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  • 08 Jun 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The Return of the Salesman

began to appear in the 1990s, with French historian Laurence Fontaine's Histoire du colportage en Europe: XVe-XIXe siècle, a work translated into English and published by Duke University Press as History of Pedlars in Europe in 1996. This... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
  • February 2000 (Revised August 2000)
  • Case

Boston.com

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Jon K Rust
How aggressively should an incumbent move when developing an online business that threatens its core product? With Internet competitors taking direct aim at the traditional print newspaper business model, the Boston Globe fought back with its own web initiative,... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Decision Making; Change Management; Internet and the Web; Customer Relationship Management; Competitive Strategy; Publishing Industry; Publishing Industry; United States
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  • August 1981 (Revised June 1986)
  • Case

McGraw-Hill Book Co.: Micro Computer Resource Center

By: James I. Cash Jr.
Keywords: Information Technology; Publishing Industry; Publishing Industry
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  • 27 Feb 2007
  • First Look

First Look: February 27, 2007

Cases & Course MaterialsDesign: More Than a Cool Chair Harvard Business School Note 607-026 This introduction to the Design industry includes definitions, and industry statistics, as well as descriptions... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • November 2004 (Revised November 2004)
  • Supplement

Martha Stewart (B)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Christopher Bruner
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industry; Publishing Industry
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  • September 1991 (Revised December 1991)
  • Case

USA Today Decision, The: Making Headlines Across the Nation (A)

This two-part case series describes how the option of launching USA Today was defined and evaluated by the Gannett Corp. This case supports a broad discussion of whether the concept of a national, general interest daily fits with the changing external environment and... View Details
Keywords: Strategic Planning; Decision Making; Product Launch; Product Development; Journalism and News Industry; Journalism and News Industry; United States
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  • 22 Jan 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The Immigrant Technologist: Studying Technology Transfer with China

as well as the subsequent diffusion of new innovations to the immigrants' home countries. In June, Kerr and nine other HBS faculty members spent six days in China to learn more about entrepreneurship in one of the world's fastest-growing economies. New Business View Details
Keywords: Re: William R. Kerr; Technology; Computer
  • 16 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Making the Most of Government Upheaval

Rogelio Oliva and Fernando F. Suarez began to study the effects of these changes three years ago when both were on the faculty of Chile's Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez. Recently published as an HBS working paper titled "The... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry
  • 06 Feb 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Sorting Out the Patent Craze

The great thing about standards, tech industry pundit Andrew Tanenbaum once said, is that there are so many to choose from. In fact, standard setting organizations (SSOs) are the unsung heroes of the technology age. Without standards, Web... View Details
Keywords: by Sara Grant; Technology
  • June 2010 (Revised October 2011)
  • Case

ProPublica

By: Michel Anteby, Philippe Bertreau and Charlotte Newman
Stephen Engelberg, ProPublica's managing editor, entered the organization's newsroom located in lower Manhattan on September 16, 2008. He knew a historical financial debacle was happening at his doorstep, yet none of his journalists were covering that beat. It would... View Details
Keywords: Employee Relationship Management; Leadership; Leading Change; Resource Allocation; Organizational Culture; Motivation and Incentives; Journalism and News Industry; Journalism and News Industry; New York (city, NY)
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  • 15 Aug 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Black Swans and Big Trends Can Ruin Anyone's Internet Prediction

investments are once again declining. Reasoning that today’s tech entrepreneurs and investors might value a history lesson, I’ve published Speed Trap as an ebook, which is downloadable for free in PDF format, and available in the iBooks... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas R. Eisenmann; Technology
  • 05 Jan 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles and Working Papers 2008

Here are the 20 most popular stories published by HBS Working Knowledge in 2008, and the five most-read working papers authored by HBS faculty. Most Popular Articles 1. Creating a Positive Professional Image (2005) In today's diverse... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 18 Oct 2004
  • Research & Ideas

The Bias of Wall Street Analysts

companies their firms are issuing securities for—or hope to do business with. The research, "Playing Favorites: Financing Options Sway Analysts' Thinking," was published in the June 2004 edition of Investor Relations Quarterly.... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services
  • 28 May 2008
  • First Look

First Look: May 28, 2008

  Working PapersAgency and Institutions: A Review of Institutional Entrepreneurship Authors:Julie Battilana, Bernard Leca, and Eva Boxenbaum Abstract This paper analyzes the literature that has been published on institutional... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 May 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Genomics: Can We Start Making Money Now?

Stefan Thomke, assistant professor Jonathan West, and Senior Research Fellow Juan Enriquez-Cabot. On February 12th of this year, this latest scientific revolution was launched in earnest when two research groups published their work to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jan 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 18

of the defective Ford Pinto and the downfall of Bernard Madoff, the authors investigate the nature of ethical failures in the business world and beyond and illustrate how we can become more ethical, bridging the gap between who we are and who we want to be. View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Aug 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Go Global—or No? Can You Make the Case?

Ever wanted to judge a Harvard Business Review case study? Here's your chance. In its June issue, Harvard Business Review published an account of the fictional company, DataClear, authored by Harvard Business School associate professor... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
  • 07 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”

wagon, so what?" Fumbling the Future was published in 1988, and the impact of this book reverberated throughout Xerox, stimulating many responses. As the story was recounted in the business and financial press, PARC's technological... View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough
  • 02 Nov 2010
  • First Look

First Look: November 2, 2010

Peter W. OlsonHarvard Business School Case 710-444 In early 2010, e-readers, like Amazon's Kindle and Apple's impending iPad, threatened to disrupt the book publishing industry. The case provides an overview of the industry, describes the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Apr 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Solving the Search vs. Display Advertising Quandary

behavior, they do a search on Google when they are ready to make a decision," says Gupta. "So search ads get all the credit for the sale. But search ads are at the bottom of the [purchase] funnel; display ads are at a higher level. Everybody in the View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising

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