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  • Summer 2021
  • Article

Platform Leadership and Supply Chains: Intel, Centrino, and the Restructuring of Wi-Fi Supply

By: Roberto Fontana and Shane Greenstein
In this paper we examine Intel’s launch of Centrino and interpret it as platform leaders attempt to restructure a supply chain. We provide a narrative of key actions and how they coordinated changes and offer a framework of the predictable consequences for... View Details
Keywords: Mobile and Wireless Technology; Product Launch; Supply Chain; Restructuring; Framework
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  • 22 Mar 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Open Source Software: The $9 Trillion Resource Companies Take for Granted

more funding, Nagle found in a separate study co-authored with HBS Professor Shane Greenstein and Nataliya Langburd Wright, an assistant professor at Columbia Business School.... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Computer; Information Technology; Technology
  • Winter 2021
  • Article

Mobile Internet Usage and Usage-based Pricing

By: Jeffrey Prince and Shane Greenstein
Using data on mobile Internet usage of thousands of individuals, we provide some of the first analyses linking mobile usage to key demographics such as income. We find a reverse-U relationship between mobile Internet usage and income—notably different than the... View Details
Keywords: Mobile Internet Usage; Pricing Strategy; Internet and the Web; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Demographics; Income; Price; Strategy
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  • 20 May 2014
  • First Look

First Look: May 20

Hellenic Bottling Company) and the role of regulation in integrated reporting (Anglo-American). Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2388716 Information Technology and the Distribution of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2024
  • Working Paper

Open Devices and Slices: Evidence from Wi-Fi Equipment

By: Do Yoon Kim, Roberto Fontana and Shane Greenstein
Prior studies suggest that openness shapes the introduction of new products. This study collects novel data on all routers and subcomponents introduced between 2000 and 2018. We characterize each firm's position in a supply chain as upstream component providers... View Details
Keywords: Open Source Distribution; Product Development; Supply Chain
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  • 29 Sep 2015
  • First Look

September 29, 2015

powerful commercial engine it is today. This book describes how many of the key innovations that made this possible came from entrepreneurs and iconoclasts who were outside the mainstream—and how the commercialization of the Internet was... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2016
  • First Look

March 1, 2016

successfully completed by thousands of students worldwide. It explains concepts in simple language with illustrative examples, provides review questions and quizzes after each chapter View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2015
  • Chapter

Information Technology and the Distribution of Inventive Activity

By: Chris Forman, Avi Goldfarb and Shane Greenstein
We examine the relationship between the diffusion of advanced Internet technology and the geographic concentration of invention, as measured by patents. First, we show that patenting became more concentrated from the early 1990s to the early 2000s and, similarly, that... View Details
Keywords: Patents; Geographic Location; Internet and the Web; Innovation and Invention
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  • 2012
  • Chapter

Schumpeterian Competition and Diseconomies of Scope: Illustrations from the Histories of Microsoft and IBM

By: Timothy F. Bresnahan, Shane Greenstein and Rebecca M. Henderson
We address a longstanding question about the causes of creative destruction. Dominant incumbent firms, long successful in an existing technology, are often much less successful in new technological eras. This is puzzling, since a cursory analysis would suggest that... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Opportunities; Competition; Information Technology; Innovation and Management; Organizations; Relationships; Information Technology Industry
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  • 06 Oct 2020
  • Sharpening Your Skills

18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters

Greenstein is the Martin Marshall Professor of Business Administration and co-chair of the HBS Digital Initiative. Tip: Expand your information sources Ensure you are considering all available, relevant... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 25

Tella, Rafael, Javier Donna, and Robert MacCulloch Abstract—At the beginning of the twentieth century Venezuela had one of the poorest economies in Latin America, but by 1970 it had become the richest... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2013
  • Working Paper

Digital Dark Matter and the Economics of Apache

By: Shane Greenstein and Frank Nagle
Researchers have long hypothesized that spillovers from government, university, and private company R&D contribute to economic growth, but these contributions may be difficult to measure when they take a non-pecuniary form. The growth of networking devices and the... View Details
Keywords: Measurement and Metrics; Internet and the Web; Performance Productivity; Applications and Software; Economic Growth; Research and Development
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  • 19 Sep 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?

considered to be especially important. “I have had papers rejected because they are ‘of interest to a specialized audience and not to a general audience,’” says Shane Greenstein, the MBA Class of 1957... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education
  • 25 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 25

Economics & Management Strategy Measuring Consumer Preferences for Video Content Provision via Cord-Cutting Behavior By: Prince, Jeffrey, and Shane Greenstein Abstract—The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Aug 2010
  • Research & Ideas

How to Speed Up Energy Innovation

by the Department of Defense. In his chapter on the history of the Internet, Shane Greenstein examines the role of the federal government and the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities
  • Article

Invention and Agglomeration in the Bay Area: Not Just ICT

By: Chris Forman, Avi Goldfarb and Shane Greenstein
We document that the Bay Area rose from 4% of all successful US patent applications in 1976 to 16% in 2008. This is partly driven by the increase in the prevalence of information and communication technology; however, even for patents unrelated to information and... View Details
Keywords: Agglomeration; Information Technology; Patents; San Francisco
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  • Summer 2016
  • Article

Open Content, Linus' Law, and Neutral Point of View

By: Shane Greenstein and Feng Zhu
The diffusion of the Internet and digital technologies has enabled many organizations to use the open-content production model to produce and disseminate knowledge. While several prior studies have shown that the open-content production model can lead to high-quality... View Details
Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Internet and the Web; Balance and Stability; Operations; Knowledge Management; Knowledge Dissemination
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  • May 2014
  • Article

Digital Dark Matter and the Economic Contribution of Apache

By: Shane Greenstein and Frank Nagle
Researchers have long hypothesized that research outputs from government, university, and private company R&D contribute to economic growth, but these contributions may be difficult to measure when they take a non-pecuniary form. The growth of networking devices and... View Details
Keywords: Open Source; Apache; Economic Measurement; Digital Economics; Measurement and Metrics; Open Source Distribution; Internet and the Web; Information Technology; Applications and Software; Economic Growth; Research and Development; Web Services Industry; Information Technology Industry; United States
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  • 31 Jul 2014
  • Research & Ideas

A Scholarly Crowd Explores Crowdsourcing

initial research on various crowdsourcing problems: Can crowdsourced resources be biased? This is an important question for anyone turning to open innovation for problem solving. To help begin to answer the question, Shane View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 2, 2016

forthcoming Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Don't Stop Believing: Rituals Improve Performance by Decreasing Anxiety By: Brooks, Alison Wood, Julianna Schroeder, Jane Risen, Francesca... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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