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- September 2019
- Case
Celgene: Business Development and Distributed Research
By: Peter Barrett and Kareem Reda
This case looks at the deal-making process between Celgene, a large publicly traded pharmaceutical company, and Agios, an early-stage biotech company. The framework of a potential deal is explored and the potential road-blocks to Agios’ profitability are discussed. ...
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Keywords:
Negotiation Deal;
Alliances;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Research;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
Biotechnology Industry
Barrett, Peter, and Kareem Reda. "Celgene: Business Development and Distributed Research." Harvard Business School Case 620-014, September 2019.
- 1998
- Book
Marketing Kakushin no Jidai 4: Eigyou Ryuutsuu Kakushin (The Age of Marketing Innovation 4: Sales and Distribution Innovation)
By: Mitsuaki Shimaguchi, Hirotaka Takeuchi, Hotaka Katahira and Junzou Ishii
- Research Summary
Open Innovation and Organizational Boundaries
I am exploring how open innovation...
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- December 2014 (Revised August 2015)
- Case
Muñoz Group: Sustaining Global Vertical Integration Through Innovation
By: Jose B. Alvarez and Annelena Lobb
Muñoz Group, which supplied supermarket chains and food distribution chains around the world with fruit, flowers, juice and ice cream, was at a strategic crossroads in 2014. CEO Alvaro Muñoz had to choose the best way to achieve profit goals and provide his company...
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Keywords:
Innovation;
Supply Chain;
Retail;
Agribusiness Industry;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Supply Chain Management;
Competitive Advantage;
Vertical Integration;
Profit;
Innovation and Invention;
Retail Industry;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
North and Central America
Alvarez, Jose B., and Annelena Lobb. "Muñoz Group: Sustaining Global Vertical Integration Through Innovation." Harvard Business School Case 515-011, December 2014. (Revised August 2015.)
- March 2020
- Article
Organizing Knowledge Production Teams Within Firms for Innovation
By: Vikas A. Aggarwal, David H. Hsu and Andy Wu
How should firms organize their pool of inventive human capital for firm-level innovation? While access to diverse knowledge may aid knowledge recombination, which can facilitate innovation, prior literature has focused primarily on one way of achieving that: diversity...
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Keywords:
Knowledge Recombination;
Organization Design;
Team Boundary;
Innovation;
Knowledge Sharing;
Diversity;
Innovation and Invention;
Groups and Teams;
Human Capital;
Organizational Design
Aggarwal, Vikas A., David H. Hsu, and Andy Wu. "Organizing Knowledge Production Teams Within Firms for Innovation." Art. 1. Strategy Science 5, no. 1 (March 2020): 1–16. (Lead article.)
- July 2016 (Revised October 2018)
- Case
Tolaram: Innovating in Africa
By: Derek van Bever and Efosa Ojomo
Tolaram is a Singaporean company that began operations selling textiles in Nigeria in the 1970s. Executives and brothers, Haresh and Sajesh Aswani, however, saw an opportunity to create an instant noodle market in the country. In 1988, they began importing Indomie...
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Keywords:
Fast Moving Consumer Goods;
Business Model;
Disruptive Innovation;
Vertical Integration;
Emerging Markets;
Consumer Products Industry;
Nigeria;
Africa
van Bever, Derek, and Efosa Ojomo. "Tolaram: Innovating in Africa." Harvard Business School Case 317-013, July 2016. (Revised October 2018.)
- 2008
- Working Paper
Collaborative Architectures for Innovation
By: Gary P. Pisano and Roberto Verganti
Collaborative innovation has become a hot topic in innovation today. Scholars, consultants, and the business press all urge companies seeking to boost innovative performance to become more "collaborative." Too often, however, companies fail to distinguish among the...
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- 2015
- Chapter
Information Technology and the Distribution of Inventive Activity
By: Chris Forman, Avi Goldfarb and Shane Greenstein
We examine the relationship between the diffusion of advanced Internet technology and the geographic concentration of invention, as measured by patents. First, we show that patenting became more concentrated from the early 1990s to the early 2000s and, similarly, that...
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Forman, Chris, Avi Goldfarb, and Shane Greenstein. "Information Technology and the Distribution of Inventive Activity." In The Changing Frontier: Rethinking Science and Innovation Policy, edited by Adam Jaffe and Benjamin Jones, 169–196. University of Chicago Press, 2015.
