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  • February 2010 (Revised November 2013)
  • Case

Living PlanIT

By: Robert G. Eccles, Amy C. Edmondson, Susan Thyne and Tiona Zuzul
Living PlanIT is a start-up company that has developed a new, innovative business model for sustainable urbanization. This model reflects the software and technology backgrounds of its founders, Steve Lewis and Malcolm Hutchinson, and is in vivid contrast to other... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Business Startups; Development Economics; Entrepreneurship; City; Technological Innovation; Environmental Sustainability; Urban Development; Green Technology Industry; Green Technology Industry; Green Technology Industry; Portugal
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    Josh Lerner

    Josh Lerner is the Jacob H. Schiff Professor at Harvard Business School and Co-Director of the HBS Private Capital Project.  Much of his research focuses on venture capital and private equity organizations.  (This research is summarized in his books The Money of... View Details

    Keywords: high technology; high technology; high technology
    • 2024
    • Chapter

    Managing, Preserving, and Unlocking Wealth through FinTech

    By: Grace Headinger, Lauren Cohen and Zhaoheng Gong
    In nearly every generation, a sentiment like Einstein’s has been expressed as a cautionary tale to constrain the development and application of technology. In spite of these calls, technology has time and again proven its utility and ability to improve across and upon... View Details
    Keywords: Fintech; Technological Innovation; Finance
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      U.S. Digital Service

      Mikey Dickerson and Haley Van Dyck found themselves far from home and far from certain about where to take the U.S. Digital Service (USDS) next. In the summer of 2015, they had landed in London to meet with Mike Bracken, director of the United Kingdom’s... View Details
      • October 2023 (Revised December 2023)
      • Case

      Compound: Lending on the Blockchain

      By: Marco Di Maggio, George Gonzalez and Richard Dulude
      This case critically examines Compound, an innovative decentralized finance (DeFi) platform. Focusing on Compound’s blockchain-based borrowing and lending protocol, the case explores its automated, intermediary-free system using Ethereum smart contracts. This system... View Details
      Keywords: Blockchain; Cryptocurrency; Disruptive Innovation; Borrowing and Debt; Financing and Loans; Organizational Design; Technological Innovation
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      • 2009
      • Working Paper

      Breakthrough Inventions and Migrating Clusters of Innovation

      By: William R. Kerr
      We investigate the speed at which clusters of invention for a technology migrate spatially following breakthrough inventions. We identify breakthrough inventions as the top one percent of US inventions for a technology during 1975-1984 in terms of subsequent citations.... View Details
      Keywords: Geographic Location; Immigration; Disruptive Innovation; Technological Innovation; Patents; Industry Clusters; United States
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      • November 2019 (Revised May 2020)
      • Case

      Collibra

      By: Lynda M. Applegate, Jeffrey F. Rayport and Julia Kelley
      Founded in 2008 at Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Collibra was a data intelligence company that found product-market fit in the years after the global financial crisis when many companies were under pressure from consumers and governments to improve their data management... View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Governance; Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Markets; Information Technology; Applications and Software; Technology Adoption; Digital Platforms; Internet and the Web; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Satisfaction; Expansion; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; Europe; Belgium; Brussels; North and Central America; United States; New York (city, NY); New York (state, US)
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      • 11 Jun 2020
      • In Practice

      Are Digital Organizations Better at Overcoming COVID?

      Government leaders rushing to contain the COVID-19 pandemic in March gave companies little time to shift to an all-virtual workforce. Ready or not, many businesses had to become more digital. But true digital transformation takes far more... View Details
      Keywords: by Danielle Kost
      • 17 May 2012
      • News

      Job Killer? Try Bottom Line Booster: Workplace Safety Inspections Save Money, Jobs, Limbs

      • 2008
      • Working Paper

      Opening Platforms: How, When and Why?

      By: Thomas R. Eisenmann, Geoffrey Parker and Marshall Van Alstyne
      Platform-mediated networks encompass several distinct types of participants, including end users, complementors, platform providers who facilitate users' access to complements, and sponsors who develop platform technologies. Each of these roles can be opened-that... View Details
      Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Governance Controls; Market Participation; Digital Platforms
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      • 2022
      • Working Paper

      The Limits of Decentralized Administrative Data Collection: Experimental Evidence from Colombia

      By: Natalia Garbiras-Diaz and Tara Slough
      States collect vast amounts of data for use in policymaking and public administration. To do so, central governments frequently solicit data from decentralized bureaucrats. Because central governments use these data in policymaking, decentralized bureaucrats may face... View Details
      Keywords: Decentralization; Policy-making; Policy/economics; Policy Evaluation; Governance; Government Administration; Government and Politics; Government Legislation; Policy; Public Opinion; Analytics and Data Science; Latin America; South America; Colombia
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      • 2009
      • Chapter

      Opening Platforms: When, How and Why?

      By: Thomas R. Eisenmann, Geoffrey Parker and Marshall Van Alstyne
      Platform-mediated networks encompass several distinct types of participants, including end users, complementors, platform providers who facilitate users' access to complements, and sponsors who develop platform technologies. Each of these roles can be opened-that... View Details
      Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Governance Controls; Market Participation; Digital Platforms
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      • 10 Jul 2000
      • Research & Ideas

      The State of the Markets

      Stock Exchange (NYSE); and Robert C. Gasser, managing director and head of U.S. equities at J. P. Morgan & Co. Financial exchanges today, Seifert began, must have the business systems of a technology company, with the requisite speed... View Details
      Keywords: by James E. Aisner
      • October 2023
      • Case

      Taiwan After Globalization: Twilight of the Developmental State?

      By: Debora L. Spar and Julia M. Comeau
      In the last 70 years, the small island of Taiwan has achieved what many believe to be a “miracle”: its economy has grown at a record-setting pace, driven and guided by one of the world's most successful set of industrial policies, and it has become one of the richest... View Details
      Keywords: Economic Growth; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Trade; Policy; Government and Politics; Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Taiwan; China; Asia; United States
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      • 13 Dec 2022
      • Cold Call Podcast

      Metaverse Seoul: How One City Used Citizen Input to Pilot a Government-Run Metaverse

      Keywords: Re: Mitchell B. Weiss; Technology; Technology
      • 01 Mar 2018
      • What Do You Think?

      Two Decades Later, is the 'New Economy' Finally Here?

      economy running at near peak efficiency because of the factors you mention? ... A new economy would have new governing rules, but I don’t see new rules taking hold today. Now, having a factory full of AI machines that learn and robot... View Details
      Keywords: by James Heskett
      • December 2018 (Revised May 2021)
      • Background Note

      Making UK Energy Smarter

      By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
      This case describes the history of the United Kingdom's domestic energy industry and the country's efforts to create a more competitive, greener, and distributed power sector. On July 24, 2017, the United Kingdom government and the industry regulator, the Office of Gas... View Details
      Keywords: Energy Policy; Regulation; Energy Markets; Subsidies; Oligopolistic Competition; Barriers To Entry; Wholesale; Electric Vehicle; Batteries; Energy Storage; Competition Policy; Energy; Policy; Renewable Energy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Vertical Integration; Competition; Market Entry and Exit; Disruption; Energy Industry; United Kingdom
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      • October 2024
      • Teaching Note

      Taiwan After Globalization: Twilight of the Developmental State?

      By: Debora L. Spar and Julia M. Comeau
      Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 324-032. In the last 70 years, the small island of Taiwan has achieved what many believe to be a “miracle”: its economy has grown at a record-setting pace, driven and guided by one of the world's most successful set of industrial... View Details
      Keywords: Economic Growth; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Trade; Policy; Government and Politics; Globalized Economies and Regions; Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Taiwan; China; Asia; United States
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      • July 2016 (Revised January 2019)
      • Case

      Cyber Breach at Target

      By: Suraj Srinivasan, Lynn S. Paine and Neeraj Goyal
      In November and December of 2013, Target Corporation suffered one of the largest cyber breaches to date. The breach that occurred during the busy holiday shopping season resulted in personal and credit card information of approximately 110 million Target customers... View Details
      Keywords: Safety; Credit Cards; Customer Relationship Management; Internet and the Web; Governing and Advisory Boards; Crisis Management; Retail Industry
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      • 24 Sep 2001
      • Research & Ideas

      Why the Internet Doesn’t Change Everything

      of sorts. They have allowed entrepreneurs to build empires out of fiber and thin air and to establish these empires in a realm without rules. They have challenged governments and their traditional authority—not by design or intent, but... View Details
      Keywords: by Debora L. Spar