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their products increasingly valuable if more consumers buy their product or if more complements become available. What are the implications for market tipping, pricing and growth strategies? Multisided Platforms (MSPs): The most important... View Details

November 2017
Teaching Note

Tencent

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth

Teaching Note for HBS No. 718-426. Tencent had undergone many transformations since it was founded in 1998 as a simple messaging service. In 2017, it was the largest online games provider in China with a wide range of game types, China’s largest social networking... View Details

Citation

Purchase

01 Dec 2011
News

Making the Case for Leadership

believed a fiber-optics revolution was coming. His hunch proved right, the company flourished, and Houghton retired after a successful 13-year tenure. But then came perhaps an even greater challenge. With the telecom meltdown and the bursting of the high-tech bubble,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Information; Information; Information; Information; Information; Information; Information; Information; Information; Information; Information; Information; Information; Information; Information

30 Jul 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching The Deal

campaign outcome. Some students blatantly voice their interests across the bargaining table, while others are more guarded—and they learn through the process of getting to a deal how much information it makes sense to share along the way.... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education

15 Sep 2003
Lessons from the Classroom

HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act

fronts. He persuaded Melvin Copeland, a noted marketing professor, to change his planned textbook to a collection of business "problems." Published in September 1920, it became the first business casebook. Donham also orchestrated a series of View Details

Keywords: by David A. Garvin

01 Feb 2002
News

Q&A: Wrestling with the Unthinkable

carry them out. You need an informant - and that probably means you have to know a terrorist. I've been involved in foreign policy for more than 35 years. There is no field more dependent on good intelligence than counterterrorism, and... View Details

Keywords: counterterrorism; terrorism; National Security and International Affairs; Government

14 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

The World in Your Palm?

professor Alan MacCormack took on the question of future "form factors" at the 2005 Cyberposium conference at HBS on January 29th. The general consensus: It's more important for users to be able to easily move digital View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2018
News

The True Value of a Tweet

behavior. When was the last time you were influenced because somebody tweeted about a product? I think that research still needs to be done [as to] whether or not it can persuade somebody. LJ: One way to use Twitter that may be undervalued is as a listening tool.... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

03 Oct 2006
First Look

First Look: October 3, 2006

allocating resources is distributed across all levels of the company. Those activities go on simultaneously. As a consequence, the way in which the structure divides up responsibility and the way the processes of the organization distribute View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Mar 2020
What Do You Think?

Are Candor, Humility, and Trust Making a Comeback?

authors caution that results would undoubtedly differ from one group of customers and one product or service to another.] It brings to mind marketing campaigns in the United States for Progressive’s insurance products, in which the Company regularly provides View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Feb 2001
News

Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde

and law-enforcement personnel about criminal, corrupt, and commercially tax-evading flows. U.S. and international agencies, such as the World Bank and the United Nations, are also important sources of information on these matters, as are... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Government

07 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

The Business of Biotech

With the sequencing of the human genome running ahead of schedule, the American Stock Exchange's "BTK" biotech index registered an annual increase of 232 percent in February, prompting exuberant headlines ("Move Over,... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Biotechnology; Health; Technology

15 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

Going Green Makes Good Business Sense

business is simplistic, said Reinhardt. Companies always operate based on imperfect information about their competitive arena. To succeed as a viable concern with an environmental conscience, "you have to look deeper. And look... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

20 Oct 2016
News

Smart Moves

wear and tear. We can help in areas like traffic-signal timing, congestion-based pricing on toll roads, and ramp congestion.” For example, based on analytics supplied by INRIX, Los Angeles reprogrammed traffic signals throughout the... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Support Activities for Transportation; Transportation

February 2011 (Revised August 2012)
Teaching Note

Emotiv Systems Inc.: It's the Thoughts that Count (TN)

By: Elie Ofek and Natalie Kindred

Teaching Note for 510050. View Details

Keywords: Product Launch; Technological Innovation; Applications and Software; Decision Choices and Conditions; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Marketing Channels; Price

Citation

Purchase

17 Jan 2019
News

The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition

creation plans.” What is your favorite HBS case and why? Pradhan: “I don’t know if it is my favorite, but a case that comes to mind that I really enjoyed was “Europe, Russia and the Age of Gas Revolution.” I’d always thought about natural gas View Details

08 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

The Startling Percentage of Financial Advisors with Misconduct Records

consumers are saved unnecessarily high fees. Opponents argue the rule would create an uneven playing field between products and raise fees. Related Reading: Are Stockbrokers Illegally Leaking Confidential Information to Favored Clients?... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

27 May 2020
Research & Ideas

What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID

pollution. However, in late February, South Korea had encountered problems with its mask supply. As the number of confirmed cases increased, many Koreans vigorously sought out face masks. As a result, the price of masks skyrocketed to as... View Details

Keywords: by Doug J. Chung; Health

14 Nov 2011
Research & Ideas

Creating a Global Business Code

Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility principles, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, various US Securities and Exchange Commission regulations, and several stock exchange listing rules, as well as the company codes of 14 top global firms.... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

06 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI

with the financial market system. Johannesburg has a stock market as it has had for over a century, and business executives I spoke with said that you can get a future contract of ten years on the rand/dollar exchange rate—which is... View Details