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  • 25 Apr 2023
  • Op-Ed

How SHEIN and Temu Conquered Fast Fashion—and Forged a New Business Model

information technology to directly match consumer demand to dispersed production by a collection of factories in China. This method of reaching customers should inspire any business that provides products or services that come from many... View Details
Keywords: by John Deighton; Fashion; Retail; Consumer Products
  • Web

Campus Tours | About

distancing when possible, especially when unmasked. Self-Guided Tours Can’t make it to one of the MBA or public tour times offered? You can always take a self-guided tour using the Smartguide tour app on your mobile device. Online Tours... View Details
  • May 1983 (Revised December 1987)
  • Case

Technical Data Corp.

By: William A. Sahlman
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; Service Industry; Service Industry
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Technology & Operations Management - Faculty & Research

reduction of search frictions, evidenced by an increase in conversion rates and a higher impact of Buybox on the mobile channel, which has significantly higher search frictions than the desktop channel. On the seller side, the number of... View Details
  • 19 May 2015
  • First Look

First Look: May 19

plans, among other factors-was hampering uptake of what should be a highly valuable offering for all stakeholders involved. They wondered if a DTC approach, in which American Well would become a consumer brand and market a telehealth View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Sep 2006
  • Research & Ideas

How Software Platforms Revolutionize Business

solutions for myriad tasks that previously were performed in traditional, non-tech ways. In this way, they have improved the productivity of many traditional industries (just look at all the industries that use PCs today) and created brand new ones (just look at the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Web Services; Web Services
  • August 2024
  • Article

Heuristics on Call: The Impact of Mobile-Phone-Based Business-Management Advice

By: Shawn Cole, Mukta Joshi and Antoinette Schoar
There is growing evidence that business training for micro-entrepreneurs can be effective. However, in-person training can be expensive and imposes costs on the target beneficiaries. This paper presents the results of a two-site randomized evaluation of a light-touch,... View Details
Keywords: Training; Entrepreneurship; Mobile and Wireless Technology; India; Philippines
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  • March 2012 (Revised September 2012)
  • Case

INRIX

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Ryan Johnson
Since its founding in 2004, INRIX, a leading global provider of traffic information and driver services, had received four rounds of financing from leading venture capital (VC) firms and by 2012 had been cash flow positive for the past six quarters. Its founder, Bryan... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Leadership; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Exit or Shutdown; Business Startups; Organizational Structure; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Competitive Strategy; Service Industry; Service Industry; Washington (state, US)
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Platform Competition

Technology has challenged the underlying foundations of business, and firms must evaluate and change strategies accordingly. Professor Halaburda studies the interaction of technology and economic theory, and her findings indicate that conventional wisdom and rules... View Details

  • 12 Mar 2024
  • HBS Case

How Used Products Can Unlock New Markets: Lessons from Apple's Refurbished iPhones

Some of Apple’s most loyal customers think nothing of upgrading to the latest iPhone every time one comes out. But what about consumers who can’t splurge on a $1,000 iPhone 15 Pro? And what about the electronic waste that would accrue if people threw away functional... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Electronics; Information Technology
  • 07 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 7

commitment dedicated to online marketplaces. In Greylock's view, 2014 was a special moment in time for online marketplaces, the beginning of a boom in the space that was being catalyzed by mobile technology and social identity. Rothman... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

FAQs - Alumni

Mobility & Accessibility Assistance What mobility assistance and accessibility accommodations are available to reunion attendees? HBS strives to host inclusive, accessible events that enable all individuals... View Details
  • 14 Nov 2007
  • First Look

First Look: November 14, 2007

"reinvent the phone." Yet both the device and the mobile service provided by AT&T involved limitations that could hinder the long-term prospects for the iPhone. At the same time, handset makers... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Podcast - Business & Environment

changes consumer behavior, and how data, technology and behavioral science underpin their service design. Fabian also discusses the evolving regulatory landscape, including Germany’s reuse mandates and emerging municipal single-use taxes.... View Details
  • 14 Jun 2011
  • First Look

First Look: June 14

always want to hear that a person is struggling, nor do they necessarily reward risk taking, even though they might pay lip service to innovative initiative. The authors outline several steps that individuals can take to shake off fear... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 23

variety of applications and services that drive the popularity of software. The first principle focuses on enabling choice: firms should allow consumers and partners to have a real choice between complementary products and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Apr 2015
  • First Look

First Look: April 28

joint venture with a community hospital to establish Hoag Orthopedic Institute (HOI), a for-profit hospital and two ambulatory service centers. By controlling and integrating all aspects of the patients' medical treatment, the physicians... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 May 2015
  • First Look

First Look: May 26

By: Buciuni, Giulio, and Gary P. Pisano Abstract— It is widely presumed that in today's globalized economy, the value of geographic clustering of manufacturing industries is no longer valuable. Manufacturing is represented as a highly View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Research - Global

customized soil nutrient management advisory service in India. As a methodological contribution, we examine whether and in which settings satellite measurements may be effective at estimating both agricultural yields and treatment... 2025... View Details
  • 23 Oct 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The Strategy-Focused Organization

illustrate how major organizations have used the Scorecard to create an entirely new performance management framework that puts strategy at the center of a company's key management processes and systems. Mobil North America Marketing and... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton