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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Giving Amazon the Boot
When the coronavirus pandemic led many brick-and-mortar retailers to close their doors, consumers turned to online shopping in record numbers—US ecommerce sales rose by 31.8 percent between the first and second quarter of 2020 to $211.5... View Details
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=45842 Effectiveness of Paid Search Advertising: Experimental Evidence By: Dai, Weijia (Daisy), and Michael Luca Abstract—Paid search has become an increasingly common form of advertising, comprising about half of all View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ‘A Social Strategy’
benefit. In the first instance, observing that millions of people connect to friends and strangers on social platforms, some companies have chosen to enter the fray in a similar way, by trying to build relationships with people online as... View Details
- 22 Feb 2018
- Blog Post
Five Steps to Jump Start Your MBA Recruiting at HBS
functional or industry experience? What skill sets would add value to your team? Our Resume Book Database can help you find candidates that fit this profile. Companies also often work with relevant career-related student clubs on campus by sponsoring events and View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Blockbuster! Why Star Power Works
Disney Company expects to lose up to $190 million on its summer fiasco The Lone Ranger, another star vehicle featuring Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer. Welcome to the risky strategy of "blockbusters," practiced increasingly by movie, TV, and recording companies;... View Details
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From the Chief Financial Officer | Annual Report 2024
HBS to create and distribute knowledge, educate future entrepreneurs and executives, and shape global management practices. Revenue from Executive Education, Harvard Business Publishing (HBP), and Harvard Business School Online (HBS... View Details
- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
compliance. We first create an income and taxation environment in a laboratory setting to test for compliance with a "lab tax." Allowing a treatment group to express non-binding preferences over tax spending priorities leads to a 16% increase in tax... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
How to Help Small Businesses Survive COVID's Next Phase
number of tough moments,” says Karen G. Mills, senior fellow at Harvard Business School. “I’m quite concerned that we haven’t even seen the tip of the iceberg of business closures.” Yelp, the online review website, estimates that almost... View Details
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
What’s an Internet Business Model? Ask a Health Care Professional
information of this type that's actively used. "There are a lot of components on the Web today, but no one has really put this together in a compelling way." Moriarty also reckoned that another emerging frontier is online continuing... View Details
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Disruption: The Art of Framing
different work patterns and decision rules required in the new business. Print reps were used to selling in long cycles, to an established customer base, with a generic, nontargeted advertising product. View Details
Keywords: by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
Illustrations by Istvan Banyai By the standards of the algorithmic, instant-judgment online dating age, Jess Kushner (MBA 2008) and Ken Deckinger have a story fit for an old-fashioned romantic comedy. In 2003, Deckinger was running a... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 15 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Amazon Prime Day: The Logic Behind a Retailer’s Made-up Holiday
revenue for Amazon, in addition to the additional value the online retailing giant gets from the loyalty customers feel once they are enrolled. "THERE IS NO QUESTION THAT PRIME MEMBERS ARE EXTREMELY IMPORTANT FOR AMAZON, AND IT GIVES... View Details
- 10 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why a Federal Rule on CEO Pay Disclosure May Get You In Trouble With Customers
Here's a tip for companies looking to woo customers away from the competition: Besides advertising fair prices for your products, try advertising fair wages for your employees. Recent research from Harvard... View Details
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Europe - Global Activities 2021
continues to escalate—between 2011 and 2019 alone, more than 6 million people applied for asylum in the European Union. But in writing what would become the chosen paper—an examination of the online platform Just Arrived, which matched... View Details
- 11 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Riding the Internet Fast Track
such as Amazon.com, drugstore.com, E*Trade, and Priceline.com, firms that unflinchingly invest millions of dollars in advertising and promotion each year to rapidly build traffic and revenues. The high-octane fuel that these super trains... View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
- 19 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
Why Are Web Sites So Confusing?
the most popular items (e.g., bread, milk) in the furthest possible place from the entrance; that shopping malls seem designed to make sure you get lost at every single visit; and that popular magazines drown the content they carry in a sea of View Details
Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu & Bruno Jullien
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Let Customers Call the Shots
definition of that for the layman? How long has the concept been around in marketing? Wathieu: The idea involves letting consumers take control of variables that are conventionally pre-determined by marketers: product characteristics, place of access, exposure to View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 26 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 26
Working PapersCompeting Ad Auctions: Multi-homing and Participation Costs Authors:Itai Ashlagi, Benjamin Edelman, and Hoan Soo Lee Abstract We model competing auctions for online advertising, with attention to the participation costs... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
You’ve Been YouTubed
millions. Taught in the MBA second-year course Digital Marketing Strategy and multiple Executive Education programs, the case depicts a new media era in which increasing numbers of people are spending as much time online as they are in... View Details
- 13 Dec 2018
- Blog Post
"I Wanted to Move from Analyzing Results to Creating Them": Cynthia Samanian, MBA 2012
have to jump to a new job right away. I decided this was the opportunity to go all in on food." Finding the right recipe for success In 2016, Cynthia founded Confetti Kitchen, an online media company focused on millennials and... View Details