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- 2021
- Working Paper
Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Case Histories of Significant Medical Advances
By: Srikant M. Datar, Amar Bhidé and Katherine Stebbins
We describe how and why Magnetic Resource Imaging (MRI) came to complement – and partially replace -- computed tomography (CT) imaging of soft tissue. Specifically we chronicle: 1) the development of foundational techniques and prototypes (through the 1970s); 2)...
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Keywords:
Health Care and Treatment;
Technological Innovation;
Innovation Strategy;
Technology Adoption;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Innovation and Invention;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
Datar, Srikant M., Amar Bhidé, and Katherine Stebbins. "Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Case Histories of Significant Medical Advances." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-001, July 2019. (Revised June 2021.)
- June 14, 2019
- Article
Social Media Should Be a Complement to Real Life. Not a Substitute
By: Arthur C. Brooks
Brooks, Arthur C. "Social Media Should Be a Complement to Real Life. Not a Substitute." Washington Post (June 14, 2019).
- 2019
- Working Paper
Migrant Inventors and the Technological Advantage of Nations
We investigate the relationship between the presence of migrant inventors and the dynamics of innovation in the migrants’ receiving countries. We find that countries are 25% to 50% more likely to gain advantage in patenting in certain technologies given a twofold...
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Keywords:
Innovation;
Migration;
Patent;
Immigration;
Innovation and Invention;
Patents;
Information Technology;
Knowledge Dissemination
Bahar, Dany, Prithwiraj Choudhury, and Hillel Rapoport. "Migrant Inventors and the Technological Advantage of Nations." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-119, May 2019.
- April 2019 (Revised June 2019)
- Case
Western Governors University: 10x Vision
By: William R. Kerr and Susie L. Ma
Western Governors University (WGU) was a nonprofit institution of higher education whose online learning model served more than 100,000 students in 2019 and was scaling rapidly. President Scott Pulsipher wanted to expand WGU’s reach to millions more with a plan called...
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Keywords:
Online Education;
Enrollment;
Scaling;
Higher Education;
Internet and the Web;
Business Model;
Expansion;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Education Industry;
United States
Kerr, William R., and Susie L. Ma. "Western Governors University: 10x Vision." Harvard Business School Case 819-093, April 2019. (Revised June 2019.)
- Article
Platform Competition: Betfair and the U.K. Market for Sports Betting
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Neil Campbell
We examine two episodes of strategic interaction in the U.K. betting industry: (i) Betfair (an entrant multi-sided platform or MSP) vs. Flutter (also an MSP) and (ii) Betfair vs. traditional bookmakers. We find that although Betfair was an underfunded second mover in...
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Keywords:
Platform Design;
Betting;
Complements;
Competing Business Models;
Co-opetition;
Entry;
Multi-Sided Platforms;
Design;
Network Effects;
Business Model;
Competition;
Cooperation
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Neil Campbell. "Platform Competition: Betfair and the U.K. Market for Sports Betting." Special Issue on Platforms. Journal of Economics & Management Strategy 28, no. 1 (Spring 2019): 29–40.
- March 2019
- Supplement
Fair Value Accounting at Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (B)
By: Jonas Heese, Suraj Srinivasan and Francois Brochet
This case serves as a complement to the case "Fair Value Accounting at Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. (A)".
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Heese, Jonas, Suraj Srinivasan, and Francois Brochet. "Fair Value Accounting at Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 119-090, March 2019.
- Article
Product Quality and Entering Through Tying: Experimental Evidence
By: Hyunjin Kim and Michael Luca
Dominant platform businesses often develop products in adjacent markets to complement their core business. One common approach used to gain traction in these adjacent markets has been to pursue a tying strategy. For example, Microsoft pre-installed Internet Explorer...
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Keywords:
Tying;
Platform Strategy;
Google;
Product;
Quality;
Digital Platforms;
Strategy;
Market Entry and Exit
Kim, Hyunjin, and Michael Luca. "Product Quality and Entering Through Tying: Experimental Evidence." Management Science 65, no. 2 (February 2019): 596–603.
- January 2019
- Article
The ABCs of Financial Education: Experimental Evidence on Attitudes, Behavior, and Cognitive Biases
By: Fenella Carpena, Shawn A. Cole, Jeremy Shapiro and Bilal Zia
This paper uses a large-scale field experiment in India to study attitudinal, behavioral, and cognitive constraints that can stymie the link between financial education and financial outcomes. The study complements financial education with (1) financial incentives on a...
