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- 23 Aug 2020
- News
In the UK, She Leads the Search for a COVID Vaccine
Kate Bingham (MBA 1991) Kate Bingham (MBA 1991) When she was asked to chair the UK’s Vaccine Taskforce back in May, Kate Bingham (MBA 1991) paused. Despite nearly three decades of experience as a life sciences investor with SV Health Investors, the enormity of leading...
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- September 2013 (Revised June 2017)
- Case
IBM and the Reinvention of High School (A): Proving the P-TECH Concept
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
IBM's Corporate Citizenship office created a social and organizational innovation in public education through a business-school partnership. IBM's Stanley Litow was the key architect in designing Pathways in Technology Early College High School, known as P-TECH. The...
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Keywords:
Innovation;
Partnerships;
Leadership;
Partners and Partnerships;
Education;
Business and Community Relations;
Change;
Innovation and Invention;
Education Industry
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone. "IBM and the Reinvention of High School (A): Proving the P-TECH Concept." Harvard Business School Case 314-049, September 2013. (Revised June 2017.)
- 14 Feb 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Fostering Translational Research: Using Public-Private Partnerships to Improve Firm Survival, Employment Growth, and Innovative Performance
- June 2018
- Teaching Note
LabCDMX: Experiment 50
By: Mitchell Weiss and Matt Higgins
Teaching Note for HBS No. 817-031.
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Keywords:
Public Entrepreneurship;
Experimentation;
Lean Startup;
Government;
Innovation;
Crowdsourcing;
Open Data;
Mexico City;
Mexico;
Entrepreneurship;
Innovation and Invention;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Government Administration;
Transportation;
Innovation Leadership;
Public Administration Industry;
Public Administration Industry;
Mexico;
Mexico City
- 10 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - Innovations to Address the Global Water Crisis
Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series – Innovations to Address the Global Water Crisis Cover image features Rosario Bazán (left) and Anil Jain (right). Between March 22 – 24th, world and business leaders from sectors spanning...
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- October 2016 (Revised March 2017)
- Case
Airbnb in Amsterdam (A)
By: Mitchell Weiss, Emer Moloney and Vincent Dessain
In February 2014, Amsterdam became the first city to issue new regulations specifically to allow home sharing. Airbnb's Molly Turner, global head of civic partnerships; her colleagues at the San Francisco–based home sharing platform; and her counterparts in Amsterdam's...
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Keywords:
Public Entrepreneurship;
Innovation;
Sharing Economy;
Amsterdam;
Airbnb;
Molly Turner;
Regulation;
Homesharing;
Tourism;
Business And Government;
Public-private Partnership;
Entrepreneurship;
Business and Government Relations;
Government Administration;
Public Sector;
City;
Public Administration Industry;
Public Administration Industry;
Public Administration Industry;
Netherlands;
Europe
Weiss, Mitchell, Emer Moloney, and Vincent Dessain. "Airbnb in Amsterdam (A)." Harvard Business School Case 817-013, October 2016. (Revised March 2017.)
- Web
Innovating in Healthcare | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Guides Innovating in Healthcare Innovating in Healthcare Annotated research guide for Professor Regina Herzlinger's Innovating in Health Care for the Spring 2023 semester....
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- December 2016 (Revised October 2018)
- Case
U.S. Digital Service
By: Mitchell Weiss, Nick Sinai and Michael Norris
Mikey Dickerson and Haley Van Dyck found themselves far from home and far from certain about where to take the U.S. Digital Service (USDS) next. In the summer of 2015, they had landed in London to meet with Mike Bracken, director of the United Kingdom’s Government...
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Keywords:
Public Entrepreneurship;
Haley Van Dyck;
Mikey Dickerson;
United States Digital Service;
Digital Services;
Innovation Teams;
Scaling Innovation;
18F;
Presidential Innovation Fellows;
Government Digital Service;
Mike Bracken;
Innovation Fellowships;
Entrepreneurship;
Government Administration;
Innovation and Management;
United States;
United Kingdom
Weiss, Mitchell, Nick Sinai, and Michael Norris. "U.S. Digital Service." Harvard Business School Case 817-032, December 2016. (Revised October 2018.)
- 2022
- Book
Leadership to Last: How Great Leaders Leave Legacies Behind
By: Geoffrey Jones and Tarun Khanna
Society tends to glorify the get-rich-quick entrepreneur who builds a company, takes it public and then (maybe) contributes to charity.
In Leadership to Last, Geoffrey Jones and Tarun Khanna discuss the interviews they and other Harvard faculty have undertaken...
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Keywords:
Innovation;
Corruption;
Gender;
Innovation and Invention;
Leadership;
Philanthropy and Charitable Giving;
Society;
India;
Pakistan;
Bangladesh;
Middle East;
Africa;
Latin America;
Philippines
Jones, Geoffrey, and Tarun Khanna. Leadership to Last: How Great Leaders Leave Legacies Behind. Gurgaon, India: Penguin Random House India, 2022.
- October 2015
- Case
Bigbelly
By: Mitch Weiss and Christine Snively
To accelerate Bigbelly's sales growth and its "smart cities" positioning, its CEO planned to shift his company from equipment sales to a subscription service. Jack Kutner hoped to re-position Bigbelly's solar-powered trash compacting stations beyond trash and recycling...
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Keywords:
Public Entrepreneurship;
Smart Cities;
Government Innovation;
Internet Of Things;
IoT;
Anything As A Service;
Platform As A Service;
Infrastructure As A Service;
PaaS;
Xaas;
Bigbelly;
Jack Kutner;
B2G;
Civic Innovation;
City Innovation;
Government Technology;
Govtech;
Civic Technology;
Entrepreneurship;
Sales;
Innovation and Invention;
Digital Platforms;
Internet and the Web;
Public Administration Industry;
Public Administration Industry;
Public Administration Industry;
Public Administration Industry;
Public Administration Industry;
Massachusetts;
United States;
Boston;
Chicago;
Philadelphia;
New York (city, NY)
Weiss, Mitch, and Christine Snively. "Bigbelly." Harvard Business School Case 816-005, October 2015.
- August 2017
- Case
Hacking Heroin
By: Mitchell Weiss and Sarah Mehta
"Hacking Heroin" was the first hackathon that Annie Rittgers, founder of Cincinnati-based 17a, had organized or even attended. "There will continue to be a lot of preventable overdose deaths and wasted potential if the opioid crisis continues unabated," she said....
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Keywords:
Public Entrepreneurship;
Hackathon;
Heroin;
Opioids;
Crowdsourcing;
Public Sector;
Entrepreneurship;
Innovation and Invention;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Health Pandemics;
Public Administration Industry;
Public Administration Industry;
Ohio;
Cincinnati
Weiss, Mitchell, and Sarah Mehta. "Hacking Heroin." Harvard Business School Case 818-010, August 2017.
- January 2015 (Revised March 2017)
- Case
New Urban Mechanics
By: Mitchell Weiss
Funding to scale Citizens Connect, Boston's 311 app, is both a blessing and a burden and tests two public entrepreneurs. In 2012, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts provides Boston's Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics with a grant to scale Citizens Connect across the...
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Keywords:
Public Entrepreneurship;
Civic Technology;
Government Innovation;
Civic Innovation;
Cities;
New Urban Mechanics;
Thomas. M. Menino;
Chris Osgood;
Nigel Jacob;
Connected Bits;
SeeClickFix;
Ben Berkowitz;
Eric Carlson;
Dave Mitchell;
Government Technology;
Open Innovation;
Open Source Software;
Citizens Connect;
Commonwealth Connect;
Entrepreneurship;
Innovation and Invention;
Innovation Leadership;
Innovation and Management;
Open Source Distribution;
Public Administration Industry;
Public Administration Industry;
Boston
Weiss, Mitchell. "New Urban Mechanics." Harvard Business School Case 315-075, January 2015. (Revised March 2017.)
- October 2016
- Supplement
Airbnb in Amsterdam (B)
By: Mitchell Weiss, Emer Moloney and Vincent Dessain
In December 2014, Amsterdam and Airbnb announced an MOU to promote responsible home sharing and to simplify the payment of tourist tax for hosts in the city. It was the most comprehensive agreement that Airbnb had with any city in the world. Its final provision read,...
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Keywords:
Public Entrepreneurship;
Innovation;
Sharing Economy;
Amsterdam;
Airbnb;
Molly Turner;
Regulation;
Homesharing;
Tourism;
Business And Government;
Public-private Partnership;
Business and Government Relations;
Government Administration;
Public Sector;
City;
Urban Development;
Public Administration Industry;
Public Administration Industry;
Public Administration Industry;
Netherlands;
Europe
Weiss, Mitchell, Emer Moloney, and Vincent Dessain. "Airbnb in Amsterdam (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 817-014, October 2016.
