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- 16 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Applied Economics Save Homeless Puppies?
she arrived to find that the pup’s kennel card had been turned sideways, a signal that often indicated which dogs were about to be killed if they did not find homes. “I was 17,” Exley says. “Seventeen-year-olds weren’t allowed to adopt... View Details
- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Market for Babies
and children are sold via fertility clinics, sperm banks, women selling their eggs, surrogates, and adoption services. We don't couch these transactions in terms of profit-making businesses. Orphans aren't sold—they are... View Details
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why Evolutionary Software Development Works
face-to-face interviews with project managers in the industry to understand the types of practices being used. Next, they developed metrics to characterize the type of process adopted in each project. Finally, the metrics were... View Details
- June 2013
- Background Note
Mobilizing an Online Business
By: Peter Coles and Benjamin Edelman
Entrepreneurs starting online businesses often need to mobilize multiple sets of users or customers, each of whom hesitates to participate unless others join also. This case presents several challenges with similar structure. View Details
Keywords: Mobilization Strategy; Network Effects; Platforms; Internet; Entrepreneurship; Strategy; Two-Sided Platforms; Technology Adoption; Innovation Strategy; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry
Coles, Peter, and Benjamin Edelman. "Mobilizing an Online Business." Harvard Business School Background Note 913-061, June 2013. (request a courtesy copy.)
- September 1988 (Revised May 1990)
- Teaching Note
Smartwave (B): Implementing an Expert System at Digital Equipment Corp., Teaching Note
Keywords: Technology Adoption
- March 2017 (Revised March 2017)
- Case
OpenNotes
By: Jeffrey Rayport and Annelena Lobb
In 2017, executives at OpenNotes, a national movement to improve the relationship between doctors and patients by sharing doctors’ visit notes about patients with patients, were considering options in efforts to achieve scale. The movement hoped to reach 50 million... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Technology Adoption; Growth and Development Strategy; Technology Industry; Technology Industry; United States
Rayport, Jeffrey, and Annelena Lobb. "OpenNotes." Harvard Business School Case 817-080, March 2017. (Revised March 2017.)
- December 2008 (Revised March 2009)
- Supplement
The Metropolitan Opera (B)
By: Anita Elberse and Crissy Perez
In April 2007, the New York City Metropolitan Opera's general manager Peter Gelb looks back on the first season of a daring experiment to broadcast performances live in high-definition to movie theaters across North America. While the "Live in HD" program has received... View Details
Elberse, Anita, and Crissy Perez. "The Metropolitan Opera (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 509-034, December 2008. (Revised March 2009.)
- 17 Aug 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
The Empirical Economics of Online Attention
- March 2025
- Case
Niramai: An AI Solution to Save Lives
By: Rembrand Koning, Maria P. Roche and Kairavi Dey
Founded in 2017, Niramai developed Thermalytix, a breast cancer screening tool. Thermalytix used a high-resolution thermal sensing device and machine learning algorithms to analyze thermal images and detect tumors. Its patented solution leveraged big data analytics,... View Details
- 08 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Fashion Your New E-Business Model
businesses that use the technology to support business strategy and design…. However, the distinction is blurring as adoption of Internet-based business models penetrates to the very core of how firms... View Details
Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate
- 12 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?
revolutionary adoptions of electricity, railroads, air transport, and telecommunications. "One of the facts that this books points out is that we have been driven by eighty-year technology cycles,"... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Books: A Nation Transformed by Information
is the acknowledgment of the importance and value of sharing information itself and of adopting common technology standards to further this end. Thus, IBM in computers, RCA in television, and AT&T in... View Details
Keywords: Information
- 16 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Resolving Patent Disputes that Impede Innovation
work unless everyone agrees to adopt it. Oftentimes, more than one organization will compete to set standards for technologies with similar functions, each competing for market share in the standardization... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Virtual Plant Tours and Beer Game Dysfunction
more willing to admit what they don’t understand when they’ve had the opportunity to explore the material interactively online. Sometimes using technology is the best way to prove a point, as the Technology... View Details
- 31 Jul 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Investment Incentives in Proprietary and Open-Source Two-Sided Platforms
- 22 Jun 2023
- News
Book Smart
launch of Risher’s nonprofit, Worldreader, an organization that uses technology to reach children all over the world through its foundational app. Within months, Worldreader’s app launched, offering access to thousands of books from... View Details
- 16 Feb 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Platform Competition Under Partial Belief Advantage
- September 2018 (Revised April 2019)
- Case
Sigfox: Building a Global IoT Network
By: Rajiv Lal, Mette Fuglsang Hjortshoej and Emilie Billaud
In 2018, Ludovic Le Moan and Christophe Fourtet, co-founders of the French tech startup Sigfox, reflected on the evolution of their venture and the way forward. Founded in 2009, Sigfox was a company that provided a global connectivity network for devices connected to... View Details
Keywords: Internet Of Things; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Transition; Information Technology; Business Strategy; Internet and the Web; Technology Adoption; Technology Industry; Technology Industry; France; Europe
Lal, Rajiv, Mette Fuglsang Hjortshoej, and Emilie Billaud. "Sigfox: Building a Global IoT Network." Harvard Business School Case 519-032, September 2018. (Revised April 2019.)
- 02 Oct 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Bitcoin
- October 1995
- Case
Singapore TradeNet: Beyond TradeNet to the Intelligent Island
By: Lynda M. Applegate, John L. King and Soon-Siong Neo
Describes the actions taken by the government of Singapore to enable the country to survive and prosper after it achieved independence in the late 1960s. Recognizing that its small size, limited natural resources, but excellent location placed it in a vulnerable... View Details
Keywords: Transition; Communication Technology; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Digital Platforms; Information Technology; Technology Adoption; Information Technology Industry; Singapore
Applegate, Lynda M., John L. King, and Soon-Siong Neo. "Singapore TradeNet: Beyond TradeNet to the Intelligent Island." Harvard Business School Case 196-105, October 1995.