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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
2016. Amy C. Edmondson : Included on the 2015 Thinkers50 list—a list of the world's most influential management thinkers. Shane M. Greenstein : Winner of the 2016 Schumpeter Prize for How the Internet Became Commercial (Princeton... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Every Trick in the Book
moment, the model for Barnes & Noble, a venerable but struggling small chain, which that year sold its single remaining location on Fifth Avenue in New York to a bookseller named Leonard Riggio. But the retail landscape was already... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
been a great friend. It makes me feel so good to know that my advisor is interested in my career and my well-being." Raman and Ton have been studying retail operation, focusing on an operational execution issue - namely, misplaced... View Details
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Business Economics Online Course | HBS Online
Module 4 Markets Apply market principles to analyze industries in which no traditional market functions. Highlights The Concept of Market Equilibrium Internet versus Traditional Retail Prediction Markets... View Details
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Harvard Business School
Accenture). He became a partner in 1976, specializing in the development of financial control and operating systems in retail and banking industries. In 1985, Gates began to develop commercial and residential real estate. His first... View Details
- 05 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Ten Deadly Mistakes of Wanna-Dots
Increasingly, it seems, there are just two types of companies left in the world: dot-coms and "wanna-dots." The dot-coms, of course, are the pure Internet companies operating on-line businesses. Most of them are less than five... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 05 Mar 2014
- What Do You Think?
When Will the Next Dot.com Bubble Burst?
Internet (mobile) businesses and users (have) already evaluated the benefits (and) analysts' valuations can be more predictable " Shankar N. Mandapaka added: "The earlier dot.com bubble was due to lack of proper valuation... View Details
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 14 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Web Surfers Have a Schedule and Stick to It
the internet might be a bit more understandable if you take into account what anthropologists have discovered—that internet use inside most homes is “bursty” and “plastic.” In other words, we use little... View Details
- 11 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
E-Commerce Unplugged
channel, a mobile Internet or a substitute for PCs. Rather, it is a new aspect of consumerism and a much more powerful way to speak with consumers. Unleashing the value of m-commerce requires understanding the role that mobility plays in... View Details
Keywords: by Nitin Nohria & Marty Leestma
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Jeanne Jackson
When you look at two of the biggest developments in business in the last 25 years — globalization and the Internet — Jeanne P. Jackson has been right in the thick of it. Before launching her own small investment and consulting firm last... View Details
Michael Dell
In 1992, Dell, at 27 years of age, became the youngest CEO of a Fortune 500 company. Dell revolutionized the retail computer industry by instituting a direct sales approach, where the customer places their customized order via phone or... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Jimmy Lai Chee-ying: Rags, Riches, and Risk
his way up the job ladder at a garment factory, in due course becoming plant manager. By speculating in the stock market, he turned bonus money into enough cash to start his own clothes-making operation, which eventually became Giordano, a wildly successful casual... View Details
- 17 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Beyond Pajamas: Sizing Up the Pandemic Shopper
data-id=_/5WV9qIO851dKEzcCnWEy][/div] We found that roughly 33 percent of US shoppers and 20 percent of those in the UK had not purchased from online retailers before the pandemic. In March, that figure decreased slightly to 32 percent... View Details
Jeffrey P. Bezos
Founding his company just as the Internet was gaining widespread usage and credibility, Bezos created the world’s largest on-line bookseller. Realizing that few bookstores, even superstores, carry more than 100,000 books, Bezos created an... View Details
Keywords: Retail
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
William Fung: E-Commerce and Efficiency
Internet to improve efficiency and cater to new customers is a clear winner. Group managing director William K.L. Fung (MBA ’72) understands that e-commerce is revolutionary. “But it won’t change what our business is,” he insists. “We’re... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Where Innovation Rules
computing to social impact bonds, from industrial robots to personal finance, from Internet retailing to Internet radio—a plethora of products and services that could well bear... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
The World at a Click
Like so many dot-com businesses these days, the Internet travel industry is, well, taking off. Among the e-travel elite are Travelocity.com, known for the depth of its travel content and bolstered by distribution relationships with... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelly
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Booting Up
SELLING SHOES on the Internet was pretty far from Barbara Thornton's mind when she enrolled at HBS at the age of 45. The city planner and international consultant figured that opening power plants in Southeast Asia would best challenge... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
from the MBA Class of 1998: Marc Cenedella, founder of the Internet job search site TheLadders; Marla Malcolm Beck, cofounder of national cosmetics retailer bluemercury; and Chris Michel, cofounder of early... View Details