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  • 23 Jan 2019
  • News

The Promise of Personalized Medicine

be able to do computational prediction for creating a top 20 list of antisense oligos. With those, we can test them against his cell line. So as part of the biopsy, in phase one, we establish a cell line. What that is, is it’s taking... View Details
  • 27 Jun 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27

reducing inventory costs (defined here as the sum of stockout losses and cost of capital associated with holding inventory). The heuristic increased estimated agent profits by 15% relative to profits realized through agents actual decisions, while also offering... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 May 2014
  • First Look

First Look: May 13

to improving important parts of the world food supply. But his biggest challenge was in scaling up his organization to address the multitude of opportunities he wanted to address. Along with its massive investments in gene sequencing machines and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Sep 2006
  • First Look

First Look: September 26, 2006

Ventures, Kleiner-Perkins, and others. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=806198 DVD War Harvard Business School Case 706-504 In 2006, the DVD was the most popular storage medium in the entertainment and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Aug 2004
  • Research & Ideas

New Challenges for Long-Term Investors

monitor my investments as often as I like, and that I can perform all kinds of financial transactions from my home computer at a fraction of the cost I would have had to pay twenty years ago. In this sense, these are good times for... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
  • November 2017
  • Teaching Note

Reinventing Best Buy

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
Teaching Note for HBS No. 716-455. On March 1, 2017, Best Buy Company, Inc., North America’s largest retailer of consumer electronics and appliances, announced a third year of comparable-store sales increases and a 20.8% increase in domestic comparable online sales.... View Details
Keywords: Best Buy; Hubert Joly; Renew Blue; Showrooming; Webrooming; E-commerce; E-Commerce Strategy; Online Retail; Multichannel Retailing; Omnichannel; Marketplaces; Turnaround; Consumer Electronics; Consumer Electronics Accessories; Appliances; Stores-within-stores; Store Experience; Store Size; Store Pickup; Store Management; Delivery; Delivery Models; Amazon; Amazon.com; Pricing Strategy; Business Subsidiaries; Business Units; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Satisfaction; Entertainment; Film Entertainment; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Music Entertainment; Television Entertainment; Theater Entertainment; Price; Profit; Revenue; Geographic Scope; Multinational Firms and Management; Business History; Cost; Selection and Staffing; Reports; Technological Innovation; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Human Capital; Leading Change; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Teams; Brands and Branding; Product Marketing; Consumer Behavior; Demand and Consumers; Media; Distribution; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Distribution Channels; Infrastructure; Product; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Public Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Programs; Groups and Teams; Sales; Salesforce Management; Strategy; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Competition; Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Technology; Hardware; Information Technology; Internet; Mobile Technology; Online Technology; Search Technology; Software; Web; Web Sites; Wireless Technology; Resource Allocation; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; United States; Minnesota; Minneapolis; Saint Paul; St. Paul
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  • 17 Jul 2012
  • First Look

First Look: July 17

revolutionized several industries in the process, including music, phones, and computer tablets. This case explores Steve Jobs' successes and the challenges facing his successor, Tim Cook. Could Cook continue to revitalize the Macintosh?... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2011
  • Article

Strategic Change and the Jazz Mindset: Exploring Practices That Enhance Dynamic Capabilities for Organizational Improvisation

By: Ethan S. Bernstein and Frank J. Barrett
How can leaders adopt a mindset that maximizes learning, remains responsive to short-term emergent opportunities, and simultaneously strengthens longer-term dynamic capabilities of the organization? This chapter explores the organizational decisions and practices... View Details
Keywords: Dynamic Capabilities; Strategic Change; Jazz; Jazz Mindset; Improvisation; Innovation; Change Management; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Innovation Leadership; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Leading Change; Leadership Style; Leadership; Management; Management Style; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizations; Creativity; Strategy; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; United States; Japan; Taiwan; Europe; Asia
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  • 17 Oct 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017

are used as a modeling framework for such studies, this data inadequacy can manifest itself as imprecision in the elements of the transition matrix. In this paper, we study how to compute maximal and minimal values for the discounted... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Nov 2016
  • First Look

First Look - November 1, 2016

School Case 317-008 Code.org The case explores Hadi Partovi’s mission to provide every K-12 student in the United States the opportunity to learn computer science. Students can assess how Partovi transformed his passion into an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jan 2008
  • First Look

First Look: January 15, 2008

product design, production, distribution, and system integration may be split up among hundreds or even thousands of firms. Different firms will design and produce the different components of a complex artifact (like the processor, peripherals, and software of a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Aug 2007
  • First Look

First Look: August 28, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407128 Intel 2006: Rising to the Graphics Challenge Harvard Business School Case 607-136 Examines the evolution of the PC hardware industry over the span of two and a half decades. The open architecture... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Oct 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

prior art that invalidates the patent being examined, and productivity in the machine learning process technology requires computer science and engineering (CS&E) skills. We discuss implications for artificial intelligence and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 11 Oct 2016
  • First Look

October 11, 2016

to which citizens can see the often-hidden work that government performs. Across two studies using laboratory and field data, increasing operational transparency improved citizens’ views of and increased engagement with government. In Study 1 (N=554), viewing a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jul 2013
  • Op-Ed

Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In

Pittsburgh had a second act (or third, counting the city's reversal from untenable air and water pollution levels in the 1940s). Pittsburgh's recovery offers a potential model for Detroit. It went on to become a technology hub, anchored in the View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber, Robert C. Pozen, Eric D. Werker & Benjamin Kennedy; Auto
  • 01 Dec 2018
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018

do and what not to do) so that the analytics actually makes a difference. Books on customer analytics exist mainly in two categories: academic texts, which discuss theoretical approaches to data analysis problems, and technical texts, which teach the statistics or... View Details
  • 05 Sep 2017
  • News

Living the Quantitative Life

I'm generally in front of the computer pretty much at all times. So Excel on a laptop is a perfectly good vehicle. When I go on vacations when I don't have my laptop, then it's definitely harder to capture things, obviously. But, yeah,... View Details
  • 01 Feb 2001
  • News

Drilling Down

Exchange. "The role of intellectual capital is more important in this business than any other, except perhaps the pharmaceutical and computer science industries. Oil is a hugely volatile commodity that very few people want to play in, so... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Matthew R. Simmons; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Natural Gas Distribution; Utilities
  • 01 Sep 2010
  • News

Dean Nohria Looks Ahead

technological innovations taking place in the life sciences, in clean tech, and in computer science that could profoundly reshape the business landscape. A third factor is regulation. Whether or not you like the regulatory reform that’s... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
  • 30 May 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Market Makers Bid for Success

part of your goal was to be able to mix and match some of the databases of items for sale, which you could do on a hosted version but couldn't do if they were off in disparate places. Randall: Right. For instance, right now we run auctions for Dell View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Web Services; Technology