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• Case | HBS Case Collection | January 2017 (Revised March 2020)

  Fitbit

  Regina E. Herzlinger, Christine Snively and Sarah Mehta

  In 2016, Fitbit remained the world’s leading producer of activity trackers—an increasingly crowded space—with over 21 million units sold that year. Fitbit’s suite of products allowed users to track the number of steps taken, calories burned, and heart rate activity. Fitbit devices were marketed to individual consumers as well as corporate wellness programs and employers. Though Fitbit was primarily focused on wellness, should management consider evolving into a chronic disease management company?

  Keywords: health care and treatment; technology; Health Care and Treatment; Hardware; Technology; Health Testing and Trials; Health Industry;

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  Herzlinger, Regina E., Christine Snively, and Sarah Mehta. "Fitbit." Harvard Business School Case 317-007, January 2017. (Revised March 2020.)  View Details

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• Article | Journal of Law, Economics & Organization | March 2020

  Do Managers Matter? A Natural Experiment from 42 R&D Labs in India

  Prithwiraj Choudhury, Tarun Khanna and Christos A. Makridis

  We exploit plausibly exogenous variation in the staggered entry of new managers into India’s 42 public R&D labs between 1994 and 2006 to study how alignment between the CEO and middle-level managers affect research productivity. We show that the introduction of new lab managers aligned with the national R&D reforms raised patenting and multinational licensing revenues by 58% and 75%, respectively, and scientist research productivity, including a 16%, 10%, 11%, and 22% increase in h-indices, number of coauthors, publications, and citations per scientist, respectively. Using natural language processing (NLP) techniques on the set of research abstracts produced among these scientists, we also find that overall mood and sentiment increased by 8.5% following the first managerial change.

  Keywords: incentives; innovation; productivity; Management; Alignment; Research and Development; Innovation and Invention; Performance Productivity; India;

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  Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Tarun Khanna, and Christos A. Makridis. "Do Managers Matter? A Natural Experiment from 42 R&D Labs in India." Journal of Law, Economics & Organization 36, no. 1 (March 2020): 47–83.  View Details

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• Teaching Note | HBS Case Collection | November 2019

  Bigbelly

  Mitchell Weiss, Christine Snively and Sarah Mehta

  Teaching Note for HBS No. 816-005.

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  Weiss, Mitchell, Christine Snively, and Sarah Mehta. "Bigbelly." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 820-064, November 2019.  View Details

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