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    Roy D. Shapiro

    Roy D. Shapiro is the Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration.  He is currently the faculty co-chair of the School's Technology and Operations Management Unit... View Details

    • January 2010 (Revised March 2010)
    • Case

    Transforming ASUSTeK: Breaking from the Past

    By: Willy C. Shih, Ho Howard Yu and Hung-Chang Chiu
    What happens when an original design manufacturer (ODM) firm tries to transform itself into a branded goods seller? The case traces the evolution of ASUSTeK from a motherboard supplier, to an ODM of desktop and notebook PCs, through its split into three companies that... View Details
    Keywords: Change Management; Transformation; Disruptive Innovation; Brands and Branding; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Competitive Strategy; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Taiwan
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    • April 1992 (Revised July 1992)
    • Case

    U.S. Robotics, Inc.

    U.S. Robotics (USR) is a fast-growing $80 million computer communications company with the aggressive growth target of becoming a $500 million company by 1995. It is widely accepted as the technology leader in its market, and relies strongly on its ability to bring... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Expansion; Product Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; United States
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    • March 2000 (Revised February 2005)
    • Case

    Hewlett Packard--Computer Systems Organization: Selling to Enterprise Customers

    By: Das Narayandas and Robert C. Dudley
    In late 1996, Manuel Diaz, head of Worldwide Sales for Hewlett-Packard's (HP) Computer Systems Organization (CSO), is reviewing the results of an audit of HP's enterprise customer management approach with the objective of identifying market and organizational... View Details
    Keywords: Accounting Audits; Transformation; Customer Relationship Management; Cost vs Benefits; Marketing Strategy; Sales; Computer Industry
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    • September 2023 (Revised April 2024)
    • Case

    Atomwise: Strategic Opportunities in AI for Pharma

    By: Satish Tadikonda
    Abraham Heifets and his co-founder, Izhar Wallach, had founded Atomwise to develop i) an AI engine to transform drug discovery by creating better medicines faster, and ii) a machine learning-based discovery engine that combined the power of convolutional neural... View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; Business Startups; AI and Machine Learning; Science-Based Business; Technological Innovation; Biotechnology Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry
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    • 2019
    • Working Paper

    ‘Organizing’, ‘Innovating’ and ‘Managing’ in Complexity Space

    By: Michael C. Moldoveanu
    We two-dimensional measure of organizational complexity that distinguishes between the informational and computational dimensions of complexity and aims to function as a maximally context-invariant environment for posing fundamental questions about organizational... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Dynamics; Organizations; Complexity; Adaptation; Innovation and Invention
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    • 03 Oct 2006
    • First Look

    First Look: October 3, 2006

    2003). Blue-collar workers, in contrast, increasingly work outside the archetypal work gang and operate machinery or computers in isolation from others. As manual labor evolves to require more interaction with machines and less... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • March 2015
    • Article

    Vulnerable Banks

    By: Robin Greenwood, Augustin Landier and David Thesmar
    We present a model in which fire sales propagate shocks across bank balance sheets. When a bank experiences a negative shock to its equity, a natural way to return to target leverage is to sell assets. If potential buyers are limited, then asset sales depress prices,... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Liquidity; Financial Crisis; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry; Europe
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    • December 2003 (Revised October 2005)
    • Case

    High-Definition TV: The Grand Alliance

    By: Thomas R. Eisenmann
    Describes political and economic forces that influenced the development of an all-digital, high-definition television (HDTV) standard in the United States between 1986 and 1996. Outlines the stakes for various government and industry participants in the... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Investment; Policy; Management Practices and Processes; Emerging Markets; Standards; Business and Government Relations; Networks; Research and Development; Technology Adoption; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Technology Industry; Japan; Europe; United States
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    • 03 May 2016
    • News

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      Experimentation Matters: Unlocking the Potential of New Technologies for Innovation

      Every company's ability to innovate depends on a process of experimentation whereby new products and services are created and existing ones improved. But the cost of experimentation is limiting. New technologies—including computer modeling and simulation—promise to... View Details
      • March 1988 (Revised September 1993)
      • Case

      United Services Automobile Association (USAA)

      Under the leadership of Robert F. McDermott, USAA has been transformed from a property and casualty insurance company with $200 million in assets in the late 1960s to a $11 billion financial services empire in 1988. The case illustrates the value of having a CEO drive... View Details
      Keywords: Business or Company Management; Leadership; Information Technology; Financial Services Industry; Insurance Industry; United States
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      • January 1995 (Revised June 1995)
      • Case

      Cybertech Project (A), The

      Describes the development and exploitation of a radical new computer-integrated technology in the largely manual meat-processing industry. The technology has been developed by the meat industry's research organization over a period of 15 years and is now ready for... View Details
      Keywords: Production; Animal-Based Agribusiness; Information Technology; Product Marketing; Manufacturing Industry; Information Technology Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
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      • 10 Mar 2022
      • HBS Seminar

      Adina Sterling, Stanford

      • Research Summary

      Markets and Market Design

      The topic on which I currently spend the most of my research energy is the study of strategic interaction and reputation systems on eBay and similar markets from an applied, market design perspective. The rise of the Internet allowed a whole new generation of markets... View Details
      • March 2021
      • Article

      On the Direct and Indirect Real Effects of Credit Supply Shocks

      By: Laura Alfaro, Manuel García-Santana and Enrique Moral-Benito
      We explore the real effects of bank-lending shocks and how they permeate the economy through buyer-supplier linkages. We combine administrative data on all Spanish firms with a matched bank-firm-loan dataset of all corporate loans from 2003 to 2013 to estimate... View Details
      Keywords: Credit Supply Shocks; Bank Lending Channel; Input-output Linkages; Output; Mechanisms; Trade Credits; Price Effects; Economics; Credit; System Shocks; Employment; Investment; Spain
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        Strategies for Two-Sided Markets

        Many blockbuster products and services that have redefined the global business landscape are built around platforms that tie together two distinct groups of users in a network. Examples include credit cards that link consumers and merchants; operating systems that... View Details

        • November 2019
        • Case

        Apple, Einhorn, and iPrefs (Abridged)

        By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and W. Carl Kester
        In March 2013, Apple Computer has a very large cash balance, and is under pressure to return cash to shareholders. Hedge fund manager David Einhorn thinks Apple can "unlock value" by issuing perpetual preferred stock, dubbed iPrefs. Henry Blodget, CEO of Business... View Details
        Keywords: Markets; Stock Shares; Value Creation; Business and Shareholder Relations
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        • June 2017
        • Teaching Note

        IBM Transforming, 2012–2016: Ginni Rometty Steers Watson

        By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jonathan Cohen
        Ginni Rometty, who became IBM CEO in 2012, led efforts to transform the company around cognitive computing and the AI platform Watson. This Teaching Note helps instructors understand and teach the Harvard Business School case “IBM Transforming, 2012–2016: Ginni Rometty... View Details
        Keywords: Digital; Technological Change; Artificial Intelligence; Data; IBM; Watson; Internet Of Things; Innovation and Invention; Management; Sales; Information Technology; Technological Innovation; Transformation; AI and Machine Learning
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        • June 2012
        • Article

        Consequence-Cause Matching: Looking to the Consequences of Events to Infer Their Causes

        By: Robyn A. LeBoeuf and Michael I. Norton
        We show that people non-normatively infer event causes from event consequences. For example, people inferred that a product failure (computer crash) had a large cause (widespread computer virus) if it had a large consequence (job loss), but that the identical failure... View Details
        Keywords: Causal Inference; Product; Forecasting and Prediction; Motivation and Incentives; Failure
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