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- 11 Sep 2020
- Video
James Mwangi
James Mwangi, CEO of Kenya’s Equity Bank, which has one of the largest customer bases of any bank in Africa, discusses how the Equity Bank model evolved through learning both from Asian companies and from the bank’s own customers. View Details
- 2024
- Chapter
Managing, Preserving, and Unlocking Wealth through FinTech
By: Grace Headinger, Lauren Cohen and Zhaoheng Gong
In nearly every generation, a sentiment like Einstein’s has been expressed as a cautionary tale to constrain the development and application of technology. In spite of these calls, technology has time and again proven its utility and ability to improve across and upon... View Details
Headinger, Grace, Lauren Cohen, and Zhaoheng Gong. "Managing, Preserving, and Unlocking Wealth through FinTech." Chap. 11 in Research Handbook on Alternative Finance, edited by Franklin Allen and Meijun Qian, 250–281. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024.
- 16 Nov 2015
- News
What Is Disruptive Innovation?
- Spring 2016
- Article
Performance Responses to Competition Across Skill-Levels in Rank Order Tournaments: Field Evidence and Implications for Tournament Design
By: Kevin J. Boudreau, Karim R. Lakhani and Michael E. Menietti
Tournaments are widely used in the economy to organize production and innovation. We study individual contestant-level data from 2,796 contestants in 774 software algorithm design contests with random assignment. Precisely conforming to theory predictions, the... View Details
Boudreau, Kevin J., Karim R. Lakhani, and Michael E. Menietti. "Performance Responses to Competition Across Skill-Levels in Rank Order Tournaments: Field Evidence and Implications for Tournament Design." RAND Journal of Economics 47, no. 1 (Spring 2016): 140–165.
- Research Summary
Mastering Strategy Execution
By: Robert Simons
Professor Robert Simons’ research encompasses three areas of management accountability that are the foundation for successful strategy execution: organization design, performance measurement and control, and risk management. In addition, Simons is interested in the... View Details
- July 2019 (Revised August 2020)
- Case
Peabody Essex Museum: What Next?
By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Jeffrey F. Rayport
The case describes the 25-year transformation of Peabody Essex Museum, which was created in 1993 by the merger of two sub-scale predecessor cultural institutions, operating since 1799, in Salem, Massachusetts. Dan Monroe, its founding CEO, began a process of building... View Details
Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Jeffrey F. Rayport. "Peabody Essex Museum: What Next?" Harvard Business School Case 520-009, July 2019. (Revised August 2020.)
- 04 Dec 2012
- News
Use Street Strategy to Build New Ventures
- 04 Feb 2019
- News
Apple, The iPhone, and the Innovator’s Dilemma
- March 2000 (Revised October 2004)
- Background Note
Adding Voice to the Web: A Note on Start-ups
By: Clayton M. Christensen and Tara Donovan
A study of start-up companies that have leveraged the technology of Internet Protocol (IP) telephony to develop applications that are positioned to have an impact on the offerings of traditional telecommunications organizations. View Details
- 19 Nov 2019
- Video
Ratan Naval Tata
Ratan Naval Tata, Chair of Tata Trust and Former Chair of Tata Group, discusses the external acquisition of technology using the example of Tata's acquisition in 2008 of Jaguar Land Rover.
View Details- 18 May 2015
- News
Changing the conversation on US infrastructure challenges
Back in the Lead. “The good news is that government and business want the same outcome,” says Kanter, the School’s Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration. To bring about “the cross-sector View Details
- Article
A Collective Biological Processing Algorithm for EKG Signals
By: Mike Horia Teodorescu
We establish and explore an analogy between hunting by packs of agents and signal processing. We present a version of adaptive ‘Hunting Swarm’ algorithm (HSA), apply it to EKG signals, and investigate the influence of the model parameters on the filtering of stationary... View Details
Teodorescu, Mike Horia. "A Collective Biological Processing Algorithm for EKG Signals." Proceedings of the International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing 4th (2011): 413–420. (IEEE BIOSIGNALS 2011.)
- July 2017 (Revised June 2019)
- Case
Joel L. Dawson: Eta Devices
By: Steven Rogers and Derek G. Abrams
After a successful career in research and academia, Joel Dawson decided to pursue entrepreneurship in the semiconductor industry. As one of the growing number of African-Americans in the technology field, Joel Dawson co-founded Eta Devices in 2010 based on new... View Details
Keywords: Joel Dawson; Eta Devices; Semiconductor Entrepreneurship; Decision Theory; Decision Making; Finance; Engineering; Entrepreneurship; Technological Innovation; Semiconductor Industry; Boston
Rogers, Steven, and Derek G. Abrams. "Joel L. Dawson: Eta Devices." Harvard Business School Case 318-009, July 2017. (Revised June 2019.)
- August 2019
- Case
Twiggle: E-Commerce with Semantic Search
By: Shane Greenstein and Danielle Golan
Four years after being founded, in 2014, by former Google executives Amir Konigsberg (CEO) and Adi Avidor (CTO), Twiggle had developed a search enhancement that plugged into an online merchant’s existing framework. The company utilized advanced structuring and... View Details
Keywords: Search Technology; Customer Acquisition; Internet and the Web; Technological Innovation; Commercialization; Growth and Development Strategy; E-commerce; Technology Industry; Israel
Greenstein, Shane, and Danielle Golan. "Twiggle: E-commerce with Semantic Search." Harvard Business School Case 620-025, August 2019.
- 24 Nov 2014
- News
Inventing Products is Less Valuable Than Inventing Ideas
- 12 Jun 2014
- News
Second Wind
- 12 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Broadband Explosion: Thinking About a Truly Interactive World
called "The Computer as a Communication Device." These guys imagined human capabilities moving to a new level when real-time interactivity was realized. They expected an acceleration of our abilities to View Details
- June 2016
- Case
Alnylam: Building a Biotechnology Powerhouse
By: Kevin Schulman
Alnylam is an early stage biomedical technology focused on commercial development of a novel technology platform, siRNA. This technology offered promise to treat rare genetic disorders that could not be treated with other technologies. Alnlyam's development entailed... View Details