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  • 27 Feb 2007
  • First Look

First Look: February 27, 2007

Midway" within Microsoft, the console project was intended to counter the perceived threat to the Windows franchise posed by Sony expanding the original PlayStation into a broad entertainment platform with the PlayStation 2. Seamus... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • September – October 2008
  • Article

Care Platforms: A Basic Building Block for Care Delivery

By: Richard Bohmer and David Lawrence
Without significant operational reform within the nation's health care delivery organizations, new financing models, payment systems, or structures are unlikely to realize their promise. Adapting insights from high-performing companies in other high-risk, high-cost,... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Management Systems; Standards; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Business Processes; Organizational Design; Customization and Personalization; Health Industry
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Faculty & Advisors | MBA

capital fund that has been building an in-house AI platform for the past decade with $2B+ AUM. Prior to SignalFire, she was a product leader at CVS Health, where she launched nationwide prescription delivery and virtual care products, and... View Details

    Rosabeth M. Kanter

    Rosabeth Moss Kanter holds the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professorship at Harvard Business School, specializing in strategy, innovation, and leadership for change. Her strategic and practical insights guide leaders worldwide through teaching, writing, and direct... View Details

    Keywords: accounting industry; advertising; airline; apparel; arts; automobiles; banking; beauty products; beverage; biotechnology; broadcasting; chemical; clothing; communications; computer; consulting; consumer products; e-commerce industry; education industry; electrical equipment; electronics; entertainment; fashion; fast food; federal government; financial services; food; food processing; grocery; health care; high technology; hotels ＆ motels; industrial goods; information; information technology industry; insurance industry; internet; legal services; management consulting; manufacturing; medical supplies; nonprofit industry; oil ＆ gas; petroleum; pharmaceuticals; professional services; publishing industry; real estate; recreation; restaurant; retail financial services; retailing; semiconductor; soft drink; software; sports; state government; telecommunications; textiles; tourism; toy; transportation; travel; utilities; wine
    • 20 Jul 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    Markets or Communities? The Best Ways to Manage Outside Innovation

    nature of the innovation problem at hand, the motivation of the external developers, and the firm's platform business model. Depending on these factors, the outside innovation might be fed and managed either by creating collaborative... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology
    • 04 Feb 2014
    • Working Paper Summaries

    From Crowds to Collaborators: Initiating Effort and Catalyzing Interactions Among Online Creative Workers

    Keywords: by Kevin J. Boudreau, Patrick Gaule, Karim R. Lakhani, Christoph Riedl & Anita Williams Woolley

      Michael A. Wheeler

      Mike Wheeler joined the HBS faculty in 1993 and has taught extensively in its MBA, Executive, and distance learning programs. His highly interactive 8-week/40-hour HBS Online Negotiation... View Details

      Keywords: arts; construction; e-commerce industry; energy; federal government; green technology; internet; legal services; nonprofit industry; petroleum; pharmaceuticals; publishing industry; real estate; service industry; sports; state government; utilities
      • Web

      Placement - Doctoral

      Business Economics, 2023 Placement: Federal Reserve Board of Governors, Economist Dissertation: How the Price System Works: Evidence from Supply Chains and Price Controls Advisors: Xavier Gabaix , Edward Glaeser , Andrei Shleifer , and... View Details
      • October 2005 (Revised February 2007)
      • Case

      Red Flag Software Co.

      By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Tarun Khanna, David Lane and Elizabeth Raabe
      In 2005, just five years after its formal launch, Beijing-based Red Flag Software was the world's second-largest distributor of the Linux operating system and was expecting its first annual profit. On a unit basis, Red Flag led the world in desktops (PCs) shipped with... View Details
      Keywords: Digital Platforms; Competitive Advantage; Applications and Software; Business Startups; Globalized Markets and Industries; Information Technology Industry; Distribution Industry; Beijing; United States
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      • October 2023
      • Case

      CornerUp: Digitizing the Corner Store

      By: Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui, Stacy Straaberg and Diego Zainos De La Sota Riva
      In July 2023, Jason Diaz, co-founder and CEO of CornerUp, assessed the progress of his business-to-business e-procurement software application (app) startup, founded in January 2022. CornerUp began as a fast-moving consumer packaged goods (FMCG) distributor in New York... View Details
      Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Small Business; Transition; Decisions; Social Entrepreneurship; Geographic Location; Disruptive Innovation; Market Participation; Digital Platforms; Trust; Business Strategy; Expansion; Information Infrastructure; Internet and the Web; Technology Adoption; Value Creation; Technology Industry; United States
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      • 2009
      • Working Paper

      Capitalizing On Innovation: The Case of Japan

      By: Robert Dujarric and Andrei Hagiu

      Japan's industrial landscape is characterized by hierarchical forms of industry organization, which are increasingly inadequate in modern sectors, where innovation relies on platforms and horizontal ecosystems of firms producing complementary products. Using three... View Details

      Keywords: Globalized Markets and Industries; Government Legislation; Innovation and Invention; Industry Structures; Horizontal Integration; Vertical Integration; Manufacturing Industry; Japan
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      • May 2016 (Revised April 2018)
      • Case

      Building the Digital Manufacturing Enterprise of the Future at Siemens

      By: Willy Shih
      This case describes the motivation for and the development of Siemens' digital manufacturing enterprise vision, which became the foundation for its implementation of Industrie 4.0. While the effort started with a purely defensive move by Anton Huber, head of the... View Details
      Keywords: Big Data; Internet Of Things; Internet Of Everything; Industrie 4.0; Digital Factory; Digital Enterprise; Digital Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Production Management; Production Planning; Computer Software; Germany; German Manufacturing; Machinery and Machining; Information Technology; Digital Platforms; Technological Innovation; Production; Supply Chain; Applications and Software; Information Infrastructure; Internet and the Web; Analytics and Data Science; Manufacturing Industry; Germany
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      • 20 Apr 2009
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Corporate Misgovernance at the World Bank

      Keywords: by Ashwin Kaja & Eric Werker
      • 30 Jan 2024
      • Research & Ideas

      ‘Intrinsic Joy’ Sparks Ideas Better than Cash

      People use crowdsourcing to solve problems, raise money, and share AI breakthroughs, the authors write. Open source software—such as the popular content management system WordPress or the operating system... View Details
      Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology
      • 16 Apr 2019
      • First Look

      New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019

      including patients, physicians, employers, insurance companies, and the government need to recognize that value is best defined as “a given health outcome per dollar of cost expended.” In this article, we examine some of the challenges to creating and implementing a... View Details
      Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
      • 07 Oct 2015
      • HBS Seminar

      Ann Majchrzak, USC Marshall School of Business

      • February 2001
      • Case

      Sun Microsystems, Inc.: Solaris Strategy

      In the late 1990s, Sun Microsystems' Solaris has emerged as the dominant UNIX-based alternative to Microsoft for server operating systems. At the same time, the open source operating system Linux has appeared unexpectedly, and it is generating significant excitement... View Details
      Keywords: Digital Platforms; Competition; Open Source Distribution; Standards
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      • 16 Sep 2008
      • First Look

      First Look: September 16, 2008

      disaggregated "clusters" or "ecosystems" of firms has been widely recognized. But platforms and the systems in which they are embedded are very diverse. In particular, View Details
      • April 2013 (Revised October 2013)
      • Case

      National Instruments

      By: Lynda M. Applegate, Keri Pearlson and Natalie Kindred
      This case explores the use of social media to support product design, customer support, marketing and HR activities at National Instruments (NI). Based in Austin, Texas, with over $1 billion in 2011 sales, NI designs, produces, and sells software and hardware platforms... View Details
      Keywords: Organizational Structure; Applications and Software; Organizational Culture; Technological Innovation; Digital Platforms; Innovation and Management; Media; Management Systems; Social and Collaborative Networks; Information Technology Industry; Service Industry; Texas
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      • 26 Sep 2023
      • Research & Ideas

      Unpacking That Icky Feeling of 'Shopping' for Diverse Job Candidates

      the pseudonym ShopCo. Her ethnographic study of the company, which was regarded as progressive and engaged in DEI, is detailed in a new paper in the September issue of Administrative Science Quarterly. A progressive tech firm shuns a transactional View Details
      Keywords: by Kristen Senz