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  • Awards

Robert J. Litschert Award

By: Andy Wu
Winner of the 2016 Robert J. Litschert Award from the Business Policy and Strategy Division of the Academy of Management for the best paper authored by a doctoral student. View Details
  • Web

Strategy Curriculum - Faculty & Research

listed under Finance) Scott Mayfield Spring 2026 Q3 1.5 Strategy and Technology David Yoffie Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Andy Wu Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Strategy for Entrepreneurs (also... View Details
  • January 2024 (Revised May 2024)
  • Case

Private 5G Networks

By: Andy Wu and Maggie Yang
In the late 2010’s, 5G emerged as a new standard in communication technology. 5G was designed to enable ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC), massive machine-type communication (MMTC), and enhanced mobile broadband (EMBB) (see Exhibit 1 for a detailed... View Details
Keywords: 5G; Communication Technology; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Technological Innovation; Innovation Strategy; Telecommunications Industry
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  • January 2023
  • Module Note

Network Effects in Technology

By: Andy Wu and Matt Higgins
In business and strategy contexts, network effects are often accompanied by bandwagon (or herding) effects, positive feedback loops (or accumulated advantage effects), and market tipping (or winner-take-all dynamics). Though these phenomena are often grouped together... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Network Effects
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  • May 2024
  • Teaching Note

AI Wars

By: Andy Wu and Matt Higgins
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 723-434. In 2024, the world was looking to Google to see what the search giant and long-time putative technical leader in artificial intelligence (AI) would do to compete in the massively hyped technology of generative AI popularized over... View Details
Keywords: AI; Trends; AI and Machine Learning; Public Opinion; Technological Innovation; Competitive Advantage; Technology Industry
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  • Teaching Interest

Competing in the Age of Digital Platforms

By: Andy Wu
Without exception, the most valuable companies in the world today are platforms: Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Google, Facebook, and many other firms have built their fortunes by facilitating innovation across global ecosystems or enabling the broad exchange of goods... View Details
  • September 2019
  • Teaching Note

Boxed

By: Laura Huang and Andy Wu
Boxed.com (“Boxed”) is an ambitious e-commerce retailer start-up, founded by visionary CEO Chieh Huang in 2013. From starting in Huang’s garage in 2013, to winning Emerging E-Retailer of the Year in 2016, to having 4 operational distribution centers in 2018, Boxed used... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurial Management; Business Startups; Leadership; Strategy; Success; E-commerce; Retail Industry
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  • October 2023
  • Teaching Note

Metaverse Wars

By: Andy Wu and Matt Higgins
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 723-431. Metaverse Wars recaps the development of the metaverse concept and the attendant hype, bringing the narrative up to the summer of 2023 when Meta’s big pivot looked more like a costly misstep than a stroke of strategic genius. In... View Details
Keywords: Metaverse; Strategy; Social Media; Internet and the Web; Technology Adoption; Technological Innovation; Technology Industry
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  • February 9, 2022
  • Article

What's the Optimal Workplace for Your Organization?

By: Maria P. Roche and Andy Wu
More than two years in the COVID-19 pandemic, companies are struggling with how to reimagine their workspaces for their strategic needs. Too often, leaders push the decision down the road when, in fact, taking decisive action now can pay off later. But how do you... View Details
Keywords: Workplace; Organization; Hybrid Organizations; Office Space; Growth; Remote Work; Strategy; Organizations; Growth and Development; Working Conditions
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  • 09 Feb 2022
  • News

What’s the Optimal Workplace for Your Organization?

  • 09 Jun 2024
  • Blog Post

The EC Formula: MBA Class of 2024 Looks Back

Professor Esty emphasized the importance of having a viewpoint backed up by data—I feel better equipped going into the working world having been forced to reckon with my values and how that applies to... View Details
  • 29 May 2025
  • News

Harvard Business School's MBA Class of 2025 Celebrates Class Day

  • Article

How Long Can a Company Thrive Doing Just One Thing?

By: Andy Wu and Scott Duke Kominers
The news that the chat app Slack was being sold to veteran customer relationship management company Salesforce for $27.7 billion raised a lot of eyebrows. Why sell after a year of explosive growth? The deal, however, epitomizes a question facing so-called best-of-breed... View Details
Keywords: Best-of-breed Companies; Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy
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  • Web

Globalization - Faculty & Research

competition, and earnings management affect mean reversion in accounting return on assets. Using a sample of 48,465 unique firms from 49 countries, we find that accounting returns mean revert faster in countries where there is more... View Details
  • 2019
  • Article

Turning Lead into Gold: How Do Entrepreneurs Mobilize Resources to Exploit Opportunities?

By: David R. Clough, Tommy Pan Fang, Balagopal Vissa and Andy Wu
The mobilization of resources is a central and defining feature of entrepreneurship. As the body of empirical research on entrepreneurial resource mobilization has grown, the literature has become increasingly fragmented. We review the literature on entrepreneurs’... View Details
Keywords: Resource Mobilization; Entrepreneurship; Organizations; Theory; Research; Strategy; Opportunities
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  • August 2024
  • Case

Oculii

By: Andy Wu and Lucas Defilippo
It was a bright June day in 2016. Steven Hong, co-founder and COO of Oculii had just signed a letter of intent agreeing to a 51% stake acquisition by Nexteer Automotive, a global steering and driveline supplier company that developed advanced driver assistance systems... View Details
Keywords: Automotive; Autonomous Vehicles; Wireless Communications; Mergers and Acquisitions; Communication Intention and Meaning; Intellectual Property; Growth Management; Negotiation Deal; Supply Chain; Auto Industry; Technology Industry
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  • 01 Nov 2016
  • First Look

First Look - November 1, 2016

Globalization By: Kerr, William R. Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51810 The Structure of Board Committees By: Chen, Kevin D., and Andy View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2024
  • News

The Exchange: Chance Encounters

Assistant Professor Maria Roche and Associate Professor Andy Wu; image by John Ritter Late one day in the fall of 2021, as she was packing up to head home, Assistant Professor... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
  • Web

Year in Review | Annual Report 2024

Benjamin N. Roth Purnima Puri and Richard Barrera Associate Professor of Business Administration Ethan C. Rouen Terrie F. and Bradley M. Bloom Associate Professor of Business Administration Ashley V.... View Details
  • 12 Jul 2021
  • News

Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

a free, four-week webinar series on crisis management for African business leaders. With sessions led by HBS faculty members Linda Hill, Andy Zelleke, and Hakeem Belo-Osagie,... View Details