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3 Ways to Humanize the Virtual Health Care Experience
Management Digital ArticleDigital tools should help doctors and patients make strong first impressions, meaningfully connect, and instill mutual confidence. -
Apple’s Strategic iParadox
Strategy Digital ArticleEnter iPad. The proponents call it a radical new dominant design for computing. Don’t buy the hype, say the detractors: the iPad’s just another land-grabbing walled garden. Both sides are right — and wrong. The iPad is a revolution waiting to happen. But the revolution’s biggest roadblock is Apple itself. Here’s what’s really going on. […] -
AT&T, Time Warner, and What Makes Vertical Mergers Succeed
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Apple’s New iPhone 5C and 5S: the Results of Creativity or Innovation?
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5 Hidden Assumptions of Tech Privilege
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What the Pandemic Means for Health Care’s Digital Transformation
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How Europe Can Create Its Own Silicon Valley
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4 Cybersecurity Strategies for Small and Midsize Businesses
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleYou can't stop cyberattacks from happening. But you can contain the consequences. -
Crap Circles
Analytics and data science Magazine ArticleThe most dubious business plan can look solid—even smart—if it’s cast as a virtuous circle. “See, we invest our profits in innovation to create delightful products that customers buy—which generate profits that we invest in innovation!” Who could argue with that? Indeed, the merit of self-reinforcing systems seems so obvious that businesspeople instinctively describe their […] -
Major Sales: Who Really Does the Buying? (HBR Classic)
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleWhen is a buyer not really a buyer? How can the best product at the lowest price turn off buyers? Are there anonymous leaders who make the actual buying... -
Could Open-Source Code Make Our Y2K Fears Finally Come True?
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How to Win with Machine Learning
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Fixing the Pension Fund Mix
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleWise allocation of assets across both stocks and bonds can help companies reap higher returns from an asset mix that includes equities without assuming... -
What Strategists Can Learn From Microsoft Vs Yahoo
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleThere's a huge amount of discussion about Yahoo and Microsoft going on. It's an epic battle: the future of several industries hinges on the outcome, right?... -
Assessing the Potential of 3 Hyped Technology Innovations
Innovation Digital ArticleFlicking through my Pulse news aggregator application recently, I couldn’t help but notice the plethora of announcements from major technology companies over the past few weeks. I thought I’d provide my flash take on three items. Generally, I use two questions to assess an early-stage idea’s potential: Does the idea promise to make it simpler, […] -
How Executives Can Shape Their Company’s Information Systems
Technology and analytics Magazine ArticleA big bank headquartered in New York had to make a decision about its information technology. The bank was expanding its London operations and needed a new computer system there. Technical specialists in London were certain that only one particular vendor could meet the requirements. The information-systems people in New York were equally certain that […] -
What Data Journalists Need to Do Differently
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleRelying too heavily on the same sources leaves important stories untold. -
It’s Time to Re-Imagine Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends Report
Web-based technologies Digital ArticleAny journalist who has spent time in or near the tech industry knows about, and looks forward to Mary Meeker’s annual Internet Trends Report. It houses a ridiculous volume of data about where the tech industry (and thus, the economy) is pointed. The clumsy slides overflowing with bullet points, photo clips, and ’90s-era charts and […] -
How AI Vendors Can Navigate the Health Care Industry
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Google’s Chrome OS: A ‘Nuclear Bomb’ or Just Noise?
Disruptive innovation Digital ArticleThe blogosphere’s response to Google’s announcement late yesterday about its plans to release an operating system in the second half of 2010 was swift and strong. “Google Drops a Nuclear Bomb” on Microsoft crowed TechCrunch. “Google Launching OS, Firing Torpedo Into Microsoft (and Apple),” announced Silicon Alley Insider. It continues to amaze me that any […]
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NeoGenius: B2B or (Not) To Be?
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details NeoGenius Co., Ltd. (NeoGenius) was an early-stage entrepreneurial venture based in South Korea. Founded in February 2000, NeoGenius provided a wide range... -
The Year in Tech, 2024: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review
22.95View Details A year of HBR's essential thinking on tech--all in one place. Generative AI, Web3, neurotech, reusable rockets to power the space economy--new technologies... -
EnterAll InfoSec Solutions: Growing an Ethical Hacking Business
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details An ethical hacker had recently started his entrepreneurial venture, EnterAll InfoSec Solutions. A technologist who believed that "ethical hacking" had... -
How Google's "One-Trick Pony" Grew to Become a Dominant Global Enterprise
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details As Google incorporated in 1998, in the midst of dot-com mania, it faced the need to raise growth capital after the 2000 dot-com crash, when VC investments... -
Axiata: A Passion for Performance and People
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details The objective of this case is to explore how governance can positively support management in developing and implementing a business strategy based on... -
Bob Galvin and Motorola, Inc. (C)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Describes the implementation of the "organization effectiveness" process which was designed to make major changes in two major divisions at Motorola.... -
Restaurant Promotions in 2015
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details A variety of services offer consumers discounts when dining at participating restaurants. This case examines four such services: Entertainment Book, Restaurant.com,... -
Populism in America: Fake News, Alternative Facts and Elite Betrayal in the Trump Era
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details During the 2016 U.S. election, long-time politician Hillary Clinton, a Democrat, and celebrity billionaire Donald Trump, a Republican, faced off in a... -
Walk Away from The Walking Dead? Shentel and the AMC Renewal Decision
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Against the background of a fragmented cable industry Chris Kyle at Shentel is evaluating a renewal offer to carry AMC Networks' programming. The offer... -
Ice and Flame: Building a NYSE Company in Wild Russia (VimpelCom and Its Founders)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details VimpelCom is a Russian cellular operator that grew in less than 10 years (1992-2002) from a hypothetical concept, to small family-like company, to $2... -
Prestige Telephone Co.
