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  • October 2021 (Revised February 2023)
  • Case

Ant Group (A)

By: Krishna G. Palepu, Feng Zhu, Susie L. Ma and Kerry Herman
In 2004, Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba created Alipay, an app to facilitate payments on its e-commerce sites. As Alibaba grew, so did Alipay, until Alipay spawned its own ecosystem of financial technology products and services under the name of Ant Group. By 2020,... View Details
Keywords: Payment Systems; Information Technology; Value Creation; Network Effects; Strategy; Disruptive Innovation; Initial Public Offering; Technology Industry; Financial Services Industry; China
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Palepu, Krishna G., Feng Zhu, Susie L. Ma, and Kerry Herman. "Ant Group (A)." Harvard Business School Case 122-003, October 2021. (Revised February 2023.)
  • June 2010
  • Teaching Note

Cisco Business Councils (2007): Unifying a Functional Enterprise with an Internal Governance System (TN)

By: Ranjay Gulati and Marlo Goetting
Teaching Note for 409062. View Details
Keywords: Customer Focus and Relationships; System; Business Units; Corporate Strategy; Infrastructure; Growth and Development; Decision Making; Restructuring; Resource Allocation; Information Technology Industry
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Gulati, Ranjay, and Marlo Goetting. "Cisco Business Councils (2007): Unifying a Functional Enterprise with an Internal Governance System (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 410-126, June 2010.
  • November 2016 (Revised December 2016)
  • Module Note

Strategy Execution Module 14: Managing Strategic Risk

By: Robert Simons
This module reading provides an overview of the business conduct boundaries, strategic boundaries, and internal control systems used to manage risk. Boundary systems—linked to clear, enforceable sanctions—are essential whenever demanding performance goals are set and... View Details
Keywords: Management Control Systems; Implementing Strategy; Strategy Execution; Boundary Systems; Innovation; Internal Controls; Fraud; Human Behavior; Staff Experts; Strategy; Risk Management; Behavior; Governance Controls; Management Practices and Processes; Boundaries; Employees; Business Strategy; Innovation and Invention
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Simons, Robert. "Strategy Execution Module 14: Managing Strategic Risk." Harvard Business School Module Note 117-114, November 2016. (Revised December 2016.)

    Innovation and Its Discontents: How Our Broken Patent System is Endangering Innovation and Progress, and What to Do About It

    The United States patent system has become sand rather than lubricant in the wheels of American progress. Such is the premise behind this provocative and timely book by two of the nation's leading experts on patents and economic... View Details

    • January 2007
    • Article

    Introducing the First Management Control Systems: Evidence from the Retail Sector

    By: Tatiana Sandino
    Focusing on a sample of US retailers, I study the management control systems (MCS) that firms introduce when they first invest in controls, and identify four categories of initial MCS, which are defined in terms of the purposes these MCS fulfill. The first category,... View Details
    Keywords: Management Control Systems; Entrepreneurial Organizations; Firm Growth; Corporate Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Management Systems; Growth and Development Strategy
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    Sandino, Tatiana. "Introducing the First Management Control Systems: Evidence from the Retail Sector." Accounting Review 82, no. 1 (January 2007): 265–293. (Awarded the Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award, 2005, Management Accounting Section, American Accounting Association; Awarded the Emerging Scholar Competitive Manuscript Award, 2011, Foundation for Applied Research, Institute of Management Accountants.)
    • 2007
    • Chapter

    Informational Complexity and the Flow of Knowledge across Social Boundaries

    By: Lee Fleming, J. Rivkin and O. Sorenson
    Keywords: Complexity; Boundaries; Information Management; Knowledge Dissemination
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    Fleming, Lee, J. Rivkin, and O. Sorenson. "Informational Complexity and the Flow of Knowledge across Social Boundaries." In Applied Evolutionary Economics and Economic Geography, edited by K. Frenken. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2007.
    • 02 Nov 2006
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Resolving Information Asymmetries in Markets: The Role of Certified Management Programs

    Keywords: by Michael W. Toffel
    • August 1997 (Revised July 1999)
    • Case

    Hewlett-Packard's Santa Rosa Systems Division (A): The Trials and Tribulations of a Legacy

    By: Michael Beer
    Describes the process of transforming a recently formed division of Hewlett-Packard. View Details
    Keywords: Business Divisions; Transformation; Courts and Trials; Information Technology Industry
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    Beer, Michael. "Hewlett-Packard's Santa Rosa Systems Division (A): The Trials and Tribulations of a Legacy." Harvard Business School Case 498-011, August 1997. (Revised July 1999.)
    • June 2001 (Revised February 2005)
    • Background Note

    Creative Destruction of Industrial Age Management Principles and Creative Construction of Information Age Management Principles

    By: Richard L. Nolan
    Traces the creative destruction of industrial age management principles and creative construction of new management principles more appropriate for the information age. Includes self-administered questionnaire to permit managers to assess the status of the... View Details
    Keywords: Transformation; Disruptive Innovation; Goals and Objectives; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Personal Development and Career; System; Information Technology
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    Nolan, Richard L. "Creative Destruction of Industrial Age Management Principles and Creative Construction of Information Age Management Principles." Harvard Business School Background Note 301-153, June 2001. (Revised February 2005.)
    • 2019
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    Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 16 Capturing Value by Controlling Bottlenecks in Open Platform Systems

    By: Carliss Y. Baldwin
    The purpose of this chapter is to investigate the means by which firms capture value in open platform systems. I begin by arguing that the surplus value created by complementarities within a technical system will be split among the owners of the unique and essential... View Details
    Keywords: Open Platforms; Bottlenecks; Flow Production; Value Capture; Disintermediation; Production; Management; Digital Platforms
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    Baldwin, Carliss Y. "Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 16 Capturing Value by Controlling Bottlenecks in Open Platform Systems." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-054, November 2019.
    • Web

    IT Strategy: Improving Service to Support Innovation | Information Technology

    knowledge base, where important information can be documented and maintained in perpetuity. It is now visible to all faculty, staff, and MBA students and is a cornerstone of enabling rapid self-service IT support going forward. Onboarded... View Details
    • July 2008
    • Teaching Note

    The Politics and Economics of Accounting for Goodwill at Cisco Systems (TN) (A) and (B)

    By: Karthik Ramanna
    Teaching Note for [109002] and [109003]. View Details
    Keywords: Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; United States
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    Ramanna, Karthik. "The Politics and Economics of Accounting for Goodwill at Cisco Systems (TN) (A) and (B)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 109-004, July 2008.
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    Contested Meanings of Freedom: Workingmen's Wages, the Company Store System and the Godcharles v. Wigeman Decision

    By: Laura Phillips Sawyer
    In 1886, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court struck down a law that prohibited employers from paying wages in company store scrip and mandated monthly wage payments. The court held that the legislature could not prescribe mandatory wage contracts for legally competent... View Details
    Keywords: Wages; Rights; Fairness; Lawsuits and Litigation; Laws and Statutes; Pennsylvania
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    Phillips Sawyer, Laura. "Contested Meanings of Freedom: Workingmen's Wages, the Company Store System and the Godcharles v. Wigeman Decision." Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 12, no. 3 (July 2013): 285–319.
    • August 1997 (Revised July 1999)
    • Case

    Hewlett-Packard's Santa Rosa Systems Division (A1): The Profiling Process and Creation of the Future Model

    By: Michael Beer and Gregory C. Rogers
    Supplements the (A) case. View Details
    Keywords: Information Technology Industry
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    Beer, Michael, and Gregory C. Rogers. "Hewlett-Packard's Santa Rosa Systems Division (A1): The Profiling Process and Creation of the Future Model." Harvard Business School Case 498-012, August 1997. (Revised July 1999.)
    • April 1991 (Revised May 2017)
    • Teaching Note

    Automatic Data Processing: The EFS Decision

    By: Robert Simons
    Teaching Note for (9-190-059). View Details
    Keywords: Strategy And Execution; Management Control Systems; Boundary Systems; Information Technology; Decision Making
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    Simons, Robert. "Automatic Data Processing: The EFS Decision." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 191-170, April 1991. (Revised May 2017.)
    • 2021
    • Article

    Evidence of Decreasing Internet Entropy: The Lack of Redundancy in DNS Resolution by Major Websites and Services

    By: Samantha Bates, John Bowers, Shane Greenstein, Jordi Weinstock, Jonathan Zittrain and Yunhan Xu
    This paper analyzes the extent to which the Internet’s global domain name resolution (DNS) system has preserved its distributed resilience given the rise of cloud-based hosting and infrastructure. We explore trends in the concentration of the DNS space since at least... View Details
    Keywords: Domain Name System; Resilience; Entropy; Internet and the Web; Infrastructure; Performance Effectiveness; Safety; Cybersecurity
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    Bates, Samantha, John Bowers, Shane Greenstein, Jordi Weinstock, Jonathan Zittrain, and Yunhan Xu. "Evidence of Decreasing Internet Entropy: The Lack of Redundancy in DNS Resolution by Major Websites and Services." Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media 1 (2021).
    • July 2008
    • Supplement

    The Politics and Economics of Accounting for Goodwill at Cisco Systems (A) and (B) Teaching Note (CW)

    By: Karthik Ramanna
    Keywords: Goodwill Accounting; Information Technology; Teaching; Information; Computer Industry; Technology Industry
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    Ramanna, Karthik. "The Politics and Economics of Accounting for Goodwill at Cisco Systems (A) and (B) Teaching Note (CW)." Harvard Business School Spreadsheet Supplement 109-703, July 2008.
    • April 2011
    • Module Note

    The Boundaries of Customer Information Systems: Limiting Management Awareness of Strategic Opportunities

    By: Francisco de Asis Martinez-Jerez
    Keywords: Customers; Information Management; Boundaries; Growth and Development Strategy
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    Martinez-Jerez, Francisco de Asis. "The Boundaries of Customer Information Systems: Limiting Management Awareness of Strategic Opportunities." Harvard Business School Module Note 111-102, April 2011.
    • Article

    Association of the Meaningful Use Electronic Health Record Incentive Program with Health Information Technology Venture Capital Funding

    By: Samuel Lite, William J. Gordon and Ariel Dora Stern
    IMPORTANCE
    Although the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act has accelerated electronic health record (EHR) adoption since its passage, clinician satisfaction with EHRs remains low, and the association of HITECH with... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Information Technology; Laws and Statutes; Innovation and Invention; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital
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    Lite, Samuel, William J. Gordon, and Ariel Dora Stern. "Association of the Meaningful Use Electronic Health Record Incentive Program with Health Information Technology Venture Capital Funding." JAMA Network Open 3, no. 3 (March 2020).
    • March 1998 (Revised September 1999)
    • Supplement

    Electronic Data Systems (EDS)Supplement: A Personal Diary of A GVD Experience, Mexico City, October 4, 1997

    By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Thomas Dretler
    Supplements the case. View Details
    Keywords: Information Technology Industry; Mexico
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    Kanter, Rosabeth M., and Thomas Dretler. "Electronic Data Systems (EDS)Supplement: A Personal Diary of A GVD Experience, Mexico City, October 4, 1997." Harvard Business School Supplement 398-075, March 1998. (Revised September 1999.)
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