Publications

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

Find at Harvard

November 2019 (Revised March 2021)
Background Note

AI and Finance in 2019

By: Karim R. Lakhani, Marco Di Maggio, Marco Iansiti and Aldo Sesia

October 2015
Case

Facebook: The First Ten Years

By: Shane Greenstein, Marco Iansiti and Christine Snively

Facebook celebrated its ten year anniversary in February 2014. Over the past decade it has grown into the largest social network in the world with one billion users. After filing an IPO in 2012 at a $104 billion valuation (the third largest IPO in U.S. history), the... View Details

Keywords: Social Networks; Technology; Facebook; Entrepreneurship; Profit; Open Source Distribution; Social and Collaborative Networks; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Internet and the Web; Digital Platforms; Social Media; Information Technology Industry

03 Jan 2017
First Look

January 3, 2017

response to policies that maintain low interest rates, money funds change their product offerings by investing in riskier asset classes, are more likely to exit the market, and reduce the fees they charge their investors. The consequence... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

November 2015
Case

Upwork: Reimagining the Future of Work

By: Feng Zhu, Rory McDonald, Marco Iansiti and Aaron Smith

Upwork, the world's largest freelance talent platform, was the result of a merger between the two leading online freelancing companies in 2014, Elance and oDesk. After the merger, the company operated as Elance-oDesk and continued to manage two online... View Details

Keywords: Platforms; Employment; Digital Platforms; Market Transactions; Business Processes; Information Technology; Internet and the Web; Job Search

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

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