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  • 04 Feb 2016
  • Blog Post

Meet the HBS Tech Club

At HBS, the Tech Club aims to educate the community on the latest technology trends and skills, to facilitate recruiting opportunities, and to foster social and professional networking within HBS, greater Harvard, and the Boston area. The... View Details
  • August 2018 (Revised October 2020)
  • Case

Tailor Brands: Artificial Intelligence-Driven Branding

By: Jill Avery
Using proprietary artificial intelligence technology, startup Tailor Brands set out to democratize branding by allowing small businesses to create their brand identities by automatically generating logos in just minutes at minimal cost with no branding or design skills... View Details
Keywords: Startup; Services; Artificial Intelligence; Machine Learning; Digital Marketing; Brand Management; Big Data; Internet Marketing; Analytics; Marketing; Marketing Strategy; Brands and Branding; Information Technology; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Business Model; Consumer Behavior; AI and Machine Learning; Analytics and Data Science; Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Technology Industry; United States; North America; Israel
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  • January 2023
  • Article

Firm-Induced Migration Paths and Strategic Human-Capital Outcomes

By: Prithwiraj (Raj) Choudhury, Tarun Khanna and Victoria Sevcenko
Firm-induced migration typically entails firms relocating workers to fill value-creating positions at destination locations. But such relocated workers are often exposed to external employment opportunities at their destinations, possibly triggering turnover. We... View Details
Keywords: Worker Relocation; Turnover; Firm-induced Migration; Smaller Towns; Employee Mobility; Geographic Mobility; Migration; Clusters; Employees; Geographic Location; Performance; Opportunities; Retention; Human Capital; Talent and Talent Management
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    Steven C. Wheelwright

    Steve Wheelwright is the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at Harvard Business School.

    Following his retirement from HBS in 2006, he served with former Dean Kim B. Clark at BYU-Idaho and then from 2007-2015 he served as... View Details

    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    Old Moats for New Models: Openness, Control, and Competition in Generative AI

    By: Pierre Azoulay, Joshua L. Krieger and Abhishek Nagaraj
    Drawing insights from the field of innovation economics, we discuss the likely competitive environment shaping generative AI advances. Central to our analysis are the concepts of appropriability—whether firms in the industry are able to control the knowledge generated... View Details
    Keywords: Technological Innovation; AI and Machine Learning; Open Source Distribution; Policy
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    • 13 Apr 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Your Company Wants to be a 'Cognitive Referent' (Hint: SpaceX)

    Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School. After all, 2007 was the year that Twitter was founded; Airbnb formed the following year. For startups jockeying for position in nascent markets, pressure is intense to... View Details
    Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Aerospace; Food & Beverage; Retail
    • 07 Sep 2016
    • What Do You Think?

    How Can the Threat of Networks Be Reduced?

    SUMMING UP Are Computers and Tech-Driven Networks In Their Twilight Years? Issues raised by the ascendancy of network technology are many and varied, judging from responses to this month’s column based on Joshua Cooper Ramo’s book, The... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 2011
    • Working Paper

    Historical Trajectories and Corporate Competences in Wind Energy

    By: Geoffrey Jones and Loubna Bouamane
    This working paper surveys the business history of the global wind energy turbine industry between the late nineteenth century and the present day. It examines the long-term prominence of firms headquartered in Denmark, the more fluctuating role of U.S.-based firms,... View Details
    Keywords: Business History; Renewable Energy; Competitive Advantage; Technology Adoption; Policy; Business and Government Relations; Energy Industry; United States; Denmark
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    • April 2009 (Revised May 2010)
    • Case

    Urbi and the City Licensee Managers

    By: John D. Macomber and Regina Garcia-Cuellar
    A leading low income housing builder in Mexico decides which prospective new local partner best extends its advantages in managing twin production lines of homes and clients. URBI has built substantial competitive advantage in the technology and culture that matches... View Details
    Keywords: Mortgages; Government and Politics; Housing; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Market Entry and Exit; Production; Supply Chain; Organizational Culture; Franchise Ownership; Partners and Partnerships; Competitive Advantage; Real Estate Industry; China; India; Mexico; United States
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    • 10 Apr 2006
    • Research & Ideas

    Lessons from the Browser Wars

    In a famous example of how first movers can lose their advantage, second-mover Microsoft won the Web browser wars from Netscape and continues to dominate the market today. But that competition was the subject of another "war," this one among researchers who... View Details
    Keywords: by Sara Grant; Technology; Technology; Technology
    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    Appropriate Entrepreneurship? The Rise of China and the Developing World

    By: Josh Lerner, Junxi Liu, Jacob Moscona and David Yang
    Global innovation and entrepreneurship has traditionally been dominated by a handful of high-income countries, especially the US. This paper investigates the international consequences of the rise of a new hub for innovation, focusing on the dramatic growth of... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Emerging Markets; Economic Growth; China
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    • March 2017
    • Teaching Note

    Showpad

    By: Frank Cespedes
    Showpad is a startup that provides a sales enablement platform and tools. The venture has grown 100% annually since its founding four years ago, and the founders are evaluating growth options and decisions in three areas: adding product features, possible pricing... View Details
    Keywords: Business Startups; Growth and Development Strategy; Sales
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    • 02 Oct 2018
    • News

    How Companies Can Tap Into Talent Clusters

    • 2010
    • Working Paper

    Being a Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership: An Ontological Model (PDF File of PowerPoint Slides)

    By: Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen and Kari Granger

    This presentation is based on our research program over the last seven years in which our objective has been to rigorously distinguish leader and leadership and to create a technology for providing access to being a leader and exercising leadership effectively (in... View Details

    Keywords: Curriculum and Courses; Innovation and Invention; Leadership Development; Goals and Objectives; Research and Development; Attitudes; Perception; Technology; United States
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    • 10 Jul 2000
    • Research & Ideas

    The State of the Markets

    Stock Exchange (NYSE); and Robert C. Gasser, managing director and head of U.S. equities at J. P. Morgan & Co. Financial exchanges today, Seifert began, must have the business systems of a technology company, with the requisite speed... View Details
    Keywords: by James E. Aisner

      Proximate (Co-)Working: Knowledge Spillovers and Social Interactions

      We examine the influence of physical proximity on between-start-up knowledge spillovers at one of the largest technology coworking hubs in the United States. Relying on the exogenous assignment of office space to the hub’s 251 start-ups, we find that proximity... View Details

        Tarun Khanna

        Tarun Khanna is the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at the Harvard Business School. For almost three decades, he has studied entrepreneurship as a means to social and economic development in emerging markets. At HBS since 1993, after obtaining degrees from Princeton... View Details

        • 04 Apr 2016
        • HBS Seminar

        Shelley Correll, Stanford University

        • September 2021
        • Case

        Francoise Brougher (A)

        By: Edward H. Chang, Nour Kteily and Kathleen McGinn
        Francoise Brougher was a high-powered technology executive in Silicon Valley. After successful stints at Google (where she rose to lead a $16 billion ad sales business) and Square (which she helped take public), she joined Pinterest as its first Chief Operating Officer... View Details
        Keywords: Gender Discrimination; Personal Development and Career; Gender; Prejudice and Bias; Resignation and Termination; Negotiation
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        • January 2022 (Revised September 2023)
        • Case

        Simplifyy

        By: Paul A. Gompers and Alicia Dadlani
        Jake Lisby, co-founder and CEO of Simplifyy, a property technology startup in Kansas City, Missouri, was both exhausted and exhilarated by the flurry of activity surrounding the pivot of the business model in late 2021. Simplifyy, a venture-backed PropTech company, was... View Details
        Keywords: SaaS; SaaS Business Models; Business Model; Business Startups; Small Business; Geographic Location; Technological Innovation; Information Technology; Transformation; Problems and Challenges; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; United States; Missouri
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