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- November 2006 (Revised March 2008)
- Case
The Harvard Stem Cell Institute
Describes a set of issues confronting the leaders of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, an innovative cross-university effort to accelerate scientific discovery and translation in the domain of stem cells. Covers a wide range of topics, including understanding how...
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Keywords:
Talent and Talent Management;
Higher Education;
Entrepreneurship;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Intellectual Property;
Research and Development;
Genetics;
Biotechnology Industry;
Health Industry;
Massachusetts
Sahlman, William A. "The Harvard Stem Cell Institute." Harvard Business School Case 807-096, November 2006. (Revised March 2008.)
- November 2006 (Revised March 2012)
- Case
Clocky: The Runaway Alarm Clock
By: Elie Ofek and Eliot Sherman
Gauri Nanda is the creator of an innovative new product: an alarm clock named Clocky that, in addition to ringing, rolls around the room in order to force its owner to get out of bed. Beset by media attention and consumer interest but still at least a year away from...
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Keywords:
Management;
Product Positioning;
Partners and Partnerships;
Production;
Marketing Strategy;
Media;
Entrepreneurship;
Independent Innovation and Invention;
Product Launch
Ofek, Elie, and Eliot Sherman. "Clocky: The Runaway Alarm Clock." Harvard Business School Case 507-016, November 2006. (Revised March 2012.)
- September 2006 (Revised April 2007)
- Case
Medtronic Vision 2010
Describes the company's year-long efforts to transition from a medical device company selling products to physicians for use with patients suffering chronic end-stage disease, to a medical technology company providing life-long solutions for people with chronic...
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Keywords:
Business Plan;
Transition;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Financial Management;
Financing and Loans;
Health Care and Treatment;
Innovation and Invention;
Strategic Planning;
Health Industry
Applegate, Lynda M. "Medtronic Vision 2010." Harvard Business School Case 807-051, September 2006. (Revised April 2007.)
- June 2006
- Case
AtHoc: Dealing With Disruption
By: Lynda M. Applegate and Brian DeLacey
Follows the growth of an entrepreneur from his early startup activities. As the company evolves from 1998 to 2005, looks at key decisions and turning points as AtHoc's strategy adapts in response to changing market environments, business opportunities, and customer...
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Keywords:
Business Growth and Maturation;
Disruptive Innovation;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Business Strategy;
Venture Capital
Applegate, Lynda M., and Brian DeLacey. "AtHoc: Dealing With Disruption." Harvard Business School Case 806-073, June 2006.
- January 2006 (Revised April 2007)
- Case
General Electric Healthcare, 2006
By: Tarun Khanna and Elizabeth Raabe
In January 2006, Joe Hogan, head of General Electric (GE) Healthcare Technologies, prepared to step into William Castell's shoes as CEO of GE Healthcare, the world's leading manufacturer of diagnostic imaging equipment. In 2004, former CEO Jeff Immelt acquired Amersham...
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Keywords:
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Cost vs Benefits;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Machinery and Machining;
Global Range;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Product Design;
Technological Innovation;
Expansion;
Value Creation;
Business Subsidiaries;
Health Industry;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
Khanna, Tarun, and Elizabeth Raabe. "General Electric Healthcare, 2006." Harvard Business School Case 706-478, January 2006. (Revised April 2007.)
- Article
Policy Implications of Weak Patent Rights
By: James J. Anton, Hillary Greene and Dennis Yao
Patents vary substantially in the degree of protection provided against unauthorized imitation. In this chapter we explore a range of work addressing the economic and policy implications of "weak" patents—patents that have a significant probability of being overturned...
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Keywords:
Patents;
Motivation and Incentives;
Entrepreneurship;
Competition;
Policy;
Innovation and Invention;
Rights;
Monopoly;
Business Startups
Anton, James J., Hillary Greene, and Dennis Yao. "Policy Implications of Weak Patent Rights." Innovation Policy and the Economy 6 (2006): 1–26. (Harvard users click here for full text.)
- December 2005 (Revised April 2011)
- Case
C.W. Post
By: Nitin Nohria, Anthony Mayo and Mark Benson
In 1906, C.W. Post had to move his latest breakfast product--corn flakes--from store shelves into cereal bowls nationwide. Post genuinely believed his corn flakes and other breakfast foods would make people well. Through sampling and other innovative sales and...
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurship;
Innovation and Invention;
Brands and Branding;
Product Marketing;
Sales;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Battle Creek
Nohria, Nitin, Anthony Mayo, and Mark Benson. "C.W. Post." Harvard Business School Case 406-063, December 2005. (Revised April 2011.)
- Aug 2005 - 2005
- Conference Presentation
The Innovative Capacity of Institutional Entrepreneurs: Mechanisms for Generating Alternative Ideas
By: Julie Battilana and E. Boxenbaum
- May 2005 (Revised December 2022)
- Case
Aristotle Onassis and the Greek Shipping Industry
By: Geoffrey Jones and Paul Gomopoulos
Examines the career of Aristotle Onassis and his creation of one of the world's largest shipping companies between 1945 and 1973. Explores the role of ethnic and family networks in Greek shipping and how Onassis was able to penetrate this system despite being an...
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Keywords:
Networks;
Ethnicity;
Family Business;
Innovation Strategy;
Management Succession;
Competitive Advantage;
Personal Development and Career;
Entrepreneurship;
Shipping Industry;
Greece
Jones, Geoffrey, and Paul Gomopoulos. "Aristotle Onassis and the Greek Shipping Industry." Harvard Business School Case 805-141, May 2005. (Revised December 2022.)
- November 2004 (Revised July 2006)
- Case
Patrimonio Hoy
By: Arthur I Segel, Michael Chu and Gustavo Herrero
Patrimonio Hoy is a program targeting the housing needs of the low-income population by CEMEX, a major Mexican company and a leading global cement producer. Originally conceived as a project to understand the customers in the self-construction segment better, a major...
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Keywords:
Housing;
Construction;
Product Design;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Microfinance;
Income;
Market Entry and Exit;
Emerging Markets;
Entrepreneurship;
Construction Industry;
Mexico
Segel, Arthur I., Michael Chu, and Gustavo Herrero. "Patrimonio Hoy." Harvard Business School Case 805-064, November 2004. (Revised July 2006.)
- October 2004 (Revised March 2005)
- Case
Langer Lab, The: Commercializing Science
By: H. Kent Bowen, Alex Kazaks, Ayr Muir-Harmony and Bryce LaPierre
Professor Robert Langer's laboratory at MIT is the source of an unusually large number of published papers, patents, and technology licenses to start-up and established companies in the biomedical industry. Explores Langer's leadership and other factors that create a...
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurship;
Technological Innovation;
Business Startups;
Research and Development;
Patents;
Innovation Leadership;
Science-Based Business;
Commercialization;
Biotechnology Industry;
Education Industry
Bowen, H. Kent, Alex Kazaks, Ayr Muir-Harmony, and Bryce LaPierre. "Langer Lab, The: Commercializing Science." Harvard Business School Case 605-017, October 2004. (Revised March 2005.)
- June 2004 (Revised May 2006)
- Case
Millennial Net
By: Joseph B. Lassiter III and Johanna Regine Naunton Blaxall
Millennial Net created self-organizing, ultra-low-power, wireless sensor networks, a space that was getting a lot of attention in 2004. The company was founded in 2000 and in early 2004 was looking for a second round of funding. The area had attracted a number of new...
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Keywords:
Information Infrastructure;
Technological Innovation;
Entrepreneurship;
Investment;
Information Technology Industry;
Telecommunications Industry
Lassiter, Joseph B., III, and Johanna Regine Naunton Blaxall. "Millennial Net." Harvard Business School Case 804-173, June 2004. (Revised May 2006.)
- May 2004
- Supplement
Slingshot Technology, Inc. Supplement: Partnership Agreements
By: Lynda M. Applegate and Elizabeth Collins
Slingshot Technology Inc. (STI) is a privately held software start-up founded in 1995 focused on identifying emerging spaces in the IT services industry and partnering with vendors selling promising but unproven technologies in those spaces. The vendors used STI to...
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurship;
Business Startups;
Emerging Markets;
Partners and Partnerships;
Intellectual Property;
Information Technology Industry;
Consulting Industry
Applegate, Lynda M., and Elizabeth Collins. "Slingshot Technology, Inc. Supplement: Partnership Agreements." Harvard Business School Supplement 804-025, May 2004.
- May 2004 (Revised December 2004)
- Case
Slingshot Technology, Inc. (A)
By: Lynda M. Applegate and Elizabeth Collins
Slingshot Technology Inc. (STI) is a privately held software start-up founded in 1995 focused on identifying emerging spaces in the IT services industry and partnering with vendors selling promising but unproven technologies in those spaces. The vendors used STI to...
