Traffic - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2004
News

Duncan M. ("Greg") Murray (MBA 1964)

was just a gleam in a lot of eyes. It’s been a great success. In traffic tonnage, Halifax is now third in Canada behind only Vancouver and Montreal, both much larger metropolitan areas. When my wife and I packed up to come back to Nova... View Details

Keywords: Animal Production and Aquaculture; Agriculture

18 Dec 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018

looking at observational data on user traffic to Yelp from search engines, we find that Google’s exclusion of downstream competitors may have been effective. The share of Yelp’s traffic coming from Google... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

17 Apr 2019
Blog Post

Coming Home to HBS

their last Valentine’s day around my schedule since I was in Boston for work and available to meet for just two hours: one went late to Valentine’s dinner with her husband, the other left work early. It didn’t matter if there’s traffic or... View Details

01 Mar 2017
News

Swimming with the Stream

audio a few weeks later. But she realized that the approach was missing an opportunity to translate that excitement into actual audio sales—it was marketing product unavailable for purchase. And it didn’t have a shelf life: “YouTube videos can drive View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

15 Nov 2020
News

Exploring China’s Belt & Road Initiative

group observed the massive scale of its operations and gained an appreciation for these commercial hubs as bellwethers of the global economy. Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macao Bridge The lack of traffic on the world’s longest sea-crossing bridge... View Details

28 May 2013
First Look

First Look: May 28

and Traffic Violations By: Yap, Andy J., Abbie S. Wazlawek, Brian J. Lucas, Amy Cuddy, and Dana R. Carney Abstract—Can the structure of our everyday environment lead us to behave dishonestly? Four studies found that expansive postures... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Aug 2002
What Do You Think?

Is Platform Leadership Old Hat or the Wave of the Future?

determine whether the practice results in "collusion and monopoly?" In fact, does platform leadership have to be confined to those firms developing technology? Can it just as well be established by marketers who serve as traffic... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

31 May 2023
Research & Ideas

With Predictive Analytics, Companies Can Tap the Ultimate Opportunity: Customers’ Routines

method to plot when enough bikes are needed to cut congestion or improve bike traffic flow. The next step, Ascarza says, may be to study how people who are traveling as part of a routine would respond differently to policy... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Transportation

01 Dec 2020
News

Finding The Right Patient-Provider Match

or a telemedicine appointment with a physician. “We were essential to their ability to direct traffic and get patients to the right services,” says Gardner. By mining the search data on the platform, Gardner and his team could see a... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

09 Apr 2020
News

“Raise the Line”

employment and something productive to do while they are at home. We've seen a 50 percent increase in traffic in the past month. HBS: What type of COVID-19-related information are people looking for? Gaglani: Our most popular video is a... View Details

01 Sep 2005
News

Get Ready for Saudi Oil Shock

traffic congestion, which is public enemy number one on passenger car fuel efficiency. The second thing we could do is address our agricultural food distribution system. If we went back to localized farming, it’s amazing how we could... View Details

Keywords: Lewis I. Rice; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing; Manufacturing

11 Sep 2000
Research & Ideas

Riding the Internet Fast Track

such as Amazon.com, drugstore.com, E*Trade, and Priceline.com, firms that unflinchingly invest millions of dollars in advertising and promotion each year to rapidly build traffic and revenues. The high-octane fuel that these super trains... View Details

Keywords: by Peter Jacobs

03 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Facebook’s Future

are already encouraging us to share private information automatically. For example, if you are using Google Maps on your iPhone, you are most likely sending information to Google about your location and speed—data the company aggregates to present us with up-to-date... View Details

Keywords: by Mikolaj Piskorski

28 Oct 2024
Blog Post

It Takes a Village: Global Field Courses at Harvard Business School

kind, and generous with their time and expertise. Every part of this course will be a fantastic way for students to learn and engage firsthand,” she said. “We saw and learned the traffic patterns influenced by cars, cows, and pedestrians... View Details

01 Dec 2020
News

Two Truths and a Lie About 5G

AI. “Think about a world of the future where every traffic light, every car, every street light is connected and they all speak to one another.” These trends all complement and accelerate one another, Menard says, and that bigger picture... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

17 Sep 2013
First Look

First Look: September 17

transactions in the market for ideas. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=14-019.pdf Crowdsourcing Peer Firms: Evidence from EDGAR Search Traffic By: Lee, Charles M.C., Paul Ma, and Charles C.Y.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Mar 2020
News

Signal Boost

that women and children would be hurt in traffic by exiting from the left side. Lara, then a manager of product strategy for Chrysler and the mother of an infant daughter, spoke up. “First of all, we park in parking lots, not traffic.... View Details

13 May 2014
News

Inside Africa

Google made her “a very attractive offer” for the domain name and she had to decide whether to take the money and move on. Instead, she put together a website herself over the course of a weekend and watched as the traffic grew and grew.... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

23 Mar 2010
First Look

First Look: March 23

scheduling affect operational performance and the quality of labor at the stores. The case describes the tasks (both in-store logistics and customer service tasks) that are carried out by store employees at one Dillard's department store and presents nine weeks of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 Jan 2010
First Look

First Look: Jan. 26

When participation costs are large relative to the volume of traffic an ad platform can offer, an advertiser may forego use of an ad platform that the advertiser otherwise finds profitable. Mergers between ad platforms can increase... View Details