UBC COMM 383 - Innovation Leadership

COMM 383 - Innovation Leadership Fall 2021

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Pre-work: Getting to Know You Survey
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Readings

LIB: Available for free through your UBC LOCR account. You must be registered in the course to be able to view some of these readings, and may also be asked to logon with your CWL account for library access depending on your location. For some of the readings, you may have to click "UBC eLink" or "View Full Text" to get the full text online. Some of the readings are only available starting in September:

Day 2: Carroll and Hannan Focus on Industry - The Organizational Lens
Day 2: Carroll and Hannan An Introduction to Organizational Ecology
Day 2: Carroll and Hannan Concluding Notes - Organizations In Industry
Day 3: Freeman and Engel Model of Innovation: Startups and Mature Corporations
Day 3: O'Reilly and Tushman Organizational Ambidexterity in Action: How Managers Explore and Exploit
Day 4: Salter, Criscuolo, and Ter Wal Coping with Open Innovation
Day 4: Chesbrough GE's ecomagination Challenge: An Experiment in Open Innovation
Day 5: Hargadon and Kenney Misguided Policy? Following Venture Capital into Clean Technology
Day 5: Weiblen and Chesbrough Engaging with Startups to Enhance Corporate Innovation
Day 6: Malhotra and Majchrzak Managing Crowds in Innovation Challenges
Day 8: Rao, Greve, and Davis Fool's gold: Social proof in the initiation and abandonment of coverage by Wall Street analysts
Day 8: Lam and Seidel Hypergrowth Exit Mindset: Destroying Societal Wellbeing through Venture Capital Biased Social Construction of Value
Day 9: Florida and Mellander Rise of the Startup City: The Changing Geography of the Venture Capital Financed Innovation
Day 15: O'Rourke and Strand Patagonia: Driving Sustainable Innovation by Embracing Tensions
Day 16: Chatterjee Simple Rules for Designing Business Models
Day 17: Engel Global Clusters of Innovation - Lessons from Silicon Valley
Day 18: Chesbrough, Kim, and Agogino Chez Panisse: Building an Open Innovation Ecosystem
Day 20: Seidel Bitcoin is making banks nervous
Day 23: Heaven This startup is using AI to give workers a "productivity score"

PAC: You can either secure the following cases directly from Harvard, Ivey & Stanford or get them all packaged together for your convenience in an Ivey Case Package. Be sure you sign up for a student account to receive the discounted pricing for the course package ($46.15CAD). If you have difficulty finding the proper discounted pricing, please contact Ivey directly to ensure you have the student pricing:

Day 2: The Philips Group: 1987 (Harvard Case 9-388-050)
Day 6: Prediction Markets at Google (Harvard Case 9-607-088)
Day 7: Azza Fahmy Jewellery: Restructuring a Successful Startup (Ivey Case W13653)
Day 8: Sirtris Pharmaceuticals: Living Healthier, Longer (Harvard Case 9-808-112)
Day 11: KiOR: Catalyzing Clean Energy (Harvard Case 9-809-092)
Day 13: TopCoder (A): Developing Software Through Crowdsourcing (Harvard Case 9-610-032)
Day 14: Innovation at Caterpillar: The D7E Tractor (Stanford Case SM-223)
Day 16: Tesla Motors (Harvard Case 9-714-413)

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