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- 09 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 9
that the most popular rule is rational choice; it is used in about half the cases. To participate in the competitions, researchers are asked to email the organizers models (implemented in computer programs) that read the incentive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Rating Fund Managers by the Company They Keep
mutual funds will adopt our approach. We'd love to work with such a service to help make this information available to investors at large. Q: In your analysis you relied rather heavily on Spectrum and other computer-generated data tools. How has the twenty-year... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 11 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
Secrets of the Successful Businesswoman
Winfrey, the American television personality. "How many of us multi-tasked to get here today?" Koehn asked the audience. "How many women spend most of their waking hours multi-tasking? I'm not talking about the phone and the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 2011
- Article
Strategic Change and the Jazz Mindset: Exploring Practices That Enhance Dynamic Capabilities for Organizational Improvisation
By: Ethan S. Bernstein and Frank J. Barrett
How can leaders adopt a mindset that maximizes learning, remains responsive to short-term emergent opportunities, and simultaneously strengthens longer-term dynamic capabilities of the organization? This chapter explores the organizational decisions and practices... View Details
Keywords: Dynamic Capabilities; Strategic Change; Jazz; Jazz Mindset; Improvisation; Innovation; Change Management; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Innovation Leadership; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Leading Change; Leadership Style; Leadership; Management; Management Style; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizations; Creativity; Strategy; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; United States; Japan; Taiwan; Europe; Asia
Bernstein, Ethan S., and Frank J. Barrett. "Strategic Change and the Jazz Mindset: Exploring Practices That Enhance Dynamic Capabilities for Organizational Improvisation." Research in Organizational Change and Development 19 (2011): 55–90.
- 26 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 26
successfully unified all analytics talent and resources into one group over a three-year period. Rapid increases in computing power and decreases in data storage costs had enabled DA2's data architects to build predictive models... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Build Winning Streaks
quasi-confessionals or virtual mirrors; videotapes of games or voicemails of daily operational performance; data warehouses or computer tracking of game statistics; quarterly priorities or quarterly report cards; daily exercise logs or... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 25 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cyber-Marketing: Scouting the Digital Communications Frontier
Seated before a computer with an Internet link, consumers today can flip through an estimated 800 million Web pages of public information by merely clicking a mouse. Add to this that television, now in 98 percent of American homes, is... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- 15 Feb 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
Delivering Information Services: A 30-Year Perspective
with a member of the Executive Education staff. EE: How has "Delivering Information Services" evolved in the nearly thirty years it has been taught? Nolan: The course has kept pace with all three of the dominant eras in information technology (IT): from... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 03 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 3
computational algorithmic problem. Participants were divided into two groups with identical skills distributions and exposed to the same competitive institutional setting. The "sorted" group was composed of individuals who... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 2024
- Book
The Everything Token: How NFTs and Web3 Will Transform the Way We Buy, Sell, and Create
By: Steve Kaczynski and Scott Duke Kominers
We demystify the coming digital revolution, showing how NFTs will transform our online and offline interactions.
NFTs aren’t just pictures on the internet, or a fad that has come and gone. Rather, they’re a new technology for creating digital assets and... View Details
NFTs aren’t just pictures on the internet, or a fad that has come and gone. Rather, they’re a new technology for creating digital assets and... View Details
Keywords: Economic Systems; Microeconomics; Entrepreneurship; Cultural Entrepreneurship; Information Technology; Innovation and Invention; Innovation Strategy; Digital Platforms; Digital Strategy; Digital Transformation; Internet and the Web; Technology Adoption; Marketing; Marketing Strategy; Product Marketing; Product Positioning; Markets; E-commerce; Market Design; Value; Customer Value and Value Chain; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Organizational Structure; Customer Ownership; Ownership; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Computer Industry
Kaczynski, Steve, and Scott Duke Kominers. The Everything Token: How NFTs and Web3 Will Transform the Way We Buy, Sell, and Create. Portfolio/Penguin, 2024.
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Bank of America Turned Branches into Service-Development Laboratories
stocks and mutual funds. An "investment bar" offered personal computers where the customer could do her banking, check her investment portfolio, or just surf the Internet. There were comfortable couches, where she could relax,... View Details
- 20 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
Lessons of Successful Entrepreneurs
his current stint at General Catalyst, a private equity fund. Filipowski, who founded software maker PLATINUM Technology and sold it to Computer Associates International in 1999 for approximately $4 billion, said one ingredient for his... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is E-commerce at Risk in Apple's Security Dispute with the FBI?
phones for the government and something else for the public. The FBI, for this new age, may need to break down these technological barriers themselves, perhaps by hiring their own computer scientists instead of making it each company’s... View Details
- June 2013
- Background Note
Mobilizing an Online Business
By: Peter Coles and Benjamin Edelman
Entrepreneurs starting online businesses often need to mobilize multiple sets of users or customers, each of whom hesitates to participate unless others join also. This case presents several challenges with similar structure. View Details
Keywords: Mobilization Strategy; Network Effects; Platforms; Internet; Entrepreneurship; Strategy; Two-Sided Platforms; Technology Adoption; Innovation Strategy; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Computer Industry
Coles, Peter, and Benjamin Edelman. "Mobilizing an Online Business." Harvard Business School Background Note 913-061, June 2013. (request a courtesy copy.)
- August 2007 (Revised September 2008)
- Case
Marketing the "$100 Laptop" (A)
By: John A. Quelch and Carin-Isabel Knoop
In 2002, Professor Nicholas Negroponte, a successful venture capitalist, author, and co-founder and chairman emeritus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab, announced his intention to build a PC so cheap as to make it possible to provide... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Internet and the Web; Information Technology; Product Development; Technological Innovation; Nonprofit Organizations; Marketing Strategy; Information Infrastructure; Developing Countries and Economies; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Computer Industry; Cambridge
Quelch, John A., and Carin-Isabel Knoop. Marketing the "$100 Laptop" (A). Harvard Business School Case 508-024, August 2007. (Revised September 2008.)
- 01 May 1998
- Conference Presentation
Rapid Learning and Adaptation in Product Development: An Empirical Study of the Internet Software Industry
By: Alan MacCormack, M. Iansiti and R Verganti
- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 21, 2008
(in particular DRAMs and FLASH memory) and flat panel displays. Taiwan is also the center for notebook computer manufacturing, and Taiwanese companies, through their China-based manufacturing and assembly operations, drive 60% of the IT... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
when treating the opponent’s campaign plan as given. Our formulation accounts for both the time cost of traveling between districts and the time expended while campaigning within districts. We describe a polynomial-time algorithm that View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
system is nearing exhaustion. Existing protocols allow only a finite set of computer numbers ("IP addresses"), and central authorities will soon deplete their supply. I evaluate a series of possible responses to this shortage:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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