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- 13 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
Science: The Unlikely Frontier for New Business Ideas
intensity,” followed by patent filings that didn’t cite papers but referenced another patent that did. The least science-based products offered no connections to past research in their filings. "The added uncertainties and costs of tough View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 17 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Can Autonomous Vehicles Drive with Common Sense?
like." Yet as car manufacturers, tech companies, and ride hailing services move forward with plans for deploying AVs, widespread deployment has been slow, primarily because AVs face a huge challenge: Many people are uneasy about... View Details
- 08 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Knowledge Transfer: You Can't Learn Surgery By Watching
fingertips,’” says Myers. Except this system often doesn’t get used. That fact was driven home to Myers while interviewing a tech manager. “He said, ‘I use the knowledge management system all the time—but I just scroll down to the bottom... View Details
- 16 Aug 2022
- Op-Ed
Now Is the Time for Entrepreneurs to Play Offense
Jeffrey J. Bussgang is a senior lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at the Harvard Business School as well as co-founder and general partner at Flybridge Capital Partners, an early-stage venture capital firm. You Might Also Like: For Entrepreneurs, the... View Details
Keywords: by Jeffrey Bussgang
- 29 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
The History and Influence of Andy Grove
most fun place to work. He guided the company through one of the great transitions in tech history, changing a maker of memory chips into a microprocessor powerhouse, but also had failures such as Intel's response to the floating point... View Details
- 01 Nov 2019
- What Do You Think?
Should Non-Compete Clauses Be Abolished?
by Jonathan Pollard. “The time has come for all employee non-compete agreements to be abolished,” he wrote. “If tech giants can operate in California without non-compete agreements, then so can everyone else.” He went on to say,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Sep 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Making the Right Technical Hire
they do not have a good hiring strategy. For decades, there have been books and articles about building engineering teams. The infamous book The Mythical Man Month by Fred Brooks should be on every software engineer and tech startup... View Details
- 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... View Details
- 18 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization
(Photo source: iStock) Economic cluster theory has been used to describe the growth of many industries, including the automotive business around Detroit, high tech in Silicon Valley, and digital media in Seoul. These regions benefit by a... View Details
- 29 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'
Under chief economist Pat Bajari, Amazon has hired more than 150 PhD economists in five years. He’s also cornered the market on what might be called “rookie economists” just out of school. That crowns Amazon the largest employer of tech... View Details
- 02 Nov 2020
- What Do You Think?
Is Antitrust Just a Quaint Notion in the Digital Age?
antitrust laws also don’t deal well with companies that took advantage of network effects to become huge and now are perceived as ‘too big to fail’ or to do anything about.” Does antitrust law need a high tech reset? What do you think?... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail; Technology; Telecommunications; Communications; Consumer Products; Service
- 15 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
Post-CrowdStrike, Six Questions to Test Your Company's Operational Resilience
crisis is just as crucial as the response.” Over 60 percent of tech outages result in at least $100,000 in total losses, and 15 percent cost upward of $1 million, according to the Uptime Institute, a technology trade group. In severe... View Details
Keywords: by Hise Gibson and Anita Lynch
- 01 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
Two Decades Later, is the 'New Economy' Finally Here?
include as legitimate entries on balance sheets (other than as grossly misnamed ‘goodwill’).” We all know what happened. The promise of significantly greater productivity and growth through technology was not realized. Market-to-book value ratios of View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Feb 2015
- What Do You Think?
Is There a Stanford-Google-Silicon Valley School of Management?
reminded of this by a wave of new books describing management practices in Silicon Valley firms, many of them from founders and managers of high tech firms who are just now finding time to write about their accomplishments. Several have... View Details
- 05 Jul 2017
- What Do You Think?
Can Innovation Save Us From Ourselves?
Summing Up Do We Need to Give More Attention to the Dark Side of Innovation? Innovation may be able to help us deal with problems such as famine, pollution, and even global warming. But unless it can prove to be just as effective in combating destructive human traits... View Details
- 25 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments
says Luca, the Lee J. Styslinger III Associate Professor of Business Administration. “They can’t rely on data scientists alone.” Experiments have come to have an outsize influence within tech companies from Uber to Zillow, which test... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 11 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
Marissa Mayer Should Bridge Distance Gap with Remote Workers
don't want to be there. This will do nothing to remedy the productivity and collaboration problem Mayer says she's facing in the ultra-competitive high tech industry. My research suggests that people who feel conflicted about their... View Details
- 03 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The State of Customer Service Leadership
between customers and their barista, technology was being used to the detriment of service. High tech works best in the service sector when it helps frontline people become heroes and heroines in the eyes of their customers. Technology... View Details
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
may need "hot" financial markets to get through the initial period of discovery or diffusion. Download working paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/mrhodeskropf/FinancingRiskandInnovation.pdf Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 114-049... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Codeacademy’s Delicate Work of Adding Monetization Without Crushing Mission
marketplace? A: The Codecademy team focused on a superior product experience for their customers. This focus on product experience and design is a critical element for companies trying to differentiate themselves. It all starts with engaging the user. Q: How important... View Details