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details An independent regulated telephone company has established a computer services subsidiary that seems to remain unprofitable. Managers must determine whether... -
Sky Deutschland (A): Driving Customer Loyalty Through Supply Chain Execution
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details Sky Germany is the leading pay TV provider in Germany and Austria. In 2010, the company was losing money and facing a lot of operational challenges such... -
Encompass: Creating Innovation in Broadcast, Everyday (A)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details This is a two-part case series. Case A begins in October 2012, when Encompass Singapore has introduced innovative ways to increase the capacity of its... -
Didi, Kuaidi, and Uber in China
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details In 2014, China's leading domestic Internet-based ride-hailing company, Didi, claimed more than 50 per cent of the Chinese ride-hailing market, followed... -
Erik Peterson (D)
Organizational Development Case Study5.00View Details Implicitly raises the question of what Peterson should do to extricate himself from his difficulties. Should he consider resignation, go directly to the... -
In-housing Digital Marketing at Sprint Corp.
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details In the fall of 2019, Sprint's Chief Digital Officer Rob Roy reflected on the telecom's efforts to improve the effectiveness of its digital marketing campaigns.... -
IBM: The Iterative Software Development Method
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details This case follows IBM's use of iterative software development to manage projects. The head of IBM's Rational Product Development is asked by the head... -
Harlequin Enterprises: Assessing e-Books
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Harlequin Enterprises is a well-known publisher of women's fiction and the global leader in series romance fiction. In 2013, e-book penetration of romance... -
Worldwide Web and Internet Technology, Technology Note
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details In terms non-technical readers can understand, the evolution of the Internet and the Web, characteristics of the supporting technology, and current issues... -
NovaStar Financial: A Short Seller's Battle
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details The NovaStar case describes the challenges faced by short seller Marc Cohodes of hedge fund Rocker Partners as he tried to expose what he thought was...
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3 Ways to Humanize the Virtual Health Care Experience
Management Digital ArticleDigital tools should help doctors and patients make strong first impressions, meaningfully connect, and instill mutual confidence. -
Apple’s Strategic iParadox
Strategy Digital ArticleEnter iPad. The proponents call it a radical new dominant design for computing. Don’t buy the hype, say the detractors: the iPad’s just another land-grabbing walled garden. Both sides are right — and wrong. The iPad is a revolution waiting to happen. But the revolution’s biggest roadblock is Apple itself. Here’s what’s really going on. […] -
NeoGenius: B2B or (Not) To Be?
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details NeoGenius Co., Ltd. (NeoGenius) was an early-stage entrepreneurial venture based in South Korea. Founded in February 2000, NeoGenius provided a wide range... -
The Year in Tech, 2024: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review
22.95View Details A year of HBR's essential thinking on tech--all in one place. Generative AI, Web3, neurotech, reusable rockets to power the space economy--new technologies... -
EnterAll InfoSec Solutions: Growing an Ethical Hacking Business
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details An ethical hacker had recently started his entrepreneurial venture, EnterAll InfoSec Solutions. A technologist who believed that "ethical hacking" had... -
How Google's "One-Trick Pony" Grew to Become a Dominant Global Enterprise
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details As Google incorporated in 1998, in the midst of dot-com mania, it faced the need to raise growth capital after the 2000 dot-com crash, when VC investments... -
AT&T, Time Warner, and What Makes Vertical Mergers Succeed
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleCould the telecom giant accomplish the same thing with a contract? -
Apple’s New iPhone 5C and 5S: the Results of Creativity or Innovation?
Creativity Digital ArticleThey are two separate processes. -
Axiata: A Passion for Performance and People
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details The objective of this case is to explore how governance can positively support management in developing and implementing a business strategy based on... -
5 Hidden Assumptions of Tech Privilege
Web-based technologies Digital ArticleAnd what they could mean for the Internet of Things.