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  • 28 Aug 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Online Match-Making with Virtual Dates

current model is artificial and static, and far removed from everyday social interaction," says Jeana H. Frost, who along with Michael I. Norton and Dan Ariely is taking an academic look at online dating and how it can be improved.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Publishing
  • 2024
  • Working Paper

Contributing to Growth? The Role of Open Source Software for Global Startups

By: Nataliya Langburd Wright, Frank Nagle and Shane Greenstein
How does participating in open source software (OSS) communities spur entrepreneurial growth? To address this question, we analyze novel data matching accounts from GitHub—the largest OSS hosting platform—to the universe of global software venture-backed firms... View Details
Keywords: Applications and Software; Open Source Distribution; Entrepreneurship; Business Growth and Maturation; Human Capital; Valuation; Corporate Strategy
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  • 21 Dec 2015
  • Op-Ed

Without Immigrants, We Wouldn't Have Google

immigrants who have made innumerable contributions to the technological and economic success of the United States. Outsiders keep our commercial markets vital by offering perspectives that differ from the... View Details
Keywords: by Shane Greenstein; Information Technology
  • January–February 2019
  • Article

Why Some Platforms Thrive and Others Don't

By: Feng Zhu and Marco Iansiti
In the digital economy, scale is no guarantee of continued success. After all, the same factors that help an online platform expand quickly—such as the low cost of adding new customers—work for challengers too. What, then, allows platforms to fight off rivals and grow... View Details
Keywords: Digital Platforms; Competition; Network Effects; Competitive Strategy
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  • 19 Oct 2016
  • Book

Three Critical Mistakes Digital Businesses Make With Content

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail; Music

    The Comingled Code: Open Source and Economic Development

    Discussions of the economic impact of open source software often generate more heat than light. Advocates passionately assert the benefits of open source while critics decry its effects. Missing from the debate is rigorous economic analysis and systematic economic... View Details

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    Faculty & Research

    entrepreneurs find new and novel applications in digital technology, data science, and design thinking. All Initiatives & Projects There are no upcoming events. Recent Publications Using Satellites and Phones to Evaluate and Promote... View Details

      Robert Simons

      Robert Simons is a Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School. For over 35 years, Simons has taught accounting, management control, and strategy execution courses in both the Harvard MBA and Executive Education Programs. For 2024/25, he is teaching a... View Details

      • 2022
      • Book

      The Digital Mindset: What It Really Takes to Thrive in the Age of Data, Algorithms, and AI

      By: Paul Leonardi and Tsedal Neeley
      The pressure to "be digital" has never been greater, but you can meet the challenge. The digital revolution is here, changing how work gets done, how industries are structured, and how people from all walks of life work, behave, and relate to each other. To thrive... View Details
      Keywords: Digital; Artificial Intelligence; Big Data; Digital Transformation; Technological Innovation; Transformation; Learning; Competency and Skills
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      • 12 Jun 2006
      • Research & Ideas

      The Promise of Channel Stewardship

      "Kash" Rangan, distribution channels are the hardest to change of all the elements of marketing strategy. Clearly, companies need a new strategy for going to market, he says. In his new book... View Details
      Keywords: by V. Kasturi Rangan & Marie Bell; Consumer Products
      • 06 Nov 2000
      • Research & Ideas

      The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success

      venture funds with an external focus. These did not prove particularly successful, largely owing to disputes within the firm about appropriate investments. The task force, in member (and future XTV president) Robert Adams's words, rapidly "concluded that we needed... View Details
      Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
      • 14 May 2012
      • Research & Ideas

      Breaking the Smartphone Addiction

      work, no matter where they are. "Let's face it," writes HBS Professor Leslie Perlow. "When that phone buzzes, few of us have the mental fortitude to ignore it." In her new book, Sleeping With Your Smartphone, Perlow... View Details
      Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow
      • February 2011 (Revised November 2012)
      • Case

      Product Development at OPOWER

      By: Thomas Eisenmann and Rob Go
      OPOWER, a software startup that helps utilities engage their customers in ways that reduce energy consumption, is scaling rapidly. The company's new head of product management has designed a system to address a point of constant tension: whether to build custom... View Details
      Keywords: Business Startups; Customer Relationship Management; Entrepreneurship; Growth Management; Product Development; Sales; Customization and Personalization; Energy Conservation; Environmental Sustainability; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry
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      • 2001
      • Chapter

      Publicly Funded Science and the Productivity of the Pharmaceutical Industry

      By: Rebecca Henderson and Ian Cockburn
      U.S. taxpayers funded $14.8 billion of health related research last year, four times the amount that was spent in 1970 in real terms. In this paper we evaluate the impact of these huge expenditures on the technological performance of the pharmaceutical industry. While... View Details
      Keywords: Public Sector; Science-Based Business; Research and Development; Sovereign Finance; Pharmaceutical Industry
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      • 27 Sep 2011
      • First Look

      First Look: September 27

      for new products, services, and entire businesses. It may look like innovators are born, not made. But according to Jeffrey Dyer, Hal Gregersen, and Clay Christensen anyone can become more innovative. How? Master the discovery skills that... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 02 Nov 2015
      • News

      Dear Internet: You Are Extraordinary, But Not Exceptional

      • 29 May 2006
      • Research & Ideas

      Why CEOs Are Not Plug-and-Play

      "Is talent management portable?" That's the question asked and answered in a recent Harvard Business Review article discussing issues surrounding how top managers can transfer their skill sets to a new company. The... View Details
      Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Andrew N. McLean & Nitin Nohria; Employment
      • 22 Jul 2008
      • First Look

      First Look: July 22, 2008

      elements do not translate well from manufacturing and what challenges exist in a unique setting, such as this. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-001.pdf   Cases & Course MaterialsNew Schools for View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • 2023
      • Article

      Balancing Risk and Reward: An Automated Phased Release Strategy

      By: Yufan Li, Jialiang Mao and Iavor Bojinov
      Phased releases are a common strategy in the technology industry for gradually releasing new products or updates through a sequence of A/B tests in which the number of treated units gradually grows until full deployment or deprecation. Performing phased releases in a... View Details
      Keywords: Product Launch; Mathematical Methods; Product Development
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      • July–August 2016
      • Article

      The Decoupling Effect of Digital Disruptors

      By: Thales S. Teixeira and Peter Jamieson
      A new wave of Internet startups is disrupting established businesses by the process of “decoupling.” In this article, the authors discuss how these new digital disruptors allow consumers to benefit from one activity (e.g., watching shows) without incurring the cost of... View Details
      Keywords: Competition; Internet and the Web; Business Startups; Product Marketing; Customization and Personalization
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