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      • 23 Feb 2021
      • Cold Call Podcast

      Examining Race and Mass Incarceration in the United States

      The late 20th century saw dramatic growth in incarceration rates in the United States. Of the more than 2.3 million people in US prisons, jails, and detention centers in 2020, 60 percent were Black or Latinx. Harvard Business School assistant professor Reshmaan Hussam probes the assumptions underlying the current prison system, with its huge racial disparities, and considers what could be done to address the crisis of the American criminal justice system in her case, “Race and Mass Incarceration in the United States.”  Open for comment; 0 Comment(s) posted.

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      Collaborative Innovation and InventionRemove Collaborative Innovation and Invention →

      New research on collaborative innovation and invention from Harvard Business School faculty on issues including crowdsourcing, suggestions for how to make your company more innovative, and global collaboration as a new source of competitive advantage.
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      • 24 Feb 2020
      • Research & Ideas

      The Hidden Vulnerabilities of Open Source Software

      by Frank Nagle and Jenny Hoffman

      The increasing use of open source software in most commercial apps has revolutionized software development—but also created hidden vulnerabilities, say Frank Nagle and Jenny Hoffman. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 21 Jul 2019
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Why Do User Communities Matter for Strategy?

      by Sonali K. Shah and Frank Nagle

      Communities of users are shaping the industrial landscape and contributing to the innovations we use every day. The effects of user communities on firms, industries, and society will continue to grow. This article discusses the relationship between user communities and firms to shed light on avenues for future research in business strategy.

      • 18 Apr 2019
      • Research & Ideas

      Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool

      by Martha Lagace

      Radiation oncologists are few in number, especially if you are nowhere near a cancer facility. Could artificial intelligence be used to deliver an oncologist's skills for radiation therapy? Karim R. Lakhani discusses a unique open innovation experiment. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 26 Mar 2019
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Managed Ecosystems and Translucent Institutional Logics: Engaging Communities

      by Elizabeth J. Altman, Frank Nagle, and Michael Tushman

      Organizations increasingly rely on engagement with external communities of contributors. This paper explores transitions to a managed-ecosystem governance mode and its implications for strategy and innovation. To be successful, firms must develop the capabilities to shepherd communities, leverage without exploiting them, and share intellectual property rights.

      • 21 Mar 2019
      • HBS Case

      The Ferrari Way

      by Michael Blanding

      Secretive sports car maker Ferrari opens up to Stefan Thomke about how it has bucked industry trends to achieve success. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 21 Mar 2019
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Advancing Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Research Through Open Innovation Competitions

      by Blasco, Andrea, Michael G. Endres, Rinat A. Sergeev, Anup Jonchhe, Max Macaluso, Rajiv Narayan, Ted Natoli, Jin H. Paik, Bryan Briney, Chunlei Wu, Andrew I. Su, Aravind Subramanian, and Karim R. Lakhani

      Crowdsourcing is a way for many individuals to address a common problem. This paper describes the design and outcomes of three crowdsourcing contests focused on algorithms for 1) clustering antibody sequences, 2) imputing gene expression measurements, and 3) performing fast queries on a particular dataset. Innovation through contests greatly improved the solutions available.

      • 28 Feb 2019
      • Cold Call Podcast

      Pursuing Precision Medicine at Intermountain Healthcare

      What happens when Intermountain Healthcare invests resources in an innovative precision medicine unit to provide life-extending, genetically targeted therapies to late-stage cancer patients? Professors Richard Hamermesh and Kathy Giusti discuss the case and its connections to their work with the Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 12 Nov 2018
      • Research & Ideas

      'Always On' Isn't Always Best for Team Decision-Making

      by Roberta Holland

      Is it possible for teams to communicate too frequently? Research by Ethan Bernstein and colleagues suggests that groups that meet less often may be better at problem-solving. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 18 Jul 2018
      • Research & Ideas

      No More General Tso's? A Threat to 'Knowledge Recombination'

      by Michael Blanding

      Immigrants bring with them innovations from their homelands, knowledge that local inventors often build upon, says Prithwiraj Choudhury. Examples: turmeric medicine, double-entry bookkeeping, and American Chinese food. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 27 Sep 2017
      • Research & Ideas

      What Happens When Ordinary People Get Creative?

      by Carmen Nobel

      Move over, creative geniuses. Teresa Amabile says the world needs to pay more attention to the creative processes of everyday people, especially in an age when big ideas often come from the crowdsourced masses. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 31 Jul 2017
      • Working Paper Summaries

      In Pursuit of Everyday Creativity

      by Teresa M. Amabile

      This paper describes the most compelling research trends around creativity and innovation. It suggests that 1) creative behavior of ordinary individuals is likely to become more important to the development of products and services, and 2) future studies should focus on such creative behavior—and related psychological states and environmental contexts—as it happens.

      • 20 Jun 2017
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Conversational Peers and Idea Generation: Evidence from a Field Experiment

      by Sharique Hasan and Rembrand Koning

      To develop a theory of innovator capability, this study extends existing research linking personality and creativity to take into account the social nature of idea generation. Using data from an experiment embedded in a bootcamp for aspiring entrepreneurs, results show that better ideas are generated by “open” innovators exposed to extroverted peers. Extroverts provide more raw information that innovators high in openness are best able to recombine into novel ideas.

      • 20 Mar 2017
      • Book

      Why Companies Are Placing Users at the Core of Their Innovation Strategies

      by Dina Gerdeman

      In his recent edited volume Revolutionizing Innovation, Karim Lakhani brings together the latest thinking around open innovation, users, and communities. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 09 Mar 2017
      • Cold Call Podcast

      IDEO is Changing the Way Managers Think About Thinking

      IDEO’s human-centered design thinking is a systematic approach used to help create new products and services. Professor Ryan Buell explores this process as a leading movie cinema chain in Peru rethinks the movie-going experience. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 19 May 2016
      • Research Event

      Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium

      by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel

      The 2016 Faculty Research Symposium looked at current and potential collaborations between HBS and Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Open for comment; Comment(s) posted.

      • 23 May 2012
      • Research & Ideas

      Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative

      by Garry Emmons, Julia Hanna & Roger Thompson

      How do you create a company that unleashes and capitalizes on innovation? HBS faculty experts in culture, customers, creativity, marketing, and the DNA of innovators offer up ideas. From HBS Alumni Bulletin. Closed for comment; 11 Comment(s) posted.

      • 31 Aug 2007
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Innovation through Global Collaboration: A New Source of Competitive Advantage

      by Alan MacCormack, Theodore Forbath, Peter Brooks & Patrick Kalaher

      Collaboration is becoming a new and important source of competitive advantage. No longer is the creation and pursuit of new ideas the bastion of large, central R&D departments within vertically integrated organizations. Instead, innovations are increasingly brought to the market by networks of firms, selected according to their comparative advantages, and operating in a coordinated manner. This paper reports on a study of the strategies and practices used by firms that achieve greater success in terms of business value in their collaborative innovation efforts. Key concepts include: Consider the strategic role of collaboration, organize effectively for collaboration, and make long-term investments to develop collaborative capabilities. Successful firms found that attention to these 3 critical areas generated new options to create value that competitors could not replicate. Successful firms went beyond simple wage arbitrage, asking global partners to contribute knowledge and skills to projects, with a focus on improving their top line. They redesigned their organizations to increase the effectiveness of these efforts. Managing collaboration the same way a firm handles the outsourcing of production is a flawed approach. Production and innovation are fundamentally different activities and have different objectives. Closed for comment; 0 Comment(s) posted.

      • 31 Jan 2007
      • HBS Case

      When Good Teams Go Bad

      by Garry Emmons

      Jeff Polzer and Scott Snook teach "The Army Crew Team" case and the dilemma faced by a rowing coach who has great individual parts but can't get them to synchronize. Open for comment; 0 Comment(s) posted.

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