Publications

Teaching Interest

Strategy and Technology

Overview

This course explores the unique aspects of creating effective management and investment strategies for technology-intensive businesses. What are effective strategies for winning in markets with strong network effects? How should... View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Technology

Research Summary

Impact of Technology on Industry Structure and Competitive Strategy

By: Stephen P. Bradley

Stephen Bradley’s research has focused for several years on the impact of technology on industry structure and competitive strategy. In particular he has been studying the convergence of information technology and telecommunications and how this convergence is... View Details

April 1983
Background Note

Domestic Airline Industry and Information Technology

Research Summary

A History of Green Entrepreneurship

By: Geoffrey G. Jones

This research recovers the history of the entrepreneurs and firms who developed green or “sustainable” businesses, identifies the multiple motivations behind their strategies, explores the clustering of green business in specific locations, and shows how the concept of... View Details

October 2021 (Revised February 2022)
Case

Green Hydrogen in Chile

By: Tarun Khanna, Jenyfeer Martínez Buitrago and Mariana Cal

In 2020, the Chilean government wants to promote green hydrogen, a technology with high potential to help mitigate climate change. President Sebastián Piñera, aware of the country's advantages to produce green hydrogen competitively, asks Energy Minister Juan Carlos... View Details

Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Decision Making; Alternative Energy; Renewable Energy; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology; Financial Instruments; Energy Policy; Government Administration; Strategy; Government and Politics; Social Issues; Energy Industry; Latin America; South America; Chile

01 Apr 1997
News

How Green Is the Valley: HBS Students Explore Booming California Industries

sponsored concurrent fact-finding trips to the area. Designed both to introduce students to northern California's booming industries and to help them in their job searches, the January trips also included a networking event with HBS... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

01 Sep 2011
News

Green Day

Erica Diamond demo the "modlet" View a list of alumni working in green industry What does it mean to be green? It’s a trendy color these days, but over the years HBS alumni have demonstrated a long-standing... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna;Sarah Auerbach; Agriculture; Manufacturing; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

September 2019
Article

Technology Reemergence: Creating New Value for Old Technologies in Swiss Mechanical Watchmaking, 1970-2008

By: Ryan Raffaelli

In 1983, 14 years after the introduction of the battery-powered quartz watch, mechanical watches and the Swiss watchmakers who built them were predicted to be obsolete (Landes, 1983). Unexpectedly, however, by 2008 the Swiss mechanical watchmaking industry had... View Details

Keywords: Technology Reemergence; Technology Cycles; Cognition And Market Redefinition; Legacy Technology Trajectories; Information Technology; Demand and Consumers; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Identity; Change; Consumer Products Industry; Switzerland

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March 2013 (Revised May 2013)
Case

Building Innovation at Terrapin Bright Green

By: Amy C. Edmondson, Sydney Ribot and Mary Saunders

Describes Terrapin Bright Green, an environmental consulting and strategic planning firm, and its approach for creating integrative, systematic solutions to green-building conundrums through consulting, research, and policy-related activities. Emphasis is placed on the... View Details

Keywords: Integrated Design; Entrepreneurs; Creative Industries; CONSULTING Firms; Energy; Design; Governance; Growth and Development; Innovation and Invention; Knowledge; Labor; Organizations; Problems and Challenges; Research; Strategy; Value; Consulting Industry; New York (city, NY)

07 Jun 2019
News

The technology industry is rife with bottlenecks

February 2000 (Revised June 2001)
Case

Note on Home Video Game Technology and Industry Structure

Part of a series on the home video game industry that illustrates the underlying economics and competitive dynamics of the industry. This case provides general information about the industry, allowing for subsequent cases in the series to focus on competitive... View Details

Keywords: Competitive Advantage; Industry Structures; Video Game Industry

Keywords: awards; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries

01 Mar 2012
News

Thinking Green

Sciences and the Design, Medical, and Law Schools for a Harvard Thinks Green forum in Sanders Theatre. “This transition we face as an economy, as a world is going to hit every major industry,” said Henderson. Kaplan, a member of a Harvard... View Details

January 1985 (Revised June 1985)
Background Note

Domestic Airline Industry and Information Technology (Condensed)

April 2022 (Revised July 2022)
Case

Stalin’s Capitalists: American Business and Soviet Industrialization

By: Jeremy Friedman, Jingyu Liu and Christine Riggle

In the late 1920s and early 1930s when Joseph Stalin, leader of the world’s first Communist state, sought to industrialize his largely peasant country on an unprecedented scale, he turned for help to those who had the most experience constructing on such a scale:... View Details

Keywords: Communism; Industrialization; Socialism; History; Industry Growth; Economic Systems; Soviet Union

09 May 2022
News

Green House

In the Observatory Hill neighborhood of Cambridge, Massachusetts, Betsy Harper (MBA 1984) has built an oxymoron: a brand-new, historic home. The recently completed structure combines traditional architecture and the latest in high-efficiency building science. It is a... View Details

Nov 2009 - Nov 2009
Keynote Speech

How Digital Technology is Changing the Media Industry

By: Anita Elberse

Keywords: Information Technology; Change; Media and Broadcasting Industry

2021
Working Paper

Technology Differentiation and Firm Performance

By: Sam Arts, Bruno Cassiman and Jianan Hou

Prior work has extensively studied how investing in R&D and building a technology portfolio relate to superior firm performance. However, the value of a firm’s technology portfolio should also be driven by the degree to which it is more unique and technologically... View Details

Keywords: Technology Portfolio; Differentiation; Competitiveness; Organizations; Technology; Performance; United States