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- 2017
- Chapter
Multinational Activity in Emerging Markets: How and When Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Growth?
By: Laura Alfaro
Among the prominent economic trends in recent decades is the exponential increase in flows of goods and capital driven by technological progress and a falling number of restrictions. A key driver of this phenomenon has been the cross-border production, foreign...
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Keywords:
Multinational Activity;
Growth;
Spillovers;
Complementarities;
Foreign Direct Investment;
Emerging Markets;
Growth and Development;
Multinational Firms and Management
Alfaro, Laura. "Multinational Activity in Emerging Markets: How and When Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Growth?" In Geography, Location, and Strategy. Vol. 36, edited by Juan Alcácer, Bruce Kogut, Catherine Thomas, and Bernard Yin Yeung, 429–462. Advances in Strategic Management. Emerald Publishing Limited, 2017.
- 2016
- Working Paper
Innovation Network
By: Daron Acemoglu, Ufuk Akcigit and William Kerr
Technological progress builds upon itself, with the expansion of invention in one domain propelling future work in linked fields. Our analysis uses 1.8 million U.S. patents and their citation properties to map the innovation network and its strength. Past innovation...
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Acemoglu, Daron, Ufuk Akcigit, and William Kerr. "Innovation Network." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-033, October 2016.
- October 11, 2016
- Article
Innovation Network
By: Daron Acemoglu, Ufuk Akcigit and William R. Kerr
Technological progress builds upon itself, with the expansion of invention in one domain propelling future work in linked fields. Our analysis uses 1.8 million U.S. patents and their citation properties to map the innovation network and its strength. Past innovation...
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Acemoglu, Daron, Ufuk Akcigit, and William R. Kerr. "Innovation Network." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113, no. 41 (October 11, 2016).
- November 2015
- Case
Rubicon Global
By: William A. Sahlman and Hunter Ashmore
The case describes Rubicon Global, a startup that aimed to disrupt the waste management industry. The company started with a bold idea: create a cloud-based, full-service waste management company providing low-cost, highly efficient, and environmentally friendly...
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurial Finance;
Rubicon;
Rubicon Global;
Waste Management;
Startups;
Disruptive Technology;
Technological Innovation;
Disruptive Innovation;
Market Entry and Exit;
Entrepreneurship;
Wastes and Waste Processing;
Business Startups;
Corporate Finance;
Service Industry
Sahlman, William A., and Hunter Ashmore. "Rubicon Global." Harvard Business School Case 816-015, November 2015.
- October 2015 (Revised January 2017)
- Case
UPower Technologies Inc.
By: Joseph B. Lassiter III, William A. Sahlman and Liz Kind
The UPower founders, Jake DeWitte and Caroline Cochran, were recent graduates from MIT's Nuclear Science and Engineering Department. They chose to attend Palo Alto–based Y Combinator's accelerator program to focus on building a "mini" nuclear reactor that would produce...
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Keywords:
Nuclear;
Nuclear Energy;
Nuclear Power;
Energy Markets;
New Nuclear;
Entrepreneurial Finance;
Entrepreneurial Marketing;
Business & Government Relations;
Off-grid;
Energy;
Renewable Energy;
Energy Generation;
Energy Sources;
Entrepreneurship;
Marketing;
Business and Government Relations;
Energy Industry;
Utilities Industry;
United States
Lassiter, Joseph B., III, William A. Sahlman, and Liz Kind. "UPower Technologies Inc." Harvard Business School Case 816-054, October 2015. (Revised January 2017.)
- 2015
- Chapter
Innovating without Information Constraints: Organization, Communities, and Innovation when Information Costs Approach Zero
Innovation has traditionally taken place within an organization's boundaries and/or with selected partners. This Chandlerian approach to innovation has been rooted in transaction costs, organizational boundaries, and information processing challenges associated with...
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Keywords:
Knowledge Sharing;
Cost;
Innovation and Management;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention
Altman, Elizabeth J., Frank Nagle, and Michael Tushman. "Innovating without Information Constraints: Organization, Communities, and Innovation when Information Costs Approach Zero." In The Oxford Handbook of Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship, edited by Christina E. Shalley, Michael A. Hitt, and Jing Zhou, 353–379. Oxford University Press, 2015.
- February 2015
- Article
'Open' Disclosure of Innovations, Incentives and Follow-on Reuse: Theory on Processes of Cumulative Innovation and a Field Experiment in Computational Biology
By: Kevin J. Boudreau and Karim R. Lakhani
Most of society's innovation systems―academic science, the patent system, open source, etc.―are "open" in the sense that they are designed to facilitate knowledge disclosure among innovators. An essential difference across innovation systems is whether disclosure is of...
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Keywords:
Open Innovation;
Cumulative Innovation;
Incentives;
Search;
Disclosure And Access;
Knowledge Sharing;
Motivation and Incentives;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention
Boudreau, Kevin J., and Karim R. Lakhani. "'Open' Disclosure of Innovations, Incentives and Follow-on Reuse: Theory on Processes of Cumulative Innovation and a Field Experiment in Computational Biology." Research Policy 44, no. 1 (February 2015): 4–19.
- May 2014 (Revised June 2014)
- Case
Intellectual Property Strategy at North Technology Group—Sailing Downwind
By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee and William W. Fisher III
North Sails is the world's leading sailmaker. The company commands a global market share of more than 50% and is largely responsible for the rapid technological progress in the sailmaking industry over the past 30 years. CEO Tom Whidden needs to consider how to best...
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Oberholzer-Gee, Felix, and William W. Fisher III. "Intellectual Property Strategy at North Technology Group—Sailing Downwind." Harvard Business School Case 714-403, May 2014. (Revised June 2014.)
- 2014
- Working Paper
The Organizational and Geographic Drivers of Absorptive Capacity: An Empirical Analysis of Pharmaceutical R&D Laboratories
By: Francesca Lazzeri and Gary P. Pisano
Scholars and practitioners alike now recognize that a firm's capacity to assimilate and use know-how from external sources—what Cohen and Levinthal (1990) called "absorptive capacity"—plays a central role in innovation performance. In recent years, a common strategy...
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Keywords:
Geographic Location;
Industry Clusters;
Knowledge Acquisition;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
San Francisco;
San Diego;
Massachusetts
Lazzeri, Francesca, and Gary P. Pisano. "The Organizational and Geographic Drivers of Absorptive Capacity: An Empirical Analysis of Pharmaceutical R&D Laboratories." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-098, April 2014.
- March 2014
- Teaching Note
The Weather Company
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
New CEO David Kenny transformed The Weather Company in less than two years from a primary identity as a cable television channel to a multi-platform digital company innovating in the uses of weather data. He assesses progress and considers strategic choices and...
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- March 2014
- Technical Note
Venture Capital Investment in the Clean Energy Sector
By: Ramana Nanda and Shikhar Ghosh
In this note, we examine the extent to which venture capital is adequately positioned for the rapid commercialization of clean energy technologies in the United States. The need for a revolution in clean energy is driven not just by environmental consequences of energy...
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Nanda, Ramana, and Shikhar Ghosh. "Venture Capital Investment in the Clean Energy Sector." Harvard Business School Technical Note 814-052, March 2014.
- January 2014
- Case
The Weather Company
New CEO David Kenny transformed The Weather Company in less than two years from a primary identity as a cable television channel to a multi-platform digital company innovating in the uses of weather data. He assesses progress and considers strategic choices and...
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Keywords:
Innovation;
Strategy;
Strategic Change;
Change Management;
Expansion;
Weather;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Innovation and Invention;
Technology Industry
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. "The Weather Company." Harvard Business School Case 314-083, January 2014.
- September 2013
- Case
Advanced Leadership Pathways: Laurent Adamowicz and Bon'App
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Juliane Calingo Schwetz and Patricia Bissett Higgins
After a successful career as Chairman and CEO of Paris-based luxury food company Fauchon, Laurent Adamowicz sought to reduce obesity and improve health outcomes. Adamowicz created a mobile application to provide consumers with more accessible and interpretable...
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Keywords:
Management;
Startup;
Leadership;
Leadership Style;
Leadership Skills;
Nutrition Database;
Nutritionist In Your Pocket;
Nutritional Educational Platform;
Shazam Of Food;
Weight Loss;
Iphone;
Android;
Applications;
App Development;
Nutrition Labeling;
Nutritional Information;
Obesity;
Epidemic;
Applications and Software;
Nutrition;
Business Startups;
Health;
Health Care and Treatment;
Information Technology Industry;
Information Technology Industry;
Boston;
Massachusetts
- 2013
- Case
Advanced Leadership Pathways: Laurent Adamowicz and Bon'App
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Juliane Calingo Schwetz and Patricia Bissett Higgins
After a successful career as Chairman and CEO of Paris-based luxury food company, Fauchon, Laurent Adamowicz, sought to reduce obesity and improve health outcomes. Adamowicz created a mobile application to provide consumers with more accessible and interpretable...
