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  • October 2018 (Revised August 2023)
  • Case

Safecast: Bootstrapping Human Capital to Big Data

By: Ethan Bernstein and Stephanie Marton
On March 11, 2011, at 2:46pm, a 9.1-on-the-Richter-scale, six-minute long earthquake unleashed a tsunami that ravaged the Tohoku region of Japan, damaging the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power facility and releasing sufficient radioactive material into the air and ocean... View Details
Keywords: Citizen Science; Creative Commons; Open Data; Open Architecture; Volunteer-based Organization; Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Facility; 311; Nuclear; Radiation; Crowdsourcing; Bgeigie; Geiger Counters; Kickstarter; Sustainability; Sustainable Business And Innovation; Design; Energy Generation; Social Entrepreneurship; Human Capital; Innovation and Invention; Crisis Management; Organizational Structure; Organizational Design; Information Technology; Business Model; Energy Industry; Technology Industry; Japan; North and Central America; Europe
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Divide and Conquer: Competing with Free Technology under Network Effects

By: Deishin Lee and Haim Mendelson
We study how a commercial firm competes with a free open source product. The market consists of two customer segments with different preferences and is characterized by positive network effects. The commercial firm makes product and pricing decisions to maximize its... View Details
Keywords: Profit; Product Launch; Network Effects; Open Source Distribution; Adoption; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage
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  • 15 Jan 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The Business of Free Software

about exactly what to give away and how to couple it with complementary products and services than you do anything else." Wooing Open-source Developers Another focus centers on determining how to make it easier for the open View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Computer
  • July 2004 (Revised September 2004)
  • Case

Novell: CEO-led Turnaround and Growth Strategy

By: Richard L. Nolan and Robert D. Austin
Novell CEO Jack Messman tried to return the company to its leadership position in the software industry through a strategy that embraces Linux and other open source software. This case serves as an introduction to open source software and strategies based on open... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Value Creation; Open Source Distribution; Applications and Software; Intellectual Property; Business Strategy; Information Technology Industry
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  • September 2018
  • Article

Do Experts or Crowd-Based Models Produce More Bias? Evidence from Encyclopædia Britannica and Wikipedia

By: Shane Greenstein and Feng Zhu
Organizations today can use both crowds and experts to produce knowledge. While prior work compares the accuracy of crowd-produced and expert-produced knowledge, we compare bias in these two models in the context of contested knowledge, which involves subjective,... View Details
Keywords: Online Community; Collective Intelligence; Wisdom Of Crowds; Bias; Wikipedia; Britannica; Knowledge Production; Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge Dissemination; Prejudice and Bias
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    Karim R. Lakhani

    Karim R. Lakhani is the Dorothy & Michael Hintze Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He specializes in technology management, innovation, digital transformation and artificial... View Details

    Keywords: communications; communications; communications; communications; communications; communications; communications; communications; communications; communications
    • 08 Jul 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: July 8, 2008

    Innovation Authors:Joel West and Karim R. Lakhani Periodical:Industry & Innovation 15, no. 2 (April 2008) Abstract Research on open source software, user innovation and View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • December 2005
    • Case

    IBM and Eclipse (A)

    IBM faces a collective action problem: It open sourced its $40 million application platform and has to convince other companies to contribute. Explores the events leading up to IBM's decision to make the Eclipse platform available as an Open Source project. In 1998,... View Details
    Keywords: Digital Platforms; Open Source Distribution; Cooperation; Adoption; Computer Industry; Information Technology Industry
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    • June 2008 (Revised October 2009)
    • Case

    InnoCentive.com (A)

    By: Karim R. Lakhani
    InnoCentive.com, a firm connecting R&D labs of large organizations to diverse external solvers through innovation contests, has to decide if it will enable collaboration in its community. Case covers the basics of a distributed innovation system works and the... View Details
    Keywords: Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Open Source Distribution; Research and Development; Competition; Cooperation
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    • 16 Apr 2019
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019

    against the backdrop of a turbulent industry and consider the implications for the anesthesiologist. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55974 March 2019 Management Science Open View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 03 Dec 2010
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Creating Leaders: An Ontological Model

    Keywords: by Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen & Kari L. Granger
    • April 2005 (Revised January 2006)
    • Case

    Epodia: Demise of the HBS case-writing Monopoly?

    Karl Ulrich, Wharton professor, must decide between a commercial and "open source" model for his new business case venture. Students analyze a variety of open source and proprietary business models and formulate strategic recommendations. View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; Business Startups; Cases; Management; Open Source Distribution; Business Strategy
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    • 08 Apr 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    Will the Japan Disaster Remake the Landscape for Green Energy in Asia?

    relatively cost efficient and scalable source of electricity. The reviews will happen across the world and each country will consider their own energy mix characteristics together with local sentiment." Todd was one of several... View Details
    Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Energy; Utilities
    • 26 May 2021
    • Video

    Sebastian Vargas (MBA 2022)

    • 01 Mar 2025
    • News

    Heartland

    Let me tell you what’s fantastic about offal.” Jordan Kraft Lambert (MBA 2016), Colorado State University’s first director of agricultural innovation, is a full-body talker, and the topic of organ meat has her fired up. The parts of the cow typically seen as... View Details
    Keywords: Julia Hanna; photos by Vance Jacobs. OPEN CONCEPT: Lambert at Quail Ridge Dairy in Fort Morgan, Colorado.
    • 25 Apr 2014
    • Video

    Amy C. Edmondson - Making A Difference

    • 26 May 2021
    • Video

    Estevan Santiago (MBA 2022)

    • 13 Jan 2011
    • News

    Untangling Code

    • 01 Apr 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    When Power Makes Others Speechless: The Negative Impact of Leader Power on Team Performance

    Keywords: by Leigh Plunkett Tost, Francesca Gino & Richard P. Larrick
    • Awards

    Strategy Science Conference Best Paper Award

    By: Maria P. Roche
    Winner of the 2022 Strategy Science Conference Best Paper Award for “Beefing IT Up for Your Investor? Open Sourcing and Startup Funding: Evidence from GitHub” with Annamaria Conti and Christian Peukert. View Details