Lead Users - Publications - Faculty & Research

31 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator

financial incentives causes people to work harder," he says. "But my research suggests that in deciding how hard we work and how well we think we're performing, social comparisons matter just as much." The $30,000 Gold Star The power of social comparison can View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Industry Information - Alumni

faculty from the fields of business, economics and law. + – CPG/Marketing AdAge Leading trade publication of the marketing and media landscape. Tiered subscription model (free registration for a limited number of articles per month;... View Details

08 Mar 2004
Research & Ideas

Creating Value in Your Business Ecosystem

organizations. The keystone's importance to ecosystem health is such that, in many cases, its removal will lead to the catastrophic collapse of the entire system. For example, WorldCom's failure had negative repercussions for the entire... View Details

Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien

11 Feb 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

10 Rules Entrepreneurs Need to Know Before Adopting AI

generalized toolkits to business users or get bogged down in custom software consulting engagements that solve nonrepeatable use cases. There are more opportunities today for entrepreneurs to focus on solving vertical problems than... View Details

Keywords: by Rocio Wu

14 Feb 2012
First Look

First Look: February 14

and the fluidity of most work structures mean that it's not really about creating effective teams anymore, but instead about leading effective teaming. Teaming shows that organizations learn when the flexible, fluid collaborations they... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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Data Storage - Research Computing Services

size by the program or role that you have. When your space fills up, you will not be able to do any more work, which may lead to programs acting strangely or crashing altogether, disk error notices, or Input/Output errors. Keep an eye on... View Details

12 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 12

let people pay their bills online, and airline apps let them check in and monitor the status of their flights. (2) Offer unique value. In South Korea, commuters can use an app to order groceries while waiting for their trains. (3) Provide social value. Apps on Facebook... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 May 2009
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First Look: May 5, 2009

Survive—Thrive: Leading Innovation in Good Times and Bad Authors:Lynda M. Applegate and Bruce Harreld Abstract Battered by contracting markets and frozen credit, many businesses today are fighting for survival. Indeed, the current global... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2023
News

The Exchange: Where Ethics Meet Economics

ended up discriminating against particular groups of guests. That gives us fascinating insights about how something seemingly innocuous like web design has enormous potential to lead users in either a... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information

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Guidelines for Choosing Resources - Research Computing Services

commands , you can write a longer customized statement so that only the MAX MEM is output: [jharvard@rhrcscli01:~]$ bjobs -l | grep -E "Application|IDLE|MAX" Job , User , Project , Application , S IDLE_FACTOR(cputime/ runtime): 0.01 MAX... View Details

11 Jan 2010
Research & Ideas

Mixing Open Source and Proprietary Software Strategies

product used in econometrics, is a good example of this. “Our research plainly shows that value creation doesn't necessarily lead to value capture.” In cases where values are intermediate, we find that the firm prefers to open the core... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Web Services

26 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019

users of the competing platform—can arise from the difference in their profit foci. As the difference in the standalone utilities increases, royalties from content sales become less important to the platform owner with greater standalone... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

23 Aug 2016
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August 23, 2016

experiences alter their responses. Moreover, although individual and other experience act as substitutes prior to negative news, we find that this substitution curtails significantly following the negative announcement. Finally, we find that experience View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Judges - Alumni

start-ups, and consumer brands and technology. She has worked closely with many founders over the past decade and has collaborated with numerous leading VC and PE firms. Tina enjoys working with start-ups across a range of areas... View Details

27 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

When Rights of First Refusal Are a Bad Deal

give the right holder a last-mover advantage. As we discuss in the paper, that conveys a lot of benefits: It allows the right holder to move in and take good deals if they become available to third parties. And if, as is often the case, the right holder is the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Construction; Real Estate; Entertainment & Recreation

16 May 2000
Research & Ideas

The Simple Economics of Open Source

firm. So in a sense they have to start all over again when they switch jobs. In their working paper, Lerner and Tirole also point out that people in open source can use their projects as a "port of entry." For example, a systems administrator at a small... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Technology

23 May 2012
Research & Ideas

Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative

slogan from Apple. And thinking differently leads them to act differently. From our research, consistent patterns emerged that led us to identify five primary discovery skills that underlie innovation: associating, observing, quetioning,... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons, Julia Hanna & Roger Thompson

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The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

the commercial artist and illustrator. 19 U.S. Steel’s marketing division frequently used photographs in advertisements targeted to industrial users of steel in trade journals and national magazines. Distinct from marketing, the... View Details

19 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018

with other historical examples, suggesting that the key to understanding technology diffusion lies not only in explaining the number of different users but also in explaining the number of different uses. Publisher's link:... View Details