Digital Organizations - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 Aug 2016
Blog Post

CS50 for MBAs: Coding at HBS

digital innovation compelling - especially if you think about the democratization of access that digital technology enables. It also meant I needed a serious boost in my View Details

23 Oct 2019
News

Preparing Leaders to Leverage Artificial Intelligence

HBS convenes an annual Digital Transformation Summit that explores the challenges and opportunities of tomorrow’s technology. The most recent summit, held in February, focused on artificial intelligence and drew some 500 professionals and... View Details

Keywords: Intellectual Ambition; Pathbreaking Research; Artificial Intelligence

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Strategic Plan | Information Technology

Strategic Plan Our strategic priorities and initiatives. Our North Star The Harvard Business School (HBS) IT three-year strategic plan (FY24–FY26) is organized around HBS IT’s five strategic priorities, as well as the IT mission and... View Details

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Isaac Robinson | MBA

Social Choice Functions/Voting Rules, Multi-agent systems, Fairness and Privacy in AI, Digital Governance, Media and Technology Formative experience at the intersection of technology and business: My first class in economics/CS taught me... View Details

02 Aug 2017
News

The Atlantic Finds a New Home

right.” The Emerson Collective engages in cross-sector partnerships that focus on education, immigration reform, the environment, and social justice initiatives. Bradley has told the story of transforming a magazine (purchased from Mort Zuckerman in 1999) into a... View Details

01 Mar 2018
What Do You Think?

Two Decades Later, is the 'New Economy' Finally Here?

The first of these, Machine/Platform/Crowd, explores the current and future impact of digital technology on people (the mind in relation to machine), product (in relation to digital platforms), and core... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

25 Sep 2006
Research & Ideas

How Software Platforms Revolutionize Business

independent developers to build new features. The cell phone has become a lucrative platform for more than handset makers—also in on the party are makers of digital cameras, music services, and organizer... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Web Services

25 Feb 2020
News

How Artificial Intelligence is Changing Business

Fellow at HBS who founded the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard, where he and Iansiti are codirectors. “With the spread of digital technology, the economy has become much more connected in a massive network,” says Iansiti.... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

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Women on Boards: How Lara Druyan and Ann Lucena Are Shaping the Future of Corporate Leadership - Blog: RGE Report

cyber and AI technologies, ensuring they can meaningfully support organizations navigating rapid technological changes. When it comes to advising on digital transformation, she works from basic product... View Details

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From the Dean | Annual Report 2024

The Digital Data Design Institute (D^3) accelerated its efforts to bring research-driven insights about AI to business leaders, convening hundreds of alumni and other practitioners for a groundbreaking AI conference in Klarman Hall last... View Details

01 Jun 2001
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HBS Press Books in Brief

The Digital Enterprise: How to Reshape Your Business for a Connected World is an authoritative collection of cutting-edge Harvard Business Review articles, edited by HBR executive editor Nicholas G. Carr. Containing the latest thinking... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Jun 2016
News

Prima Datarina

think about the ballets we’re presenting as part of a portfolio,” says Hodges, who joined the organization in 2014. “Taking that approach makes it possible to balance our mission of developing new works while meeting financial... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

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Introduction - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

organizations that achieved scale only through massive subsidy. Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism explores the continuing research in the history and role of railroads in creating not only the foundations of modern business,... View Details

2017
Working Paper

Explaining the Vertical-to-Horizontal Transition in the Computer Industry

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin

This paper seeks to explain the technological forces that led to the rise of vertically integrated corporations in the late 19th century and the opposing forces that led to a vertical-to-horizontal transition in the computer industry 100 years later. I first model the... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Design; Business History; Vertical Integration; Horizontal Integration; Digital Platforms; Computer Industry

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31 Oct 2019
News

Finding an Audience

have always been a music fan. “We got together one day to see what we could do in the form of a cultural activity on a digital platform. The main idea that came up was, what is going on in classical music in Mexico, and why do people not... View Details

Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

February 2019
Case

Halliday's OASIS

By: Scott Duke Kominers and Nicole Tempest Keller

Wade Watts has won control of the OASIS – a futuristic, immersive virtual reality game world. He must decide on rules, rights, and marketplace design, balancing the founding principles of the OASIS with the platform’s potentially negative externalities. View Details

Keywords: Managing Markets; Corporate Responsibility; Virtual Reality; Digital Platforms; Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Social Media; United States

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Lessons from the 2025 Race, Gender & Equity at Work Symposium - Blog: RGE Report

Jun 2025 The Strategic Case for Diversity in Digital Transformation Daniella Diniz 14 May 2025 Rewiring the Workplace: Behavioral Economics and the Future of Inclusive Organizations 31 Mar 2025 Maggie... View Details

01 Dec 2020
News

Invest in the New Abnormal

need to proactively reach out to potential and current customers about products and services, digital and delivery options, health safeguards, and payment plans,” Deshpandé advises. “Whether demand has declined or increased during such... View Details

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Catherine Yeo | MBA

a mobile game to learn new vocabulary, a task they struggled with in English classes. From that moment on, I recognized the power of technology in solving community problems. My experience organizing ten hackathons for 6,000+ young... View Details

12 May 2020
Blog Post

The Importance of Coordination: Apoorva Pasricha Reflects on Crisis Leadership

partners, “we have an ecosystem for digital equity, twenty-three organizations trained to help schools get connected.” In addition, Pasricha had been working on an AI-powered Chatbot to help San Jose... View Details

Keywords: Social Enterprise; Technology; Nonprofit / Government

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