- December 2003 (Revised April 2004)
- Case
Blockbuster Inc. & Technological Substitution (D): The Threat of Direct Digital Distribution
Examines the emergence of technologies for delivering video content to consumer homes via direct digital distribution and investigates the strategic options facing video rental giant Blockbuster Inc. as it tries to respond to the new technological substitutes. Examines...
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Keywords:
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Decisions;
Technological Innovation;
Competition;
Change Management;
Service Industry;
Motion Pictures and Video Industry
Coughlan, Peter J., and Jenny Illes. "Blockbuster Inc. & Technological Substitution (D): The Threat of Direct Digital Distribution." Harvard Business School Case 704-463, December 2003. (Revised April 2004.)
- March 2011 (Revised March 2012)
- Case
Fraunhofer: Innovation in Germany
By: Diego A. Comin, J. Gunnar Trumbull and Kerry Yang
Fraunhofer is one of the largest applied research organizations in the world. With 17,000 employees and a 1.6 billion euros budget, Fraunhofer has 60 institutes in Germany that cover most fields of science. The case examines the consequences that Fraunhofer has for the...
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Keywords:
Economy;
Entrepreneurship;
Financial Markets;
Government and Politics;
Labor;
Markets;
Outcome or Result;
Research and Development;
Competitive Strategy;
Germany
Comin, Diego A., J. Gunnar Trumbull, and Kerry Yang. "Fraunhofer: Innovation in Germany." Harvard Business School Case 711-022, March 2011. (Revised March 2012.)
- 26 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Best Practices of Global Innovators
where innovation is best kept in-house, where a distributed model does not make sense? A: We're still working on the best way to think about this question. What we can say is the number of industries where a...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- Article
Breakthroughs and the 'Long Tail' of Innovation
The largely erroneous perception that breakthroughs are impossible to predict arises from the tendency to focus on just the breakthroughs while ignoring the iterative process of invention and its distribution of outcomes. When all inventions are considered, they...
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Keywords:
Diversity;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Independent Innovation and Invention;
Innovation and Management;
Business Processes;
Performance Capacity;
Performance Improvement
Fleming, Lee. "Breakthroughs and the 'Long Tail' of Innovation." MIT Sloan Management Review 49, no. 1 (Fall 2007).
- 09 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation
different, usually simpler, distribution process. The portfolio diagnostic should identify opportunities to shape innovations, because disruption is almost always a strategic choice. A company can modify a given View Details
- April 2013
- Article
Using the Crowd as an Innovation Partner
By: Kevin J. Boudreau and Karim R. Lakhani
More and more organizations are turning to crowds for help in solving their most vexing innovation and research questions, but managers remain understandably cautious. It seems risky and even unnatural to push problems out to vast groups of strangers distributed around...
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Boudreau, Kevin J., and Karim R. Lakhani. "Using the Crowd as an Innovation Partner." Harvard Business Review 91, no. 4 (April 2013): 61–69.
- 01 Apr 2013
- News
Using the Crowd as an Innovation Partner
- 17 Nov 2016
- News
Wired for Innovation
Photography by Michael Stravato From cofounding the first aerial tramway high above Costa Rica’s rainforest canopy, to helping a two-person wind-energy startup become an industry leader, to making a quixotic run for US Congress, Michael Skelly (MBA 1991) isn’t one to...
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- 2016
- Book
Revolutionizing Innovation: Users, Communities, and Open Innovation
By: Dietmar Harhoff and Karim R. Lakhani
The last two decades have witnessed an extraordinary growth of new models of managing and organizing the innovation process, which emphasize users over producers. Large parts of the knowledge economy now routinely rely on users, communities, and open innovation...
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Harhoff, Dietmar and Karim R. Lakhani, eds. Revolutionizing Innovation: Users, Communities, and Open Innovation. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2016.
- 2012
- Article
Organization Design for Business Ecosystems
The modern corporation has long been the central focus of the field of organization design. Such firms can be likened to nation-states: they have boundaries that circumscribe citizen-employees, and they engage in production and trade. But individual corporations are... View Details
Keywords:
Modularity;
Business Ecosystems;
Distributed Innovation;
Problem Solving;
Property Rights;
Organization Design;
Networks;
Integration;
Competition;
Organizational Design;
Innovation and Management
Baldwin, Carliss Y. "Organization Design for Business Ecosystems." Special Issue on The Future of Organization Design. Journal of Organization Design 1, no. 1 (2012).
Revolutionizing Innovation: Users, Communities, and Open Innovation
The last two decades have witnessed an extraordinary growth of new models of managing and organizing the innovation process that emphasizes users over producers. Large parts of the knowledge economy now routinely rely on users, communities, and open innovation... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- News