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- November 1996 (Revised September 1997)
- Case
BancZero New Product Development
By: Marco Iansiti and Alberto Moel
The Mexico City office of a large U.S. bank is asked by clients to develop currency swaps, a derivative financial product. This case deals with the new product development process in financial services, and the problems and issues that are raised in product development...
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Keywords:
Product Development;
Banks and Banking;
Financial Instruments;
Situation or Environment;
Problems and Challenges;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Volatility;
Banking Industry;
Mexico City;
United States
Iansiti, Marco, and Alberto Moel. "BancZero New Product Development." Harvard Business School Case 697-044, November 1996. (Revised September 1997.)
- Web
Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
Research Research Invisible Primes: Fintech Lending with Alternative Data By: Marco Di Maggio, Dimuthu Ratnadiwakara & Don Carmichael MAR 2022 Will the use of alternative data to assess borrowers’ creditworthiness result in broader credit...
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- 2023
- Working Paper
The Seeds of Ideology: Historical Immigration and Political Preferences in the United States
By: Paola Giuliano and Marco Tabellini
We study the long run effects of immigration on American political ideology. Exploiting cross-county variation in the presence of European immigrants between 1900 and 1930, we establish a novel result: historical European immigration is associated with stronger...
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Keywords:
Political Ideology;
Preferences For Redistribution;
Cultural Transmission;
Immigration;
History;
Values and Beliefs;
Welfare;
United States
Giuliano, Paola, and Marco Tabellini. "The Seeds of Ideology: Historical Immigration and Political Preferences in the United States." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-118, May 2020. (Revised June 2023. Revise and resubmit at the Journal of the European Economic Association. Available also from VOX, UCLA Anderson Review, Weekendavisen, Cato Institute, Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER), World Financial Review, and Newsweek.)
- November 1999
- Case
Lucent Technologies: Optical Networking Group
By: Marco Iansiti and Barbara Feinberg
Set in June 1999, this case describes the development of a new platform product, the Wavestar OLS 400G, that responded both to a demand for greater "bandwidth" and aggressive competitors seeking to supply it. The 400G's development process took only 14 months and...
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Keywords:
Customers;
Operations;
Product Development;
Performance Improvement;
Information Technology;
Information Infrastructure
Iansiti, Marco, and Barbara Feinberg. "Lucent Technologies: Optical Networking Group." Harvard Business School Case 600-053, November 1999.
- 21 Dec 2015
- News
Why the NFL gets a failing grade at Harvard Business School
- June 2023
- Supplement
Clash of Two Giants Simulation Exercise
By: Feng Zhu and Marco Iansiti
Many markets are organized around platforms that connect consumers with complementary applications and services. These platforms are two-sided because both sides - consumers and those providing applications or services - need access to the same platform to interact. A...
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- Web
Media Coverage - Managing the Future of Work
Media Coverage Media Coverage 01 May 2024 Chief Investment Officer Working Past 65 Redefines Portfolios and Retirement Re: Joseph Fuller Play 26 Apr 2024 Harvard Business School Behind the Research: Marco Tabellini Re: View Details
- Article
Digital Ubiquity: How Connections, Sensors, and Data Are Revolutionizing Business
By: Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani
When Google bought Nest, a maker of digital thermostats, for $3.2 billion just a few months ago, it was a clear indication that digital transformation and connection are spreading across even the most traditional industrial segments and creating a staggering array of...
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Keywords:
Digital Innovation;
Digitization;
Industrial Internet;
Technological Innovation;
Production;
Competitive Strategy;
Engineering;
Aerospace Industry
Iansiti, Marco, and Karim R. Lakhani. "Digital Ubiquity: How Connections, Sensors, and Data Are Revolutionizing Business." Harvard Business Review 92, no. 11 (November 2014): 90–99.
- January 2013 (Revised April 2013)
- Case
Microsoft Server & Tools
By: Marco Iansiti and Alain Serels
In 2011, Microsoft's Server & Tools Business (STB) was large, fast growing and highly profitable on the strength of traditional packaged product lines led by the Windows Server operating system. Even as the current packaged business was performing exceptionally well,...
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Keywords:
Technology;
Computing;
Enterprise Computing;
Servers;
Cloud Computing;
Microsoft;
Technology Evolution;
Technological Innovation;
Disruptive Innovation;
Information Technology;
Information Technology Industry
Iansiti, Marco, and Alain Serels. "Microsoft Server & Tools." Harvard Business School Case 613-031, January 2013. (Revised April 2013.)
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
How Artificial Intelligence is Changing Business
Karim Lakhani and Marco Iansiti (photos by Susan Young; Getty Images) Karim Lakhani and Marco Iansiti (photos...
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Susan Young
- May 2020
- Article
How Quantitative Easing Works: Evidence on the Refinancing Channel
By: Marco Di Maggio, Amir Kermani and Christopher Palmer
We document the transmission of large-scale asset purchases by the Federal Reserve to the real economy using rich borrower-linked mortgage-market data and an identification strategy based on mortgage market segmentation. We find that central bank QE1 MBS purchases...
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Keywords:
Monetary Policy;
MBS;
Quantitative Easing;
LSAP;
Refinancing;
Deleveraging;
HARP;
GSE;
Central Banking;
Global Range;
Financing and Loans;
Credit;
United States
Di Maggio, Marco, Amir Kermani, and Christopher Palmer. "How Quantitative Easing Works: Evidence on the Refinancing Channel." Review of Economic Studies 87, no. 3 (May 2020): 1498–1528.
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Business, Government & the International Economy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
British Empire (Alfred A. Knopf, 2022) was selected for the 2022 Books of the Year by History Today. Caroline M. Elkins: Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire (Alfred A. Knopf, 2022) was selected for the 2022 Books of the...
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- October 2021 (Revised May 2023)
- Case
Project Maji: Pricing Water in Sub-Saharan Africa
By: Elie Ofek, Marco Bertini, Dilyana Karadzhova Botha and Esel Çekin
In July 2021, Sunil Lalvani, founder and CEO of Project Maji, a non-profit social enterprise headquartered in Dubai that had already provided sustainable, clean water solutions to 80,000 people living in rural communities across Ghana and Kenya, was facing an important...
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Keywords:
Water;
Pricing;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Projects;
Price;
Decision Making;
Social Enterprise;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Equity;
Green Technology;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Africa;
Dubai
Ofek, Elie, Marco Bertini, Dilyana Karadzhova Botha, and Esel Çekin. "Project Maji: Pricing Water in Sub-Saharan Africa." Harvard Business School Case 522-043, October 2021. (Revised May 2023.)
- 2023
- Working Paper
Local Shocks and Internal Migration: The Disparate Effects of Robots and Chinese Imports in the U.S.
By: Marius Faber, Andres Sarto and Marco Tabellini
Do local labor markets adjust to economic shocks through migration? In this paper, we study this question by focusing on two of the most important shocks that hit U.S. manufacturing since the 1990s: Chinese import competition and the introduction of industrial robots....
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Faber, Marius, Andres Sarto, and Marco Tabellini. "Local Shocks and Internal Migration: The Disparate Effects of Robots and Chinese Imports in the U.S." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-071, December 2019. (Revised February 2023. Also appears in HBS Working Knowledge. Longer NBER working paper version here.)
- April 2014 (Revised March 2015)
- Case
GE and the Industrial Internet
By: Karim R. Lakhani, Marco Iansiti and Kerry Herman
CEO Jeff Immelt considers whether GE is moving fast enough on its new Industrial Internet initiative. The undertaking includes building out an Industrial Internet, connecting machines and devices, collecting their data and operations, and providing services to clients...
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Keywords:
Technology;
Operations Management;
Strategy;
Big Data;
Business Analysis;
Corporate Strategy;
Digital Technology;
Digital Innovation;
General Management;
General Strategy;
Global Competitiveness;
Global Strategy;
Innovation;
Innovation And Management;
Industrial Internet;
GE;
Innovation and Invention;
Information Technology;
Analytics and Data Science;
Air Transportation Industry;
Energy Industry;
Health Industry;
Industrial Products Industry;
Information Technology Industry;
Manufacturing Industry;
Medical Devices and Supplies Industry;
Rail Industry;
Transportation Industry;
Technology Industry;
North and Central America;
Asia;
Europe;
Middle East;
Latin America
Lakhani, Karim R., Marco Iansiti, and Kerry Herman. "GE and the Industrial Internet." Harvard Business School Case 614-032, April 2014. (Revised March 2015.)
- 2017
- Working Paper
The Importance of Unemployment Insurance as an Automatic Stabilizer
By: Marco Di Maggio and Amir Kermani
We assess the extent to which unemployment insurance (UI) serves as an automatic stabilizer to mitigate the economy's sensitivity to shocks. Using a local labor market design based on heterogeneity in local benefit generosity (defined as the percentage of household...
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Keywords:
Unemployment Insurance;
Automatic Stabilizers;
Bartik Shocks;
Aggregate Demand;
System Shocks;
Employment;
Balance and Stability;
Insurance;
Volatility;
Insurance Industry
Di Maggio, Marco, and Amir Kermani. "The Importance of Unemployment Insurance as an Automatic Stabilizer." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-009, July 2016. (Revise and Resubmit to American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics.)
- 2007
- Working Paper
Dynamics of Platform Competition: Exploring the Role of Installed Base, Platform Quality and Consumer Expectations
By: Feng Zhu and Marco Iansiti
This paper seeks to answer three questions. First, which drives the success of a platform, installed base, platform quality or consumer expectations? Second, when does a monopoly emerge in a platform-based market? Finally, when is a platform-based market socially...
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Keywords:
Price;
Network Effects;
Digital Platforms;
Monopoly;
Quality;
Competitive Advantage;
Digital Platforms
Zhu, Feng, and Marco Iansiti. "Dynamics of Platform Competition: Exploring the Role of Installed Base, Platform Quality and Consumer Expectations." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-031, November 2007.
- 2020
- Book
The Ends Game: How Smart Companies Stop Selling Products and Start Delivering Value
By: Marco Bertini and Oded Koenigsberg
How some firms are rewriting the rules of commerce by pursuing “ends”—actual outcomes—rather than selling “means”—their products and services.
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Bertini, Marco, and Oded Koenigsberg. The Ends Game: How Smart Companies Stop Selling Products and Start Delivering Value. Management on the Cutting Edge. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020.