Publications

March 2020
Case

Maven Clinic: Women's Health in the Digital Age

By: Ariel D. Stern and Sarah Mehta

In late 2017, Kate Ryder, the founder and CEO of digital women’s health telemedicine company Maven Clinic, faced an important decision. Maven offered both a direct to consumer (D2C) product that anyone could use to book virtual appointments with health practitioners... View Details

Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Strategy; Information Technology; Applications and Software; Health Industry; Health Industry; United States

January 2024
Case

Flashfood: The Magic of Commitment

By: Reza Satchu and Patrick Sanguineti

Josh Domingues had accomplished what countless young entrepreneurs long to achieve: founding a promising company that aspires to make the world a tangibly better place. Shocked to learn that international food waste cumulatively amounted to the world’s third largest... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneur; Founder; Startup; Business Model; Business Startups; Food; Applications and Software; Mission and Purpose; Environmental Sustainability; Canada

22 Jul 2019
Book

How to Be a Digital Platform Leader

interest in the subject was initially stimulated by the explosive growth of the Microsoft Windows operating system. The real value of Windows, we learned, was not about the product, per se, but the applications written by independent View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

17 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

Can Autonomous Vehicles Drive with Common Sense?

Lillo of Swiss Reinsurance Company. To get consumers to sign onto the technology, the industry must instill trust by focusing on programming the cars to behave with the “common sense” human drivers tend to apply when navigating complex or... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Auto

September 2015 (Revised March 2016)
Case

Intuit: Turbo Tax PersonalPro - A Tale of Two Entrepreneurs

By: Shikhar Ghosh, Joseph Fuller and Michael Roberts

The case provides a vehicle for teaching about both corporate intrapreneurship and the use of lean startup methods. It tells the story of a product manager within Intuit who develops an idea for a new product that spans two of the company's existing business... View Details

Keywords: Business Units; Business or Company Management; Applications and Software; Accounting; Product Development; Financial Services Industry

15 Jan 2013
First Look

First Look: January 15

circumscribe citizen-employees, and they engage in production and trade. But individual corporations are no longer adequate to serve as the primary unit of analysis. Over the years, systems of distributed innovation-so-called business ecosystems-have become... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Sep 2011
First Look

First Look: September 27

effects are often applied in settings where clustering may be important. We provide a general methodology for consistently estimating the variance of a large class of non-parametric estimators, including the simple matching estimator, in the presence of clustering.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?

attending industry conferences, visiting their companies, interviewing them, developing a practitioner advisory team, and maybe spending some time working as a practitioner. (For his own part, Toffel worked as director of environment,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

Research Summary

Mastering Strategy Execution

By: Robert Simons

Professor Robert Simons’ research encompasses three areas of management accountability that are the foundation for successful strategy execution: organization design, performance measurement and control, and risk management. In addition, Simons is interested in the... View Details

March 1997 (Revised April 2001)
Supplement

Microsoft in the People's Republic of China: 1998 Update

By: Tarun Khanna and Danielle J. Melito

Provides an update to Microsoft in the People's Republic of China--1993. View Details

Keywords: Applications and Software; Globalized Markets and Industries; Information Technology Industry; China

winter 2007
Article

Oracle vs. PeopleSoft: A Case Study

By: D. Millstone and Guhan Subramanian

Keywords: Applications and Software; Information; Information Technology Industry

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March 1992 (Revised September 1995)
Background Note

Note on Chemical Bank Lotus Notes Demonstration Software: Windows & Macintosh Versions

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Donna B. Stoddard

Keywords: Applications and Software; Information Technology; Banking Industry

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January 2008 (Revised April 2008)
Teaching Note

AT&T v. Microsoft: IP Litigation (TN) (A) and (B)

By: Willy Shih

Teaching Note for [608080], and [608081]. View Details

Keywords: Applications and Software; Information Technology; Communications Industry; Communications Industry