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- July 6, 2023
- Article
How to Build a Life: Google Isn’t Grad School
By: Arthur C. Brooks
Brooks, Arthur C. "How to Build a Life: Google Isn’t Grad School." The Atlantic (July 6, 2023).
- November 2017 (Revised April 2019)
- Teaching Note
Google in Europe: Competition Policy in the Digital Era
By: Laura Phillips Sawyer
Teaching Note for HBS Nos. 717-004 and 718-010. View Details
- August 2016 (Revised March 2017)
- Case
Google in Europe: Competition Policy in the Digital Era
By: Laura Phillips Sawyer
Phillips Sawyer, Laura. "Google in Europe: Competition Policy in the Digital Era." Harvard Business School Case 717-004, August 2016. (Revised March 2017.)
- 08 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Civic Benefits of Google Street View and Yelp
expanding their own data-gathering and crunching capabilities through advancements like sensor networks and sophisticated modeling software. What if cities could make use of all that data to better give residents what they need—for example, using View Details
- 2020
- Working Paper
How Competition Affects Contributions to Open Source Platforms: Evidence from OpenStreetMap and Google Maps
By: Abhishek Nagaraj and Henning Piezunka
Open source platforms often face competition from commercial alternatives and yet we lack an understanding of whether and how commercial competition affects contributions to open source platforms. We study how contributions to OpenStreetMap, a widely-used open source... View Details
Keywords: Open Source Platforms; Contributions; Competitive Entry; Impact; Multi-Sided Platforms; Competition
Nagaraj, Abhishek, and Henning Piezunka. "How Competition Affects Contributions to Open Source Platforms: Evidence from OpenStreetMap and Google Maps." Working Paper, February 2020.
- June 2016 (Revised December 2017)
- Case
Google to Alphabet: Ten Things We Know to Be True
By: Robert Simons and Annelena Lobb
Google’s founders wrote “10 Things We Know to Be True,” a document detailing founding principles and values, early in the company’s life. As the company expanded, added business units, and changed its name to Alphabet, were these principles and values still valid and... View Details
Simons, Robert, and Annelena Lobb. "Google to Alphabet: Ten Things We Know to Be True." Harvard Business School Case 116-029, June 2016. (Revised December 2017.)
- April 2009
- Supplement
Symbian, Google & Apple in the Mobile Space (B)
By: Fernando Suarez, Benjamin Edelman and Arati Srinivasan
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Suarez, Fernando, Benjamin Edelman, and Arati Srinivasan. "Symbian, Google & Apple in the Mobile Space (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 909-056, April 2009.
- 2020
- Working Paper
Digitization and the Demand for Physical Works: Evidence from the Google Books Project
By: Abhishek Nagaraj and Imke Reimers
The digital era promised to deliver a centralized repository of all pre-existing knowledge through mass digitization. However, concerns about cannibalizing demand for physical works have led publishers and authors to block the realization of this vision. We investigate... View Details
Nagaraj, Abhishek, and Imke Reimers. "Digitization and the Demand for Physical Works: Evidence from the Google Books Project." Working Paper, June 2020.
- 2017
- Working Paper
Exploring the Relationship between Architecture Coupling and Software Vulnerabilities: A Google Chrome Case
By: Robert Lagerstrom, Carliss Y. Baldwin, Alan MacCormack, Dan Sturtevant and Lee Doolan
Employing software metrics, such as size and complexity, for predicting defects has been given a lot of attention over the years and has proven very useful. However, the few studies looking at software architecture and vulnerabilities are limited in scope and findings.... View Details
Keywords: Software; Architecture; Coupling; Vulnerabilities; Applications and Software; Complexity; Measurement and Metrics
Lagerstrom, Robert, Carliss Y. Baldwin, Alan MacCormack, Dan Sturtevant, and Lee Doolan. "Exploring the Relationship between Architecture Coupling and Software Vulnerabilities: A Google Chrome Case." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-078, February 2017.
- May 2019
- Teaching Note
Gender and Free Speech at Google (A), (B), & (C)
By: Nien-hê Hsieh and Sarah Mehta
Teaching Note for HBS No. 318-085, 319-095, and 319-097. View Details
- November 2017
- Supplement
Google in Europe: Competition Policy in the Digital Era (B)
By: Laura Phillips Sawyer
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Phillips Sawyer, Laura. "Google in Europe: Competition Policy in the Digital Era (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 718-010, November 2017.
