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- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?
clear: many retail segments are under assault by cheaper, more convenient retailers selling online. "The surprising thing is that despite the success of lots of big businesses in having developed Internet businesses, despite the fact that... View Details
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
Alstyne Abstract Platform-mediated networks encompass several distinct types of participants, including end users, complementors, platform providers who facilitate users' access to complements, and sponsors who develop platform... View Details
- 12 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?
business certifies independent hot-spot providers and splits with them a $50-per-month user subscription fee. Boingo users are assured that hot spots in the network conform to technical standards, and the software allows them to transfer... View Details
- 04 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 4
Marquis, Jianjun Zhang, and Yanhua Zhou Publication:California Management Review (forthcoming) Abstract We develop a framework to analyze the closing gap between regulation and enforcement of environmental protection in China and present... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2015
- First Look
First Look -- September 1, 2015
Politics we observe firms working more closely with NGOs and other special interest groups to preempt unfavorable policy choices, react swiftly to crises, and proactively develop socially responsible strategies. In Public Politics, firms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
Change: The Expansion of Primary Education in India By: Mangla, Akshay Abstract—This article analyzes India’s recent enactment of universal primary education. This programmatic policy change is puzzling given the clientelistic features of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 5
methodology using a novel dataset developed with the division of a large pharmaceutical firm. The dataset consists of all components in the enterprise architecture, the observed dependencies between them, and estimated costs of change for... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
likely would be difficult to finance externally. We argue that a developed financial system can facilitate exports, and we test three implications. First, a more developed financial system is associated with... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/517016-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 817-028 Innovating Beyond Ochsner The Ochsner Health System has developed a proprietary software tool designed to treat... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- November 2020
- Teaching Note
DayTwo: Going to Market with Gut Microbiome
By: Ayelet Israeli
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 519-010. DayTwo is a young Israeli startup that applies research on the gut microbiome and machine learning algorithms to deliver personalized nutritional recommendations to its users in order to minimize blood sugar spikes after meals.... View Details
Keywords: Start-up Growth; Startup; Positioning; Targeting; Go To Market Strategy; B2B Vs. B2C; B2B2C; Health & Wellness; AI; Machine Learning; Female Ceo; Female Protagonist; Science-based; Science And Technology Studies; Ecommerce; Applications; DTC; Direct To Consumer Marketing; US Health Care; "USA,"; Innovation; Pricing; Business Growth; Segmentation; Distribution Channels; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Startups; Science-Based Business; Health; Innovation and Invention; Marketing; Information Technology; Business Growth and Maturation; E-commerce; Applications and Software; Health Industry; Technology Industry; Insurance Industry; Information Technology Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Israel; United States
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
rights on firms' external finance constraints via generalized method of moments (GMM) estimation of an augmented investment Euler equation developed by Whited and Wu (2006). Using a large sample of U.S. firms during the period from 1995... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
the growth of younger companies and revitalize large corporations through partnerships with innovative SMEs; 3) improving the match between education and employment opportunities, through apprenticeship programs and other education-industry links; and 4) linking... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
from both streams, this paper seeks to shed light on the complexity of cross-boundary teaming, while highlighting factors that may enhance its effectiveness. We develop an integrative model to provide greater explanatory power than... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Analyzing Institutions to Solve Big Problems
Development at the Base of the Pyramid" explores a 2012 sanitation initiative in which Indian Union Minister Jairam Ramesh advised women not to marry men whose houses lacked toilets. (As of the 2011... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Anna Secino
- 05 Jul 2004
- What Do You Think?
Work-Life: Is Productivity in the Balance?
not possible for all people to feel that urgency with the reduced amount of one-to-one contact that now takes place" under more liberal work-life policies. It's clear that these issues are not peculiar to the United States. Several View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- June 2016 (Revised August 2019)
- Case
Numenta: Inventing and (or) Commercializing AI
By: David B. Yoffie, Liz Kind and David Ben Shimol
In March 2016, Donna Dubinsky (co-founder and CEO) and Jeff Hawkins (co-founder) were struggling with a key question: Could Numenta be successful in both creating fundamental technology and building a commercial business? Located in Redwood City, CA, Numenta was... View Details
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Machine Intelligence; Machine Learning; Strategy; Business Model; Entrepreneurship; Information; Technological Innovation; Research; Research and Development; Information Technology; Applications and Software; Technology Adoption; Digital Platforms; Commercialization; AI and Machine Learning
Yoffie, David B., Liz Kind, and David Ben Shimol. "Numenta: Inventing and (or) Commercializing AI." Harvard Business School Case 716-469, June 2016. (Revised August 2019.)
- 09 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Overcoming the Challenges of Selling Brand New Technology (Hey, Need a 3-D Printer?)
prototypes, artists made jewelry, and developers punched out low-cost housing. Machines that had cost upwards of $50,000 now cost a few thousand and could fit on a desktop. Formlabs brings 3-D printing home Formlabs View Details
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing
stockouts and forecast error, and planning software that is inappropriate for the retailer. Track and predict forecast accuracy. Only nine of the 32 retailers in our study said they analyzed the accuracy of their forecasts. And yet,... View Details
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Gurus in the Garage
interviewed share one habit: they refuse to make decisions for the entrepreneurs. Otherwise, their teaching methods vary tremendously. Learning by Doing When Michael Chiarello, founder and CEO of NapaStyle, was developing the idea for his... View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 15 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 15, 2008
product design, production, distribution, and system integration may be split up among hundreds or even thousands of firms. Different firms will design and produce the different components of a complex artifact (like the processor, peripherals, and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace