internet of things - Publications - Faculty & Research

December 2019
Case

Steemit: A New Social Media?

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Alexander White and Karen Elterman

This case discusses the alternative social media site Steemit, including the principles it was founded on in 2016 and the challenges it faced in 2019. Steemit was a blockchain-based platform that aimed to differentiate itself from other social media companies by... View Details

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12 May 2021
News

The First Five Years: Sophie Bai (MBA 2020)

in common. SB: “We are astonishingly similar. We both came to the US from China for our undergraduate studies and we both started working here after college. Career-wise, both of us were in private equity—thank god we weren’t in the same... View Details

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Madison McIlwain

power of self-conviction in my own career and personal life. What is one thing you brought with you to campus, and one thing you'll be leaving with? A tea pot. A deeper sense... View Details

01 Dec 2022
News

Future Vision

interactions is one of the things that I most love about Harvard Business School. I have found the Dean’s role to involve a lot more interactions with other people, too: alumni and business leaders, fellow... View Details

Keywords: Brian Kenny; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

26 Jun 2000
Research & Ideas

Presentation Round-Up

HBS Professor Marco Iansiti and H.T. Kung, William H. Gates Professor of Computer Science at Harvard, solicited views on new directions for the Internet in a panel discussion called "e-Service: The Next... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Kenneth Liss; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications

21 Aug 2019
Research & Ideas

What Machine Learning Teaches Us about CEO Leadership Style

such as the mobile phone and Internet of Things explosions across many fast-growing Asian economies. Beyond academic questions, business analysts could use these... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

24 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

The 'Amazon Effect' Is Changing Online Price Competition—and the Fed Needs to Pay Attention

It’s no secret that fierce competition from Amazon puts downward pressure on prices charged by Walmart and other big multichannel retailers for the same items. However, the bigger “Amazon effect” relates not to the prices themselves but to the pricing behaviors View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Retail

10 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

Key to Doing Your Best at Work? Be Yourself

Gazette What can people do now to start living their lives more authentically? Gino: Finding that moment of reflection, I think, is a good first step. And then to say, I’m going to organize my work or my day to make sure that I bring that... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

Profile

Jiaojun Wang

adventure. Being part of the HBS community is like... ...having a group of great friends who will never let you settle and always challenge you to see things differently. Every... View Details

15 Jun 2021
News

Leading at State

Foreign Service Institute and is now the US chargé d’affaires to India. “A lot of what Harvard Business School has to offer is fundamental leadership training, change management, organizational management, and other View Details

Keywords: leadership; international relations; politics; Executive Education

Portrait Project

Sonali Bloom

My mother soothed my then-thin skin. In my hometown, my self-assured classmates were cozy with the way things were: straightforward and simple. I was a half-and-half, a hybrid, a newness. An Other. But my distinct otherness bred curiosity... View Details

13 Apr 2021
Book

How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations

Unless men embrace their role in eliminating gender bias and barriers, organizations and institutions will never leverage the value that women bring to the workplace. “Most positions of power are still held by men,” says Colleen Ammerman,... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

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Tim Kluska

our section and the fun we can have with our work! What is one thing you brought with you to campus, and one thing you'll be leaving with? With a class size of over 900... View Details

19 Apr 2023
News

A Kick Start for Latin American Startups

head of operations). "NotCo is now selling in Burger King in several countries because of this intro. And they're starting to test in Starbucks," she says. "So there are a lot View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

20 Nov 2019
Research & Ideas

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

on friends, family, and even strangers on the Internet when they’re deciding which products to purchase or even which people to date. And they put a lot of trust in their fellow humans; 83 percent View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

23 Jun 2008
Research & Ideas

Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings

the things I write about in these papers are applicable to a large range of Americans. Programs such as automatic defaults and 401(k) defaults, as embodied in proposals like the auto-IRA and AutoSave, are... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

17 Jan 2023
Book

Good Companies Commit Crimes, But Great Leaders Can Prevent Them

In a fraught ethics and legal climate, leaders need to know how to steer clear of trouble more than ever. Corporate Criminal Investigations and Prosecutions, released in September, offers a comprehensive resource on everything from the... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

01 Dec 2023
News

Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The World’s Littlest Book on Climate: Ten Facts in Ten Minutes About CO2 By Mike Nelson, Pieter Tans, and Michael Banks (MBA 1983) Independently Published In this updated edition of the world’s smallest book on the world’s biggest... View Details

Keywords: podcasts

13 Jun 2019
Blog Post

Expanding My Worldview Through FIELD Global Immersion

that is unfamiliar to you. Prior to HBS I was a clean energy engineer – not a digital marketer or consumer goods expert. The great thing about FGI is that creating a successful project requires you to do fun View Details

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Marketing Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Faculty Award for Outstanding Teaching. 1999 Rajiv Lal : Nominated in 1999 for the John D.C. Little Award for "When and How Is the Internet Likely to Decrease Price Competition" (with M. Sarvary, Marketing Science , 1999). 1998 Sunil... View Details

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