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Introduction
1Dynamics of technological innovationGladwell, Malcolm. "Smaller: The Disposable Diaper and the Meaning of Progress." The New Yorker, November 16, 2001.

Amazon logo Foster, R. "The S Curve: A New Forecasting Tool." Chapter 4 in Innovation: The Attacker's Advantage. New York, NY: Summit Books, 1986. ISBN: 9780333435113.



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Christensen, Clayton. "Exploring the Limits of the Technology S-Curve. Part I: Component Technologies." Product and Operations Management Journal 1, no. 4 (1992): 334-357.

———. "Exploring the Limits of the Technology S-Curve. Part II: Architectural Technologies." Product and Operations Management Journal 1, no. 4 (1992): 358-366.

Moore, Gordon. "Cramming More Components onto Integrated Circuits," Electronics, April 19, 1965. (PDF)

2Industrial implications of technological innovationAmazon logo Moore, Gordon. Crossing the Chasm. New York, NY: Collins Business, 2002. ISBN: 9780060517120. (Chapters 1 and 2 only.)
3Competitive implications of market and technology dynamicsGladwell, Malcolm. "The Televisionary." The New Yorker, May 27, 2002.

Amazon logo Christensen, Clayton. The Innovator's Dilemma. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1997. ISBN: 9780875845852. (Chapter 3 only.)

Afuah, A., and J. Utterback. "Responding to Structural Industry Changes: A Technological Evolution Perspective." Industrial and Corporate Change 6 (1997): 183-202.

Exploring innovations: experimentation and iteration
4Systematizing innovation; "What's the Big Idea;" IDEOChristensen, Clayton. and Scott D. Anthony. "What's the Big Idea?" Harvard Business School Case. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Publishing. Case: 9-602-105, September 26, 2005.

Amazon logo Bennis, Warren G., and Patricia Biederman. "The End of the Great Man." Chapter 1 in Organizing Genius. New York, NY: Perseus Books, 1997. ISBN: 9780201570519.

Fleming, L. "Breakthroughs and the Long Tail of Innovation." MIT Sloan Management Review 49, no. 1 (2007): 69-74.

5Scoping technology: Advanced Inhalation ResearchRoberts, Michael, and Diana Gardner. "Advanced Inhalation Research, Inc." Harvard Business School Case. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Publishing. Case: 9-899-292, September 9, 2003.Thomke, S. "R&D Comes to Services: Bank of America's Pathbreaking Experiments." Harvard Business Review 81, no. 4 (2003): 70-79.
6No class; teams work on assignment 1
7Iterating design: Team New ZealandIansiti, Marco, and Alan MacCormack. "Team New Zealand." Harvard Business School Case. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Publishing. Case: 9-697-040, April 17, 1997.Thomke, S. "Capturing the Real Value of Innovation Tools." MIT Sloan Management Review 47, no. 2 (2006): 24-32.
8Experimenting with markets: innovation at 3MThomke, S. and Ashok Nimgade. "Innovation at 3M Corp." Harvard Business School Case. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Publishing. Case: 9-699-012, July 23, 2002.

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Ho, Teck-Hua, and Kay-Yut Chen. "New Product Blockbusters: The Magic and Science of Prediction Markets." California Review Management 50, no. 1 (2007): 144-158.

Urban, Glen L., and Eric von Hippel. "Lead User Analyses for the Development of New Industrial Products." Management Science 34, no. 5 (1988): 569-82.

9Capstone: IridiumMacCormack, Alan, and Kerry Herman. "The Rise and Fall of Iridium." Harvard Business School Case. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Publishing. Case: 9-601-040, November 28, 2001.

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Evans, David, and Karen Webster. "Designing the Right Product Offerings." MIT Sloan Management Review 49, no. 1 (2007): 44-50.

Amazon logo Christensen, C., and M. Raynor. "Managing the Strategy Development Process." Chapter 8 in The Innovator's Solution. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 2003. ISBN: 9781578518524.

Executing innovations: organizing to execute
10Organizing innovation teams: 'The Bakeoff'Gladwell, Malcolm. "The Bakeoff: Project Delta Aims to Create the Perfect Cookie." The New Yorker, September 5, 2005.Amazon logo Clark, Kim, and Steven Wheelwright. "Organizing and Leading Project Teams." Chapter 8 in Revolutionizing Product Development. Boston, MA: Free Press, 1992. ISBN: 9780029055151.
11Organizing flexible processes; 'Internet Time' exerciseIansiti, M, and A. MacCormack. "Living on Internet Time." Harvard Business School Case. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Publishing. Case: 9-697-052, November 13, 1996.

Iansiti, M., and A. MacCormack. "Developing Products on Internet Time." Harvard Business Review 75, no. 5 (1997): 108-117.



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Cusumano, Michael. "How Microsoft Makes Large Teams Work Like Small Teams." MIT Sloan Management Review 39, no. 1 (1997): 9-20.

