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- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Ipsita Dasgupta - Global Perspective, Local Results
provide microfinance to entrepreneurs. “People in developing countries grasp technology very quickly, but the big battle is literacy,” she remarks. Creating Web sites that use images and numbers instead of text is one tactic for crossing the View Details
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Commodities, Currencies, and Balancing of the Trade Deficit - A Chronicle of the China Trade
to Augustine Heard, June 8, 1845. HC: EM 4-2. Jones, Köll, and Gendron, p. 7. Downs, p. 335 Digital Accessibility Contact Baker Library Historical Collections Baker Library | Bloomberg Center Harvard Business School Soldiers Field Boston... View Details
- March 2021
- Case
VideaHealth: Building the AI Factory
By: Karim R. Lakhani and Amy Klopfenstein
Florian Hillen, co-founder and CEO of VideaHealth, a startup that used artificial intelligence (AI) to detect dental conditions on x-rays, spent the early years of his company laying the groundwork for an AI factory. A process for quickly building and iterating on new... View Details
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Innovation and Invention; Disruptive Innovation; Technological Innovation; Information Technology; Applications and Software; Technology Adoption; Digital Platforms; Entrepreneurship; AI and Machine Learning; Technology Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; North and Central America; United States; Massachusetts; Cambridge
Lakhani, Karim R., and Amy Klopfenstein. "VideaHealth: Building the AI Factory." Harvard Business School Case 621-021, March 2021.
- January 2025
- Case
GE Appliances 2025: Energizing Change
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jacob A. Small
At the turn of 2025, Kevin Nolan, CEO of GE Appliances following its acquisition by Chinese appliance giant Haier in 2016, is reviewing progress toward his net zero carbon vision for homes, which would otherwise exacerbate the global warming climate crisis. An... View Details
- 20 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is a Social Media Blockbuster
next to his became social currency across Canada. It's easy to write off these fads as simple stunts of digital narcissism, but they matter to marketing because they carry incidental meaning. It was not lost on Ford's reelection team that... View Details
Keywords: by John Deighton
- 16 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
When the Internet Runs Out of IP Addresses
from the various other standards transitions we've faced before. For example, the digital TV transition benefited from a strong central authority, the U.S. government, that could order transition on a particular date certain. Not so here,... View Details
- 08 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Representation Matters: Building Case Studies That Empower Women Leaders
bring to life the stories of a diverse and passionate array of changemakers, through projects like Pathways to a Just Digital Future and our Glass-Shattering Leaders case series, and our teaching material collections. Role models are one... View Details
Keywords: by Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg
- 06 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Innovator’s Battle Plan
seem to want. For example, Kodak first began to sense that digital imaging might pose a threat to its core business in the mid-1990s. It invested more than $2 billion in research and development. However, it framed the challenge as,... View Details
- 04 Mar 2019
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Antidote to Surveillance Capitalism?
the digital dream” began with the founding of Google, “the pioneer of surveillance capitalism,” during what can be characterized as a naïve global environment that allowed it to capture and organize much of the world’s information... View Details
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
problems. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/612017-PDF-ENG Digital Microscopy Is Making Me Crazy! Willy ShihHarvard Business School Case 612-002 For Carl Zeiss Microimaging, modular hardware and software enabled... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Harvard Environmental Centers - Business & Environment
that address all aspects of the climate crisis. Digital, Data, and Design Institute at Harvard - Climate and Sustainability Impact Lab The mission of the lab is to advance our understanding of how digital transformation and the use of... View Details
- 02 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 2, 2009
Working PapersTruth in Giving: Experimental Evidence on the Welfare Effects of Informed Giving to the Poor Authors:Christina Fong and Felix Oberholzer-Gee Abstract It is often difficult for donors to predict the value of charitable giving because they know little... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 2023
- Working Paper
Personalized Game Design for Improved User Retention and Monetization in Freemium Games
By: Eva Ascarza, Oded Netzer and Julian Runge
One of the most crucial aspects and significant levers that gaming companies possess in designing
digital games is setting the level of difficulty, which essentially regulates the user’s ability to
progress within the game. This aspect is particularly significant in... View Details
Keywords: Freemium; Retention/churn; Field Experiment; Field Experiments; Gaming; Gaming Industry; Mobile App; Mobile App Industry; Monetization; Monetization Strategy; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Customers; Retention; Product Design; Strategy
Ascarza, Eva, Oded Netzer, and Julian Runge. "Personalized Game Design for Improved User Retention and Monetization in Freemium Games." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-062, November 2020. (Revised December 2023.)
