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- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Lessons from the Browser Wars
for new challengers to take root. Sara Grant: Why did you choose to study Web browsers to look at the idea of diffusion of innovation in a market? Pai-Ling Yin: Web browsers were the turning point in mass commercializing the Internet. They were the easy-to-use View Details
- 08 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
The Critical Computer Science Principles Every Strategic Leader Needs to Know
network effects allow platforms to grow exponentially, attracting ever more users and partners and eventually crowding out competitors. 3. Think like a sandwich From the computer keyboard and user View Details
- 20 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 20, 2007
broadband Internet, and the related crisis faced by companies whose business models relied on TV advertising—played to TiVo's unique strengths. Leadership in DVR technology and a TV-centric user interface... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
differs. ITunes provides a unified interface that seamlessly integrates the location, purchase, and consumption of content. Users of p2p networks, on the other hand, must navigate a complex environment and... View Details
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
complex "system of systems"-or array-project. Organizations cope with complexity by decomposing a project into different levels of systems integration with clearly defined interfaces and buffers between levels and individual... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Inventing Products is Less Valuable Than Inventing Ideas
professor of strategy at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. In the case of Zuckerberg vs. the Winklevosses, the twins may have had created a simple interface for college kids to connect with one another, but it... View Details
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Meet the Team | Information Technology
Her current work explores relationships between class and cultural production, with an emphasis on the role of creative actors in producing social change. Katie Giddings Senior User Interface & Instructional... View Details
- 17 Jul 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Developing a Strategy for Digital Convergence
users to time-shift their TV viewing. According to Yoffie, entertainment and communications are coming together to produce a mobile music revolution—the distribution of digital music over wireless networks. And your cell phone has also... View Details
- 19 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy
365 learn from consumer usage patterns and documents, personalizing their user interfaces by selecting which quick-access functions to display and incorporating new words and expressions into their... View Details
- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
users can access and improve the source code. At the same time, however, opening a module sets up an open source (free) competitor. This hampers the firm's ability to capture value. We analyze three competitive situations: monopoly,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018
trade-offs between effectiveness and efficiency associated with the use of bots versus humans to create, nurture, and manage customer relationships. Second, they had to decide to what extent to anthropomorphize the chatbots. How human-like should they be? Was a... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Organizational Model for Open Source
three projects: Debian, a complete non-commercial distribution of Linux; the GNU Object Model Environment (GNOME), which is a graphical user interface for Linux-based operating systems; and Apache, a public... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
cross-section or over time. Among the most stable elements in a platform architecture are the modular interfaces that mediate between the platform and its complements. These interfaces are even more stable... View Details
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
decisions a firm makes when designing systems to support these workers are 1) what guidance to deliver and 2) what kind of training (if any) to provide. We examine these choices in the context of mobile money platforms—systems that allow View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
specified times, since plugged-in devices draw power in shut-off or “standby” mode. “The concept was so obvious that we decided to take the risk and do it,” Shibata says. The company had a beta prototype ready to go in 15 months; after 15 more months of fine-tuning the... View Details
- 12 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Broadband Explosion: Thinking About a Truly Interactive World
the way we interacted with computers, by making user interfaces more friendly, for example. Back then, people who said, "What will we use all that computing power for?" were surprised by how useful... View Details
- 31 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018
infrastructure presents an excellent opportunity to avoid the pitfalls of complex, restrictive, digital health systems that have evolved elsewhere. We propose here a federated, patient-centric, application programming interface... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
the special educational needs of the HBS student," notes Upton. "For instance, the work we've done to deliver random access, fully digitized video to students' desktops via a Web-based interface [Netscape] is a real industry breakthrough.... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- Web
Past Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
educational need, and c) incorporate customer desires into the design and build of an educational app that teaches 6-11 y/o STEM skills. Using IDEO's human-centered approach to design, we have used customer feedback to complete prototypes of 1) our View Details
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
content? The Times had several choices in designing the paywall, including determining the digital content, pricing, as well as how to interface with readers of secondary news websites like blogs that posted links to news articles. Should... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel