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    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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    Skydeck - Alumni

    —on how to make sure your next career move is the right one Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff Former Continental Airlines CEO Frank Lorenzo (MBA 1963) recounts the radical ideas and relentless negotiations that transformed the airline View Details
    • 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
    • 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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      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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        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

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        MBA Elective Curriculum-- Competing Through Business Models

        By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell

        The  words  “business  model”  are  inescapable  in  our  daily  fare of  business  news.  These  two ubiquitous words seemed to effortlessly rise up to prominence during the dot-com boom of the late 1990s. When businesspeople, journalists, academics, and other... View Details

        • 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
        • 26 Sep 2006
        • First Look

        First Look: September 26, 2006

          Working PapersScale Without Mass: Business Process Replication and Industry Dynamics Authors:Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee, Michael Sorell, and Feng Zhu Abstract Since the mid-1990s, productivity growth has accelerated in the U.S.... View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
        • 25 Sep 2006
        • Research & Ideas

        How Software Platforms Revolutionize Business

        transformed nearly every major industry for the past quarter century." Think of software platforms as ring leaders of ecosystems in which a few or many companies can participate to reach users. These core products, like Windows, for... View Details
        Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Web Services
        • 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

        circular system is a lofty ambition, and for all its efforts and public commitments, the industry is criticized for not doing more. But a host of emergent technologies, like cloud computing and AI, are... View Details
        Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade; Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing
        • 19 Nov 2013
        • First Look

        First Look: November 19

        seemed to be on its way to defy the skeptics and become the first U.S. company to enter the car industry with a mass-produced car since WWII and the first to successfully launch a fully electric car. Or was it not? Purchase this case:... View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
        • 13 Mar 2023
        • Op-Ed

        How Leaders Should Leave

        and in the industry about your reasons for leaving. You want to control the narrative around your departure and avoid any hint of acrimony. You will also need to agree on a date of departure. Keep in mind that you may be explaining your... View Details
        Keywords: by John Quelch
        • 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

          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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          Startups: venture-backed, by industry, geography, funding amounts & rounds

          select Verticals for identifying companies whose focus isn't neatly captured by industry categories. In CB Insights: (follow the instruction on the webpage to set up your individual account if you are first time... View Details
          • 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