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  • 01 Sep 2023
  • News

Case Study: The Home Team

Illustration by Jon Krause Illustration by Jon Krause Brendan Kennealey (MBA 2006) wasn’t even searching for a business idea. A couple of years ago, the Wilmington, Delaware, native met up with an old friend who’d bought a new house. Over dinner this friend enumerated... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Real Estate
  • 11 Jan 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Mixing Open Source and Proprietary Software Strategies

that market segment. We find that when the value of the complementary good and user innovation is low (meaning that the technical possibilities for users to improve the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Web Services
  • 21 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 21, 2009

consumption fluctuations faced by individuals, households, and firms. Yet much of this promise remains unrealized. In this paper, we study the adoption of an innovative rainfall insurance product designed to compensate low-income Indian... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Jan 2020
  • Book

Rethinking Business Strategy in the Age of AI

figure it out. It’s a new way of serving users and making customers happy, but it comes with a lot of risks. The minute something this fundamental happens, where you’re essentially taking a firm’s ability to serve consumers and you’re... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 17 Aug 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Quantifying the Economic Impact of the Internet

Older Internet users may remember the battles over the commercialization of the Web in the early 1990s, when the first Mosaic browser was introduced. Back then, pioneering adopters passionately condemned the first Web advertisers and... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch; Advertising; Publishing
  • March 2024
  • Teaching Note

CoPilot(s): Generative AI at Microsoft and GitHub

By: Frank Nagle and Maria P. Roche
This teaching note is the companion to case N9-624-010 CoPilot(s): Generative AI at Microsoft and GitHub, which takes place in late 2021. The case briefly describes the history of both GitHub and Microsoft with a particular focus on open source software (OSS)—software... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; AI and Machine Learning; Applications and Software; Technological Innovation; Product Launch; Open Source Distribution; Product Development; Commercialization; Competition; Resource Allocation; Technology Industry
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  • 01 Jun 2024
  • News

Redefining How Businesses Operate

innovators driving AI initiatives or entrepreneurs who hope to find opportunities in the ever-evolving AI market. The course provides students a methodology and hands-on engagement with the technology to develop and execute real-world... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
  • Web

Business Fundamentals Course - CORe | HBS Online

opportunities. Description of silent animated video above: User types a question into peer help to be answered by fellow students About the Professors V.G. Narayanan Financial Accounting Thomas D. Casserly, Jr. Professor of Business... View Details
  • Web

Online Business Strategy Course | HBS Online

your company’s competitive advantage. We live in an ever changing world and in order to keep up and become successful, continuous education is a must-do. Ozgur Taskaya User Acquisition Manager at Adcash Make stronger strategic... View Details
  • 27 May 2014
  • First Look

First Look: May 27

  Publications August 2013 Princeton University Press A Social Strategy: How We Profit from Social Media By: Piskorski, Mikołaj Jan Abstract—Almost no one had heard of social media a decade ago, but today websites such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn have more than... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 May 2012
  • First Look

First Look: May 15

Distributed Innovation Author:Carliss Y. Baldwin Abstract Systems of distributed innovation-so-called business ecosystems-have become increasingly prevalent in many industries. These entities generally encompass numerous corporations,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 12 Mar 2006
  • Research & Ideas

New Research Explores Multi-Sided Markets

operating systems like Apple, Microsoft, Symbian, and Palm derive their profits from users through licensing fees and do not charge much to allow application developers to access their platforms. On the contrary, videogame console makers... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology
  • 01 Mar 2024
  • News

Giving All Stakeholders a Voice

For John Wu (MBA 2000), “Web3” means more than technological innovation. “It’s a mindset,” he says of the movement toward a decentralized internet that accelerates innovation and gives end users greater collaboration with businesses. “It’s a transformative shift in... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 20 Nov 2019
  • Research & Ideas

It's No Joke: AI Beats Humans at Making You Laugh

places,” Yeomans says. Briefly explaining where the recommendations come from might also foster greater trust in them. Netflix and Amazon do this by telling users that because they chose a certain movie or product, they might be... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • February 2019 (Revised August 2019)
  • Case

KangaTech

By: Karim R. Lakhani, Patrick J. Ferguson, Sarah Fleischer, Jin Hyun Paik and Steven Randazzo
On a warm January afternoon in 2019, Steve Saunders, Dave Scerri, Carl Dilena, and Nick Haslam (see Exhibit 1 for biographies), co-founders of KangaTech, wrapped up the latest round of discussions about the future direction of their sports-technology start-up. Focused... View Details
Keywords: Startup; Technology Commercialization; Prototype; Business Startups; Technological Innovation; Sports; Health; Commercialization; Research and Development; Decision Making; Growth and Development Strategy; Technology Industry; Sports Industry; Health Industry; Australia
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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

John Ikeda, HKS Manoah Koletty, HKS Mustafa Khalifeh Social Enterprise Track Winner Innovative consumer finance for the base of the pyramid. WAVE Hospitality Academy Misan Rewane, HBS Karan Chopra, HBS Navid Rahimi, HBS Bryan Mezue, HBS... View Details
  • 11 Apr 2011
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching a ‘Lean Startup’ Strategy

reams of immediate feedback from site readers, and continued to incorporate feedback into several successive product launches-each of which added only a couple of new features. While the feature additions were gradual, they were rapid, as was company growth: Dropbox... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Computer
  • 09 Feb 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 9

function while others are only peripheral. The dynamics of how such "core-periphery" structures evolve and become embedded in a firm's innovation routines has been shown to be a major factor in predicting survival, especially in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • November 2022
  • Teaching Note

Proximie: Using XR Technology to Create Borderless Operating Rooms

By: Ariel D. Stern, Alpana Thapar and Menna Hassan
Founded by Nadine Hachach-Haram in 2016, Proximie was a digital medicine platform that used mixed reality and a host of digital audio and visual tools to enable clinicians, proctors, and medical device company personnel to be virtually present in operating rooms (ORs),... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Business Growth and Maturation; Growth and Development Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Decision Making; Health Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
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  • 20 Nov 2007
  • First Look

First Look: November 20, 2007

Research Agenda Author:Roberto Verganti Periodical:Journal of Product Innovation Management (forthcoming) Abstract Recent studies on design management have helped us to better comprehend how companies can apply design to get closer to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace