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- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
elephant attack to become a leading artificial intelligence software company. The case describes his unusual management approach emphasizing employee testing and selection, customer testing View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 7, 2007
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W13281 Diasporas and Domestic Entrepreneurs: Evidence from the Indian Software Industry Authors:Ramana Nanda and Tarun Khanna Abstract This study... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- April 2006 (Revised August 2007)
- Case
BitTorrent
Involves the copyright issues associated with Bram Cohen's revolutionary software program BitTorrent, which makes it possible to transfer very large files, such as movies, at a high speed over the Internet. The program, which is available for free over the Internet, is... View Details
Keywords: Lawfulness; Lawsuits and Litigation; Applications and Software; Copyright; Internet and the Web
Bagley, Constance E., and Reed Martin. "BitTorrent." Harvard Business School Case 806-169, April 2006. (Revised August 2007.)
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
this book makes creativity attainable for everyone. With simple, easily understandable chapters backed up by downloadable work sheets, it offers advice on learning how to brainstorm, freeing inner dreams, View Details
- 16 Nov 2016
- News
Is Your Company Committed to Being "Healthy"?
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
Working PapersThe Business of Free Software: Enterprise Incentives, Investment, and Motivation in the Open Source Community Authors:Marco Iansiti and Gregory L. Richards... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Leading Change and Organizational Renewal | HBS Online
short-term success and long-term innovation Build your organization’s architecture by understanding the relationship between its hardware (structure, processes, and systems) View Details
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
Waze was intensely focused on user growth, and Google’s culture was to build things and then build those things “10x” bigger. How would Eisnor’s team take a free program... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
How to Get Companies to Make Investments That Benefit Everyone
since little of the upside tends to flow back onto corporate balance sheets. To that end, Nagle says, “Can we design systems and regulations to allow a company to get some of those benefits?” One model for the future: View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- Research Summary
Overview
By: Frank Nagle
Professor Nagle studies how competitors can collaborate on the creation of core technologies, while still competing on the products and services built on top of them. His research falls into the broader categories of the futures of work, the economics of IT, and... View Details
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
NGOs, and business associations in order to understand the challenges from multiple perspectives: psychology, sociology, law, and insurance. The group used these insights to create an 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.
- 08 Feb 2017
- HBS Seminar
Andrew Mao, Microsoft Research
- Research Summary
Lean Startup Management Practices
Many information technology startups have embraced "lean startup" management practices. Lean startups confront high levels of uncertainty about both customer problems and product solutions: the strength of demand for new... View Details
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?
Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation to have a free (as in freedom) operating system. According to Stallman, application View Details
- July 2014 (Revised August 2015)
- Case
Qihoo
By: Feng Zhu
Qihoo, one of the largest Internet companies in China today, was founded in 2005. The company started its business by offering a security software product, and quickly dominated the market in China after its unusual move of giving its product away for free in 2009.... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
From social media to the grocery store to the corner office and all the way to the stratosphere, the research and entrepreneurial adventures HBS faculty, doctoral students and... View Details
Karim R. Lakhani
Karim R. Lakhani is the Dorothy & Michael Hintze Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He specializes in technology management, innovation, digital transformation and artificial... View Details
- Winter 2021
- Article
Dealmaking Disrupted: The Unexplored Power of Social Media in Negotiation
By: James K. Sebenius, Ben Cook, David A. Lax, Isaac Silberberg and Paul Levy
While social media has had profound effects in many realms, the theory and practice of negotiation have remained relatively untouched by this potent phenomenon. In this article, we survey existing research in this area and develop a broader framework for understanding... View Details
Sebenius, James K., Ben Cook, David A. Lax, Isaac Silberberg, and Paul Levy. "Dealmaking Disrupted: The Unexplored Power of Social Media in Negotiation." Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence, Technology, and Negotiation. Negotiation Journal 37, no. 1 (Winter 2021): 97–141.
- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Your Customers: Use Them or Lose Them
Reason: Commerce Bank decided to differentiate on service. For starters, it offers seven-day branch banking, giving customers extra convenience. In addition, every branch includes so-called penny arcades, coin changing machines that are View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace