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  • 16 May 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Getting the Message: How the Internet is Changing Advertising

the ad and be taken to a Web site where she can learn more about the product and purchase it. The entire process—from ad to purchase—might take less than five minutes. In addition to streamlining the flow of information and transactions,... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
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Overview

By: Andy Wu
How can technology entrepreneurs build competitive advantage from the ground up? Professor Andy Wu conducts scholarly research and develops course materials that document how technology entrepreneurs can (1) organize for innovation to create new market opportunities... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Growth Management; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Technology Platform; Technological Innovation; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; United States; China; Southeast Asia; South Asia
  • 11 May 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Fix This! Why is it so Painful to Buy a New Car?

(Editor’s note: Fix This! is a series of occasional stories about industries that provide bad consumer experiences and how they can be fixed.) Consumers routinely list buying a car as the worst shopping experience imaginable. So it may be... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Auto
  • 19 Dec 2023
  • Blog Post

Answering Your Questions About the HBS MBA Application

As we approach the next application deadline, we have noticed a few common questions from prospective students regarding the HBS MBA application. Check out the top 5 questions we get from applicants and the top 3 questions we wish we received, below. We hope this View Details
  • 14 Dec 2015
  • HBS Seminar

Brian Tomlin, Professor of Business Administration, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth

  • February 2012
  • Article

Americans Do IT Better: US Multinationals and the Productivity Miracle

By: Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
US productivity growth accelerated after 1995 (unlike Europe's), particularly in sectors that intensively use information technologies (IT). Using two new micro panel datasets we show that US multinationals operating in Europe also experienced a "productivity miracle."... View Details
Keywords: IT Productivity; American IT Productivity; Information Technology; Performance Productivity; Multinational Firms and Management; Management Practices and Processes; United States; Europe
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  • April 1996 (Revised May 2000)
  • Case

Bed Bath & Beyond

By: Amy P. Hutton and James Weber
This case examines how accurately investors have incorporated information about the growth strategy of Bed Bath & Beyond (BBBY) into share price, especially given the changing competitive environment in the housewares industry and the recent Barron's article pointing... View Details
Keywords: Analysis; Valuation; Financial Statements; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry
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    Bespoken Spirits: Disrupting Distilling

    On October 7, 2020, Bespoken Spirits publicly announced it had received $2.6 million of seed funding for its “sustainable maturation process,” a process that could produce award-winning whiskeys in just days rather than years using a novel technology and data... View Details

    • 22 Jul 2010
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Business Model Innovation and Competitive Imitation

    Keywords: by Ramon Casadesus-Masanell & Feng Zhu
    • 10 Apr 2025
    • Video

    BiGS Debate: Is Big Tech Too Big?

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    Current Boards

    By: Linda A. Hill
    -Board of Trustees of The ArtCenter College of Design
    -Board of Trustees of Brigham and Women’s Hospital
    -Board of Trustees of Bryn Mawr College, Special Representative
    -Board of Directors of the Global Citizens Initiative, Inc.
    -Board of Directors... View Details

      David Shin

      David Shin is a doctoral student in the Organizational Behavior program jointly offered by Harvard Business School and the Department of Sociology at Harvard University. His research explores how technological innovation shapes relationships at work, particularly as it... View Details
      • 22 Jul 2002
      • Research & Ideas

      Is Performance-Based Pricing the Right Price for You?

      Other industries as diverse as consulting, trucking, and heavy industrial services are seeing the same trend. Before explaining the benefits, drawbacks, and application of performance-based pricing, let us... View Details
      Keywords: by Benson Shapiro; Manufacturing

        Design Rules, Vol. 1: The Power of Modularity

        We live in a dynamic economic and commercial world, surrounded by objects of remarkable complexity and power. In many industries, changes in products and technologies have brought with them new kinds of firms and forms of organization. We are... View Details

          Consumers, Corporations and Public Health (Oxford University Press, 2016)

          The public health footprint associated with corporate behavior has come under increased scrutiny in the last decade, with an increased expectation that private profit not come at the expense of consumer welfare.

          Consumers, Corporations, and Public... View Details
          • 14 Aug 2015
          • Working Paper Summaries

          Are ‘Better’ Ideas More Likely to Succeed? An Empirical Analysis of Startup Evaluation

          Keywords: by Pian Shu; Financial Services
          • July 2020 (Revised November 2020)
          • Case

          Pricing at Netflix

          By: Elie Ofek, Marco Bertini, Oded Koenigsberg and Amy Klopfenstein
          Since its launch in 1998 as “the Amazon.com of DVDs,” Netflix had evolved from a DVD rental company to a video streaming platform and producer of original films and television shows. As the company matured, it regularly increased prices and adjusted its product... View Details
          Keywords: Pricing; Marketing; Marketing Strategy; Entertainment; Film Entertainment; Television Entertainment; Finance; Price; Strategy; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Business Strategy; Adaptation; Information Technology; Internet and the Web; Digital Platforms; Customers; Customer Satisfaction; Customer Value and Value Chain; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; North and Central America; United States
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          • November 2009
          • Article

          Responding to Public and Private Politics: Corporate Disclosure of Climate Change Strategies

          By: Erin Marie Reid and Michael W. Toffel
          The challenges associated with climate change will require governments, citizens, and firms to work collaboratively to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, a task that requires information on companies' emissions levels, risks, and reduction opportunities. This paper... View Details
          Keywords: Climate Change; Problems and Challenges; Pollutants; Risk and Uncertainty; Business and Shareholder Relations; Management Practices and Processes; Social Issues; Corporate Disclosure; Values and Beliefs; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Government and Politics
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          • December 2013
          • Article

          Legislating Stock Prices

          By: Lauren Cohen, Karl Diether and Christopher Malloy
          We demonstrate that legislation has a simple, yet previously undetected impact on stock prices. Exploiting the voting record of legislators whose constituents are the affected industries, we show that the votes of these "interested" legislators capture important... View Details
          Keywords: Legislator Incentives; Voting; Return Predictability; Lobbying; Motivation and Incentives; Government Legislation; Stocks
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          • June 2012
          • Article

          Leadership Is a Conversation

          By: Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind
          Globalization and new technologies have sharply reduced the efficacy of command-and-control management and its accompanying forms of corporate communication. In the course of a recent research project, the authors concluded that by talking with employees, rather than... View Details
          Keywords: Employees; Management Style; Interpersonal Communication; Leadership; Cooperation; Partners and Partnerships
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