12Incentivizing and organizing innovators: GSKHuckman, Robert. "Glaxo-Smith Kline: Reorganizing Drug Discovery." Harvard Business School Case. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Publishing. Case: 9-605-074, May 17, 2005.Goffee, Rob, and Gareth Jones. "Leading Clever People." Harvard Business Review 85, no. 3 (2007): 72-79.
13Organizing innovation between firms and communities; One Laptop Per Child, innovation communities (Visitor: Mako Hill)Baldwin, Carliss, Siobhan O'Mahoney, and James Quinn. "IBM and Linux (A)." Harvard Business School Case. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Publishing. Case: 9-903-083, June 26, 2003.Amazon logo Raymond, Eric Steven. "The Cathedral and the Bazaar." Chapter 2 in The Cathedral and the Bazaar. Cambridge, MA: O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2001. ISBN: 9780596001087.
14Incentivizing and organizing external innovators: D-WaveMacCormack, A., A. Agrawal, and R. Henderson. "D-Wave Systems: Building a Quantum Computer." Harvard Business School Case. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Publishing. Case: 9-604-073, April 26, 2004.Huston, Larry, and Nabil Sakkab. "Connect and Develop: Inside Proctor & Gamble's New Model for Innovation." Harvard Business Review 84, no. 3 (2006): 58-67.
15Negotiation innovation work between firms and academia (SpudSpy & negotiation exercise)Snow, D., and Lee Flemming. "SpudSpy." Harvard Business School Case. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Publishing. Case: 9-605-059, February 3, 2005.Edwards, M., F. Murray, and R. Yu. "Gold in the Ivory Tower." Nature Biotechnology 24 (2006): 509-515.
Exploiting innovations: options, portfolios and platforms
16No class; time for project work
17Dynamics of the market for ideas; designing the value chain

Gans, J., and S. Stern. "The Product Market and the Market for Ideas: Commercialization Strategies for Technology Entrepreneurs." Research Policy 32, no. 2 (2003): 333-350.

Amazon logo Teece, D. "Capturing Value from Technological Innovation: Integration, Strategic Partnering, and Licensing Decisions." In Managing Strategic Innovation and Change. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1996, pp. 287-306. ISBN: 9780195100112. (Required: Pages 287-297 only.)

18Leveraging portfolio development: A123 (Visitor: Ric Fulop, Founder A123 Systems)MacCormack, A., and S. Sucher. "le Petit Chef." Harvard Business School Case. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Publishing. Case: 9-602-080, November 13, 2002.Amazon logo Clark, Kim, and Steven Wheelwright. "The Aggregate Project Plan." Chapter 4 in Revolutionizing Product Development. Boston, MA: Free Press, 1992. ISBN: 9780029055151.
19Capstone: leveraging platforms in online video gaming (Visitor: Cyrus Beagly, Sloan '02)Eisenmann, T. "Electronic Arts in Online Gaming." Harvard Business School Case. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Publishing. Case: 9-804-140, October 12, 2006.

Prugl, R., and M. Schreier. "Learning from Leading Edge Customers at The Sims." R&D Management 36, no. 3 (2006): 237-250.



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Sviokla, J., and A. Paoni. "Every Product's a Platform." Harvard Business Review 83, no. 10 (2005): 17-18.

Amazon logo Gawer, A., and M. Cusumano. Platform Leadership: How Intel, Microsoft, and Cisco Drive Industry Innovation. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 2002. ISBN: 9781578515141. (Chapters 2 and 3 only.)

20Portfolio management processes: le Petit ChefBowen, Kent, Kenneth P. Morse, and Douglas Cannon. "A123 Systems." Harvard Business School Case. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Publishing. Case: 9-606-114, May 8, 2006.Amazon logo Chesbrough, H., and D. Teece. "When is Virtual Virtuous." Chapter 3 in The Strategic Management of Intellectual Capital. Edited by D. Klein. Boston, MA: Butterworth-Heinemann, 1998, pp. 27-37. ISBN: 9780750698504.
Renewing innovations: organizing disruption
21Internal vs. external sources of renewal: IntelMacCormack, Alan, and Kerry Herman. "Intel Research: Exploring the Future." Harvard Business School Case. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Publishing. Case: 9-605-051, October 27, 2005.

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Amazon logo Chesbrough, Henry. "Open Innovation at Intel." Chapter 6 in Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 2005, pp. 113-134. ISBN: 9781422102831.

Amazon logo Uttal, B. "The Lab That Ran Away from Xerox." Fortune, 1983. Reprinted in Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation. Edited by R. A. Burgelman, C. M. Christensen, and S. C. Wheelwright. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2003. ISBN: 9780072536959.

22Renewing innovation; corporate venturing; IBM AlphaworksChesbrough, Henry. "Inxight: Incubating a Xerox Technology Spinout." Harvard Business School Case. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Publishing. Case: 9-699-019, December 17, 1998.Wolcott, Robert, and Michael J. Lippitz. "The Four Models of Corporate Entrepreneurship." MIT Sloan Management Review 49, no. 1 (2007): 75-82.
23Renewing innovation; internal venturing; GE imagination breakthroughsBartlett, Christopher A., Brian J. Hall, and Nicole Bennett. "GE's Imagination Breakthroughs: The Evo Project." Harvard Business School Case. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Publishing. Case: 9-907-048, June 19, 2007.Stringer, Robert. "How to Manage Radical Innovation." California Management Review 42, no. 4 (2000): 70-88.
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