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- 18 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
How to Use Free Shipping as a Competitive Weapon
revenue from the shipping fees because these are orders that qualify for free shipping." As one might expect, customers who visited the seller's website more frequently, as well as more recently, exhibited the highest demand and...
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- 28 Jul 2016
- Op-Ed
Where is TripAdvisor for Doctors?
reviewed by patients often enough for the overall ratings to carry credibility. The number of hotel night stayovers far exceeds the number of doctor visits. The same chicken-and-egg issue faces all website developers: you need consumers...
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- 02 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
Do Online Dating Platforms Help Those Who Need Them Most?
Over the past decade, socially-focused websites have attracted hundreds of millions of users and changed the social fabric in fundamental ways. The likes of eHarmony and Match.com enable us meet new people. Platforms including Facebook,...
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- 06 Jan 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Should Management Deal With “Anonymous”?
According to the Financial Times, "Anonymous encouraged 'hactivists' to download a simple tool-known as the 'low orbit ion cannon'-that allows their computers to be used to inundate the targeted website with requests and bring it...
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Prita Kumar
customer feedback and it’s all moving in a positive direction. That to me is a good day. The bad days are the days where I find myself having to explain my business to people who don’t get it. In most cases it is potential investors who might not have even visited the...
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- 18 Mar 2014
- News
The Oz of Data Opens the Curtain
Microsoft's online advertising business, began steering the company on a dramatically new course last year. In September 2013, Acxiom unveiled the beta version of a free website called AbouttheData.com, which gives individual consumers an...
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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
What’s Next
innovation in higher education. How does HBS deal with the risks and opportunities of disruptive innovation for its own long-term development? Ha Xuan Trung (MBA 1978), Brookline, Massachusetts More About The HBS Campaign Investing In Innovation HBS Campaign View Details
- 26 Oct 2017
- Research Event
In an Era of 'Fake News,' What is the Future of Advertising and Publishing?
tracking our activities on the internet. Ads, Eich pointed out, can be blocked, but tracking is difficult to block. To decouple purchases and website subscriptions from credit card companies and user profiles, he envisions a browser with...
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- 09 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Fearing Fox News, Democratic-leaning Companies Delayed Negative Announcements
limited. Friendster, the first website to resemble the social media outlets we have today, was still two years away from release in 2000. In contrast, Facebook currently has over 2 billion monthly users, more than a quarter of the...
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- 05 Apr 2017
- Research & Ideas
For Women Especially, It Pays to Know What Car Repairs Should Cost
that was higher than consumers’ expectations. Immediately after receiving the quote, some callers queried whether the repair business would be willing to match the expected price published by the online automotive repair website...
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- 19 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 19
for this trend is that citizens may be unaware of both the services provided by government and the impact of those services on their lives. In an experiment, Boston-area residents interacted with a website that visualizes both service...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Sheila Lirio Marcelo
Care.com. “We got together on October 30, 2006 and we launched the first test website in January,“ she said. “We launched the entire business that May. The only way were able to do that was because we had all worked...
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- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
studying the impact of Craigslist, a website providing classified-advertising services, on local U.S. newspapers. We exploit temporal and geographical variation in Craigslist's entry to show that newspapers with greater reliance on...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Case Method - Research Resources | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
globe. Published resources are available online or at Baker Library, HBS and other Harvard Libraries. span> Case Method 100 Years: Timeline, News Articles, Videos Case Method 100 Years Visit the Case Method 100 Years website to see video...
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- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
actually on the HBS website and I called the headhunter and I said, "I really want to interview for this job." Sodexo's a food service company principally. I was in financial services, and the headhunter said, "You've got zero...
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- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
and was on track to generate $75 million in revenue. Kraus then cofounded and sold the high-end travel website Spire. Now Kraus is examining the place of women entrepreneurs as a scholar. During her time at HBS—as a member of the faculty...
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April White
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Terms of Use | HBS Online
. 1. Introduction; Changes Please read these Terms of Use and the other Agreements described immediately below before registering for, accessing or using any portion of the Harvard Business School Online website (the “Site,” which...
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- 28 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Football Stars Debate ‘The Social Capital of the Savvy Athlete’
"Richard Sherman sets Twitter off." T-shirts emblazoned with "Don't you ever talk about me" are now available on Sherman's website for $29.95. Sherman was among the panelists at a recent forum entitled "Unrealized...
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- 24 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
SuperCorp: Values as Guidance System
posted on walls and websites by using their codified set of values and principles as a strategic guidance system. They gain business advantages from actions they take based on the societal responsibility these statements imply, as Banco...
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by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 16 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
The Rise of The Sixes: Interview with CEO and Founder Franci Girard
was about to begin. A Look Behind the Scenes Take a look at The Sixes website now and you’ll see the stunning and polished product Girard has worked tirelessly to build since 2018. What you won’t see are the challenges she faced to get...
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