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- February 2014
- Article
Responses to Entry in Multi-Sided Markets: The Impact of Craigslist on Local Newspapers
By: Robert Seamans and Feng Zhu
How do firms respond to entry in multi-sided markets? We address this question by 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... View Details
Keywords: Digital Platforms; Market Entry and Exit; Internet and the Web; Newspapers; Advertising; Advertising Industry; Journalism and News Industry
Seamans, Robert, and Feng Zhu. "Responses to Entry in Multi-Sided Markets: The Impact of Craigslist on Local Newspapers." Management Science 60, no. 2 (February 2014): 476–493.
- 17 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Advice for the New CEO: Talk to Your Employees Early and Often
20 percent compared with the pre-transition period. Why? CEO turnover tends to cause a great deal of uncertainty about whether a new leader will make big changes, like reshuffling or reducing the workforce, as well as shifting corporate strategies, Sadun says. “The... View Details
Keywords: by Ami Albernaz
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Hot Tip
business information in countries across the continent. Nkontchou (pronounced en-CON-choo) was born in Cameroon and moved to Paris with his diplomat parents when he was 13. Of his decision to earn an MBA from HBS, he told USA Today... View Details
- 2009
- Book
Chinese General Management: Tsinghua-Harvard Text and Cases
By: F. Warren McFarlan and Guoqing Chen
McFarlan, F. Warren, and Guoqing Chen. Chinese General Management: Tsinghua-Harvard Text and Cases. Tsinghua University Press, 2009, Chinese Mandarin ed. (Available in Mandarin only.)
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
Alumni Books Smarter Together: How Communities Are Shaping the Next Revolution in Business By Rob Bernshteyn (MBA 2001) Greenleaf Book Group Press Driving value today requires information. Lots of information. Most of us are becoming good at distilling the data within... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Exploring Global Business Practices
a lean but deeply networked international presence, the centers enable the faculty to produce research that informs management practice around the world and have become a locus for HBS activities in their regions. The insights faculty... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Can't Knock the Hustle
POSEUR: A "living statue" mysteriously materialized A guerrilla-marketing campaign designed to promote a book about rapper and entertainment mogul Jay-Z became the subject of a recent EC case by HBS professor Anita Elberse. The centerpiece of the Jay-Z marketing... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Jump-Start
Investing in HBS Giving Through HBS Giving Together From Fellowship Recipient to ‘The Most Influential Business Thinker On Earth’ FAQ Completing its second year, the School’s Minimum Viable Product Award (MVP) program attracted considerable interest, but not just from... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
What HBS Learned from West Point
If talk of knowing, doing, and being sounds a little touchy-feely, take heart. By embracing the educational framework, HBS is taking a page directly out of the US Military Academy’s playbook on leadership development. MBA Class of 1958 Senior Lecturer Scott Snook, a US... View Details
- February 2018
- Case
Amazon, Google, and Apple: Smart Speakers and the Battle for the Connected Home
By: Rajiv Lal and Scott Johnson
Amazon, Google, and Apple all offer their own smart speaker. The devices represent each firm's entry point into the connected home market. All three companies come into the space with their own strengths and weaknesses. Who will win? View Details
Keywords: Apple; Apple Inc.; Google; Amazon; Amazon.com; Google Home; Homepod; Echo; Smart Home; Connected Home; Voice; Artificial Intelligence; Machine Learning; Internet Of Things; Smart Speaker; Connected Speaker; Intelligent Assistants; Virtual Assistants; Voice Assistants; Alexa; Google Assistant; Siri; Technological Innovation; Disruptive Innovation; Competitive Strategy; Business Strategy; Adoption; Information Infrastructure; Information Technology; Internet and the Web; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Applications and Software; Technology Adoption; Digital Platforms; Household; AI and Machine Learning; Electronics Industry; Technology Industry; United States
Lal, Rajiv, and Scott Johnson. "Amazon, Google, and Apple: Smart Speakers and the Battle for the Connected Home." Harvard Business School Case 518-035, February 2018.
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The New Rules of E-Commerce
site refreshes. Embrace innovative thinking. Rakuten discovered that its Indonesian customers were hesitant to key in credit-card information due to security concerns. The solution: Mikitani heeded the advice of a local partner to create... View Details
- 05 May 2022
- News
Lesson Plans
about 30 million learning minutes a day, to about 85 million learning minutes per day. But then we also realized there was just a lack of leadership and an information gap on what should people be doing? What should parents be doing? What... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
The Weather Channel Forecast: Challenges Ahead
2f1f4a24430fe040f37c6d7564258142 Viewers love The Weather Channel, giving its president and CEO, Bill Burke (MBA ’92), an enviable edge over many of his counterparts in the notoriously fickle business of cable network programming. On average, more than 21 million... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Acing Reality
e26ab6ec3e322e740f082ee4c18d618b Reality television is not exactly the place you’d picture catching a glimpse of a former classmate, but those in the HBS Class of 1997 were treated to a reunion last summer when Willis C. (“Chip”) Arndt (MBA ’97) and his partner,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century
different could things be?” It’s only been thirteen years since I graduated from HBS, and we in the Class of 1988 were remarkably forward-thinking about technology. Ours was the first class to have a subject called Management Information... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
Not so long ago, its practitioners were considered a risk-taking breed apart and teaching it was viewed as an academic career-killer. But then entrepreneurship came in from the cold, thanks in large part to a maverick true believer named Howard Stevenson. Issue Focus:... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Leveraging Female Talent
a lot of books and articles on gender studies. I decided that I would also talk to people, research some companies, look at the data, and let that inform my path. That's the beauty of being at HBS—finding questions that are researchable... View Details
- 31 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Scholarly Crowd Explores Crowdsourcing
Entrepreneurs are routinely encouraged to form partnerships—don't dare do it alone. But new research shows the potential danger of getting too close to outsiders—particularly investors—when proprietary information can be leaked to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Rethinking the MBA
DATAR AND GARVIN: Listen to "Rethinking the MBA" Virtual Learning Series phone call (mp3) If you are curious about the future of business education, look no further than the new book Rethinking the MBA: Business Education at a Crossroads (Harvard Business Press), by... View Details