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  • 12 May 2009
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First Look: May 12, 2009

Or should Grace respond to buy-out offers? Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=309075 Backchannelmedia: Making Television 'Clickable' Harvard Business School Case 509-026 Backchannelmedia (BCM), a three-year-old start-up,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018

theoretical illustrations and Monte Carlo simulations to validate our claims. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52743 Executive Education in the Digital Vortex: The Disruption of the Supply Landscape... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jul 2024
  • News

Reddit’s Rise

to grow revenue. And that’s going to be through advertising and that is a trust-based business. You’re getting big brands and small brands to come on to your platform and put their content alongside a lot of UGC, user-generated content.... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2017
  • News

Supercharged

research fellow at Professor Clay Christensen’s Forum for Growth and Innovation, thinks that the smaller, scrappier Chinese automakers may turn out to be the true disruptive innovators of the global EV market. By manufacturing inexpensive... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustrations by Tavis Coburn
  • 29 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 29

which it creates a digital platform for publishing digital magazines on the iPad. The case is intended, in part, as an introduction to the challenges media companies face due to the disruptive effects of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017

opportunity that's right for you. Entering StartUpLand will guide you as you seek your ideal entry point into this popular, cutting-edge organizational paradigm. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53337 2017 Entrepreneurship, Innovation,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Mar 2016
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March 29, 2016

many industries. Extant papers largely assume that platforms dominate the pricing decision, whereas in practice, prices in business-to-business transactions are often determined by a bargaining process. We study how the relative... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018

entrepreneurs. A field study conducted on question-and-answer interactions at TechCrunch Disrupt New York City during 2010 through 2016 reveals that investors tend to ask male entrepreneurs promotion-focused questions and female... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • August 2022
  • Case

SuperRare: Turning an NFT Marketplace into a DAO

By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Scott Duke Kominers and Amy Klopfenstein
In June 2021, John Crain and Jonathan Perkins, the founders of SuperRare, a marketplace for non-fungible tokens (NFTs), contemplate whether to transform their company into a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). Crain and Perkins founded SuperRare in 2018 to... View Details
Keywords: NFTs; Crypto Economy; Alternative Assets; DAOs; Arts; Governance; Governance Controls; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Information Technology; Technology Adoption; Internet and the Web; Digital Platforms; Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Disruptive Innovation; Finance; Currency; Investment; Markets; Auctions; Bids and Bidding; Demand and Consumers; Network Effects; Market Design; Market Transactions; Market Timing; Web Services Industry; North and Central America; United States
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  • 30 May 2019
  • What Do You Think?

Is There a Distinctive West Coast Style of Management?

growth. It’s achieved by, among other things, concentrating on nonfinancial as well as financial outcomes, outsourcing and “renting” everything from assets to talent, using information and innovation from everywhere (not just internally) to enable everything, building... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Education
  • 04 Jul 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Is Your Org Chart Stuck in a Rut? Try a Scientific Experiment

the o-Lab issued an open call for businesses to share challenges that were difficult to overcome due to their current organizational structures. Some 44 people submitted problems via a platform that let everyone view everyone else’s ideas... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 16 Sep 2015
  • News

Built for Speed

restaurant Sonic—FirstBuild spent $600 to do a Google survey to gauge interest and then put out a design challenge to the FirstBuild community, collecting 29 ideas. Eventually, they’ll take the winning model to a crowdfunding platform to... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; Machinery Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 24 May 2011
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First Look: May 24

demanding a custom feature that would be unusually disruptive to develop. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/811075-PDF-ENG Utilis: Designing, Producing, and Selling Rapid Deployment Shelters for a Troubled World... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 24

creditors of the struggling bank. The decision takes place just one day after CIT was denied access to the Temporary Liquidity Guarantee Program (TLGP). This case provides a platform for discussing what constitutes a good attractive... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 10 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 10

given difficulties at the portfolio companies and disruptions in credit markets. The case takes the perspective of a private equity firm evaluating the deal to determine whether buying leveraged loans is a good investment opportunity.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Dec 2018
  • News

Source Code

scenarios, expected behaviors—and that this is a critical element of human intelligence. Translated into code, these biological functions became a unique learning algorithm, which Numenta’s business partner Grok makes available as an anomaly detection tool, searching... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Daniel Hertzberg
  • 13 Sep 2019
  • News

Hollywood Ending

also call it an audaciously big bet on an unproven format in an ever-crowded market of streaming content. With an April 6, 2020, launch, Whitman and Katzenberg have 20 months and $1 billion to build the whole thing from scratch—from a full catalog of original content... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photo by Christina Gandolfo
  • 17 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 17

Janisse Publication:Best Paper Proceedings of the Academy of Management (2012). Abstract We examine the internal supply chains at two service organizations to discover the source of disruptions that erode employees' efficiency. Through... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Sep 2018
  • News

September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

engage (or not engage) in our workplaces, homes, and communities. A Boyhood in Wartime Britain by Michael H. Coles (MBA 1961) CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform Collecting shrapnel from his front yard; identifying incoming... View Details
  • 23 Aug 2016
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August 23, 2016

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51538 July–August 2016 European Business Review The Decoupling Effect of Digital Disruptors By: Teixeira, Thales S., and Peter Jamieson Abstract—A new wave of Internet startups is disrupting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne