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TopCoder Innovation Series - Professor Karim Lakhani on Open Innovation
Professor Lakhani - Harvard Business School - shares his thoughts on the extreme value outcomes born from Open Innovation competitions, Big Data opportunities and the TopCoder... View Details
- November 1998 (Revised February 1999)
- Case
Microsoft Office: Finding the Suite Spot
By: Stefan H. Thomke and Steven Sinofsky
Describes a key decision-making process within Microsoft's Office products division. At a time when the PC software business has a great deal of uncertainty, Microsoft's management has to make a key decision regarding the future of software suites. A strengthening of... View Details
Keywords: Decisions; Applications and Software; Strategic Planning; Organizational Design; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Product Development; Managerial Roles; Growth and Development Strategy; Risk and Uncertainty; Goals and Objectives; Digital Platforms; Innovation and Management; Computer Industry; Information Technology Industry
Thomke, Stefan H., and Steven Sinofsky. "Microsoft Office: Finding the Suite Spot." Harvard Business School Case 699-046, November 1998. (Revised February 1999.)
- 19 Apr 2018
- Video
DynamiCare Health Wins 2018 New Venture Competition Alumni Track
- November 2012 (Revised June 2013)
- Case
GREE, Inc.
By: Andrei Hagiu and Masahiro Kotosaka
In 2012, GREE was one of the world's most profitable mobile social gaming companies. Its success in Japan was due both to its in-house games and to the development platform that it offered to third-party game developers. Its biggest challenge was to replicate the... View Details
Hagiu, Andrei, and Masahiro Kotosaka. "GREE, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 713-447, November 2012. (Revised June 2013.)
- 11 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
HBS Career Journeys | Mariah Cushman
HBS Career & Professional Development sat down with students to talk about their career journeys. HBS Career & Professional Development sat down with students to talk about their career journeys. Mariah Cushman (MS/MBA 2023) shares her experience building a... View Details
- April 2012 (Revised October 2013)
- Case
eBay, Inc. and Amazon.com (A)
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Anant Thaker
This case has been designed to explore strategic interactions among organizations with different business models. The case considers how a competitor successfully challenged the incumbent in a platform market defined by strong network effects and high switching costs.... View Details
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Anant Thaker. "eBay, Inc. and Amazon.com (A)." Harvard Business School Case 712-405, April 2012. (Revised October 2013.)
- 12 Jan 2017
- News
Donald Trump just used his presidential power to advertise L.L. Bean
- 27 Mar 2024
- News
Behind the Research: Isamar Troncoso
- 16 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018
DSMC holds as a consistent pattern in a dynamic equilibrium. Given DSMC, clusters of firms making different complementary goods, including open platforms with surrounding ecosystems, can survive and compete effectively against integrated... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Oct 2015
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This could be the next 'subprime mortgage crisis'
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By: Isamar Troncoso
Professor Troncoso's research explores problems related to digital marketplaces and AI applications in marketing, and combines toolkits from econometrics, causal inference, and machine learning. She has studied how different platform design choices can lead to... View Details
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- 22 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
Launching the Women in Tech Initiative at HBS
behind the group was to address the lack of diversity in technology and provide a platform to connect HBS women as they embark on their own journey in technology. The Motivation Historically, women faced widespread challenges in gaining... View Details
- September 2023 (Revised July 2024)
- Case
Honest Jobs: A Path to Redemption
By: Paul A. Gompers and Jeffrey Barkas
Founded by a formerly incarcerated job seeker, Honest Jobs' mission is to be the hub where people with criminal records come to build careers and employers come to find great talent. Honest Jobs faced early challenges as a two-sided platform for justice-involved job... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Venture Capital; Recruitment; Entrepreneurial Finance; Selection and Staffing; Digital Platforms; Job Search; Mission and Purpose; Expansion; Employment Industry; United States; Colorado; Ohio; Texas
Gompers, Paul A., and Jeffrey Barkas. "Honest Jobs: A Path to Redemption." Harvard Business School Case 224-010, September 2023. (Revised July 2024.)
- 01 Oct 2015
- Working Paper Summaries
Efficiencies and Regulatory Shortcuts: How Should We Regulate Companies like Airbnb and Uber?
- June 2000 (Revised March 2003)
- Case
IBM Technology Group
By: Andrew P. McAfee and Kerry Herman
Explores two main issues: how the IBM Technology Group was able to build a robust, scalable, and functional IT platform using packaged enterprise resource planning (ERP) software from SAP, and how the division should best leverage this capability going forward. View Details
Keywords: Management; Digital Platforms; Information Technology; Competitive Advantage; Projects; Information Technology Industry
McAfee, Andrew P., and Kerry Herman. "IBM Technology Group." Harvard Business School Case 600-010, June 2000. (Revised March 2003.)