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  • 07 Aug 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The Business of Biotech

investment. Steve Williams (MBA '84), senior director at Genentech, Inc., in South San Francisco, remembers watching a television program about the biotech industry in late 1987 with his father, who was... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Biotechnology; Health; Technology
  • 09 May 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 9

a sovereign default may affect the economy. 2017 Green Capitalism? Business and the Environment in the Twentieth Century Entrepreneurship, Policy, and the Geography of Wind Energy By: Jones, G. Abstract—This study examines the geography of the global wind energy View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 21, 2008

door-to-door marketing of a home water purification solution. We find that higher prices screen out those who use the product less. By contrast, we find no consistent evidence of sunk-cost effects. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-034.pdf Local... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Aug 2011
  • First Look

First Look: August 23

unobserved program attributes. Our focus is on the network television industry, in which the products are television shows. We estimate a model that allows us to distinguish between the direct effect of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership

Mining Corporation, 1954–1986 Morton L. Mandel Premier Industrial Corporation, 1958–1996 Alfred E. Mann Pacesetter, 1972–1985 Alex Manoogian Masco Corporation, 1929–1985 Thomas F. Manville Johns-Manville Corporation, 1901–1924 Bernard... View Details
  • 24 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018

2017, Jason Blum, the founder and chief executive officer of film and television production company Blumhouse Productions, has another blockbuster on his hands with the movie Get Out, produced for just $4.5 million. Remarkable returns for... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 25 Apr 2017
  • First Look

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... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Jul 2023
  • News

The First Five Years: Brooke Biederman (MBA 2019)

strikes that have affected the industry and effectively frozen most of its activity. Larger companies can’t ride out the storm without cuts to budget and staff. How do you use what you learned at HBS in this work? Each film and View Details
Keywords: Robert Bochnak
  • June 2012 (Revised March 2014)
  • Case

Best Buy in Crisis

By: John R. Wells and Galen Danskin
In June 2012, Best Buy was in crisis. In 1996, Best Buy overtook Circuit City as the world's leader in consumer electronics retailing; however, 18 years later, Best Buy now found this position threatened. With $51 billion in revenues, it was still the biggest CE... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Decision Choices and Conditions; Forecasting and Prediction; Competitive Strategy; Ethics; Management Teams; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry
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  • October 2018 (Revised August 2023)
  • Case

Safecast: Bootstrapping Human Capital to Big Data

By: Ethan Bernstein and Stephanie Marton
On March 11, 2011, at 2:46pm, a 9.1-on-the-Richter-scale, six-minute long earthquake unleashed a tsunami that ravaged the Tohoku region of Japan, damaging the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power facility and releasing sufficient radioactive material into the air and ocean... View Details
Keywords: Citizen Science; Creative Commons; Open Data; Open Architecture; Volunteer-based Organization; Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Facility; 311; Nuclear; Radiation; Crowdsourcing; Bgeigie; Geiger Counters; Kickstarter; Sustainability; Sustainable Business And Innovation; Design; Energy Generation; Social Entrepreneurship; Human Capital; Innovation and Invention; Crisis Management; Organizational Structure; Organizational Design; Information Technology; Business Model; Energy Industry; Energy Industry; Japan; North and Central America; Europe
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    Thomas R. Eisenmann

    Thomas R. Eisenmann is the Howard H. Stevenson Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School; Peter O. Crisp Faculty Chair, Harvard Innovation Labs; and Unit Head of the HBS Entrepreneurial... View Details

    Keywords: e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry; e-commerce industry
    • 10 Feb 2016
    • HBS Seminar

    Hong Luo of Harvard Business School and Julie Mortimer of Boston College, Department of Economics

    • 29 Sep 2015
    • First Look

    September 29, 2015

    innovations from industry outsiders who saw economic opportunities where others didn’t—and how these mainstream firms had no choice but to innovate themselves. New models were tried: some succeeded, some failed. Commercial markets turned... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 19 Apr 2010
    • Research & Ideas

    The History of Beauty

    Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry is the first serious attempt to trace the history of the $330 billion global beauty industry and its large collection of fascinating entrepreneurs... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics
    • 06 Feb 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    Kodak: A Parable of American Competitiveness

    earlier. Worse, he knew that mobile phones, which were also being made outside the United States, would start stealing business away from digital cameras. "Much of the camera technology was invented in the United States, but US companies gave it all up," says... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Manufacturing
    • 30 Nov 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    Tracks of My Tears: Reconstructing Digital Music

    preference to quality over quantity and designing smaller, more consistent bundles may be beneficial. In general terms, the same probably applies to other industries where digital channels could lead to an unbundling of products, such as... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Music
    • 2013
    • Working Paper

    How Major League Baseball Clubs Have Commercialized Their Investment in Japanese Top Stars

    By: Isao Okada and Stephen A. Greyser

    When a Major League Baseball club signs a Japanese star player, it obviously tries to commercialize its investment in the player. The initial focus is on home attendance (ticket sales) and television audiences, plus merchandise sales. These elements are similar to... View Details

    Keywords: Commercialization; Sports; Revenue; Sports Industry; Japan; United States
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    • 29 Oct 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: October 29

    Industry: A Historical Perspective By: Jones, G. Abstract—This chapter explores the impact of the global beauty industry on beauty ideals. It shows that as the industry internationalized from the late... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 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; Retail Industry; Retail Industry; Retail Industry; Retail Industry; Retail Industry; Retail Industry; Retail Industry; Retail Industry; Retail Industry; Retail Industry; Retail Industry; Retail Industry; Retail Industry; Retail Industry; United States; Washington (state, US); Seattle
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    Industries (8) Goals and Objectives (18) Going Public (36) Goods and Commodities (7) Governance Compliance (4) Governance Controls (76) Governance (268) Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms (72) Governing and Advisory Boards (20)... View Details