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- January 1996
- Case
Managing Xerox's Multinational Development Center (Abridged)
Describes a manager's role in developing a staff group responsible for enhancing the efficiency of Xerox's worldwide logistics and inventory management systems. Illustrates a range of management strategies for upward and lateral influence in a complex organizational...
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Keywords:
Multinational Firms and Management;
Personal Development and Career;
Consumer Products Industry;
Technology Industry
Ibarra, Herminia M. "Managing Xerox's Multinational Development Center (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 496-047, January 1996.
- July–September 2020
- Article
Innovation Contest: Effect of Perceived Support for Learning on Participation
By: Olivia Jung, Andrea Blasco and Karim R. Lakhani
Background: Frontline staff are well positioned to conceive improvement opportunities based on first-hand knowledge of what works and does not work. The innovation contest may be a relevant and useful vehicle to elicit staff ideas. However, the success of the...
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Keywords:
Contest;
Innovation;
Employee Engagement;
Organizational Learning;
Health Care;
Health Care Delivery;
Innovation and Invention;
Organizations;
Learning;
Employees;
Perception;
Health Care and Treatment
Jung, Olivia, Andrea Blasco, and Karim R. Lakhani. "Innovation Contest: Effect of Perceived Support for Learning on Participation." Health Care Management Review 45, no. 3 (July–September 2020): 255–266.
- April 2006
- Case
Adrian Ivinson at the Harvard Center for Neurodegeneration and Repair
By: Robert Steven Kaplan and Ayesha Kanji
Adrian Ivinson is the director of Harvard Center for Neurodegeneration and Repair (HCNR), a not-for-profit research center at the Harvard Medical School (HMS). The center was started in late 2000 with a gift of $37.5 million from an anonymous donor. Its mandate was to...
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Leadership Style;
Power and Influence;
Organizational Culture;
Research and Development;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Motivation and Incentives;
Change Management;
Alignment;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Health Industry;
Massachusetts
Kaplan, Robert Steven, and Ayesha Kanji. "Adrian Ivinson at the Harvard Center for Neurodegeneration and Repair." Harvard Business School Case 406-111, April 2006.
- Web
Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship | About
heart of Silicon Valley. His landmark 2003 gift to establish the Rock Center funded not only a home base for entrepreneurship faculty, but also a lasting foundation for innovative course development, MBA and...
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- July 2002 (Revised August 2002)
- Case
Washington Hospital Center (B): The Power of Insight
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Michelle Heskett
Dr. Craig Feied considers how to take a major technical innovation beyond his own department into a large hospital system. Reviews how proprietary information systems became indispensable in the department of emergency medicine and what it took to introduce the change...
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- December 2020 (Revised April 2021)
- Case
IBM Watson at MD Anderson Cancer Center
By: Shane Greenstein, Mel Martin and Sarkis Agaian
After discovering that their cancer diagnostic tool, designed to leverage the cloud computing power of IBM Watson, needed greater integration into the clinical processes at the MD Anderson Cancer Center, the development team had difficult choices to make. The Oncology...
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Keywords:
Decision Making;
Innovation Strategy;
Knowledge Management;
Knowledge Use and Leverage;
Operations;
Failure;
Information Technology;
Applications and Software;
Health Care and Treatment;
Product Development;
Health Industry;
Information Technology Industry;
Technology Industry;
United States;
Houston;
Texas
Greenstein, Shane, Mel Martin, and Sarkis Agaian. "IBM Watson at MD Anderson Cancer Center." Harvard Business School Case 621-022, December 2020. (Revised April 2021.)
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Entrepreneurship & Innovation - MBA
New Venture Competition Alumni Track which serves as a launch pad for innovative new ventures from HBS alumni, providing access and exposure to potential investors, mentors, and advisors. View the Rock View Details
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Harvard Environmental Centers - Business & Environment
Clinic The Emmett Environmental Law and Policy Clinic at Harvard Law School offers students the opportunity to practice environmental law through work on a variety of litigation, administrative, legislative, and policy projects. Food Law & Policy Clinic The View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Investing in Innovation
Fund for Leadership and Innovation or made gifts directed to specific priorities. A multiyear series of Campaign events will be held in more than 20 locations around the world, each designed to connect alumni in learning about and sharing...
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- October 2022
- Case
Ceibal: Sustaining and Scaling Educational Innovation in Uruguay
By: John J-H Kim, Michael Chu and Mariana Cal
Ceibal was founded in 2007 in Uruguay, as an initiative to reduce the digital gap in the country. After playing an important role providing a smooth transition to remote learning during COVID, Ceibal in 2022 must now determine the best way to fulfill its mission to "be...
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Keywords:
Digital Gap;
COVID-19 Pandemic;
Education;
Teaching;
Digital Platforms;
Technology Adoption;
Technological Innovation;
Social Issues;
Transformation;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Mission and Purpose;
Education Industry;
Latin America;
South America;
Uruguay
Kim, John J-H, Michael Chu, and Mariana Cal. "Ceibal: Sustaining and Scaling Educational Innovation in Uruguay." Harvard Business School Case 323-034, October 2022.
- 24 Jan 2013
- News
Q&A: Why U.S. Companies Fail to Innovate
- May 2016
- Article
Return Migration and Geography of Innovation in MNEs: A Natural Experiment of Knowledge Production by Local Workers Reporting to Return Migrants
I study whether return migrants facilitate knowledge production by local employees working for them at geographically distant R&D locations. Using unique personnel and patenting data for 1,315 employees at the Indian R&D center of a Fortune 500 technology firm, I...
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Choudhury, Prithwiraj. "Return Migration and Geography of Innovation in MNEs: A Natural Experiment of Knowledge Production by Local Workers Reporting to Return Migrants." Journal of Economic Geography 16, no. 3 (May 2016): 585–610.
- 07 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation
(and the fear) of contagion will persist once the peak is behind us. All these factors will also likely vary greatly across businesses, markets, and locations. THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS More Business-Related Pandemic Coverage from Around Harvard and Beyond COVID-19...
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by Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso
- 07 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Innovation in Asia
in the U.S. may soon have as much to fear about losing their jobs to overseas competitors as call center employees do today. Executives debated "The Present and Future of Innovation in Asia" during...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Sep 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Breakthrough Inventions and Migrating Clusters of Innovation
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Resources - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
Teaching and Learning Centers, Additional Case Resources, Professional Organizations and Journals. The Christensen Center for Teaching and Learning is not responsible for content on external links. Teaching & Learning View Details
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FAQs - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
Frequently Asked Questions Do you offer services for students as well as faculty?The Christensen Center is primarily for faculty teaching development. However, we understand the critical role played by students in the case method. We take...
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HBS Global Initiative & Research Centers - MBA
Center has been so integral to Professor Takeuchi’s Japan Immersive Field Course (IFC) that they just published a book on the experience describing how the program (now 6 years running!) ties into curriculum View Details
- 23 Oct 2018
- News