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Diasporas and Domestic Entrepreneurs: Evidence from the Indian Software Industry

By: Ramana Nanda and Tarun Khanna
This study explores the importance of cross-border social networks for entrepreneurs in developing countries by examining ties between the Indian expatriate community and local entrepreneurs in India's software industry. We find that local entrepreneurs who have... View Details
Keywords: Diasporas; Entrepreneurship; Applications and Software; Information Technology Industry; India
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  • 2022
  • Working Paper

Are Experts Blinded by Feasibility?: Experimental Evidence from a NASA Robotics Challenge

By: Jacqueline N. Lane, Zoe Szajnfarber, Jason Crusan, Michael Menietti and Karim R. Lakhani
Resource allocation decisions play a dominant role in shaping a firm’s technological trajectory and competitive advantage. Recent work indicates that innovative firms and scientific institutions tend to exhibit an anti-novelty bias when evaluating new projects and... View Details
Keywords: Evaluations; Novelty; Feasibility; Field Experiment; Resource Allocation; Technological Innovation; Competitive Advantage; Decision Making
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  • 01 Dec 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Modeling a Paradigm Shift: From Producer Innovation to User and Open Collaborative Innovation

Keywords: by Carliss Y. Baldwin & Eric von Hippel
  • 15 Sep 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

From Bench to Board: Gender Differences in University Scientists’ Participation in Commercial Science

Keywords: by Waverly W. Ding, Fiona Murray & Toby E. Stuart; Biotechnology
  • 01 Dec 2009
  • News

Broad Range of Interests Among Nine New Faculty

experience in the supermarket industry and holds an MBA from the University of Chicago. Bruce Harreld (MBA ’75) is applying his considerable experience as a strategic and marketing leader at IBM and as a speaker and writer on corporate... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 2021
  • Working Paper

Hidden Software and Veiled Value Creation: Illustrations from Server Software Usage

By: Raviv Murciano-Goroff, Ran Zhuo and Shane Greenstein
How do you measure the value of a commodity that transacts at a price of zero from an economic standpoint? This study examines the potential for and extent of omission and misattribution in standard approaches to economic accounting with regards to open source... View Details
Keywords: Server Software; Open Source Distribution; Applications and Software; Analytics and Data Science; Economics; Value Creation; Measurement and Metrics
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  • 14 Apr 2022
  • Op-Ed

Let’s Move Forward from COVID—Without Forgetting What We’ve Learned

involuntary loss of knowledge in an organization. The type of organizational forgetting occurring now is creating more problems. Instead of relying on the lessons learned from two years of COVID-19 crisis management, organizations are... View Details
Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson
  • 06 Sep 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Does Hybrid Work Actually Work? Insights from 30,000 Emails

environment. At the other extreme: Companies like 3M, SAP, and Twitter are letting many employees work from anywhere. Stuck in between: Employees quitting inflexible jobs as part of the “Great Resignation” and View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
  • 25 Apr 2023
  • Op-Ed

How SHEIN and Temu Conquered Fast Fashion—and Forged a New Business Model

information technology to directly match consumer demand to dispersed production by a collection of factories in China. This method of reaching customers should inspire any business that provides products or services that come View Details
Keywords: by John Deighton; Fashion; Retail; Consumer Products
  • 2012
  • Chapter

Schumpeterian Competition and Diseconomies of Scope: Illustrations from the Histories of Microsoft and IBM

By: Timothy F. Bresnahan, Shane Greenstein and Rebecca M. Henderson
We address a longstanding question about the causes of creative destruction. Dominant incumbent firms, long successful in an existing technology, are often much less successful in new technological eras. This is puzzling, since a cursory analysis would suggest that... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Opportunities; Competition; Information Technology; Innovation and Management; Organizations; Relationships; Information Technology Industry
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  • 23 Mar 2016
  • News

Building a Biotech Business from Farmed Fish

Holdings has been a very long development in aquaculture. What we have done is become an intellectual property company working with a large salmon grower—Cooke Aquaculture, based in St. John, New Brunswick. We take blood View Details
  • 2019
  • Book

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power

By: Shoshana Zuboff
In this masterwork of original thinking and research, Shoshana Zuboff provides startling insights into the phenomenon that she has named surveillance capitalism. The stakes could not be higher: a global architecture of behavior modification threatens human nature in... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Profiling; Consumer Behavior; Forecasting and Prediction; Information Technology; Power and Influence; Ethics; Society; Transformation
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  • 01 Mar 2004
  • News

Take 2: From Ad Copy to Cuneiform

68de8c2ce3ee202dde70bc45957e0ca6 Since retiring from the advertising business in 1994, Joan O. Rothberg (MBA ’63) has spent a good deal of time crawling around in the dirt. But she’s not just puttering in her Summit, View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley; archaeology; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Arts, Entertainment
  • 05 Apr 2013
  • News

Gift to Harvard Business School Funds New Professorship on Gender, Work, Career, and Family

  • 01 Sep 2006
  • News

Faculty Research Online From HBS Working Knowledge

What Companies Lose from Forced Disclosure Increased corporate financial reporting may benefit many parties but not necessarily the companies themselves. New research by Assistant Professor Romana Autrey and... View Details
  • 17 Mar 2023
  • News

Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in New York

lifted out of poverty, the standard of living we have created, the kinds of jobs we've created it all came from the enormous force for good that is business." This powerful idea paved the way for the new... View Details
  • 10 Jun 2022
  • Blog Post

New Venture Competition 2022: Business and Environment Ventures

The New Venture Competition is an annual competition sponsored by the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and Social Enterprise Initiative open to all students and alumni who are launching new business and... View Details
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From the Dean | Annual Report 2024

From the Dean We anticipate the start of every new academic year with excitement and optimism. However, events that unfolded during 2023-2024—in Israel and Palestine, and then on college campuses across the... View Details
  • 23 Mar 2022
  • Blog Post

Learning Curve: The Brother-and-Sister Team Behind a New Edtech Nonprofit

leveraging existing technology and infrastructure to enhance the quality of early childhood education for disadvantaged kids. And while the state-run preschools and primary schools that serve this population may suffer in comparison with... View Details
  • 17 Apr 2024
  • Blog Post

New Venture Competition 2024: Business and Environment Ventures

Watch Solara at the 2024 New Venture Competition. 2024 Social Enterprise Track Crowd Favorite: SeaCycle - Hande Ilhan (MBA 2025), Jakob Spiess (MBA 2025) - Pioneering sustainable biopolymer production. 2024 Tough View Details