Entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial firms are often the drivers of innovation, and success for entrepreneurial firms often means development and introduction of innovative products and services. This project examines the role that having a partner plays in early-stage entrepreneurial firm performance.…Read More
Seattle-based Alaska Airlines has announced an extensive partnership with American Airlines, a departure from its long-standing “neutrality” strategy.…Read More
Jasmine Crowe, Founder and CEO of Goodr, shares how the food waste management company creates win-win situations for businesses, nonprofits, and the hungry. …Read More
Rui Barbas, Chief Strategy Officer at Nestlé USA, describes how the food and beverage giant remains innovative through what he calls a hybrid growth model.…Read More
Carter Cleveland, CEO & Founder of Artsy, explains how his company streamlines the search for new art by aggregating historical and contemporary works onto one platform.…Read More
This paper examines the relationship between the licensing of knowledge and the creation of product innovations. We consider that firms organize licensing activities in different ways and that licensees are heterogeneous with respect to the attention available to apply and transform in-licensed knowledge to create new product innovations. …Read More
The past decade has witnessed an explosion in research at the intersection of markets and social movements, with an increasing acknowledgment of social movements as key drivers of change in organizations and markets. Social movements create new products and markets, change practices in existing organizations, and can have profound impacts on the commercialization of innovation. …Read More
Knowing both how and when to embrace disruption is key to your organization’s long-term success. Wharton’s Rahul Kapoor offers key steps managers can take.…Read More
By learning to effectively manage a diverse organizational ecosystem, the NGO North Star Alliance is driving health care innovation in sub-Saharan Africa. Mack Institute researcher Aline Gatignon interviews its former executive director about getting organizational culture right.…Read More
When it comes to tackling large-scale socio-economic problems, especially in emerging markets, several entities usually form partnerships to solve these challenges. But what is the optimal configuration of these partnerships? And how should they best be coordinated for maximum effect?…Read More
University-industry partnerships facilitate socio-economic development by incubating innovations and diffusing entrepreneurial capabilities to create new markets in rural areas. Complexity theory based approaches are used to develop a process model of emergence based on a case study of a leading Indian technical institution involved in creating new technologies and markets.…Read More
