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January 1998 (Revised September 1998)
Case

Staples (A)

By: Myra M. Hart, Marco Iansiti and Barbara Feinberg

Chronicles development of a new business concept. Starts with Stemberg's search for a new employment opportunity, then provides details of his decision to launch a new venture concept through careful matching of personal capabilities and experience against a variety of... View Details

Keywords: Marketing; Personal Development and Career; Entrepreneurship; Management Skills; Retail Industry

Article

Organization Design and Effectiveness over the Innovation Life Cycle

By: George Westerman, F. Warren McFarlan and Marco Iansiti

Keywords: Organizational Design; Performance Effectiveness; Innovation and Invention

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January 2014 (Revised March 2014)
Case

SAP 2014: Reaching for the Cloud

By: Karim R. Lakhani, Marco Iansiti and Noah Fisher

In May 2014, Bill McDermott will become the sole CEO of SAP AG, the world leader in the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) field. The case occurs in January 2014 at SAP's investors meeting, at a time when the company's stock is near record high. A 2010 strategy... View Details

Keywords: Cloud Computing; Platform; Strategy And Execution; Strategy And Leadership; Enterprise Resource Planning; Software; Information Technology; Digital Platforms; Applications and Software; Information Technology Industry; Germany

December 2007 (Revised July 2008)
Supplement

General Mills (B)

By: Raymond V. Gilmartin, Marco Iansiti and Bianca Buccitelli

Keywords: Food and Beverage Industry

April 1998
Case

Katie Burke (A)

By: Myra M. Hart, Marco Iansiti and Barbara Feinberg

Follows the career of Katie Burke, HBS MBA 1995. Offers the opportunity to discuss a variety of issues, including innovation, software development, entrepreneurship, new venture design, and career choices. View Details

Keywords: Information Technology; Entrepreneurship; Personal Development and Career; Business Startups; Innovation and Invention

2002
Working Paper

The Tortoise and the Hare: An Empirical Investigation of the Dynamics of Integration, Differentiation and Incumbent Adaptation

By: George Westerman, Marco Iansiti and F. Warren McFarlan

April 1998
Case

Katie Burke (B)

By: Myra M. Hart, Marco Iansiti and Barbara Feinberg

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Entrepreneurship

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Featured Cases Multimedia case studies extend learning beyond the classroom and enhance the case study methodology by deepening contextual understanding. Students are able to experience the immediacy and impact of real-time decisions and... View Details

25 Aug 2022
News

Harnessing the Tools of the Digital Age

story) Professors Karim R. Lakhani and Marco Iansiti discuss the digital transformation of HBS and the new Digital, Data, and Design Institute at Harvard. How can the Institute support this type of... View Details

Keywords: April White

September 2021
Article

Network Interconnectivity and Entry into Platform Markets

By: Feng Zhu, Xinxin Li, Ehsan Valavi and Marco Iansiti

Digital technologies have led to the emergence of many platforms in our economy today. In certain platform networks, buyers in one market purchase services from providers in many other markets, whereas in others, buyers primarily purchase services from providers within... View Details

Keywords: Network Interconnectivity; Platform Competition; Market Entry; Networks; Digital Platforms; Competition; Market Entry and Exit

15 Nov 2013
News

Helping Bright Ideas Shine Again

Côme Laguë by Robert S. Benchley Côme Laguë (MBA 1993) has no respect for firms he calls "patent trolls"—holding companies that buy up and bank the intellectual property of closed businesses solely for the purpose of generating income... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

01 Mar 2016
News

Delivering Trust

Illustration by Marcos Chin Illustration by Marcos Chin When they married, Deborah and Jake Anderson (MBA 2010) knew that they might have... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

25 Aug 2022
News

A New Platform for Alumni Engagement

Institute in close partnership with Jacimovic. REINVENTING THE FUTURE OF BUSINESS READ MORE STORIES REINVENTING THE FUTURE OF BUSINESS READ MORE STORIES Offered even before the Institute “officially” launched, the Business of AI SIP was supported View Details

Keywords: April White

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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details

01 Dec 2019
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019

activity. Competing in the Age of AI: Strategy and Leadership When Algorithms and Networks Run the World by Marco Iansiti, David Sarnoff Professor of Business Administration and Unit Head, Technology and... View Details

2006
Working Paper

Information Technology and the Growth of the Firm: A Process Theory Perspective

By: David James Brunner, Bradley R. Staats, Marco Iansiti and George Favaloro