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- 29 Feb 2016
- HBS Case
Bigbelly's Big Bet on the Digital Trash Can
cities” field. “I wanted to explore the opportunities and challenges of selling to government in a company that is moving from selling hardware in big chunks to selling software as a service,” says Weiss, the MBA Class of 1961 Senior... View Details
- 06 Aug 2001
- Research & Ideas
Go Global—or No? Can You Make the Case?
presenter from Group B. "We came up with the idea of Benro but didn't have time to pursue it. They might be willing to talk about reciprocal distribution." Benro was a small software shop in Norway. Greg knew if had made about... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- 09 Dec 2015
- Research Event
How Do You Predict Demand and Set Prices For Products Never Sold Before?
Ferreira was a doctoral student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Rue La La is a so-called flash sales business, offering deeply discounted, extremely-limited-time offers on designer clothes and accessories. Often, these... View Details
- 21 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 21, 2006
Ricardo Software Harvard Business School Case 607-019 Engineer John Harrison must determine why motorcycle racer Marco Presto does not feel that his motorcycle is providing enough power as it comes out of corners. Harrison uses engine... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
In the Virtual Dressing Room Returns Are A Real Problem
that are easier to specify: computer software (offline-to-online ratio $0.99); health and beauty products ($0.93); music/video products ($0.83); and books ($0.68). 3 Ample evidence suggests that current B2C sites are unable to... View Details
- 09 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Overcoming the Challenges of Selling Brand New Technology (Hey, Need a 3-D Printer?)
focused on selling software to engineers and designers and might not be as committed to selling hardware, which cost less and offered a lower commission. Selling on Amazon was the easiest option of all, but meant sacrificing 12 to 18... View Details
- 02 Aug 2024
- HBS Case
How a Mission to Cut Food Waste Launched a Multimillion-Dollar Venture
On a hectic Friday in October 2016, Josh Domingues wondered if he had made a mistake quitting the security of a well-paying job managing contracts for professional hockey players to start a new venture selling nearly expired groceries at discount prices. After all, a... View Details
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
Controlling for these effects and other determinants, we find that firms with lower residual ratings have relatively higher subsequent media allegations of corruption. They also report higher future sales growth and show a negative... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 1
mind-set and will be expected to offer your CEO deep insights on key business decisions. This article explores those developments in more detail and explains other findings about the latest requirements in each of seven C-level jobs: CIO, chief marketing and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
lines every week. Based in the United Kingdom, ASOS shipped products to 240 countries and territories, and international sales represented more than 50% of total revenues. But when new CEO Nick Beighton took over from founder Nick... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Nov 2018
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?
Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details
- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How an Order Views Your Company
customer orientation across an organization. That involves senior leadership. Q: Has technology or the advent of the Web had an impact on the order management cycle? Rangan: No question. Software vendors Seibel, Oracle, and others have... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
- 04 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is E-commerce at Risk in Apple's Security Dispute with the FBI?
sales each year? Sunil Gupta, the Edward W. Carter Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, recently wrote a case on Apple Pay and the company’s ambitions of convincing consumers to trade in their real wallets in... View Details
- 12 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 12, 2016
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/516020-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 816-073 Mattermark Mattermark, a software-as-a-service company that sold software allowing companies to access financial information about privately-held... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Product Disasters Can Be Fertile Ground for Innovation
Incremental changes. The first type, which occurred immediately following the accidents, consisted of incremental changes—that is, software fixes targeted at preventing accidental over-radiation. These included dose displays, alerts, and... View Details
- November 2021
- Teaching Note
Seeding and Selling Asana
By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Tom Quinn, Amram Migdal and Susie Ma
This teaching note accompanies case no. 821-054, “Seeding and Selling Asana.” View Details
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?
then need to consider one of three strategies: Enhance the Value of the Box, Shrink and Transform the Format, or Wind Down. Sean Silverthorne: Why do you think we are at an inflection point? Ecommerce has been around for several decades, yet still accounts for just 6... View Details
- 28 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy
environmental, educational, and humanitarian organizations. Microsoft donates almost $300 million annually in software products to nongovernmental organizations around the world. There has to be an internal logic for how these efforts... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
launched, especially so that it is not overly dependent on sales of a particular business like LCD glass. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=608108 ghSMART & Co.,... View Details
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
through a third previously unexamined effect: dynamic consumer segmentation. Our results, therefore, contradict prior static models: bundling can be profitable even when consumer valuations for components are highly correlated. In the absence of bundling, both hardware... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne