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- 04 Apr 2023
- What Do You Think?
How Does Remote Work Affect Innovation?
they have decided to give up their weekend to come up with a better idea? Would they have agreed to break the routine of Mondays working remotely to share their response in the relative privacy of the office (vs. online)? Would the five... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 13 Feb 2020
- Book
Open Your Organization to Honest Conversations
lose hope in their organization and become cynical and passive. “People who are this discouraged stop bothering to collaborate with others to improve the organization,” he says. The antidote: Organizations need to allow critical View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship
twenty-nine years old. In 2015, Macy’s Inc. (NYSE: M) acquired the company. Ms. Beck also co-founded M-61 Laboratories, makers of M-61 Skincare, the first highly technical, natural cosmeceutical brand and makers of Lune and Aster Cosmetics, a vegan cosmetics line. Ms.... View Details
- 08 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated
defensive drives. The implicit, almost unconscious ways we get information and reassure each other are lost when people go remote. Colleagues are not going to overhear useful conversations while getting coffee. Because of this, functions... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 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
- 30 Sep 2019
- Book
6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees
but also through informal get-togethers. For instance, employees at one consulting company started a book club that focused on black writers and coordinated visits to African American museums and historical sites. And when American... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Nov 2022
- Op-Ed
Why TikTok Is Beating YouTube for Eyeball Time (It’s Not Just the Dance Videos)
their own versions of it. Rethinking the discovery problem The rise of the internet democratized the publishing and distribution of information and entertainment. In the process, it created an enormous discovery problem. Those with an... View Details
Keywords: by John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld
- 16 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 16
buyout transactions. Co-investments underperform the corresponding funds with which they co-invest, due to an apparent adverse selection of transactions available to these investors, while solo transactions outperform fund benchmarks. Investors' ability to resolve... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- June 2010 (Revised September 2010)
- Case
athenahealth: Innovating in Response to a Crisis in Healthcare
When Jonathan Bush and his partner, Todd Park, realized that their revolutionary approach to delivering clinical care was being stymied by the inefficiencies in the healthcare system and insurance red tape, they turned their proprietary technology, athenaNet, to a new... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Health Care and Treatment; Information Management; Innovation and Invention; Brands and Branding; Product Development; Health Industry; United States
Chakravorti, Bhaskar, Laura Winig, and Naeem Husain Arastu. "athenahealth: Innovating in Response to a Crisis in Healthcare." Harvard Business School Case 810-079, June 2010. (Revised September 2010.)
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Events - Health Care
technical innovators who are curious about what it really takes to start and build a civilizationally important company. Join us to hear Alex Teng, Partner at Fifty Years, share insights from helping hundreds of scientists translate... View Details
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FAQ - Alumni
honored/memorialized—or someone close to them—to inform them of your gift (without reference to the specific gift amount), so please provide relevant contact information and any other pertinent details. How... View Details
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FAQs for Alumni Virtual Programs - Alumni
make sure I receive an email in the future? Please login to the alumni website and update your email preferences to receive virtual programming emails. Zoom Information I'm registered. When will I receive the Zoom link/dial-in... View Details
- 13 May 2024
- Research & Ideas
Picture This: Why Online Image Searches Drive Purchases
“headphones,” with suggested refinements like “noise-cancelling headphones,” aided by images and text. Farronato wrote the paper with Lu Fang and Zhe Yuan of Zhejiang University; Yanyou Chen of the University of Toronto; and Yitong Wang, an employee at the Chinese... View Details
- 2009
- Working Paper
Technology Innovation and Diffusion as Sources of Output and Asset Price Fluctuations
By: Diego A. Comin, Mark Gertler and Ana Maria Santacreu
We develop a model in which innovations in an economy's growth potential are an important driving force of the business cycle. The framework shares the emphasis of the recent "new shock" literature on revisions of beliefs about the future as a source of fluctuations,... View Details
Keywords: Business Cycles; Economic Growth; Asset Pricing; Technological Innovation; Mathematical Methods; System Shocks; Technology Adoption
Comin, Diego A., Mark Gertler, and Ana Maria Santacreu. "Technology Innovation and Diffusion as Sources of Output and Asset Price Fluctuations." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-134, May 2009. (Revise and Resubmit at the Journal of Political Economy.)
- January 2022
- Article
Artificial Intelligence, Data-Driven Learning, and the Decentralized Structure of Platform Ecosystems
By: David R. Clough and Andy Wu
Gregory, Henfridsson, Kaganer, and Kyriakou (2020) highlight the important role of data and AI as strategic resources that platforms may use to enhance user value. However, their article overlooks a significant conceptual distinction: the installed base of... View Details
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Data Strategy; Ecosystem; Value Capture; Digital Platforms; Analytics and Data Science; Strategy; Learning; Value Creation; AI and Machine Learning; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry
Clough, David R., and Andy Wu. "Artificial Intelligence, Data-Driven Learning, and the Decentralized Structure of Platform Ecosystems." Academy of Management Review 47, no. 1 (January 2022): 184–189.
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practice. Let's Work Together Anne McClintock Senior Director of Development, Planned Giving 877-448-3864 (toll free) pg@hbs.edu Request More Information Request More Information FAQ What is planned giving?... View Details
- 13 Jul 2021
- Research & Ideas
Outrage Spreads Faster on Twitter: Evidence from 44 News Outlets
to negative information more readily than positive. Known as negativity bias, this has been shown empirically across a variety of contexts. But how that negative information makes people feel and behave is... View Details
- January 2024
- Article
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
Farronato, Chiara, Jessica Fong, and Andrey Fradkin. "Dog Eat Dog: Balancing Network Effects and Differentiation in a Digital Platform Merger." Management Science 70, no. 1 (January 2024): 464–483.
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
and barriers to creating and claiming value, the most promising sequence and process design, etc.— should be informed and modified by two classes of potentially relevant cross-border factors, the general and the negotiation-specific.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- September 2018
- Article
Do Experts or Crowd-Based Models Produce More Bias? Evidence from Encyclopædia Britannica and Wikipedia
By: Shane Greenstein and Feng Zhu
Organizations today can use both crowds and experts to produce knowledge. While prior work compares the accuracy of crowd-produced and expert-produced knowledge, we compare bias in these two models in the context of contested knowledge, which involves subjective,... View Details
Keywords: Online Community; Collective Intelligence; Wisdom Of Crowds; Bias; Wikipedia; Britannica; Knowledge Production; Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge Dissemination; Prejudice and Bias
Greenstein, Shane, and Feng Zhu. "Do Experts or Crowd-Based Models Produce More Bias? Evidence from Encyclopædia Britannica and Wikipedia." MIS Quarterly 42, no. 3 (September 2018): 945–959.