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- March 2022
- Teaching Note
SoundCloud: Subscription Streaming?
By: Andy Wu and Ashish Nanda
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 719-430
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- March 2022
- Teaching Note
Skillz: Esports and Skill-Based Mobile Gaming
By: Andy Wu
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 721-358.
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- March 2022
- Teaching Note
EbonyLife Media
By: Andy Wu
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 722-372.
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- Article
More-Experienced Entrepreneurs Have Bigger Deadline Problems
By: Andy Wu, Aticus Peterson and Amy Meeker
Professor Andy Wu and doctoral candidate Aticus Peterson of Harvard Business School tracked 314 entrepreneurs who launched multiple technology hardware products on the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter from September 2010 to June 2019. The more projects the founders...
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- February 9, 2022
- Article
What's the Optimal Workplace for Your Organization?
By: Maria P. Roche and Andy Wu
More than two years in the COVID-19 pandemic, companies are struggling with how to reimagine their workspaces for their strategic needs. Too often, leaders push the decision down the road when, in fact, taking decisive action now can pay off later. But how do you...
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- January 2022
- Article
Artificial Intelligence, Data-Driven Learning, and the Decentralized Structure of Platform Ecosystems
By: David R. Clough and Andy Wu
Gregory, Henfridsson, Kaganer, and Kyriakou (2020) highlight the important role of data and AI as strategic resources that platforms may use to enhance user value. However, their article overlooks a significant conceptual distinction: the installed base of...
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- December 2021 (Revised February 2022)
- Case
Optimus Ride
By: Andy Wu, Gonzalo Eyzaguirre and Jane Sima
- December 2021
- Article
Entrepreneurial Learning and Strategic Foresight
By: Aticus Peterson and Andy Wu
We study how learning by experience across projects affects an entrepreneur's strategic foresight. In a quantitative study of 314 entrepreneurs across 722 crowdfunded projects supplemented with a program of qualitative interviews, we counterintuitively find that...
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- November 2021 (Revised April 2022)
- Case
EbonyLife Media (A)
Founded by Mosunmola “Mo” Abudu in 2012 with a mission to bring high-quality African stories to the world, EbonyLife was the company behind many of Nigeria’s biggest films and TV shows. The company began as a television channel on the Africa-wide direct broadcast...
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- November 2021 (Revised December 2021)
- Supplement
EbonyLife Media (B)
- October 19, 2021
- Article
The Facebook Trap
By: Andy Wu
Facebook has a clear mission: Connect everyone in the world. Clarity is good, but in Facebook’s case, it has also put the company in a bind because the mission—and the company’s vision for creating value through network effects—has also become the source of its biggest...
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- October 2021
- Article
Board Design and Governance Failures at Peer Firms
By: Shelby Gai, J. Yo-Jud Cheng and Andy Wu
Our study introduces board committees as a crucial determinant of board actions. We examine how directors who structurally link different board committees—referred to as multi-committee directors (MCDs)—explain why some board actions are merely symbolic while others...
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- August 2021
- Case
Zoom Video Communications: Building a Culture of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion During COVID-19
By: Karen G. Mills, Scott Duke Kominers, Christopher Stanton, Andy Wu, George Gonzalez and Gabriella Elanbeck
Keywords:
Diversity Management;
Diversity Training;
Cultural Change;
Cultural Diversity;
Inclusion;
Inclusive Growth;
Inclusive Hiring;
Hiring;
Hiring Of Employees;
Recruiting;
Performance Management;
Change Leadership;
Race And Ethnicity;
Racial Bias;
Racial Disparity;
Racial Injustice;
Racial Tensions;
Racism;
Organization;
Organization Process;
Organization Structure;
Structural/institutional Racism;
Leadership And Change Management;
Leadership And Managing People;
Leading;
Gender Bias;
Discrimination;
Inequalities;
Inequality;
Social Change;
Employee Attitude Development And Empowerment;
Employee Bonding;
Employee Empowerment;
Employee Engagement;
Employee Fairness;
Employee Morale;
Employee Performance Management;
Employee Relations;
Company Culture;
Company Values;
Values;
COVID-19 Pandemic;
Demographics;
Diversity;
Age;
Ethnicity;
Gender;
Business Processes;
Change Management;
Change;
Race;
Human Capital;
Human Resources;
Compensation and Benefits;
Employees;
Employee Relationship Management;
Recruitment;
Retention;
Selection and Staffing;
Jobs and Positions;
Job Interviews;
Leadership;
Leading Change;
Management;
Management Teams;
Business or Company Management;
Crisis Management;
Goals and Objectives;
Growth and Development;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Growth Management;
Management Style;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Culture;
Organizational Design;
Organizational Structure;
Organizations;
Mission and Purpose;
Culture;
Happiness;
Prejudice and Bias;
Satisfaction;
Equity;
Identity;
Leadership Style;
Values and Beliefs;
Technology Industry;
United States
- Article
Sizing Up Entrepreneurial Potential: Gender Differences in Communication and Investor Perceptions of Long-Term Growth and Scalability
By: Laura Huang, Priyanka D. Joshi, Cheryl J. Wakslak and Andy Wu
Female entrepreneurs have been found to face disadvantages as compared with male entrepreneurs, especially in acquiring the financial resources they need to sustain and grow their ventures. Across three studies, we examine how disparities in funding outcomes may be due...
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- May 2021 (Revised June 2021)
- Case
Zoom Video Communications vs. Microsoft Teams
By: Andy Wu
In June 2021, Zoom executives prepared for competition in the post-pandemic world. Zoom‘s breakthrough success in the previous year put the company in a position to set up many new opportunities going forward. At the same time, its success attracted competitors like...
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