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- November 2015 (Revised May 2016)
- Case
Aspiring Minds
By: Karim R. Lakhani, Marco Iansiti and Christine Snively
By 2015, India-based employment assessment and certification provider Aspiring Minds had helped facilitate over 300,000 job matches through its assessment tools. Aspiring Minds' flagship product, the Aspiring Minds Computer Adaptive Test (AMCAT), used machine learning...
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Keywords:
Information Technology;
Strategy;
Higher Education;
Technological Innovation;
Employment;
Technology Industry;
India;
China
Lakhani, Karim R., Marco Iansiti, and Christine Snively. "Aspiring Minds." Harvard Business School Case 616-013, November 2015. (Revised May 2016.)
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Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni
joined Goldman Sachs, and in 1975 was the second person for GS in Japan and all of Asia, enabling GS to become one of the first six non-Japanese companies to hold a seat on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. He was recognized in 1998 by Newsweek...
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- July 2020 (Revised November 2020)
- Case
Pricing at Netflix
By: Elie Ofek, Marco Bertini, Oded Koenigsberg and Amy Klopfenstein
Since its launch in 1998 as “the Amazon.com of DVDs,” Netflix had evolved from a DVD rental company to a video streaming platform and producer of original films and television shows. As the company matured, it regularly increased prices and adjusted its product...
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Keywords:
Pricing;
Marketing;
Marketing Strategy;
Entertainment;
Film Entertainment;
Television Entertainment;
Finance;
Price;
Strategy;
Competition;
Competitive Strategy;
Business Strategy;
Adaptation;
Information Technology;
Internet and the Web;
Digital Platforms;
Customers;
Customer Satisfaction;
Customer Value and Value Chain;
Entertainment and Recreation Industry;
North and Central America;
United States
Ofek, Elie, Marco Bertini, Oded Koenigsberg, and Amy Klopfenstein. "Pricing at Netflix." Harvard Business School Case 521-004, July 2020. (Revised November 2020.)
- 2020
- Working Paper
Design in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
By: Roberto Verganti, Luca Vendraminelli and Marco Iansiti
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is affecting the scenario in which innovation takes place. What are the implications for our understanding of design? Is AI just another digital technology that, akin to many others, will not significantly question what we know about...
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Keywords:
Artificial Intelligence;
Design Thinking;
Technological Innovation;
Design;
Change;
Theory;
AI and Machine Learning
Verganti, Roberto, Luca Vendraminelli, and Marco Iansiti. "Design in the Age of Artificial Intelligence." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-091, February 2020.
- 2024
- Working Paper
Homeward Bound: How Migrants Seek Out Familiar Climates
By: Marguerite Obolensky, Marco Tabellini and Charles Taylor
This paper introduces the concept of “climate matching” as a driver of migration and establishes several new results. First, we show that climate strongly predicts the spatial distribution of immigrants in the US, both historically (1880) and more recently (2015),...
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Keywords:
Migration;
Climate;
Immigration;
Residency;
Weather;
Ethnicity;
Climate Change;
Geographic Location;
Policy;
United States
- August 2019 (Revised April 2021)
- Case
Zillow Offers: Winning Online Real Estate 2.0
By: Luis Viceira, Marco Di Maggio and Allison Ciechanover
Founded in 2005, Zillow had become the leading online real estate and home-related marketplace. The brand was recognized as a trusted resource for players in the real estate market, providing information and transparency on home prices. Revenue, which was historically...
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Keywords:
Real Estate;
Corporate Culture;
Intermediation;
Brokerage;
Startup;
Evaluating Business Investments;
Property;
Information Technology;
Business Model;
Expansion;
Business Startups;
Real Estate Industry;
Media and Broadcasting Industry;
United States
Viceira, Luis, Marco Di Maggio, and Allison Ciechanover. "Zillow Offers: Winning Online Real Estate 2.0." Harvard Business School Case 220-021, August 2019. (Revised April 2021.)
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Faculty & Research - Global
low property values. Faena created a district anchored by hotels, residences, restaurants, an art center, gardens, and a marina. However, the Miami Beach housing market was volatile, known for its booms and busts. The case concludes in...
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Latin America - Global
Brazil Tel: +55 11 3549 9590 News & Highlights JUNE 2024 ALUMNI EVENT Alumni Event with HBS Club of Brazil The HBS Club of Brazil hosted a dedicated event for search funds in June 2024. Gustavo Vaz (MBA 2018), Marcos Noll Barboza (GMP),...
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- 2020
- Book
The Ends Game: How Smart Companies Stop Selling Products and Start Delivering Value
By: Marco Bertini and Oded Koenigsberg
How some firms are rewriting the rules of commerce by pursuing “ends”—actual outcomes—rather than selling “means”—their products and services.
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Bertini, Marco, and Oded Koenigsberg. The Ends Game: How Smart Companies Stop Selling Products and Start Delivering Value. Management on the Cutting Edge. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020.