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Keywords:
Nutritional Information;
Obesity;
Weight Loss;
App Development;
Business Startups;
Nutrition;
Health;
Information;
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Entrepreneurship;
Social Enterprise;
Information Technology Industry;
Information Technology Industry
Kanter, Rosabeth M., Juliane Calingo Schwetz, and Patricia Bissett Higgins. "Advanced Leadership Pathways: Laurent Adamowicz and Bon'App." Harvard Business Publishing Case 314-028, 2013.
- July 2013 (Revised March 2015)
- Case
Carl Zeiss and Free-Form Production: Can We See Clearly Yet?
By: Willy Shih
The prescription eyeglass lens industry was complicated and highly fragmented, and even though many of the tools and techniques employed have been relatively unchanged over the last century, there was still a surprising pace of innovation. An aging population around...
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Keywords:
History;
Demand and Consumers;
Disruptive Innovation;
Vertical Integration;
Theory;
Technology Adoption;
Health Industry
Shih, Willy. "Carl Zeiss and Free-Form Production: Can We See Clearly Yet?" Harvard Business School Case 614-007, July 2013. (Revised March 2015.)
- Article
Beyond Magic Bullets: True Innovation in Health Care
By: Vaibhav A. Narayan, Marco Mohwinckel, Gary Pisano, Michael Yang and Husseini Manji
The molecular medicine revolution—based on advances in fields such as genomics and network modeling in the decade since the human genome sequence was completed—has changed the way we think about, study, and approach the development of novel therapies. However, these...
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Keywords:
Integration;
Business Model;
Organizational Structure;
Health Care and Treatment;
Innovation and Invention;
Pharmaceutical Industry
Narayan, Vaibhav A., Marco Mohwinckel, Gary Pisano, Michael Yang, and Husseini Manji. "Beyond Magic Bullets: True Innovation in Health Care." Nature Reviews: Drug Discovery 12, no. 2 (February 2013): 85–86.
- January 2013
- Supplement
Microsoft Server & Tools (B)
By: Marco Iansiti and Alain Serels
Supplement for case 613031. Update on progress of Microsoft's Server & Tools Business through July 2011. Satya Nadella and his team explore whether or not to support Linux on Windows Azure.
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Keywords:
Technological Innovation;
Disruptive Innovation;
Information Technology;
Information Technology Industry
Iansiti, Marco, and Alain Serels. "Microsoft Server & Tools (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 613-046, January 2013.
- January 2013
- Supplement
Microsoft Server & Tools (C)
By: Marco Iansiti and Alain Serels
Supplement for case 613031. Update on progress of Microsoft's Server & Tools Business through August 2012. Pleased with the Windows Azure product, Satya Nadella must decide how to attract customers to the cloud based platform.
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Keywords:
Technology;
Computing;
Enterprise Computing;
Servers;
Cloud Computing;
Microsoft;
Technology Evolution;
Technological Innovation;
Disruptive Innovation;
Information Technology;
Information Technology Industry
Iansiti, Marco, and Alain Serels. "Microsoft Server & Tools (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 613-047, January 2013.
- September 2012
- Supplement
Intraoperative Radiotherapy for Breast Cancer (B)
By: Willy Shih
The intraoperative radiotherapy (IORT) business at Carl Zeiss Meditec had struggled with growth since the time of the (A) case. Though the unit had grown revenues in excess of 50% and had exceeded its EBIT target, it faced several key strategic choices. Should it...
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Keywords:
Radiotherapy;
Breast Cancer;
Brachytherapy;
Therapeutic Radiation;
Oncology;
Oncology Treatment Systems;
Elekta AB;
Varian Medical Systems;
Xoft;
Electronic Brachytherapy;
Intraoperative Radiotherapy;
Disruptive Innovation;
Health Care and Treatment;
Entrepreneurship;
Technological Innovation;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Health Industry;
Germany
Shih, Willy. "Intraoperative Radiotherapy for Breast Cancer (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 613-040, September 2012.
- September 2012
- Supplement
Industrial Metrology: Getting In-Line? (B)
By: Willy Shih
Rainer Ohnheiser, the President of Carl Zeiss's Business Group Industrial Metrology (IMT), was focused on the threat that in-line metrology posed to Carl Zeiss IMT's core business. Historically, coordinate measurement machines (CMMs) that employed tactile measurement...
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Keywords:
Performance Trajectories;
Emerging Technologies;
Manufacturing Tools;
Carl Zeiss;
Go-to-market Strategy;
Disruptive Innovation;
Technological Innovation;
Production;
Performance Improvement;
Measurement and Metrics;
Manufacturing Industry;
Germany
Shih, Willy. "Industrial Metrology: Getting In-Line? (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 613-041, September 2012.