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- 07 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 7, 2016
Automated Text Analysis By: Mankad, Shawn, Hyunjeong "Spring" Han, Joel Goh, and Srinagesh Gavirneni Abstract—Customer reviews submitted at Internet travel portals are an important yet underexplored new resource in obtaining... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Exchange: Lessons from the Edge
record and can be used by anybody with internet access. These interviews are intended to resonate outside the US, but are there lessons that run in the reverse direction? What can we learn from emerging markets? Jones: I would say that... View Details
- 04 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 4, 2008
Lerner, and Jean Tirole Abstract The sub-prime crisis has shown a harsh spotlight on the practices of securities underwriters, which provided too many complex securities that proved to ultimately have little... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Facing the New World Order
has a real advantage, to kind of shed some of the barnacles that were created during the Internet experiment and the excessive efforts to grow that many companies felt compelled to pursue over the last four or five years. We've been... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 02 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Curse of Double-Digit Growth
for example. Investors may secure a promising iron ore asset but drag their feet in developing it while waiting for mines elsewhere to deplete. Even after a decision is made to mine, the infrastructure must be built to bring the resources... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs
In 1999, Tom Herman and Kaleil Isaza Tuzman, best friends since childhood, quit their comfortable jobs to start govWorks, with millions of VC dollars to back them up. Their goal was nothing if not grandiose: to use Internet payment... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation
First, there were changes in ERISA (Employee Retirement Income Security Act) legislation that allowed pension funds to invest in private equity; second, the growth of the microprocessor and the semiconductor; and third, the rise of... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 27 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 27
for almost 25 percent of Internet use. Practically overnight, social media seems indispensable to our lives-from friendship and dating to news and business. What makes social media so different from traditional media? Answering that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
development, and other business activities where on–demand creativity is essential to success. — Deborah Blagg Wheel, Deal, and Steal by D. Quinn Mills (Financial Times Prentice Hall) As a follow–up to last year’s Buy, Lie, and Sell High: How Investors Lost Out on... View Details
- 28 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day Reflections
on a company's financial, environmental, social, and governance performance and shows the relationships between them. This kind of Integrated reporting also involves leveraging the Internet to provide more detailed information to all a... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 30 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 30, 2007
worldviews may conflict during the process of business innovation. After researching the movement of Internet and computing pioneers among various organizations during a period between the early 1960s and the mid-1990s, the authors... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
forward. Among other things, Marietta created a fundraising and development arm to take pressure off the school’s endowment; modernized the environmental education programs that are its primary moneymaker; upgraded its internet and Wi-Fi... View Details
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
possible responses to this shortage: Sharing addresses impedes new Internet applications and does not seem to be scalable. A new numbering system ("IPv6") offers greater capacity, but network incentives impede transition. Paid... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
Examines the type of security that is appropriate for an Internet company to have on its site. Focuses on a 20-person electronic e-commerce company trying to decide what parts of the information View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
Draper Fisher Jurvetson. While she recalls the administration initially voicing concerns that the contest might distract students from their studies, the trio persisted, offering solutions to concerns and securing sponsorship from... View Details
- 10 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 10
San Francisco-based Internet company allowed users to monitor their investments and communicate with each other about their portfolio strategies. The case recounts key decisions made by founder and CEO Steve Carpenter, including several... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
the time that as far as the Internet was concerned, the government was not involved. That observation intrigued me. Later, I listened to a conversation between two FIBS historians regarding the enclosure movement in England between the... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- Web
Faculty & Advisors | MBA
Laurans (MBA ’06) co-founded SimpliSafe, a no-contract, easily-installed, wireless home security system. Chad designed the original product himself and grew the company under the radar of long-established competitors. The company grew... View Details
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
Financial Cryptography and Data Security (forthcoming) Abstract Online advertisers face substantial difficulty in selecting and supervising small advertising partners. Fraud can be well hidden, and limited reputation systems reduce... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
rise, which afforded numerous growth opportunities such as entering the broader identity management space, creating new products to protect critical infrastructure, and securing the burgeoning world of the View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel