Connected Speaker - Publications - Faculty & Research

February 2018
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Amazon, Google, and Apple: Smart Speakers and the Battle for the Connected Home

By: Rajiv Lal and Scott Johnson

Amazon, Google, and Apple all offer their own smart speaker. The devices represent each firm's entry point into the connected home market. All three companies come into the space with their own strengths and weaknesses. Who will win? View Details

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October 2019
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Street Symphony: Making Human Connections Through Music

By: Rohit Deshpandé

To Vijay Gupta, music was sacred. A highly accomplished and renowned violinist with The Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gupta believed the act of making and performing music was a deeply spiritual practice — one that had the power to heal audiences and musicians... View Details

Keywords: Arts; Cultural Entrepreneurship; Nonprofit Organizations; Social Issues; Business and Community Relations; Music Entertainment; Human Needs; Music Industry; Los Angeles; California; United States

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07 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 7, 2008

awareness. We use a network approach to demonstrate that the connections between two countries through joint-membership in the same IGOs are associated with a large positive influence on the foreign direct investment that flows between... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 Jun 2009
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effects on citation rates. Our findings suggest that subfields can increase the impact they have on the broader intellectual discourse by situating their phenomena in rich contexts that illuminate the connections between their findings... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

30 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

Your Crisis Response Plan: The Ten Effective Elements

location that can be rapidly converted to be used by the crisis response team. Requirements include the ability to rapidly connect many lines of communication, to have access to external media (TV coverage), to provide access to crisis... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Watkins

12 May 2021
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The Hard Truth About Being a CEO

critically important only up to a point [to employees], but the real motivation comes from an emotional connection that you feel—either that you are more highly valued than someone else because of the natural competitiveness of human... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

04 Feb 2002
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How To Do Business in Islamic Countries

Islamic finance and an emeritus professor of investment banking at Harvard Business School. Hayes, who continues to travel regularly to Islamic countries for research and consulting, offered advice to HBS students on January 23 as part of the school's post-September 11... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

21 Apr 2021
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The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now

connected rather than a series of disjointed monologues. “Before you raise a new topic, reiterate what you just heard or the previous point you plan to riff on—even ask the speaker whether you’ve... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Robin Abrahams, and Katherine Connolly Baden

21 Feb 2017
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“linguistic expats” who live in their home country yet have to give up their native language in the workplace; “cultural expats” or native speakers of the lingua franca who struggle with organizational values that are more easily... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

13 Jan 2021
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How 'Small C' Change Can Beat Large-Scale Rebuilding

should create an atmosphere of trust and confidence. 2. See leadership as teamwork and shared responsibility Flick is not a loud speaker and does not place himself in the foreground. Instead he believes that “professional soccer is not a... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Sascha L. Schmidt, and Sebastian Flegr; Sports

23 Mar 2021
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Succeeding in the New Work-from-Anywhere World

fatigue people feel from the technological environment, and always being connected through video chat. How can people minimize that? Neeley: Tech exhaustion is a symptom of us overusing video for meetings that are edge to edge and far too... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

20 Jan 2017
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Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

people he knows, but can he persuade Congress to act? If he’s a good communicator and good negotiator and good creator of shared value, he’ll figure out something that works for House Speaker Paul Ryan and for Senate Minority Leader Chuck... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese

29 Mar 2008
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Creativity, Entrepreneurship, and Organizations of the Future

what did your panel presenters and speakers identify as main themes in the colloquia's mission to "illuminate and deepen the connections between creativity, entrepreneurship and successful organizations... View Details

Keywords: by Teresa M. Amabile & Mukti Khaire

13 Mar 2014
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Can We Get To Where We Need To Go?

said. Speakers lamented the various infrastructure problems in the United States—congested roads, crumbling bridges, chronic airport delays, spotty wireless connections—and criticized the lack of investment in transportation and... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Transportation; Air Transportation; Auto

18 Apr 2005
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Prosper with Multi-Channel Retailing

opportunities, but also created challenges throughout their organizations. At the Multi-Channel Retail panel, speakers from three retail companies, all heavily invested in multi-channel selling, talked about how they were tailoring their... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette; Consumer Products; Retail

26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016

knowledge. We emphasize connections to the growing theoretical literature that gives personal plans a substantive role, but we conclude that more research is needed, especially on the latter two questions we cover. Publisher's link:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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