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Podcast - Forum for Growth & Innovation
non-consumption. Through this lens companies can see where they can enter a market and compete against...nothing! Katie Zanbergen: [00:00] Hi, my name is Katie Zanbergen and I'm the community manager at the Forum for Growth & Innovation...
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Podcast - Forum for Growth & Innovation
Podcasts Podcasts The Disruptive Voice SUBSCRIBE ON iTUNES 20 Nov 2018 The Disruptive Voice 23. Disruptive Innovation in Action: Reinventing Higher Education We sat down with Dr. Paul LeBlanc, President of Southern New Hampshire...
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- August 2003 (Revised July 2023)
- Case
Fighting the Battle of the Bulge—Evaluating Do Good/Do Well Innovations in Morbid Obesity Treatment
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and John McDonough
What can Dr. Dean Ornish learn from the successes and failures of his competitors in ameliorating morbid obesity to create a business model that will “do good” by combatting obesity and associated chronic diseases and “do well” by growing a widely adopted business?...
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Keywords:
Three Pillars;
Industry Analysis;
Health Disorders;
Health Care and Treatment;
Innovation and Invention;
Business Model;
Analysis;
Innovation and Management;
Medical Specialties;
Mission and Purpose;
Health Industry
Herzlinger, Regina E., and John McDonough. "Fighting the Battle of the Bulge—Evaluating Do Good/Do Well Innovations in Morbid Obesity Treatment." Harvard Business School Case 304-009, August 2003. (Revised July 2023.)
- June 10, 2022
- Article
What Top Executives Can Learn from Junior Employees
Having reached the pinnacle of their careers, many top executives think their learning days are over. Their role, as they see it, is to make pronouncements, define strategy and impart to others the benefits of their vast experience—that is, to tell the employees below...
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Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. "What Top Executives Can Learn from Junior Employees." Wall Street Journal (online) (June 10, 2022).
Birth and Re-birth in Business
Joe Lassiter, Harvard Business School Professor and Faculty Chair of Harvard's Innovation Lab, discusses how businesses can seize on new opportunities and re-invent themselves quickly and effectively at the Better by Design CEO Summit 2015 in Aukland, New Zealand.... View Details
- 07 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 7, 2015
economies. But only a handful of companies have managed to do it successfully until now. In this article, an MIT engineering professor and a Tuck professor of management explain why. After conducting a three-year study of reverse View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 16
Publications September 2014 The Oxford Handbook of Innovation Management Mergers and Acquisitions and Innovation By: Ahuja, Gautam, and Elena Novelli Abstract—This article (a) identifies the different...
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Sean Silverthorne
- September 2013 (Revised February 2016)
- Case
GlaxoSmithKline: Sourcing Complex Professional Services
By: Heidi K. Gardner and Silvia Hodges Silverstein
Pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) uses an innovative new approach to procuring outside legal counsel: it replaces relationship-based selection and law firms' traditional time-based billing with data-driven decision making and an online reverse auction. In...
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Keywords:
Legal Industry;
Procurement;
Professional Service Firms;
Pricing;
Competition;
Change Management;
Supply Chain Management;
Legal Liability;
Business Processes;
Legal Services Industry;
Pharmaceutical Industry
Gardner, Heidi K., and Silvia Hodges Silverstein. "GlaxoSmithKline: Sourcing Complex Professional Services." Harvard Business School Case 414-003, September 2013. (Revised February 2016.)
- 2007
- Working Paper
Noncompetes and Inventor Mobility: Specialists, Stars, and the Michigan Experiment
Several scholars have documented the positive consequences of job-hopping by inventors, including knowledge spillovers and agglomeration and the concentration of spinoffs. This work investigates a possible antecedent of inventor mobility: regional variation in the...
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Marx, Matt, Deborah Strumsky, and Lee Fleming. "Noncompetes and Inventor Mobility: Specialists, Stars, and the Michigan Experiment." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 07-042, January 2007.
- July 1997
- Case
We've Got Rhythm! Medtronic Corporation's Cardiac Pacemaker Business
By: Clayton M. Christensen
Illustrates how a new management team at Medtronic's Cardiac Pacemaker business reversed a steep decline in market share by adopting certain management principles for new product development: clarifying strategy, aggregating project planning, accommodating the number...
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Keywords:
Management Teams;
Innovation Strategy;
Innovation and Management;
Product Development;
Health;
Technology;
Change Management;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
United States
Christensen, Clayton M. "We've Got Rhythm! Medtronic Corporation's Cardiac Pacemaker Business." Harvard Business School Case 698-004, July 1997.
