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- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
matter and investments are multidimensional, high levels of asset specificity can foster non-integration: a low level of specificity provides the most misdirected incentives when transacting in a market (because the outside option of...
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Jan 2021
- News
A Message from Dean Srikant Datar
committed to doing it. Across the School I'm already seeing wonderful momentum. Everything from going to the market to recruit a Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, to rethinking how we calculate financial aid for MBA students whose...
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- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
technologies. Technology has the ability to change retailing substantially: The Internet is the most recent example. Hence, retailers—even though they are not usually technology specialists—should pay attention to technology and...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
online learning industry in 1998 when the internet was new, which just seems so long ago, and went to work for a little company that ran out of money. We sold it to a bigger company. I was the head of View Details
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part One]
viewed as mavericks, outside the mainstream. Companies are being pressured by foreign shareholders and competitive challenges. Many Japanese companies now have 25% of their stock owned by foreigners. In the case of the government, part of the problem is that there are...
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by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
annual Cyberposium). Recent Bulletins have profiled the vast array of alumni who are involved in high technology - from those working with Internet startups, to those working against the Y2K problem. Advances in technology "bring the...
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- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
the mafia. Every criminal trope imaginable is trying to get a piece of this. All told, online crime inflicted $445 billion in damage to the global economy in 2014, according to a study by the Center for Strategic and International Studies. A $75 billion cyberdefense...
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Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
eat some grasshoppers, ensuring (according to local lore) that they’ll return to Oaxaca one day. Day 3: Oaxaca Site Visits MI CASA ES SU CASA: On site visits, student groups focus on different tracks (housing, water, retail), gathering information from local residents...
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- January 2021 (Revised May 2021)
- Case
Ocado Group: Ready for the Future
By: José B. Alvarez, Damien McLoughlin and Natalie Kindred
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Growth and Development;
Innovation and Invention;
Innovation and Management;
Innovation Strategy;
Innovation Leadership;
Strategy;
Disruption;
Disruptive Innovation;
Internet and the Web;
Consumer Behavior;
Crisis Management;
Customer Value and Value Chain;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Retail Industry;
Consumer Products Industry;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Technology Industry;
United Kingdom;
United States;
Europe
Alvarez, José B., Damien McLoughlin, and Natalie Kindred. "Ocado Group: Ready for the Future." Harvard Business School Case 521-061, January 2021. (Revised May 2021.)
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
close association between the characteristics of actors’ environment and the processes of network formation among actors. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50445 Accounting Data, Market Values, and the Cross...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
A Message from Dean Srikant Datar | About
gender, across race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, diversity of all kinds. That work is important and urgent, and we’re very committed to doing it. Across the School I’m already seeing wonderful momentum. Everything from going to the View Details
- 19 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
competitive pressures in a saturated market. As 2018 dawned, all parties were assessing the deal’s implications. Had the stock market overreacted to news of the deal? Why was Amazon buying Whole Foods? What were the long-term implications...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
first-date spot: In their online profiles, women got younger and men got taller. As the stigma of online dating faded, the idea arose that the Internet could make dating easier for everyone. Asking someone on a date via email was less of...
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April White
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
will in fact homogenize consumption patterns, and a few superstar products will emerge as winners in the market place. In this study, using two large customer transactions data sets obtained from an online music service and an online DVD...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
meeting with the CEO, Lo drew him a network diagram of what the future infrastructure of TV distribution was going to look like. “It’s all going to be bits and bytes,” she told him. Lo would later help stitch together some 200 European View Details
- 06 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 6
impairment rules to convey private information on future cash flows; in contrast, agency theory predicts managers, on average, will use the discretion opportunistically. We test these hypotheses in a sample of firms with market...
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
Chicago press on June 1 in an edited volume entitled Accelerating Innovation: Insights from Multiple Sectors. In detailed histories of agriculture, chemicals, semiconductors, computers, the internet and biopharmaceuticals we asked "what...
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- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
government is building on communitybased care models across the country—as are foreign governments, from Myanmar to Saudi Arabia. Oishi is an unlikely hero for the country’s health care crisis: a marketing expert pushing to enact sweeping...
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Health, Social Assistance
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
career: Kelly Services’ Peter Quigley on reinventing work and creating good jobs In its 75 years, Kelly Services has gone from temp agency to skills broker, outsourcing firm, workforce development provider, and source of labor market...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
the National Institutes of Health. She also served on the Obama administration technology policy committee and the Council on Foreign Relations. We’ll talk about Coursera’s evolution from the massive open online course—or MOOC—environment of a decade ago to today’s...
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