Technology Adoption - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2012
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engagement—that drove their organization when it was a start-up? The answer lies in the power of conversation. Professor Groysberg and his coauthor explore the promise of conversation-powered leadership, from the practice of talking straight (and listening well) to the... View Details

Keywords: Professor Amy C. Edmonson; Professor Boris Groysberg; Professor Josh Lerner; Teaching Fellow Ann Leamon; Professor Leslie A. Perlow; Professor of Management Practice Felda Hardymon;; social media; Finance

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The Transformation of IBM

By: Andrall E. Pearson and David B. Yoffie

John Akers, IBM's chairman, must confront how to transform a $60 billion, full line, global computer company that is the leader in every market it serves, yet losing share across the board. The case explores senior management's perspective on the process of... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Transformation; Corporate Strategy; Adoption; Management Teams; Information Infrastructure; Information Technology; Multinational Firms and Management; Computer Industry

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01 Aug 2008
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Has the Time Come for “Stretch” in Management?

changing, will Detroit adopt the stretch concept in the development of, say, 100-mile-per-gallon vehicles by 2012? There may be reasons why we will increasingly underestimate our capabilities, giving greater credence to stretch. We are... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

2024
Working Paper

HIV Tests and AIDS Treatments—Containing a Fearsome Pandemic: Case Histories of Transformational Advances

By: Amar Bhidé, Srikant M. Datar and Katherine Stebbins

This case history describes how a diverse cast of characters, including public health organizations, research laboratories, for-profit healthcare companies, activists, and regulators, rolled back the outbreak of HIV/AIDS in just fifteen years. Moreover, as the case... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Technological Innovation; Innovation Strategy; Technology Adoption; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Invention; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms

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01 Dec 2015
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December 1, 2015

Under a carbon tariff, foreign firms with a production cost advantage adopt clean technology at a lower emissions price than domestic firms, and foreign entry can increase in emissions price when foreign... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Oct 2020
News

Clearing the Path to Citizenship

hoped to start a new life with their young son in their adopted country, but the immigration process would not be an easy one. “Everything was opaque and scary,” Wang says. “It was our one shot at being able to stay.” Stymied by the... View Details

Keywords: April White

06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

policies: There are retailers who offer to self-match and retailers who explicitly state that they will not match prices across channels. Using a game-theoretic model, we investigate the strategic forces behind the adoption (or... View Details

26 Apr 2011
Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day

Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Energy; Utilities

31 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018

largest insurance program. To meet this target, the government will rely on technology to effectively scale services, monitor quality, and ensure accountability. While India has seen great strides in informational View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

09 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

Chance Encounters: What's at Stake in Return-to-Office Decisions

technology-adoption decisions, I’ve been examining how the virtual space can substitute for the physical space, by looking at tech adoption at Stack Overflow, which is like a Q&A website for coders. It’s been surprising to see that... View Details

Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint, HBS Alumni Bulletin

03 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 3

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-005.pdf The Influence of Prior Industry Affiliation on Framing in Nascent Industries: The Evolution of Digital Cameras Authors:Mary J. Benner and Mary Tripsas Abstract New industries sparked by View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

27 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 27

raises aggregate productivity through two channels: (1) trust facilitates reallocation between firms by allowing more efficient firms to grow as CEOs can decentralize more decisions and (2) trust complements the adoption of new... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

13 Feb 2024
Blog Post

Harvard Students Reflect on COP28

Some of the best connections were serendipitous, sitting down at a lunch bench next to solar engineers who taught me about the necessity of tracking panels for Middle East projects or investors in South Asian two and three wheeler mobility companies that are working on... View Details

05 Sep 2012
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Will Business Management Save US Health Care?

demand." John Van Slyke commented that "business people have the leadership skills and command over the kind of technology that is needed, (but) the record of business, particularly the financiers, has been to distort health... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Health

06 May 2002
Research & Ideas

A Toolkit for Customer Innovation

a number of companies have adopted an intriguing approach, which at first seems counterintuitive. Essentially, these companies have abandoned their efforts to understand exactly what products their customers want and have instead equipped... View Details

Keywords: by Stefan Thomke & Eric Von Hippel

01 Sep 2012
News

What’s the Big Idea?

(PhDBE 2009) and HBS assistant professor George Serafeim, the trio studied data from a matched sample of 180 companies over 18 years. Organizations that had adopted environmental and social policies by 1993 (described as... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Corporate Services; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management

22 Feb 2022
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An Rx for Small Business Recovery

business-focused products and broaden access to lending,” says Mills. Research suggests that fintechs were responsible for some 50 percent of PPP loans to Black-owned businesses. “As the recovery evolves, adopting new View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

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locations, academics, venture funds, and other cities. The strategic sprint focused on 1) improved use of technology to achieve New York's policy goals, 2) growing the urban tech sector (market size, job creation), and 3) establishing New... View Details

17 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 17

developed economies (N) tend to have large and persistent effects on developing countries (S). We study the transmission of business cycle fluctuations for developed to developing economies with a two-country asymmetric DSGE model with two features: (i) endogenous and... View Details