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    Marco Iansiti

    Marco Iansiti, David Sarnoff Professor of Business Administration,is a codirector of the Laboratory for Information Science at Harvard and of the Digital Initiative at HBS.

    Prof. Iansiti's research examines the digital transformation of companies and... View Details

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    • April 2018
    • Teaching Note

    Formlabs: Selling a New 3D Printer

    By: Frank Cespedes
    Teaching Note for HBS No. 817-001. Formlabs is a venture that manufactures and sells 3D printers used in a variety of industries and applications. As the young company prepares to ship its latest model, the head of Customer Development is tasked with developing a... View Details
    Keywords: 3D Printing And Manufacturing; Sales Channel Development; Sales Strategy; Entrepreneurial Management; Product Engineering; Prototype; Prototyping; Entrepreneurship; Product Launch; Information Infrastructure; Business Startups; Customers; Technological Innovation; Growth and Development Strategy; Technology Adoption; Marketing Channels; Marketing Strategy; Product Positioning; Demand and Consumers; Sales; Salesforce Management; Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Technology Industry; United States; Massachusetts; Europe; Asia
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    • 2024
    • Book

    The Everything Token: How NFTs and Web3 Will Transform the Way We Buy, Sell, and Create

    By: Steve Kaczynski and Scott Duke Kominers
    We demystify the coming digital revolution, showing how NFTs will transform our online and offline interactions.

    NFTs aren’t just pictures on the internet, or a fad that has come and gone. Rather, they’re a new technology for creating digital assets and... View Details
    Keywords: Economic Systems; Microeconomics; Entrepreneurship; Cultural Entrepreneurship; Information Technology; Innovation and Invention; Innovation Strategy; Digital Platforms; Digital Strategy; Digital Transformation; Internet and the Web; Technology Adoption; Marketing; Marketing Strategy; Product Marketing; Product Positioning; Markets; E-commerce; Market Design; Value; Customer Value and Value Chain; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Organizational Structure; Customer Ownership; Ownership; Advertising Industry; Advertising Industry; Advertising Industry; Advertising Industry; Advertising Industry; Advertising Industry; Advertising Industry; Advertising Industry; Advertising Industry
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      Stefan H. Thomke

      Stefan Thomke (sthomke@hbs.edu), an authority on the management of innovation, is the William Barclay Harding Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He has worked with firms on product, process, and... View Details

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      • 20 Nov 2007
      • First Look

      First Look: November 20, 2007

      concept—subsequently often referred to as the "$100 PC"—was launched at the Media Lab in 2003 before being spun into a separate nonprofit association, One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), founded by Negroponte in January 2005. At the time skeptics, including... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace

        William A. Sahlman

        William Sahlman is a Baker Foundation Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

        Mr. Sahlman received an A.B. degree in Economics from Princeton University (1972), an M.B.A. from Harvard University (1975), and a Ph.D. in Business... View Details

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        • 05 Jul 2006
        • Working Paper Summaries

        Wintel: Cooperation or Conflict

        Keywords: by Ramon Casadesus-Masanell & David B. Yoffie; Computer
        • 01 Dec 2023
        • News

        The Exchange: Help Wanted

        Image by John Ritter The path to a job in the C-suite isn’t what it used to be. For many years, companies could lean on financial expertise and industry connections when recruiting candidates, but HBS professors Raffaella Sadun and Joseph... View Details
        Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training
        • 30 Mar 2003
        • Research & Ideas

        The Future of IT Consulting

        Johnston: Your research refers to the PC in the 80's and the Internet in the 90's as triggers of explosive growth for the IT consulting industry. Have you identified a third trigger for this decade? Nolan and Bennigson: The trigger in this decade underlying autonomous... View Details
        Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Consulting

          Paul W. Marshall

          MBA Class of 1960 Professor of Management, Paul W. Marshall, is affiliated with the Entrepreneurial Management Unit and teaches The Entrepreneurial Manager in the Turnaround Environment. This Elective Curriculum course focuses on the role of... View Details

          Keywords: computer; computer; computer; computer; computer; computer; computer; computer; computer; computer; computer; computer; computer
          • 01 Oct 2001
          • Research & Ideas

          How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company

          appropriately staged over a number of years. This situation could be said to characterize the mainframe computer industry during the 1980s, when business customers moved away from mainframes towards... View Details
          Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson
          • 20 Aug 2020
          • Book

          From the Plow to the Pill: How Technology Shapes Our Lives

          For centuries, the creation of innovative technology—from steam engines and automobiles to computers and smartphones—has dramatically changed the nature of our work. Less deeply understood has been the impact of technology on the inner currents of our personal lives,... View Details
          Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
          • 01 Dec 2023
          • News

          Rounding the Bend

          Illustration by Fernando Cobelo To help people visualize what a circular economy could look like and bring the challenges down to a closet-sized scale, Emily Bolon (MBA/MPA 2007) recommends the following exercise. First, make a mental tally of the number of garments... View Details
          Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade; Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing
          • 2025
          • Working Paper

          How to Choose Among Technologies with Learning Curves: Making Better Investment Decisions

          By: Christian Kaps and Arielle Anderer
          Learning curves, the fact that technologies improve as a function of cumulative experience or investment, are desirable-think inexpensive solar panels or higher performing semiconductors. But, for firms that need to pick one technology among several candidates, such as... View Details
          Keywords: Learning Curve; Technology; Innovation; Batteries; Energy Storage; Sequential Decision Making; TELCO; Exploration; Exploitation; Problems and Challenges; Cost vs Benefits; Technology Adoption; Battery Industry
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          • October 2015 (Revised October 2016)
          • Case

          Building Watson: Not So Elementary, My Dear! (Abridged)

          By: Willy C. Shih
          This case is set inside IBM Research's efforts to build a computer that can successfully take on human challengers playing the game show Jeopardy! It opens with the machine named Watson offering the incorrect answer "Toronto" to a seemingly simple question during the... View Details
          Keywords: Analytics; Big Data; Business Analytics; Product Development Strategy; Machine Learning; Machine Intelligence; Artificial Intelligence; Product Development; AI and Machine Learning; Information Technology; Analytics and Data Science; Information Technology Industry; United States
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          • October 2023
          • Teaching Note

          Metaverse Wars

          By: Andy Wu and Matt Higgins
          Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 723-431. Metaverse Wars recaps the development of the metaverse concept and the attendant hype, bringing the narrative up to the summer of 2023 when Meta’s big pivot looked more like a costly misstep than a stroke of strategic genius. In... View Details
          Keywords: Metaverse; Strategy; Social Media; Internet and the Web; Technology Adoption; Technological Innovation; Technology Industry
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          • 20 Jul 2011
          • Research & Ideas

          Five Discovery Skills that Distinguish Great Innovators

          and Alvy Ray, who headed up a small computer graphics operation called Industrial Light & Magic (the group created special effects for George Lucas's movies). Fascinated by their operation, Jobs bought... View Details
          Keywords: by Jeff Dyer, Hal Gergersen & Clayton M. Christensen
          • 09 Mar 2003
          • Research & Ideas

          Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation

          companies still are integrated—just in a different place. Consider the computer industry in the 1990s. The computer's basic performance was more than good enough. What did customers want instead? They wanted... View Details
          Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor & Scott D. Anthony
          • Web

          Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

          before it went public. He then led Open Market's expansion into business-to-business applications. In 1999, he founded and ran PurchasingCenter.com, a "My Yahoo" portal for industrial purchasing agents who purchase $2-$10 million of... View Details

            Howard H. Stevenson

            Howard H. Stevenson is Sarofim-Rock Baker Foundation Professor emeritus, former Senior Associate Dean, Director of Publishing, and Chair of the Harvard Business Publishing Company board. The Sarofim-Rock Chair was established in 1982 to provide a continuing base for... View Details

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