Internet Of Things - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Risks and Rewards of the Intrapreneur

always the wrong thing to do, Gilbert noted, because your project may one day become the core business. GE, once a maker of appliances, now derives 60 percent of its revenue... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2018
News

The Evolution of Modern Pricing Models

models—we need to go back to when consumers started paying attention to pricing online. The internet becomes widespread starting in 1994, and suddenly you can know the price of something with very minimal... View Details

March 2022
Article

Learning to Rank an Assortment of Products

By: Kris Ferreira, Sunanda Parthasarathy and Shreyas Sekar

We consider the product ranking challenge that online retailers face when their customers typically behave as “window shoppers”: they form an impression of the assortment after browsing products ranked in the initial positions and then decide whether to continue... View Details

Keywords: Online Learning; Product Ranking; Assortment Optimization; Learning; Internet and the Web; Product Marketing; Consumer Behavior; E-commerce

12 Jul 2019
News

The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster

own future and control what its destiny is. We say that our mission is to help build a better Internet, and people sometimes sort of smile, but if you talk to the people at Cloudflare they go, No no we’re serious. We think that the View Details

21 Jul 2022
Research & Ideas

Did Pandemic Stimulus Funds Spur the Rise of 'Meme Stocks'?

The US government set out to support consumers and jolt the economy when it issued federal stimulus checks during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. But actually, that money helped propel questionable investments in “meme stocks,”... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

21 Nov 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

The New Challenge of Leading Financial Firms

leading any other kind of institution," says Groysberg. "If you become a leader in a manufacturing company, for example, all you're basically going to have to do is manage. When you become a leader in a major financial... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

05 May 2003
Research & Ideas

Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance

or breakup of the corporation has become inevitable. Thus, the CEO who asserted, "I have a duty to maximize value for my shareholders. I can't let my own sense of right and wrong get in the way,"... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

16 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

problems, such as the adequacy of the public health system, disparities in access to health care, availability of emergency child care, universal broadband and Internet access,... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Dec 1996
News

Intellectual Debate: The Business of Business

disagree about the pace and progress of change," he said, "but we've always understood the need to work together to achieve the highest possible standards." Dean Clark concurred and concluded the day's proceedings by noting: "One View Details

10 Jul 2007
What Do You Think?

How Much of Leadership Is About Control, Delegation, or Theater?

theater and control is required to make people feel comfortable when fundamental operating systems change ." Narendar Singh Raj Purohit adds that " when things are getting out of control someone... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

31 Jan 2011
Research & Ideas

Taking the Fear out of Diversity Policies

If you start a discussion about workplace diversity policies, don't be surprised if the hopeful topics of ethnic, racial, and gender heterogeneity lead to negative discussions about sexism, bigotry, and injustice. "Talking about and... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Jun 2023
News

Turning Point: Sum of the Parts

Gregory K. Tanaka (MBA 1974) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Gregory K. Tanaka (MBA 1974) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) In a kind of twisted and sometimes painful way, I learned from a Japanese norm how to achieve great View Details

Keywords: happiness; purpose; meaning; work-life balance; social pressures

21 Dec 2021
Blog Post

Creating Common Ground in Communities of Conflict

helped create tens of thousands of products representing more than 150 countries. The designers share in the revenues and the company offers literacy programming to its manufacturers. “For me, what I wanted... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

09 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

War in Ukraine: Soaring Gas Prices and the Return of Stagflation?

geopolitics of the moment. The interesting thing about the energy sector is that it is always and everywhere inherently geopolitical, even when the decision-making by firms is utterly commercial in its... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Energy

20 Dec 2019
Blog Post

Top 10 MBA Voices Blogs of 2019

My Time at HBS After 500 cases over two years though, I’ve realized that the most important thing for me is the idea of service driven leadership - those are the types of case... View Details

19 Nov 2010
Research & Ideas

The Landscape of Integrated Reporting: An E-Book

accountable to and measuring our progress on a wide variety of things that matter most to people. My understanding of the present state of... View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria; Accounting

03 May 2017
HBS Seminar

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, The New York Times and Wharton, University of Pennsylvania

23 Mar 2009
News

The Myth of the Lone Star: Why One Top Performer May Not Shine as Brightly as You Hope

27 Sep 2019
Blog Post

Learning the Language of Product at Duolingo

about (again, see above). As part of my recruiting, I was able to meet on campus with Conor Walsh, Duolingo PM and MBA 2018. Conor gave me context on what it was like to work at Duolingo as well as on the role View Details

Keywords: Technology

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