Google Home - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Apr 2023
What Do You Think?

How Does Remote Work Affect Innovation?

(iStockphoto/visualspace) When former Google CEO Eric Schmidt tells how the company’s ad algorithm—the heart of its financial success—was revamped, here’s what he says: One Friday afternoon in May 2002, (company co-founder) Larry Page was... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

25 Jan 2021
Book

In a Nutshell, Why American Capitalism Succeeded

immigrant entrepreneurs included Alexander Hamilton (from Saint Kitts and Nevis), featured in McCraw’s book, and continued through countless others, including Thomas Mellon (Ireland), Diane von Furstenberg (Belgium), and Google co-founder... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing

23 Nov 2021
Research & Ideas

The Vinyl Renaissance: Take Those Old Records Off the Shelf

so rapidly over the past 18 months of being home-bound by the pandemic that many of the world’s pressing plants are backed up with orders until 2023. The Harvard Gazette spoke with Caren Kelleher, a 2010 Harvard Business School graduate who left View Details

Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Music

12 May 2020
Research & Ideas

It’s Time To Relaunch Your Remote Team

COVID-19 has made virtual work the new normal. In a few short weeks, meeting tools like Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Chat, and Slack have gone from a useful supplement to the primary enablers for daily interactions with co-workers.... View Details

Keywords: by Tsedal Neeley

30 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition

Welcome to the new world of remote work, pandemic style. Before the coronavirus hit, 5.2 percent of US employees reported telecommuting most of the time, while 43 percent worked from home at least some of the time. Now, with the pandemic... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

17 Feb 2015
HBS Case

HBS Cases: The Battle for San Francisco

home for restaurants, art, and culture at night. And more and more, tech businesses are locating here. “This is a place where the effects of inequality appear to be heightened and most palpable” In doing so, however, technology workers... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

02 Jan 2018
Op-Ed

'Dear Working Knowledge'--Our Favorite Reader Comments of the Year

of life in the home--should be viewed as a miserable chore. I look forward to coming home from work and spending time mindfully cooking fresh foods and ... yes, even mindfully housecleaning (it takes less than an hour. Seriously.). It's... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

08 Sep 2011
What Do You Think?

What’s Apple’s Biggest Challenge: Replacing Steve or Wall Street?

pursue opportunity and successful new product development in spite of investor impatience. The real challenges may lie elsewhere, for example "the market place," as Jasper Ojongtambia suggests, or competition from companies like View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer

25 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments

an experiment almost a decade ago in which the company allowed a randomly selected subset of employees to work from home for nine months while the rest of the team stayed in the office. As it turned out, the employees who worked from... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

02 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?

improved significantly in respect to speed, convenience, and cost. For example, I get Sunday delivery of Amazon through the post office as part of my Prime membership while Amazon, Instacart, and Google Express are currently experimenting... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

01 May 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 1, 2018

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/718039 Harvard Business School Case 517-064 Note on the Impact of Millennials on the Food System In 2016, the millennial generation (those age 19 to 35 in 2016), the largest generation by population in the U.S., was entering its... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 May 2013
First Look

First Look: May 14

Abstract—This paper examines the direct private equity investment strategies across sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) and their relationship to the funds' organizational structures. SWFs seem to engage in a form of trend chasing, since they are more likely to invest at... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019

exploration of platform battles of the future, including voice wars (Alexa vs. Hey Google vs. Siri), ridesharing and autonomous car platforms, quantum computing, and CRISPR. Publisher's link:... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

03 Oct 2017
First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

exit is an option? Using a natural experiment owing to the inaccuracy of barrel bombs, we examine the effect of having one's home destroyed on a cluster of attitudes of Syrian refugees in Turkey related to their personal security,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

06 Mar 2007
First Look

First Look: March 6, 2007

distribution company in its own right. On October 30, 2006, it relaunched its Website—and, in effect, its business. With its new, consumer-facing home page, and with new offerings for advertisers and affiliates as well as video... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 Dec 2010
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Doing Business in Emerging Markets

for Internet freedom or cover for a failed business strategy, depending on with whom you talk. Professor John A. Quelch looks behind the headlines in a new case. Key concepts include: China has become more emboldened and self-confident as a result of its increasing... View Details

09 Feb 2018
Research & Ideas

Big Hits: The Best of the 2018 Super Bowl Ads

programs, including the forthcoming Winter Olympics. Thales Teixeira Lumry Family Associate Professor of Business Administration My top vote for best Super Bowl spot goes to Amazon's Alexa voice-loss ad. In a year in which Amazon and View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Telecommunications

12 May 2009
First Look

First Look: May 12, 2009

http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=209036 Symbian, Google & Apple in the Mobile Space (A) Harvard Business School Case 909-055 Symbian, maker of a leading mobile smartphone operating system, faces new... View Details