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- 14 Apr 2020
- Video
Perspectives on the COVID-19 Pandemic: Chenault-Mills (Session 1a)
- 01 Sep 2021
- News
Harvard Business School Announces 2021 Goldsmith Fellows
- 12 Nov 2014
- News
A Challenge to the New Congress: Pass Housing Finance Reform
- 06 May 2021
- Video
10th Anniversary Reflections from HBS HKS Joint Degree Alumni
- 14 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
Embracing Activism for Social Change
MBAs the financial flexibility to explore careers in high-impact nonprofit or public sector positions for a year at a competitive salary. For Mendu, that meant the chance to work with Detroit’s former Chief...
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- 23 Jun 2022
- News
This State Will Hire You—No College Degree Required
- 25 Jun 2021
- News
10th Anniversary Reflections from HBS HKS Joint Degree Alumni
When Best Isn't Good Enough, Start Something New
Innovation, in cities and other contexts, often involves adaptation and repurposing, a program scaled to another place or a private sector tool tweaked for public use. But starting from scratch and doing something truly new can sometimes be the key to solving...
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- 23 May 2023
- Cold Call Podcast
The Entrepreneurial Journey of China’s First Private Mental Health Hospital
- 2001
- Chapter
Publicly Funded Science and the Productivity of the Pharmaceutical Industry
By: Rebecca Henderson and Ian Cockburn
U.S. taxpayers funded $14.8 billion of health related research last year, four times the amount that was spent in 1970 in real terms. In this paper we evaluate the impact of these huge expenditures on the technological performance of the pharmaceutical industry. While...
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Keywords:
Public Sector;
Science-Based Business;
Research and Development;
Sovereign Finance;
Pharmaceutical Industry
Henderson, Rebecca, and Ian Cockburn. "Publicly Funded Science and the Productivity of the Pharmaceutical Industry." In Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 1, edited by Adam B. Jaffe, Josh Lerner, and Scott Stern, 1–34. MIT Press, 2001.
- 20 Mar 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
In the Shadows? Informal Enterprise in Non-Democracies
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
Where Bill Gross' Big Bet Went Wrong, And What It Teaches Us
- Research Summary
Cross-Sector Partnering
By: James E. Austin
This on-going research project is examining the motivations, dynamics, and effectiveness determinants of partnering between nonprofit organizations, businesses, and government entities. The first major output of the research focusing on nonprofits and businesses was...
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- 13 Nov 2018
- Blog Post
Leadership Fellow Henry Tsai: Working with City Leadership to Leverage Technology
Strategically, it made sense to look at public sector service at the city level.” Tactically, San Jose emerged as Henry’s optimal Leadership Fellows opportunity. “It involved tech, and it would bring me back...
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- July 2018 (Revised December 2018)
- Case
SOFWERX: Innovation at U.S. Special Operations Command
By: Herman Leonard, Mitchell Weiss, Jin Hyun Paik and Kerry Herman
James “Hondo” Geurts, the Acquisition Executive for U.S. Special Operations Command, was in the middle of his Senate confirmation hearing in 2017 to become Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development and Acquisition. The questions had a common theme: how...
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Keywords:
James Geurts;
Innovation;
Public Entrepreneurship;
Open Innovation;
Crowdsourcing;
Contests;
Prototyping;
SOFWERX;
Special Operations;
SOCOM;
Govtech;
Procurement;
FAR;
EZ-Fly;
Navy;
Department Of Defense;
Innovation and Invention;
Innovation and Management;
Innovation Leadership;
Entrepreneurship;
Public Sector;
Acquisition;
Public Administration Industry;
United States
Leonard, Herman, Mitchell Weiss, Jin Hyun Paik, and Kerry Herman. "SOFWERX: Innovation at U.S. Special Operations Command." Harvard Business School Case 819-004, July 2018. (Revised December 2018.)
- 31 May 2022
- Cold Call Podcast
Corruption: New Insights for Fighting an Age-Old Business Problem
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Re: Tarun Khanna & Geoffrey G. Jones
- December 2006 (Revised December 2008)
- Case
Wireless Generation
Reflecting on an innovative joint venture that his company executed with a public school district in 2004, the CEO of Wireless Generation, a five-year-old, privately held educational technology company, is contemplating the company's product development strategy in...
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Keywords:
Joint Ventures;
Education;
Government Legislation;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Product Development;
Business and Government Relations;
Education Industry
Childress, Stacey M., and Sophie Elizabeth Lippincott. "Wireless Generation." Harvard Business School Case 307-049, December 2006. (Revised December 2008.)