market shares. We are going to discuss View Details

13 Jun 2019
Blog Post

Expanding My Worldview Through FIELD Global Immersion

companies to expand their brands. FGI teaches you how to grab a blank sheet of paper and innovate in the globally competitive 21st century economy. You will exercise your leadership skills and 200+ cases of classroom experience in a... View Details

06 May 2021
HBS Case

How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups

Noting that many urban youth lacked tech skills, she and her husband Derek Pearson launched Code Fever, a company offering training camps and hackathons for young people, and transformed a vacant building in a historically Black neighborhood into a co-working space and... View Details

Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo

13 Jul 2010
First Look

First Look: July 13

diffusion of the commercial internet. Theory predicts that firms with greater market share will be more likely to adopt innovations that build on their existing strengths, while they will resist more radical... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Jun 2011
First Look

First Look: June 7

respond? The business ran on a radically new model in which a stable of 10,000 freelance contributors supplied content, the Internet's search engines brought it 75 million readers each month, and advertising generated revenue. It took the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Web

William R. Kerr | About

businesses compete with each other and engage workers. This multi-faculty project identifies how companies, schools, workers and the public sector can come together to manage the challenging transitions ahead as the nature of work is View Details

03 Nov 2023
News

Global Networking Night; Sweden Club Holds Climate Forum

radical collaborations between different players.” Sir David King, founder and chair of the Centre for Climate Repair at Cambridge University, also joined online and shared sobering facts—the Arctic Circle is warming more than four times... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

20 Dec 2011
First Look

First Look: December 20

stereotype-incongruent information. Implications for impression formation are discussed. Inducement Prizes and Innovation Authors:Liam Brunt, Josh Lerner, and Tom Nicholas Publication:Journal of Industrial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

Fatigue Laboratory, from the 1920s to the 1940s) physiology—yielded results that were either too politically radical for the university's guardians and patrons (as happened at the Wharton School during the Progressive Era) or simply... View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

14 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

proactive effort to be as effective and clear as possible in their communication to both internal and external stakeholders. Importantly, a vast majority of the initiatives that companies in our sample are implementing do not require large capital investments or View Details

Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa

10 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Do You Have Change Fatigue?

Chances are you've got a story like Andrea Zintz's. Now president of Andrea Zintz & Associates, a consulting firm in Pennington, N.J., she was working for a health-care concern in 1997 when the firm's executive committee decided to launch an View Details

Keywords: by Nick Morgan

19 Sep 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

Say Again? Uncommon Advice for Common Business Problems

showed, adopting radical simplicity can be the best approach to team creativity. Perhaps the best way to bolster innovation in employees is to draw a curtain around them, literally. It could well be that the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

26 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

David, Goliath, and Disruption

As elegantly described by HBS professor Clayton M. Christensen in his 1997 bestseller, The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail, so-called disruptive technologies are upstart innovations that manage to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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