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that has staked its future on blockchain-based games.... June 2024 Teaching Material Do Companies Overvalue External Talent? By: Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams When looking to fill a position above entry level, companies have two...
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- 05 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 5
PublicationsHow to Identify the Best Customers for Your Business Authors:Cespedes, Frank V., James P. Dougherty, and Ben S. Skinner III Publication:MIT Sloan Management Review Abstract How can businesses achieve profitable growth so that their costs don't grow faster...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Europe - Global
consulting was international market entry strategies, financial products, strategy, negotiation and implementation of cross border alliances, financial restructuring, mergers and acquisitions. He has also been active as a Foreign...
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“systems change” has taken the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors by s... Meet the 2024 New Venture Competition Social Enterprise Track Finalists 21 Mar 2024 In February 2024, the HBS New Venture Competition received 31 entries to the...
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- October 2019
- Case
Agility Africa
By: Juan Alcacer, Caroline M. Elkins and Esel Çekin
This case illustrates the challenge and opportunities that firms face when developing and executing new business models in high-risk, low-infrastructure, low-trust countries. It features a global logistics group, Agility, that aimed to become the leader in supplying...
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Strategy;
Business Model;
Innovation and Invention;
Expansion;
Emerging Markets;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Real Estate Industry;
Distribution Industry;
Africa
Alcacer, Juan, Caroline M. Elkins, and Esel Çekin. "Agility Africa." Harvard Business School Case 720-357, October 2019.
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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research
it can have generative repercussions for not only the focal category, but also the broader categorical landscape. Keywords: Technological Innovation; Technology Adoption; Moral Sensibility; Market Entry and Exit; Consumer Behavior...
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- 23 Jan 2024
- Book
More Than Memes: NFTs Could Be the Next Gen Deed for a Digital World
get free entry to “ApeFest,” the music festival we referenced earlier. Even the Vatican has issued NFTs that give holders exclusive access to historical artifacts and documents.* *And of course, these sorts of benefits are typically...
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- August 2007 (Revised September 2007)
- Case
Gome: Bidding for China Paradise
Gome, China's largest electronics retailer, has the opportunity to acquire China Paradise, the number three player in the Chinese electronic retailer industry. This happened in the general context of a great market development and potential consolidation of the...
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Acquisition;
Trade;
Market Entry and Exit;
Performance;
Opportunities;
Competition;
Consolidation;
Corporate Strategy;
Electronics Industry;
Retail Industry;
China
Jin, Li, Li Liao, Ruoran Guo, and Jielun Zhu. "Gome: Bidding for China Paradise." Harvard Business School Case 208-002, August 2007. (Revised September 2007.)
- 11 Aug 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
The Influence of Prior Industry Affiliation on Framing in Nascent Industries: The Evolution of Digital Cameras
- 2014
- Working Paper
Waste, Recycling and Entrepreneurship in Central and Northern Europe, 1870–1940
By: Geoffrey Jones and Andrew Spadafora
This working paper examines the role of entrepreneurs in the municipal solid waste industry in industrialized central and northern Europe from the late nineteenth century to the 1940s. It explores the emergence of numerous German, Danish, and other European...
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Environmental Entrepreneurship;
Business History;
Entrepreneurship;
Health;
History;
Green Technology Industry;
Germany;
Denmark;
Hungary;
United Kingdom
Jones, Geoffrey, and Andrew Spadafora. "Waste, Recycling and Entrepreneurship in Central and Northern Europe, 1870–1940." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-084, March 2014.
- 2021
- Working Paper
The Value of Data and Its Impact on Competition
By: Marco Iansiti
Common regulatory perspective on the relationship between data, value, and competition in online platforms has increasingly centered on the volume of data accumulated by incumbent firms. This view posits the existence of "data network effects," where more data leads to...
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Online Platforms;
Data Network Effects;
Analytics and Data Science;
Value;
Competition;
Digital Platforms
Iansiti, Marco. "The Value of Data and Its Impact on Competition." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-002, July 2021.
- 08 Mar 2021
- In Practice
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace. What Should Companies Do Now?
A year ago, COVID-19 forced many companies to send employees home—often with a laptop and a prayer. Now, with COVID cases subsiding and vaccinations rising, the prospect of returning to old office routines appears more possible. But will employees want to flock back to...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Apr 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Exclusive Preferential Placement as Search Diversion: Evidence from Flight Search
- May 2007
- Article
Inner Work Life: Understanding the Subtext of Business Performance
By: Teresa M. Amabile and Steven J. Kramer
Anyone in management knows that employees have their good days and their bad days and that, for the most part, the reasons for their ups and downs are unknown. Most managers simply shrug their shoulders at this fact of work life. But does it matter, in terms of...
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Amabile, Teresa M., and Steven J. Kramer. "Inner Work Life: Understanding the Subtext of Business Performance." Harvard Business Review 85, no. 5 (May 2007).
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Thinking Ahead
As we wind down 2023, there’s talk everywhere of generative AI and how it will fundamentally alter the world as we know it; but how does that translate for your corner of the business world? Is TikTok something you need to take seriously? (Is it time to dance?) We...
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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research
path from dirty to clean technology. We then estimate the model using a combination of regression analysis on the relationship between R&D and patents, and simulated method of moments using microdata on employment, production, R&D, firm growth, View Details
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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research
category. Rather, when activated, it can have generative repercussions for not only the focal category, but also the broader categorical landscape. Keywords: Technological Innovation; Technology Adoption; Moral Sensibility; Market Entry...
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- 03 Jun 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Inducement Prizes and Innovation
- 23 Sep 2015
- HBS Seminar
Ohad Barzilay, Tel Aviv University
- 12 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Experts Play It Too Safe: Innovation Lessons from a NASA Experiment
colleagues studied how experts judged contest entries and found that the greater an evaluator’s expertise, the more likely they were to nix less feasible proposals in favor of safer bets. “Who we select to do our evaluations and to pick...
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