- January 2017
- Teaching Note
Google to Alphabet: Ten Things We Know to Be True
By: Robert Simons and Annelena Lobb
- July 2016 (Revised March 2024)
- Case
Alphabet Eyes New Frontiers (A)
By: Juan Alcacer, Raffaella Sadun, Olivia Hull and Kerry Herman
In October 2015, Google restructured into Alphabet, a holding company, which analysts said would facilitate innovation among its diverse subsidiaries. But when news reports surfaced revealing struggles within Alphabet companies including Nest, the smart thermostat... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Conglomerates; Corporate Restructuring; Google; Corporate Strategy; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Innovation Strategy; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Research and Development; Diversification; Financial Reporting; Talent and Talent Management; Technology Industry; Computer Industry; California; United States
Alcacer, Juan, Raffaella Sadun, Olivia Hull, and Kerry Herman. "Alphabet Eyes New Frontiers (A)." Harvard Business School Case 717-418, July 2016. (Revised March 2024.)
- Article
Product Quality and Entering Through Tying: Experimental Evidence
By: Hyunjin Kim and Michael Luca
Dominant platform businesses often develop products in adjacent markets to complement their core business. One common approach used to gain traction in these adjacent markets has been to pursue a tying strategy. For example, Microsoft pre-installed Internet Explorer... View Details
Keywords: Tying; Platform Strategy; Google; Product; Quality; Digital Platforms; Strategy; Market Entry and Exit
Kim, Hyunjin, and Michael Luca. "Product Quality and Entering Through Tying: Experimental Evidence." Management Science 65, no. 2 (February 2019): 596–603.
- February 4, 2013
- Guest Column
How Facebook Can Totally Undermine Apple and Google in the Platform Games
By: Andrei Hagiu
Today, Facebook seems like the juggernaut crushing everything in its path, most recently Twitter's Vine app and Yandex's social app. And in its last quarter, Facebook's mobile usage surpassed its web usage—for the first time ever. This is important because Facebook has... View Details
Keywords: Technology Industry
Hagiu, Andrei. "How Facebook Can Totally Undermine Apple and Google in the Platform Games." Wired.com (February 4, 2013).
- 2007
- Blog
Harvard Business Online—Marketing Know:How: Advertising Companies Will Learn to Love Google
By: John A. Quelch
Quelch, John A. "Advertising Companies Will Learn to Love Google." Harvard Business Online—Marketing Know:How (blog). December 26, 2007. https://hbr.org/2007/12/advertising-companies-will-lea.
- March 2018 (Revised August 2018)
- Case
Matching Markets for Googlers
By: Bo Cowgill and Rembrand Koning
This case describes how Google designed and launched an internal matching market to assign individual workers with projects and managers. The case evaluates how marketplace design considerations—and several alternative staffing models—could affect the company’s goals... View Details
Keywords: People Analytics; Google; Labor Market; Staffing; Market Design; Marketplace Matching; Selection and Staffing; Goals and Objectives; Technology Industry; United States
Cowgill, Bo, and Rembrand Koning. "Matching Markets for Googlers." Harvard Business School Case 718-487, March 2018. (Revised August 2018.) (More about Bo Cowgill.)
- June 2016
- Supplement
The Great East Japan Earthquake (F): Google Japan's Response and Recovery Efforts
By: Hirotaka Takeuchi, Tomoharu Tanaka, Kavi Krut, March Bishop, E. Kyle Bisutti and Adam Zalisk
Takeuchi, Hirotaka, Tomoharu Tanaka, Kavi Krut, March Bishop, E. Kyle Bisutti, and Adam Zalisk. "The Great East Japan Earthquake (F): Google Japan's Response and Recovery Efforts." Harvard Business School Supplement 716-474, June 2016.
- June 2022 (Revised July 2022)
- Teaching Note
The Voice War Continues: Hey Google vs. Alexa vs. Siri in 2022
By: David B. Yoffie
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 722-462. View Details
- July 2024
- Case
The Voice Wars Continues 2024: Hey Google vs. Alexa vs. Siri vs. ChatGPT
By: David B. Yoffie and Sarah von Bargen
In 2024, the Voice War was transforming from a relatively simple index-based technology system, which relied on a list of commands and answers, to a generative AI system, which offered the promise to enable free flowing conversations between people and machines. The... View Details
Yoffie, David B., and Sarah von Bargen. "The Voice Wars Continues 2024: Hey Google vs. Alexa vs. Siri vs. ChatGPT." Harvard Business School Case 725-352, July 2024.