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  • August 2001
  • Case

Charmed Technology

By: Youngme E. Moon
Charmed Technology, a California start-up known primarily for its high-profile fashion shows featuring "wearable" computers, has just released its first product. The "CharmIT" is being billed as the world's first affordable, wearable computer for consumers. The key... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Resignation and Termination; Technological Innovation; Marketing Strategy; Product Development; Luxury; Information Infrastructure; Value Creation; Computer Industry; Fashion Industry
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  • 2021
  • Book

The Future of Executive Development

By: Mihnea C Moldoveanu and Das Narayandas
Executive development programs have entered a period of rapid transformation, driven by digital disruption and a widening gap between the skills that participants and their organizations demand and those provided by their executive programs. This work delves into the... View Details
Keywords: Executive Education; Leadership Development; Management Skills; Education Industry
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  • 09 May 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 9

May 2017 Journal of Financial Economics The Value of Trading Relations in Turbulent Times By: Di Maggio, Marco, Amir Kermani, and Zhaogang Song Abstract—This paper investigates how dealers’ trading relationships shape their trading behavior in the corporate bond... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • July 2019
  • Case

Instabeat—One More Lap?

By: Shikhar Ghosh, Nicole Tempest Keller and Alpana Thapar
This case follows Lebanese entrepreneur, Hind Hobeika, an engineer and competitive swimmer who spends seven years trying to launch a wearable heartrate monitor and motion sensor to help swimmers track their performance while swimming. While the Beirut-based... View Details
Keywords: Startup; Manufacturing; Prototyping; Female Protagonist; Business Startups; Decision Making; Entrepreneurship; Information Infrastructure; Information Technology; Design; Organizational Culture; United States; Lebanon
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Strategy and Technology

By: Andy Wu

The Strategy and Technology elective course explores the unique aspects of creating effective strategies for technology-intensive businesses.

  • What strategies win in markets with network effects?
  • How can technology be... View Details
Keywords: Innovation and Management; Innovation Leadership; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Patents; Business Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Hardware; Information Technology; Internet; Mobile Technology; Online Technology; Search Technology; Software; Technology Adoption; Technology Networks; Technology Platform; Communications Industry; Electronics Industry; Information Technology Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Technology Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Video Game Industry; Web Services Industry
  • 03 Mar 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Facebook’s Future

organize the future. But this will change as Facebook becomes a prospective medium—a dynamic, real-time driver that will automatically gather current and future information that wearable devices will automatically broadcast about us,... View Details
Keywords: by Mikolaj Piskorski
  • 20 Dec 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2018

Gone Too Far When Ethan Bernstein used wearable technology to track workers around their open office, he discovered many were trying to avoid collaboration rather than engage in it. How to Get People Addicted to a Good Habit Reshmaan... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 May 2016
  • Research Event

Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium

trolling up front and weed out patent trolling lawsuits early in the process,” Cohen said. “(A review board) would screen out good NPEs from bad NPEs.” For more information on patent trolling, watch Cohen’s video, “Patent Trolls: Evidence and Proposed Solutions.” Soft... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
  • 20 Apr 2020
  • Book

Why COVID-19 Raises the Stakes for Healthy Buildings

airports. As people begin to internalize the collective nature of public health, sharing of personal health and air quality metrics—using wearables and smartphones—could lead to new applications that provide real-time information about... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Real Estate; Health
  • 20 Aug 2024
  • Book

Why Competing With Tech Giants Requires Finding Your Own Edge

This was part of Nike’s strategy to blend digital technology with its physical products, fostering a fitness and wellness ecosystem. Nike soon realized, however, that its market position in the FuelBand was not defensible. The wearable... View Details
Keywords: by Feng Zhu; Technology; Information Technology
  • 20 Mar 2017
  • Book

Why Companies Are Placing Users at the Core of Their Innovation Strategies

will be successful. Now, we rely on the actual market to tell us what will be successful before we hit commercialization. A good example is this boom we see in wearables and in hardware, which came about from Kickstarter when the Silicon... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 19 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019

1st full-scale manufacturing plant overseas? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/818116-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 717-414 Pebble: Wearables Pioneer In the summer of 2016, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 May 2014
  • First Look

First Look: May 27

distribution strategy for Glass, a wearable computer that projected information on a display viewable with an upward glance. Options, which were not mutually exclusive, included 1) continuing to sell Glass directly through online... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 May 2015
  • What Do You Think?

Are You Ready for Personalized Predictive Analytics?

results," but they can also produce many false negatives and positives that have to be anticipated and proactively managed. Jeff Rutherford suggested that control in the hands of beneficiaries of the analytics will address needs for privacy. As he put it, "if... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 14 Aug 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018

Case 818-047 Ryan Greene at Rainier Wearables No abstract available. Purchase this case: https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/818047-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 818-022 Careem: Raising a Unicorn This case follows two ex-McKinsey... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Aug 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018

scant direct empirical research on how human interaction patterns change as a result of these architectural changes. In two intervention-based field studies of corporate headquarters transitioning to more open office spaces, we empirically examined—using digital data... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 15 May 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018

brand into more adjacencies? Or should it consider something more radical, like app-related sales through subscriptions and wearable technologies? Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/618020 Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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