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Laura Mackay
(e.g., new delivery models, digital health, etc.) is front and center. The level of access to thought leaders in the community and alumni network, as well as to entrepreneurs and established companies driving the latest insights and... View Details
- 21 Nov 2013
- News
Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins
like push email with its BlackBerry Enterprise Server. This gave them a first-mover advantage, but as technology improved and data capabilities on wireless voice networks evolved rapidly and took off, the advantage turned to a burden with... 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.
- June 2022
- Article
The Welfare Effects of Peer Entry in the Accommodation Market: The Case of Airbnb and the Accommodation Industry
By: Chiara Farronato and Andrey Fradkin
We study the effects of enabling peer supply through Airbnb in the accommodation industry. We present a model of competition between flexible and dedicated sellers—peer hosts and hotels—who provide differentiated products. We estimate this model using data from major... View Details
Keywords: Peer To Peer; Airbnb; Digital Platforms; Market Entry and Exit; Competition; Accommodations Industry
Farronato, Chiara, and Andrey Fradkin. "The Welfare Effects of Peer Entry in the Accommodation Market: The Case of Airbnb and the Accommodation Industry." American Economic Review 112, no. 6 (June 2022): 1782–1817.
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Feedback
THE DIGITAL BULLETIN For a few years now, we've been asking how you like to read your Bulletin, and unsurprisingly, many of you have told us you'd love to have a tablet edition. We've listened to your comments and are excited to announce... View Details
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Catherine Yeo | MBA
a mobile game to learn new vocabulary, a task they struggled with in English classes. From that moment on, I recognized the power of technology in solving community problems. My experience organizing ten hackathons for 6,000+ young... View Details
Rob Gierkink
Rob (MBA 1991) has founded or co-founded six companies, with combined exits totaling more than $2.25 billion. He is an Executive in Residence at General Catalyst Partners where he principally invests in technology companies that work with... View Details
- 06 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 6, 2015
technology and improved digital communication have been explored in a variety of contexts, the impact on economic activity—from consumer and entrepreneurial behavior to the ways in which governments... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Michael Chen | MBA
Financial Services, Ed-Tech, Sustainability, Digital Health Formative experience at the intersection of technology and business: Having co-founded a healthcare startup that was funded by some of the most... View Details
- February 2024
- Teaching Note
UGG Steps into the Metaverse
By: Shunyuan Zhang and Sunil Gupta
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 523-013. View Details
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Faculty Research Online
investment managers and firms. See http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5648.html. Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer Apple’s iTunes music download service and illegal peer-to-peer (P2P) music downloads offer two contrasting... View Details
- May 2003 (Revised October 2003)
- Case
BEA Systems, Inc.: Constant Reinvention to Cope with Market Waves
Developed in 1995 as a specialist software vendor, BEA Systems, Inc. had already transformed itself twice from a transaction processing product company to a server application provider. By July 2002, it had become the fastest company in history to reach $1 billion in... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Digital Platforms; Business Growth and Maturation; Management Practices and Processes; Applications and Software; Entrepreneurship; Organizational Culture; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry
Sull, Donald N., Ramiro Montealegre, and Jeannette Dale. "BEA Systems, Inc.: Constant Reinvention to Cope with Market Waves." Harvard Business School Case 803-118, May 2003. (Revised October 2003.)
- Web
DEC - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
computer startups and the eventual rise of the personal computer. "[Doriot's] investment in Digital Equipment Corporation... was a daring one," Gupta notes, "not simply because it was contrarian, but because he saw the investment as a... View Details
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Ken Peterson | About
physical access and leveraging current and emerging technologies to provide digital access. In addition to experience in library administration, knowledge management, collection development, and access... View Details
- 13 Feb 2019
- News
We’re All Going to Get Hacked
evolving cyber threats. Rothrock lays out his solutions in his latest book, Digital Resilience: Is Your Company Ready for the Next Cyber Threat?, and we talk to him here about what that looks like in real terms—and why the C-suite should... View Details
- September 24, 2021
- Article
A Labor Movement for the Platform Economy
By: Li Jin, Scott Duke Kominers and Lila Shroff
Platforms are fundamentally changing the contract between workers and companies—and the workers and creatives that create value for platform companies, and rely on platforms for their livelihoods, often have little power when it comes to getting their concerns... View Details
Keywords: Gig Workers; Decentralized Collective Action; Internet and the Web; Labor; Labor and Management Relations; Digital Platforms
Jin, Li, Scott Duke Kominers, and Lila Shroff. "A Labor Movement for the Platform Economy." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (September 24, 2021).
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Say “Green Cheese”
HOUSENBOLD: Picture perfect. All over America, shoeboxes full of print photos are gathering dust. But hard copy is not dead: There’s a growing demand for homemade picture books and scrapbooks whose pages people can design online themselves and fill with their own View Details
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Litsa Kapsalis | MBA
bleeding-edge life science research with impactful business strategy. I would like to innovate both with the goal of developing new therapies and leveraging technological and digital health advancements to... View Details
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Dafna Bearson
phenomena—and make meaningful predictions in rapidly changing global markets. In particular, Dafna gravitated toward questions related to the challenges new automation and digital technologies pose to job... View Details