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July 2025
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Digital Lending and Financial Well-Being: Through the Lens of Mobile Phone Data

By: AJ Chen, Omri Even-Tov, Jung Koo Kang and Regina Wittenberg-Moerman

To mitigate information asymmetry about borrowers in developing economies, digital lenders use machine-learning algorithms and nontraditional data from borrowers’ mobile devices. Consequently, digital lenders have managed to expand access to credit for millions of... View Details

Keywords: Informal Economy; Digital Banking; Mobile Phones; Developing Countries and Economies; Mobile and Wireless Technology; AI and Machine Learning; Analytics and Data Science; Credit; Borrowing and Debt; Well-being; Banking Industry; Kenya

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September 1995 (Revised November 2005)
Teaching Note

Microsoft in the People's Republic of China, 1993 & 2005 Update (TN)

By: Tarun Khanna

Teaching Note for (9-795-115) and (9-797-107). View Details

Keywords: Information Technology Industry; China

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May 2003
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Managing the Sources of Uncertainty: Matching Process and Context in Software Development

By: Alan MacCormack and Roberto Verganti

Keywords: Management; Risk and Uncertainty; Applications and Software; Research and Development; Technology Industry

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July–August 2021
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Why Do So Many Strategies Fail?

By: David J. Collis

THE PROBLEM: Seemingly successful new companies struggle to turn a healthy profit. Established firms get disrupted by upstarts. Companies that excel at serving their markets can’t adapt when customers’ tastes shift. THE ROOT CAUSE: All too often, business leaders focus... View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Strategic Planning; Business Model; Value; Value Creation; Opportunities

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05 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: iPads, Kindles, and the Close of a Chapter in Book Publishing

Two days ago, the first buyers of Apple's iPad began putting it through its paces, playing games, navigating the Internet, and downloading electronic books. That groan you heard was from dozens of book... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Information; Publishing; Entertainment & Recreation

February 2007
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The Effect of File Sharing on Record Sales: An Empirical Analysis

By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf

Keywords: Information Technology; Sales; Theory

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25 Mar 2020
News

From 'Hello' To 'Can You Hear Me?': How The Coronavirus Could Change Office Culture

12 Jun 2015
News

Powerful lessons from the careers of Bill Gates, Steve Jobs & Andy Grove

May 1986
Case

Data Administration in Citibank Brazil (D): Implementation of the Central Liabilities Pilot

By: Shoshana Zuboff

Keywords: Banks and Banking; Information Management; Banking Industry; Brazil

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April 2019 (Revised February 2025)
Case

Wendell Weeks at Corning Inc.: Extending a History of Life-Changing Innovations (A)

By: Ryan Raffaelli, David G. Fubini and Aldo Sesia

This case examines the leadership challenges associated with maintaining a culture of innovation in established organizations. It asks students to step into the shoes of a leader faced with making several tough decisions about when to invest (or to stop investing) in... View Details

Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Organizational Culture; Innovation Leadership; History; Technological Innovation; Investment; Decision Making

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October 2014
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Industrial Policy and the Creation of New Industries: Evidence from Brazil's Bioethanol Industry

By: Santiago Mingo and Tarun Khanna

Industrial policy programs are frequently used by governments to stimulate economic activity in particular sectors of the economy. This study explores how an industrial policy program can affect the creation and evolution of an industry and, ultimately, the long-term... View Details

Keywords: Economic Sectors; Policy; Economic Growth; Government and Politics; Energy Sources; Green Technology Industry; Green Technology Industry; Brazil

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2007
Working Paper

The Impact of Component Modularity on Design Evolution: Evidence from the Software Industry

By: Alan MacCormack, John Rusnak and Carliss Y. Baldwin

Much academic work asserts a relationship between the design of a complex system and the manner in which this system evolves over time. In particular, designs which are modular in nature are argued to be more "evolvable," in that these designs facilitate making... View Details

Keywords: Product Design; Adaptation; Software; Information Technology Industry

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24 Apr 2014
News

Expanding the reach of business from Silicon Valley to the global arena

fund for young US technology companies. He is now the founding cochairman of Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, a leading venture philanthropy firm supporting early-stage social enterprises making a... View Details

December 1994
Background Note

Note on Estimating the Value of the "IT Asset" Part II

By: Richard L. Nolan

Keywords: Information Technology; Valuation; Assets

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December 1994
Background Note

Note on Estimating the Value of the "IT Asset" Part I

By: Richard L. Nolan

Keywords: Information Technology; Valuation; Assets

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September 2013 (Revised August 2015)
Background Note

Leadership and Teaming

By: Ethan Bernstein

Small differences in the leadership of teams can have large consequences for the success of their efforts. Many initiatives fail not because of a fatal error in judgment or insufficient ideas, knowledge, motivation, or capabilities to deliver a solution. They fail... View Details

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08 Sep 2021
News

Talent Shortage? Maybe It’s Your Automated Hiring System, Lack of Investment in Training

21 Jul 2015
Working Paper Summaries

Enabling Versus Controlling

Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu & Julian Wright

07 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

Obama’s Clean Power Plan: Can Nuclear Power Beat the Global Threat of Coal?

massively more important than anything else," he says at 7:17. Around the ten-minute mark, Lassiter introduces three types of nuclear power plants: light-water reactors with passive safety systems, sodium fast reactors, and molten salt... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Energy; Utilities

06 Feb 2019
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Digital Lending and Financial Well-Being: Through the Lens of Mobile Phone Data

Microsoft in the People's Republic of China, 1993 & 2005 Update (TN)

Managing the Sources of Uncertainty: Matching Process and Context in Software Development

Why Do So Many Strategies Fail?

HBS Cases: iPads, Kindles, and the Close of a Chapter in Book Publishing

The Effect of File Sharing on Record Sales: An Empirical Analysis

From 'Hello' To 'Can You Hear Me?': How The Coronavirus Could Change Office Culture

Powerful lessons from the careers of Bill Gates, Steve Jobs & Andy Grove

Data Administration in Citibank Brazil (D): Implementation of the Central Liabilities Pilot

Wendell Weeks at Corning Inc.: Extending a History of Life-Changing Innovations (A)

Industrial Policy and the Creation of New Industries: Evidence from Brazil's Bioethanol Industry

The Impact of Component Modularity on Design Evolution: Evidence from the Software Industry

Expanding the reach of business from Silicon Valley to the global arena

Note on Estimating the Value of the "IT Asset" Part II

Note on Estimating the Value of the "IT Asset" Part I

Leadership and Teaming

Talent Shortage? Maybe It’s Your Automated Hiring System, Lack of Investment in Training

Enabling Versus Controlling

Obama’s Clean Power Plan: Can Nuclear Power Beat the Global Threat of Coal?

What’s the point of economists? Look to America’s tech giants to find out