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  • 02 Aug 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market

economically more valuable, in keeping with the values of fine art more generally. Q: Why did you use the Indian art market as the basis for your study on how categories evolve? A: Our interest began when we wrote a case on... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • Jun 2011
  • Conference Presentation

Viral Videos: The Dynamics of Online Video Advertising Campaigns

By: Anita Elberse
Keywords: Internet and the Web; Advertising
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  • May 2011 - 2011
  • Conference Presentation

Viral Videos: The Dynamics of Online Video Advertising Campaigns

By: Anita Elberse
Keywords: Internet and the Web; Advertising
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  • 2021
  • Working Paper

Digital Labor Market Inequality and the Decline of IT Exceptionalism

By: Ruiqing Cao and Shane Greenstein
Several decades of expansion in digital communications, web commerce, and online distribution have altered regional IT labor market returns in the United States. IT occupations experienced similar wage growth as STEM occupations involving IT-related work activities,... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Labor; Wages; Equality and Inequality
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  • Article

The Cost Structure, Customer Profitability, and Retention Implications of Self-Service Distribution Channels: Evidence from Customer Behavior in an Online Banking Channel

By: Dennis Campbell and Frances X. Frei
This paper uses the context of online banking to investigate the consequences of employing self-service distribution channels to alter customer interactions with the firm. Using a sample of retail banking customers observed over a 30-month period at a large U.S. bank,... View Details
Keywords: Cost; Service Operations; Distribution Channels; Consumer Behavior; Internet and the Web; Banks and Banking; Technology Adoption; Service Delivery; Market Transactions; Market Participation; Profit; Retail Industry; Banking Industry; United States
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  • May 2021 (Revised August 2021)
  • Supplement

Zara: An Integrated Store and Online Model (A) and (B)

By: Antonio Moreno and Anibha Singh
Keywords: Stores; Integration; Operations; Business Model; Strategic Planning; E-commerce; Retail Industry; Fashion Industry; Europe
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  • 12 Apr 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Swiping Right: How Data Helped This Online Dating Site Make More Matches

this research is particularly useful for image-driven platforms such as online dating. “Understanding this market is valuable,” he says. If dating platforms could increase user engagement—and therefore... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
  • 05 Mar 2019
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Impacts of Increasing Search Frictions on Online Shopping Behavior: Evidence from a Field Experiment

Keywords: by Donald Ngwe, Kris J. Ferreira, and Thales Teixeira; Retail; Apparel & Accessories; Consumer Products
  • 30 May 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Market Makers Bid for Success

In late February, Harvard Business School professor Bill Sahlman spoke with two former MBA students, Scott Randall ('87) and Glen Meakem ('91), to discuss their perspectives on organizing markets in a new and evolving economy and what... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Web Services; Technology
  • Research Summary

Making Markets Work: An Executive Education Program for Africa

By: Debora L. Spar
In the last decades of the 20th century economic growth was distributed unevenly across the world. While some countries experienced sustained and unprecedented prosperity, others fell further and further behind. This widening gap was particularly evident in Africa,... View Details
  • Article

The Store Is Dead—Long Live the Store

By: David R. Bell, Santiago Gallino and Antonio Moreno
In this article, we pursue two interconnected themes: the expansion of online-first retailers into offline stores that serve the purpose of “supercharging” customer value, and the transformation of the stores of offline-first retailers from... View Details
Keywords: Customer Experience; Inventory Control; Omnichannel Retailing; Online Marketing; Marketing Channels; Trends; Transformation; Digital Marketing; Retail Industry
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  • Article

Why the Wall Street Journal Online Will (Eventually) Go Free

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport
Keywords: Technology; Digital; Services; Strategy; Internet and the Web; Marketing
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  • April 2019 (Revised June 2019)
  • Case

Western Governors University: 10x Vision

By: William R. Kerr and Susie L. Ma
Western Governors University (WGU) was a nonprofit institution of higher education whose online learning model served more than 100,000 students in 2019 and was scaling rapidly. President Scott Pulsipher wanted to expand WGU’s reach to millions more with a plan called... View Details
Keywords: Online Education; Enrollment; Scaling; Higher Education; Internet and the Web; Business Model; Expansion; Growth and Development Strategy; Education Industry; United States
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  • May 2021 (Revised February 2025)
  • Teaching Note

Zara: An Integrated Store and Online Model (A) and (B)

By: Antonio Moreno and Anibha Singh
Teaching Note for HBS Case Nos. 620-073 and 620-074. View Details
Keywords: Stores; Integration; Operations; Business Model; Strategy; E-commerce; Retail Industry; Fashion Industry; Europe
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  • June 2015 (Revised April 2018)
  • Case

WeChat: A Global Platform?

By: Willy Shih, Howard Yu and Feng Liu
WeChat was developed by Tencent Holdings as a lightweight messaging platform. As it grew quickly to become the most popular messaging app in China, it added a range of products and services that sat on top that were designed to appeal to a broad range of consumers and... View Details
Keywords: Online Platforms; China; WeChat; Tencent Holdings; Globalization; Internet and the Web; Applications and Software; Digital Platforms; Telecommunications Industry; Information Industry; China
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  • December 2023
  • Article

What Can Stockouts Tell Us About Inflation? Evidence from Online Micro Data

By: Alberto Cavallo and Oleksiy Kryvtsov
We use a detailed micro dataset on product availability and stockouts to construct a direct high-frequency measure of consumer product shortages during the 2020-2022 pandemic. We document a widespread multi-fold rise in stockouts in nearly all sectors early in the... View Details
Keywords: Prices; Stockouts; Inventories; Supply Disruptions; COVID-19 Pandemic; Supply Chain; Product; Demand and Consumers
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  • 28 May 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

Leveraging Market Power Through Tying and Bundling: Does Google Behave Anti-Competitively?

Keywords: by Benjamin Edelman
  • September–October 2017
  • Article

The Surprising Power of Online Experiments: Getting the Most Out of A/B and Other Controlled Tests

By: Ron Kohavi and Stefan Thomke
In the fast-moving digital world, even experts have a hard time assessing new ideas. Case in point: At Bing, a small headline change an employee proposed was deemed a low priority and shelved for months until one engineer decided to do a quick online controlled... View Details
Keywords: Experiments; A/B Testing; Research; Consumer Behavior
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  • September 2014 (Revised June 2016)
  • Case

edX: Strategies for Higher Education

By: David Collis, Matthew Shaffer and Ashley Hartman
In May 2012, Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) founded edX, a new non-profit joint venture that would provide a platform for massive open online courses (MOOCs). edX did not produce original courses or instructional content—it made... View Details
Keywords: MOOCS; edX; Online Platforms; Online Education; Harvard University; MIT; Execution; Monetization; Brand Management; Higher Education; Information Technology; Strategy; Disruptive Innovation; Digital Platforms; Education Industry
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From TV to Web: Content Strategies for Ads That Drive Online Sales

By: Thales S. Teixeira
Consumers have become avid media multitaskers, moving seamlessly between their TVs and digital devices. Shorter TV commercials have reduced both the quantity and quality of consumer attention during prime-time viewing hours. In this new media environment, can TV... View Details
Keywords: TV Advertising; Multitasking; Infotainment; Television; Prime Time; Advertising; Online Advertising; Advertising Industry
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