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- 14 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
Want Hybrid Work to Succeed? Trust, Don’t Track, Employees
The COVID-19 pandemic made remote work more the norm than the exception, and now many companies are struggling to map out a hybrid plan that both managers and employees can embrace long term. With return-to-work policies in flux, this is...
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- 09 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation
a January 2, 2004, article in the Wall Street Journal, large corporations are increasingly unwilling to pay for expensive upgrades to software programs. This indicates that software providers are overserving...
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- 23 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn
acquisition and retention, costs and productivity, firm scope, pricing, growth platforms, etc. Some of the finest examples of business model innovations, whether it is IBM's outsourcing of key elements of the IBM PC or Salesforce.com's offering of View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
map and messy go-to-market motion. At the same time, zeroing in on a single market too early can mean missing the most durable and compelling long-term segment. My guidance is to follow Sutton’s law: “I rob banks because that’s where the...
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- 06 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
Kodak: A Parable of American Competitiveness
Nearly all notebook computers, cell phones, and other handheld devices are now designed in Asia. The domestic software industry, which initially outsourced only simple code-writing projects to Indian firms, has more recently signed on...
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- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Piece of the Action
software and services company. The CRC is not her first startup: in 1986 Darwall cofounded ViewStar Corporation, a software company serving Fortune 500 clients that was eventually acquired by Mosaix. At the...
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Susan Young
- 27 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 27, 2016
subsidized by the organizations employing the executives that participate in them. To understand the ongoing transformation of the industry, we use a large database of interviews with participants in executive development programs at HBS—and executives in their...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 23, 2008
individual-level data from an Indian software services firm to examine the effects of team familiarity and variation in market experience on multiple measures of performance for over 1,100 software...
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Martha Lagace
- 03 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 3, 2007
consider specific and general strategic responses to these allegations. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=207071 VMware, Inc. Harvard Business School Case 707-013 VMware, Inc., the first company to crack the View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
affected U.S. innovation. We confront two empirical challenges in assessing the impact. We map all U.S. utility patents granted by March 2013 to firm-level data using a novel Internet-based matching algorithm that corrects for a...
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Carmen Nobel
- 30 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018
traction in these adjacent markets has been to pursue a tying strategy. For example, Microsoft pre-installed Internet Explorer into Windows, and Apple set Apple Maps as the iOS default. Policymakers have raised concerns that dominant...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
The techniques include creating a demand-space map to predict how big a share can be won with the proper mix of emotional and functional benefits; determining a strategic direction for where to place investment bets; delivering the core...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Managing the Future of Work Working with software robots How far up the white-collar value chain is automation pushing and what's the optimal mix of human and machine intelligence? Bill Kerr interviews Daniel Dines, co-founder and CEO of...
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- 01 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 1
chief supply-chain management officer, chief human resources officer, and CEO. It offers a road map for ambitious managers who want to know which skills they should focus on developing in order to rise up the chain of command. Read the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
maps and financial data relating to the processes used during (1) an office visit to a plastic surgeon for three different diagnoses and (2) application and removal of three different casts in the orthopedic cast room. Students calculate...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
business model. We then map that representation to an analytical model that quantifies Walmart's sources of competitive advantage over a 36-year period. Although Walmart's business model remained the same during the years of our study, we...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
requirements. Download working paper: http://www.nber.org/papers/w19018 Hidden Structure: Using Network Methods to Map System Architecture By:Baldwin, Carliss Y., Alan MacCormack, and John Rusnak Abstract—In this paper, we describe an...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2020
- In Practice
Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?
lump sums to estimations of RVU volumes if the crisis didn’t happen. My hope is that this crisis will provide the opportunity to rethink physician compensation in a way that maps physician incentives to the behaviors that generate value...
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by Danielle Kost
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
variety, process flexibility and even the path of industry evolution. We explore this relationship in the software industry. Our research takes advantage of a natural experiment, in that we observe products that fulfill the same function...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
framework to identify the role of regional clusters-groups of closely related and complementary industries operating within a particular region-in regional economic performance. We exploit newly available data from the U.S. Cluster View Details
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Sean Silverthorne