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- 08 Feb 2010
- HBS Case
Looking Behind Google’s Stand in China
if you don't actually follow through? Q: Best guess: Will this dispute be resolved, or will Google be forced to keep its word and abandon China? Does China need Google more than Google needs China? A: The Chinese cannot permit Google's... View Details
- 23 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Three-Dimensional Strategy: Winning the Multisided Platform
traditional resellers. Also, MSPs can be less capital intensive for start-ups. No wonder, then, that an increasing number of entrepreneurial ventures such as thredUP have been attracted to the MSP model. But in 2012 thredUP's management changed course—it View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 13 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Kind of Blue: Pushing Boundaries with Miles Davis
seem to have a particular knack for moving on, jumping to new S-curves. These people—Miles Davis is one, but there are others, such as Pablo Picasso—seem to be willing to abandon past successes in the pursuit of something new and more... View Details
- 30 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Upside of Highlighting a Product's Downsides
the negative information paralyze customers? While knowing a product’s trade-offs clarified decisions for many Commonwealth Bank customers, diligently detailing every trade-off could overwhelm people, driving them to abandon the choice... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
two dilapidated row houses that had been vacant since 1978. She intends to replace them with affordable rental apartments—the opening salvo in an ambitious plan to redevelop West Baltimore Street, whose boarded-up windows and abandoned... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
newspaper column, he wrote, “No matter how much feeling of public obligation the executive staff of any corporation might possess, the corporate entity is involved in maximizing short and long run profit .The old yardstick is deadly but we cannot View Details
- 06 Aug 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Super Bowl Ads Sell Products, but Do They Sell Brands?
It campaign. There was a lot of hand-wringing over that. It wasn't obvious that this was a good decision, but the calculation came down to... that there are going to be a segment of our consumers who will abandon us, and there will be a... View Details
- 19 Sep 2016
- News
Former Blackberry CEO Uncovers Historic Shipwreck
history and to our future.” This week, Balsillie’s exploration uncovered another famous wreck—the HMS Terror, which was abandoned alongside the HMS Erebus and whose fate remained a mystery for 168 years. That is, until this Sunday. A... View Details
- Portrait Project
Lisandra Rickards
cling to desperately but have never realized. Should I make a lifetime investment in a country that may very well decline over my lifetime? And yet if I don't go back, I would be giving up so much. I would miss living in a place where life is not defined by work but by... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Research Brief: Lessons from Last Place
way or another, the experience of waiting touches all of us,” says Associate Professor Ryan Buell. His recent working paper, “Last Place Aversion in Queues,” examines the human tendency to be uncomfortable as the last person in line–causing us to switch lines or View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- Profile
Carolin Oldenbuettel
in consulting, “but I want to see how it works out.” After graduation, she will join Bain & Co. in Boston. “I’ll start as a generalist, but there’s a high probability of conducting due diligence for PE clients and getting projects in tech.” In the meantime, she has... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Condo Mania
Biscayne Bay. Someday, Sternlicht believes, wealthy buyers will want to live there; right now, he concedes, “this looks like an abandoned property. We have to make it look like it’s alive” (New York Times, May 30, 2010). Sternlicht became... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Ready, Set, Launch
critical feedback about the features they do want—and reduces the possibility that the startup will waste time developing features no one wants. Based on this feedback, a startup can then decide to adjust or abandon a concept or, if it’s... View Details
- Portrait Project
Sonali Duggal
my hands and skipped across it with a kind of privilege and abandon that neither of them could have dreamed of. Working in a rural village in Thailand, supporting a union in South Africa, and consulting for companies in Brazil? Check,... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Future Tech Leaders Dive into New Program
product manager and mechanical engineer, thought that the MS/MBA program would suit her wide-ranging interests. “I didn’t want to abandon the technical rigor and science that I love, but I wanted the big-picture perspective and the... View Details
- Portrait Project
Natalie C. Eckford
abandon and that nothing can replace true friendship. Driving through the backwoods of the Mississippi Delta one day, my father stopped and had me pick a couple of pieces of cotton. As I looked down at my dirty fingers, he told me never... View Details
- 22 Jun 2023
- News
Book Smart
these children to have the same opportunity. Risher had been an executive at Amazon and Microsoft, so he certainly knew plenty about tech and business. He also had connections, such as Steve Kessel, longtime head of Kindle, who heard the story of the View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Flight Path
Alexandra Palace, site of the 2017 Allianz World Championship of drone racing (photo by PA Images / Alamy Stock Photo) Fall 2016 Drone Racing League, ESPN, Sky Sports, and ProSiebenSat.1 agree to broadcast the first season of five races. Venues include Miami’s Hard... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 05 Jan 2011
- Op-Ed
Funding Unpredictability Around Stem-Cell Research Inflicts Heavy Cost on Scientific Progress
ruling can outlaw work that was previously supported by the government. Funding can be canceled with the stroke of a pen. Great People Abandon Promising Projects The projects are less important than the people, particularly people who... View Details
- Portrait Project
Ruby Tamberino
When I was nine, my father abandoned our family, leaving my mother to reenter the workforce and support two children on her own. In the years that followed, my brother and I would overhear adults in hushed voices lament our “growing up... View Details