- March 2020
- Article
Do Managers Matter? A Natural Experiment from 42 R&D Labs in India
By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Tarun Khanna and Christos A. Makridis
We exploit plausibly exogenous variation in the staggered entry of new managers into India’s 42 public R&D labs between 1994 and 2006 to study how alignment between the CEO and middle-level managers affect research productivity. We show that the introduction of new lab...
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Keywords:
Incentives;
Innovation;
Productivity;
Management;
Alignment;
Research and Development;
Innovation and Invention;
Performance Productivity;
India
Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Tarun Khanna, and Christos A. Makridis. "Do Managers Matter? A Natural Experiment from 42 R&D Labs in India." Journal of Law, Economics & Organization 36, no. 1 (March 2020): 47–83.
- September 2019 (Revised June 2020)
- Case
2U: Higher Education Rewired
By: Yael Grushka-Cockayne and Karim R. Lakhani
In its 2019 Partner Symposium, 2U, an online program management provider (OPM), showcased its new vision: “Career. Curriculum. Continuum. A construct for lifelong learning in the 21st century.” 2U, founded in 2008 and went public in 2014, was looking to expand beyond...
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Keywords:
Digital Innovation;
Architectural Innovation;
Make V. Buy;
Learning;
Higher Education;
Internet and the Web;
Innovation Strategy;
Transformation;
Digital Transformation
Grushka-Cockayne, Yael, and Karim R. Lakhani. "2U: Higher Education Rewired." Harvard Business School Case 620-044, September 2019. (Revised June 2020.)
- Web
Doubling Down on Women’s Health Innovation and Leveraging the Private Sector in a Post-Roe v. Wade Era - Blog: Health Supplement
Topics Biotech/pharma Care Delivery Clinical Trials Digital Health Global Health Health Care Entrepreneurship Health Care Innovation Health Care Investment Health Care at HBS Insurance/payor Medical devices/diagnostics Precision Medicine...
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- September 2013 (Revised June 2017)
- Supplement
IBM and the Reinvention of High School (B): Replicating & Scaling P-TECH and Partners
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
IBM's Corporate Citizenship office created an innovation in public education through a business-school partnership for widespread replication and diffusion. In 2012, while P-TECH (Pathways in Technology Early College High School) was still in its first year operating,...
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Keywords:
Social Enterprise;
Partnerships;
Innovation;
Entrepreneurship;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Leadership;
Partners and Partnerships;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Education;
Business and Community Relations;
Innovation and Invention;
Growth Management;
Chicago;
Idaho
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone. "IBM and the Reinvention of High School (B): Replicating & Scaling P-TECH and Partners." Harvard Business School Supplement 314-050, September 2013. (Revised June 2017.)
- July 2018
- Article
Global Collaborative Patents
By: Sari Pekkala Kerr and William R. Kerr
We study the prevalence and traits of global collaborative patents for U.S. public companies, where the inventor team is located both within and outside of the United States. Collaborative patents are frequently observed when a corporation is entering into a new...
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Keywords:
Innovation;
Ethnic Networks;
Migration;
Technology Transfer;
Mobility;
Information Technology;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Diasporas;
Patents;
Ethnicity;
Entrepreneurship;
Research and Development;
Foreign Direct Investment;
Innovation and Invention;
Globalization;
United States
Kerr, Sari Pekkala, and William R. Kerr. "Global Collaborative Patents." Economic Journal 128, no. 612 (July 2018): F235–F272.
- 2015
- Book
MOVE: Putting America's Infrastructure Back in the Lead
Americans are stuck. We live with travel delays on congested roads; shipping delays on clogged railways; and delays on repairs, project approvals, and funding due to gridlocked leadership. These delays affect us all, whether you are a daily commuter, a frequent flyer,...
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Keywords:
United States;
Railroad History;
Airlines;
Airline Industry;
Air Transportation;
Passenger Transportation;
Cities;
Urban Planning;
Freighting;
Change;
Leadership;
Public Policy;
Change Leadership;
Public Finance;
Infrastructure;
Policy;
Technological Innovation;
Change Management;
Leading Change;
Urban Development;
Project Finance;
Entrepreneurship;
City;
Transportation;
Transportation Industry;
Shipping Industry;
Rail Industry;
Air Transportation Industry;
United States
Kanter, Rosabeth M. MOVE: Putting America's Infrastructure Back in the Lead. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2015.
- 14 Dec 1999
- Research & Ideas
From Spare Change to Real Change: The Social Sector as a Beta Site for Business Innovation
Despite its long economic boom, America's social problems abound. To ensure future economic success, the country needs dramatic improvement in public schools, more highly skilled workers, jobs with a future for people coming off the...
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by Rosabeth Moss Kanter