Dual Digital Transformation - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 17, 2007

transforming locally engaged citizens into viewers consuming programming from distant sources. In response to such concerns, many regulatory agencies, including the Federal Communication Commission in the United States, curtail the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Masculinities and the International Journal of Advertising, and his forthcoming book Refashioning Masculinity: Men and Fashion in the Digital Age will be published by the University of Chicago Press. Before his academic career, Ben... View Details

15 Jun 2021
News

HBS Addresses Racial Equity

director of Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging to transform HBS internally, nurture relationships with the University and our neighbors, and foster a shared vision for racial equity. The CDIO will have a key role in influencing the... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

24 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017

personalized "happiness" recommendations to employees, and he was considering other ways to automate the model to bring it to scale. He was confident that the new technology had the power to transform employee happiness and the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Dec 2015
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The Year in Ideas 2015

in digital health and precision medicine. Next to undergo this transformation is neuroscience. “We will witness an explosion of interest in ‘consumer neuroscience’ technologies, paired with an expanding... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna, Christine Lejeune, Dan Morrell, and April White

25 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018

that data from digital platforms such as Yelp have the potential to improve our understanding of gentrification, both by providing data in close to real time (i.e., nowcasting and forecasting) and by providing additional context about how... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

23 May 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

Fonterra to enhance its competitive position. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/517050-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 717-453 Novartis: A Transformative Deal When Joe Jimenez became CEO of Swiss-based... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

12 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 12

addressing its underlying causes such as injustice and inequality. This case follows a series of radical transformations implemented by the organization's CEO, Ramesh Singh-a power shift from its headquarters in London to an international... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 22, 2008

Hurricane Katrina as a catalyst for the transformation of the public education system in New Orleans, President Sarah Usdin and CEO Matt Candler must adapt their strategy to respond to a continuously shifting local context. By 2008,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

14 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 14

following question: how can data and analytic tools be used to create new value? The authors have explored that question with many clients. In their work, they've seen IT create new value in five patterns: using data from sensors in objects to improve offerings (think... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Apr 2025
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Challenge Accepted

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Nietzsche said it first: What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger. There’s a reason that saying has legs, nearly 140 years later. We all, at some point... View Details

Keywords: challenges; failure; advice; experience

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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19 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 19

market for football apparel and footwear in 1994 to a formidable competitor to Adidas in 2008 (with revenues of over $1 billion for the sport). The case traces how Nike has gone about making this transformation and its activities at each... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Apr 2000
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Getting the Message

service reaches more consumers," asserts Silk. Broadband -- a high-speed constant link to the Web that will place today's 56k modem in the history books next to the UNIVAC -- promises to transform the advertising industry. Currently only... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

31 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 31

121-year old mission-driven organization for a world of accelerating digital convergence and decreasing magazine sales. Historically a proponent of evolutionary change, he is considering a radical move: creating a senior management... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

12 Apr 2023
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Step Change

funds." A few years later, he adds, big acquisitions and IPOs started happening in the MENA region, catalyzing a virtuous cycle of entrepreneurial activity and investment: Amazon acquired Souq for $580 million in 2017 and Uber purchased Careem for $3.1 billion in 2019.... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

06 Sep 2016
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September 6, 2016

challenges facing Moleskine, an Italian-based consumer products company known for its oilcloth-covered notebooks once used by Ernest Hemingway and Vincent van Gogh. CEO Arrigo Berni and co-founder Maria Sebregondi aim to transform the... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

10 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution

at risk? Alvarez: In the worst shape are the stores that said: I can fix that. Maybe it's not fixable—maybe 80 percent of your products are now going to be sold online or in a digital format, like books. Barnes & Noble and Staples are... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

29 Mar 2010
Research & Ideas

Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial

Reviewing a spectacular business failure, we often wonder why the CEO didn't see trouble coming. It was so obvious. Why didn't Digital Equipment Corp. CEO Kenneth Olsen see the PC as a threat to minicomputers? Did Coca-Cola's Roberto... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Auto; Retail; Technology

June 2024
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Aidoc: Building a Hospital-Centric AI Platform

By: Ariel D. Stern and Susan Pinckney

In 2023, Israel-based AI health care company Aidoc evaluated its future. The company, founded in 2016, had grown from commercializing a single AI product for radiologists to a software platform that could detect 20 conditions and immediately notify care teams of... View Details

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First Look: April 17, 2007

2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

HBS Addresses Racial Equity

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017

The Year in Ideas 2015

New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018

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Challenge Accepted

Beamery: Using Skills and AI to Modernize HR

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Getting the Message

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Step Change

September 6, 2016

The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution

Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial

Aidoc: Building a Hospital-Centric AI Platform