High-tech - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Jan 2004
What Do You Think?

How Should We Think About the Exportation of Jobs?

exported—those involving personal services such as face-to-face retailing and repair work. The Wal-Martization of work in the U.S. is emphasized while the fastest-growing types of service jobs in medicine, high-tech maintenance and... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

06 Jan 2003
What Do You Think?

China: The Next Big Market Opportunity or the Next Big Bubble?

Will this be the next great growth market for investors? Or will it implode with a force greater than that of the U.S. high-tech bust of the past few years? What do you think? View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

18 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

Tech Investment the Wise Way

Press, 2001. This excerpt is taken with permission from a contributed essay in Taking Technical Risks: How Innovators, Executives And Investors Manage High-Tech Risks, edited by Lewis M. Branscomb and Phillip E. Auerswald. Chesbrough and... View Details

Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough & Richard S. Rosenbloom

01 Mar 2007
News

Private Equity under Investigation

in earlier efforts to internationalize, but funds have recently enjoyed great success in Europe and Asia. Similarly, buyouts of high-tech firms were supposed to be too risky, yet recent transactions have proved the received wisdom to be... View Details

Keywords: Josh Lerner; syndication; antitrust enforcement; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

30 May 2000
Lessons from the Classroom

Entrepreneurship’s Wild Ride

research fast-growing, high-tech firms. Q: What are some of the challenges in the future for entrepreneurship? A: Technology is enabling firms to project a presence in places that once—in the days of steamship travel—only huge companies... View Details

Keywords: by William Mahoney

03 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018

assessments of corporate environmental responsibility. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54635 Summer 2018 MIT Sloan Management Review Why High-Tech Commoditization Is Accelerating By: Shih, Willy C.... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Sep 2016
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016

the models that online retailers use to prevent internet fraud, even the most high-tech modern businesses are empowered by theory first envisioned by economists. Pakistan, India and the Bomb: Spy versus Counterspy by James Glenn (MBA... View Details

03 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

Why Fierce Competitors Apple and Amazon Became ’Frenemies’ Over eReaders

e-books through its own iBooks app, so why would [Apple] ever say yes?" Such questions intrigued Zhu, whose research covers competitive strategy and innovation in high-tech industries. Along with Ron Adner of Dartmouth and Jianqing Chen... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Information; Publishing; Technology

10 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Counting Up the Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley

Widely deemed the most important piece of security legislation since formation of the Securities and Exchange Commission in 1934, the landmark Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 was born into a climate still reeling from the burst of the View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Accounting; Banking

04 Dec 2006
Research & Ideas

The Money Connection—Understanding VC Networks

study further in Networks in Technology and Entrepreneurship, a work-in-progress that will combine data analysis with insights culled from interviews with HBS alumni working in the high-tech and entrepreneurial arenas. "The book will... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services

31 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

One Quarter of Entrepreneurs in the United States Are Immigrants

rates and that immigrant firms may even survive longer. The authors also note that the job effects are larger in high-wage and high-tech sectors, and they report findings for firms backed by venture capital. Taken as a whole, the new... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

06 Aug 2014
Research & Ideas

Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower

police to protect the citizens. Olstrom dubbed the phenomenon "co-production." Since then, it has become common for organizations to treat consumers as production partners. Many high-tech firms hire existing customers to beta-test early... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education; Health

09 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

A Playbook for Small-Business Job Creation

works, Mills and her colleagues believe the most promising solutions may actually come not from the banks or the government, but from small businesses—namely, a growing swath of high-tech startups. "Technology can change the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking; Financial Services

05 Nov 2007
Research & Ideas

The Changing Face of American Innovation

on? Are they concentrated in a specific industry or business type? A: Inventors can file for patents in many technology fields, ranging from chemicals and drugs to computer software to agricultural machinery. Immigrant contributions are especially strong in View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Technology

21 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

Is a Gap in Small-Business Credit Holding Back the American Economy?

patents per employee than larger firms, and employ more than 40 percent of high-tech workers in America. “Small business owners feel that despite being creditworthy today, banks remain either wary or entirely unwilling to lend to them.”... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills; Manufacturing

11 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Non-competes Push Talent Away

couldn't treat employees like resources. I had to work to keep them excited to stay around." Marx is the coauthor of a yet-to-be-published paper that investigates whether states that allow non-compete agreements are driving high-tech... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology

01 Jun 2006
News

The Baby Business

there is a fear that if you start putting those kinds of regulations on the fertility market, all kinds of parents will be deemed unfit. Yet I do think there needs to be some sort of scrutiny as to who is allowed to become a parent. In one case, for example, a couple... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Government; Health, Social Assistance

01 Mar 2011
News

The Path to Economic Revival

create high-tech products essential for future prosperity is on the decline, argue Gary Pisano, the Harry E. Figgie Jr. Professor of Business Administration, and Professor of Management Practice Willy Shih. They won the prestigious... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Manufacturing

28 Aug 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54888 Some Facts of High-Tech Patenting By: Webb, Michael, Nick Short, Nicholas Bloom, and Josh Lerner Abstract— : Patenting in software, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence has... View Details