Consumer Electronics - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Sep 2023
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2023 Summer Internships in Business & Environment

novel technologies and innovating business models that can reshape how we produce and consume energy. Doug's role prior to HBS was a Project Engineer at ExxonMobil. Jessie Pease (MBA 2024, Section K), Summer Internship: Digital... View Details

26 May 2015
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First Look: May 26

diseases, and seamlessly integrating Twine with a client organization's electronic medical record (EMR) system and information technology (IT) infrastructure. The need to solve these problems had become more pressing since Twine was named... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

HBS Social Enterprise Track Runner-Up Aggregates options for consumers to trade in or recycle unwanted electronics in a simple and efficient web platform. Business Track, 2009 CloudFlare Michelle Zatlyn Matt... View Details

01 Nov 2016
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First Look - November 1, 2016

the increasing role of technology (digital and mobile) as well as the use by consumers of alternative signals of status, such as wearing less prominently branded apparel, being less conformist (e.g., entering a luxury store in a casual... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 25

Economics & Management Strategy Measuring Consumer Preferences for Video Content Provision via Cord-Cutting Behavior By: Prince, Jeffrey, and Shane Greenstein Abstract—The television industry is undergoing a generational shift in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2007
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Alfred D. Chandler Jr. Remembered

England, and Germany by examining the 200 largest corporations in those countries. In 2001, Chandler wrote Inventing the Electronic Century: The Epic Story of the Consumer View Details

24 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

The 'Amazon Effect' Is Changing Online Price Competition—and the Fed Needs to Pay Attention

agencies. In 2010, these retailers would keep prices constant for about nine months on average. Today, that timeframe has narrowed to just three months, he says. That acceleration was especially true for categories like electronics and... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Retail

February 2018 (Revised October 2019)
Technical Note

The Art and Science of Brand Valuation

By: Jill Avery

Brand valuation, the art and science of calculating the economic value accruing to a firm from its use of an intangible brand asset, yields frustratingly inconsistent, discrepant, and, therefore, controversial results. While it is widely accepted that brands are... View Details

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11 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 11

John R. Wells and Galen DanskinHarvard Business School Case 713-403 In June 2012, Best Buy was in crisis. In 1996, Best Buy overtook Circuit City as the world's leader in consumer electronics retailing;... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 1998
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Simmons Family Endows Professorship

approval to issue digital certificates, an application that will, for example, enable consumers to electronically file legal documents, order prescriptions, and renew loans. While Harris and David, both of... View Details

10 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018

consumer tastes, increased competition, and evolving advertising trends and sales channels. Seeing innovation as a key to future success, in 2016 the company established eighteen94 capital, its corporate venture capital arm, which had... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Jan 2016
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January 12, 2016

medical devices after they are approved by the appropriate regulatory authorities. Historically, such surveillance was based on voluntary reports by medical practitioners, but with the widespread adoption of electronic medical records and... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

Dorothy A. Leonard

Dorothy Leonard*, the William J. Abernathy Professor of Business Administration Emerita, joined the Harvard faculty in 1983 after teaching for three years at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has taught MBA courses in... View Details

Keywords: electronics; electronics; electronics; electronics; electronics; electronics; electronics; electronics; electronics

10 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink

increased at an impressive pace in the early 2000s even though Internet sales in the United States grew dramatically. Retail sales advanced from $2.87 trillion to almost $4 trillion between 1999 and 2007. However, the current recession created many challenges for... View Details

Keywords: by Rajiv Lal & Jose B. Alvarez; Retail

04 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018

an electronic version of a patient questionnaire that had been designed and vetted by a group of subspecialty experts. We integrated that survey into our EHR. To assess the effects of our new EHR system and the new process flow for... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

2023
Book

Deeply Responsible Business.: A Global History of Values-Driven Leadership

By: Geoffrey Jones

Corporate social responsibility has entered the mainstream, but what does it take to run a successful purpose-driven business? This book examines leaders who put values alongside profits to showcase the challenges and upside of deeply responsible business. Should... View Details

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The 20th Century Zeitgeist - Leadership

infections Synthetic rubberx Influence: High 50 1950 s 19 Television sales expand dramatically Transistors used in portable radios and calculators Influence: Medium-High 60 1960 s 19 Man walks on the moon Color TV market grows Microchips expand possibilities in View Details

23 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

COVID Was Supposed to Increase Bankruptcies. Instead, They've Gone Down.

Bankruptcy filings in the United States were expected to soar during this year’s economic recession, induced by COVID-19. Instead, they dropped 27 percent year-over-year through August, driven by an unexpected drop in consumer and small... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

23 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 23

coverage, care delivery, and spending. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/712466-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 613-056 ASUSTeK and the Google Nexus 7 Tablet Days after Jerry Shen introduced a new tablet computer at the View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

June 2012
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Siemens AG: Key Account Management

By: Thomas Steenburgh, Michael Ahearne and Elena Corsi

The key account manager of an engineering company has to convince a department to give up important contracts. The German engineering company Siemens had set up a global key account management program since 2010. The key account manager of an emerging account had been... View Details