- September 2018 (Revised May 2021)
- Teaching Plan
Eastern Bank: Innovating Through Eastern Labs
By: Karen Mills, Dennis Campbell and Aaron Mukerjee
Eastern Bank is a 200-year-old New England mutual bank with a community focus. Eastern specializes in small business lending, having made strategic investments to become the top SBA lender in New England in the midst of the Great Recession, when other banks were... View Details
Keywords: Banks; Fintech; Innovation; Innovation ＆ Entrepreneurship; Innovation And Strategy; Technological Change; Technology And Innovation Management; Entrepreneurial Management; Intrapreneurship; Banks and Banking; Innovation and Invention; Entrepreneurship; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Information Technology; Management
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The Challenge of Color - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
Introduction The Exhibition Photography and Print Advertising Pictorial Publicity Challenge of Color Breaking Down Barriers Dream Realities Route of the Exhibition Research Links Credits Copyright © Presidents and Fellows of Harvard College Harvard University Harvard... View Details
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Our Mission & Team | Institute for Business in Global Society
executives to create BiGS learning networks. Mariana Castaneda Digital Communications Manager Mariana Castaneda is the team’s Digital Communications Manager. They engage leaders around the world by... View Details
- 14 Dec 2016
- HBS Seminar
Siobhan O'Mahony and Rebecca Karp, Boston University
- 29 Oct 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Robots in the Boardroom
recent research from Harvard Business School faculty marks the possibilities and pitfalls that could occur along this digital transformation. A Good Place to Start Ethics Bots and Other Ways to Move Your Code of Business Conduct Beyond... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- April 2020 (Revised January 2022)
- Case
Uber: Competing Globally
By: Alexander J. MacKay, Amram Migdal and John Masko
This case describes Uber’s global market entry strategy and responses by regulators and local competitors. It details Uber’s entry into New York City (New York), Bogotá (Colombia), Delhi (India), Shanghai (China), Accra (Ghana), and London (United Kingdom). In each... View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Geography; Geographic Location; Geographic Scope; Globalization; Global Strategy; Multinational Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Governance; Governance Controls; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Innovation and Invention; Disruptive Innovation; Innovation Strategy; Law; Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Markets; Demand and Consumers; Consumer Behavior; Network Effects; Emerging Markets; Market Design; Market Entry and Exit; Market Participation; Supply and Industry; Industry Structures; Planning; Strategic Planning; Relationships; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Labor and Management Relations; Networks; Strategy; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Competition; Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Expansion; Information Technology; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Digital Platforms; Transportation; Transportation Networks; Transportation Industry; Technology Industry; Africa; Ghana; Asia; China; Shanghai Shi; Shanghai; India; New Delhi; Europe; United Kingdom; England; London; Latin America; North and Central America; United States; New York (city, NY); New York (state, US); South America; Colombia
MacKay, Alexander J., Amram Migdal, and John Masko. "Uber: Competing Globally." Harvard Business School Case 720-404, April 2020. (Revised January 2022.)
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Simmons Family Endows Professorship
approval to issue digital certificates, an application that will, for example, enable consumers to electronically file legal documents, order prescriptions, and renew loans. While Harris and David, both of whom live in Salt Lake City,... View Details