digital innovation - Publications - Faculty & Research

29 Sep 2011
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Leveraging Intellectual Property

File-Sharing and Copyright Researchers Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf argue that file-sharing technology has not undermined the incentives of artists and entertainment companies to create, market, and distribute new works. Key concepts include: View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

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

01 Mar 2024
News

What is Web3?

Web3, a new era of the internet, uses blockchains, tokens, and wallets (tools for storing and managing digital assets) to facilitate a wide range of services and functionalities, including the transfer of assets from person-to-person. It represents a paradigm shift... View Details

25 Aug 2022
News

A New Platform for Alumni Engagement

the design thinking process they used. “HBS is applying the innovation model to teaching, which will make it possible to creatively inspire engaged learning, share more information, and impact more people.” REINVENTING THE FUTURE OF... View Details

Keywords: April White

18 Mar 2020
News

Leading Change

1000 companies on digital strategy and transformation and has conducted research on a variety of organizations, including Microsoft, Facebook, IBM, Amazon, Alibaba, and Google. Lakhani is the founder and co-director of the Laboratory for... View Details

19 May 2016
Research Event

Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium

No matter how many brilliant thinkers a company may employ in-house, sometimes the most innovative solution to a problem can be found from seeking answers outside–from the crowd. “Crowds appear to reliably produce cheaper, faster, and... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel

26 Jul 2016
Research & Ideas

Where will Pokémon Go with Your Personal Information?

app’s success has striking implications for a number of industries. Willy Shih is the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Management Practice in Business Administration at Harvard Business School and spent 28 years in industry at IBM, View Details

Keywords: Re: Willy C. Shih; Video Game; Entertainment & Recreation

05 Nov 2024
Book

Building the Road to 'Small Business Utopia' with AI and Fintech

Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from chapter one of Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream, written by Karen G. Mills, senior fellow at Harvard Business School. The second edition was published in 2024 by Palgrave Macmillan. The cycle of fintech... View Details

Keywords: by Karen G. Mills; Financial Services

01 Dec 2017
News

2017 in Retail: Voice-Activated, One-Hour-Delivery Shopping

devices. And this year, we started using our voice to shop. Amazon launched that trend with Alexa, and recently Google and Walmart announced they are teaming up to do the same thing. We are in the early days of this digital commerce—it... View Details

Keywords: Ron Johnson (MBA 1984), founder and CEO, Enjoy

16 Oct 2019
Research & Ideas

Read Our Most Popular Stories of the Quarter

education nonprofit wants nothing less than to “provide a free world-class education for anyone, anywhere. (8,230 visits) How to Be a Digital Platform Leader The most valuable companies in the world have one thing in common: they’re... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

04 Dec 2014
News

Hacking Health Care

vision is Hacking Heath, a Montreal-based social collaborative that hosts weekend brainstorming sessions, or “hackathons,” to spur innovation in the industry and, ultimately, save lives. “The end game is to transform health care with more... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

19 Aug 2024
News

Quantum Leap

only is he trying to make this breakthrough technology accessible, but he’s also competing against the likes of IBM and Google for market share. The story, “Quantum Leap” appears in our June issue and is written by contributor Alexander Gelfand. It is read here by Ted... View Details

21 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them

digital platform, and the increased fiscal pressures created by the worldwide economic crisis. Unfortunately, the educational programs for future health care leaders fail to provide many of the needed skills, according to a survey of CEOs... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Guttry; Health; Education

01 Dec 2020
News

Two Truths and a Lie About 5G

implemented nationwide 5G coverage in 2019 and is providing a preview of hyper-connected life of the near future—and the kind of ecosystems that will take shape. “The arrival of 5G is a concrete example of how digital technology is being... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

Career Coach

Christina LaMontagne

Christina (HBS '09, Dartmouth '03) has held senior roles across innovative healthcare companies. She has led small digital health companies to achieve market leadership and >$100M ARR and has helped... View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Technology

09 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices

element is one of the things we focus on, because it is really fundamental.” Should regulators step in? As Google and Facebook face threats of antitrust action, issues related to the digital economy, including online pricing, are drawing... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Retail

21 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

What Happens in Vegas Could Shape the Metaverse

constraints, Stephenson believed a digital world could be truly limitless. Chatter about the metaverse peaked in late 2021, almost three decades after Stephenson’s novel was published, when Mark Zuckerberg announced he would build the... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Nover; Computer; Information Technology

George W. Lucas

Lucas has produced and directed some of the most successful films in history including the Star Wars Trilogy and the Indiana Jones series. Through his Industrial Light and Magic subsidiary, he has pioneered some of the most dramatic View Details

Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media

01 Jun 2020
News

How Sports Should Use Its Timeout

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Angela Ruggiero (MBA 2014) is cofounder and CEO of the market research firm the Sports Innovation Lab, and when we spoke in May, it... View Details

October 2016 (Revised March 2017)
Case

uberPOOL

By: Marco Iansiti, Michael W. Toffel and Amram Migdal

This case describes Uber's uberPOOL service, which let multiple Uber users who were headed in the same direction share a ride and pay substantially lower fares. View Details