Publications

02 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

Do Online Dating Platforms Help Those Who Need Them Most?

we already know. The functionality of these businesses is clear, but their immense popularity can be perplexing. After all, people managed to get married and maintain friendships for eons before the Web ever existed. So, are these virtual... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology

06 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Winners and Losers at the Olympics

than silver; silver is better than bronze, and not medaling usually puts you out of the endorsement money. The third element focuses on the personality of the athletes and the "story line" that they bring to the table. Joey... View Details

Keywords: Re: Stephen A. Greyser; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation; Sports

01 Dec 2005
News

What’s Next for You?

seasoned MBAs, the experts urged career downshifters to begin any transition by doing what Jeans described as “some personal R&D.” “You should try to look at what it is in your current work that makes you feel most alive,” Radtke... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

January 2018 (Revised January 2019)
Case

ZappRx

By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Olivia Hull

In October 2015, ZappRx founder Zoe Barry is deciding between two business models for her health technology start-up. Her product, a software application that aims to expedite the prescription fulfillment process for patients with rare diseases, has attracted interest... View Details

Keywords: Speciality Drugs; Hub Services; Pivot; Speciality Prescriptions; Health Care and Treatment; Customization and Personalization; Internet and the Web; Business Model; Decision Choices and Conditions; Pharmaceutical Industry; Massachusetts

01 Oct 2000
News

Linda B. Kanner: All in the Family

true of her techno-savvy son Adam (MBA '98). "He's had a million ideas forever," Kanner laughs. "I was always Adam's sounding board." One of those ideas was for an e-commerce Web site that would offer discounted goods and services to... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

Fast Answer

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October 2000 (Revised May 2001)
Case

Richard Spellman (B)

Presents the final version of the agreements introduced in the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Contracts; Agreements and Arrangements; Internet and the Web; Executive Compensation; Personal Development and Career; Business Startups; Management Teams

03 Jan 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

5 Career-Related New Year’s Resolutions (and 5 Tips for Keeping Them)

Anat Keinan shows that people who wear funky outfits to the office are often seen as more confident and as having higher status than those who dress to fit in. As writer Dina Gerdeman explains, “The researchers found that observers viewed a nonconforming View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Mar 2004
News

Reforming Company Boards

been a lot of good talk by directors about what should be done. Charters and guidelines have been published on corporate Web sites about all the things that boards and companies are going to do to improve governance. But they’re not doing... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Services

05 May 2011
News

Blazing a Trail for Glenn Beck

Morgan: Sees great potential in the nation’s diehard conservative audience. Betsy Morgan (MBA ’95) set media-world tongues wagging when talk-show host Glenn Beck announced in early January that he had hired the former Huffington Post CEO to head his new View Details

Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

28 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Shareholders Key to Corporate Reform

be actually brought home to the investor." Most of our social contracts are built on the assumption that individual accountability influences human behavior. Indeed, the recent move by the SEC to require CEOs to personally attest to... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia A. Montgomery & Rhonda Kaufman

01 May 2008
Research & Ideas

The Marketing Challenges of the China Olympics

Take Lenovo, for example. The fourth largest personal computer manufacturer in the world is the first and only Chinese company to be a global sponsor of an Olympics. Lenovo's investment in the Games is around $100 million. The company... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Sports

01 Jun 2000
News

Flexibility Is Key to Product Development in Internet Time

partnership helped them find errors in the initial version, as well as add new features to it." Such collaboration allows a search engine like Yahoo!, for example, to respond to customer requirements by adding new types of personalized... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 Mar 2005
News

Things Everyone Should Know How to Do

Management, is now at work on a guide to life at home. She invites HBS advice givers or seekers to visit her Web site at www.theexpertsguideto.com. Is there less intergenerational teaching in society today? Yes. Many of the topics in The... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

26 Jun 2000
Research & Ideas

What’s an Internet Business Model? Ask a Health Care Professional

information of this type that's actively used. "There are a lot of components on the Web today, but no one has really put this together in a compelling way." Moriarty also reckoned that another emerging frontier is online continuing... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

01 Oct 1999
News

Entrepreneur Daniel S. Bricklin: A Class Act

the single most important factor in the rapid proliferation of personal computers. Bricklin, who took a shine to computer programming while still in high school in the 1960s, earned an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering and... View Details

Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs

01 Feb 2001
News

The Road Taken: One Family's Worldly Adventure

The first in a series of occasional articles on HBS graduates who have taken a leave from their careers to explore personally enriching projects off the beaten track. For some busy executives, spending quality time with the family means... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

August 2008 (Revised July 2011)
Case

Consumer Payment Systems — United States

By: Benjamin Edelman and Andrei Hagiu

In 2008, the U.S. consumer payments landscape was characterized by the ongoing prevalence of credit and debit card networks, the decline of checks, the rise of stored value cards, and the growth of new payment methods such as PayPal, Bill Me Later, and decoupled debit.... View Details

Keywords: Borrowing and Debt; Financial Management; Personal Finance; Digital Platforms; Motivation and Incentives; Competitive Strategy; Internet and the Web; United States