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- July 2018 (Revised December 2018)
- Case
SOFWERX: Innovation at U.S. Special Operations Command
By: Herman Leonard, Mitchell Weiss, Jin Hyun Paik and Kerry Herman
James “Hondo” Geurts, the Acquisition Executive for U.S. Special Operations Command, was in the middle of his Senate confirmation hearing in 2017 to become Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development and Acquisition. The questions had a common theme: how... View Details
Keywords: James Geurts; Innovation; Public Entrepreneurship; Open Innovation; Crowdsourcing; Contests; Prototyping; SOFWERX; Special Operations; SOCOM; Govtech; Procurement; FAR; EZ-Fly; Navy; Department Of Defense; Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Innovation Leadership; Entrepreneurship; Public Sector; Acquisition; Public Administration Industry; United States
Leonard, Herman, Mitchell Weiss, Jin Hyun Paik, and Kerry Herman. "SOFWERX: Innovation at U.S. Special Operations Command." Harvard Business School Case 819-004, July 2018. (Revised December 2018.)
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Role of Government When All Else Fails
Moss: One of the things that a historical perspective helps make clear is that risk management has always been an essential function of government. From the very earliest days... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- 15 Jun 2018
- News
Skydeck Live: The Science of a Meaningful Life
air speed and drag, and the plane will fly no problem. But the bad thing that happened is that as this fan blade detached, it hit another fan blade. And as it hit that second fan blade, it hit it at exactly the wrong angle View Details
- November–December 2022
- Article
The Value of Descriptive Analytics: Evidence from Online Retailers
By: Ron Berman and Ayelet Israeli
Does the adoption of descriptive analytics impact online retailer performance, and if so, how? We use the synthetic difference-in-differences method to analyze the staggered adoption of a retail analytics dashboard by more than 1,500 e-commerce websites, and we find an... View Details
Keywords: Descriptive Analytics; Big Data; Synthetic Control; E-commerce; Online Retail; Difference-in-differences; Martech; Internet and the Web; Analytics and Data Science; Performance; Marketing; Retail Industry
Berman, Ron, and Ayelet Israeli. "The Value of Descriptive Analytics: Evidence from Online Retailers." Marketing Science 41, no. 6 (November–December 2022): 1074–1096.
- 19 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Codeacademy’s Delicate Work of Adding Monetization Without Crushing Mission
development? A: There are over 3 billion Internet users today (up from 300 million just 15 years ago). Less than ten percent of them are from the United States. That is to say yes, internationalization is... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
The start of a new century is certainly a momentous time. When I think about the last century and what it has meant to HBS, I am struck by how much the School has grown in stature and scale. Our alumni play a pivotal role in reinforcing... View Details
Keywords: Edmund A. Hajim (MBA '64)
- First Quarter 1996
- Article
Electronic Commerce: Building Blocks of New Business Opportunity
By: L. M. Applegate, C.W. Holsapple, R. Kalakota, F.J. Radermacher and A.B. Whinston
Applegate, L. M., C.W. Holsapple, R. Kalakota, F.J. Radermacher, and A.B. Whinston. "Electronic Commerce: Building Blocks of New Business Opportunity." Journal of Organizational Computing 6, no. 1 (First Quarter 1996): 1–10.
- 2012
- Chapter
The Impact of Web 2.0 on Business-to-Business Marketing
By: Thomas J. Steenburgh and Das Narayandas
Steenburgh, Thomas J., and Das Narayandas. "The Impact of Web 2.0 on Business-to-Business Marketing." Chap. 9 (Vol. 7) of Legends in Marketing: Philip Kotler, edited by Jagdish N. Sheth and Ravi S. Achrol, 114–122. SAGE Publications, 2012.
