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- 09 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Location, Location, Location: The Strategy of Place
When companies thrive in their home base, temptation can be great to expand to new locations, either across town or around the world. The problem: Many companies think of location strategy as a short-term checkers match rather than as a...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- Summer 2016
- Article
Open Content, Linus' Law, and Neutral Point of View
By: Shane Greenstein and Feng Zhu
The diffusion of the Internet and digital technologies has enabled many organizations to use the open-content production model to produce and disseminate knowledge. While several prior studies have shown that the open-content production model can lead to high-quality...
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Prejudice and Bias;
Internet and the Web;
Balance and Stability;
Operations;
Knowledge Management;
Knowledge Dissemination
Greenstein, Shane, and Feng Zhu. "Open Content, Linus' Law, and Neutral Point of View." Information Systems Research 27, no. 3 (September 2016): 618–635.
- 25 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy
result, we separate macro and micro. Someday, if we ever figured everything out, these things would come together. That's true in many areas of study. Q: What will executives and other business readers learn...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
The MBA Class of 2022 Looks Back - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year...
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- 15 Oct 2014
- Blog Post
HBS Class of 2016
Information Day – with more than 45 companies on campus - kicks things off in just a few weeks and marks the start of our recruiting season. While this is a very exciting time, we realize that it is also an...
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- April 2008 (Revised May 2010)
- Case
Visions of Web 3.0
By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and David Andrew Vivero
Explores the Semantic Web, a vision for the next generation of the World Wide Web in which information is stored in machine-readable formats. While the Semantic Web would make information more easily accessible, barriers to its adoption are very high because website...
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Business Startups;
Entrepreneurship;
Strategy;
Technology Adoption;
Digital Platforms;
Internet and the Web
Eisenmann, Thomas R., and David Andrew Vivero. "Visions of Web 3.0." Harvard Business School Case 808-147, April 2008. (Revised May 2010.)
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
A Matter of Opinion
people, Navasky says, “just see things differently than I do.” Today, the growing list of subscribers to The Nation, America’s oldest weekly magazine, suggests that more and more View Details
- 07 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Rediscovering Schumpeter: The Power of Capitalism
most penetrating analyst of capitalism who ever lived. He saw things other people didn't see.” McCraw, a past winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History, has written a new...
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- December 2012
- Case
Blink Booking
By: William R. Kerr, Magnus Thor Torfason and Alexis Brownell
Rebeca Minguela hopes to create an arbitrage platform, similar to Rocket Internet, that can bring start-up ideas and opportunities to Spain. However, Blink Booking, her first venture and proof of concept, is rocked by a co-founder's breach of confidence and departure....
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Clones;
Cloning;
Rocket Internet;
Start-up;
Equity Split;
Arbitrage;
Incubator;
Mobile App;
Expansion;
Spain;
Europe;
Entrepreneurship;
Ethics;
Internet and the Web;
Information Technology Industry;
Accommodations Industry;
Travel Industry;
Spain;
Europe
Kerr, William R., Magnus Thor Torfason, and Alexis Brownell. "Blink Booking." Harvard Business School Case 813-121, December 2012.
- 04 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Real Cost of Bribery
reports in his paper. One thing that didn't seem to matter: the size of the bribe. Thirty-five percent of the bribes reported in the survey fell under $100,000, and they had...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 22 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
Pulling Campbell’s Out of the Soup
get things done." Conant put together a two-year leadership development program that he personally ran, requiring leaders to attend five major sessions of two or three days each, giving them homework...
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- 13 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Tricky Business of Nonprofit Brands
decent wages. Even strictly humanitarian organizations are now calling for changes in the underlying structures of the societies in which they operate. This complicates things somewhat for nonprofit...
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by Manda Salls
- September 2023 (Revised July 2024)
- Case
Going Mobile-First? The Digital Transformation of Davivienda Bank in Colombia
By: Jorge Tamayo and Jenyfeer Martinez Buitrago
Set in 2017, this case describes the digital transformation strategy of Davivienda— a leading player in Colombia’s commercial banking and one of the companies belonging to Grupo Bolívar, a major Colombian financial conglomerate. The case also describes the pioneer role...
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Change Management;
Transformation;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Information Technology;
Digital Strategy;
Digital Transformation;
Internet and the Web;
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Innovation and Management;
Innovation Strategy;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Business Strategy;
Banking Industry;
Latin America;
Central America;
South America;
Colombia
- March 2011 (Revised July 2011)
- Case
Vestas' World of Wind
By: Thomas J. Steenburgh and Elena Corsi
The wind turbine manufacturer Vestas launched the industry's first highly localized and customized new product launch campaigns which used also new tools such as web 2.0 platforms. Used to operate in a market where demand exceeded supply, Vestas had lost contact with...
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Customer Focus and Relationships;
Marketing Channels;
Internet and the Web;
Product Launch;
Demand and Consumers;
Advertising Campaigns;
Global Strategy;
Customization and Personalization;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Finance;
Product Marketing;
Technology Adoption;
Energy Industry
Steenburgh, Thomas J., and Elena Corsi. "Vestas' World of Wind." Harvard Business School Case 511-121, March 2011. (Revised July 2011.)
- 11 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Meet the MBA Class of 2020
BREAKTHROUGHS PEOPLE THOUGHT IMPOSSIBLE A YEAR AGO.” HOME REGION Wayne, PA UNDERGRAD EDUCATION College of William & Mary, Economics, 2014 PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE Verily, Google, Symplivety HBS ACTIVITIES Digital Impact Initiative, The...
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- May 2014
- Article
Making 'Freemium' Work: Many Start-ups Fail to Recognize the Challenges of This Popular Business Model
By: Vineet Kumar
The article discusses the "freemium" business model, which is used by some Internet businesses and smartphone application developers to give users free basic features of a digital product and access to premium functionality for a subscription fee. The discussion topics...
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Kumar, Vineet. "Making 'Freemium' Work: Many Start-ups Fail to Recognize the Challenges of This Popular Business Model." Harvard Business Review 92, no. 5 (May 2014): 27–29.
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
The Business of Babies
The demand for babies by infertile couples and other would-be parents is huge — and little discussed. HBS professor Debora L. Spar addressed the market realities of adoption and scientific conception at the 2003 Alumni Health-Care...
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- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Joy of Work
creativity was supposed to take place, but our questions were not overtly focused on creativity. In fact, respondents were told just that we were interested in looking at the kinds of things that can help...
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