Digital Platforms - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Dec 2009
First Look

First Look: Dec. 15, 2009

EPOC, and highly sophisticated software that can translate a person's emotions, cognitive thoughts, and facial expressions into digital outcomes. Emotiv wants the technology to be adopted by mainstream consumers and is leaning towards the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

15 Mar 2011
First Look

First Look: March 15

producing analysis and interpretation, while operating in key decision-making fora. In the first bank ("Saxon Bank"), the risk function was successful in achieving such influence. The risk experts established a tight collaboration with top management, which... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2011
First Look

First Look: March 1

an acquisition is to fundamentally change a company's growth trajectory. In those deals, the acquirer uses the target's business model as a platform for growth. Because the business models with the most transformative potential are often... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

The Hard Numbers on Social Investments

Innovations has become the fastest growing hearing aid company in the world since its IPO in 2000. Through the development and use of the smallest single-chip digital signal processor platform ever installed... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

08 Jun 2010
First Look

First Look: June 8

Kerry HermanHarvard Business School Case 510-063 In January 2010, Jen McDonald, head of Bank of America Corporation's (BAC) Digital Marketing group, was discussing the bank's mobile strategy with Douglas Brown, senior vice president,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

05 Mar 2020
News

Green Light

filled with leafy greens and fed by precisely tuned LED lights. An intricate digital system measures the room’s temperature and the CO2 levels inside the units every 30 seconds, adjusting as necessary; another delivers computer-calculated... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Scott Nobles

01 Jun 2016
News

How Do We Win the Cyberwar?

of McAfee and EMC. “Security people recognize they are in the business of pattern recognition. It has happened before, but in a much more human way.” BrightPoint’s business model is built on sharing. The company makes software platforms... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai

12 Dec 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017

Business School Case 518-030 Enpara.com: Digital Bank at a Crossroad In March 2017, Elsa Pekmez Atan (MBA 2004), was wondering about the future of Enpara.com, a digital-only banking platform of QNB... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Feb 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019

Swissgrid: Enterprise Risk Management in a Digital Age Kurt Meyer, chief risk officer of Swissgrid, the Swiss national electricity transmission system operator, reflects on the risk management system he installed after the deregulation... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Sep 2015
News

Built for Speed

Kentucky, a set of structures so large they are typically measured in acres—900, all told—not square feet and have their own zip code. But big can be a downside for GE’s makers. Kevin Nolan, VP of technology at GE Appliances, offers the example of Nest—the View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Machinery Manufacturing; Manufacturing

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entrepreneurship and will cover therapeutics, devices, diagnostics, and related service providers, data, tools and technologies. Example topics of exploration may include emerging opportunities in pharma & biotech, medical device & diagnostics advances, and related... View Details

01 Mar 2011
News

Making Their Way

Chirchirillo was able to establish a foothold in China. That import model, however, was only intended to be an interim strategy to build a global capability, and in 2008, Chirchirillo purchased a precision metal-stamping company in McHenry, Illinois. “I view that... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Rail Transportation; Transportation

10 Mar 2021
News

New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts

has forced companies to rapidly advance their digital footprint, using cloud storage, cybersecurity, and device tools to accommodate their new remote workforce. Experiencing the benefits of remote working—including nonexistent commute... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

04 Feb 2014
First Look

First Look: February 4

by smart competitors and changes in their industries. In each case, there were opportunities to act before a crisis engulfed the organization. At Kodak, for example, CEO George Fisher attempted to move the company into the digital era in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne

June 2024
Teaching Note

Beamery: Using Skills and AI to Modernize HR

By: Boris Groysberg, David Lane, Susan Pinckney and Alexis Lefort

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 424-004. Unicorn human relationships startup Beamery evaluates it growth versus depth strategy as its strategic partners and customers could become future competitors in a quickly changing AI based human resources and talent management... View Details

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28 Apr 2009
First Look

First Look: April 28, 2009

and services including computers, handheld devices, servers, and digital entertainment, employed 172,000 people and posted $104 billion in sales in 2007. PSG, one of HP's three major divisions, offered notebook and desktop personal... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace