Dual Digital Transformation - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2024
News

Decoding the Promise and Perils of Generative AI

ChatGPT burst into the public consciousness on November 30, 2022. Within two months, the generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) software, which leverages a large language model (LLM) to produce human-like, text-based conversations, had reached an estimated 100... View Details

Keywords: April White

13 Jun 2018
News

The First Five Years: Momchil Filev and Ben Faw (both MBA 2014)

and ranked. In February 2018, tronc, the company formerly known as Tribune Publishing, purchased a majority stake in BestReviews.com. What inspired you to launch BestReviews.com? Ben:“We both grew up reading Consumer Reports regularly and realized this brand never... View Details

02 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Stuck in Gear: Why Managers Don’t Act

pronounce your company as outstanding. Another potential jinx. Look what happened to Digital Equipment, Kodak, and Wang Laboratories, once lauded by business academics. You build monuments to your success. Resist the urge to construct... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog

Operations Management) Suraj Srinivasan Spring 2026 Q4 1.5 Strategy Execution Robert Simons Spring 2026 Q4 1.5 Systems for Scaling Ventures (SSV) (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management) Tatiana Sandino Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 View Details

April 2001
Supplement

Acer America: Development of the Aspire

By: Christopher A. Bartlett

Consists of five segments. Segment 1 shows Culver and Pai discussing the tensions between Taiwan and the United States and the resulting performance problems with Aspire; Segment 2 features Culver and Shih describing the changes Acer made as a result of the problems... View Details

Keywords: Digital Marketing; Transformation; Forecasting and Prediction; Marketing Strategy; Outcome or Result; Problems and Challenges; Information Infrastructure; Internet and the Web; Computer Industry; Taiwan; United States

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A Marketing Revolution - The Art of American Advertising

for consumer goods.” James D. Norris, Advertising and the Transformation of American Society , 1865—1920, 1990 52 Advertising reached consumers through wholesalers and retailers as well as traveling salesmen who operated as middlemen... View Details

Career Coach

Meredith Hamilton

well as recognizing and eliminating the ways in which they may be blocking or limiting their own success. She has found that—with the right balance of curiosity, vulnerability and honesty—coaching can be a transformative experience, and... View Details

Keywords: Education; Entrepreneurship; Impact Investing; Financial Services (All); Government; Real Estate; Social Enterprise

04 Sep 2019
News

Clicks and Mortar

Associate Professor Antonio Moreno and Senior Lecturer Jill Avery (image by John Ritter) While legacy companies like Sears are shuttering their doors, a growing number of online-first companies—from Amazon to Rent the Runway—are opening new storefronts and View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

15 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

Post-CrowdStrike, Six Questions to Test Your Company's Operational Resilience

companies will live and die based on their ability to bounce back from a crisis.” Demand for digital transformation and artificial intelligence (AI) will raise the stakes for strategic data and platform... View Details

Keywords: by Hise Gibson and Anita Lynch

01 Dec 2006
News

Faculty Books

Invisible Engines by David S. Evans, Andrei Hagiu, and Richard Schmalensee (MIT Press) Assistant Professor Hagiu and his coauthors offer detailed studies of the personal computer, video-game console, PDA, smart mobile phone, and digital... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2017
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017

The authors propose a practical and sustainable approach to one of the greatest challenges facing leaders today: transforming a business in the face of imminent disruption. They build upon the lessons of Xerox, Apple, and Barnes & Noble... View Details

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Israel - Global Activities 2020

a video case with the HBS Online team for the Organizational Leadership course that he and Anthony Mayo, the Thomas S. Murphy Senior Lecturer of Business Administration and a C. Roland Christensen Distinguished Management Educator, have developed for launch in 2021.... View Details

31 Oct 2019
News

Business Success Means Community Success in Wisconsin; GNN Roundup

thousands of participants to pubs, restaurants, and hotels around the world. While many events had no agenda other than socializing, others featured special guests or roundtable topics. In São Paolo, 25 alumni and guests gathered for a lively discussion about corporate... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

17 Apr 2024
Blog Post

New Venture Competition 2024: Business and Environment Ventures

Rehydrate: Transforming water access for DoD, disaster relief, and global communities plagued by water insecurity Bagh-e - Mujtaba Khalid (HKS), Hasan Nomani, Ehtisham Hammed - Bagh-e is an app-based solution that provides View Details

19 Aug 2002
Research & Ideas

Here Comes Internet2—Time to Shed Dot Vertigo

that dizziness accompanying claims about all the wonderful ways the Internet is going to transform their lives. What they don't realize is that their fears make them discount the impact of the Internet in what Nolan called a very... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Crisis Leadership - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School

watch lines in development. The firm went bankrupt, but the new manager-owner, Royal Robbins, embarked on a disciplined new strategy that transformed Dennison’s vision into a profitable company. First, Robbins dedicated the factory to a... View Details

01 Jun 2017
News

Developing Insight that Has Power in Practice

senior associate dean for research. “That’s the promise of HBS. The world’s problems are becoming increasingly complex and don’t lend themselves to one type of research. Our faculty employ constantly evolving methodologies to address topics of critical importance.” The... View Details

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Introduction - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Library Visionary, Innovator, Educator I n the latter half of the twentieth century , venture capital investment transformed groundbreaking technologies into sustainable enterprises and contributed to the growth of an American economy... View Details

25 May 2010
First Look

First Look: May 25

attempting the transformation required to embrace a new, dominant technology—the choice to maintain focus on the old technology. In considering this choice we distinguish between "racing" strategies, which attempt to fight off... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2011
First Look

First Look: March 1

an acquisition is to fundamentally change a company's growth trajectory. In those deals, the acquirer uses the target's business model as a platform for growth. Because the business models with the most transformative potential are often... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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