internet of things - Publications - Faculty & Research

2020
Chapter

Climate Change Is Going to Transform Where and How We Build

As fires, floods, and droughts increasingly threaten homes, businesses, and other institutions, climate risk has become financial risk. This implies that homeowners and investors have been making location decisions without properly pricing the cost of potential peril,... View Details

Keywords: Climate Change; Housing; Mortgages; Geographic Location; Real Estate Industry

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04 May 2021
Book

Best Buy: How Human Connection Saved a Failing Retailer

treasuring relationships through unconditional love, infinite support, and the constant fostering of growth, to watching colleagues grow beyond their own expectations by helping them do new things and take... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail

28 Oct 2014
First Look

First Look: October 28

Designed around the course at Harvard Business School, Collis' new text takes the firm that operates across borders as a unit of analysis and the senior manager in a multinational as the typical decision maker. Illustrated with examples... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

11 Dec 2023
Research & Ideas

Doing Well by Doing Good? One Industry’s Struggle to Balance Values and Profits

fields, the authors note. But the rise of the internet over the last few decades pulled the rug out from under old media’s business model. By 2017, 45 percent of all newspaper... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

10 Feb 2021
Research & Ideas

Has #MeToo Changed How Hollywood Hires?

whether this social movement impacted the hiring of female talent, Luo and Zhang focused on new movie projects set up from January 2014 to September 2019 using Done Deal Pro, a database that tracks script deals. They also used information... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Media & Broadcasting

12 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

New Research Explores Multi-Sided Markets

Internet has spawned many two-sided platforms, and all the software platforms that run our computers, PDAs, and mobile phones have only emerged recently. Q: You note in your research that in many multi-sided markets, one side View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

14 Feb 2022
Research & Ideas

Curiosity, Not Coding: 6 Skills Leaders Need in the Digital Age

because we can do it, should we? Is it simply the right thing to do, even if it costs us in the short run?" Employees and customers, especially of the younger generations, expect leaders to take a stand on... View Details

Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards; Technology

28 Feb 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

Master the Team Meeting

particular direction and, if so, take time to discuss. People feeling really up? Share why! People feeling down? How can we work together to make things better? This simple, transparent way of sharing how... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

Article

Healthy Buildings in 2070

By: John D. Macomber and Joseph G. Allen

Fifty years seems a very long time in the future for most industries. Not so in buildings and real estate; built structures routinely last decades if not hundreds of years, as long as they are economically competitive. Any discussion of the 50-year future has to... View Details

Keywords: Health ＆ Wellness; Real Estate; Architectural Innovation; Public Health; Health; Buildings and Facilities; Well-being

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11 Sep 2023
Blog Post

Reflections on My First Semester Teaching at HBS

nontraditional careers and things like entrepreneurship has flipped to become the majority. The cases they read are infinitely more diverse, in terms of companies represented and background View Details

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Course Development

General Management: Processes and Action (GMPA) focuses on implementation and the way that general managers get things done. Typically, they work through processes—sequences of tasks and activities that unfold over time, like strategic planning,... View Details

28 May 2024
In Practice

Job Search Advice for a Tough Market: Think Broadly and Stay Flexible

New graduates entering the job market will face a very different landscape from even a year ago, with a murky economy and potentially more limited career prospects. Though unemployment figures in the US remain near historically low levels, the pace View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

01 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

Encouraging Dissent in Decision-Making

that people did not speak up about things they deemed important. Most of those were not 'bad news' things; to our surprise we found that people were reluctant to voice what they perceived to be good ideas,... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

22 May 2024
HBS Case

Banned or Not, TikTok Is a Force Companies Can’t Afford to Ignore

Businesses that dismiss TikTok as merely a platform for teenagers looking to create and consume cat and dance videos do so at their own peril. That’s the message of a Harvard Business School case study tracing the video-sharing app’s... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology

09 May 2017
What Do You Think?

Should Management Be Primarily Responsible to Shareholders?

success is valued too highly to be interrupted by a hostile takeover,” thus fostering sustainability. If sustainability is such an important issue, how do we encourage it? A number of suggestions were put forward. Fizzinni proposed such... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Dec 2009
Working Paper Summaries

Modeling a Paradigm Shift: From Producer Innovation to User and Open Collaborative Innovation

Keywords: by Carliss Y. Baldwin & Eric von Hippel

07 Mar 2023
HBS Case

ChatGPT: Did Big Tech Set Up the World for an AI Bias Disaster?

ChatGPT’s buzzy debut has made for a rough few months for Google. Close watchers of the tech giant say: It didn’t have to go this way. Essentially scooped by a competitor on its home turf, Google has scrambled to release its own... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis; Technology

25 Jul 2023
Research & Ideas

Could a Business Model Help Big Pharma Save Lives and Profit?

pricing for the poorest of the poor. By selling branded therapies alongside generics, Gilead could reach the billions of people who live at what Rangan calls the “base” of the... View Details

Keywords: by Esther Schrader; Pharmaceutical; Health

17 Oct 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017

economy, while freshly minted MBAs see magic in founding something new. Yes, startups look magical, but they can also be chaotic and inaccessible. Many books are written for those who aspire to be founders, but a company only has one or two View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

September 2019 (Revised September 2019)
Case

Facebook Fake News in the Post-Truth World

By: John R. Wells, Carole A. Winkler and Benjamin Weinstock

In August 2019, Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, was surrounded by controversy. The first major storm of protest followed the surprise election of Donald Trump as President of the United States on November 8, 2016; many put the blame at the door of fake... View Details