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- December 2020
- Article
Taking Innovation to the Streets: Micro-geography, Physical Structure and Innovation
By: Maria P. Roche
In this paper, we analyze how the physical layout of cities affects innovation by influencing the organization of knowledge exchange. We exploit a novel data set covering all Census Block Groups in the contiguous United States with information on innovation outcomes,...
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Keywords:
Microgeography;
Innovation;
Street Infrastructure;
Knowledge Exchange;
Interactions;
Geography;
City;
Innovation and Invention;
Knowledge Sharing
Roche, Maria P. "Taking Innovation to the Streets: Micro-geography, Physical Structure and Innovation." Review of Economics and Statistics 102, no. 5 (December 2020): 912–928.
- 2014
- Book
Collective Genius: The Art and Practice of Leading Innovation
By: Linda A. Hill, Greg Brandeau, Emily Truelove and Kent Lineback
Why can some organizations innovate time and again, while most cannot? You might think the key to innovation is attracting exceptional creative talent. Or making the right investments. Or breaking down organizational silos. All of these things may help—but there's only...
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Keywords:
Innovation;
Innovation Leadership;
Leadership;
Organizational Culture;
Innovation and Invention
Hill, Linda A., Greg Brandeau, Emily Truelove, and Kent Lineback. Collective Genius: The Art and Practice of Leading Innovation. Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 2014.
- Article
Firms, Crowds, and Innovation
By: Teppo Felin, Karim R. Lakhani and Michael L. Tushman
The purpose of this article is to suggest a (preliminary) taxonomy and research agenda for the topic of “firms, crowds, and innovation” and to provide an introduction to the associated special issue. We specifically discuss how various crowd-related phenomena and...
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Keywords:
Crowdsourcing;
Innovation;
Open Innovation;
Organization Theory;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Organizations;
Theory;
Strategy
Felin, Teppo, Karim R. Lakhani, and Michael L. Tushman. "Firms, Crowds, and Innovation." Special Issue on Organizing Crowds and Innovation. Strategic Organization 15, no. 2 (May 2017): 119–140.
- June 2020
- Case
Agile Consumer Product Innovation with Alibaba's Tmall Innovation Center
By: William R. Kerr, Daniel O'Connor and James Palano
Consumer products companies were beset by changes on all sides during the 2010s. Customers were increasingly turning to ecommerce platforms rather than shopping in-store. Meanwhile, nimble, digitally-savvy competitors were gaining market share by capitalizing on the...
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Keywords:
Future Of Work;
Retail;
Ecommerce;
Alibaba;
Consumer Products;
Innovation;
Innovation and Invention;
Product Development;
Consumer Behavior;
E-commerce;
Consumer Products Industry;
Retail Industry;
China
Kerr, William R., Daniel O'Connor, and James Palano. "Agile Consumer Product Innovation with Alibaba's Tmall Innovation Center." Harvard Business School Case 820-087, June 2020.
- March 2023 (Revised June 2023)
- Case
Pratham 2.0: Sustaining Innovation
By: Brian Trelstad, Samantha Webster and Malini Sen
Pratham is a Mumbai-based nonprofit, which focuses on high-quality, low-cost, and replicable interventions to address gaps in India’s education system. From inception, it has pioneered innovation, from early childhood learning centers to adaptive literacy programs, to...
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- April 2020
- Supplement
Open Innovation at Fujitsu (C)
By: Amy C. Edmondson and Jean-François Harvey
This follow-on case study provides a multi-year update on the achievements of the Open Innovation Gateway (OIG). Over time, OIG honed a process that enabled open innovation. It developed three streams of activities, namely co-creation projects with major customers and...
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Keywords:
Open Innovation;
Inter-organizational Relationships;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Change Management;
Relationships;
Leadership Development
Edmondson, Amy C., and Jean-François Harvey. "Open Innovation at Fujitsu (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 620-126, April 2020.
- 10 Jun 2014
- News
In Defense of Routine Innovation
- Research Summary
Creativity and Innovation
Starting in 2016, I undertook several new projects on creativity and innovation. The first, a revision of my 1988 componential theory of creativity and innovation, was coauthored with Michael Pratt (Boston College) and published in Research in Organizational... View Details
- February 2013
- Article
Sustaining Innovation When Outsourcing Components in Multi-technology, Multi-component Systems
By: Ian Mackenzie and Casimer DeCusatis
Firms producing multi-technology, multi-component systems are increasingly outsourcing selected components to achieve both reduced cost and enhanced innovation benefits. Given typical inter-dependence between innovation at the system and component levels, an important...
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Keywords:
Innovation;
Job Cuts and Outsourcing;
Alignment;
Innovation and Invention;
Information Technology Industry
Mackenzie, Ian, and Casimer DeCusatis. "Sustaining Innovation When Outsourcing Components in Multi-technology, Multi-component Systems." Innovation: Management, Policy & Practice 15, no. 1 (February 2013).
