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04 Oct 2007
What Do You Think?

Has Managerial Capitalism Peaked?

my bet is that 2037 will be very different as well. And this will be due to entrepreneurs, not private equity funds or public company boards." This may be linked, as D. R. Elliott suggested, to the rise in the "knowledge economy" where "thanks to... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

04 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

RealNetworks, CNET, and Judo Strategy

active medium. Larger ads become part of the user's experience, because they allow for much richer information delivery." Glaser: Surfers Will Pay RealNetworks, which achieved ubiquity on personal computers around the world by giving... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

14 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 14

Cloud Computing Authors:Kyle Armbrester and Robert G. Eccles Publication:European Business Review (January 2012) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Publisher's Link: http://www.europeanbusinessreview.com/?p=5748 Assent-maximizing... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

February 2024 (Revised March 2024)
Teaching Note

X: The Foghorn Decision

By: Kyle Myers and Walter Frick

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 618-060. View Details

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11 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018

designing service interactions so that citizens can see the often-hidden work that government performs. Across three studies, we find that revealing the “submerged state” through operational transparency impacts citizens’ attitudes and behavior. In Study 1, viewing a... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7

minimizes a convex approximation of this metric. We further develop an exponential penalty approach and show that its computational performance is far superior and its trade-off between delay and fairness compares favorably. In our... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Oct 2007
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First Look: First Look: October 10

for assigning children to schools in Boston and New York and for facilitating exchanges of kidneys. Computers enable the design of "smart markets" that combine the inputs of users in complex ways: In kidney exchange, they run... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

New Winners and Losers in the Internet Economy

computer programmers. “Mobile is getting a lot of attention, but we're not seeing mobile as a big employer yet.” "You might go so far as to say that four or five years ago, the beneficiaries of the Internet economy were very large... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Publishing

21 Apr 2011
Research & Ideas

Searching for Better Practices in Social Investing

say, a cloud computing company. "I think the [venture philanthropy] model really does work," he said. "It's long term and makes it hard to see short-term results. But we can show mounting evidence that when you put in... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

01 May 2000
What Do You Think?

Can You Hard-Wire Performance?

divisions of Big 5 professional service firms to separate themselves from their auditing colleagues in order to enable consultants to take equity positions in their clients' firms. Ilyas Naibov-Aylisli suggested it would be a good way to sell View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

05 Nov 2024
Research & Ideas

AI Can Help Leaders Communicate, But Can't Make Employees Listen

It's an AI-age twist on the classic Turing Test, developed by British computer scientist Alan Turing in 1950 to judge whether machines could exhibit “intelligence.” Called the “Wade Test,” after the CEO of the company the researchers... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Information Technology; Technology

29 Mar 2016
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March 29, 2016

computer simulation highlighting the work performed by the government of an archetypal American town—from building roads to ensuring food safety—increased trust in government and support for government services. In Study 2 (N=125), Boston... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 18, 2009

Addresses and What to Do About It Author:Benjamin Edelman Abstract The Internet's current numbering system is nearing exhaustion. Existing protocols allow only a finite set of computer numbers ("IP addresses"), and central... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

29 Oct 2018
Research & Ideas

Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'

economist-staffed research lab. Twice Athey took leaves of absence from Harvard to work at Microsoft full-time. At Microsoft, Athey says she was often the only economist on a particular problem, allowing her to share her expertise with engineers and View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Technology; Education

11 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

In the Future of Sports Investing, Media Is the Best Bet

Internet—their computer or their phone. And for us, it's about figuring out how to market that." Future Plans In terms of future investments, Higgins says the partners are keeping an eye on technology—not the infrastructure so much... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Sports; Financial Services

04 Feb 2015
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Is There a Stanford-Google-Silicon Valley School of Management?

engineering-business graduates. Later, graduates of Stanford's computer sciences department joined the cohort. HP benefitted directly from Stanford's multidisciplinary educational strategy that contributed to the background of the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

19 Aug 2013
Research & Ideas

Studying How Income Inequality Shapes Behavior

University colleague Ray Fisman (HBS PhDBE 1998l, and Nancy Adler of the University of California, San Francisco. The first experiments will take place later this year at Harvard Business School's Computer Lab for Experimental Research.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

28 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

Amazon, eBay and the Bidding Wars

auctions have bids in the last 10 minutes, 37 percent in the last minute, and 12 percent in the last 10 seconds. Antiques were more heavily sniped than computers, but there was lots of sniping for computers too. There was much less late... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Web Services; Technology

12 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

Waking Up a Sleeping Company

management, none of whom seemed to understand the computer business or Apple's unique culture. In spite of its ongoing innovations, Apple has never been able to arrest its steady loss of market share. Creating The Cultural Changes In... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

16 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Resolving Patent Disputes that Impede Innovation

Land Rover, for instance, while the Universal Serial Bus (USB) helps standardize the connection of countless computer peripherals. Intellectual property owners often strive to have their patents included in these standards, such that in... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Legal Services

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