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- October 2018 (Revised July 2019)
- Case
Sidewalk Labs: Privacy in a City Built from the Internet Up
By: Leslie K. John, Mitchell Weiss and Julia Kelley
Email mking@hbs.edu for a courtesy copy.
By the time Dan Doctoroff, CEO of Sidewalk Labs, began hosting a Reddit “Ask Me Anything” session in January 2018, he had only nine months remaining to convince the people... View Details
By the time Dan Doctoroff, CEO of Sidewalk Labs, began hosting a Reddit “Ask Me Anything” session in January 2018, he had only nine months remaining to convince the people... View Details
Keywords: Public Entrepreneurship; Govtech; CivicTech; Smart Cities; City Innovation; Government Innovation; Privacy; Sidewalk Labs; Dan Doctoroff; Entrepreneurship; Public Sector; Consumer Behavior; Governance; Business and Government Relations; Innovation and Invention; Technology Industry; Public Administration Industry; Transportation Industry; Real Estate Industry; Canada
John, Leslie K., Mitchell Weiss, and Julia Kelley. "Sidewalk Labs: Privacy in a City Built from the Internet Up." Harvard Business School Case 819-024, October 2018. (Revised July 2019.) (Email mking@hbs.edu for a courtesy copy.)
- 2017
- Chapter
Platforms, Open/User Innovation, and Ecosystems: A Strategic Leadership Perspective
By: Elizabeth J. Altman and Michael Tushman
Platform, open/user innovation, and ecosystem strategies embrace and enable interactions with external entities. Firms pursuing these approaches conduct business and interact with environments differently than those pursuing traditional closed strategies. This chapter... View Details
Keywords: Platforms; Open/user Innovation; Ecosystems; Crowdsourcing; Strategic Leadership; Top Management Teams; CEO Role; Business Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leadership; Managerial Roles; Digital Platforms
Altman, Elizabeth J., and Michael Tushman. "Platforms, Open/User Innovation, and Ecosystems: A Strategic Leadership Perspective." In Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Platforms. Vol. 37, edited by Jeffrey Furman, Annabelle Gawer, Brian Silverman, and Scott Stern, 177–207. Advances in Strategic Management. Emerald Publishing Limited, 2017.
- 16 Aug 2010
- News
Goldman Undercuts Rivals in GM IPO as It Loses Top Role
- November 2011
- Article
Social Strategies That Work
By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski
Although most companies have collected lots of friends and followers on social platforms such as Facebook, few have succeeded in generating profits there. That's because they merely port their digital strategies into social environments by broadcasting their commercial... View Details
Keywords: Social Platforms; Social Strategies; Social and Collaborative Networks; Customers; Relationships; Business Strategy; Profit
Piskorski, Mikolaj Jan. "Social Strategies That Work." Harvard Business Review 89, no. 11 (November 2011): 116–122.
- June 2016
- Case
Alnylam: Building a Biotechnology Powerhouse
By: Kevin Schulman
Alnylam is an early stage biomedical technology focused on commercial development of a novel technology platform, siRNA. This technology offered promise to treat rare genetic disorders that could not be treated with other technologies. Alnlyam's development entailed... View Details
- May 2019
- Teaching Note
Upwork: Creating the Human Cloud/Upwork in 2019
By: David B. Yoffie
This teaching note serves as a guide to teaching: Upwork: Creating the Human Cloud and Upwork in 2019. View Details
- 2013
- Chapter
The Welfare State as an Investment Strategy: Denmark’s Flexicurity Policies
By: Arthur Daemmrich and Thomas Bredgaard
This chapter examines how the welfare state can serve as a national strategy to invest in economic competitiveness and sustainable national prosperity, as well as the significant challenges associated with operating an open economy in a period of increased labor... View Details
Keywords: Open Economy; Welfare; Competitive Advantage; Economic Growth; Human Capital; Government and Politics; Denmark
Daemmrich, Arthur, and Thomas Bredgaard. "The Welfare State as an Investment Strategy: Denmark’s Flexicurity Policies." Chap. 7 in The Oxford Handbook of Offshoring and Global Employment, by Ashok Bardhan, Dwight M. Jaffee, and Cynthia A. Kroll, 159–179. Oxford University Press, 2013.
- Research Summary
Overview
By: Chiara Farronato
Based on a broad interest in the economics of innovation and the Internet, Professor Farronato concentrates her research on the evolution of e-commerce and peer-to-peer online platforms, including platform adoption, economies of scale, and drivers of heterogeneous... View Details
- Winter 2013
- Article
The New Patent Intermediaries: Platforms, Defensive Aggregators and Super-Aggregators
By: Andrei Hagiu and David B. Yoffie
The patent market consists mainly of privately negotiated, bilateral transactions, either sales or cross-licenses, between large companies. There is no eBay, Amazon, New York Stock Exchange, or Kelley's Blue Book equivalent for patents, and when buyers and sellers do... View Details
Keywords: Intellectual Property; Platforms; Intermediaries; Aggregator; Patents; Digital Platforms; Marketplace Matching; Distribution Channels
Hagiu, Andrei, and David B. Yoffie. "The New Patent Intermediaries: Platforms, Defensive Aggregators and Super-Aggregators." Journal of Economic Perspectives 27, no. 1 (Winter 2013): 45–66.
