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- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
office employees from their work, surfing the web is arguably the most irresistible time-waster of all. In order to deal with that problem, many companies either prohibit Internet use during working hours,... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- July 2007 (Revised April 2008)
- Case
Secom: Managing Information Security in a Risky World
By: F. Warren McFarlan, Robert D. Austin, Junko Usuba and Masako Egawa
Examines the type of security that is appropriate for an Internet company to have on its site. Focuses on a 20-person electronic e-commerce company trying to decide what parts of the information security product line they should acquire from the largest security... View Details
Keywords: Information Management; Internet and the Web; Information Technology; Safety; Operations; Information Technology Industry; Service Industry; Japan
McFarlan, F. Warren, Robert D. Austin, Junko Usuba, and Masako Egawa. "Secom: Managing Information Security in a Risky World." Harvard Business School Case 308-015, July 2007. (Revised April 2008.)
- 04 Oct 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Reviews, Reputation, and Revenue: The Case of Yelp.com
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
alone. They’re doing it to make an impact.” And sometimes, they’re doing it because they see an opportunity that their employer doesn’t. Draper followed the development of peer-to-peer file-sharing technology and tracked down the founders... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 20 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
Lessons of Successful Entrepreneurs
CEO of Silk Road Technologies. For the true entrepreneur, he continued, reality is the superior teacher; and school is an excuse to delay failure. Although their topic was "Post Boom Internet... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jun 2001
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Future of the Subscription Model?
Summing Up The Subscription Model: Down but Not Out Just as manufacturing organizations are once again adopting a subscription model as a means of pricing product-service packages marketed as solutions, it appears that Internet-based... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Web
Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership
High 90 1990 Internet "irrational exuberance" Antigovernment sentiment: Waco standoff; Oklahoma City bombing Influence: Medium-Low 1900 19 First significant enforcement of Sherman Antitrust Act Pure Food and... View Details
- 09 Jan 2020
- Book
Rethinking Business Strategy in the Age of AI
they can take strategic advantage of those opportunities. What can AI help with? Everything from reading X-rays and setting prices to forecasting demand and maintaining jet engines. Almost every traditional... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Feb 2015
- HBS Seminar
Jeffrey Schnapp, Harvard Graduate School of Design
- Research Summary
Do Leaders Lead in Business Process Innovation? The Case(s) of E-Business Adoption
This paper investigates how market position influences firm propensity to adopt new process innovations. Using detailed data from the U.S. Census of Manufactures, I study the adoption of frontier e-business practices during the early diffusion of the commercial... View Details
- March 2018
- Article
Making the Numbers? 'Short Termism' and the Puzzle of Only Occasional Disaster
By: Hazhir Rahmandad, Rebecca Henderson and Nelson P. Repenning
Much recent work in strategy and popular discussion suggests that an excessive focus on "managing the numbers"—delivering quarterly earnings at the expense of longer-term investments—makes it difficult for firms to make the investments necessary to build competitive... View Details
Keywords: Capability; Short-termism; System Dynamics; Tipping Point; Business or Company Management; Earnings Management; Resource Allocation
Rahmandad, Hazhir, Rebecca Henderson, and Nelson P. Repenning. "Making the Numbers? 'Short Termism' and the Puzzle of Only Occasional Disaster." Management Science 64, no. 3 (March 2018): 1328–1347.
- 06 Dec 2017
- News
Uber Really Wants You to Use Its Credit Card
- 09 Nov 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Simple Secret of Effective Mentoring Programs
Old-fashioned mentoring may be one of the most effective ways to improve job performance, but many mentorship programs don’t reach new hires who need guidance most, new research suggests. Newly hired employees at a United States call... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- October 2007
- Article
The Art of Designing Markets
By: Alvin E. Roth
Traditionally, markets have been viewed as simply the confluence of supply and demand. But to function properly, they must be able to attract a sufficient number of buyers and sellers, induce participants to make their preferences clear, and overcome congestion by... View Details
Keywords: Market Design; Market Participation; Market Transactions; Information Technology; Internet and the Web
Roth, Alvin E. "The Art of Designing Markets." Harvard Business Review 85, no. 10 (October 2007): 118–126.
- 15 Dec 2021
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular Articles of 2021
one-year anniversary of the pandemic, 13 HBS faculty members offered advice on everything from time management to employee mental health for companies trying to prepare for the “next normal.” 2. For... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 02 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2006
anything having to do with globalization. But in 2006, some new areas of HBS faculty research began to emerge that also struck a chord with readers. These included the business of open source, how network... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Secret of How Microsoft Stays on Top
experience. Our analysis focused on Microsoft's first two internal browser development projects, comparing their performance to a sample of Internet software projects completed at the same time. We... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Role of Emotions in Effective Negotiations
electrician Peter, what Kate doesn't realize is that while she is annoyed at her lack of phone and Internet access brought by the power outage, Peter has been working 18-hour days since the storm, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
authors have helped scale hundreds of hypergrowth Internet sites through their consulting practice. Drawing on their experience, they present 50 clear, proven, and up-to-date scalability rules and practical... View Details
- April 2020 (Revised February 2023)
- Case
GitLab and the Future of All-Remote Work (A)
By: Prithwiraj Choudhury and Emma Salomon
GitLab is arguably one of the world’s largest “all-remote” companies. Started in 2011 and with more than 1,000 employees at present, it has no physical offices and all employees, including the entire C-Suite, work remotely from all parts of the world. The case... View Details
Keywords: Remote Work; Internet and the Web; Technology Adoption; Value Creation; Business Model; Organizational Structure
Choudhury, Prithwiraj, and Emma Salomon. "GitLab and the Future of All-Remote Work (A)." Harvard Business School Case 620-066, April 2020. (Revised February 2023.)