Publications

February 2009 (Revised December 2009)
Case

eReading: Amazon's Kindle

By: Bharat N. Anand, Peter W. Olson Esq. and Mary Tripsas

In November 2007, Amazon introduced the Kindle, the first electronic reader with wireless functionality. The case describes the launch of the Kindle and provides information on representative players in the industry (or broader ecosystem) who are likely to be affected... View Details

Keywords: Books; Disruptive Innovation; Technological Innovation; Industry Structures; Standards; Distribution Channels; Competitive Strategy; Publishing Industry

01 Sep 2024
News

From the Classroom to Casablanca

Issami, who oversees the university’s involvement with Blue Space. By 2020, Bank of Africa had opened the center and ISCAE was ready to launch its program. However, due to the pandemic, they had to adopt a digital approach to working with... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

June 1996 (Revised January 1999)
Case

XcelleNet, Inc. (A)

By: Stephen P. Bradley, Richard L. Nolan and James Leonard

XcelleNet, a $35 million system software company based in Atlanta, was founded in 1986 to address the computing needs of a class of remote and mobile users and data that were rarely connected to a network. Though the clear first mover and leader in the remote... View Details

Keywords: Technological Innovation; Opportunities; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Technology Networks; Computer Industry; Atlanta

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

16 Jul 2024
Op-Ed

Corporate Boards Are Failing in Their No. 1 Duty

important responsibility—hiring the appropriate leader for the job: Companies are not grooming successors within the company. Many boards focus primarily on emergency succession in case something happens to the CEO, rather than keeping their eyes View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

01 Dec 2014
News

Nimble, Quick, and Adaptable

an innovation in the MBA curriculum that gives students an opportunity to test their entrepreneurial chops. FIELD 3 is part of a larger effort by the School to set the pace in a field it has helped define. The Arthur Rock Center for... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

Web

Virtual Campus Tour | MBA

the annual New Venture Competition and the Entrepreneurs-in-Residence program where accomplished entrepreneurs spend a year at the School counseling MBA students. Rock Center for Entrepreneurship Batten Hall Home of the Harvard View Details

01 Mar 2012
News

Get Creative

balance. The last thing you want to do is foster competition down the line, as IBM did when it let the IP of essential components slip out of its own hands and into the grasp of Microsoft and Intel. Finding those people who have the will... View Details

24 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

We Need a Miracle. New Nuclear Might Provide it.

On September 4, the US Energy Information Agency (EIA) published its 2014 International Energy Outlook. Earlier this year, the International Energy Agency (IEA) released its latest World Energy Investment Outlook. Both watchdogs tell us the same story. Energy... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Lassiter; Energy; Utilities

01 Jun 2022
News

Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students

students, such as the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship, which launched in 2003, followed by the Harvard Innovation Labs in 2011. We’re now 25 years into the annual New Venture Competition sponsored by the... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

October 2015
Case

Facebook: The First Ten Years

By: Shane Greenstein, Marco Iansiti and Christine Snively

Facebook celebrated its ten year anniversary in February 2014. Over the past decade it has grown into the largest social network in the world with one billion users. After filing an IPO in 2012 at a $104 billion valuation (the third largest IPO in U.S. history), the... View Details

Keywords: Social Networks; Technology; Facebook; Entrepreneurship; Profit; Open Source Distribution; Social and Collaborative Networks; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Internet and the Web; Digital Platforms; Social Media; Information Technology Industry

01 Sep 2017
News

Is Private Equity Blockchain’s Killer App?

invented, they’ve always been private,” he says. “You have to get over the cognitive block of, ‘Oh my God, this is going to be open to all the parties,’ and secondly, ‘I now have to change all my processes.’ ” The technology, Lakhani... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

March 2008 (Revised March 2014)
Case

Facebook

By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski, Thomas R. Eisenmann, Aaron Smith, David Chen and Brian Feinstein

As Facebook topped one billion monthly users in October 2012, the online social network continued to face questions about how best to monetize its surging traffic. The company could invest further in new advertising products, which represented the majority of the... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Profit; Open Source Distribution; Social and Collaborative Networks; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Internet and the Web; Digital Platforms; Information Technology Industry