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15 Dec 2024
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Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Power of Imperfect Eating By Kavita Bhatnagar (SELP 11, 2022) Penguin Enterprise Rather than dictating which foods are good or bad, this book weaves together stories that mirror the intricate, emotional, and often imperfect... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

October 2005 (Revised February 2007)
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Red Flag Software Co.

By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Tarun Khanna, David Lane and Elizabeth Raabe

In 2005, just five years after its formal launch, Beijing-based Red Flag Software was the world's second-largest distributor of the Linux operating system and was expecting its first annual profit. On a unit basis, Red Flag led the world in desktops (PCs) shipped with... View Details

Keywords: Digital Platforms; Competitive Advantage; Applications and Software; Business Startups; Globalized Markets and Industries; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; Beijing; United States

2010
Working Paper

Mixed Source

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Gaston Llanes

We study competitive interaction between a profit-maximizing firm that sells software and complementary services and a free open source competitor. We examine the firm's choice of business model between the proprietary model (where all software modules are... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Duopoly and Oligopoly; Monopoly; Open Source Distribution; Quality; Competition; Information Technology Industry

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1997
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Winners and Losers--Industry Structure in the Converging World of Telecommunications, Computing, and Entertainment

By: D. J. Collis, P. W. Bane and S. P. Bradley

Keywords: Supply and Industry; Communication; Information Technology; Entertainment; Competition; Conflict and Resolution; Telecommunications Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Telecommunications Industry

01 Jun 2004
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Alumni Bookshelf

integrity plays in business and provides advice on how to ensure that it is incorporated into the firm. Send information about new alumni-authored books to bulletin@hbs.edu. View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet)

01 Oct 2001
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Peter W. Olson: By the Book

world literature, including Salman Rushdie, Toni Morrison, and John Updike. In a volatile industry known for the intelligence, passion, and eccentricity of its publishers, Olson emphasizes the importance of face-to-face meetings over... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet)

01 Jun 2002
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HBS Press Books in Brief

syndrome, manage innovation, and develop action plans to attain — and maintain — industry leadership. From the Harvard Business Review Paperback Series: Harvard Business Review on Breakthrough Leadership. In this important collection,... View Details

Keywords: Harvard Business School Press; books; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet)

August 1999 (Revised May 2000)
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E Ink

By: Teresa M. Amabile and Susan Archambault

E Ink is a high-technology start-up attempting to revolutionize print communication through electronic ink displays. The founders and top managers of this two-year-old firm are striving to translate a technological breakthrough into a working prototype, move from... View Details

Keywords: Customer Focus and Relationships; Entrepreneurship; Technological Innovation; Business or Company Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Industry Structures; Organizational Structure; Commercialization; Technology; Information Technology Industry

01 Sep 2003
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Alumni Bookshelf

coauthored by Steven L. Ossad (MBA ’76) (Taylor Trade Publishing) With a subtitle World War II’s Greatest Forgotten Commander, this is a biography of the highest-ranking American Jewish officer ever killed in battle. Send information... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet)

01 Feb 1997
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New Releases

themselves. According to Regina Herzlinger, the School's Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration, those same forces are now at work on the country's largest service industry - health care. In her latest book, Herzlinger... View Details

28 May 2019
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Broken Link

innovative tools that help them explore, learn, and create. And teachers can better identify when a student might need a little extra help,” says Sara Kloek, director of education policy at the Software & Information View Details

Keywords: Nicole Torres; Information; Information

1993
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Global Competition in Technology

By: Stephen P. Bradley, R. L. Nolan and J. A. Hausman

Keywords: Globalized Markets and Industries; Competition; Information Technology; Technology Industry

February 2007 (Revised February 2007)
Case

Wikipedia (A)

By: Karim R. Lakhani and Andrew P. McAfee

Wikipedia has emerged as a robust model for content production by volunteers working asynchronously on the Internet with a unconventional model for distributed decision making. The "Articles for Deletion" process in Wikipedia provides unique insight into the inner... View Details

Keywords: Information Publishing; Information Management; Internet and the Web; Information Technology; Globalization; Service Delivery; Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge Management; Information Industry; Information Industry

01 Mar 2006
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Using IT to Heal U.S. Health Care

2004. Brailer’s mission is to give every American an electronic health-care record by 2014 and to link those records to a national medical data network. “It’s time to put health information technology center stage,” Brailer told some 300... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 2018
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Research Is the Foundation

language change can bridge differences and facilitate cross-border collaboration.” —Tsedal Neeley, Professor of Business Administration Private Capital Project Private capital is just that—private. As a result, little information is... View Details

January 2014 (Revised March 2014)
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SAP 2014: Reaching for the Cloud

By: Karim R. Lakhani, Marco Iansiti and Noah Fisher

In May 2014, Bill McDermott will become the sole CEO of SAP AG, the world leader in the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) field. The case occurs in January 2014 at SAP's investors meeting, at a time when the company's stock is near record high. A 2010 strategy... View Details

Keywords: Cloud Computing; Platform; Strategy And Execution; Strategy And Leadership; Enterprise Resource Planning; Software; Information Technology; Digital Platforms; Applications and Software; Information Technology Industry; Germany

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01 Mar 2015
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The Next Big Swing

Oscar-nominated 2011 adaption of Michael Lewis’s Moneyball. But well before baseball stats went Hollywood, Tippett was quietly turning industry heads with something decidedly less flashy: a graphics-light, stat-heavy computer baseball... View Details

2008
Working Paper

The Architecture of Platforms: A Unified View

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and C. Jason Woodard

The central role of "platform" products and services in mediating the activities of disaggregated "clusters" or "ecosystems" of firms has been widely recognized. But platforms and the systems in which they are embedded are very diverse. In particular, platforms may... View Details

Keywords: Digital Platforms; Industry Clusters; Infrastructure; Information Infrastructure; Digital Platforms