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25 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Has Occupational Licensing Outlived Its Usefulness?

should clarify though, that our analysis cannot be extended to other occupations like lawyers or doctors. I would never want to select my doctor on the basis of online reviews rather than their training and education. I think there is a big distinction. Lagace: How... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Service

18 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Ideas, April 18

March 27, 2017 Harvard Business Review How the Water Industry Learned to Embrace Data By: Cespedes, Frank V., and Amir Peleg Abstract—Most current talk about “big data” seems to assume the disintermediation or replacement of physical assets by View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

23 Jul 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

Innovation Is Magic. Really

far enough. They stopped asking the next round of innovation questions, leaving Apple to reap the benefits from recognizing that the crucial thing wasn't just the device itself, but the magical way in which the entire music industry could be transformed with the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products

23 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’

communicate with them in a dynamic, two-way fashion. Fifth, there is technological change. As digital networks make instant connectivity the norm of business life, and as social media platforms grow more powerful and more ubiquitous, a... View Details

Keywords: Re: Boris Groysberg

02 Sep 2016
Op-Ed

The Twitter Election

John Quelch is the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School where he teaches Strategic Marketing Management in the Advanced Management Program.Professor Thales Teixeira teaches Digital... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch and Thales Teixeira

29 May 2001
Research & Ideas

How Technological Disruption Changes Everything

who are focused on their existing and most profitable markets and don't see the threat coming from below. Exhibit A: The death of Digital Equipment Corp., which, along with a string of other minicomputer firms, was taken down by the PC... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health

24 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Is the MBA Worth It? Hear What Recent HBS Grads Have to Say (Part 2)

2019) is the Senior Director of Digital Talent/Strategy and Instructor at Barry’s If you were to describe your HBS experience in 3 words what would they be? Epic, amazing, and transformational. Was an HBS MBA worth it? 10000% worth it. As... View Details

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Chinese Competition and Emerging Technologies - A Chronicle of the China Trade

39. See circulars announcing establishment of Heard & Co., April 28, 1875, HC: EQ-7, and letters from John Heard regarding closing of business, HC: FL-22. John Heard, Diary, 1891. HC: FP-4, p. 172. Lockwood, p. 119. Digital Accessibility... View Details

01 Mar 2019
News

A Wider Net

of those aged 18 to 34, tied with basketball at 11 percent and trailing only football, and a recent Nielsen survey found that 55 percent of 16to-24-year old Americans were “interested” or “very interested” in soccer. That makes it harder to blame whatever View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

04 Dec 2014
News

Hacking Health Care

lifelong idealism and drive to improve world. Sirois recalls his time at HBS as providing the spark necessary to direct his energies in the early days of the emerging digital superhighway. “Technology was enabling a new world. It didn’t... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

Summer 2014
Article

When Does a Platform Create Value by Limiting Choice?

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Hanna Halaburda

We present a theory for why it might be rational for a platform to limit the number of applications available on it. Our model is based on the observation that even if users prefer application variety, applications often also exhibit direct network effects. When there... View Details

Keywords: Platform Governance; Direct Network Effects; Indirect Network Effects; Complements; Tragedy Of The Commons; Equilibrium Selection; Coordination; Foresight; Strategy; Value Creation; Digital Platforms; Balance and Stability; Decision Choices and Conditions; Consumer Behavior; Applications and Software; Network Effects

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01 May 2007
First Look

First Look: May 1, 2007

obtain bandwidth larger (smaller) than s/(s+f). The paper constitutes a first step towards a general analytical foundation for scarce resource allocation in peer-to-peer file sharing networks. PDF not available. Peer-to-Peer File Sharing and the Market for View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Predictions, Prophets, and Restarting Your Business

clear-cut. “A problem with megatrend predictions is that, even if they turn out to be generally accurate, they’re not managerially useful.” In the first month of social distancing in the United States, online sales at Walmart and Target indeed surged by double View Details

Keywords: by Frank V. Cespedes

16 Aug 2017
Research & Ideas

Researchers Use Google Street View to See the Future of Cities

extra boost in development. A new tool by Harvard and MIT researchers promises to do just that, with the help of machine learning and the biggest library of urban images on the Internet: Google Street View. By using digital tools,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Real Estate

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Early Years at HBS - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Initiative HBS Working Knoweldge Harvard Business School Executive Education More HBS YouTube: Executive Education Harvard Business Review Harvard Business School Contact Related Links Resources Digital Accessibility View Details

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The Art of "Posting" - The Art of American Advertising

Faculty Accounts Harvard Business Review Harvard Business School Jobs MBA Recruiting Rock Center: Entrepreneurship Social Enterprise Initiative HBS Working Knoweldge Harvard Business School Executive Education More HBS YouTube: Executive Education Harvard Business... View Details

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Contemporary Black Artists and Public Art | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

HBO Home Entertainment, the digital and DVD program distribution division of Home Box Office. He joined the HBS faculty in 2013 and he co-designed and teaches the courses Arts and Cultural Entrepreneurship, and Scaling Minority... View Details

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Board Diversity Network: 2024 Fall Events Recap - Blog: RGE Report

It’s good to bring the core financial skills but boards these days are also looking for expertise on how to navigate economic uncertainty, capital allocation, cybersecurity, digital transformation and AI, and all things talent and human... View Details

01 Dec 2022
News

Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change

Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration George Serafeim’s research increasingly focuses on the intersection between sustainability and digital transformation. Over the years his research has spanned four main areas:... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

26 Feb 2021
News

Latinx on Boards; High-Tech Reforestation

more than 30 years of experience in VC, worldwide streaming channel development, digital media, and consumer products. “This is about using science and technology to address the climate crisis, in this case, using drones to reforest in a... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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