- 2021
- Case
NiPay's Pricing Conundrum
By: Marco Bertini and Oded Koenigsberg
NiPay is a software provider competing in the Nigerian business-to-business payments market. Founded by Idaku Ibrahim nearly 20 years ago, NiPay sells two products to retailers and other merchants, which enable individual shoppers to transact either online or via a...
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Bertini, Marco, and Oded Koenigsberg. "NiPay's Pricing Conundrum." London Business School Case, 2021. Electronic.
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HBS - The year in Review
Management Seth Neel Technology & Operations Management Charlotte L. Robertson Business, Government & the International Economy Marco Sammon Finance Lumumba B. Seegars Organizational Behavior Faculty Promotions Two faculty members were...
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Popular - HBS Working Knowledge
in the Feminine Care Market Re: Rembrand M. Koning 11 Jan 2021 Working Paper Summaries The Political Effects of Immigration: Culture or Economics? by Alberto Alesina and Marco Tabellini 16 Jun 2020 Working...
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- 2024
- Working Paper
The Seeds of Ideology: Historical Immigration and Political Preferences in the United States
By: Paola Giuliano and Marco Tabellini
We study the long run effects of immigration on American political ideology. Exploiting
cross-county variation in the presence of European immigrants between 1900
and 1930, we establish a novel result: historical European immigration is associated
with stronger...
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Keywords:
Political Ideology;
Preferences For Redistribution;
Cultural Transmission;
Immigration;
History;
Values and Beliefs;
Welfare;
United States
Giuliano, Paola, and Marco Tabellini. "The Seeds of Ideology: Historical Immigration and Political Preferences in the United States." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-118, May 2020. (Revised July 2024. Revise and resubmit at the Journal of the European Economic Association. Available also from VOX, UCLA Anderson Review, Weekendavisen, Cato Institute, Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER), World Financial Review, and Newsweek.)
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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research
production workers) are associated with more autonomy and a wider span of control. By contrast, communication technologies (like data networks) decrease autonomy for both workers and plant managers. Treating technology as endogenous using...
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- 2023
- Working Paper
Geographies of Discontent: Public Service Deprivation and the Rise of the Far Right in Italy
By: Simone Cremaschi, Paula Rettl, Marco Cappelluti and Catherine E. De Vries
Electoral support for far-right parties is often linked to geographies of discontent.
We argue that public service deprivation, defined as reduced access to public services
at the local level, plays an important role in explaining these patterns. By exploiting
an...
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Keywords:
Election Outcomes;
Electoral Behavior;
Political Affiliation;
Political Culture;
Public Service;
Political Elections;
Policy;
Government and Politics;
Surveys;
Geographic Location;
Immigration;
Europe;
Italy
Cremaschi, Simone, Paula Rettl, Marco Cappelluti, and Catherine E. De Vries. "Geographies of Discontent: Public Service Deprivation and the Rise of the Far Right in Italy." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-024, November 2023.
- 2024
- Working Paper
Faith and Assimilation: Italian Immigrants in the U.S.
By: Stefano Gagliarducci and Marco Tabellini
How do ethnic religious organizations influence immigrant assimilation? To answer this question, we assemble novel data from the Catholic directories to measure the presence of Italian Catholic churches in the US between 1890 and 1920, when four million Italians moved...
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Gagliarducci, Stefano, and Marco Tabellini. "Faith and Assimilation: Italian Immigrants in the U.S." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-029, November 2021. (Revised January 2024. Also available from NBER and featured in NBER Digest and VoxEU. Conditionally accepted at the Economic Journal.)
- June 2012
- Article
Pricing to Create Shared Value
By: Marco Bertini and John T. Gourville
Many companies are in competition with their customers to extract as much value as possible from every transaction. Pricing is their weapon of choice, and consumers fight back by rooting out and disseminating pricing policies that seem unfair. The problem is that...
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Keywords:
Pricing;
Marketing Strategy;
Price;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Customer Relationship Management;
Value Creation;
Fairness
Bertini, Marco, and John T. Gourville. "Pricing to Create Shared Value." Harvard Business Review 90, no. 6 (June 2012): 96–104.
- June 2022 (Revised August 2022)
- Case
Dollar Tree: Breaking the Buck
By: Jill Avery and Marco Bertini
For thirty-five years, Dollar Tree, a discount retail chain selling general merchandise, had held its fixed price point steady, pricing all of its household items, food, stationery, books, seasonal items, gifts, toys, and clothing that made up its diverse and...
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Keywords:
Retailing;
Pricing;
Pricing Strategy;
Discount Retailing;
Discount Store;
Marketing;
Brands and Branding;
Marketing Strategy;
Price;
Inflation and Deflation;
Consumer Behavior;
Retail Industry;
United States
Avery, Jill, and Marco Bertini. "Dollar Tree: Breaking the Buck." Harvard Business School Case 522-091, June 2022. (Revised August 2022.)
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
All Smiles
Recent Doctoral graduates returned to campus in April to discuss their research and enjoy socializing at Young Alumni Research Day (see story below). From left, Marco Bertini (DBA 2006), Raj Choudhury (DBA...
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