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  • Article

How to Launch Your Digital Platform: A Playbook for Strategists

By: Benjamin Edelman
The ubiquity of Internet access has caused a sharp rise in the number of businesses offering platforms that connect users for communication or commerce. Entrepreneurs are particularly drawn to these platforms because they create significant value and have modest... View Details
Keywords: Platforms; Launch; Mobilization Strategy; Two-Sided Platforms; Network Effects; Adoption; Entrepreneurship; Transportation Industry; Transportation Industry; Transportation Industry; Transportation Industry; Transportation Industry
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  • 11 Nov 2020
  • Research & Ideas

How Hackathons Help Decide Platform Winners and Losers

platforms that other developers have already joined or will join. Then they can benefit from network effects,” Wu says. “Without seeing other developers at a hackathon, it would be hard to know how many developers are excited about a... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology
  • 30 Jun 2020
  • Book

Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever

large companies. But small companies can do the work as well as large. A special challenge for small companies is the networking with governments, NGOs, and funders to make the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 11 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 11, 2007

which company politics should improve government, from breaking up entrenched old boys' networks to leveraging a company's existing organizational expertise. Private firms have realized efficiency and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Jul 2010
  • First Look

First Look: July 20

significantly higher for companies with a wider divergence between the corporate insiders' control rights and cash-flow rights, suggesting that companies whose corporate insiders have larger excess control... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Program

Ascending the Peak: Finding the Leader Within—Virtual

tools to continue growing your leadership capabilities Expand your personal and professional network Extend your network by connecting and working with accomplished directors from various backgrounds,... View Details
  • Web

MBA Experience - Leadership

on how managers become effective leaders by addressing the human side of enterprise. The first modules examine teams, individuals, and networks in the context of: The determinants of group culture. Managing the performance of individual... View Details
  • 16 Jun 2015
  • First Look

First Look: June 16, 2015

strategy. Without such a strategy, companies will have a hard time weighing the trade-offs of various practices-such as crowdsourcing and customer co-creation-and so may end up with a grab bag of approaches. They will have trouble... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2009
  • Working Paper

Do Friends Influence Purchases in a Social Network?

By: Raghuram Iyengar, Sangman Han and Sunil Gupta

Social networks, such as Facebook and Myspace have witnessed a rapid growth in their membership. Some of these businesses have tried an advertising-based model with very limited success. However, these businesses have not fully explored the power of their members to... View Details

Keywords: Marketing; Network Effects; Sales; Power and Influence; Social and Collaborative Networks; Web Sites; South Korea
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  • July 2000 (Revised June 2009)
  • Case

Embraer: The Global Leader in Regional Jets

By: Pankaj Ghemawat, Gustavo A. Herrero and Luiz Felipe Monteiro
Embraer is the story of a company from a developing country, Brazil, that has become the leader in a high-tech field, regional passenger jets. Embraer's first family of regional jets has been highly successful and, at the time of the case, it is embarking on a major... View Details
Keywords: Air Transportation; Capital Structure; Corporate Strategy; Developing Countries and Economies; Air Transportation Industry; Brazil
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    W. Earl Sasser

    Earl Sasser is a Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School and has been a member of the faculty there since 1969. He received a B.A. in Mathematics from Duke University in 1965, an MBA from the University of North Carolina in 1967, and a Ph.D. in... View Details

    Keywords: transportation; transportation; transportation; transportation; transportation; transportation; transportation; transportation; transportation; transportation; transportation; transportation; transportation; transportation; transportation; transportation; transportation; transportation; transportation; transportation
    • 07 Jul 2022
    • HBS Case

    How a Multimillion-Dollar Ice Cream Startup Melted Down (and Bounced Back)

    as one of her “favorite things.” The Food Network named Smith’s salted chocolate and brownie-flavored ice cream, “It Came From Gowanus,” as the No. 1 ice cream in the country. So how did Ample Hills Creamery, with its celebrity buzz, $10... View Details
    Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
    • Web

    Africa - Global

    School. This dinner marked the conclusion of Professor Iyoha’s visit to Lagos, during which she conducted in-depth case study interviews with senior executives of select companies and engaged in strategic discussions regarding future case... View Details
    • 21 Jun 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: June 21

    2, a social network survey, found that managers lower in metacognitive CQ reported a deficit of new idea sharing in their intercultural but not intracultural ties. In Study 3, a laboratory experiment involving a collaborative task, higher... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • February 2002 (Revised February 2006)
    • Case

    Volvo Trucks (A): Penetrating the U.S. Market

    By: Michael E. Porter and Orjan Solvell
    Volvo Trucks has worked on a global strategy for several decades. Beginning in the mid-1970s, the company decided to enter the largest market for trucks: the United States. Over time, the company has struggled to get a significant share of the U.S. market and at the... View Details
    Keywords: Market Entry and Exit; Competitive Strategy; Five Forces Framework; Truck Transportation; Global Strategy; Globalized Markets and Industries; Manufacturing Industry; Retail Industry; United States; Europe
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    • 18 Jul 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Will Global Demand for Oil Peak This Decade?

    Is the globe’s thirst for oil finally topping out? A major international energy watcher says yes, predicting last month that demand for global oil for transport will peak around 2026, plateau for all uses by 2028, and possibly hit a zenith by the end of the decade.... View Details
    Keywords: by Alvin Powell, Harvard Gazette; Energy; Industrial Products; Auto; Green Technology
    • Profile

    Yaoxin Ding

    Yaoxin Ding was born in a small, underdeveloped town in southeast China. Attracted to mobility technology and driven by a desire to “build out the infrastructure” of towns like his own, he studied traffic and transportation engineering as... View Details
    • Web

    Finance - Faculty & Research

    investors. Blue Ocean now had to decide whether to invest in WSense, an Italian company whose products had the potential to revolutionize underwater communications, creating networks equivalent to Wi-Fi at... View Details
    • 28 Apr 2008
    • HBS Case

    Negotiating with Wal-Mart

    tractors ($12,000 each) as a cheaper and faster way to transport melons to the warehouse. Talley also negotiated a coveted co-management supplier agreement with Wal-Mart, showing how Frey Farms could share the responsibility of managing... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail
    • 21 May 2019
    • Cold Call Podcast

    If the Key to Business Success Is Focus, Why Does Amazon Work?

    Keywords: Re: Sunil Gupta; Retail