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Keywords:
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Private Ownership;
Opportunities;
Partners and Partnerships;
Entrepreneurship;
Applications and Software;
Intellectual Property;
Business Startups;
Information Technology Industry
Applegate, Lynda M., and Elizabeth Collins. "Slingshot Technology, Inc. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 804-022, May 2004. (Revised December 2004.)
- May 2004 (Revised December 2004)
- Case
Slingshot Technology, Inc. (B)
By: Lynda M. Applegate and Elizabeth Collins
Slingshot Technology Inc. (STI) is a privately held software start-up founded in 1995 focused on identifying emerging spaces in the IT services industry and partnering with vendors selling promising but unproven technologies in those spaces. The vendors used STI to...
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Keywords:
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Private Ownership;
Opportunities;
Partners and Partnerships;
Information Technology;
Entrepreneurship;
Applications and Software;
Intellectual Property;
Business Startups;
Information Technology Industry
Applegate, Lynda M., and Elizabeth Collins. "Slingshot Technology, Inc. (B)." Harvard Business School Case 804-023, May 2004. (Revised December 2004.)
- April 2004 (Revised June 2004)
- Case
Entrepreneurship Goes Global: ResMed's Gamble
By: Christopher A. Bartlett, Andrew N. McLean and Meg Glinska
On the basis of its innovative medical device for treating sleep apnea, CEO Peter Farrell has made Australian-born ResMed a successful global company. But the company is struggling to implement a strategy to expand the device from its focused core market to a much...
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Keywords:
Business Model;
Globalization;
Innovation and Management;
Management;
Marketing Channels;
Production;
Expansion;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
Bartlett, Christopher A., Andrew N. McLean, and Meg Glinska. "Entrepreneurship Goes Global: ResMed's Gamble." Harvard Business School Case 304-051, April 2004. (Revised June 2004.)
- January 2004
- Article
Corporate Venturing: The Origins of Unilever's Pregnancy Test
By: Geoffrey Jones and Alison Kraft
The relative ability of different sizes of firm and organisational designs to develop and sustain dynamic capabilities in innovation and create new businesses remains a matter of contention. While Chandler among many others has emphasised the pre-eminent role of large...
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Keywords:
Business Ventures;
Organizational Design;
Technological Innovation;
Business Startups;
Venture Capital;
Brands and Branding;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Product Development;
Product Launch;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Great Britain
Jones, Geoffrey, and Alison Kraft. "Corporate Venturing: The Origins of Unilever's Pregnancy Test." Business History 46, no. 1 (January 2004): 100–122.
- November 2003
- Case
Procter & Gamble 2000 (A): The SpinBrush and Innovation at P&G
By: William A. Sahlman and Ryland Matthew Willis
Describes a set of decisions confronting some managers in the oral care division of Procter & Gamble. They must decide whether to buy a company that has developed an inexpensive, battery-operated toothbrush. The company's product has done well in one market, but...
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Keywords:
Valuation;
Innovation and Management;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Product Launch;
Corporate Finance;
Retail Industry
Sahlman, William A., and Ryland Matthew Willis. "Procter & Gamble 2000 (A): The SpinBrush and Innovation at P&G." Harvard Business School Case 804-099, November 2003.
- November 2003
- Case
Procter & Gamble 2000 (B)
By: William A. Sahlman and Ryland Matthew Willis
Supplements the (A) case.
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Keywords:
Valuation;
Innovation and Management;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Product Launch;
Corporate Finance;
Retail Industry
Sahlman, William A., and Ryland Matthew Willis. "Procter & Gamble 2000 (B)." Harvard Business School Case 804-100, November 2003.
- September 2003 (Revised June 2005)
- Case
Learning from LeapFrog: Creating Educational and Business Value
By: Lynda M. Applegate, Christopher Dede and Susan Saltrick
Explores the success factors leading to one's company's rise to the number three ranking in the aggressively competitive toy industry. LeapFrog has made the strategic decision to exploit its educational model in two industry sectors: consumer toys and educational...
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Keywords:
Transformation;
Decisions;
Education;
Entrepreneurship;
Innovation and Invention;
Growth Management;
Media;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Research;
Value Creation
Applegate, Lynda M., Christopher Dede, and Susan Saltrick. "Learning from LeapFrog: Creating Educational and Business Value." Harvard Business School Case 804-062, September 2003. (Revised June 2005.)