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- September 2015
- Technical Note
The On-Demand Economy
By: Cynthia A. Montgomery, James Weber and Elizabeth Anne Watkins
This note describes the emerging on-demand economy, also referred to as the sharing economy. The note highlights several companies including Uber and Airbnb that exemplify this new mode of competition, a model that threatens to disrupt traditional firms. Uber provides...
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Keywords:
Regulation;
Reform;
Disruption;
Disruptive Innovation;
Strategy;
Technological Innovation;
Labor;
Employment;
Working Conditions;
Human Capital;
Rights;
Organizational Design;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Service Industry
Montgomery, Cynthia A., James Weber, and Elizabeth Anne Watkins. "The On-Demand Economy." Harvard Business School Technical Note 716-405, September 2015.
- 16 Nov 1999
- Lessons from the Classroom
Leading Change and Organizational Renewal
A member of the Executive Education staff spoke recently with HBS Professors Michael Tushman and Charles O'Reilly, developers of the program Leading Change and Organizational Renewal. In that discussion they describe their thinking about the View Details
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by Staff
- 24 Mar 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
Free Riding in Loan Approvals: Evidence From SME Lending in Peru
- 04 Mar 2015
- News
Challenging the Rate of Digital Health Care
- 01 Aug 2011
- News
Immigrant Innovators: Job Stealers or Job Creators?
- Research Summary
Overview
According to McKinsey & Company, social interactions impact up to a third of all consumer purchases which accounts for US$940 billion in annual consumption in the US and Europe alone. Understanding social influence is important meeting consumer needs. In my research,...
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- 02 Jul 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
Inflation with COVID Consumption Baskets
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by Alberto Cavallo
- April 1988 (Revised January 1989)
- Case
Korea's Technology Strategy
Describes Korea's efforts to improve its technological capability and learn to produce and export high technology goods. The roles of government policy, domestic firms, and foreign firms are explored. Special attention is paid to how technology flows across borders,...
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Gomes-Casseres, Benjamin. "Korea's Technology Strategy." Harvard Business School Case 388-137, April 1988. (Revised January 1989.)
- 14 Oct 2011
- News
Steve Jobs, the Immediate Case Study
- 07 May 2014
- Video
Lisa Hall - Making A Difference
- Web
Placement - Doctoral
W. Buell, Rebecca Ratner, and John T. Gourville 2020 Dafna Goor Marketing, 2020 Placement: London Business School Dissertation: Branding in the New World: How Accessible Information, Social Media, and Changing Values Impact Symbolic...
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- December 1993 (Revised April 1994)
- Case
Polaroid: Managing Environmental Responsibilities and Their Costs
Costs relating to companies' impact on the environment are increasing at a dramatic rate. Thus, managing, measuring, and reporting of these costs has become an important issue for managers. Accounting for environmental responsibilities is one of the largest and most...
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Cost;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Accounting;
Environmental Sustainability
Barth, Mary E., Marc J. Epstein, and Richard D.R. Stark. "Polaroid: Managing Environmental Responsibilities and Their Costs." Harvard Business School Case 194-052, December 1993. (Revised April 1994.)
- October 2010 (Revised October 2011)
- Case
Polyface: The Farm of Many Faces
By: Deishin Lee and Stephanie van Sice
This case explores a method of value creation through exploiting synergies that exist in an environment where there is diversity. The context of the case is a farm where biodiversity is leveraged to create value. This is contrasted to industrial farming, which operates...
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Agribusiness;
Product Development;
Production;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Environmental Sustainability;
Value Creation;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
Lee, Deishin, and Stephanie van Sice. "Polyface: The Farm of Many Faces." Harvard Business School Case 611-001, October 2010. (Revised October 2011.)
- 27 Sep 2017
- Blog Post
Meet the Latino Student Association
Latin America and any student with professional or cultural interest in impacting the future of Latino leadership in the United States. We also promote the engagement of the Latino business community with Harvard Business School. We know...
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All Industries
- June 2017 (Revised October 2017)
- Case
Uber in 2017: One Bumpy Ride
By: Suraj Srinivasan, Jay W. Lorsch and Quinn Pitcher
Uber Technologies Inc., the popular ride-hailing company, entered 2017 having doubled its bookings in 2016 and achieving a valuation of nearly $70 billion, making it the largest venture capital-backed company in the world. Co-founder and CEO Travis Kalanick embodied...
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Governance;
Information Technology;
Transportation;
Venture Capital;
Organizational Culture;
Technology Industry;
Transportation Industry;
United States
Srinivasan, Suraj, Jay W. Lorsch, and Quinn Pitcher. "Uber in 2017: One Bumpy Ride." Harvard Business School Case 117-070, June 2017. (Revised October 2017.)
- 8:30 AM – 6:45 PM EDT, 15 Sep 2020
- Virtual Programming
Competing in the Age of AI and Digital Transformation
How are companies today using artificial intelligence (AI) to respond to business challenges? During this session, professors Karim Lakhani and Macro Iansiti, coauthors of the book Competing in the Age of AI: Strategy and Leadership When Algorithms and Networks Run the...
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- 2023
- Working Paper
Incentivizing Innovation in Open Source: Evidence from the GitHub Sponsors Program
By: Annamaria Conti, Vansh Gupta, Jorge Guzman and Maria P. Roche
Open source is key to innovation, but we know little about how to incentivize
it. In this paper, we examine the impact of a program providing monetary
incentives to motivate innovators to contribute to open source. The Sponsors
program was introduced by GitHub in...
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Keywords:
Open Source Distribution;
Innovation and Invention;
Motivation and Incentives;
Technology Industry
Conti, Annamaria, Vansh Gupta, Jorge Guzman, and Maria P. Roche. "Incentivizing Innovation in Open Source: Evidence from the GitHub Sponsors Program." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-014, September 2023. (NBER Working Paper Series, No. 31668, September 2023.)
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Management Accounting and Control: Lessons for and from the World's Tiniest Businesses
By: Srikant M. Datar, Marc J. Epstein and Kristi Yuthas
The article discusses skills microentrepreneurs need to manage and expand their businesses. After interviewing hundreds of microfinance clients around the globe, the authors were able to identify five tools drawn from management accounting where improved knowledge...
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Governance Controls;
Expansion;
Business or Company Management;
Microfinance;
Cost Management;
Risk Management;
Budgets and Budgeting;
Accounting;
Opportunities
Datar, Srikant M., Marc J. Epstein, and Kristi Yuthas. "Management Accounting and Control: Lessons for and from the World's Tiniest Businesses." Strategic Finance 91, no. 5 (November 2009).