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  • 29 Jun 2015
  • HBS Case

Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records

tend to seek technology partners that can grow with them over a long period, rather than bearing the switching costs of starting over with a new platform and supplier. Ideally, a sophisticated analytics... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Technology; Technology
  • 04 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 4

weeks or days. Publisher's link: http://hbr.org/2014/03/manage-your-work-manage-your-life/ar/1 August 2013 International Journal of Industrial Organization Search Diversion and Platform Competition By: Hagiu, Andrei, and Bruno Jullien... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jun 2022
  • Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces the 2022-2023 Blavatnik Fellows

and fellows’ companies funding has quadrupled. It is gratifying to be a part of the program’s tremendous growth and mentor next generation entrepreneurs who contribute to society by commercializing groundbreaking technology and biomedical... View Details
  • 2016
  • Working Paper

The Impact of Patent Wars on Firm Strategy: Evidence from the Global Smartphone Market

By: Feng Zhu
Strategy scholars have documented in various empirical settings that firms seek and leverage stronger institutions to mitigate hazards and gain competitive advantage. In this paper, we argue that such “institution-seeking” behavior may not be confined to the pursuit of... View Details
Keywords: Patent Wars; Patent Litigation; Intellectual Property (IP) Enforcement; Institutions; Smartphone; Patent Thicket; Digital Platforms; Patents; Lawsuits and Litigation; Globalized Markets and Industries; Business Strategy; Telecommunications Industry
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  • March 2011 (Revised August 2014)
  • Background Note

Social Media in Health Care

By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Selin Gunal Tyler and Charles C. Huang
This note reviews the social media firms in health care that help providers and consumers to interact and their nascent business models. View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Health Care and Treatment; Digital Platforms; Social and Collaborative Networks; Health Industry
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  • 01 Jun 2024
  • News

Case Study: Ready for an Upgrade

Illustration by Alvaro Dominguez The Los Angeles–based startup Stell was borne of a pain point almost as old as recorded history itself: paperwork. One of Stell’s cofounders, Malory McLemore (MBA 2022), had landed a job as an engineer at Airbus after earning a... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services
  • November 2021 (Revised April 2022)
  • Case

EbonyLife Media (A)

By: Andy Wu, Feng Zhu, Pippa Tubman Armerding and Wale Lawal
Founded by Mosunmola “Mo” Abudu in 2012 with a mission to bring high-quality African stories to the world, EbonyLife was the company behind many of Nigeria’s biggest films and TV shows. The company began as a television channel on the Africa-wide direct broadcast... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Mission and Purpose; Growth and Development Strategy; Digital Platforms; Consumer Behavior; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Nigeria; Africa
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  • 01 Oct 1997
  • News

Shaping the Way Business Does Business: HBR at 75

professor of social sciences, now emeritus, wrote "Communications Technology - For Better or for Worse," in which he laid out concepts that paved the way for the Information Superhighway. The year was 1979. And the magazine was the... View Details
  • 31 Jul 2014
  • Research & Ideas

A Scholarly Crowd Explores Crowdsourcing

Cox Pahnke, Dan Wang, and Benjamin Hallen. Ripe for study. In a plenary talk on crowdsourced contests and competitions, Lakhani outlined numerous areas in need of further study, which is made much easier by hundreds of crowdsourcing View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Kraft Accelerator

trials and research, and how the challenges go way beyond just making the technology work. Previous Episodes Bridging a Critical Gap: Using AI to Avoid Wasteful Treatments, Unnecessary Tests and Poor Outcomes 19 SEP 2019 | Under the... View Details
  • 10 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Disruption: The Art of Framing

a still-viable business model while simultaneously trying to develop a new platform for growth, it gets pulled in two directions, and both efforts underperform. Kodak, for example, needs to continue to focus on traditional competitors... View Details
Keywords: by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower
  • 18 May 2020
  • News

Kevin Mayer Takes Over TikTok

Kevin Mayer (MBA 1990) Jesse Grant/Getty Images for Disney Kevin Mayer (MBA 1990) Jesse Grant/Getty Images for Disney Kevin Mayer (MBA 1990) has left his position leading Disney’s streaming business to take over the video-sharing platform... View Details
  • July 2011 (Revised January 2013)
  • Case

Digital Microscopy Is Making Me Crazy!

By: Willy Shih
For Carl Zeiss Microimaging, modular hardware and software enabled customers to tailor Zeiss's broad range of microscopy systems hardware and software to meet a wide range of needs from basic scientific research in the biological and medical sciences to clinical... View Details
Keywords: Information Infrastructure; Applications and Software; Corporate Strategy; Disruptive Innovation; Science-Based Business; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Business Conglomerates; Digital Platforms; Opportunities; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Computer Industry
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  • March 2008 (Revised March 2013)
  • Teaching Note

MySpace (TN)

By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski
Teaching Note for 708499. View Details
Keywords: Internet and the Web; Competitive Advantage; Social and Collaborative Networks; Decisions; Growth and Development; Digital Platforms; Web Services Industry; United States
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  • Web

Public Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog

solve giant problems or who may want to become extreme innovators inside government at some point themselves. The cases feature a broad range of contemporary technology applications, and the course may be of particular interest to... View Details
  • 10 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 10

  Working PapersPlatform Envelopment (revised) Authors:Thomas Eisenmann, Geoffrey Parker, and Marshall Van Alstyne Abstract Due to network effects and switching costs, platform providers often become entrenched. To enter established... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

HBS - From The Dean

dynamism of our campus while building on the knowledge and skills we had gained in hybrid learning and remote work. Our new normal will be to take what we’ve always done well—teaching and research—and infuse it with new tools and View Details
  • 17 Nov 2015
  • News

How to Prepare for Shark Tank

take it in stride," Stolar said. "It’s just too amazing of a platform for a consumer good company to not make it happen." Read more about Stolar and Barbera’s experience, plus their four tips for future Shark Tank pitchers, on... View Details
Keywords: Chemical Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 17 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 17

Platform Competition, Compatibility, and Social Efficiency (revised) Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Francisco Ruiz-Aliseda Abstract Katz and Shapiro (1985) study systems compatibility in settings with one-sided View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 5, 2007

latter to price lower and thereby increase total consumer traffic. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-010.pdf Exclusivity and Control Authors:Andrei Hagiu and Robin S. Lee Abstract We analyze platform competition for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace