Filter Results
:
(2,093)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(2,093)
- People (1)
- News (300)
- Research (1,550)
- Events (11)
- Multimedia (14)
- Faculty Publications (770)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(2,093)
- People (1)
- News (300)
- Research (1,550)
- Events (11)
- Multimedia (14)
- Faculty Publications (770)
- 11 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 11
that researchers face when demonstrating the existence and effects of resale price maintenance (RPM). We outline three approaches for finding price effects of RPM and the corresponding hurdles in data and...
View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stasis and Turmoil: HBS Research for the Real World
it seems that if you work hard and keep your nose clean, they'll get rid of your division." Stevenson believes that many of the remedies prescribed today for enhancing competitiveness - organizational innovations such as restructuring,...
View Details
- 15 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 15
business relations, and then reputation and regulatory relations. The impact on stock price has been much less significant, and this could be attributed to stock prices not reflecting the impact on employee...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Case Study: Sweat the Technique
asset. —George Corbin (MBA 1993) Develop the disposable and license out the rights (bearing royalties and potentially producing earlier milestone revenues or other income) to an existing digital platform. Having the platform in...
View Details
Keywords:
Dan Morrell
- 14 Nov 2012
- News
Remembering His Roots
to business schools as well as some of the tuition. The RFDF Exchange, an online platform that allows students to raise money for their respective educational pursuits, is a major component. “Each student is a stock with a starting View Details
Keywords:
farmworkers
- 21 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Missing the Wave in Ship Transport
investors succeed in volatile, cyclical markets as far ranging as real estate, high technology, and truck transport. In Waves in Ship Prices and Investment, a National Bureau of Economic Research working paper, Professor Robin Greenwood...
View Details
- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
Midway" within Microsoft, the console project was intended to counter the perceived threat to the Windows franchise posed by Sony expanding the original PlayStation into a broad entertainment platform with the PlayStation 2. Seamus...
View Details
Keywords:
Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
they can compete successfully in both the old and the new economies. Authors Philip Kotler, Dipak C. Jain, and Suvit Maesincee show how to build a complete marketing platform around the exploration, creation, and delivery of superior...
View Details
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
the scientists themselves. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52220 January 2017 American Economic Review Are Online and Offline Prices Similar? Evidence from Large Multi-Channel Retailers By: Cavallo,...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Resolving Patent Disputes that Impede Innovation
litigation, the ex post negotiation of license terms (that is, negotiations occurring after a technology's inclusion in a standard) can lead to higher royalty payments and ultimately higher prices to consumers." And while standard...
View Details
- 14 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
The World in Your Palm?
from a high-end watchmaker that will do just one thing—tell time—but do it in style. "Features
don't always get you there," Tyneski said. Several panelists argued that the cell phone of today is not the ideal platform for...
View Details
Keywords:
by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
average demand increases with both pricing transparency and agent expertise, and that agent expertise interacts positively with competitive intensity. We also find that View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 15 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 15, 2007
Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=907412 HDFC (A) Harvard Business School Case 301-093 The top management team at India's leading home finance company must decide how to deal with the emergence of intense View Details
Keywords:
Martha Lagace
- 25 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 25
Download working paper: http://www.nber.org/papers/w20667 Multi-Sided Platforms By: Hagiu, Andrei, and Julian Wright Abstract—We study the economic tradeoffs that drive organizations to position themselves closer to or further away from a...
View Details
Keywords:
Carmen Nobel
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Manager's Notebook
case of diabetes care, once manufacturers' insulin became consistently pure and reliable, consumers looked to a particular syringe's ease-of-use as their purchasing criterion. When products are equally convenient to use, price becomes the...
View Details
Keywords:
Judith Ross
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
levels of aid. We call these joint phenomena the political transfer problem and argue that the largest windfall of the 20th century, the period from 1973 to 1985 during which oil prices were at all-time highs, produced long-run political...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Innovation: Revenge of the Nerds
business owners in need of strategic planning and competitive analysis. When the team pitched the HourlyNerd model to classmates at FIELD 3’s simulated stock market, which allows peer “investors” to evaluate the business plans, the stock...
View Details
Keywords:
April White
- 02 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t
but can't afford the hefty prices for designer originals? Rent the Runway allows fashionistas to use those dresses and accessories at affordable rates. The company has decoupled the value part of the process—experiencing haute...
View Details
Keywords:
by Michael Blanding
- Article
Network Effects Aren't Enough
By: Andrei Hagiu and Simon Rothman
In many ways, online marketplaces are the perfect business model. Since they facilitate transactions between independent suppliers and customers rather than take possession of and responsibility for the products or services in question, they have inherently low cost...
View Details
Keywords:
Digital Platforms;
Competition;
Internet and the Web;
Network Effects;
Market Participation
Hagiu, Andrei, and Simon Rothman. "Network Effects Aren't Enough." Harvard Business Review 94, no. 4 (April 2016): 65–71.
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Case Study: Growing the Family Business
centers profitable more quickly. — Bob Poulin (MBA 1985) The premium in the hourly rates is well deserved, but you are giving too much value away by not covering fixed/setup costs. I believe the source of funds to finance the expansion is in your View Details