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- 01 Jun 2020
- What Do You Think?
Will Challenged Amazon Tweak Its Retail Model Post-Pandemic?
product offerings, start treating the third party suppliers like partners, and invest in local distribution centers.” Other concerns included those associated with changing customer shopping habits, the use of new technologies, and... View Details
- November 1999 (Revised March 2002)
- Case
Red Hat and the Linux Revolution
By: Alan D. MacCormack and Kerry Herman
The case describes the history of the Linux operating system and the open-source movement in general. Focuses on a critical decision being made by Red Hat, the largest distributor of Linux, about its future development efforts. The decision allows students to explore... View Details
Keywords: Open Source Distribution; Applications and Software; Product Development; Change Management; Research and Development; Business Processes; Disruptive Innovation; Information Technology Industry; North Carolina
MacCormack, Alan D., and Kerry Herman. "Red Hat and the Linux Revolution." Harvard Business School Case 600-009, November 1999. (Revised March 2002.)
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Starting Lineup: Power Plays
Grana (MBA 2009) and Paul Gibbs (MBA 2011); Founded 2011 Its HelioScope software simplifies design and sales for solar systems—an energy source whose US installations doubled between 2015 and 2016. The software produced by the San... View Details
- May 2024
- Teaching Note
AI21 Labs in 2023: Strategy for Generative AI
By: David Yoffie
Teaching Note for HBS Case 724-383. The case has 3 important teaching purposes: First, what are the advantages and disadvantages of imitation? (e.g., Should AI21 imitate OpenAI with a chatbot?) Second, what are the advantages and disadvantages of keeping new technology... View Details
- October 2015
- Case
Facebook: The First Ten Years
By: Shane Greenstein, Marco Iansiti and Christine Snively
Facebook celebrated its ten year anniversary in February 2014. Over the past decade it has grown into the largest social network in the world with one billion users. After filing an IPO in 2012 at a $104 billion valuation (the third largest IPO in U.S. history), the... View Details
- 2003
- Working Paper
Dynamic Mixed Duopoly: A Model Motivated by Linux vs. Windows
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Pankaj Ghemawat
This paper analyzes a dynamic mixed duopoly in which a profit-maximizing competitor interacts with a competitor that prices at zero (or marginal cost), with the cumulation of output affecting their relative positions over time. The modeling effort is motivated by... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Competition; Open Source Distribution; Balance and Stability; Applications and Software; Network Effects; Duopoly and Oligopoly
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Pankaj Ghemawat. "Dynamic Mixed Duopoly: A Model Motivated by Linux vs. Windows." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 04-012, August 2003.
- March 2008
- Case
Cambrian House
By: Peter A. Coles, Karim R. Lakhani and Andrew P. McAfee
Cambrian House builds internet-based products and services by relying entirely on its user community for all aspects of its innovation and new product development process. Users suggest ideas for new products and services and also participate in a monthly voting... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Voting; Technological Innovation; Knowledge Management; Marketing Strategy; Open Source Distribution; Product Development; Strategic Planning; Business and Community Relations; Internet
Coles, Peter A., Karim R. Lakhani, and Andrew P. McAfee. "Cambrian House." Harvard Business School Case 608-016, March 2008.
- 19 Jul 2011
- News
Brightening the Future
efforts to improve living standards and open new possibilities for the 20 million (one in four) Filipinos who live in remote areas and lack reliable access to electricity. In May, three motorcycle riders embarked from Manila, leading an... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Faculty Books
navigate your company’s complex political environment); and manage a team (forge a high-performing “we” out of all the “I”s who report to you). The Comingled Code: Open Source and Economic Development by... View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
Protecting the Power Grid
distributing it for hundreds of miles. Large areas of America could become uninhabitable. Over dinner, Mott and Popik, who earned a mechanical engineering degree from MIT before attending HBS, vowed to work together on an engineering and... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Powering on wireless electricity
award underlines the fact that our technology is capable of enormous positive economic and environmental impact,” says Giler, whose entrepreneurial spirit extends to other areas of interest. He is the cofounder of Scratch Wireless, which is developing the nation’s... View Details
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Making a Difference in the World
organizations waste $2.8 billion every year powering unused PCs. In 2009, these unused PCs emitted approximately 20 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent — equal to the annual emissions of 4 million cars. Transportation accounts for nearly 30 percent of US annual... View Details
Jeffrey P. Bezos
Founding his company just as the Internet was gaining widespread usage and credibility, Bezos created the world’s largest on-line bookseller. Realizing that few bookstores, even superstores, carry more than 100,000 books, Bezos created an enterprise that could View Details
Keywords: Retail
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Research Brief: Weatherproofing Renewables
From its seat at the tip of South America, belted by the equator, Colombia enjoys fairly steady temperatures—an evenness that’s counterbalanced by the seesawing of two rainy seasons and two dry seasons every year. Those peak periods of sun and rain make Colombia a... View Details
- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
model reconfigurations. We consider three business models: the proprietary model (where all software modules offered by the firm are proprietary), the open source model (where all modules are View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
But It's All Right Now (In Fact, It's a Gas)
somehow revive the dormant business, stated a front-page article in the Wall Street Journal (March 13, 2001). Seeking a new source of supply, Shearer eventually settled on Trinidad and Tobago, better known as the calypso capital of the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Collective Wisdom
software communities have shown that we can have a highly distributed model involving contributors from all over the world. Some people said this would never work. But open View Details
- 18 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
How to Use Free Shipping as a Competitive Weapon
discussion, says Ngwe. "Having a physical store is a much more cost-efficient distribution strategy than having to ship everything directly to consumers," he says. "I think a large part of what this work is about is... View Details
George A. Hormel
Hormel created a very successful meat packing business in 1891, which still exists today. He opened distribution branches across the country and expanded his sales operations into the international market. View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco