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- 21 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales
and gotten more efficient in manufacturing, operations, supply chains, and shared service initiatives. But the focus of productivity improvements is shifting, because the biggest opportunity for improvements at more View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 10 Nov 2008
- Research Event
Social Media Leads the Future of Technology
capital firm Accel Partners; Susan L. Decker (HBS MBA '86), president of Yahoo! Inc.; and Eric Kim (HBS MBA '81), senior vice president and general manager of Intel Corporation's Digital Home Group. The first computer, the ENIAC, cleared... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- November 2017
- Teaching Note
Facebook Fake News in the Post-Truth World
By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
Teaching Note for HBS No. 717-473.
In January 2017, Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, was surrounded by controversy. The election of Donald Trump as the next president of the United States in November 2016 had triggered a national storm of protests, and... View Details
Keywords: Facebook; Fake News; Mark Zuckerberg; Donald Trump; Algorithms; Social Networking; Social Networks; Partisanship; Social Media; App Development; Instagram; WhatsApp; Smartphone; Silicon Valley; Office Space; Digital Strategy; Democracy; Entry Barriers; Online Platforms; Controversy; Tencent; Agility; Gaming; Gaming Industry; Computer Games; Mobile Gaming; Messaging; Monetization Strategy; Advertising; Digital Marketing; Business Ventures; Acquisition; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Headquarters; Business Organization; For-Profit Firms; Trends; Service Industry; Service Industry; Service Industry; Service Industry; Service Industry; Service Industry; Service Industry; Service Industry; Service Industry; Service Industry; Service Industry; United States; California; Sunnyvale; Russia
- 03 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Fierce Competitors Apple and Amazon Became ’Frenemies’ Over eReaders
of like Lowes opening a store inside Home Depot. But since Amazon makes its profits from product sales to consumers, while Alibaba makes money from service and advertising fees from merchants, both could help the other increase its... View Details
- 30 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Political Polarization: Why We All Just Can't Get Along
hallelujah. But if you’re not, then you have to think about some ways to improve that.” Engaging in meaningful corporate social responsibility can boost a company’s trust factor. Partnering with a company in a more trusted field or employing groups of workers with... View Details
- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
and academics are focusing considerable attention on the concept of "corporate social responsibility" (CSR), particularly in the realm of environmental protection. Beyond complete compliance with environmental regulations, do View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Can Obamacare Be Saved?
providers to improve services to Americans. Source: gpointstudio In 2015, there was an average of 6.9 plans to choose from in each state. This fell to 6.5 in 2016, and even before Aetna's decision, the Kaiser Family Foundation projected... View Details
- 28 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Helping Yelp Create More Accurate Reviews
ratings to convey information of product or service quality. But don't expect Yelp to change its review system any time soon. "I've talked to Yelp and other review companies," Luca says. "Yelp isn't necessarily interested in changing the... View Details
- 04 Apr 2005
- What Do You Think?
Can an Organization’s “Deep Smarts” Be Preserved?
but only by the firms that have employee longevity and a valued ... way of life." This may not mean retaining everyone, however, as Horacio Cavallero suggests in commenting that "I have always thought that it was very important... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
integrated innovation? Our model has firms with limited visibility that either control all aspects of product innovation (integrated innovation) or open their designs to components developed by other players (open innovation). We show... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Should You Outsource Your Marketing?
outsource most of their marketing activities. The benefits to business include cost savings and improved quality. Additionally, many firms lack "left-brain" analytical skills in-house, even though those skills are becoming more... View Details
Keywords: by Poping Lin
- 03 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?
short-term debt financing, an attractive source of funding in good times but an accelerant of financial crises when things go bad. And we're getting closer to adopting a "resolution regime" that could enable regulators to wind down a financial View Details
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
Working PapersLocal Dividend Clienteles Authors:Bo Becker, Zoran Ivkovich, and Scott WeisbennerNBER Working Paper Series, No. 15175, July 2009 Abstract We exploit demographic variation to identify the effect of dividend demand on firm... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
How to Use Free Shipping as a Competitive Weapon
most profitable. "Not only are merchandise profits higher under contingent free shipping than under free shipping, but our estimates imply that the firm could derive even higher merchandise profits by increasing both its flat... View Details
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Caught in the Cogs: When Manufacturing and IT Meet
small, incremental steps," said Upton. "The same holds true for information technology." In the wake of the Internet and advances in IT have come a host of service firms, including the three represented on Upton's panel:... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 02 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Research and Prospects
As is clear to anyone who pays medical insurance premiums or has undergone any kind of medical procedure, the business of health care is an expensive one. The technology is expensive. The research is expensive. The services are expensive.... View Details
- 25 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 25
over the past decade as one of the most active areas of research in economics and strategy. The literature has constantly struggled, however, with a lack of agreement on a proper definition; for instance, some existing definitions imply that retail View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Apr 2008
- What Do You Think?
Who Owns Intellectual Property?
rate—a stark reminder of the perils of owning intellectual property in China at that time. Turning to the Internet itself, and particularly to content-sharing sites, the matter of ownership is challenged in a different way. Content produced by news media as well as... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 04 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 4
India on firm size dynamics and reallocation of resources within industries. Following deregulation, resource misallocation declines, and the left-hand tail of the firm size distribution thickens... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
variety of new goods and services being brought to market. Most consumers in the 1980s had not even heard of e-mail or cappuccinos. Yet in less than a decade, millions of people not only became familiar with these and other novel... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner