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- Winter 2021
- Article
Dealmaking Disrupted: The Unexplored Power of Social Media in Negotiation
By: James K. Sebenius, Ben Cook, David A. Lax, Isaac Silberberg and Paul Levy
While social media has had profound effects in many realms, the theory and practice of negotiation have remained relatively untouched by this potent phenomenon. In this article, we survey existing research in this area and develop a broader framework for understanding...
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Sebenius, James K., Ben Cook, David A. Lax, Isaac Silberberg, and Paul Levy. "Dealmaking Disrupted: The Unexplored Power of Social Media in Negotiation." Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence, Technology, and Negotiation. Negotiation Journal 37, no. 1 (Winter 2021): 97–141.
- October 2020
- Case
PraDigi Open Learning: Transforming Rural India
By: John J-H Kim and Malini Sen
Pratham is a non-governmental organization, focusing on high-quality, low-cost and replicable interventions to address gaps in the Indian education system. Co-founder Madhav Chavan is interested in using technology for education but differed in the way it is used in...
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Keywords:
Decision Choices And Conditions;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Education;
Technology;
Learning;
Growth And Development Strategy;
Non-governmental Organizations;
Social Issues;
Education Industry;
India;
Asia
Kim, John J-H, and Malini Sen. "PraDigi Open Learning: Transforming Rural India." Harvard Business School Case 321-022, October 2020.
- September 2020
- Case
Algramo
By: Michael Chu, Monica Silva and Mariana Cal
Founded in 2013 by José Manuel Moller in Chile, Algramo first became known for addressing the “poverty tax” (the surcharge paid by lower income families for staples sold in smaller sizes) through specially-designed dispensers in low-income neighborhood grocery stores...
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Keywords:
Packaging-as-a-wallet;
Plastic Waste;
Business At The Base Of The Pyramid;
Reusable Packaging;
Alliances With Fmcgs To Meet Esg Goals;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Environmental Sustainability;
Strategy;
Value Creation;
Goals And Objectives;
Business Model;
Consumer Products Industry;
Latin America;
South America;
Chile
- September 2020
- Teaching Note
Miami's Tech Future (D): Developing New Leadership
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Joyce J. Kim
Traditional establishment leadership of Miami is increasingly challenged by a rising millennial generation that is more diverse and brings more innovative and entrepreneurial “outside-the-building” approaches, including impatience for change. Leadership succession is...
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Keywords:
Leaders;
Leadership;
Civic Innovation;
Change;
Change Leadership;
Startup;
Diversity;
Scaling And Growth;
Jurisdictional Disputes;
Communication;
Community Impact;
Community Relations;
Leading Change;
Leadership;
Diversity;
Demographics;
Entrepreneurship;
Business And Community Relations;
Miami;
Florida
- August 2020
- Article
Strategies for Managing the Privacy Landscape
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Andres Hervas-Drane
Firms use consumer personal information to improve their products and services. Personal information is open to misuse, however, and when exploited for undesired or unexpected purposes reduces consumer’s trust in the firm and their willingness to provide personal...
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Keywords:
Consumer Privacy;
Privacy Threats;
Strategy Framework;
Strategy Interactions;
Customers;
Information;
Management;
Strategy;
Technology Industry
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Andres Hervas-Drane. "Strategies for Managing the Privacy Landscape." Long Range Planning 53, no. 4 (August 2020).
- July 2020
- Case
Super 30: Educating the Elite Poor
By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Tarun Khanna and Shreya Ramachandran
In the summer of 2019 in New Delhi, S K Shahi and his daughter, Meenakshi, faced a difficult problem. India had 19 centers of their non-profit, the Center for Social Responsibility and Leadership. Also called the 'Super 30' program, this offered free training for...
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- June 2020 (Revised July 2020)
- Case
TraceTogether
By: Mitchell B. Weiss and Sarah Mehta
By April 7, 2020, over 1.4 million people worldwide had contracted the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Governments raced to curb the spread of COVID-19 by scaling up testing, quarantining those infected, and tracing their possible contacts. It had taken Singapore’s...
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Keywords:
Covid-19;
Contact Tracing;
Government Administration;
Crisis Management;
Health;
Health Pandemics;
Innovation And Invention;
Innovation Leadership;
Innovation Strategy;
Technological Innovation;
Social Issues;
Technology;
Mobile Technology;
Software;
Technology Adoption;
Health Industry;
Public Administration Industry;
Singapore
Weiss, Mitchell B., and Sarah Mehta. "TraceTogether." Harvard Business School Case 820-111, June 2020. (Revised July 2020.)
- 2020
- Working Paper
Open Source Software and Global Entrepreneurship
Does more activity in open source lead to more entrepreneurial activity and, if so, how much, and in what direction? This study measures how participation on the GitHub open source platform affects the founding of new ventures globally. We estimate these effects using...
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Keywords:
Open Source Software;
Github;
Software;
Entrepreneurship;
Global Range;
Development Economics
Wright, Nataliya Langburd, Frank Nagle, and Shane Greenstein. "Open Source Software and Global Entrepreneurship." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-139, June 2020. (Revised July 2020.)
- June 24, 2020
- Article
Wolfgang Puck on Leading His Restaurants Through the Pandemic
By: Boris Groysberg
Chef Wolfgang Puck shares his experience leading his restaurants and other businesses through the pandemic crisis. He explains how his company has pivoted to find new sources of revenue and how he has become a vocal advocate for the restaurant industry. He also...
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Keywords:
Coronavirus Pandemic;
Restaurants;
Restaurant Industry;
Reopening;
Health Pandemics;
Crisis Management;
Organizational Change And Adaptation;
Safety
Groysberg, Boris. "Wolfgang Puck on Leading His Restaurants Through the Pandemic." Harvard Business Review (website) (June 24, 2020).
- 2020
- Article
Why Do User Communities Matter for Strategy?
By: Sonali K. Shah and Frank Nagle
In this essay, we explore how strategic management research and practice could benefit from considering the benefits and challenges obtainable through working with user communities. User communities represent a unique organizing structure for the exchange of ideas and...
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Keywords:
User Communities;
Innovation;
Open Source;
Collaboration;
Cooperative Strategy;
Knowledge Sharing;
Strategy;
Collaborative Innovation And Invention
Shah, Sonali K., and Frank Nagle. "Why Do User Communities Matter for Strategy?" Special Issue on Open Innovation. Strategic Management Review 1, no. 2 (2020): 305–353.
- 2020
- Working Paper
How Competition Affects Contributions to Open Source Platforms: Evidence from OpenStreetMap and Google Maps
By: Abhishek Nagaraj and Henning Piezunka
Open source platforms often face competition from commercial alternatives and yet we lack an understanding of whether and how commercial competition affects contributions to open source platforms. We study how contributions to OpenStreetMap, a widely-used open source...
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Keywords:
Open Source Platforms;
Contributions;
Competitive Entry;
Impact;
Multi-sided Platforms;
Competition
Nagaraj, Abhishek, and Henning Piezunka. "How Competition Affects Contributions to Open Source Platforms: Evidence from OpenStreetMap and Google Maps." Working Paper, February 2020.
- 2020
- White Paper
Vulnerabilities in the Core: Preliminary Report and Census II of Open Source Software
By: Frank Nagle, Jessica Wilkerson, James Dana and Jennifer L. Hoffman
Nagle, Frank, Jessica Wilkerson, James Dana, and Jennifer L. Hoffman. "Vulnerabilities in the Core: Preliminary Report and Census II of Open Source Software." Linux Foundation Core Infrastructure Initiative, Linux Foundation, February 2020.
- 2020
- Working Paper
Market Segmentation Trees
By: Ali Aouad, Adam Elmachtoub, Kris Ferreira and Ryan McNellis
As more commerce and media consumption are being conducted online, a wealth of new opportunities are emerging for personalized advertising. We propose a general methodology, Model Trees for Personalization (MTP), for tackling a broad class of personalized...
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Keywords:
Decision Trees;
Computational Advertising;
Market Segmentation;
Online Advertising;
Customization And Personalization;
Segmentation;
Decision Making
Aouad, Ali, Adam Elmachtoub, Kris Ferreira, and Ryan McNellis. "Market Segmentation Trees." Working Paper, January 2020.
- December 2019
- Case
Noiler
By: José B. Alvarez and Natalie Kindred
In 2019, Nigerian entrepreneur Dr. Ayoola (Ayo) Oduntan is accelerating distribution of Noiler, a genetically optimized breed of poultry, to smallholder farmers across Nigeria. The bird was bred to be productive as a source of both meat and eggs and to thrive in the...
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- 2019
- Article
Overcoming Cultural Resistance to Open Source Innovation
By: John Winsor, Jin Hyun Paik, Michael Tushman and Karim R. Lakhani
Purpose: This article offers insight on how to effectively help incumbent organizations prepare for global business shifts to open source and digital business models.
Design/methodology/approach: Discussion related to observation, experience and case studies... View Details
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Keywords:
Open Source Innovation;
Organizational Culture;
Organizational Change And Adaptation;
Business Model;
Technological Innovation;
Collaborative Innovation And Invention
Winsor, John, Jin Hyun Paik, Michael Tushman, and Karim R. Lakhani. "Overcoming Cultural Resistance to Open Source Innovation." Strategy & Leadership 47, no. 6 (2019): 28–33.
- 2019
- Working Paper
Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 17 The Wintel Standards-based Platform
The purpose of this chapter is to use the theory of bottlenecks laid out in previous chapters to better understand the dynamics of an open standards-based platform. I describe how the Wintel platform evolved from 1990 through 2000 under joint sponsorship of Intel and...
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Keywords:
Open Platforms;
Bottlenecks;
Wintel Platform;
Disintermediation;
Hardware;
Software;
Business History;
Computer Industry
Baldwin, Carliss Y. "Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 17 The Wintel Standards-based Platform." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-055, November 2019.
- September 2019 (Revised September 2020)
- Case
SOFWERX: Innovation at U.S. Special Operations Command (Abridged)
By: Herman Leonard, Mitch Weiss, Jin Hyun Paik and Kerry Herman
James "Hondo" Geurts, the Acquisition Executive for U.S. Special Operations Command was in the middle of his Senate confirmation hearing in 2017 to become Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development and Acquisition. Overseeing acquisitions in one of the...
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Keywords:
Open Innovation;
Crowdsourcing;
Prototyping;
Navy;
Entrepreneurship;
Public Equity;
Innovation And Invention;
Innovation Leadership;
Acquisition;
Organizational Change And Adaptation;
Public Administration Industry;
United States
Leonard, Herman, Mitch Weiss, Jin Hyun Paik, and Kerry Herman. "SOFWERX: Innovation at U.S. Special Operations Command (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 820-047, September 2019. (Revised September 2020.)
- 2019
- Working Paper
The Impact of Professionals' Contributions to Online Knowledge Communities on Their Workplace Knowledge Work
By: Hila Lifshitz - Assaf and Frank Nagle
Knowledge work is becoming increasingly challenging as pace of change in the knowledge frontier is increasing. Organizations have created multiple mechanisms to minimize knowledge gaps and increase learning such internal training, mentorship programs as well as...
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Keywords:
Open Source;
Future Of Work;
Software Development;
Knowledge Work;
Online Community;
Learning;
Knowledge Sharing;
Software;
open source distribution;
Performance Productivity
Lifshitz - Assaf, Hila, and Frank Nagle. "The Impact of Professionals' Contributions to Online Knowledge Communities on Their Workplace Knowledge Work." Working Paper, April 2019.
- July 2019 (Revised January 2021)
- Case
Acelerex
By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
In early 2019, Randell Johnson, Founder and Chief Executive of Acelerex, was reflecting on the company’s first year of rapid growth and the challenges of scaling the business that lay ahead. Acelerex was riding the waves of change taking place in electrical power grids...
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Keywords:
Energy;
Energy sources;
Growth Management;
Expansion;
Global Strategy;
Cash Flow;
Energy Industry;
Web Services Industry;
Consulting Industry
Wells, John R., and Benjamin Weinstock. "Acelerex." Harvard Business School Case 720-360, July 2019. (Revised January 2021.)
- 2019
- Working Paper
Why Do User Communities Matter for Strategy?
By: Sonali K. Shah and Frank Nagle
User communities represent a unique organizing structure for the exchange of ideas and knowledge. They are organizations composed primarily of users working collaboratively, voluntarily, and with minimal oversight to freely and openly develop and exchange knowledge...
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Keywords:
Strategic Management;
Knowledge Sharing;
Collaborative Innovation And Invention;
Organizations;
Knowledge Use And Leverage;
Strategy
Shah, Sonali K., and Frank Nagle. "Why Do User Communities Matter for Strategy?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-126, June 2019.
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