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  • Research Summary

The Role of IT in Firm Scope Choice: Diversification or Specialization?

The use of IT can have two, actually opposing, effects on product diversification depending on how technologies are used by the firm. On the one hand, some uses of IT can increase specialization because they allow customers to research and order products remotely,... View Details

    Edward McFowland III

    Edward McFowland III is an Assistant Professor in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches the first-year TOM course in the required curriculum.

    Professor McFowland’s research interests – which lie at the... View Details

    • September 15, 2021
    • Article

    Improving Deconvolution Methods in Biology Through Open Innovation Competitions: An Application to the Connectivity Map

    By: Andrea Blasco, Ted Natoli, Michael G. Endres, Rinat A. Sergeev, Steven Randazzo, Jin Hyun Paik, N.J. Maximilian Macaluso, Rajiv Narayan, Xiaodong Lu, David Peck, Karim R. Lakhani and Aravind Subramanian
    A recurring problem in biomedical research is how to isolate signals of distinct populations (cell types, tissues, and genes) from composite measures obtained by a single analyte or sensor. Existing computational deconvolution approaches work well in many specific... View Details
    Keywords: Deconvolution; Methods; Open Innovation Competition; Genomics; Research; Innovation and Invention
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    • July 1995 (Revised October 1995)
    • Background Note

    Electronic Commerce: Trends and Opportunities

    By: Lynda M. Applegate and Janis Lee Gogan
    In a 1966 Harvard Business Review article, Felix Kaufman implored general managers to think beyond their own organizational boundaries to the possibilities of interorganizational systems (IOS)--networked computers that enable companies to share information and... View Details
    Keywords: Internet and the Web; Trends; Opportunities
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    • 04 Feb 2016
    • Blog Post

    Meet the HBS Tech Club

    At HBS, the Tech Club aims to educate the community on the latest technology trends and skills, to facilitate recruiting opportunities, and to foster social and professional networking within HBS, greater Harvard, and the Boston area. The... View Details

      Jeffrey J. Bussgang

      General Partner, Flybridge Capital Partners

      Former entrepreneur turned VC, HBS Senior Lecturer, author of three, dad of three, husband of one, civic leader, and fan of all Boston sports.

      Jeffrey J. Bussgang is a Senior... View Details

      • 20 May 2013
      • Op-Ed

      Making America an Industrial Powerhouse Again

      As part of his administration's strategy to rejuvenate American manufacturing, President Obama has called for the creation of a National Network of Manufacturing Innovation (NNMI) to advance and diffuse novel manufacturing technologies.... View Details
      Keywords: by Gary Pisano; Manufacturing
      • 23 Sep 2008
      • First Look

      First Look: September 23, 2008

        Working PapersSecuring Online Advertising: Rustlers and Sheriffs in the New Wild West Author:Benjamin G. Edelman Abstract Read the news of recent computer security guffaws, and it's striking how many problems stem from online... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • July 2023 (Revised July 2023)
      • Background Note

      Generative AI Value Chain

      By: Andy Wu and Matt Higgins
      Generative AI refers to a type of artificial intelligence (AI) that can create new content (e.g., text, image, or audio) in response to a prompt from a user. ChatGPT, Bard, and Claude are examples of text generating AIs, and DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion are... View Details
      Keywords: AI; Artificial Intelligence; Model; Hardware; Data Centers; AI and Machine Learning; Applications and Software; Analytics and Data Science; Value
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      • 11 Nov 2021
      • Blog Post

      ZONE DEFENSE: These self-driving, AI-powered drones do recon so soldiers don’t have to

      design a high-tech armored suit for a person when artificial intelligence could do the job with significantly less risk. “Why wouldn’t they just put in a computer to control the suit?” he wondered. “‘Good mission, but it sounds like a... View Details
      • 08 Nov 2023
      • Blog Post

      Zone Defense: These self-driving, AI-powered drones do recon so soldiers don’t have to

      deployed, couldn’t understand why the military would design a high-tech armored suit for a person when artificial intelligence could do the job with significantly less risk. “Why wouldn’t they just put in a computer to control the suit?”... View Details
      Keywords: Technology; Entrepreneurship
      • August 2012
      • Case

      Jess Westerly at Kauflauf GmbH

      By: John J. Gabarro and Colleen Kaftan
      Jess Westerly is the assistant product owner of CRM applications for computer and office supply wholesalers and retailers at Kauflauf, a fast-growing provider of subscription enterprise software headquartered in Heidelberg, Germany. Only months into her job, outsider... View Details
      Keywords: Applications and Software; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Change Management; Leading Change; Behavior; Salesforce Management; Social and Collaborative Networks; Planning; Web Services Industry; Germany
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      • February 2018 (Revised December 2019)
      • Case

      Rise of the Drones: Identified Technologies

      By: Andy Wu and George Gonzalez
      The founder and CEO of Identified Technologies, a Pittsburgh-based drone software and services company, faces a dilemma when San Francisco–based DroneDeploy begins to disrupt the industry with its drone software platform. Identified Technologies needs to consider... View Details
      Keywords: Applications and Software; Digital Platforms; Disruption; Network Effects; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Pittsburgh; San Francisco
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      • 06 Oct 2016
      • HBS Seminar

      Katy Borner, Indiana University

      • 17 Jul 2006
      • Lessons from the Classroom

      Developing a Strategy for Digital Convergence

      the blink of an eye. Wireless is another enabling technology, allowing the computer and other digital devices to access the Internet and other networks from an ever-increasing number of remote locations. In... View Details
      Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer; Computer
      • 2017
      • Working Paper

      Inventory Management for Mobile Money Agents in the Developing World

      By: Karthik Balasubramanian, David F. Drake and Douglas Fearing
      Mobile money systems, platforms built and managed by mobile network operators to allow money to be stored as digital currency, have burgeoned in the developing world as a mechanism to transfer money electronically. Mobile money agents exchange cash for electronic value... View Details
      Keywords: Currency; Mobile Technology; Market Platforms; Developing Countries and Economies
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        Ranjay Gulati

        Ranjay Gulati is the Paul R. Lawrence MBA Class of 1942 Professor of Business Administration and the former Unit Head of the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. He is an expert on leadership, strategy, and organizational issues... View Details

        Keywords: computer; computer; computer; computer; computer; computer; computer; computer
        • 16 Oct 2018
        • First Look

        New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018

        be used to forecast product life cycles at scale. In two empirical studies, one of search interest in social networks and the other of new computer sales, we demonstrate that our model outperforms leading... View Details
        Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
        • 18 Aug 2008
        • Research & Ideas

        How Disruptive Innovation Changes Education

        solutions to educational gaming to online learning courses for computers in classrooms. This interest and activity should allow us to make great progress in the years ahead. We also recommend investing in technological platforms that will... View Details
        Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

          Stephen P. Bradley

          Professor Bradley is the William Ziegler Professor of Business Administration Emeritus at the Harvard Business School. In addition to teaching Management and Strategy in the Owner President Management Program and leading an... View Details

          Keywords: e-commerce industry; financial services; health care; high technology; internet; pharmaceuticals; telecommunications