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  • March 2014
  • Teaching Note

The Weather Company

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
New CEO David Kenny transformed The Weather Company in less than two years from a primary identity as a cable television channel to a multi-platform digital company innovating in the uses of weather data. He assesses progress and considers strategic choices and... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Strategic Change; Technology; Digital; Weather; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Digital Platforms; Change Management; Leading Change; Growth and Development Strategy; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry
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    Revolutionizing Innovation: Users, Communities, and Open Innovation

    The last two decades have witnessed an extraordinary growth of new models of managing and organizing the innovation process that emphasizes users over producers. Large parts of the knowledge economy now routinely rely on users, communities, and open innovation... View Details

    • 2020
    • Working Paper

    Inventing the Endless Frontier: The Effects of the World War II Research Effort on Post-War Innovation

    By: Daniel P. Gross and Bhaven N. Sampat
    During World War II, the U.S. government launched an unprecedented effort to mobilize science for war: a newly-established Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) entered thousands of R&D contracts with industrial and academic contractors, spending one to... View Details
    Keywords: World War II; Vannevar Bush; OSRD; Mission-oriented R＆D; Direction Of Innovation; Geography Of Innovation; Technology Clusters; U.S. Innovation System; Innovation and Invention; Research and Development; Problems and Challenges; War; History; Government Administration; United States
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    • Research Summary

    Trust

    By: Sandra J. Sucher

    In this research, I aim to provide a practical orientation to trust—how to build it, how it can be damaged, how it might be repaired—grounded in my experience as an executive and in the research on organizational trust and moral philosophy. As a case researcher, I... View Details

    Keywords: Power; Globalization; Leadership; Corporate Culture; Future Of Work; Innovation; Human Resources; Technology Strategy; Automation; Stakeholder Engagement; Employee Attitude; Customer Behavior; Shareholder Value; Government And Business; Impact Investing; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Change And Sustainability; Asia; Europe; South America; Middle East; North And Central America; Trust; Asia; Europe; South America; Middle East; North and Central America
    • June 2023
    • Simulation

    Artea Dashboard and Targeting Policy Evaluation

    By: Ayelet Israeli and Eva Ascarza
    Companies deploy A/B experiments to gain valuable insights about their customers in order to answer strategic business problems. In marketing, A/B tests are often used to evaluate marketing interventions intended to generate incremental outcomes for the firm. The Artea... View Details
    Keywords: Algorithm Bias; Algorithmic Data; Race And Ethnicity; Experimentation; Promotion; Marketing And Society; Big Data; Privacy; Data-driven Management; Data Analysis; Data Analytics; E-Commerce Strategy; Discrimination; Targeted Advertising; Targeted Policies; Pricing Algorithms; A/B Testing; Ethical Decision Making; Customer Base Analysis; Customer Heterogeneity; Coupons; Marketing; Race; Gender; Diversity; Customer Relationship Management; Marketing Communications; Advertising; Decision Making; Ethics; E-commerce; Analytics and Data Science; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; United States
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    • 20 Oct 2016
    • Cold Call Podcast

    The Spectacular Fall and Fix of HealthCare.gov

    Keywords: Re: Leonard A. Schlesinger; Health
    • Research Summary

    Output and asset price fluctuations

    What are the sources of business cycles? How are these shocks propagated in the economy? Why are their effects so persistent? How can we explain asset price fluctuations? How are shocks transmitted internationally?To study these questions, I have developed a series... View Details

    • 26 Mar 2019
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019

    use biometric identification technology to improve the reliability of administrative information and deliver social services more efficiently. This paper exploits the random placement of biometric devices in... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 01 Dec 2023
    • News

    Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

    Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The World’s Littlest Book on Climate: Ten Facts in Ten Minutes About CO2 By Mike Nelson, Pieter Tans, and Michael Banks (MBA 1983) Independently Published In this updated edition of the world’s smallest book on the world’s biggest... View Details
    Keywords: podcasts
    • July 2010
    • Case

    Metabical: Positioning and Communications Strategy for a New Weight Loss Drug

    By: John A. Quelch and Heather Beckham
    Cambridge Sciences Pharmaceuticals (CSP) expects final approval for its revolutionary weight loss drug, Metabical. Metabical will be the only weight loss drug with FDA approval that is also clinically proven to be effective for moderately overweight people. Barbara... View Details
    Keywords: Product Positioning; Marketing Communications; Product Launch; Consumer Behavior; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States
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    • 01 Mar 2024
    • News

    Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

    becoming irrelevant. It explores seven profound “mind leaps” leaders need to make now to transform at the speed of disruption. With illuminating case studies and hard-earned personal wisdom, Dennis helps you... View Details
    Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
    • March 2009
    • Case

    Incept LLC and Confluent Surgical (A)

    By: Bhaskar Chakravorti, Toby E. Stuart and James Weber
    A venture capitalist must decide whether to invest in a medical technology company that licenses intellectual property from a privately held IP holding company based on a platform technology. Entrepreneurs Amar Sawhney and Fred Khosravi founded Incept LLC to... View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; Entrepreneurship; Intellectual Property; Rights; Agreements and Arrangements; Partners and Partnerships; Trust; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
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    • 2013
    • Article

    Industry Equilibrium with Open-Source and Proprietary Firms

    By: Gaston Llanes and Ramiro de Elejalde
    We present a model of industry equilibrium to study the coexistence of open-source and proprietary firms. Two novel aspects of the model are (i) participation in open source arises as the optimal decision of profit-maximizing firms, and (ii) open-source and proprietary... View Details
    Keywords: Open Source Distribution; Balance and Stability; Software; Knowledge Management; Supply and Industry; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Research and Development; Cooperation
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    • March 2019
    • Case

    Wattpad

    By: John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld
    How to run a platform to match four million writers of stories to 75 million readers? Use data science. Make money by doing deals with television and filmmakers and book publishers. The case describes the challenges of matching readers to stories and of helping writers... View Details
    Keywords: Platform Businesses; Creative Industries; Publishing; Data Science; Machine Learning; Collaborative Filtering; Women And Leadership; Managing Data Scientists; Big Data; Recommender Systems; Digital Platforms; Information Technology; Intellectual Property; Analytics and Data Science; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Canada; United States; Philippines; Viet Nam; Turkey; Indonesia; Brazil
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    • 2011
    • Other Unpublished Work

    Innovation and Regulative Ambiguities in the U.S. Geothermal Power Sector

    By: Shon R. Hiatt
    While prior institutional research has focused on institutional ambiguity as an exogenous condition under which organizations exercise agency, this study examines the state's exercise of agency in making legal institutions more or less ambiguous and its impact on... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Policy; Energy Sources; Innovation and Invention; Energy Industry; United States
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    • January 2025
    • Article

    Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) System Implementations and Corporate Misconduct

    By: Jonas Heese and Joseph Pacelli
    This study examines whether enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementations are associated with reductions in corporate misconduct. Specifically, we study the relation between staggered facility-level rollouts of ERP systems and facility-level regulatory violations... View Details
    Keywords: Accounting; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Governance Compliance
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    • January 2006 (Revised July 2007)
    • Case

    Juan Trippe and Pan American World Airways

    By: Nitin Nohria, Anthony Mayo and Mark Rennella
    A fascination with flight and a forceful personality helped to create a market for air travel and shape the modern airline industry. Masterfully wielding his power and influence, Juan Trippe built Pan American Airways by combining bold moves and blind ambition. Across... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy; Industry Growth; Business and Government Relations; Power and Influence; Air Transportation; Air Transportation Industry; Travel Industry
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    • 2018
    • Chapter

    Transportation Cost and the Geography of Foreign Investment

    By: Laura Alfaro and Maggie Chen
    Falling transportation costs and rapid technological progress in recent decades have precipitated an explosion of cross-border flows in goods, services, investments, and ideas led by multinational firms. Extensive research has sought to understand the geographic... View Details
    Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Cost; Transportation; Geographic Scope; Geographic Location
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    • 16 Oct 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018

    Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 5 Complementarity By: Baldwin, Carliss Y. Abstract—The purpose of this chapter is to relate the theory of task networks and View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 15 Oct 2016
    • News

    Political dysfunction, economic progress and James Buchanan