Publications

20 Sep 2017
Research & Ideas

The Three Types of Leaders Who Create Radical Change

likely someone who has studied, lived, or experienced something beyond the norms in a given environment and thus is able to create a vision of a different future that nonetheless makes sense to, and captivates, those living within the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

07 May 2020
Research & Ideas

The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation

drastic changes in their interactions with consumers. In education, teachers from elementary schools to universities transformed content and delivered it online or through phones. Retailers started to license Amazon's Just Walk Out View Details

Keywords: by Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso

Web

Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research

; Customers ; Customer Focus and Relationships ; Decision Making ; Decisions ; Digital Strategy ; Digital Transformation ; Technological Innovation ; Intellectual Property ; Copyright ; Management ; Growth and Development Strategy ;... View Details

01 Dec 2023
News

The Exchange: Help Wanted

Image by John Ritter The path to a job in the C-suite isn’t what it used to be. For many years, companies could lean on financial expertise and industry connections when recruiting candidates, but HBS professors Raffaella Sadun and Joseph Fuller say that so much has... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

23 Dec 2008
First Look

First Look: December 23, 2008

high-skilled immigrants on U.S. technology formation. Specifically, we use reduced-form specifications that exploit large changes in the H-1B visa program. Fluctuations in H-1B admissions levels significantly influence the rate of Indian... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Web

Partners - Case Method Project

the Arts West Palm Beach, FL FL 2 of 37 Virgilio Beato Sebring High School Sebring, FL Subjects: Grade 11/12 American Government FL 3 of 37 Samantha Beovich Freedom High School Orlando, FL FL 4 of 37 Heather Boos Frank H Peterson Academies of View Details

23 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

The Power of Conversational Leadership

and web-enabled video chat (which help to mimic in-person communication). Global computer networking giant Cisco Systems, for example, uses its own TelePresence videoconferencing technology to simulate... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

September 2011 (Revised July 2012)
Case

Building Watson: Not So Elementary, My Dear!

By: Willy Shih

This case is set inside IBM Research's efforts to build a computer that can successfully take on human challengers playing the game show Jeopardy! It opens with the machine named Watson offering the incorrect answer "Toronto" to a seemingly simple question during the... View Details

Keywords: Technological Innovation; Standards; Product Development; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Mathematical Methods; Research and Development; Information Technology

04 Apr 2023
Book

Two Centuries of Business Leaders Who Took a Stand on Social Issues

While shareholders still reign supreme at many companies, a widespread shift toward more responsible business practices is driving more leaders to take a stand on social and environmental issues today, says Harvard Business School Professor Geoffrey Jones. Jones... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Consumer Products; Fashion; Retail; Green Technology

29 Jun 2007
First Look

First Look: June 29, 2007

analyses, specifically, to compute net present value (NPV) internal rate of return (IRR) and payback period. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=207121 Vivaldi Food Concepts—The Start-up of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

31 Jul 2012
Working Paper Summaries

Investment Incentives in Proprietary and Open-Source Two-Sided Platforms

Keywords: by Ramon Casadesus-Masanell & Gastón Llanes

30 Jan 2007
First Look

First Look: January 30, 2007

Geographic Region Author:Mukti Khaire Abstract Most of what organizational scholars know about new industry emergence and entrepreneurship in new industries comes from studies of completely new industries that were born out of View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 Oct 2008
Research & Ideas

Updating a Classic: Writing a Great Business Plan

so entails committing to paper a vision of the factors that will affect the success or failure of the enterprise. People take the exercise very seriously and get emotionally invested in what they produce. In that context, the article was... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

John A. Deighton

John Deighton is The Harold M. Brierley Professor of Business Administration Emeritus at Harvard Business School. He is an authority on consumer behavior and marketing, with a focus on digital and direct marketing. He teaches in the area of Big Data in Marketing,... View Details

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18 Jul 2019
Lessons from the Classroom

The Internet of Things Needs a Business Model. Here It Is

The Internet of Things (IoT) has been near the top of the technology-hype lists for years. In 2018, Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies ranked IoT platforms as cresting the “peak of inflated expectations” stage and ready to... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Computer

August 2013 (Revised December 2014)
Case

Taking Dell Private

By: David J. Collis, David B. Yoffie and Matthew Shaffer

In July 2012, Michael Dell, CEO and founder of Dell, Inc., met with a representative of Silver Lake Partners to explore taking his company private. The company, which he had founded in his dorm room as a college freshman and which had made him the youngest Fortune 500... View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Going Private; The PC Market; Market For Corporate Control; Corporate Strategy; Leveraged Buyouts; Change Management; Private Equity; Market Entry and Exit; Private Ownership; Information Infrastructure; Applications and Software; Internet and the Web; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; United States

08 Mar 2004
Research & Ideas

Creating Value in Your Business Ecosystem

Wal-Mart's and Microsoft's dominance in modern business has been attributed to any number of factors, ranging from the vision and drive of their founders to the companies' aggressive competitive practices. But the performance of these two... View Details

Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien

January 2008
Case

Lenovo: Building A Global Brand (Multimedia case)

By: John A. Quelch and Carin-Isabel Knoop

Announced in December 2004, the $1.75 billion acquisition of IBM's PC division by Lenovo, China's largest PC maker, made headlines around the world. A relative upstart in the business, Lenovo acquired the division of IBM that invented the PC in 1981. While Lenovo was... View Details

Keywords: Marketing Strategy; Multinational Firms and Management; Information Infrastructure; Global Strategy; Acquisition; Brands and Branding; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; China