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- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan
Packaged good manufacturers were eager to create a direct-to-consumer link like the one Dell found to sell computers. Such a link would minimize wasteful and inefficient marketing practices, which to date have mostly focused on broadcast... View Details
- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
dispute to court can be an expensive proposition. Cohen shared an example: Lumen View Technology, which had initiated patent lawsuits in the past against numerous companies, sued FindTheBest and several other firms, claiming they infringed on a Lumen patent protecting... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
- 06 Jan 2021
- News
A Message from Dean Srikant Datar
Staff Stories. Recorded in our remote studio on December 15, 2020. Hi, my name is Srikant Datar and I have just started as Dean of the Harvard Business School on January the 1st. It was very nicely put by [Executive Dean for Administration] Angela [Crispi], saying that... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
A Conversation with Dean Clark
planning for new technology that would allow us to do powerful things at the heart of the kind of high-quality education we were committed to providing. Our progress to date is remarkable. You mentioned the use of video in cases. The... View Details
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
institutions. Our goal is to eradicate these inequalities and build equity in our communities. The Anti-Racism Fund provides capital to organizations as a way to inject social change.” To date they have raised more than $300,000 in... View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
skin,” write the brothers on their website. “We understand racism permeates our society and its institutions. Our goal is to eradicate these inequalities and build equity in our communities. The Anti-Racism Fund provides capital to organizations as a way to inject... View Details
- 03 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 3
Working Papers Competition As Strategic Interaction By: Eisenhardt, Kathleen, Rory McDonald, and Cheng Gao Abstract—Strategic interaction has been a topic of scholarly inquiry dating back to the 1960s. Drawing on several seminal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 20
factors causing the crisis but also evaluating the government responses to date and suggesting practical reforms for the future. Catering Through Nominal Share Prices Authors:Malcolm Baker, Robin Greenwood, and Jeffrey Wurgler... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
private governance of working conditions, initiated and implemented by companies, labor unions, and non-governmental activist groups. Whether these codes represents a substantive or merely symbolic approach to governing working conditions is the subject of an ongoing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
was unable to get to Boston by the date specified (commercial air flight was not yet available), my father recounted how he had gone to Harvard on my behalf, taking two days off from his small business to travel by train from Altoona,... View Details
- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
Under Armour finds itself with a new record to beat: making the leap from $5 to $10 billion in sales—a feat only accomplished to date by competitors Nike and Adidas. At the heart of this challenge is how Under Armour can maintain its... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
measure how organizational capabilities shape competitive advantage. While the notion that capabilities influence strategy dates back to the work of Andrews (1971, The Concept of Corporate Strategy, Irwin: Homewood), attempts to formalize... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
size of its stores), the decline of mall-based shopping, poor floor-level sales capabilities, lack of appeal to younger consumers, intensifying competition, and an overall dearth of future growth opportunities. This case allows students to assess Lundgren's leadership... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
discrimination and harassment lawsuit a woman cofounder lodged against the Tinder dating app to the comments of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, who advised women against asking for a raise, but instead “knowing and having faith that the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
favorably if they decided to visit his office to verify where he worked.” Nothing in their polished business plan prepared the partners for the reality they faced from Day One. In the Beginning The friendship that blossomed into a partnership that became iTrust View Details
- 02 Aug 2018
- News
Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
plan will go to the governor's office sometime in the first part of July for him to sign off on, and then the State agencies need to get to work and will on implementing that plan. And that will be a multi-month process to implement the plan and make sure that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
reform’s biggest downside to date as the negative financial impact on the traditional “safety-net providers” — hospitals whose business models depended on subsidies they received for handling a high volume of uninsured, low-income... View Details
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section. Class meets weekly on Wednesday nights to enable unique interactions with HBS alumni and other guests. Usually these sessions are from 5:30-7:30pm, but there will be two Wednesday sessions that will be longer – 5:30-8:30pm – to accommodate special... View Details
- 04 Apr 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?
started out as a dating site here at Harvard when he was a freshman and then he saw an opportunity to move to the West Coast to really expand Phenomenal success. There literally are millions of people who want to be the next Mark... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
earlier. But soon that story will be out of date or rather, won’t capture everything. One day, Watson will do more than just suggest likely illnesses, says David Kenny. It’ll get more granular and actually prompt doctors: Did you look for... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page