Technology Strategy - Publications - Faculty & Research

13 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

‘Humblebragging’ is a Bad Strategy, Especially in a Job Interview

humblebragging garners negative impressions because the strategy seems insincere, compared with pure bragging or pure complaining. They tested the hypothesis in a series of five studies, detailed in the paper Humblebragging: A... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Oct 2018
Working Paper Summaries

Negative Shocks and Innovation: Evidence from Medical Device Recalls

Keywords: by George P. Ball, Jeffrey T. Macher, and Ariel Dora Stern; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies

October 20, 2020
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Expanding AI's Impact with Organizational Learning

By: Sam Ransbotham, Shervin Khodabandeh, David Kiron, François Candelon, Michael Chu and Burt LaFountain

Most companies developing AI capabilities have yet to gain significant financial benefits from their efforts. Only when organizations add the ability to learn with AI do significant benefits become likely. View Details

Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Learning; Adoption

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May 29, 2019
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A Study of More Than 250 Platforms Reveals Why Most Fail

By: David B. Yoffie, Annabelle Gawer and Michael A. Cusumano

This piece explores why digital platforms fail. We collected data on 250 failures over the last 20 years, analyzed the most common causes for a platform to disappear or morph into an alternative business. View Details

Keywords: Platform; Digital Platforms; Strategy; Failure; Analysis

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25 Apr 2012
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How Will the “Age of Big Data” Affect Management?

for jobs in data analytics. In addition to less wasteful marketing efforts (we should be able to know, for example, "which half" of advertising is effective, thereby making an old marketing saw obsolete), they should produce more effective business View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

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Introduction - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership... View Details

25 May 2015
Blog Post

RapidSOS Wins the HBS New Venture Competition

this institution would shape and assist that goal and mission. Over my two years at HBS, I spent countless time with faculty and staff refining the technology and business model. Professors like Chet Huber, the former CEO of OnStar,... View Details

23 Jan 2019
Blog Post

The First Five Years: '30 under 30' Edition

principal at Troy, a venture capital firm investing in what we believe are the most transformational technology companies. We do this across the spectrum––from our early-stage seed and Series A fund all the way through our two later-stage... View Details

17 Jan 2019
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The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition

believe are the most transformational technology companies. We do this across the spectrum––from our early-stage seed and Series A fund all the way through our two later-stage vehicles. We are only three years old and so my role is not... View Details

January 2018
Case

Flying into the Future: HondaJet

By: Gary P. Pisano and Jesse Shulman

This cases examine Honda’s diversification into the light jet market. In 1985, Honda initiated a secret program to develop a small jet. Over the years, the program had many ups and downs (it was almost canceled several times). Then, a breakthrough in the configuration... View Details

Keywords: Diversification; Technological Innovation; Growth and Development Strategy; Innovation and Management; Air Transportation Industry

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Wildfire Communications, Inc. (A) and (B) (TN)

By: Joseph B. Lassiter III and John T. Gourville

Teaching Note for (9-396-305) and (9-396-306). View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Performance Effectiveness; Business Processes; Digital Platforms; Business Strategy; Markets

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29 May 2013
Blog Post

It’s going to be a beautiful summer…

to the technology side of things. Specifically, I am interning in the Direct (dot com) Marketing group and working on developing an A/B testing and targeting strategy for the company. In simple terms, A/B... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

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Entrepreneurial Finance - Course Catalog

issues such as deal structures, incentives, business models and valuation in much greater detail than TEM. Approximately one-third of the cases concern technology-based businesses, though the emphasis is on gaining insights into entrepreneurial management, not View Details

31 May 2013
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Meg Whitman Jolts HP as Its Reluctant Savior

Keywords: HP, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Dell, eBay; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Apr 1998
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Short Takes

Be Flexible In today's competitive and volatile business environment, depending on forecasting as the basis for planning and strategy has become a particularly risky way to operate. Especially vulnerable are manufacturing projects that... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Caroline Chauncey

21 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Are Crummy Products Your Next Growth Opportunity?

Business School professor Clayton M. Christensen. At the Harvard Business School Entrepreneurship Conference 2003, Christensen provided an advance peek at his new book, which follows on his influential The Innovator's Dilemma: When New View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2020
Blog Post

Hiring a Career Switcher: The Value of the MS/MBA

In the fall of 2019, Kaelyn Griffin and Adam Palay entered HBS as two of 30 students in the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program, a joint degree offered with the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering & Applied Sciences. Designed to train future leaders of... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

21 Jul 2015
First Look

First Look: July 21, 2015

Watchmaking By: Raffaelli, Ryan Abstract—In this qualitative study, I examine the factors that influence the re-emergence of market demand for a legacy technology in a mature institutional field. I extend previous work related to field... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Feb 1997
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Merton Discusses Risk Management at Dean's Seminar

and institutions," noted Merton in his opening remarks. He then discussed the modern contracting technologies underlying popular new financial products that are being used in myriad ways to serve households and corporations. Merton... View Details

Keywords: Elizabeth McNair