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- 15 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 15
Apartment Rental Market Peter A. Coles, Joshua Gans, and Wei-Yuan YuHarvard Business School Case 912-009 Jon Pastor and Lawrence Zhou were inspired by the same problem: the Internet was surprisingly unhelpful in the hunt for an apartment.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2006
helping intentions; in other words, those participants who did not dehumanize outgroup victims were the individuals most likely to report volunteering for hurricane relief efforts. Internet Companies' Growth Strategies: Determinants of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rescuing Products with Stealth Positioning
square and two inches tall. It left everything up to the imagination—which is precisely what Apple had in mind. Downplaying its PC capability, Apple's marketers emphasized the Mini's many other uses: It could be a music server for your car; a dedicated View Details
Keywords: by Youngme Moon
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
what loyalty means or how to build it. Reichheld, author of the 1996 bestseller The Loyalty Effect, outlines six principles of loyalty that can make the Internet a hospitable and highly profitable place for businesses to succeed. 20/20... View Details
- Profile
David A. Frankel
his native South Africa as a wealthy young entrepreneur who had already co-founded and sold a hugely successful company that left him, at age 29, “sitting on the floor, bored out of my mind.” Having been accepted to HBS prior to starting View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
My Pandemic Year
with using our mobile phones, folding our laundry, reading our cases for the next classes, or preparing a meal while still tuning into Zoom classes. Video Embed We also mastered the art of looking engaged on screen even when we were not.... View Details
- February 2001 (Revised August 2001)
- Case
Dialpad Communications (A)
By: Alan D. MacCormack and Kerry Herman
Describes the evolution of Dialpad, a voice-over-Internet-protocol telephony company. Set in September 2000, CEO Brad Garlinghouse faces a dilemma: what to do about the large number of international users who use Dialpad to call the United States for free. He must also... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Business or Company Management; Organizational Design; Competitive Strategy; Investment; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Internet and the Web; Venture Capital; Telecommunications Industry; California
MacCormack, Alan D., and Kerry Herman. "Dialpad Communications (A)." Harvard Business School Case 601-090, February 2001. (Revised August 2001.)
- 16 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 16, 2008
PC, the organization faced challenges in doing things outside of its established processes. Though many of the team members had worked together for years, they had to find new ways of working as they tried to launch the new mobile View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 May 2013
- Op-Ed
Making America an Industrial Powerhouse Again
industries. Research funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) sowed the seeds for the internet and advanced computer graphics. And massive investments by the National Institutes of Health in biomedical research,... View Details
- Web
Navigating Your Worth: AI, Negotiations, and the Nature of Expertise - Course Catalog
Shikhar Ghosh. Prof Cullen is a leading labor economist whose research covers the impact of information and AI for firms, employees, and entrepreneurs. Prof Ghosh has been teaching courses on entrepreneurship and technology. He has built leading companies in the... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Vision: Learning Curve
children and parents alike. “Our interests really aligned on early childhood education,” Mahajan says. Recognizing that more than 50 percent of Indians have smartphones—and that mobile internet penetration... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
Two Decades Later, is the 'New Economy' Finally Here?
the Great Recession. The New Economy proved to be vastly over-hyped. In light of continued advances in such things as artificial intelligence, the sharing of resources enabled by new information platforms, and the mobilization of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
http://www.people.hbs.edu/mrhodeskropf/GovernanceCEOTurnoverMS.pdf 2006 Journal of Law, Economics & Organization Contractual Incompleteness, Contingent Control Rights, and the Design of Internet Portal Alliances By: Lerner, Josh, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Tackling Climate Change Will Cost Less Than We Think
massive shift —of the same order of magnitude as the diffusion of globalization, the mechanization of agriculture, the widespread adoption of computers or the diffusion of the Internet and the digitization of almost everything. It will... View Details
- May 1983 (Revised December 1987)
- Case
Technical Data Corp.
Describes a decision confronting the president of a small company about selling some or all of the shares in his company to another firm. Technical Data Corp. provides analytical services to professional bond market traders over a system of computer terminals operated... View Details
Keywords: Stocks; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Internet and the Web; Information Infrastructure; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Valuation; Negotiation Tactics; Mergers and Acquisitions; Corporate Strategy; Horizontal Integration; Information Industry; Service Industry
Sahlman, William A. "Technical Data Corp." Harvard Business School Case 283-072, May 1983. (Revised December 1987.)
- 14 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
The World in Your Palm?
both a car wax and dessert topping. At the moment, the cell phone is the closest thing we have to a fully converged device, said panelists, who represented device makers, telecom service providers, and operating system developers. Many cell phones feature a camera,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 24, 2009
authorities will soon deplete their supply. I evaluate a series of possible responses to this shortage: sharing addresses impedes new Internet applications and does not seem to be scalable. A new numbering system ("IPv6") offers... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
An online shipping platform that uses social networks and smartphones. Low-cost medical care and monitoring that helps seniors to live at home. The "Skype" of broadband, offering free Internet service. On an April morning known as "Super... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
with Urban Water Partners RelayRides explanatory video FashionStake-Reuters story An online shipping platform that uses social networks and smartphones. Low-cost medical care and monitoring that helps seniors to live at home. The “Skype” of broadband, offering free... View Details
- 14 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208070 iPhone vs. Cell Phone Harvard Business School Case 708-451 The launch of Apple's iPhone marked a pivotal new chapter in the story of mobile music (the uniting of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace