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  • 30 Nov 2021
  • Interview

TikTok: Super App or Supernova?

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport and Brian Kenny
TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, was launched in 2012 around the simple idea of helping users entertain themselves on their smartphones while on the Beijing Subway. By May 2020, TikTok operated in 155 countries and had roughly 1 billion monthly active users, placing... View Details
Keywords: Apps; Artificial Intelligence; Business Startups; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Business Model; Digital Platforms; Growth and Development Strategy; AI and Machine Learning; Social Media
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Introduction - The Worker - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

portraits created by Hine and others illustrate employees handling tools and machinery with focused intensity and skill—classically composed... View Details
  • September 2011
  • Case

Driving Profitable Growth at US Auto Parts

USAP faces extraordinary opportunities to change the way that automobiles are serviced in the US by selling parts at fair prices though online channels. View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Disruptive Innovation; Business Model; Internet and the Web; Business Strategy; Internet and the Web; Machinery and Machining; Cost Management; Auto Industry; Retail Industry; United States
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  • 15 Jan 2018
  • Research & Ideas

A Better Business Model for Fighting Cancer

providing incentives and protecting proprietary information as needed—then leveraging the latest in artificial intelligence and machine learning through entities such as GNS... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health; Pharmaceutical
  • 03 Jun 2022
  • Blog Post

HiHome Sweet HiHome

Utah. At SEAS, he focused his studies on visualization, data science, and machine learning. Now that their studies are complete, they can focus full-time on launching HiHome later this year. “The value of a... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2016
  • News

Up by the Roots

brought its own challenges. Ginseng is a notoriously labor-intensive crop: Plants can take four to five years to mature, all of the seeds are picked by hand, and most of the harvesting is manual. All View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
  • Profile

Omowale Casselle

of incoming samples from our brand partners (P&G, Unilever, Elizabeth Arden), that our field team keeps our machines running and fully stocked with sample inventory, and... View Details
Keywords: Technology; Consumer Products
  • 01 Feb 2002
  • News

Replicating Toyota's Success

years of on-site research at Toyota and its affiliates, in 1999 Spear and HBS professor H. Kent Bowen published a Harvard Business Review article titled "Decoding the DNA of the Toyota Production System."... View Details
Keywords: Machinery Manufacturing; Machinery Manufacturing; Machinery Manufacturing; Machinery Manufacturing
  • 11 Sep 2012
  • First Look

First Look: September 11

Precision Machining Ramana Nanda and James McQuadeHarvard Business School Case 813-036 For the second time in fourteen months, Christopher Owen, the second-generation owner of Owen's Precision View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2020
  • News

Quantum Leap

doubt that it could radically transform sectors ranging from energy to finance and cybersecurity to transportation, but the potential is still mostly theoretical as scientists can’t quite grok all the implications yet. View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing
  • 08 Nov 2024
  • Op-Ed

How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis

African people, businesses, and nations are becoming increasingly stressed by climate-related perils like droughts, river flooding, extreme heat, and rising sea levels. This is leading not only to the destruction of assets but also challenges to lives and... View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber; Green Technology; Energy
  • 23 Mar 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Product Disasters Can Be Fertile Ground for Innovation

companies can more nimbly pursue innovation. “In this case, the bigger players were able to integrate this radical technology into their existing machines without being disruptive,” says Galasso. “It didn’t require a substantial redesign... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies
  • 19 Jul 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Your Customers: Use Them or Lose Them

Reason: Commerce Bank decided to differentiate on service. For starters, it offers seven-day branch banking, giving customers extra convenience. In addition, every branch includes so-called penny arcades, coin changing machines that are... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 13 Jul 2010
  • First Look

First Look: July 13

manufacturer, subject to unconditional, multi-year sales minimums and significant forward financial obligations. Taking out long-term bank loans, his firm has purchased modern, high-speed machinery to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 1, 2007

differences in the price of capital across countries. Our strategy is motivated by the fact that most countries import the bulk of machinery equipment (from a small number of industrialized countries). We find the price of imported... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • December 2024
  • Case

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan (BCBSM): The AI Journey

By: Shikhar Ghosh
In early 2024, Bill Fandrich, Executive VP and CIO of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan (BCBSM), faced a critical decision about AI adoption within the organization. Fandrich had championed AI implementation at BCBSM. After successfully developing three AI... View Details
Keywords: Blue Cross; Automation; Generative Ai; Health Insurance; Insurance Companies; Innovation; IT Strategy; Organizational Transformations; Technology; Non-profit; AI and Machine Learning; Health; Digital Strategy; Digital Transformation; Leadership; Technology Adoption; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Innovation Strategy; Health Industry; Insurance Industry; Michigan
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  • 25 Sep 2000
  • Research & Ideas

More Than the Sum of Its Parts: The Impact of Modularity on the Computer Industry

The computer age began some six decades ago with general-purpose machines with Star Wars-like names such as ENIAC and EDVAC. They were powered by vacuum tubes, big enough to fill an entire room, View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Computer; Consumer Products; Technology
  • 21 Mar 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, March 21

activity the CEOs undertake during one workweek and (ii) a machine learning algorithm that projects these data onto scalar CEO behavior indices. Low values of the index are associated with plant visits View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

    Brandon Farwell

    in enterprise technologies; notably applied machine intelligence (computer vision, natural language processing, and machine learning), VR/AR, robotics/autonomy, View Details
    Keywords: Business Products and Services (B2B)
    • Web

    Introduction - The Medium - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

    The Message The Product The Production The Worker The Audience Bibliography The Medium: Industrial Photography and the Machine Age Any great art which might be developed in this industrial age will come from... View Details