Seminars & Conferences
Securing IT in Healthcare: Part III
May 16, 2013 • Dartmouth College • Hanover, NH • USA
ISTS will host the third Securing Information Technology in Healthcare (SITH3) workshop in collaboration with members of the Trustworthy Information Systems for Healthcare (TISH) project team. This year the focus will be on the exciting and ever transforming field of mHealth – the application of mobile computing technologies to health and wellness. The SITH Workshops bring together experts from many disciplines to discuss information technology in healthcare. More ›
Topics: Electronic Health Record, Healthcare IT & Ops, Mobile
Crowdsourcing Business Models: Creating and Capturing Value Through Tournaments and Collaboration
Technology, Innovation, and Learning (TIL)
May 10, 2013 • Tuck Campus • Hanover, NH • USA
Speaker(s): Allan Afuah
Allan Afuah, Associate Professor of Strategy, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan. Dr. Afuah’s teaching awards include Best Professor in the MBA program in 1999. His second book, Internet Business Models and Strategies (co-authored with Christopher Tucci) has been translated into nine different languages, and has been adopted by dozens of schools to teach business models. More ›
Topics: Collaboration, Culture
Securing IT in Healthcare: Part II
May 15, 2012 • Tuck Campus • Hanover, NH • USA
Professor Johnson chaired a panel titled, “Usability and Healthcare Data Breaches” at this year's SITH workshop. The keynote address was presented by Dr. David Blumenthal, the former National Coordinator for Health and Information Technology. More ›
Topics: Healthcare IT & Ops, Information Security
Information and Pricing Strategy and Channel Conflicts in Air Travel Industry
Technology, Innovation, and Learning (TIL)
April 10, 2012 • Tuck Campus • Hanover, NH • USA
Speaker(s): Robert J. Kauffman
Robert J. Kauffman is currently a Visiting Professor of Information Systems and Strategy at the School of Information Systems and the Lee Kong Chian School of Business at Singapore Management University, where he serves as Associate Dean of Research, and Deputy Director of the Living Analytics Research Center (LARC), a joint venture with Carnegie Mellon University. Professor Kauffman will discuss the complexities of information strategy in the air travel industry. More ›
Topics: Big Data, Disruption, Ecommerce
Law and Innovation: Evidence from the Uniform Trade Secrets Act
Technology, Innovation, and Learning (TIL)
November 16, 2011 • Tuck Campus • Hanover, NH • USA
Dr. Png is the Lim Kim San Professor in the School of Business, and Professor of Economics and Information Systems at the National University of Singapore. In the academic year 2011-12, he is a Visiting Professor at the Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College, USA. His research focuses on the economics of innovation and pricing. More ›
Topics: Governance, Innovation
LEED Adopters: Public Procurement and the Private Supply of “Green” Buildings
Technology, Innovation, and Learning (TIL)
October 14, 2011 • Tuck Campus • Hanover, NH • USA
Speaker(s): Tim Simcoe, Assistant Professor of Strategy & Innovation, Boston University
Professor Simcoe’s research covers topics in innovation, science and technology policy, intellectual property and corporate strategy. He is an expert in the area of compatibility standards. He has previously worked at the University of Toronto and Ernst & Young LLP. More ›
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The Impact of Modularity on Intellectual Property and the Value of Knowledge
Technology, Innovation, and Learning (TIL)
September 23, 2011 • Tuck Campus • Hanover, NH • USA
Speaker(s): Carliss Baldwin
Carliss Y. Baldwin is the William L. White Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. She studies the process of design and its impact on firm strategy and the structure of business ecosystems. With Kim Clark, she authored Design Rules, Volume 1: The Power of Modularity, the first of a projected two volumes. Volume 2, in progress, will focus on Architecture and Strategy. More ›
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Networks as Covers: Evidence from Business and Social On-line Networks
Technology, Innovation, and Learning (TIL)
May 18, 2011 • Tuck Campus • Hanover, NH • USA
Speaker(s): Mikolaj Jan Piskorski, Associate Professor and Marvin Bower Fellow, Harvard Business School
Mikołaj Jan Piskorski, who often goes by Misiek, is an Associate Professor of Business Administration and Marvin Bower Fellow in the Strategy Unit at the Harvard Business School. More ›
Topics: Information Technology, Innovation
The Contingent Effect of Absorptive Capacity on Open Innovation Performance
Technology, Innovation, and Learning (TIL)
March 25, 2011 • Tuck Campus • Hanover, NH • USA
Speaker(s): Karim R. Lakhani, Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Karim R. Lakhani is an assistant professor in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at the Harvard Business School. He specializes in the management of technological innovation and product development in firms and communities. His research is on distributed innovation systems and the movement of innovative activity to the edges of organizations and into communities. He has extensively studied the emergence of open source software communities and their unique innovation and product development strategies. He has also investigated how critical knowledge from outside of the organization can be found and put to use inside for innovation in the biotechnology, life sciences and industrial chemicals industries. He is co-editor of Perspectives on Free and Open Source Software (MIT Press, 2005) and co-founder of the MIT-based Open Source research community and web portal. More ›
Topics: Information Technology, Innovation
An Empirical Analysis of Price, Quality and Incumbency in Service Procurement Auctions
Technology, Innovation, and Learning (TIL)
October 15, 2010
Speaker(s): Associate Professor Tunay Tunca, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Tunay Tunca is Associate Professor of Operations, Information, and Technology at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. His research interests span a range in economics of Information Technology and procurement markets, including electronic business, economics of software security and digital goods piracy, interaction of supply chain and markets, and procurement auctions. His recent work examines such topics as private information and strategic spot trading for procurement, the role of user incentives on security of computer networks and the impact of P2P file sharing on copyright protection policy for digital goods. Tunay Tunca received his MS in Financial Mathematics (2000) and PhD in Business Administration (2002) from Stanford University, during which time he was twice named the Robert K. Jaedicke Award Scholar for outstanding performance. Tunca also received an MS in Management Science (1997) from the University of Rochester and BS degrees in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics with honors (1994), from Bogazici University, where he was named a Koc Scholar from 1991 to 1994. He has been a faculty member at Stanford GSB since 2001. He also held positions as a visiting scholar at the Wharton School of Business at University of Pennsylvania (2003) and the Sloan School of Business at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2005). Professor Tunca also currently serves as an Associate Editor for the journal Information Systems Research.
Topics: Supply Chain
Strategic Information Management under Leakage in a Supply Chain
Technology, Innovation, and Learning (TIL)
October 10, 2008
Speaker(s): Assistant Professor Krishnan Anand, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania
Krishnan Anand is Assistant Professor of Operations and Information Management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. His research spans the areas of Operations / Supply Chain Management as well as the economics of Information Systems, and the interface of these two disciplines.
Topics: Information Security, Strategy, Supply Chain
WEIS: Workshop on the Economics of Information Security
June 25, 2008
The Center for Digital Strategies, in partnership with Microsoft, the Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection (I3P), and Dartmouth's Institute for Security Technology Studies, invited a group of over 100 interdiscplinary experts in information security to discuss cybercrime and protection of digital information. More ›
Topics: Information Security
Privacy Protection and Technology Diffusion: The Case of Electronic Medical Records
Technology, Innovation, and Learning (TIL)
May 22, 2008
Speaker(s): Assistant Professor Catherine Tucker, Sloan School of Business, MIT
Catherine Tucker is the Douglas Drane Career Development Professor in IT and Management at the Sloan School of Business. Her research interests include network effects, marketing of platform technologies and two-sided networks, search and the internet.
Topics: Information Security
Global Competitors as Next-Door Neighbors
Technology, Innovation, and Learning (TIL)
September 27, 2007
Speaker(s): Assistant Professor Minyuan Zhao, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
Minyuan Zhao is the Assistant Professor of strategy at the Ross School of Business. Her research interests are in the interaction between firm strategies and external environments in a global context.
Topics: Globalization, International
Making Waves: Market Incentives and Organizational Capabilities
Technology, Innovation, and Learning (TIL)
October 20, 2006
Speaker(s): Professor Rebecca Henderson, Sloan School of Business, MIT
Rebecca Henderson is the Eastman Kodak Professor of management at the Sloan School of Business. She specializes in technology strategy and in the broader strategic problems faced by firms in high technology industries. Her current research focuses upon the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries.
Topics: Change, Organization
Collaboration Rules
Technology, Innovation, and Learning (TIL)
April 6, 2006
Speaker(s): Philip Evans, SVP, The Boston Consulting Group
Today, large, complex collaborative networks—within, among, and independent of traditional economic organizations—have a greater reliance on trust, but this trust gives them competitive advantages in activities where complexity, innovation, and adaptability are key priorities.
Topics: Collaboration
Corporate Venture Capital and the Returns to Acquiring Entrepreneurial Firms
Technology, Innovation, and Learning (TIL)
March 28, 2006
Speaker(s): Professor Rosemarie Ziedonis, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
Firms often provide funding to start-ups to help identify potential acquisition targets. However, estimates suggest that shareholders of frequent CVC investors gain from acquisitions of entrepreneurial firms made outright, but lose from CVC-backed acquisitions. Is there a price corporations pay for "trying before they buy"?
Topics: Entrepreneurship
Carbon Is Free?: Greenhouse Gas Emissions and the Diffusion of No Regrets Innovation
Technology, Innovation, and Learning (TIL)
October 6, 2005
Speaker(s): Karl T. Ulrich
In this seminar, we will attempt to bring together the perspectives of economics, engineering, marketing, and operations management. We will examine the interaction between carbon-dioxide emissions reductions and firm-level productivity, and the potential consumer benefits of environmentalism. More ›
Topics: Innovation
Understanding Volatility of R&D Performance: When Does Success Breed Failure?
Technology, Innovation, and Learning (TIL)
December 7, 2004
Speaker(s): Professor Gary Pisano and Francesca Gino, Post Doctoral Fellow, Harvard Business School
Can a firm affect its R&D output and R&D volatility by modifying its behavior toward risk or by changing the policy it uses to manage its projects portfolio? We explored the effect of scale, resource allocation strategies, risk preferences, and behavior towards available information.
Topics: Risk
Selfish Designs: What Computer Designs Need from the Economy and How They Get It
Technology, Innovation, and Learning (TIL)
October 19, 2004
Speaker(s): Professor Carliss Baldwin, Harvard Business School
In this seminar, we looked at the world from the "designs' point of view" to understand the economic institutions and mechanisms by which new designs and new artifacts come into existence.