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Georges F. Doriot: Educating Leaders, Building Companies
Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership... View Details
- August 2010 (Revised August 2011)
- Case
Developing an App for That
By: Hanna Halaburda, Joshua Gans and Nathaniel Burbank
At a time when ever-rising smartphone sales are driven as much by demand for devices that run must-have third-party "apps" as by the quality of traditional voice and data services, there is a myriad of challenges facing the software developer who is looking to choose... View Details
Keywords: Product Development; Competitive Strategy; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Applications and Software; Digital Platforms; Banking Industry; Information Technology Industry
Halaburda, Hanna, Joshua Gans, and Nathaniel Burbank. "Developing an App for That." Harvard Business School Case 711-415, August 2010. (Revised August 2011.)
- March 2018 (Revised July 2018)
- Case
Cadre
By: Thomas R. Eisenmann, Scott Duke Kominers and David Lane
Late in 2017, CEO Ryan Williams and his team debated whether Cadre should become not only a technology-enabled investment manager, but also an online trading exchange providing high levels of liquidity for investors in commercial real estate (CRE) equity. Cadre was a... View Details
- August 2013
- Technical Note
Raising the Level of Abstraction
By: Willy Shih
This technical note discusses abstraction as a way of generalizing a process or component for wider application. By hiding complexity inside a module, abstraction enables system designers to think at a higher level. This lowers entry barriers to using (and reusing) a... View Details
Keywords: Abstraction; Modularity; Commercialization; Information Technology; Information Infrastructure; Information Technology; Applications and Software; Digital Platforms; United States; Asia; Europe
Shih, Willy. "Raising the Level of Abstraction." Harvard Business School Technical Note 614-019, August 2013.
- February 2010 (Revised March 2012)
- Case
Harvard Business School Executive Education: Balancing Online and Offline Marketing
By: John A. Deighton and Leora Kornfeld
How does a small business set its online media budget? The HBS Executive Education Division can be viewed as a small-to-medium sized business unit with annual revenues of $107 million. As we watch it change its culture, practices, and organization from offline to... View Details
Keywords: Transition; Marketing Strategy; Budgets and Budgeting; Technology Adoption; Digital Marketing; Resource Allocation; Information Technology Industry
Deighton, John A., and Leora Kornfeld. "Harvard Business School Executive Education: Balancing Online and Offline Marketing." Harvard Business School Case 510-091, February 2010. (Revised March 2012.) (request a courtesy copy.)
- November 1999 (Revised June 2000)
- Case
VerticalNet (www.verticalnet.com)
By: Das Narayandas
VerticalNet, a leading creator of targeted business-to-business vertical trade communities on the Internet, is trying to expand its model to facilitate e-commerce. Mark Walsh, the CEO of VerticalNet, has to decide how far he can extend the firm's business model without... View Details
Narayandas, Das. "VerticalNet (www.verticalnet.com)." Harvard Business School Case 500-041, November 1999. (Revised June 2000.)
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
September 2018 Strategy Science Applying Random Coefficient Models to Strategy Research: Identifying and Exploring Firm Heterogeneous Effects By: Alcácer, Juan, Wilbur Chung, Ashton Hawk, and Gonçalo... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 7
PublicationsTransnational Management: Text, Cases and Readings in Cross-Border Management Authors:Christopher A. Bartlett and Paul W. Beamish Publication:Irwin/McGraw-Hill, 2011 Abstract Transnational Management focuses on the management challenges associated with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Hackathons Help Decide Platform Winners and Losers
tremendous way for developers to learn quickly, and for both developers and technology companies to reap real benefits.” About the author Michael Blanding is a writer based in Boston. [Image: gorodenkoff] Related Reading 6 Ways That Emerging Technology Is Disrupting... View Details
- 12 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53200 September–October 2017 Harvard Business Review Managing Our Hub Economy: Strategy, Ethics, and Network Competition in the Age of Digital Superpowers By: Iansiti, Marco, and Karim R.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
Case Study: Mind the Gap
platform, signing partnerships with software houses (70 and counting), and creating a digital fingerprint for each engineer—incorporating a mix of professional competencies and a person’s psychometric profile. Meanwhile the founders are... View Details
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Archival Collections - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
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A Marketing Revolution - The Art of American Advertising
Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
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William Fung: E-Commerce and Efficiency
Ask fund managers covering the Hong Kong market about smart technology plays in these days of crashing dot-coms and you’re likely to hear one company name repeated often. Li & Fung has become the firm to watch for post-frenzy investors. Stock pickers say the trading... View Details
- 28 May 2019
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Broken Link
internet was in the computer lab,” Marwell says, “and it was really hard for teachers to integrate technology into their curriculums.” While the American economy was being transformed by 21st-century high-speed internet, Wi-Fi, and a profusion of new View Details
- 01 Nov 2016
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First Look - November 1, 2016
with key players from the frontlines of digital change, The Content Trap aims to reorient strategy and offers lessons for businesses, entrepreneurs, and individuals trying to figure out what to do next.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 May 2011
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First Look: May 17
reflected both home country subsidies for wind energy and strong local content policies, while successful firms pursued successful strategies to acquire technologies and develop their own capabilities. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016
Sky Lucas (MBA 1983) and Jeff Hamer (Amazon Digital Services) The authors, two stock-market veterans, share their hard-won wisdom through entertaining and insightful tales about the cruel world of stocks, money management, and irrational... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
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OPM Celebrates 21st Anniversary at Gala Florida Reunion
Discussing examples of how service-oriented organizations deliver breakthrough service, Sasser urged his audience to take a "quantum leap" in their customer satisfaction efforts and to develop strategies to prevent customers from... View Details