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- 28 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 28
Shippo, prepares her pitch for a Series A funding round following a successful seed round. Customer adoption of Shippo’s e-commerce dashboard application, which allows small and medium retailers to compare delivery rates between shipping providers and View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Scholars and Students Unpack the Digital Business Revolution
it, students get a hands-on sense of what is unique about digital economics and business models, from new businesses like 3-D printing to "classics" like Facebook. They also do a deep dive into data analytics. "There are...
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- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Trouble Behind Livedoor
receive the new share for several months, at which point he can sell it. This system is the result of ownership being tracked on paper rather than electronically—it takes time to print out new share certificates. Because investors do not...
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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Leslie Gold
ratings boost and launching a career that has seen a variety of radio gigs, including on Sirius, and many appearances on national television (such as Larry King Live and Nightline) and in print media (including Playboy, Glamour, and the...
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- 15 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Search vs. Display Advertising Quandary
The dirty little secret of advertising agencies is that much of their work is pure guesswork. Companies spread out their advertising budgets across channels—a little bit of TV, some print media, a few billboards—and wait for customers to...
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- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Ann S. Moore, MBA 1978
services and information. In 1978, Time Inc. produced only six magazines, but soon the number of print materials available to Americans began to explode. Driven by consumer habits and technology, the landscape continues to change even...
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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: Reemerging Technologies
Your research examines industries that once seemed doomed but have experienced a comeback. How does this happen? I did my dissertation work on the Swiss watch industry, and I looked at what it takes for a technology to reemerge. For over two centuries, Swiss mechanical...
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- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Charles O. Rossotti, MBA 1964
turnaround in attitude as to what was possible," he smiles. "Expectations were higher." The only thing Rossotti knew for sure when he graduated from Harvard Business School was that he wanted to be an entrepreneur some day. "My grandfather had founded the Rossotti...
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- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Sir Martin S. Sorrell, MBA 1968
a current client and supplier, Google, which has shown an interest in expanding its reach beyond online search advertising and aims to use the entire gamut of video, audio, and print media to create advertisements for companies of all...
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- 29 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business Press Is a Watchdog that Bites
problems in doing research about ex-post frauds. We never know how many people did the exact same thing but because other circumstances worked out for them, it never came out. Q: You analyzed print press, but would you have different...
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- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan
printed on the back of your receipt? A: In those instances, the coupons that you're given are a function of what you've just bought, and in that sense they have no memory of what kind of customer you really are. So they can be [only]...
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- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
guy's trombone. My morning's planned down to the second: quick stop at Kinko's to print out my proposal, quick call to Maura to beg her forgiveness I sent her those Calyx & Corolla flowers, so hopefully we're all square and then off to...
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- 10 May 2017
- Research & Ideas
Amazon Web Services Changed the Way VCs Fund Startups
editing in biotech, 3D printing has allowed for rapid prototyping for hardware startups, and reusable rockets have brought down the cost to build and launch a small satellite to under a million dollars. “And we often see advances in one...
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- 18 Jul 2014
- News
Team Players
media—website, Facebook, and Twitter—as the primary information hubs, in part because of their interactive capabilities, and to back these up with print promotion and special events throughout the region that would give fans a...
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- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Ron Shaich’s Café Society
advertising last year, and yet we received Brandweek’s Marketer of the Year award. I’m proud of that. We put our efforts into fueling word of mouth rather than into television and print advertising. We think the best way to advertise is...
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- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
New Paths to Success in Asia
people in rural areas who don't yet have computers," he continues. "This company's service allows e-mail messages to be sent from anywhere in the world to a post office near the addressee's home, printed out as a letter, stuffed...
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by Alejandro Reyes & Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
One-on-One with Peter Cuneo
lose money. Also, the quality of comic books today has never been better; it’s not the old days when they were printed on pulp paper. When they’re done well, they’re a high form of art. Who reads Marvel comic books today? Generally...
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- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Media Metamorphosis: Advertising in the Technology Age
Beset by changes on several fronts, the media industry, traditionally comprising the familiar print and broadcast channels of mass communication, has been undergoing a major transformation in recent years, change that appears certain to...
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- 16 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019
Through the Generations Rodolfo, Marco, and Edoardo De Benedetti had received from their father his controlling shares in COFIDE, a publicly listed holding company that held 45.8% of CIR Group, another publicly listed holding. The latter held majority shares in GEDI,...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Dec 2017
- Research & Ideas
What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets
not just relying on the printed word—why can we not do research by referring to video, sound, and the like? There is so much mathematics devoted today to extraction of quantitative data from all sorts of data sources that a move in this...
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by Sean Silverthorne