internet of things - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Dec 2010
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Doing Business in Emerging Markets

for Internet freedom or cover for a failed business strategy, depending on with whom you talk. Professor John A. Quelch looks behind the headlines in a new case. Key concepts include: China has become more emboldened and self-confident as... View Details

18 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

Caught in the Cogs: When Manufacturing and IT Meet

"custom assembly." In the former, managers pick an existing manufacturing system here, a human resources and finance system there, and bring them together to serve the operation's needs. In the latter, bits and pieces of code... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

07 Feb 2007
Research & Ideas

Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure

because he wanted to emphasize the economic ebb and flow that defines capitalism. "Cycles," he writes in his preface, "are not, like tonsils, separable things that might be treated by themselves, but are, like the beat... View Details

Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw

25 May 2010
First Look

First Look: May 25

done many novel things to educate the market about the value of premium organic and Fairtrade chocolate, Zotter consolidated its market position within the premium segment of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

05 Oct 2009
Research & Ideas

The Vanguard Corporation

Can we use our capabilities in the electronic sensor business to deal with these problems and issues? For example, one of the things they are working on is biosensors that can be attached to the food chain,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

05 Apr 2017
Research & Ideas

For Women Especially, It Pays to Know What Car Repairs Should Cost

researchers conclude in the paper. Says Israeli: “The wonderful thing here is that with the internet and the surge of all these companies that improve transparency and provide... View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild Swearingen; Auto; Service

31 Oct 2007
HBS Case

Climate Change Puts Heat on GMs

know how to 'read' this company," he observes. "To send credible signals to the public, you need to do things that are about more than simple profit maximization." A bit more than a third of... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities

10 Jun 2015
Research & Ideas

The Transparency Revolution in Corporate Reporting

the group of elite firms, you need to be a responsible actor. Q: What kinds of things should investors look to leverage from this study? What are the key performance indicators... View Details

Keywords: Re: George Serafeim

26 May 2003
Research & Ideas

What Your Competition is Telling You

player] has created—and then do things they can't," he says. For example, Cisco essentially created the market for Internet routers that help enterprise customers "link together different types... View Details

Keywords: by David Stauffer

14 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom

the public water supply had previously been damaged by the effects of El Niño. "There wasn't much dispute because things were terrible," he said, adding that many poor residents—who used to have to... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

29 May 2001
Research & Ideas

How Technological Disruption Changes Everything

leaders, "overshooting is always inconceivable, and overshooting always happens," Christensen said. Once disruption takes hold, it typically enables a larger population of less-skilled or less affluent people to do View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health

25 Jun 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing

The mission: To sell more laptops. The market: Rural China. The challenge: The business partner wants to know what laptop features would be appealing to customers in rural China. Landing in Shanghai with eight days to find out, a team of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

05 May 2010
What Do You Think?

Is Denial Endemic to Management?

through the selection of leaders. That is, what qualities should we look for in leaders capable of employing denial usefully? To what degree do they include such things as... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

08 Apr 2009
Research & Ideas

Clayton Christensen on Disrupting Health Care

delivered, the way we use technology, the way pharmaceuticals are developed, the way we educate medical professionals, and who performs what kinds of services. These things are all connected, and changing... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Health

08 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

Is it Worth a Pay Cut to Work for a Great Manager (Like Bill Belichick)?

learn Kahn’s study on the effect of managerial quality on baseball team performance and Belichick’s example in practice offer valuable lessons that support the hype generated when coaches are hired. First, all other View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg & Abhijit Naik; Sports

18 Nov 2021
Op-Ed

5 Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation

in the building that says to Oscar: “You're going to succeed, and you're going to complete college, and you're going to have a career.” Things start to snap and click in Oscar's mind. He can walk through the hallways View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

20 Aug 2007
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively

in which these principles are implemented shows the need to develop IR that is consistent with each firm's unique operating position. “Investors trying to keep on top of things in a more interlinked... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities

23 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

Financial Reporting Goes Global

even well-intentioned practitioners just may not have the skill set to properly implement the standards. In the study of international adoption of standards I mentioned previously, one View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell; Accounting; Financial Services

06 Nov 2007
First Look

First Look: November 6, 2007

Learned from Market Design? Author:Alvin E. Roth Abstract This essay discusses some things we have learned about markets, in the process of designing marketplaces to fix market failures. To work well,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Global Brands: Connecting With Consumers Across Boundaries

the benefit of the product in the mind of the consumer. Krauss also observed that most product advertising on the Internet fails to complement campaigns being carried out in... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner

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