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Collecting Strategy | Baker Library
Collecting Strategy Digital Equipment Corporation catalog, 1968-1969. Kenneth H. Olsen collection. Special Collections & Archives is vigorously building its archival and historical collections to support emerging trends in contemporary... View Details
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Bearing engineer and his three dimensional graph - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
engineer and his three dimensional graph , ca. 1941 Chrysler Corporation Photographer unknown Gelatin Silver Print, 8 × 10 inches Industrial Life Photograph Collection, Mss:1412 :414 N277 Baker Library | Historical Collections | Site Credits | View Details
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Henry Ford presents new V-8 - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
Ford Motor Company Photographer unknown Gelatin Silver Print, 8 × 10 inches Automobile Industry Photograph Collection, Mss: 534 A939 1931-1944 :534 A939 Baker Library | Historical Collections | Site Credits | Digital Accessibility Contact... View Details
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Making Kraft mayonnaise - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
Explore the full size image Making Kraft mayonnaise , ca. 1933 Kraft-Phenix Cheese Corporation Photographer unknown Gelatin Silver Print, 13.25 × 14.5 inches Industrial Life Photograph Collection, Mss:1412 :414 N277 Baker Library | Historical Collections | Site Credits... View Details
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Selecting and breaking fresh eggs - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
1933 Kraft-Phenix Cheese Corporation Photographer unknown Gelatin Silver Print, 13.25 × 14.5 inches Industrial Life Photograph Collection, Mss:1412 :414 N277 Baker Library | Historical Collections | Site Credits | Digital Accessibility... View Details
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Ditching to drain off the whey - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
the whey , ca. 1933 Kraft–Phenix Cheese Corporation Photographer unknown Gelatin Silver Print, 13.25 × 14.5 inches Industrial Life Photograph Collection, Mss:1412 :414 N277 Baker Library | Historical Collections | Site Credits | Digital... View Details
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Where flavor development begins - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
full size image Where flavor development begins , ca. 1933 Kraft–Phenix Cheese Corporation Photographer unknown Gelatin Silver Print, 13.25 × 14.5 inches Industrial Life Photograph Collection, Mss:1412 :414 N277 Baker Library | Historical Collections | Site Credits |... View Details
- December 2022
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Competition, Contracts, and Creativity: Evidence from Novel Writing in a Platform Market
By: Yanhui Wu and Feng Zhu
A growing number of people today are participating in the gig economy, working as independent contractors on short-term projects. We study the effects of competition on gig workers' effort and creativity on a Chinese novel-writing platform. Authors produce and sell... View Details
Keywords: Gig Workers; Platform-based Markets; Novel Writing; Creative Production; Platform Bias; Employment; Digital Platforms; Creativity; Books; Competition; Contracts
Wu, Yanhui, and Feng Zhu. "Competition, Contracts, and Creativity: Evidence from Novel Writing in a Platform Market." Management Science 68, no. 12 (December 2022): 8613–8634.
- January 2017 (Revised August 2019)
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X Fire Paintball & Airsoft: Is Amazon a Friend or Foe? (A)
By: Feng Zhu and Angela Acocella
Three years after launching his brick-and-mortar store, X Fire Paintball and Airsoft, Steve Herbert Sr. and his sons began selling products on Amazon.com’s third-party Marketplace, and online sales expanded rapidly. Over time, X Fire noticed that products of which it... View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Competition; Digital Platforms; Internet and the Web; Small Business; Retail Industry; Canada
Zhu, Feng, and Angela Acocella. "X Fire Paintball & Airsoft: Is Amazon a Friend or Foe? (A)." Harvard Business School Case 617-046, January 2017. (Revised August 2019.)
- April 2016
- Teaching Note
Flipkart: Transitioning to a Marketplace Model
By: Sunil Gupta and Das Narayandas
In 2015, Sachin and Binny Bansal, co-founders of India's largest e-tailer, Flipkart, announced that the company would switch to a marketplace model and move its logistics arm into a separate company. At the time of the announcement, Snapdeal already claimed to be... View Details
- 22 Mar 2023
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Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in Los Angeles
the School into three priorities, he offered insights into work that is underway on the role of business in society, digital innovation, and reimagining learning. "I don't think there is another institution other than business and free... View Details
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Marketing - HBS Online
New Credential of Digital Innovation and Strategy Build the skill set and strategic acumen to compete in the digital world through a combination of forward-looking coursework, unique team activities with a... View Details
- 19 Jun 2019
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Connecting Patients and Providers
London, Chicago, New York, Boston, Cologne, and Frankfurt in search of a fuller diagnosis and cutting-edge medical advice. The extraordinary effort gave his 59-year-old mother another 10 months with her family. And it inspired Jarzabek to create Trustedoctor, a View Details
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Fabian Frick
making; I wanted more of a management role,” says Fabian. A consulting assignment with McKinsey gave him the opportunity to explore strategic digitization projects. “In Germany,” Fabian notes, “we have lots of large, traditional companies... View Details
- 08 Jul 2002
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How to Fashion Your New E-Business Model
Information Age business innovations include: Digital production and distribution technologies (broadband and wireless networks, sophisticated content creation, flexible knowledge management) An operating model (integrated supply chains... View Details
Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate
- March 2016 (Revised February 2023)
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Advertising Experiments at RestaurantGrades
By: Michael Luca, Weijia Dai and Hyunjin Kim
Advertising Experiments at RestaurantGrades is an exercise in which students are asked to analyze and make a recommendation on the basis of simulated experimental data. The setting is a hypothetical restaurant review company called RestaurantGrades (RG), which shows... View Details
- June 2019
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ClearLife: From Prospect to Platform
By: Alexander Braun, Lauren Cohen, Mauro Elvedi and Jiahua Xu
ClearLife’s first product was a trading and analytics platform for participants in the U.S. life settlement market, the secondary market for life insurance. ClearLife played a key role in facilitating transactions and devising a common language for expressing value and... View Details
Braun, Alexander, Lauren Cohen, Mauro Elvedi, and Jiahua Xu. "ClearLife: From Prospect to Platform." Harvard Business School Case 219-119, June 2019.
- August 2018
- Teaching Note
IguanaFix
By: Frank V. Cespedes and Thomas Eisenmann
Teaching Note for HBS No. 817-056. IguanaFix, based in Argentina, is a platform business that connects consumers with home improvement contractors. The founders are evaluating growth options and an investment offer. The case focuses on scaling issues for a venture... View Details
- 2016
- Working Paper
Controlling Versus Enabling
By: Andrei Hagiu and Julian Wright
Revenue sharing between principals and agents is commonly used to balance double-sided moral hazard. We provide a theory of how, when such revenue-sharing is optimal, a principal allocates control rights over decisions that either party could make. We show that the... View Details
Keywords: Control Rights; Decision Authority; Employment; Independent Contractors; Organizational Theory; Digital Platforms; Governance Controls; Ethics; Vertical Integration
Hagiu, Andrei, and Julian Wright. "Controlling Versus Enabling." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-002, July 2015. (Revised July 2016.)
- January 2018 (Revised February 2018)
- Technical Note
Making Markets
Explains how to identify and capitalize on marketplace design opportunities. Defines markets and marketplaces and describes the basic functions of each. Discusses attributes (e.g., heterogeneity of participants' preferences and asymmetry in available information) that... View Details
Keywords: Marketplaces; Two-Sided Markets; Entrepreneurship; Market Design; Digital Platforms; Marketplace Matching; Market Participation; Market Transactions; Market Entry and Exit; Digital Platforms; Auctions
Eisenmann, Thomas R., and Scott Duke Kominers. "Making Markets." Harvard Business School Technical Note 818-096, January 2018. (Revised February 2018.)