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24 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Global Brands: Connecting With Consumers Across Boundaries

products filling world markets, truly unique selling propositions—the staple of advertisers for decades—are now few and far between, according to Ingo Krauss. "The venerable USP [unique selling proposition] has become the unique... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner

01 Jun 2015
News

Screen Grab

shows on topics that many advertisers would find too edgy. How we consume TV, it seems, is changing what we consume, opening up new opportunities on the business and creative sides of an industry that hasn’t seen a similar degree of... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment

04 Sep 2019
News

Giving Live Sports Another Dimension

scavenger hunts—think Pokémon Go—and track down virtual badges to win prizes. The possibilities for advertising and marketing are endless. Point your phone at an ad and get a virtual coupon for 10 percent off at the concession stands;... View Details

01 Mar 2012
News

Reinventing Radio Days

up with Pandora, which now holds more than 900,000 tracks, mostly music but also some comedy routines. Analysts expect 2011 revenues of $275 million, mainly from advertising (subscribers may also opt to pay for ad-free listening). Even... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; internet radio; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Dec 2017
News

3-Minute Briefing: Wei Zhang (MBA 1999)

connection we feel with animals. People thought the most we could do was 30 to 50 million yuan; eventually we did 606 million yuan in box office. Working in media was always my dream. One summer I saw an advertisement recruiting for kids... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

27 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Corporate Values and Employee Cynicism

Business School, have studied the risks and rewards of organizational values in depth using a young, ambitious advertising agency for a field study. What they learned about positive values surprised them, and their findings were published... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

10 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

Disruption: The Art of Framing

different work patterns and decision rules required in the new business. Print reps were used to selling in long cycles, to an established customer base, with a generic, nontargeted advertising product. Online View Details

Keywords: by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower

01 Oct 2000
News

Timothy G. Brier: The Price is Right

represented a substantial barrier to entry to any competitors, our long-term success would depend on customer service, scalability, and building the brand. While practically every other dot-com chose to advertise on the Internet, we saw... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

Teaching Interest

Overview

By: Nancy F. Koehn

My teaching and research focus on crisis leadership and how men and women use crises to make themselves better leaders. I currently teach a module in the Advanced Management Program and an HBS Online LIVE course on Courageous Leadership. The purpose of each course is... View Details

Keywords: History Of Leadership; Effective Leadership In Turbulent Times; Crisis Management; Change Management; Entrepreneurship; History; Advertising Industry; Advertising Industry; United States; Europe

December 2010
Supplement

Ad Classification at Right Media — pre-class slides — supplement

By: Benjamin Edelman

Right Media considers systems and policies to make sure that ads are only shown on web sites where they are appropriate, and vice versa. Setting standards is particularly challenging given the large and growing marketplace, the numerous participants, their diverse... View Details

Keywords: Digital Marketing; Market Participation; Negotiation Tactics; Marketing Communications; Communication; Media; Advertising Industry; Advertising Industry

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November 2017
Teaching Note

Facebook Fake News in the Post-Truth World

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth

Teaching Note for HBS No. 717-473. In January 2017, Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, was surrounded by controversy. The election of Donald Trump as the next president of the United States in November 2016 had triggered a national storm of protests, and... View Details

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01 Dec 2008
News

Teaching is in his DNA

John McArthur, as many of his friends say emphatically, is a teacher. “That’s his DNA,” says Boston advertising legend Jack Connors. “He wants to take his students, whoever they may be, and turn them into contributors to the community.... View Details

29 Feb 2016
HBS Case

Bigbelly's Big Bet on the Digital Trash Can

Q: When is a trash can not a trash can? A: When it’s a Wi-Fi hotspot, air-purity monitor, and advertising billboard—all in one. Bigbelly solar-powered trash cans have been street corner fixtures in Philadelphia, Boston, New York, and... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy

28 Oct 2014
First Look

First Look: October 28

shown to users who performed similar searches, they find that Google's prominent placement of its Flight Search service increased the clicks on paid advertising listings by more than half while decreasing the clicks on organic search... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Jun 2008
News

This Site’s for You

submit your best guess about what’s taking place. While we were revamping the Web site, we didn’t stop at the homepage. One of our goals was to answer your frequently asked questions. When you click on the new About Us link, you can now get quick answers to questions... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Bulletin; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

24 Feb 2009
First Look

First Look: February 24, 2009

which the instruments of accountability are at least as likely to reproduce relationships of inequality as they are to overturn them. Deterring Online Advertising Fraud Through Optimal Payment in Arrears Author:Benjamin Edelman... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2007
News

A Man of Influence

recounts his days at HBS, admitting, “I came to Harvard with an insouciant assumption that I would be first in the class. As it turned out, I had to ride at full gallop just to stay the course.” Not long after HBS, Valenti and a partner launched their own View Details

01 Sep 2003
News

The Kids Are Alright: Alumni Children Crack Case

pop-up ads on most sites. Instead, its “immersive” advertising was more like the product placements common to television and movies — sponsors’ products or messages appear in the context of the site’s games and activities.) As the class... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

07 Oct 2019
Sharpening Your Skills

How Companies Can Make Up with (Very) Unhappy Customers

and laundry products aimed at men, examples of identity-based labeling—or “identity appeals”—abound in advertising and marketing. Five studies show when and why they backfire. Image: iStock What's the best example you've seen of a company... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail; Air Transportation

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PJ Meyer

"level the playing field for local businesses" by working with student groups to set up internet alternatives for small businesses to perform everything from advertising to online ordering. Participation in a number of business... View Details

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