- 2011
- Working Paper
Do Powerful Politicians Cause Corporate Downsizing?
By: Lauren H. Cohen, Joshua D. Coval and Christopher J. Malloy
This paper employs a new empirical approach for identifying the impact of government spending on the private sector. Our key innovation is to use changes in congressional committee chairmanship as a source of exogenous variation in state-level federal expenditures. In...
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Keywords:
Economic Growth;
Investment;
Spending;
Government Administration;
Employment;
Managerial Roles
Cohen, Lauren H., Joshua D. Coval, and Christopher J. Malloy. "Do Powerful Politicians Cause Corporate Downsizing?" NBER Working Paper Series, No. 15839, March 2011.
- 14 Aug 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
The Agglomeration of U.S. Ethnic Inventors
- Research Summary
Recruiting specialized inventors into young organizations
Commercializing nascent technologies may require the expertise of those intimately involved in the original invention, especially when tacit knowledge is essential. Yet the organization home to the original invention may not serve as the best commercialization... View Details
- October 2005 (Revised March 2006)
- Case
Strategic Inflection: TiVo in 2005
By: David B. Yoffie, Pai-Ling Yin and Barbara Mack
In the late 1990s, TiVo pioneered the digital video recorder (DVR), a new consumer electronics category. By 2005, the company was the clear leader in technology and installed base. It had also built extraordinary loyalty among its customers. However, TiVo lost a half...
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Keywords:
Technological Innovation;
Competition;
Partners and Partnerships;
Information Infrastructure;
Television Entertainment;
Brands and Branding;
Consumer Products Industry;
Electronics Industry
Yoffie, David B., Pai-Ling Yin, and Barbara Mack. "Strategic Inflection: TiVo in 2005." Harvard Business School Case 706-421, October 2005. (Revised March 2006.)
- 05 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
Is JC Penney’s Makeover the Future of Retailing?
tree. Johnson (HBS MBA'84) comes to Penney after more than a decade of leading Apple's retail effort, where his innovations included the Genius Bar. Johnson is also credited with making Target chic. This makes his launching of the new...
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- 2008
- Working Paper
The Agglomeration of U.S. Ethnic Inventors
By: William R. Kerr
The ethnic composition of US inventors is undergoing a significant transformation—with deep impacts for the overall agglomeration of US innovation. This study applies an ethnic-name database to individual US patent records to explore these trends with greater detail....
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Keywords:
Information Technology;
Geographic Location;
Patents;
Ethnicity;
City;
Innovation and Invention;
United States
Kerr, William R. "The Agglomeration of U.S. Ethnic Inventors." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-003, July 2008. (Forthcoming book chapter in Agglomeration Economics.)
- 2010
- Chapter
The Agglomeration of U.S. Ethnic Inventors
By: William R. Kerr
The ethnic composition of US inventors is undergoing a significant transformation - with deep impacts for the overall agglomeration of US innovation. This study applies an ethnic-name database to individual US patent records to explore these trends with greater detail....
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Keywords:
Information Technology;
Geographic Location;
Patents;
Ethnicity;
City;
Innovation and Invention;
United States
Kerr, William R. "The Agglomeration of U.S. Ethnic Inventors." In Agglomeration Economics, edited by Edward Glaeser, 237–276. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2010.
- November 2019 (Revised January 2020)
- Supplement
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited: A Global Company's China Strategy (B)
By: William C. Kirby, Billy Chan and Dawn H. Lau
After the legendary founder of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) retired, the new chairman had to grapple with fresh challenges related to its China market: a recently opened factory in China had to find ways to reverse its financial loss and meet its...
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Keywords:
Cross-cultural;
Foreign Investment;
Government;
Business and Government Relations;
Globalization;
Change Management;
Customer Relationship Management;
Innovation Strategy;
Global Strategy;
Leadership;
Semiconductor Industry;
Taiwan;
China
Kirby, William C., Billy Chan, and Dawn H. Lau. "Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited: A Global Company's China Strategy (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 320-045, November 2019. (Revised January 2020.)
- 08 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
NFL Head Coaches Are Getting Younger. What Can Organizations Learn?
leadership, but will it last? Are older workers doomed forever to have younger bosses, or will this trend reverse after a few high-profile failures? Are organizations making the right choices by seeking more View Details
- 27 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Building Businesses in Turbulent Times
Launching New Ventures: Jump-Starting Innovation for Entrepreneurs and Business Owners. Staff: Why is innovation important today? Lynda Applegate: The global financial crisis we are experiencing provides a...
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by Staff