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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Delivering the Power to Dream Big
technology will not only increase solar adoption in the United States, but help people in the developing world as well. In industrialized countries, "you can imagine the impact on portable electronics—it can... 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
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The New Tech Meccas
government and no tradition of tech innovation that we ever hear about," says Schroeder. "But to be surrounded by such a large quantity of young people—many of them women—who were unbelievably head-down, thinking about problems they wanted to solve with View Details
- 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
- 13 Dec 2022
- Cold Call Podcast
Metaverse Seoul: How One City Used Citizen Input to Pilot a Government-Run Metaverse
- 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.)
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Health IT at the Bedside
Jain (MBA '07) Courtesy Sachin Jain As a physician, I’m a great believer in health IT. So I’m always confused by how slowly and unevenly it has been adopted in medicine, a field where new technologies and... View Details
- 18 Apr 2022
- News
Book Smart
technology to deliver books to children all over the world. “I always think life is this combination of romance and practicality,” he explains. “And the romance was, maybe we can do something really big and really affirming and... 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
- 16 Feb 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Platform Competition Under Partial Belief Advantage
- 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
- 31 Jul 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Investment Incentives in Proprietary and Open-Source Two-Sided Platforms
- 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
- 15 Sep 2020
- News
Competing in the Age of AI and Digital Transformation
- 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.
- 26 Feb 2018
- News
Teaching Farmers New Tricks of the Trade
have been going through major changes, both in the way that they actually farm their land, but then how they manage their businesses and run their businesses more like entrepreneurs, as opposed to the traditional ways that they've run their businesses. Farmers are very... 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
- 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
- 03 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Facebook’s Future
people use various online social platforms, makes some predictions. In the first decade of its existence, Facebook, aided by the broad adoption of mobile devices and fast internet connections, emerged as a virtual Cheers bar where people... View Details
Keywords: by Mikolaj Piskorski
- 02 Nov 2015
- Book