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  • April 2021 (Revised July 2021)
  • Case

StockX: The Stock Market of Things (Abridged)

By: Chiara Farronato, John J. Horton, Annelena Lobb and Julia Kelley
Founded in 2015 by Dan Gilbert, Josh Luber, and Greg Schwartz, StockX was an online platform where users could buy and sell unworn luxury and limited-edition sneakers. Sneaker resale prices often fluctuated over time based on supply and demand, creating a robust... View Details
Keywords: Markets; Auctions; Bids and Bidding; Demand and Consumers; Consumer Behavior; Analytics and Data Science; Market Design; Digital Platforms; Market Transactions; Marketplace Matching; Supply and Industry; Analysis; Price; Product Marketing; Product Launch; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Fashion Industry; North and Central America; United States; Michigan; Detroit
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    Divestment or Engagement? New Research on Innovation in the Energy Sector

    Why you should watch: A new and important NBER working paper, by Cohen, Gurun and Nguyen, takes a long hard look at innovation in the energy industry - and concludes that divestment campaigns targeted at fossil fuel companies may not just be ineffective.... View Details
    • 08 Sep 2016
    • News

    Airbnb adopts new anti-discrimination policies: Do they go far enough?

    • 18 Dec 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: December 18

    puts the increasingly complex job of Chief Executive in a very real context. It serves as a practical guide by allowing you to walk alongside Jim as he takes on his new role and all its attendant challenges. Jim's story-developed in... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • May 2011 (Revised January 2012)
    • Supplement

    OPOWER: Increasing Energy Efficiency through Normative Influence (B)

    By: Maarten W. Bos, Amy J.C. Cuddy and Kyle Todd Doherty
    The case profiles OPOWER, an energy efficiency software company that applies Cialdini's principles of social influence to successfully encourage consumers to reduce their energy usage. OPOWER was co-founded in 2008 by two young Harvard graduates, Dan Yates and Alex... View Details
    Keywords: Energy Conservation
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    • 16 Jul 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    How to Compete Like a Judo Strategist

    it. Or by the time they do, it doesn't matter." But older and larger companies need not despair. By asking new questions, challenging conventional wisdom, and encouraging a steady flow of new ideas,... View Details
    Keywords: by David B. Yoffie & Mary Kwak
    • January 2019 (Revised July 2021)
    • Case

    Analytical Space: The Next Frontier?

    By: Thomas R. Eisenmann, Jeffrey J. Bussgang and David Lane
    With one satellite aloft and in the midst of beta testing in late 2018, Analytical Space founders Justin Oliveira and Dan Nevius turned to critical questions about the pioneering startup’s go-to-market, pricing, and business development strategy. Analytical Space aimed... View Details
    Keywords: Pricing Decisions; Demand Validation; Revenue Model; Business Development; Space Tech; Satellites; Earth Observation; Remote Sensing; Business Startups; Emerging Markets; Growth and Development Strategy; Finance; Selection and Staffing; Business Strategy; Aerospace Industry
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    • April 2021 (Revised April 2021)
    • Teaching Plan

    Nehemiah Mfg. Co.: Providing a Second Chance

    By: Brian Trelstad and John Masko
    Teaching Plan for HBS Case No. 320-008. In 2009, Dan Meyer and Richard Palmer, two veterans of the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) industry, founded Nehemiah Manufacturing to build FMCG brands while providing jobs to Cincinnati, Ohio’s beleaguered urban core. Two... View Details
    Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Retention; Selection and Staffing; Employment; Human Capital; Growth Management; Brands and Branding; Social Marketing; Mission and Purpose; Prejudice and Bias; City; Urban Scope; Consumer Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Ohio; United States
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    • October 2017 (Revised April 2019)
    • Case

    Eastern Bank: Innovating Through Eastern Labs

    By: Karen Mills, Dennis Campbell and Aaron Mukerjee
    Eastern Bank is a 200-year-old New England mutual bank with a community focus. Eastern specializes in small business lending, having made strategic investments to become the top SBA lender in New England in the midst of the Great Recession, when other banks were... View Details
    Keywords: Banks and Banking; Technological Innovation; Entrepreneurship; Management
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    • 01 Sep 2024
    • News

    Back to School

    There are some things you just can’t learn in an HBS classroom—what it takes to jump out of an airplane, for instance, or the experience of playing at the World Series of Poker. Yet those kinds of out-of-office pursuits are important, says HBS assistant professor Jon... View Details
    Keywords: April White; illustrations by Josh Cochran
    • 03 Jun 2016
    • News

    Again in a Great City

    thousands of abandoned homes, needs more housing The Detroit economy was already wavering when the Cummings family arrived. By early 1992, Detroit’s debt rating would be cut to junk bond status. From an investor’s point of view, the city... View Details
    Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
    • 06 May 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: May 6

    http://www.cambridge.org/US/academic/subjects/economics/economics-general-interest/democracy-and-its-elected-enemies-american-political-capture-and-economic-decline August 2013 Journal of Marketing Research Contingent Match Incentives Increase Donations By: Anik,... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 01 Sep 2017
    • News

    The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of

    professional esports players and amateur gamers streaming video game play. By year’s end, market analyst Newzoo forecasts, the online global esports audience will reach 385 million people with revenues of nearly $700 million. But if all... View Details
    Keywords: April White; illustration by Brian Stauffer; esports; Twitch; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment
    • 15 Jan 2019
    • News

    Gillette, Brexit and Molasses

    • 01 Apr 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: April 1

    purporting to show that Section 203 did in fact give bidders a meaningful opportunity for success; (3) between 1990 and 2010, not a single bidder was able to achieve the 85% threshold required by Section 203, thereby calling into question... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 24 May 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: May 24

      PublicationsClusters and Competitiveness: Porter's Contribution Authors:Christian H.M. Ketels Publication:Chap. 10 in Competition and Competitive Advantage: The Ideas of Michael Porter, edited by Robert Huggins and Hiro Izushi, 173-192.... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • January 2017 (Revised October 2018)
    • Case

    Novartis: A Transformative Deal

    By: David Collis and Ashley Hartman
    When Joe Jimenez became CEO of Swiss-based Novartis in 2010, replacing longtime CEO Dan Vasella, he assumed control of one of the top pharmaceutical companies in the world. Vasella, an avowed advocate of diversification, had expanded the scope of the company and... View Details
    Keywords: Novartis; GlaxoSmithKline; Asset Swap; Acquisitions; Divestiture; Strategy Alignment; Pharmaceuticals; Strategy; Business Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Diversification; Consolidation; Mergers and Acquisitions; Pharmaceutical Industry
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    • 06 Feb 2018
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

    workers; and the production of knowledge, including the idea of the economy, among other topics. Together, the essays suggest emerging themes in the field: a fascination with capitalism as it is made by political authority, how it is... View Details
    • September 2018 (Revised May 2021)
    • Teaching Plan

    Eastern Bank: Innovating Through Eastern Labs

    By: Karen Mills, Dennis Campbell and Aaron Mukerjee
    Eastern Bank is a 200-year-old New England mutual bank with a community focus. Eastern specializes in small business lending, having made strategic investments to become the top SBA lender in New England in the midst of the Great Recession, when other banks were... View Details
    Keywords: Banks; Fintech; Innovation; Innovation ＆ Entrepreneurship; Innovation And Strategy; Technological Change; Technology And Innovation Management; Entrepreneurial Management; Intrapreneurship; Banks and Banking; Innovation and Invention; Entrepreneurship; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Information Technology; Management
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    • 10 Apr 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: April 10

    Corstjens and Rajiv Lal Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 4 (April 2012) Abstract Most companies assume that the easiest way to grow is by investing overseas and that the developing world offers the best opportunities for... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel