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- 07 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Organizational Model for Open Source
foundations have been successful in garnering donations of hardware and equipment when needed, but do not have vast reserves to support legal expenses, travel, or conferences. However, since these foundations are primarily electronically... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 19 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 19
virtual currency including electronic payments. Since its inception in 2009 by an anonymous group of developers, Bitcoin has served tens of millions of transactions with total dollar value in the billions. Users have been drawn to Bitcoin... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
Electronics: TV in an Era of Convergence From the late 1990s to 2006/2007, Samsung Electronics moved from one of 170 TV manufacturers to gain dominant TV market share year over year from 2007 to 2013. As digital technologies increasingly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- November 2017
- Case
iRobot: Moving Beyond the Roomba
By: Rajiv Lal and Scott Johnson
The makers of the Roomba, a robotic vacuum cleaner, connected the latest version of their product to the Internet. This new feature opened up a wealth of new opportunities and challenges for the company. View Details
Keywords: Irobot; Smart Home; Connected Home; Roomba; Vacuum; Mapping; Internet Of Things; Connected Products; Organizational Structure; Organizational Design; Information Infrastructure; Applications and Software; Digital Platforms; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Electronics Industry; Electronics Industry; Electronics Industry; Electronics Industry; United States
Lal, Rajiv, and Scott Johnson. "iRobot: Moving Beyond the Roomba." Harvard Business School Case 518-055, November 2017.
- 05 Nov 2024
- Research & Ideas
AI Can Help Leaders Communicate, But Can't Make Employees Listen
efficient by automating busy leaders’ routine tasks—such as the electronic communication that takes 24 percent of a CEO’s time, studies show. In theory, this would allow the executive to devote more time to strategic planning, for... View Details
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
and fundamental to Kodak’s identity. In January 2016, Clarke and his executive team traveled to Las Vegas, Nevada, for the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) where the company unveiled a prototype of its new Super 8 camera—an analog... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
medical devices after they are approved by the appropriate regulatory authorities. Historically, such surveillance was based on voluntary reports by medical practitioners, but with the widespread adoption of electronic medical records and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
sectors, and if so, what causes such variation. In this study, we use network-based methods of analysis to define and measure the degree of hierarchy in two industry sectors in Japan: automotive and electronics. Our empirical results show that the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
study, they asked the subjects (all of whom were working on projects requiring creative effort) to fill out a daily electronic diary form that required numerical answers to questions about their work that day, as well as their emotions,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
for the Cambridge, Massachusetts, electronics technology company MC10, cofounded by Ben Schlatka (MBA 2005) and helmed by CEO David Icke (MBA 1994). At MC10, in partnership with Reebok, Kacyvenski led the development process for the... View Details
- 15 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Apple Pay’s Technology Adoption Problem
acknowledges. "But it electronically seems to do the same thing as a PIN code. And to the extent that the code goes into the existing payment network that's still not secure, have we really accomplished anything?" Can You Pay Me... View Details
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Evolving for Success [Part Two]
They require unprecedented cooperation. Arrow Electronics, for example, which is one of the world's largest electronics distributors, started Arrow.com to sell its own equipment over the Web. Arrow.com decided it was very different from... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 12 Sep 2019
- News
Skydeck Voices: Finding My Muse
beaches in San Diego that's where I live right now, or when I'm on the treadmill without any distractions of electronic media—just talking to myself. Scott Kabat: Scott Kabat, 1999. I do my best thinking away from work. I think I usually... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
a business landscape replete with possibilities, they select a single modern-day example -- the electronic computer -- as the focus of their study. Baldwin and Clark argue that the computer industry could not have experienced its... View Details
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”
called Uppercase; and the LiveBoard, a sophisticated workgroup interaction tool that was the basis for LiveWorks. The LiveBoard was a large electronic whiteboard with a sixty-seven-inch diagonal display that users could access or write on... View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough
- 17 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Protecting against the Pirates of Bollywood
release date. Doing so, however, would negate cost savings achieved by reusing film copies across staggered release dates. Studios could also limit a film's distribution to digital, not analog, screens, the copies tagged with electronic... View Details
- 25 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cyber-Marketing: Scouting the Digital Communications Frontier
Then, we saw the addition of a new dimension, interactivity—that is, the ability to take account of millions of individual consumer responses with the aid of electronic databases," he continues. "By using toll-free telephone... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- 15 Feb 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
Delivering Information Services: A 30-Year Perspective
sense customers' needs (by electronically monitoring their purchasing decisions) and respond to them (by integrating that information with the supply chain). EE: Do participants in the DIS course tend to come to HBS with a specific... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 05 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?
(Editor's Note: In a recent issue, Economic Sociology: The European Electronic Newsletter tackled the controversial issue of "commodification of the body." Harvard Business School professor Michel Anteby contributed the... View Details
- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
worldwide for exquisite design of consumer electronics products, strives to better integrate software design into its traditional physical product design processes to meet the demands of a post-iPod world. Details the Bang & Olufsen... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne