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Wendell Weeks at Corning Inc. (B): Valor Glass and the COVID-19 Pandemic

By: Ryan Raffaelli and Aldo Sesia
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  • | Language:English
  • | Pages:7
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Abstract

The (B) case offers a detailed account of Wendell Weeks’s innovation strategy at Corning, and how his approach played a critical role in the COVID-19 pandemic. It illustrates the company’s philosophy of making long-term investments in promising new technologies and products well before others believed their time was ripe.

Keywords

Innovation and Invention; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Disruptive Innovation; Technology; Leadership; Health Pandemics; Technology Industry; United States; New York (city, NY)

Citation

Raffaelli, Ryan, and Aldo Sesia. "Wendell Weeks at Corning Inc. (B): Valor Glass and the COVID-19 Pandemic." Harvard Business School Supplement 421-078, March 2021.

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Ryan L. Raffaelli

Organizational Behavior
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