Mobile Internet Usage - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2024
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Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Debunking Teenagers: 200 Research-Based Parenting Strategies to Help Your Adolescent Successfully Navigate the “Tempteen” Years By Daphne Adler (MBA 2004) Independently Published Why are teenagers constantly tempted to behave... View Details

31 May 2017
What Do You Think?

Can Amazon Do What Walmart Couldn’t, Stop the 'Wheel of Retailing'?

and mortar big box stores instead. Amazon, unburdened by such real estate, was easily able to mobilize Internet capabilities in order to capture a dominant share of a notoriously inefficient book retailing... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

launching its MVP in Detroit automotive plants when COVID shut down businesses around the world. Yanez pivoted and developed a mobile app that would enable front-line workers to safely return to work. Between Q4 2020 and Q4 2021, Andonix... View Details

26 Jul 2016
Research & Ideas

Where will Pokémon Go with Your Personal Information?

all time. Data analytics firm Similar Web reported that in its first week alone, the app had been installed on nearly 11 percent of all Android phones in the United States, and surpassed Twitter’s daily usage shortly thereafter. Pokémon... View Details

Keywords: Re: Willy C. Shih; Video Game; Entertainment & Recreation

02 Aug 2007
What Do You Think?

How Will Millennials Manage?

they are challenging and highly stimulating. So I may have an admittedly warped view of the generation. A great deal has been written about how millennials got that way. Of course, the rise of the Internet has influenced their outlook,... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

12 May 2020
Research & Ideas

It’s Time To Relaunch Your Remote Team

start is to revisit the team’s sense of shared purpose. Revisit your shared purpose. A relaunch ensures that every team member understands and buys into the clear and specific goals that the team has been mobilized to accomplish. It is an... View Details

Keywords: by Tsedal Neeley

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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Conference, European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management (Dublin, Ireland, June 2004) for “Exploring the Relationships between Product Development and Environmental Turbulence: The Case of Mobile TLC Services,” with T. Buganza... View Details

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Industry Information - Alumni

verifies print and digital circulation, mobile apps, website analytics, social media, technology platforms and audience information for newspapers, magazines and digital media companies in the US and Canada. Although circulation numbers... View Details

March 2016 (Revised May 2018)
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ASOS PLC

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth

Launched in 2000, ASOS was one of the world’s largest online fashion specialists in 2018. Focusing on young consumers aged 16–25 years, the company offered over 85,000 items on its websites, many times more than the largest fashion stores, and added several thousand... View Details

Keywords: ASOS; AsSeenOnScreen; Online Fashion; Online Apparel; Nick Beighton; Nick Robertson; E-commerce; E-Commerce Strategy; Online Retail; Multichannel Retailing; Omnichannel; Social Media; Marketplaces; Shipping; Advertising; Digital Marketing; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Business Startups; For-Profit Firms; Customer Focus and Relationships; Age; Gender; Currency Exchange Rate; Profit; Revenue; Geography; Geographic Scope; Global Range; Global Strategy; Globalized Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Business History; Selection and Staffing; Journals and Magazines; Human Capital; Business or Company Management; Crisis Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Management Succession; Brands and Branding; Marketing Channels; Marketing Communications; Marketing Strategy; Product Positioning; Social Marketing; Media; Distribution; Distribution Channels; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Infrastructure; Logistics; Public Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Strategy; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Vertical Integration; Segmentation; Internet and the Web; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Fashion Industry; Retail Industry; United Kingdom; England; London

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11 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

E-Commerce Unplugged

channel, a mobile Internet or a substitute for PCs. Rather, it is a new aspect of consumerism and a much more powerful way to speak with consumers. Unleashing the value of m-commerce requires understanding... View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria & Marty Leestma

12 May 2003
Research & Ideas

How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?

Internet pioneers looked at everything from Wi-Fi "hot spots" to the future of broadband at a recent telecommunications conference at Harvard Business School. The issues were debated at the Bandwidth Explosion colloquium held... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne & Martha Lagace; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications

Jeffrey P. Bezos

Founding his company just as the Internet was gaining widespread usage and credibility, Bezos created the world’s largest on-line bookseller. Realizing that few bookstores, even superstores, carry more than... View Details

Keywords: Retail

25 Sep 2006
Research & Ideas

How Software Platforms Revolutionize Business

solutions for myriad tasks that previously were performed in traditional, non-tech ways. In this way, they have improved the productivity of many traditional industries (just look at all the industries that use PCs today) and created brand new ones (just look at the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Web Services

09 Dec 2015
Research Event

When Hosts Attack: The Competitive Threat of Online Platforms

run on Microsoft’s Windows platform, was the dominant web browser in the 1990s until squashed by Microsoft’s own Internet Explorer. In February 2015 there was the launch of Meerkat, an app that lets users broadcast live streaming video... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail; Technology; Web Services

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Privacy - HBS Working Knowledge

developed with the recognition that Internet technologies continue to develop and evolve rapidly, and that such changes may require us to alter our Privacy Policy. Any such alterations will not affect our general commitment to the... View Details

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America's Digital Divide: Where Workers Are Falling Behind | Working Knowledge

government surveys to determine digital usage, which largely examined access to infrastructure but didn’t show the full picture. Greenstein developed the first map of commercial internet usage in the US more... View Details

Fast Answer

Gaming: statistics

Where can I find information on gaming hardware and software? The Entertainment Software Association website lists sales, demographic, and usage data, as well as information intended to improve the image of the industry. Search eMarketer... View Details

16 Jun 2009
First Look

First Look: June 16

lifestyles of China's rural population. However, the cost of connecting remote locations was high and was often not offset by subscriber fees or usage rates of these populations. Would this investment be relegated to a socially... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

04 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

Start to Measure Your E-commerce Success

the company's e-commerce project objectives. Different tools and techniques are available to measure the different aspects of e-commerce performance. For example, online surveys and polls are powerful tools to help e-commerce enabled companies to better understand the... View Details

Keywords: by Marc J. Epstein

18 May 2015
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The First Five Years: Anjali Vaidya (MBA 2010)

and mobile technology in particular, has the potential to be a tremendous tool for empowerment. There are now two billion people across the world with Internet access through handheld touchscreen devices.... View Details

Keywords: Google; Yahoo; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

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