- 18 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Leading Innovation is the Art of Creating ‘Collective Genius’
says. "He was weighing two things and letting them play out." Companies often make the mistake of compromising too early or letting one or two groups dominate. "He allowed both ideas to be developed and... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- October 2011 (Revised September 2014)
- Case
Paddle8: Painting a New Picture of the Art Market
By: Mukti Khaire
The Paddle8 case is a short case that presents the idea for a new business in the global art market and asks students to evaluate whether it will work, given the structure and unique workings of the art market. Paddle8 is a New York-based startup that partners with... View Details
Keywords: Arts; Business Plan; Business Startups; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Internet and the Web; Trade; Fine Arts Industry; New York (city, NY)
Khaire, Mukti. "Paddle8: Painting a New Picture of the Art Market." Harvard Business School Case 812-047, October 2011. (Revised September 2014.)
- Article
Health App Policy: International Comparison of Nine Countries' Approaches
By: Anna Essén, Ariel Dora Stern, Christoffer Bjerre Haase, Josip Car, Felix Greaves, Dragana Paparova, Steven Vandeput, Rik Wehrens and David W. Bates
An abundant and growing supply of digital health applications (apps) exists in the commercial tech-sector, which can be bewildering for clinicians, patients, and payers. A growing challenge for the health care system is therefore to facilitate the identification of... View Details
Keywords: Digital Health; Apps; Health Care and Treatment; Internet and the Web; Policy; Global Range; Applications and Software
Essén, Anna, Ariel Dora Stern, Christoffer Bjerre Haase, Josip Car, Felix Greaves, Dragana Paparova, Steven Vandeput, Rik Wehrens, and David W. Bates. "Health App Policy: International Comparison of Nine Countries' Approaches." npj Digital Medicine 5, no. 31 (2022).
- March 2000 (Revised May 2000)
- Case
Evolution of eCoverage in the Online Insurance Market, The
David Riker, the founder and chairman of eCoverage, an online insurance company, describes the various phases of company development, such as presenting a business plan, gathering a management team, getting the word out, and running the site. View Details
Keywords: Business or Company Management; Internet and the Web; Business Startups; Insurance Industry
Hansen, Morten T., and Jeffrey Berger. "Evolution of eCoverage in the Online Insurance Market, The." Harvard Business School Case 400-081, March 2000. (Revised May 2000.)
- 22 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Profits and Prophets: The Role of Values in Investment
As chair of the investment committee for a college, Sam Hayes was faced with a challenging dilemma: Should the committee invest only in socially responsible funds even though the outcome might mean fewer scholarships and teaching... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Digitalization: The Key to the Future of HBS
design-thinking workshops that the task force completed over the course of five months earlier this year. "We've built amazing infrastructure on our in-person campus. Now we need to do the same thing for our... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 02 Jan 2018
- Op-Ed
'Dear Working Knowledge'--Our Favorite Reader Comments of the Year
bars. Before starting to mow, I consider what i want to solve, and then just let it go. I don't press for ideas, but let the notions drift into my consciousness when they are ready for primetime. Then I capture them! People Have an Irrational Need to Complete Sets... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Fast Answer
HBS Alumni Research Tips: Target list of companies
How can alumni create a list of companies by industry, location, and/or size? D&B Hoovers is a great tool to create a list of companies (potential employers, suppliers, customers, competitors,... View Details
- 07 Sep 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Can the Threat of Networks Be Reduced?
graph theorists had to say about the impact of network design on transportation and inventory location at least 60 years ago. It was my meal ticket to a position on the Harvard Business School faculty. What has changed, View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 23 Oct 2018
- News
Coming of Age as the World Comes Apart
say. So that was just one small piece of this sort of obsession with perfection, which just happened to spill over into this oratorical competition. My sister and her friends helped me come up with a speech,... View Details
- 12 Feb 2018
- Research & Ideas
Customers at the Back of the Line Are Anxious—Can You Keep Them from Leaving?
customers, and how operational choices affect customer behaviors and firm performance. We all spend a surprising amount of time waiting our turn; by one estimate, Americans wait in line 37 billion hours a year—118 hours for every person.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Sorry, We’re All Out of Chilean Sea Bass
Bruce Knecht (MBA ’86) reveals in his new book, Hooked: Pirates, Poaching, and the Perfect Fish (Rodale, 2006). The author, a writer for the Wall Street Journal, details an Australian patrol boat’s 4,000-mile chase of an illegal fishing... View Details