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Competency-Destroying Technology Transitions: Why the Transition to Digital Is Particularly Challenging

Some technology transitions are exceedingly difficult for incumbent firms to execute. The bankruptcy filing by the Eastman Kodak Company highlighted the difficulty companies faced when their core business transitioned from an analog to a digital world. Kodak's business... View Details

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10 Apr 2013
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Learning Curve: Making the Most of Outsourcing

the vendor of outsourced services can improve the efficiency and perhaps the quality of services delivered—particularly in health care, where outsourcing is on the rise. In... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Guttry; Health

29 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Rich or Royal: What Do Founders Want?

paradox in a recent paper called "Rich versus King: The Entrepreneur's Dilemma," an early draft of which was featured in the Best Paper Proceedings of the 2006 Academy of Management Conference and the 2005 Babson-Kauffman View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Financial Services

16 Apr 2007
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Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer

attracted the research attention of Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, a professor at Harvard Business School, and Andres Hervas-Drane, a PhD candidate in Economics at the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Music

19 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 19

priorities?; (3) Do I give subordinates timely and direct feedback they can act on? Have I developed a succession roadmap?; and (4) Is my leadership style still effective,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Nov 2024
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Layoffs Surging in a Strong Economy? Advice for Navigating Uncertain Times

the layoff research of our colleagues as a touchpoint, we are troubled by the potential long-term costs of this trend, including reduced innovation, lower team engagement, and attrition of talented people.... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology; Information Technology

27 Sep 2006
Research & Ideas

Report From Egypt: Studying Global Influences

A: In two of the companies, there were no expats among top management and a great deal of sophistication about the best and latest in everything. In one of those, its View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

04 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Making the Case for Consumer-Driven Health Care

of health care is a major research topic at Harvard Business School and its Healthcare Initiative, where some 40 faculty conduct research on questions as diverse as how... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

04 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 4

to develop Alfred’s routes and respond to customer requests in conjunction with other service providers, for example grocery delivery services, in what the founders describe as... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Jul 2023
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The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2023

the Second Half of Life, as well as the forthcoming Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier, coauthored with Oprah Winfrey. Hise Gibson: Leadership and habit formation My summer... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

Benson P. Shapiro

Benson P. Shapiro is a well-known authority on marketing strategy and sales management with particular interests in pricing, product line planning, and marketing organization. He is also the Malcolm P. McNair Professor of Marketing Emeritus at the Harvard Business... View Details

September 2013
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Cultures as Learning Laboratories: What Makes Some More Effective than Others?

By: Elaine Mosakowski, Goran Calic and P C Early

With a mandate to globalize, business school educators have increasingly embraced global service learning as an important technique for creating global mind-sets and enhancing cultural understanding in students. While we applaud this movement from the domestic to the... View Details

Keywords: Business Education; Learning; Cognition and Thinking; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues

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Henry McCance

Greylock recommended Timothy Armour (MBA 1975) to McCance as a potential consultant. Armour, who had some 20 years’ experience in development and operations at nonprofits, including Harvard Business School,... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services; Financial Services; Financial Services

12 Oct 2011
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and software to meet a wide range of needs from basic scientific research in the biological and medical sciences to clinical applications,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2009
Lessons from the Classroom

The Challenges of Investing in Science-Based Innovation

In economic downtimes, businesses are apt to cut R&D projects that don't promise a speedy return on investment. But take a cue from smart science-based businesses, which view the recession as an opportunity to stoke up research View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Auto; Pharmaceutical

09 Aug 2016
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August 9, 2016

amputees with motorized propulsion, emulating the function of lost muscles and tendons. The company's products were based on technology developed by Dr. Hugh Herr, Director of the Biomechatronics View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Spring 2013
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The Growth of Finance

By: Robin Greenwood and David S. Scharfstein

The U.S. financial services industry grew from 4.9% of GDP in 1980 to 7.9% of GDP in 2007. A sizeable portion of the growth can be explained by rising asset management fees, which in turn were driven by increases in the valuation of tradable assets, particularly... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Asset Management; Research; Mortgages; Financial Services Industry

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Platform Competition

Technology has challenged the underlying foundations of business, and firms must evaluate and change strategies accordingly. Professor Halaburda studies the interaction of technology and economic theory, and her findings indicate that conventional wisdom and rules... View Details

29 Mar 2011
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develop a conceptual and an empirical framework to explain how this challenge is addressed in a software and scientific context. What is shown is... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Mar 2007
Research & Ideas

How Do You Value a “Free” Customer?

research is starting to look at customers whose value is not as readily apparent, and where CLV calculations break down. In a recent working paper, Harvard Business School professor Sunil Gupta calls them... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Web Services

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Competency-Destroying Technology Transitions: Why the Transition to Digital Is Particularly Challenging

Learning Curve: Making the Most of Outsourcing

Rich or Royal: What Do Founders Want?

Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer

First Look: April 19

Layoffs Surging in a Strong Economy? Advice for Navigating Uncertain Times

Report From Egypt: Studying Global Influences

Making the Case for Consumer-Driven Health Care

First Look at New Research, April 4

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2023

Benson P. Shapiro

Cultures as Learning Laboratories: What Makes Some More Effective than Others?

Henry McCance

First Look: October 12

The Challenges of Investing in Science-Based Innovation

August 9, 2016

The Growth of Finance

Platform Competition

First Look: March 29

How Do You Value a “Free” Customer?