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Carpena, Fenella, Shawn A. Cole, Jeremy Shapiro, and Bilal Zia. "The ABCs of Financial Education: Experimental Evidence on Attitudes, Behavior, and Cognitive Biases." Management Science 65, no. 1 (January 2019): 346–369.
- November 2018
- Case
Yatooq: Longing for Arabic Coffee
By: Mark Roberge, Gamze Yucaoglu and Samer Al-Rachedy
As one of the few female entrepreneurs in Saudi Arabia, Lateefa Alwaalan had been trying to produce the perfect cup of Arabic coffee for over a decade. In 2007, she began testing various coffee blends, which she later branded Yatooq, the Arabic word for “craving” or...
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurial Sales;
Entrepreneurial Selling;
Entrepreneurial Marketing;
Barrier To Entry;
Business Start-ups;
Yatooq;
Entrepreneurship;
Private Sector;
For-Profit Firms;
Business Strategy;
Patents;
Business Startups;
Strategic Planning;
Competitive Strategy;
Adaptation;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Corporate Strategy;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Saudi Arabia;
Asia
Roberge, Mark, Gamze Yucaoglu, and Samer Al-Rachedy. "Yatooq: Longing for Arabic Coffee." Harvard Business School Case 819-075, November 2018.
- 2018
- Working Paper
Product Quality and Entering Through Tying: Experimental Evidence
By: Michael Luca
Dominant platform businesses often develop products in adjacent markets to complement their core business. One common approach used to gain traction in these adjacent markets has been to pursue a tying strategy. For example, Microsoft pre-installed Internet Explorer...
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Keywords:
Market Entry and Exit;
Digital Platforms;
Competitive Strategy;
Product Marketing;
Quality
Kim, Hyunjin, and Michael Luca. "Product Quality and Entering Through Tying: Experimental Evidence." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-045, October 2018. (Revised December 2018. Forthcoming in Management Science.)
- 2018
- Working Paper
Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 5 Complementarity
The purpose of this chapter is to relate the theory of task networks and technology set forth in previous chapters to theories of firm boundaries from economics and management. Complementary goods have more value when used together than separately. Complementarity may...
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Keywords:
Complementarity
Baldwin, Carliss Y. "Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 5 Complementarity." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-036, October 2018.
- August 2018
- Background Note
Note on Hackathons
By: Ethan Bernstein
Organizations have often sought to meet the pressures of rapid change through novel ways of managing human capital to boost innovation and productivity. Hackathons have emerged as one of the latest approaches to do just that. How can those responsible for managing...
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Keywords:
Hackathon;
Crowdsourcing;
Hack;
Innovation;
Productivity;
Minimum Viable Product;
Time;
Transparency;
Bootcamp;
Design;
Entrepreneurship;
Human Resources;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Innovation and Management;
Management;
Organizational Structure;
Performance Productivity;
Technology;
Technology Industry
Bernstein, Ethan. "Note on Hackathons." Harvard Business School Background Note 419-021, August 2018.
- Article
Divided We Lead: CEO Activism Has Entered the Mainstream
By: Aaron K. Chatterji and Michael W. Toffel
Leaders in all sectors, from business to sports to education, are increasingly wading into controversial political and social issues. Based on interviews with leaders who have made activism part of their core activities, we found that they feel compelled to address...
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Chatterji, Aaron K., and Michael W. Toffel. "Divided We Lead: CEO Activism Has Entered the Mainstream." Special Issue on HBR Big Idea: Leadership in a Hot-Button World. Harvard Business Review (website) (March–April 2018).
- Article
Mitigating Bias in Adaptive Data Gathering via Differential Privacy
By: Seth Neel and Aaron Leon Roth
Data that is gathered adaptively—via bandit algorithms, for example—exhibits bias. This is true both when gathering simple numeric valued data—the empirical means kept track of by stochastic bandit algorithms are biased downwards—and when gathering more complicated...
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Neel, Seth, and Aaron Leon Roth. "Mitigating Bias in Adaptive Data Gathering via Differential Privacy." Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 35th (2018).
- 2017
- Working Paper
Intermediation in the Supply of Agricultural Products in Developing Economies
By: Kris J. Ferreira, Joel Goh and Ehsan Valavi
Problem Definition: Farmers face several challenges in agricultural supply chains in emerging economies that contribute to extreme levels of poverty. One common challenge is that farmers only have access to one channel, often an auction, for which to sell their crops....
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Keywords:
Developing Countries;
Agricultural Supply Chain;
Intermediation;
Multiple Cahnels;
Walrasian Auction;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Supply Chain;
Distribution Channels;
Profit;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
Ferreira, Kris J., Joel Goh, and Ehsan Valavi. "Intermediation in the Supply of Agricultural Products in Developing Economies." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-033, October 2017.
- September 2017 (Revised February 2023)
- Case
Intermountain Healthcare: Pursuing Precision Medicine
By: Richard G. Hamermesh, Kathy E. Giusti, Robert S. Huckman and Julia Kelley
Headquartered in Salt Lake City, Intermountain Healthcare operates 23 hospitals and hundreds of clinics in Utah and Idaho and provides insurance to approximately 850,000 patients through its insurance arm, SelectHealth. In 2013, Intermountain, known for its commitment...
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Keywords:
Precision Medicine;
Healthcare;
Innovation;
Cancer;
Cancer Research;
Health Care;
Technology;
Health Care and Treatment;
Innovation Leadership;
Disruptive Innovation;
Entrepreneurship;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Health Industry;
Insurance Industry;
Utah;
United States;
North America
Hamermesh, Richard G., Kathy E. Giusti, Robert S. Huckman, and Julia Kelley. "Intermountain Healthcare: Pursuing Precision Medicine." Harvard Business School Case 818-018, September 2017. (Revised February 2023.)
- 2017
- Working Paper
Nowcasting the Local Economy: Using Yelp Data to Measure Economic Activity
By: Edward L. Glaeser, Hyunjin Kim and Michael Luca
Can new data sources from online platforms help to measure local economic activity? Government datasets from agencies such as the U.S. Census Bureau provide the standard measures of economic activity at the local level. However, these statistics typically appear only...
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Glaeser, Edward L., Hyunjin Kim, and Michael Luca. "Nowcasting the Local Economy: Using Yelp Data to Measure Economic Activity." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-022, September 2017. (Revised October 2017.)
- 2016
- Article
The Federal Reserve's Balance Sheet as a Financial-Stability Tool
By: Robin Greenwood, Samuel Gregory Hanson and Jeremy C. Stein
We argue that the Federal Reserve should use its balance sheet to help reduce a key threat to financial stability: the tendency for private-sector financial intermediaries to engage in excessive amounts of maturity transformation—i.e., to finance risky assets using...
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Greenwood, Robin, Samuel Gregory Hanson, and Jeremy C. Stein. "The Federal Reserve's Balance Sheet as a Financial-Stability Tool." Jackson Hole Economic Symposium Conference Proceedings (Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City) (2016): 335–397.
- December 2016 (Revised January 2017)
- Supplement
Accounting for the iPhone Upgrade Program (B)
By: Jonas Heese, Krishna G. Palepu, H. David Sherman and Monica Baraldi
In October 2016, Apple Inc. announced the financial results for its fiscal year 2016. CEO Tim Cook commented on a very successful fiscal year 2016 and focused on all the positive financial results. However, Apple’s 2016 annual report was also telling another story....
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Heese, Jonas, Krishna G. Palepu, H. David Sherman, and Monica Baraldi. "Accounting for the iPhone Upgrade Program (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 117-039, December 2016. (Revised January 2017.)
- October 2016
- Supplement
Moshe Kahlon: Telecommunications Reform and Competition in Israel's Cellular Market (B)
By: Joshua Margolis, Amram Migdal and Kerry Herman
The case complements “Moshe Kahlon: Telecommunications Reform and Competition in Israel’s Cellular Market (A),” HBS case number 417-017, which addresses reforms to regulations in Israel’s telecommunications industry initiated and implemented under the leadership of...
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Keywords:
Market Reform;
Political Leadership;
Industry Regulation;
Regulatory Reforms;
Economic Sectors;
Private Sector;
Public Sector;
Values and Beliefs;
Ethics;
Geography;
Geopolitical Units;
Country;
Government and Politics;
Government Administration;
Government Legislation;
Leadership;
Leadership Style;
Leading Change;
Market Design;
Market Participation;
Duopoly and Oligopoly;
Supply and Industry;
Industry Structures;
Telecommunications Industry;
Communications Industry;
Public Administration Industry;
Israel
Margolis, Joshua, Amram Migdal, and Kerry Herman. "Moshe Kahlon: Telecommunications Reform and Competition in Israel's Cellular Market (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 417-018, October 2016.