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    • HBS Book

    Corporate Explorer: How Corporations Beat Startups at the Innovation Game

    By: Andrew Binns, Charles A. O'Reilly III and Michael Tushman

    Innovation used to be seen as a game best left to entrepreneurs, but now a new breed of corporate managers is flipping this logic on its head. These Corporate Explorers have the insight, resilience, and discipline to overcome the obstacles and build new ventures from inside even the largest organizations. Corporate Explorers are part entrepreneurs, using innovation disciplines to jump start cutting-edge ideas, and part change leaders, capable of creating support for investment. They see that corporations already own the ideas, resources, and—critically—the talent to build new ventures. Companies like Amazon, Microsoft, Bosch, LexisNexis, and Analog Devices enable managers to put these assets to use and gain an upper hand over startups that threaten to disrupt them.

    • HBS Book

    Corporate Explorer: How Corporations Beat Startups at the Innovation Game

    By: Andrew Binns, Charles A. O'Reilly III and Michael Tushman

    Innovation used to be seen as a game best left to entrepreneurs, but now a new breed of corporate managers is flipping this logic on its head. These Corporate Explorers have the insight, resilience, and discipline to overcome the obstacles and build new ventures from inside even the largest organizations. Corporate Explorers are part...

    • Journal of Marketing Research (JMR) 59, no. 2 (April 2022): 374-391.

    Demand Interactions in Sharing Economies: Evidence from a Natural Experiment Involving Airbnb and Uber/Lyft

    By: Shunyuan Zhang, Dokyun Lee, Param Singh and Tridas Mukhopadhyay

    We examine whether and how ride-sharing services influence the demand for home-sharing services. Our identification strategy hinges on a natural experiment in which Uber/Lyft exited Austin, Texas, in May 2016 due to local regulation. Using a 12-month longitudinal dataset of 11,536 Airbnb properties, we find that Uber/Lyft’s exit led to a 14% decrease in Airbnb occupancy in Austin. In response, hosts decreased the nightly rate by $9.3 and the supply by 4.5%. We argue that when Uber/Lyft exited Austin, the transportation costs for most Airbnb guests increased significantly because most Airbnb properties (unlike hotels) have poor access to public transportation.

    • Journal of Marketing Research (JMR) 59, no. 2 (April 2022): 374-391.

    Demand Interactions in Sharing Economies: Evidence from a Natural Experiment Involving Airbnb and Uber/Lyft

    By: Shunyuan Zhang, Dokyun Lee, Param Singh and Tridas Mukhopadhyay

    We examine whether and how ride-sharing services influence the demand for home-sharing services. Our identification strategy hinges on a natural experiment in which Uber/Lyft exited Austin, Texas, in May 2016 due to local regulation. Using a 12-month longitudinal dataset of 11,536 Airbnb properties, we find that Uber/Lyft’s exit led to a 14%...

    • Health Care Initiative

    AI Insurance: How Liability Insurance Can Drive the Responsible Adoption of Artificial Intelligence in Health Care

    By: Ariel Dora Stern, Avi Goldfarb and Timo Minssen

    Despite enthusiasm about the potential to apply artificial intelligence (AI) to medicine and health care delivery, adoption remains tepid, even for the most compelling technologies. In this article, the authors focus on one set of challenges to AI adoption: those related to liability. Well-designed AI liability insurance can mitigate predictable liability risks and uncertainties in a way that is aligned with the interests of health care’s main stakeholders, including patients, physicians, and health care organization leadership. A market for AI insurance will encourage the use of high-quality AI, because insurers will be most keen to underwrite those products that are demonstrably safe and effective. As such, well-designed AI insurance products are likely to reduce the uncertainty associated with liability risk for both manufacturers—including developers of software as a medical device—and clinician users and thereby increase innovation, competition, adoption, and trust in beneficial technological advances.

    • Health Care Initiative

    AI Insurance: How Liability Insurance Can Drive the Responsible Adoption of Artificial Intelligence in Health Care

    By: Ariel Dora Stern, Avi Goldfarb and Timo Minssen

    Despite enthusiasm about the potential to apply artificial intelligence (AI) to medicine and health care delivery, adoption remains tepid, even for the most compelling technologies. In this article, the authors focus on one set of challenges to AI adoption: those related to liability. Well-designed AI liability insurance can mitigate predictable...

    • Featured Case

    Danish Crown: Feeding the Future

    By: David E. Bell, Damien P. McLoughlin, Daniela Beyersdorfer and Mette Fuglsang Hjortshoej

    Danish Crown, one of the world’s largest exporters of pork meat and one of Europe’s top five producers of beef, faced increasing headwinds in 2021, making CEO Jais Valeur feel like the core of the meat business was under attack. As a cooperative and prominent player in Denmark’s high-standard agriculture sector, the company had particular responsibilities and constraints including a high labor and production cost and strict regulatory environment. More recently growing concerns over climate change had led to increasing criticism of the environmental impacts of livestock production. Consumers in Denmark and worldwide were turning away from meat, for its climate impact but also for concerns about animal welfare and their own health. The case discusses these industry trends and describes Danish Crown’s efforts to respond by transitioning to a more sustainable company.

    • Featured Case

    Danish Crown: Feeding the Future

    By: David E. Bell, Damien P. McLoughlin, Daniela Beyersdorfer and Mette Fuglsang Hjortshoej

    Danish Crown, one of the world’s largest exporters of pork meat and one of Europe’s top five producers of beef, faced increasing headwinds in 2021, making CEO Jais Valeur feel like the core of the meat business was under attack. As a cooperative and prominent player in Denmark’s high-standard agriculture sector, the company had particular...

    • Featured Case

    In Data We Trust: Be Mobile Africa and Furthering Financial Inclusion Across the African Continent

    By: Lauren Cohen, Grace Headinger and Pierre Marchesseault

    To Cédric Jeannot, leveraging technology to promote financial inclusion was personal. After no established financial institution would accept his technology platform to lower transaction costs for free, Jeannot launched FinTech company Be Mobile Africa in May 2020. Within a year, the company had reached over 35 countries with many potential users pending on its waiting lists. A ‘for-profit with purpose’, Be Mobile Africa aimed to lift 100 million people out of poverty by extending financial services to previously unbanked populations across the African continent. Racing towards its goal, the company needed a longer-term expansion strategy to fulfill Jeannot’s mission.

    • Featured Case

    In Data We Trust: Be Mobile Africa and Furthering Financial Inclusion Across the African Continent

    By: Lauren Cohen, Grace Headinger and Pierre Marchesseault

    To Cédric Jeannot, leveraging technology to promote financial inclusion was personal. After no established financial institution would accept his technology platform to lower transaction costs for free, Jeannot launched FinTech company Be Mobile Africa in May 2020. Within a year, the company had reached over 35 countries with many potential users...

    • HBS Working Paper

    Do Startups Benefit from Their Investors' Reputation? Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

    By: Shai Benjamin Bernstein, Kunal Mehta, Richard Townsend and Ting Xu

    We analyze a field experiment conducted on AngelList Talent, a large online search platform for startup jobs. In the experiment, AngelList randomly informed job seekers of whether a startup was funded by a top-tier investor and/or was funded recently. We find that the same startup receives significantly more interest when information about top-tier investors is provided. Information about recent funding has no effect. The effect of top-tier investors is not driven by low-quality candidates and is stronger for earlier-stage startups. The results show that venture capitalists can add value passively, simply by attaching their names to startups.

    • HBS Working Paper

    Do Startups Benefit from Their Investors' Reputation? Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

    By: Shai Benjamin Bernstein, Kunal Mehta, Richard Townsend and Ting Xu

    We analyze a field experiment conducted on AngelList Talent, a large online search platform for startup jobs. In the experiment, AngelList randomly informed job seekers of whether a startup was funded by a top-tier investor and/or was funded recently. We find that the same startup receives significantly more interest when information about...

    • HBS Working Paper

    Can Evidence-Based Information Shift Preferences Towards Trade Policy?

    By: Laura Alfaro, Maggie X. Chen and Davin Chor

    We investigate the role of evidence-based information in shaping individuals' preferences for trade policies through a series of survey experiments that contain randomized information treatments. Each information treatment provides a concise statement of economics research findings on how openness to trade has affected labor market outcomes and goods prices. Across annual surveys from 2018-2021, each administered on a representative sample of the U.S. general population, we find that information highlighting the link between trade and manufacturing job losses significantly raises respondents' propensity to select limits on imports as a preferred policy; this tendency is only partially offset if respondents receive additional information describing the accompanying expansion in non-manufacturing jobs.

    • HBS Working Paper

    Can Evidence-Based Information Shift Preferences Towards Trade Policy?

    By: Laura Alfaro, Maggie X. Chen and Davin Chor

    We investigate the role of evidence-based information in shaping individuals' preferences for trade policies through a series of survey experiments that contain randomized information treatments. Each information treatment provides a concise statement of economics research findings on how openness to trade has affected labor market outcomes and...

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Multitasking While Driving: A Time Use Study of Commuting Knowledge Workers to Assess Current and Future Uses

By: Thomaz Teodorovicz, Andrew L. Kun, Raffaella Sadun and Orit Shaer
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  • International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Commuting has enormous impact on individuals, families, organizations, and society. Advances in vehicle automation may help workers employ the time spent commuting in productive work-tasks or wellbeing activities. To achieve this goal, however, we need to develop a deeper understanding of which work and personal activities are of value for commuting workers. In this paper we present results from an online time-use study of 400 knowledge workers who commute-by-driving. The data allow us to study multitasking-while-driving behavior of commuting knowledge workers, identify which non-driving tasks knowledge workers currently engage in while driving, and the non-driving tasks individuals would like to engage in when using a safe highly automated vehicle in the future. We discuss the implications of our findings for the design of technology that supports work and wellbeing activities in automated cars.
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Teodorovicz, Thomaz, Andrew L. Kun, Raffaella Sadun, and Orit Shaer. "Multitasking While Driving: A Time Use Study of Commuting Knowledge Workers to Assess Current and Future Uses." International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 162 (June 2022).

How to Build a Life: Mindfulness Hurts. That’s Why It Works.

By: Arthur C. Brooks
  • May 19, 2022 |
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  • The Atlantic
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Brooks, Arthur C. "How to Build a Life: Mindfulness Hurts. That’s Why It Works." The Atlantic (May 19, 2022).

Opinion: Want to Keep Your Employees Happy? Offer These 5 Things

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter
  • May 18, 2022 |
  • Article |
  • CNN.com
To attract workers in today's tight labor market, companies are touting better workplace amenities. Amazon is running ads about the company's pay and benefits. Levi Strauss is offering to cover travel costs for workers seeking abortions. Airbnb is allowing its employees to permanently work remotely. This is a workers' paradise in the making.
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Kanter, Rosabeth M. "Opinion: Want to Keep Your Employees Happy? Offer These 5 Things." CNN.com (May 18, 2022).

Want to Keep Your Employees Happy? Offer these 5 Things

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter
  • May 18, 2022 |
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Kanter, Rosabeth M. "Want to Keep Your Employees Happy? Offer these 5 Things." CNN.com (May 18, 2022).

Valuing Yahoo! in 2013 (Abridged)

By: Luis M. Viceira
  • May 2022 |
  • Supplement |
  • Faculty Research
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Viceira, Luis M. "Valuing Yahoo! in 2013 (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Spreadsheet Supplement 222-717, May 2022.

Why Build in Web3

By: Jad Esber and Scott Duke Kominers
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  • Harvard Business Review Digital Articles
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Esber, Jad, and Scott Duke Kominers. "Why Build in Web3." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (May 16, 2022).

Founder Collective

By: Jo Tango and Alys Ferragamo
  • May 2022 |
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  • Faculty Research
FC launched in 2009 with a clear mission: to be the most aligned fund for founders at the seed stage. In keeping with its mission, FC maintained smaller fund sizes and was not a lifecycle investor. By November of 2021, however, the seed market had gotten more competitive, and FC had successfully picked several Unicorn and even Decacorn investments, causing some LPs to wonder about the opportunity costs of FC’s “no pro rata” view. The FC Managing Partners David Frankel, Eric Paley, and Micah Rosenbloom wondered if the “game on the field” had changed too much and if they should evolve their strategy. They contemplated three potential paths forward: start investing their pro rata in later rounds, raise an opportunity fund, or continue their current strategy.
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Tango, Jo, and Alys Ferragamo. "Founder Collective." Harvard Business School Case 822-129, May 2022.

From GOP to NFT: Anthony Scaramucci and the Launch of Flatter NFT

By: Lauren Cohen, Richard Ryffel and Grace Headinger
  • May 2022 |
  • Case |
  • Faculty Research
Anthony Scaramucci, Managing Director of SkyBridge Capital, considered whether he should officially greenlight the launch of SkyBridge’s own NFT platform – Flatter NFT. He had led the investment firm to push first into Bitcoin and then Ethereum to make SkyBridge a central node in the crypto industry. He further believed SkyBridge could differentiate itself from OpenSea and other platforms by tying non-fungible tokens with fungible experiences. The technology behind the platform was solidly proven. However, in his head he weighed the tradeoff between launching a full platform versus other ways of investing in the space. With a potential announcement of the platform pending for the September 2021 SALT NYC conference, Scaramucci believed now was the time to make a decision. The NFT space swelled in users and value by the day. Should SkyBridge jump in or move on to another venture?
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Cohen, Lauren, Richard Ryffel, and Grace Headinger. "From GOP to NFT: Anthony Scaramucci and the Launch of Flatter NFT." Harvard Business School Case 222-085, May 2022.
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