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  • January 2003 (Revised May 2003)
  • Case

VendQuest (A): The Business Idea

By: Dwight B. Crane and David Foster
A potential founder of a company is considering whether to start up a new enterprise that would link parts distributors with customers in the construction industries via the Internet. This case describes the industry and the potential advantages to distributors and... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Corporate Strategy; Business Model; Distribution; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Internet and the Web; Business Plan; Customer Relationship Management; Business Ventures; Construction Industry
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  • 24 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 24

itself, can obscure meaningful variation in individual use patterns, we investigate how the concentration of use within a team (the extent to which use is limited to a few members versus more evenly View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Jun 2013
  • First Look

First Look: June 4

restructured following the 2010 departures of three of its general partners. Life was good for Deshpande: his firm had distributed roughly $1 billion to its limited partners... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Feb 2016
  • First Look

February 2, 2016

quality of accounting information. Overall, a tractable accounting-based valuation model provides a unifying framework for obtaining reliable proxies of expected returns worldwide. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Nov 2020
  • News

Countdown To Remote Learning

Gifts to the HBS Fund support a wide range of people and programs like this. When Harvard announced in early March that all instruction would move online after spring break, the clock started ticking. “HBS had just two weeks to select and... View Details
  • 03 Apr 2012
  • First Look

First Look: April 3

regard to their preferences. Assignment was done in a manner where sorted and unsorted groups had identical distributions of raw problem-solving ability. We find a remarkably large effect View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 15 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 15

Abstract We study competitive interaction between two alternative models of digital content distribution over the Internet: peer-to-peer (p2p) file sharing and centralized client-server distribution. We... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 3, 2006

allocating resources is distributed across all levels of the company. Those activities go on simultaneously. As a consequence, the way in which the structure divides up responsibility and the way the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • April 2009
  • Case

Symbian, Google & Apple in the Mobile Space (A)

By: Fernando Suarez, Benjamin Edelman and Arati Srinivasan
Symbian, maker of a leading mobile smartphone operating system, faces new competition from Google and Apple. Symbian evaluates changes to its software and its relationships with distributors in order to meet these competitors. View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Distribution; Competitive Strategy; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Applications and Software
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  • 03 Nov 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Making Money Making Movies

Universal that produce and distribute movies. More and more, fears of piracy impact decisions that industry executives make regarding release strategies. However, a different picture emerges for theatrical... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls; Entertainment & Recreation; Motion Pictures & Video
  • 10 Dec 2013
  • First Look

First Look: December 10

  Publications August 2013 Strategic Management Journal Location Choices under Strategic Interactions By: Alcácer, Juan, Minyuan Zhao, and Cristian Dezso Abstract—The literature on location choices has mostly emphasized the impact of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Sep 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help

business of politics as they would study any company or sector, looking at structural components such as competitors, customers, channels to reach customers, suppliers, and the threat View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
  • 02 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: October 2, 2007

industry. In this article we explain why and how. We also show how management can shape the architecture of the industry in ways that have consequences for the distribution of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2004
  • News

Toy Story

Toys. It has set up its manufacturing channels to meet the strict schedules that these stores require. Still, Moynihan is discouraged by trends in the retail market. “Some of the smaller toy shops are really... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young; toys; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment
  • 01 Mar 2014
  • News

From Compton to the C-Suite

Keywords: Natural Gas Distribution; Natural Gas Distribution
  • 26 Feb 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Evolving for Success [Part One]

discovered that the Internet was full of reinvented wheels, and that we needed that historical memory. Those youthful companies needed the wisdom of the established business world. And established companies... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 13 Dec 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Improving Public Health for the Poor

will lead to probing for innovative alternatives. In some cases it may be the distribution system; in others it may be a technical solution. Or perhaps you need to redefine the problem altogether. One of the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health
  • 30 Oct 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company

In a recent Harvard Business Review article, professor Robert Simons wrote about how organizations can design jobs for maximum performance. In this excerpt, Simons discusses what he terms the four basic "spans" of a job—control,... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
  • 29 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 29

  Publications August 2013 Journal of Financial Economics X-CAPM: An Extrapolative Capital Asset Pricing Model By: Barberis, Nicholas, Robin Greenwood, Lawrence Jin, and Andrei Shleifer Abstract—Survey evidence suggests that many... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2023
  • News

An Investment in Tomorrow's Leaders

fellowship program on our students, who see how invested our alumni are in their success and the success of the School, cannot be overstated.” —Jana Kierstead “We know that talent is much more evenly View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie