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- 05 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
If Your Customers Don't Care What You Charge, What Should You Charge?
effects of competition have an advantage within their markets, says Alexander J. MacKay, assistant professor of business administration at Harvard Business School, who coauthored the study Consumer Inertia...
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- 16 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 16, 2015
potential customers, how the company will capture a share of that value, and what types of innovation to pursue. Critics tend to discount "routine" innovation that leverages a company's existing technical capabilities and View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- January 2010 (Revised March 2013)
- Teaching Note
Western Union: Our World, Our Family® (TN)
By: Christopher Marquis and Bobbi Thomason
Teaching Note for [410050].
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- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Faculty Debates Lessons from Enron's Collapse
and an espoused belief system that stressed respect, integrity, and communication end up in such a situation? How could an innovative business model that showed so much promise have gone wrong so suddenly?...
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- March 2009
- Teaching Note
Publicis Groupe 2009: Toward a Digital Transformation (TN)
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Matthew Bird
Teaching Note for [309085].
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- July 2011 (Revised January 2012)
- Teaching Note
Demand Media (TN)
By: John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld
Teaching Note for 512021.
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- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Innovative Loan Fund Yields Big Returns
Through its use of Harvard’s innovative Green Campus Loan Fund, HBS has cut energy expenditures and provided a model for conservation-minded schools around the University to follow. The loan fund provides capital for projects that reduce...
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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Commitment to Leadership
community and a set of organizational capabilities so that talented individuals can collaborate and engage in discovery-driven learning and integrative decision-making. At HBS, we see our alumni as partners in all we do. Our graduates are living View Details
- February 2000 (Revised December 2000)
- Case
Staples.com
By: Thomas R. Eisenmann, Joanna M. Jacobson and Gillian Morris
Staples.com, the online unit of the U.S. office supplies retailing chain Staples, faces a range of strategic and organizational issues as it accelerates its growth. Should it pursue only existing Staples customers or consumers who do not shop in Staples stores? How...
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Supply Chain;
Business Units;
Business Model;
Growth and Development;
Internet and the Web;
Entrepreneurship;
Business Strategy;
Service Industry;
United States
Eisenmann, Thomas R., Joanna M. Jacobson, and Gillian Morris. "Staples.com." Harvard Business School Case 800-305, February 2000. (Revised December 2000.)
- 23 Apr 2016
- News
Tipping His Cap to Open Source
model isn’t about gouging IP but adding value around it,” Whitehurst told The Business Times of Singapore. “It seemed [in 2008] like being a great way to be part of painting a new canvas.” Whitehurst sees...
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- 01 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Retail Execs Underplay Current Performance to Investors--but Why?
Business School finance professor Kenneth A. Froot in the April working paper What Do Measures of Real-Time Corporate Sales Tell Us about Earnings Surprises and Post-Announcement Returns? “It’s startling to find that managers are not even...
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- January 2011 (Revised April 2011)
- Case
TripAdvisor
By: Sunil Gupta and Kerry Herman
By 2010, TripAdvisor was the largest travel site in the world operating in 24 countries and 16 languages, with listings for 455,000 hotels, 92,000 attractions and 564,000 restaurants in over 71,000 destinations worldwide. It had over 40 million reviews from 35 million...
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Business Model;
Knowledge Use and Leverage;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Internet;
Service Industry;
Travel Industry
Gupta, Sunil, and Kerry Herman. "TripAdvisor." Harvard Business School Case 511-004, January 2011. (Revised April 2011.)
- June 1999 (Revised October 1999)
- Case
Eli Lilly, 1998 (B): Emerging Global Organization
By: Michael Y. Yoshino and Thomas W. Malnight
Examines major issues faced by Eli Lilly as it evaluates the appropriateness of a focused matrix organization with extensive use of cross-functional teams.
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Business Model;
Geography;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Growth and Development;
Knowledge;
Management Teams;
Product;
Organizations;
Pharmaceutical Industry
Yoshino, Michael Y., and Thomas W. Malnight. "Eli Lilly, 1998 (B): Emerging Global Organization." Harvard Business School Case 399-174, June 1999. (Revised October 1999.)
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
business: Investing in employees keeps churn rates down and distinguishes Hello Alfred in a moment when quantity of transactions often wins out over quality of service. “If we serve our employees well, then the users will be happy,” Sapone says. “We built a View Details
- Web
Introduction - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections
the course of economic theory and financial practice. With the option pricing model firmly in place, Merton's research as a member of the Harvard Business School faculty continues to evolve as he turns his...
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- October 1997 (Revised April 1998)
- Case
C-Car
By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Marie Bell
C-Car was the first automobile retailer in the United States to go public. Subsequently the owner, Mr. Gilliland, must decide how to invest the capital raised from the public ownership. This case describes in detail C-Car's highly profitable strategy of managing its...
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- June 2020
- Teaching Plan
Chief
By: Katherine B. Coffman, Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Kathleen L. McGinn, Julia Kelley, Amy Klopfenstein and Katherine Chen
Teaching Plan serves as a supplement to the case for “Chief: Role for Carolyn Childers” (920-019), “Chief: Role for Lindsay Kaplan” (920-020), and “Scaling at Chief” (920-021).
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Negotiation;
Negotiation Tactics;
Negotiation Participants;
Agreements and Arrangements;
Business Ventures;
Business Startups;
Business Model;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Demographics;
Gender;
Ownership;
Ownership Stake;
Strategy;
Business Strategy;
Expansion;
Competition;
Finance;
Capital;
Venture Capital;
Service Industry;
Technology Industry;
North and Central America;
United States;
New York (city, NY);
New York (state, US)
- Web
Tough Tech Ventures - Course Catalog
strategies and tactics for managing risk vs. reward. Historically, most entrepreneurship courses (at HBS, and elsewhere) disproportionately focus on consumer- and /or software-centric business model and...
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- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Inside the Revolution
causing disparate industries to merge, compete, and change in ways that are still unclear. Business models and business practice will also be affected. As with the example of...
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- January 2009
- Teaching Note
Bunge: Food, Fuel, and World Markets (TN)
By: Tarun Khanna, Santiago Mingo and Jonathan West
Teaching Note for [708443].
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