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- 14 Nov 2023
- Research & Ideas
The Network Effect: Why Companies Should Care About Employees’ LinkedIn Connections
finance/insurance industries are the most highly connected of the 19 sectors evaluated, while the manufacturing industry sits closest to the network’s center. Unsurprisingly, the study found that companies... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
- 02 May 2022
- News
Business Ethics: What Everyone Needs to Know
- Teaching Interest
MBA Required Curriculum-- Strategy Course
The objective of this course is to help students develop the skills for formulating strategy. It provides an understanding of:
- A firm's operative environment and how to sustain competitive advantage.
- How to generate superior value for customers... View Details
- 12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 22 Sep 2023
- Webinars: Career
Tech in the Job Search: ChatGPT for Job-Seekers
Join CPD and a former LinkedIn insider for an enlightening webinar and learn to harness the potential of AI tools like ChatGPT to revolutionize your job search experience. View Details
What is Disruptive Innovation?
For the past 20 years, the theory of disruptive innovation has been enormously influential in business circles and a powerful tool for predicting which industry entrants will succeed. Unfortunately, the theory has also been widely misunderstood, and the "disruptive"... View Details
Unlock the Mysteries of Your Customer Relationships
Consumers have always had relationships with brands, but sophisticated tools for analyzing customer data are finally allowing marketing organizations to personalize and manage those relationships. With this new power comes a new challenge: People now expect companies... View Details
- Research Summary
Physician vs. Patient Incentives in Prescription Drug Choice
The market for medical care involves interactions among patients, providers, and the insurers who pay for the care of their enrollees. The division of responsibilities creates scope for agency costs and moral hazard in the physician's treatment choice.... View Details
- January 2014 (Revised June 2014)
- Case
23andMe: Genetic Testing for Consumers (A)
By: John A. Quelch and Margaret L. Rodriguez
On November 22, 2013, the direct-to-consumer genetic testing provider, 23andMe, received a letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ordering the company to halt the sale and promotion of its genetic testing kit. The FDA stated that the product was... View Details
Keywords: Public Health; Genome Testing; Health Care; Ancestry; 23andMe; Marketing; Product Launch; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Health Testing and Trials; Genetics; Strategy; Health Industry; United States
Quelch, John A., and Margaret L. Rodriguez. "23andMe: Genetic Testing for Consumers (A)." Harvard Business School Case 514-086, January 2014. (Revised June 2014.)
- 14 Jul 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
From Russia with Love: The Impact of Relocated Firms on Incumbent Survival
- 03 Nov 2012
- News
Q&A with Robert C. Pozen, author of ‘Extreme Productivity’
- Forthcoming
- Book
Blockchain Forensics and Crypto-Related Cybercrimes
By: Lin William Cong, Kim Grauer, Daniel Rabetti and Henry Updegrave
This handbook provides an overview of various criminal activities related to cryptocurrencies, including investment scams, Ponzi schemes, rug pulls, ransomware attacks, money laundering, and darknet markets. We discuss the need for user protection and education,... View Details
Keywords: Cyberattacks; Blockchain; Network; Cryptocurrency; Crime and Corruption; Cybersecurity; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Law Enforcement; Technology Adoption
Cong, Lin William, Kim Grauer, Daniel Rabetti, and Henry Updegrave. Blockchain Forensics and Crypto-Related Cybercrimes. World Scientific Publishing, forthcoming.
- May 2013
- Article
From Russia with Love: The Impact of Relocated Firms on Incumbent Survival
By: Oliver Falck, Christina Guenther, Stephan Heblich and William R. Kerr
We identify the impact of local firm concentration on incumbent performance with a quasi-natural experiment. When Germany was divided after World War II, many firms in the machine tool industry fled the Soviet occupied zone to prevent expropriation. We show that the... View Details
Falck, Oliver, Christina Guenther, Stephan Heblich, and William R. Kerr. "From Russia with Love: The Impact of Relocated Firms on Incumbent Survival." Journal of Economic Geography 13, no. 3 (May 2013): 419–449.
- May 2023
- Course Overview Note
Space: Public and Commercial Economics (SPACE)
SPACE is a course with two goals: to use the tools of economics to better understand the rapidly evolving space sector, and to train the next generation of commercial space leaders. We pursue these goals through a systematic study of the growing space economy,... View Details
Weinzierl, Matthew C. "Space: Public and Commercial Economics (SPACE)." Harvard Business School Course Overview Note 723-062, May 2023.
- 2020
- Book
Competing in the Age of AI: Strategy and Leadership When Algorithms and Networks Run the World
By: Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani
In industry after industry, data, analytics, and AI-driven processes are transforming the nature of work. While we often still treat AI as the domain of a specific skill, business function, or sector, we have entered a new era in which AI is challenging the very... View Details
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Technological Innovation; Change; Competition; Strategy; Leadership; Business Processes; Organizational Change and Adaptation; AI and Machine Learning
Iansiti, Marco, and Karim R. Lakhani. Competing in the Age of AI: Strategy and Leadership When Algorithms and Networks Run the World. Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 2020.
- 02 Oct 2020
- News
Computer Simulations Are Better — and More Affordable — than Ever
Kim B. Clark
Kim B. Clark joined the Harvard faculty in 1978 and served as Dean of the Faculty at Harvard Business School from 1995 to 2005. He received the B.A. (1974), M.A. (1977), and Ph.D. (1978) degrees in economics from Harvard University.
Professor Clark's research has... View Details
- January 2002 (Revised February 2002)
- Case
Postgirot Bank and Provment AB: Managing the Cost of IT Operations
By: F. Warren McFarlan and Nancy Bartlett
Describes a specific approach for measuring the efficiency of the groups of computers inside an organization and suggests ways this tool may be used to reduce the company's computing investment while maintaining service. It is a software-enabled industrial engineering... View Details
Keywords: Cost Management; Investment; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Management Style; Information Technology; Applications and Software
McFarlan, F. Warren, and Nancy Bartlett. "Postgirot Bank and Provment AB: Managing the Cost of IT Operations." Harvard Business School Case 302-061, January 2002. (Revised February 2002.)
- 07 Jul 2021
- Book
Good News for Disgraced Companies: You Can Regain Trust
new book The Power of Trust: How Companies Build It, Lose It, Regain It, Sucher and her coauthor, HBS research associate Shalene Gupta, highlight those social media examples along with a global list of companies that have either... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 20 Nov 2019
- Video
Shinta Widjaja Kamdani
Shinta Kamdani, owner of Indonesian-based consumer products and energy company Sintesa Group, describes the logic of the Group’s diversification strategies which seek to balance consumer industries which... View Details