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How Breakthroughs Happen The Surprising Truth about how Companies Innovate

Hardcover • 2003 • English • 1. edition

How Breakthroughs Happen The Surprising Truth about how Companies Innovate

By Andrew Hargadon

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About the book

This book presents lessons from the famous 'Invention Factories' past and present. Did you know that the incandescent lightbulb first emerged some thirty years before Thomas Edison famously 'turned night into day'? Or that Henry Ford's revolutionary assembly line came from an unlikely blend of observations from Singer sewing machines, meatpacking, and Campbell's Soup? In this fascinating study of innovation, engineer and social scientist Andrew Hargadon argues that our romantic notions about inn...Show more

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Book details

ISBN

9781578519040

Publisher

Harvard Business Press

Published year

2003

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

How Breakthroughs Happen The Surprising Truth about how Companies Innovate

Format

Hardcover

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