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  • 2007
  • Working Paper

Global Competitors as Next-Door Neighbors: Competition and Geographic Concentration in the Semiconductor Industry

By: Minyuan Zhao and Juan Alcacer
Despite the many advantages offered by technology clusters, firms located in them face the risk of losing valuable knowledge to nearby competitors. In this study, we argue that multi-location firms strategically organize their R&D activities to appropriate the value of... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Industry Clusters; Innovation and Invention; Geographic Location; Competitive Strategy; Globalization; Semiconductor Industry
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  • 2020
  • Working Paper

Dog Eat Dog: Balancing Network Effects and Differentiation in a Digital Platform Merger

By: Chiara Farronato, Jessica Fong and Andrey Fradkin
Digital platforms are increasingly the subject of regulatory scrutiny. In comparison to multiple competitors, a single platform may increase consumer welfare if network effects are large or may decrease welfare due to higher prices or reduction in platform variety. We... View Details
Keywords: Platform Differentiation; Digital Platforms; Network Effects; Measurement and Metrics; Mergers and Acquisitions; Outcome or Result
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  • February 2014 (Revised January 2024)
  • Case

Go Mobile: Aligning District Managers and Store Teams

By: Tatiana Sandino
Indian cell phone retailer Go Mobile had implemented high-powered incentives to motivate its store employees to behave as owners and provide exceptional service. As the company scaled up, it faced multiple challenges in building a layer of district managers that were... View Details
Keywords: Employee Relationship Management; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Growth Management; Organizational Design; Salesforce Management; Motivation and Incentives; Management Practices and Processes; Telecommunications Industry; India
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  • 02 Feb 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Why We Still Need Twitter: How Social Media Holds Companies Accountable

“easy to document” violations compared to more complicated financial misconduct, Heese says. “An accounting fraud or a tax fraud, which we would classify as a financial violation, is maybe more difficult for citizens on social media to observe and View Details
Keywords: by Kasandra Brabaw; Technology
  • 12 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 12, 2006

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=806086 Comergent Technologies Inc.: Enterprise E-Commerce Harvard Business School Case 505-016 BP's IR director has begun a program to use information regarding external views... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • October 2020
  • Supplement

OpenIDEO (B)

By: Karim R. Lakhani, Anne-Laure Fayard, Manos Gkeredakis and Jin Hyun Paik
In the midst of 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic was unfolding, OpenIDEO—an online open innovation platform focused on design-driven solutions to social issues—rapidly launched a new challenge to improve access to health information, empower communities to stay safe... View Details
Keywords: Innovation Competitions; IDEO; Contests; Contest Design; Platforms And Ecosystems; Open Innovation; Open And User Innovation Strategy; Diversity; Design; Social Entrepreneurship; Global Range; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Social and Collaborative Networks; Health Pandemics; Health; Information; Business and Community Relations; Digital Platforms
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  • 15 Sep 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Don't Bring Me Down: Probing Why People Tune Out Bad News

architecture. “Given the abundance of information today, understanding what motivates individuals to acquire and to avoid information remains an important area for future work,” says Exley. About the Author... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • Web

Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

Horizontal Integration (1) Housing (4) Human Capital (27) Human Needs (14) Human Resources (292) Identity (6) Immigration (37) Income (7) Independent Innovation and Invention (5) Industry Clusters (8) Industry Growth (3) Inflation and Deflation (9) View Details
  • April 2013 (Revised October 2013)
  • Case

National Instruments

By: Lynda M. Applegate, Keri Pearlson and Natalie Kindred
This case explores the use of social media to support product design, customer support, marketing and HR activities at National Instruments (NI). Based in Austin, Texas, with over $1 billion in 2011 sales, NI designs, produces, and sells software and hardware platforms... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Structure; Applications and Software; Organizational Culture; Technological Innovation; Digital Platforms; Innovation and Management; Media; Management Systems; Social and Collaborative Networks; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; Texas
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  • 05 Dec 2016
  • Research & Ideas

How To Deceive Others With Truthful Statements (It's Called 'Paltering,' And It's Risky)

and Richard Zeckhauser, the Frank P. Ramsey Professor of Political Economy; and The Wharton School’s Maurice E. Schweitzer, the Cecilia Yen Koo Professor of Operations, Information and Decisions. The different forms of deception The truth... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 25 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 25, 2007

A number of patterns emerge from the data. Most foreign direct investment (FDI) occurs between rich countries. The share of vertical FDI (subsidiaries which provide inputs to their parent firms) is larger than commonly thought, even... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Mar 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Want to Make Diversity Stick? Break the Cycle of Sameness

leadership roles: Focus on smaller, short-term goals. While many organizations are working to change people’s attitudes in the long term, for example, by conducting diversity training to inform broad hiring decisions throughout the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 12 Oct 2021
  • Research & Ideas

What Actually Draws Sports Fans to Games? It's Not Star Athletes.

a lot about the human condition, Ferguson says. “Understanding why we go to live sports tells us something more general about what makes us tick,” Ferguson says. “It tells us something about the nature of our preferences for information... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Sports
  • September 2009
  • Module Note

Leading Teams Note

By: Jeffrey T. Polzer
This note, which describes the architecture and processes that characterize effective teams, begins by detailing the steps involved in designing a team, from diagnosing the complexity, interdependence, and objectives of the task to harnessing the key resources teams... View Details
Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Experience and Expertise; Decision Choices and Conditions; Knowledge Sharing; Leadership; Business Processes; Groups and Teams
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  • 29 Jul 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Time Pressure and Creativity: Why Time is Not on Your Side

real-time information on these individuals, the teams, and their work, in a relatively unobtrusive way, was to have the participants fill out an electronic "Daily Questionnaire" (DQ) for us. Every workday, Monday through Friday,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education; Fine Arts
  • July–August 2021
  • Article

Lowering the Bar? External Conditions, Opportunity Costs, and High-Tech Startup Outcomes

By: Annamaria Conti and Maria P. Roche
We assess the heterogeneous impact of economic downturns on individuals’ decisions to bring high-technology ideas to the market in the form of new ventures. We thereby examine how worsening labor market conditions influence individuals’ opportunity costs of starting... View Details
Keywords: Necessity Entrepreneurship; Economic Conditions; Recessions; High-tech Startups; Opportunity Costs; Entrepreneurship; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Business Startups; Information Technology; Performance; Labor
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  • October 2005 (Revised February 2007)
  • Case

Red Flag Software Co.

By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Tarun Khanna, David Lane and Elizabeth Raabe
In 2005, just five years after its formal launch, Beijing-based Red Flag Software was the world's second-largest distributor of the Linux operating system and was expecting its first annual profit. On a unit basis, Red Flag led the world in desktops (PCs) shipped with... View Details
Keywords: Digital Platforms; Competitive Advantage; Applications and Software; Business Startups; Globalized Markets and Industries; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; Beijing; United States
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  • Web

Loan Reduction - Entrepreneurship

Assistance Programs site for additional information on loan eligibility and requirements (login required). Will not be sponsored/reimbursed for any MBA-related tuition or expenses now or in the future. Are committed to the fulltime... View Details
  • Web

Business History - Faculty & Research

Ultimately, the Godcharles ruling enshrined the specialness of workingmen's labor contracts and rejected the use of equity principles to justify contract regulations, but the controversy also informed future labor strategies, especially... View Details
  • 22 Nov 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Seven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better Execution

will offer a menu of techniques to foster commitment to achieving shared goals. Or, if rewarding self-interest is more appropriate for your business, I will explore alternative approaches you should employ. 7. What Strategic Uncertainties... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons