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  • 29 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 29, 2008

of these two factors helps stop and reverse long-term declines in overall inventor agglomeration evident in the 1970s and 1980s. The heightened ethnic agglomeration is particularly evident in industry patents for high-tech sectors, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs

afford to pass on any opportunity, no matter how small. They see business much like a game of PacMan—you can bag big fish only by learning to swallow small ones. The best entrepreneurs also recognize that trying out a business model on a small scale helps them find out... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
  • June 1998 (Revised January 2001)
  • Case

Browser Wars, 1994-1998, The

By: David B. Yoffie and Mary Kwak
Analyzes the competition between Netscape and Microsoft in the market for Web browsers and related products. Despite its first mover advantage, Netscape sees its market share fall once Microsoft becomes "hard-core" about the Internet. By the spring of 1998, the future... View Details
Keywords: Applications and Software; Internet and the Web; Innovation and Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Competition; Supply and Industry; Information Technology Industry
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  • May 2007
  • Teaching Note

Oracle vs. PeopleSoft (TN) (A) and (B)

By: Lynn S. Paine, Guhan Subramanian and Aldo Sesia
Keywords: Applications and Software; Information Technology; Information Technology Industry
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  • 23 Aug 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Strategy for Small Fish

number of niche firms for long, sustained periods of time. In the software industry, a large number of niche players have endured for many years, constantly generating a variety of product innovations. Despite the contraction caused by... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
  • 04 Mar 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Is E-commerce at Risk in Apple's Security Dispute with the FBI?

aspect. But as Tim Cook wrote in his letter, jeopardizing customer security is a slippery slope. Q: So is the cost not just to Apple but to the e-commerce industry prohibitive here? A: It’s a strange situation from Apple’s point of view.... View Details
Keywords: Re: Sunil Gupta; Technology
  • 22 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 22, 2008

Groups in Decentralized Organizations (revised) Authors:Heather M. Caruso, Todd Rogers, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract No abstract is available at this time. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-090.pdf Team Familiarity, Role Experience, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Jul 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Markets or Communities? The Best Ways to Manage Outside Innovation

nature of the innovation problem at hand, the motivation of the external developers, and the firm's platform business model. Depending on these factors, the outside innovation might be fed and managed either by creating collaborative communities (think of the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology
  • 29 Jul 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Get Off the Dime!

articles had been sent to the execs about the good and the bad aspects of the existing systems. A small team of people had focused carefully on the economic analysis, looking closely at our current software programs, in particular. At the... View Details
Keywords: by John P. Kotter & Dan S. Cohen
  • 10 Jan 2008
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Operations Management

production methods. But the payoffs have not been nearly as dramatic for service industries applying lean principles. HBS professor David Upton and doctoral student Bradley Staats look at the experience of Indian View Details
  • 18 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 18

the ratings. Our tests examine whether these forms of disclosure reflect firms' real efforts to combat corruption or are cheap talk. We find that the ratings are related to enforcement and monitoring, country and industry corruption risk,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • December 2013 (Revised February 2014)
  • Supplement

Reinventing Brainlab (B)

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Karol Misztal
The management of Germany's Brainlab AG, a leading provider of software-driven oncology and surgery solutions, needs to evaluate strategic options for proceeding without an exclusive hardware partner in its most profitable business segment. View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Information Infrastructure; Applications and Software; Medical Specialties; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; Germany
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  • November 2021
  • Teaching Note

Seeding and Selling Asana

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Tom Quinn, Amram Migdal and Susie Ma
This teaching note accompanies case no. 821-054, “Seeding and Selling Asana.” View Details
Keywords: Sales; Information Technology; Applications and Software; Technology Industry; United States
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  • 2013
  • Article

Where Not to Eat? Improving Public Policy by Predicting Hygiene Inspections Using Online Reviews

By: Jun Seok Kang, Polina Kuznetsova, Yejin Choi and Michael Luca
Restaurant hygiene inspections are often cited as a success story of public disclosure. Hygiene grades influence customer decisions and serve as an accountability system for restaurants. However, cities (which are responsible for inspections) have limited resources to... View Details
Keywords: Safety; Food; Governance Compliance; Mathematical Methods; Applications and Software; Public Administration Industry; Public Administration Industry; Public Administration Industry
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  • 05 Nov 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Venture Capital Goes Boom—or Bust?

Ninety percent of new entrepreneurial businesses that don't attract venture capital fail within three years. A software engineer at the government contractor EG&G, Don Brooks had been working on computer systems for the Idaho National... View Details
Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner
  • 05 Sep 2006
  • First Look

First Look: September 5, 2006

believing concentration is increasing even when it isn't, and to discuss possible reasons. What Is the Impact of Software Patent Shifts? Evidence from Lotus v. Borland Authors:Josh Lerner and Feng Zhu Periodical:International Journal of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Mar 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Product Disasters Can Be Fertile Ground for Innovation

Incremental changes. The first type, which occurred immediately following the accidents, consisted of incremental changes—that is, software fixes targeted at preventing accidental over-radiation. These included dose displays, alerts, and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies
  • 29 May 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Why CEOs Are Not Plug-and-Play

manager's skills. When the telecommunications industry was deregulated and challenged by new entrants, for instance, few former Bell Systems managers were able to successfully transition to the fast-moving, entrepreneurial,... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Andrew N. McLean & Nitin Nohria; Employment
  • May 2009
  • Article

Intellectual Property, Architecture, and the Management of Technological Transitions: Evidence from Microsoft Corporation

By: Alan David MacCormack and Marco Iansiti
Keywords: Intellectual Property; Information Technology; Transition; Applications and Software; Information Technology Industry
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  • 22 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 22, 2007

explore the use of more distributed institutional forms. In this article, we review the emerging scholarship on the formation and function of self-regulatory institutions. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-089.pdf Evolution Analysis of Large-Scale... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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