- October 2010 (Revised November 2012)
- Case
Shenzhen Capital Group
By: Paul A. Gompers, Shaohui Chen, Jessie Lin and Shelley Ling
Haitao Jin, chairman of Shenzhen Capital Group Co., Ltd. (SCGC), and Wanshou Li, president of SCGC, must decide how to continue to grow their venture capital/private equity firm in China. SCGC is a premier VC/PE fund in China and a pioneer of the Government Sponsored... View Details
Keywords: Government And Business; Venture Capital; Private Equity; Investment Funds; Growth and Development Strategy; Business and Government Relations; Financial Services Industry; China
Gompers, Paul A., Shaohui Chen, Jessie Lin, and Shelley Ling. "Shenzhen Capital Group." Harvard Business School Case 211-029, October 2010. (Revised November 2012.)
- 2010
- Book
The Battle: How the Fight Between Free Enterprise and Big Government Will Shape America's Future
By: Arthur C. Brooks
America faces a new culture war—one that threatens our long-standing culture of free enterprise. Free enterprise embodies the values that define us as a nation: individual liberty, equal opportunity, entrepreneurship, and self-reliance. But the recent economic crisis... View Details
Brooks, Arthur C. The Battle: How the Fight Between Free Enterprise and Big Government Will Shape America's Future. New York: Basic Books, 2010.
- 2017
- Working Paper
Platforms, Open/User Innovation, and Ecosystems: A Strategic Leadership Perspective
By: Elizabeth J. Altman and Michael L. Tushman
Platform, open/user innovation, and ecosystem strategies embrace and enable interactions with external entities. Firms pursuing these approaches conduct business and interact with environments differently than those pursuing traditional closed strategies. This paper... View Details
Keywords: Platforms; Open/user Innovation; Ecosystems; Crowdsourcing; Institutional Logics; Strategic Leadership; Top Management Teams; CEO Role; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Digital Platforms; Innovation and Invention; Organizational Design; Strategy; Managerial Roles
Altman, Elizabeth J., and Michael L. Tushman. "Platforms, Open/User Innovation, and Ecosystems: A Strategic Leadership Perspective." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-076, February 2017. (Revised April 2017.)
- Forthcoming
- Article
Who Benefits from Online Gig Economy Platforms?
By: Christopher T. Stanton and Catherine Thomas
Online labor platforms for short-term, remote work have many more job seekers than available jobs. Despite their relative abundance, workers capture a substantial share of the surplus from transactions. We draw this conclusion from demand estimates that imply workers'... View Details
Keywords: Gig Economy; Knowledge Workers; Online Platforms; Job Search; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Wages; Demand and Consumers
Stanton, Christopher T., and Catherine Thomas. "Who Benefits from Online Gig Economy Platforms?" American Economic Review (forthcoming).
- 29 Nov 2019
- News
As Trump Courts Unions, His Apprentice Plan Risks Alienating Them
- October 2015 (Revised July 2017)
- Case
OMV Petrom: Investment as Partnership—When It Takes Three to Tango
By: Dante Roscini, Emer Maloney and Daniela Beyersdorfer
Petrom was privatized by the Romanian state in 2004 and acquired by Austrian oil company OMV, with the state retaining a 20.6% stake in the company. The situation was particularly challenging for the foreign investor since the sector in which the company operated was... View Details
Keywords: Partners and Partnerships; Privatization; Acquisition; Foreign Direct Investment; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Business and Government Relations; Energy Industry; Austria; Romania
Roscini, Dante, Emer Maloney, and Daniela Beyersdorfer. "OMV Petrom: Investment as Partnership—When It Takes Three to Tango." Harvard Business School Case 716-035, October 2015. (Revised July 2017.)
- November 2018 (Revised April 2019)
- Technical Note
Saudi Arabia: A Brief Background
By: Kristin Fabbe, Natalie Kindred and Safwan Al-Amin
This note provides a brief overview of the history of Saudi Arabia as well as the economic and political context in 2018. The note is an essential supplement to the case “Almarai Company: Milk and Modernization in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia,” HBS No. 719-020, but is... View Details
Keywords: Kingdom Of Saudi Arabia; Public Policy; Economic Development; Monarchy; Islam; Gulf; GCC; Business And Government; Vision 2030; National Strategy; Economic Diversification; OPEC; Oil; Energy Policy; Strategy; Government and Politics; Policy; Diversification; Economy; Energy; History; Saudi Arabia; Middle East
Fabbe, Kristin, Natalie Kindred, and Safwan Al-Amin. "Saudi Arabia: A Brief Background." Harvard Business School Technical Note 719-043, November 2018. (Revised April 2019.)
- 27 Jan 2015
- Working Paper Summaries