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- June 2023
- Article
Gaining Organizational Adoption: Strategically Pacing the Deployment of Digital Innovations
By: Rebecca Karp
Scholars have long suggested that to foster adoption for their innovative products and services, entrepreneurs should engage with customers to better understand their unmet needs. Yet, customers frequently reside in organizations, and organizational members may not be...
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurship And Strategy;
Digital Innovation;
Healthcare;
Work And Organizations;
Organizational Adoption;
B2B;
Customers;
Technology Adoption;
Innovation Strategy;
Organizational Change and Adaptation
Karp, Rebecca. "Gaining Organizational Adoption: Strategically Pacing the Deployment of Digital Innovations." Academy of Management Journal 66, no. 3 (June 2023): 773–796.
- 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.
- 15 Jun 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
Slack Time and Innovation
- Other Article
Strategy and the Institutional Envelope
By: Gautam Ahuja, Laurence Capron, Michael Lenox and Dennis Yao
Ahuja, Gautam, Laurence Capron, Michael Lenox, and Dennis Yao. "Strategy and the Institutional Envelope." Special Issue on Strategy and the Institutional Environment edited by Gautam Ahuja, Laurence Capron, Michael Lenox, and Dennis A. Yao. Strategy Science 3, no. 2 (June 2018): ii–x.
- 2015
- Case
Advanced Leadership Pathways: Issa Baluch and the African Agribusiness Knowledge and Innovation Leadership Initiative (AKILI)
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Renee Vuillaume
A veteran of the freight forwarding industry, Issa Baluch wanted to transform the education space in Africa by introducing hands-on practical teaching in agriculture and agribusiness. In the summer of 2015 his vision of a practical learning institute for African...
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Keywords:
Agriculture;
Institutions For Collaboration;
Innovation;
Innovation And Strategy;
Farming;
International Development;
Stakeholder Engagement;
Youth;
Environmental And Social Sustainability;
Environment;
Social Impact Investment;
Agribusiness;
Education;
Training;
Leadership;
Knowledge;
Environmental Sustainability;
Innovation Strategy;
Knowledge Management;
Finance;
Africa
Kanter, Rosabeth M., and Renee Vuillaume. "Advanced Leadership Pathways: Issa Baluch and the African Agribusiness Knowledge and Innovation Leadership Initiative (AKILI)." Harvard Business Publishing Case 316-056, 2015. (Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative.)
- 2014
- Chapter
Clusters of Entrepreneurship and Innovation
By: Aaron Chatterji, Edward Glaeser and William R. Kerr
This chapter reviews recent academic work on the spatial concentration of entrepreneurship and innovation in the United States. We discuss rationales for the agglomeration of these activities and the economic consequences of clusters. We identify and discuss policies...
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Keywords:
Innovation;
Agglomeration;
Clusters;
Place Making;
Industry Clusters;
Entrepreneurship;
Innovation and Invention;
United States
Chatterji, Aaron, Edward Glaeser, and William R. Kerr. "Clusters of Entrepreneurship and Innovation." In Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 14, edited by Josh Lerner and Scott Stern, 129–166. University of Chicago Press, 2014.
- October 2019 (Revised October 2019)
- Background Note
Entrepreneurship and Innovation Trends in China K-12
By: John J-H Kim, Haibo Zhao and Shu Lin
This note provides a brief survey of the major entrepreneurial and innovation trends in China’s K-12 education landscape, using trends in public policy as background, but focusing on opportunities available for the private market. The note first provides a brief...
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- Research Summary
Corporate Lobbying Strategy and Foreign MNEs
“U.S. Defense Contracts and the Lobbying Strategies of Foreign MNEs: The Liability of Foreignness and Make-or-Buy Decisions about Political Goods”
Many firms engage in lobbying with the expectation that their lobbying efforts will... View Details
- 2010
- Journal Article
Competitiveness: Business Model Reconfiguration for Innovation and Internationalization
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Joan E. Ricart
The purpose of this paper is to reflect on competitiveness by using the business model concept and to understand the need to adapt business models to changes in the environment.
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Keywords:
Modeling Innovation;
Business Improvement;
Spain;
Competitive Strategy;
Business Model;
Change;
Globalization;
Innovation and Invention;
Situation or Environment;
Competition
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Joan E. Ricart. "Competitiveness: Business Model Reconfiguration for Innovation and Internationalization." Management Research 8, no. 2 (2010): 123–149.
- 22 Jun 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
Iterative Coordination and Innovation
Keywords:
by Sourobh Ghosh and Andy Wu
- 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.)
- 2017
- Chapter
Innovation Policies
By: Ramana Nanda and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
Past work has shown that failure tolerance by principals has the potential to stimulate innovation, but has not examined how this affects which projects principals will start. We demonstrate that failure tolerance has an equilibrium price – in terms of an investor’s...
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Keywords:
Innovation;
Investing;
Abandonment Option;
Failure Tolerance;
Innovation and Invention;
Venture Capital;
Attitudes;
Investment;
Failure
Nanda, Ramana, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf. "Innovation Policies." In Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Platforms. Vol. 37, edited by Jeffrey Furman, Annabelle Gawer, Brian Silverman, and Scott Stern, 37–80. Advances in Strategic Management. Emerald Publishing Limited, 2017.
- 2017
- Working Paper
Innovation Policies
By: Ramana Nanda and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
Past work has shown that failure tolerance by principals has the potential to stimulate innovation, but has not examined how this affects which projects principals will start. We demonstrate that failure tolerance has an equilibrium price ― in terms of an investor's...
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Keywords:
Innovation;
Investing;
Abandonment Option;
Failure Tolerance;
Venture Capital;
Attitudes;
Investment;
Failure;
Innovation and Invention
Nanda, Ramana, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf. "Innovation Policies." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 13-038, October 2012. (Revised March 2017. forthcoming in the AiSM Special issue on Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Platforms.)
- 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.
- 17 Jul 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
Tort Reform and Innovation
- March 2013
- Article
Misvaluing Innovation
By: Lauren Cohen, Karl Diether and Christopher Malloy
We demonstrate that a firm's ability to innovate is predictable, persistent, and relatively simple to compute, and yet the stock market ignores the implications of past successes when valuing future innovation. We show that two firms that invest the exact same in...
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Keywords:
Innovation;
Return Predictability;
R&D;
Information;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Research and Development;
Innovation and Invention
Cohen, Lauren, Karl Diether, and Christopher Malloy. "Misvaluing Innovation." Review of Financial Studies 26, no. 3 (March 2013): 635–666.
- 2016
- Book
Innovation Equity: Assessing and Managing the Monetary Value of New Products and Services
By: Elie Ofek, Eitan Muller and Barak Libai
This book bridges the gap between what academics know, and what innovation stakeholders—from managers, to investors, to analysts, to consumers—need to know about how new products and services are expected to perform in the marketplace. The book develops a compelling...
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Keywords:
Innovation;
Technology Diffusion;
New Products;
Customer Lifetime Value;
Monetization Strategy;
Social Influence;
Innovation Adoption;
Forecasting Demand;
Commercialization;
Marketing Strategy;
Practice;
Customer Value and Value Chain;
Research;
Innovation and Management;
Technology Adoption;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Product Development
Ofek, Elie, Eitan Muller, and Barak Libai. Innovation Equity: Assessing and Managing the Monetary Value of New Products and Services. University of Chicago Press, 2016.
- April 2020 (Revised January 2021)
- Module Note
Crafting Strategy
This note provides an introduction to crafting strategy following an options-led approach. It provides an overview of scenario planning, and it prepares students to describe firm strategy with succinct strategy statements. The note also briefly outlines other...
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Keywords:
Strategy Formulation;
Options;
Scenario Planning;
Scenarios;
Strategy Definition;
Strategy;
Strategic Planning
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, Ashish Nanda, and Jan Rivkin. "Crafting Strategy." Harvard Business School Module Note 720-407, April 2020. (Revised January 2021.)
- 2015
- Chapter
Design Thinking and Innovative Problem Solving
By: Srikant Datar and Caitlin N. Bowler
In 2012 we set out to answer two key questions. Can anyone, including MBAs and executives with superb analytical skills, learn to think more innovatively? If so, how might we go about developing these skills? Through close collaboration with individuals from major...
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Keywords:
Design Thinking;
Problem Solving;
Innovation;
Design;
Innovation and Invention;
Cognition and Thinking
Datar, Srikant, and Caitlin N. Bowler. "Design Thinking and Innovative Problem Solving." Chap. 7 in Shaping Entrepreneurial Mindsets: Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Leadership Development, edited by Jordi Canals, 119–138. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.