- September 2018 (Revised May 2021)
- Teaching Plan
Eastern Bank: Innovating Through Eastern Labs
By: Karen Mills, Dennis Campbell and Aaron Mukerjee
Eastern Bank is a 200-year-old New England mutual bank with a community focus. Eastern specializes in small business lending, having made strategic investments to become the top SBA lender in New England in the midst of the Great Recession, when other banks were...
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Keywords:
Banks;
Fintech;
Innovation;
Innovation & Entrepreneurship;
Innovation And Strategy;
Technological Change;
Technology And Innovation Management;
Entrepreneurial Management;
Intrapreneurship;
Banks and Banking;
Innovation and Invention;
Entrepreneurship;
Innovation Strategy;
Technological Innovation;
Information Technology;
Management
- 2020
- Working Paper
Iterative Coordination and Innovation
By: Sourobh Ghosh and Andy Wu
Agile management practices from the software industry continue to transform the way organizations innovate across industries, yet they remain understudied in the organizations literature. We investigate the widespread Agile practice of iterative coordination: frequent...
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Keywords:
Innovation;
Goals;
Specialization;
Coordination;
Field Experiment;
Software Development;
Organizations;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Goals and Objectives;
Integration;
Software
Ghosh, Sourobh, and Andy Wu. "Iterative Coordination and Innovation." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-121, January 2020.
- Spring 2013
- Article
Jobs and Social Innovation
Kanter, Rosabeth M. "Jobs and Social Innovation." Stanford Social Innovation Review 11, no. 2 (Spring 2013): 34–36.
- September 2017 (Revised January 2018)
- Case
Innovation at Parker Hotels
By: Srikant M. Datar and Caitlin Bowler
In this case students explore challenges changing demographics and preference pose to global hotel brands. Students then use human-centered design tools to generate concepts hoteliers might embrace to win over Millennials who tend to seek out local over global options.
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- 2013
- Dictionary Entry
Technology and Innovation Management
The goal of this annotated bibliography on technology and innovation is to organize and present the most important literature relevant to a scholar seeking to understand and advance the field. It includes articles that are highly-cited and foundational pieces, as well...
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Keywords:
Technology;
Technological Change;
Innovation Streams;
Organizational Evolution;
Executive Leadership;
Organizational Architecture;
Information Technology;
Technological Innovation;
Innovation and Management;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Leadership;
Organizational Design
Altman, Elizabeth J., Frank Nagle, and Michael L. Tushman. "Technology and Innovation Management." In Oxford Bibliographies: Management, edited by Ricky W. Griffin. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. Electronic.
- November 2013
- Article
Investment Cycles and Startup Innovation
By: Ramana Nanda and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
We find that VC-backed firms receiving their initial investment in hot markets are more likely to go bankrupt, but conditional on going public are valued higher on the day of their IPO, have more patents, and have more citations to their patents. Our results suggest...
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Keywords:
Innovation;
Market Cycles;
Financing Risk;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Venture Capital;
Investment;
Innovation and Invention
Nanda, Ramana, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf. "Investment Cycles and Startup Innovation." Journal of Financial Economics 110, no. 2 (November 2013): 403–418.
- 2015
- Working Paper
Scale and Innovation During Two U.S. Breakthrough Eras
By: Tom Nicholas
The relationship between scale and innovation is central to R&D-based growth. This paper uncovers new empirical evidence using comprehensive data on U.S. R&D firms active during the interwar and post-WWII eras. Variability in the nature of innovation is shown to be a...
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Nicholas, Tom. "Scale and Innovation During Two U.S. Breakthrough Eras." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 15-038, November 2014. (Revised October 2015.)
- June 21, 2019
- Article
Government-Funded Research Increasingly Fuels Innovation
By: Lee Fleming, Hillary Greene, Guan-Cheng Li, Matt Marx and Dennis Yao
Fleming, Lee, Hillary Greene, Guan-Cheng Li, Matt Marx, and Dennis Yao. "Government-Funded Research Increasingly Fuels Innovation." Science 364, no. 6646 (June 21, 2019): 1139–1141.
- 2019
- Chapter
Problem, Person, and Pathway: A Framework for Social Innovators
By: Julie Battilana, Brittany Butler, Marissa Kimsey, Johanna Mair, Christopher Marquis and Christian Seelos
As the appetite for learning about social innovation intensifies, how can we better prepare practitioners for the work of addressing the world’s pressing social problems at the relevant scale? This chapter presents the “3P” framework that we developed to help address...
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Keywords:
Social Innovation;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Social Issues;
Change;
Problems and Challenges
Battilana, Julie, Brittany Butler, Marissa Kimsey, Johanna Mair, Christopher Marquis, and Christian Seelos. "Problem, Person, and Pathway: A Framework for Social Innovators." In Handbook of Inclusive Innovation: The Role of Organizations, Markets and Communities in Social Innovation, edited by Gerard George, Ted Baker, Paul Tracey, and Havovi Joshi, 61–74. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019.