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15 Jul 2019
Book

Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence

it’s a forward-looking, subjective, creative exercise that requires a lot of imagination. Think about valuing Facebook today. It requires predicting the future of privacy policies around the world, the actions of Google and Amazon in the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 May 2019
What Do You Think?

What Should the Leadership of YouTube Do?

good human judgment.” realJoannLyles added, “Tech can't make moral distinctions. Therefore, when a company fails to make moral distinctions, expect tech to fail in the same way. As one person, Susan Wojcicki is limited by her own instincts and biases. She and View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Entertainment & Recreation; Media & Broadcasting

02 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

What If Closing the Wage Gap Means Everyone Earns Less?

Anecdotally, employees also started sharing salaries through Google spreadsheets, according to Cullen’s research. How transparency leads to lower pay Cullen and Pakzad-Hurson studied how the labor market adjusts depending on pay... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

12 May 2020
Research & Ideas

It’s Time To Relaunch Your Remote Team

COVID-19 has made virtual work the new normal. In a few short weeks, meeting tools like Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Chat, and Slack have gone from a useful supplement to the primary enablers for daily interactions with co-workers.... View Details

Keywords: by Tsedal Neeley

17 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

Why Business Should Support Employees Who Are Caregivers

clear, with 33 percent of employers blaming missed work days and 28 percent citing lateness. “How can a Kaiser Permanente compete against a sexier company like Google for talent? They probably can’t compete on pay, but they can compete on... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health

08 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Knowledge Transfer: You Can't Learn Surgery By Watching

and create cultural norms. Google built its New York City campus two years ago with the principle that employees should never be more than 150 feet from some form of free food—creating gathering places for workers to interact. “They... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

30 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition

and increase “asynchronous work” that workers can do on their own time in a Google doc, Slack, or email, says Prithwiraj Choudhury, whose research shows companies often benefit when employees work remotely. Choudhury is the Lumry Family... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

04 Oct 2018
Research & Ideas

Diversity Boosts Profits in Venture Capital Firms

Google Engineer Deserved to be Fired by the CEO What Does 'Diversity' Really Mean? How Should Managers Deal with the Challenges of Building an Inclusive Workplace? What do you think of this research? Share your insights below. View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Banking; Financial Services

22 Jul 2019
Book

How to Be a Digital Platform Leader

All of the most valuable firms in the world today are platforms, starting with Apple, Microsoft, Google and Amazon. But platforms do not evolve in predictable ways, and there is a lot that managers and entrepreneurs can learn about past,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

Research Summary

Overview

By: Iavor I. Bojinov

Over the last decade, technology companies like Amazon, Google, and Netflix have pioneered data-driven research and development processes centered on massive experimentation. However, as companies increase the breadth and scale of their experiments to millions of... View Details

02 Nov 2020
What Do You Think?

Is Antitrust Just a Quaint Notion in the Digital Age?

SUMMING UP Is antitrust just a quaint notion in the internet/Cloud age? What do you think? The lack of response to November’s column sends me a message: There appears to be less interest in antitrust issues regarding technology platforms such as View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail; Technology; Telecommunications; Communications; Consumer Products; Service

14 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

Desktop Search and Revenue Streams

and other types of data are still locked away from Internet users. It's really going to be about great execution.— Mark Kroese, MSN "Rather than leave someone behind, the approach we at Google take is, 'Let's make all that... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette

04 Mar 2016
Research & Ideas

Is E-commerce at Risk in Apple's Security Dispute with the FBI?

they’ll be called anti-national and accused of not helping the right cause and only being after the profits. All technology companies will face this at some point. You’ll remember Google walked out of China when China demanded data for... View Details

Keywords: Re: Sunil Gupta; Technology

03 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Facebook’s Future

are already encouraging us to share private information automatically. For example, if you are using Google Maps on your iPhone, you are most likely sending information to Google about your location and... View Details

Keywords: by Mikolaj Piskorski

11 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

How Hackathons Help Decide Platform Winners and Losers

Choosing the right software platform is a critical task for developers. It can be a business life-or-death decision picking between Android or iPhone, Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud Platform, Xbox or PlayStation. At the same time,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

17 Feb 2015
HBS Case

HBS Cases: The Battle for San Francisco

celebrate. The influx of wealthier professionals has driven up housing costs, increased the pace of gentrification, and threatened the city's rich racial and socioeconomic diversity. Tensions came to a head in December 2013, when a group of angry protesters stopped a... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

18 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

Leading Innovation is the Art of Creating ‘Collective Genius’

Coughran, Google's then senior vice president of engineering, created an environment where engineers could figure out on their own how to best address the company's massive storage challenges in 2006. The problem: Storage issues were created by the huge amount of data... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

08 Sep 2011
What Do You Think?

What’s Apple’s Biggest Challenge: Replacing Steve or Wall Street?

pursue opportunity and successful new product development in spite of investor impatience. The real challenges may lie elsewhere, for example "the market place," as Jasper Ojongtambia suggests, or competition from companies like View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer

02 Jan 2018
Op-Ed

'Dear Working Knowledge'--Our Favorite Reader Comments of the Year

regulations, it's fewer. Is It Time to Break Up Amazon, Facebook, or Google?Craig Parietti & PartnersCraig comments: The concept of US antitrust is outdated. We are now a global economy. So, if we break up Amazon, Apple, Facebook, or View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

29 May 2007
First Look

First Look: May 29, 2007

first, should Schibsted allow Google to crawl its online news sites in Scandinavia? Second, were Schibsted's successes within Scandinavia repeatable outside it? Indeed, how far could Schibsted's competitive advantage travel? Purchase this... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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