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  • 23 Apr 2013
  • First Look

First Look: April 23

implement principles of open and distributed innovation.   Working Papers Competing with Privacy By: Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Andres Hervas-Drane Abstract—We analyze the implications of consumer privacy for competition in the marketplace. We consider a market... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 1

and value-creation problems arise when such products are developed and sold by separate firms. Although the firms tend to price higher for given quality levels, their provision of quality is so low that, in equilibrium, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Jul 2019
  • HBS Case

Walmart's Workforce of the Future

consequences of senior leadership’s choices, says Kerr. “It’s easy to be critical and say that Walmart should be doing more, but when students review the company’s actions over the past five years, they have to confront the fact that every time the View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail
  • 16 Jan 2013
  • Research & Ideas

The Messy Link Between Slave Owners and Modern Management

determine how far they could push their workers to get the most profit. Using the account books, slave owners could see how many pounds of cotton each slave picked and compare it to their output from previous years—and then create minimum... View Details
Keywords: by Katie Johnston
  • 2001
  • Working Paper

Strategies to Fight Ad-sponsored Rivals

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Feng Zhu
We analyze the optimal strategy of a high-quality incumbent that faces a low-quality ad-sponsored competitor. In addition to competing through adjustments of tactical variables such as price or the number of ads a product carries, we allow the incumbent to consider... View Details
Keywords: Advertising; Business Model; Competition; Competitive Strategy
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  • 03 Oct 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Box Office Power of Stars

film, such as whether to open a movie in a large number of theaters, whether to use television advertising to promote the film, and whether to avoid a competitive, high-season opening weekend may impact its market success as well.... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Entertainment & Recreation; Motion Pictures & Video
  • Web

Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

Strategy ; Resource Allocation ; Advertising ; Brands and Branding ; E-commerce ; Business and Community Relations ; Networks ; Adaptation ; Adoption ; Competitive Advantage ; Business Model ; Health Pandemics ; War ; Agriculture and... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2023
  • News

Thinking Ahead

As we wind down 2023, there’s talk everywhere of generative AI and how it will fundamentally alter the world as we know it; but how does that translate for your corner of the business world? Is TikTok something you need to take seriously? (Is it time to dance?) We... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Illustrations by Chris Gash; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
  • 16 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Strategy and the Internet

indiscriminately through discounting, giveaways, promotions, channel incentives, and heavy advertising. Rather than concentrate on delivering real value that earns an attractive price from customers, they have pursued indirect revenues... View Details
Keywords: by Michael E. Porter
  • 19 Oct 2010
  • First Look

First Look: October 19, 2010

give more, that giving indeed causes increased happiness, and that these two relationships may operate in a circular fashion. Second, we consider whether advertising these benefits of charitable giving—asking people to give in order to be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Mar 2013
  • First Look

First Look: March 12

for smart phones in the U.S. and the position of one player, Research In Motion (RIM), who manufactures the popular Blackberry line of products. Early in 2011, RIM is in trouble. Its stock price has plummeted, amidst poor business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Mar 2006
  • Research & Ideas

New Research Explores Multi-Sided Markets

Xbox, make their profits from game developers through royalties and incur losses on the sale of consoles to users by pricing them below cost. The key reason is that two-sided platforms must solve a chicken-and-egg problem. For example,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology
  • 04 Feb 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How a Juicy Brand Came Back to Life

price most observers found generous. The debacle cost both the chairman and president of Quaker their jobs and hastened the end of Quaker's independent existence (it's now a unit of PepsiCo). But that's not the end of the story. In... View Details
Keywords: by John Deighton; Food & Beverage
  • 01 Nov 1999
  • Research & Ideas

John H. Patterson and the Sales Strategy of the National Cash Register Company, 1884 to 1922

and white, I then, if I think it advisable, undertake to educate him on the different registers, and see that he gets one best adapted to his work. High prices, of course, is one of the hard things to contend with. On this point I generally say, "to you, no doubt,... View Details
Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman
  • August 2015 (Revised June 2021)
  • Case

Amazon.com, 2021

By: John R. Wells, Benjamin Weinstock, Gabriel Ellsworth and Galen Danskin
In February 2021, Amazon announced 2020 operating profits of $22,899 million, up from $2,233 million in 2015, on sales of $386 billion, up from $107 billion five years earlier (see Exhibit 1). The shareholders expressed their satisfaction (see Exhibit 2), but not all... View Details
Keywords: Strategic Analysis; Retail; E-commerce; Amazon; Internet; Amazon.com; AmazonFresh; Jeff Bezos; Cloud Computing; Marketplaces; Streaming; E-reader Market; Digital Media; Mobile App; Online Retail; Shipping; Database; Tablet; Kindle; Kindle Fire; Smartphone; Delivery; Digital Platforms; Competition; Internet and the Web; Corporate Strategy; Digital Marketing; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Business Organization; For-Profit Firms; Film Entertainment; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Music Entertainment; Television Entertainment; Profit; Revenue; Global Strategy; Multinational Firms and Management; Taxation; Business History; Human Resources; Resignation and Termination; Books; Human Capital; Working Conditions; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Management Practices and Processes; Industry Growth; Industry Structures; Media; Distribution; Distribution Channels; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Infrastructure; Logistics; Product Development; Supply Chain; Supply Chain Management; Organizational Culture; Public Ownership; Work-Life Balance; Problems and Challenges; Labor and Management Relations; Strategy; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Diversification; Expansion; Integration; Horizontal Integration; Vertical Integration; Information Infrastructure; Information Technology; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Price; Applications and Software; Marketing; Marketing Strategy; Working Capital; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Value and Value Chain; Advertising Industry; Advertising Industry; Advertising Industry; Advertising Industry; Advertising Industry; Advertising Industry; Advertising Industry; Advertising Industry; Advertising Industry; Advertising Industry; Advertising Industry; Advertising Industry; Advertising Industry; Advertising Industry; United States; Washington (state, US); Seattle
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Health Care - Faculty & Research

49% higher personnel cost mix, and the price (rate) variance showed that U.S. personnel had a 31% higher compensation level. The costing and variance analysis provided organizationally relevant insights into the distinctive features of... View Details
  • 08 Jul 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Are Paywalls Saving Newspapers?

coauthors, Ho Kim of the University of Missouri, St. Louis, and Reo Song of California State University, Long Beach, analyzed 79 print media firms using 10 years of circulation and subscription price data (from publishers’ statements to... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Journalism & News; Media & Broadcasting
  • Web

The 20th Century Zeitgeist - Leadership

Reconstruction Finance Corp. created to combat bank and business failures Introduction of Federal Deposit Insurance SEC established Federal regulations prohibit false advertising Influence: Low 40 1940 s 19 Military spending explodes... View Details
  • 12 Dec 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Using the Law to Strategic Advantage

created by employees. The risk of product liability may make it unwise to pursue certain marketing strategies, such as widespread direct-to-consumer advertising of a drug with known risk factors that must be balanced against the potential... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Legal Services
  • 08 Sep 2014
  • Research & Ideas

The Strategic Way To Hire a Sales Team

Google and Groupon, for instance, a higher percentage of employees work in sales than engineering or data mining. And at Facebook the salesforce's ability to translate 'likes' into advertisers will make or break that company's valuation... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel