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  • 01 Jun 2023
  • News

Curb Appeal

density, the Byzantine nature of its bureaucracy, and the number of entrenched interests at play can frustrate even modest efforts to alter the status quo. Yet none of that appears to faze Tisch any more than did her first snow day. In her previous roles as New York’s... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photography by Vance Jacobs; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government
  • 09 Jun 2015
  • First Look

First Look: June 9, 2015

the closer one gets to the customer in responses from sales and service personnel. This article outlines the issues and explains why withholding information about strategy for competitive reasons often results in greater risk for the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • April 2021 (Revised June 2021)
  • Case

IBM: Design Thinking

By: Srikant M. Datar, Amram Migdal and Paul Hamilton
This case describes the 2012-2020 effort at IBM to implement design thinking throughout the company and hire thousands of designers to serve on every product team alongside technical engineers and developers and product managers. IBM’s design transformation is told... View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Business Divisions; Business Units; Business Organization; Change; Change Management; Transformation; Competency and Skills; Talent and Talent Management; Design; Human Resources; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Innovation and Invention; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Jobs and Positions; Job Design and Levels; Leading Change; Management; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Management Practices and Processes; Operations; Product; Product Design; Product Development; Organizations; Business Processes; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Strategy; Adaptation; Adoption; Technological Innovation; Information Infrastructure; Information Technology; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; United States
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Datar, Srikant M., Amram Migdal, and Paul Hamilton. "IBM: Design Thinking." Harvard Business School Case 121-007, April 2021. (Revised June 2021.)
  • March 2022 (Revised November 2023)
  • Case

Doubling Down: Elon Musk's Big Bets in 2022

By: David Yoffie and Daniel Fisher
2021 was a banner year for Elon Musk. CEO of the electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla, the aerospace manufacturer SpaceX, and a few smaller startups, Musk became the richest person on Earth after Tesla reached a market capitalization of $1 trillion and SpaceX a private... View Details
Keywords: Innovation and Management; Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Information Infrastructure; Applications and Software; Transportation; Strategic Planning; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Goals and Objectives; Aerospace Industry; Auto Industry; Battery Industry; United States; Europe; China
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Yoffie, David, and Daniel Fisher. "Doubling Down: Elon Musk's Big Bets in 2022." Harvard Business School Case 722-439, March 2022. (Revised November 2023.)

    Paul Hamilton

    Paul studies the economic complements needed for firms to realize productivity gains from machine learning and artificial intelligence. These complements include data, human capital & skills, organizational processes, and business models. 
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    • September 2006 (Revised October 2007)
    • Module Note

    Platform-Mediated Networks: Definitions and Core Concepts

    By: Thomas R. Eisenmann
    Defines platform-mediated networks and introduces concepts central to their study. First, it defines networks and network effects; explains how network effects influence users' willingness-to-pay for network access; describes factors that determine the strength of... View Details
    Keywords: Consumer Behavior; Network Effects; Digital Platforms; Information Technology; Information Infrastructure; Digital Platforms
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    Eisenmann, Thomas R. "Platform-Mediated Networks: Definitions and Core Concepts." Harvard Business School Module Note 807-049, September 2006. (Revised October 2007.)
    • 05 Jun 2023
    • What Do You Think?

    Is the Anxious Achiever a Post-Pandemic Relic?

    infrastructure (support systems).” They have accounted for a substantial portion of the output and productivity of the world’s most developed economies. Now the anxious achievers occupying many leadership positions are confronted with a... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 18 Jun 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    Industrial Decarbonization: Confronting the Hard Challenges of Cement

    Cities like Cairo; Chongqing, China; Delhi; and Kinshasa, Congo are experiencing population explosions accompanied by unprecedented demand for homes, offices, factories, and infrastructure. In the United States, the Biden Administration’s policy-driven infrastructure... View Details
    Keywords: by by Janelle Conaway; Green Technology; Energy; Industrial Products; Manufacturing
    • 22 Feb 2018
    • Book

    The New History of American Capitalism

    infrastructure for transactional activity, new scholarship asks what forces shape modern patterns of economic activity and how those patterns sort people and resources. Instead of reproducing conventional dichotomies, current historians... View Details
    Keywords: Manufacturing
    • 12 Mar 2021
    • News

    My Favorite Case

    This was my favorite case in my favorite class, Entrepreneurial Management, taught by Professor Howard Stevenson. The protagonist learned the hard way that she had to plan to manage growth and, unfortunately, her operations infrastructure... View Details
    Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
    • 07 Aug 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: August 7, 2007

    community and local entrepreneurs in India's software industry. We find that entrepreneurs located outside software hubs—in cities where monitoring and information flow on prospective clients is harder—rely significantly more on diaspora... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
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    About the Project - U.S. Competitiveness

    leaders, especially in business, can take to strengthen the U.S. economy. The research is informed by global surveys of Harvard Business School alumni working in many industries. Project faculty members regularly present the latest... View Details
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    Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

    infrastructure to capture information from the manufacturing plant floor and creates decision support software to enable improved decision making. Twin Photon Bernie McNamara Justin Serrano Zac Walton... View Details
    • 26 Nov 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers

    systems of factories, hotels, hospitals, or agencies as reflected in (a) the structure of who gets what good, service, or information from whom, (b) the coordinative connections among people so that they can express reliably what they... View Details
    Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto
    • 06 Oct 2020
    • Sharpening Your Skills

    18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters

    Since March, Harvard Business School Working Knowledge has posted more than 80 stories and research papers on the topic of COVID-19, most targeted at managers and the new challenges they face. That's a lot of information to digest. To... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • January 2006 (Revised October 2006)
    • Case

    Hewlett-Packard: The Flight of the Kittyhawk (A)

    By: Clayton M. Christensen
    Hewlett-Packard decided that, to grow more rapidly, it needed to design a revolutionary disk drive product that would create an entirely new market or application for magnetic recording technology. The company followed most of the "rules" good managers follow in such... View Details
    Keywords: Management; Information Infrastructure; Innovation and Management; Product Development; Computer Industry; United States
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    Christensen, Clayton M. "Hewlett-Packard: The Flight of the Kittyhawk (A)." Harvard Business School Case 606-088, January 2006. (Revised October 2006.)
    • 04 Apr 2018
    • Research & Ideas

    Smart Cities are Complicated and Costly: Here's How to Build Them

    Chombosan Much promotion of smart cities assumes that municipalities will take a proactive, top-down, technology-first approach to urban progress. Thus far, these initiatives look for some forward-thinking city official (or immensely deep-pocketed private investor) to... View Details
    Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction; Green Technology
    • 14 May 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: May 14

    that decays over time, similar to that of advertising. A major challenge is that privacy laws prevent us from observing information about the applicant pool. I overcome this challenge by using order statistic distribution to infer... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 25 Aug 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    Why IT Does Matter

    but not nearly as dramatic as a computer produced in 2000, which runs 10 million times faster than a 1960s' computer. Carr's graph on information technology stands as a subject lesson for Darrell Huff's well-known book How to Lie with... View Details
    Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan
    • Web

    Instructor Performance - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

    met. Transcript Feedback from Students Tom DeLong Professor DeLong talks about gains to be made by allowing students to give feedback earlier in the semester. Transcript Peer Support and Review Jim Heskett Professor Heskett discusses how important View Details
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