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  • 05 Dec 2016
  • Research & Ideas

How To Deceive Others With Truthful Statements (It's Called 'Paltering,' And It's Risky)

including face-to-face and online negotiations. In one study, they asked participants to imagine this scenario: Over the last 10 years your sales have grown consistently, but next year you expect View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 06 Jun 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Skills and Behaviors that Make Entrepreneurs Successful

that increase confidence in a person’s entrepreneurial abilities. Like the conviction of Marla Malcolm Beck and husband Barry Beck that high-end beauty retail stores and spas, tightly coupled with online stores, was the business model of... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Working Knowledge
  • Web

2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

Recording Leveraging HBS Online for Social Impact in the Education Sector Senior Lecturer Monique Burns Thompson (MBA 1993) + More Info – Less Info HBS and the Harvard Graduate School of Education have partnered to develop a multi-course... View Details
  • 10 Dec 2013
  • First Look

First Look: December 10

and Incentives in Online Affiliate Marketing By: Edelman, Benjamin G., and Wesley Brandi Abstract—We consider alternative methods of supervising staff who have significant discretion and whose efforts are subject to both incomplete... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jan 2016
  • First Look

January 19, 2016

Grommet The Grommet, an online product launch platform, was at the brink of scaling its business. The Grommet's daily launch and sale of innovative consumer products, using personal videos created by product... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 May 2014
  • First Look

First Look: May 20

Miami-based startup offering online English language learning services, had more than 30,000 active students across Latin America in 2012. The company had just closed a $43 million financing round in order to rapidly scale its service to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2023
  • News

Thinking Ahead

As we wind down 2023, there’s talk everywhere of generative AI and how it will fundamentally alter the world as we know it; but how does that translate for your corner of the business world? Is TikTok something you need to take seriously? (Is it time to dance?) We... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Illustrations by Chris Gash; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
  • 22 May 2024
  • HBS Case

Banned or Not, TikTok Is a Force Companies Can’t Afford to Ignore

TikTok is developing an in-app marketplace in some countries that takes consumers “seamlessly from videos and live streams to shopping,” the case notes. Most of the TikTok Shop’s e-commerce sales are, for the moment, in Southeast Asia,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology
  • August 2006 (Revised March 2008)
  • Case

iPod vs. Cell Phone: A Mobile Music Revolution?

By: David B. Yoffie, Travis D. Merrill and Michael Slind
In 2006, a nascent market for music-enabled mobile phones was emerging to challenge Apple Computer's dominant position in the digital music industry. Through its iPod line of portable digital music devices and its iTunes Music Store, Apple controlled more than half of... View Details
Keywords: Music Entertainment; Emerging Markets; Brands and Branding; Sales; Opportunities; Price; Business Model; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Digital Platforms; Service Delivery; Communications Industry; Music Industry
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  • 07 Jul 2019
  • HBS Case

Walmart's Workforce of the Future

approach to the customer experience, with an emphasis on employee training and improved ecommerce and automation technology, both on the floor and in back office roles. One foundational move to beef up its technology was Walmart’s $3.3 billion acquisition of View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail
  • Web

Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

Newspapers (6) Non-Governmental Organizations (10) Non-Renewable Energy (2) Nonprofit Organizations (55) Nonverbal Communication (2) Online Advertising (16) Online Technology (32) Open Source Distribution... View Details
  • 19 Feb 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 19

B. Yoffie Publication:Journal of Economic Perspectives Abstract The patent market consists mainly of privately negotiated, bilateral transactions, either sales or cross-licenses, between large companies. There is no eBay, Amazon, New York... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Mar 2015
  • First Look

First Look: March 10

introduces methods for increasing the efficiency of retail store liquidation, which we define as the time-constrained divestment of retail outlets through an in-store sale of inventory. The retail industry depends extensively on... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 22 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 22

  PublicationsPathologies of Online Display Advertising Marketplaces Author:Benjamin Edelman Publication:ACM Sigecom Exchanges, June 2010 Abstract Much has been written about online search advertising, where... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Sep 2017
  • Research & Ideas

'Likes' Lead to Nothing—and Other Hard-Learned Lessons of Social Media Marketing

Advertising Symbiosis: The Key to Viral Videos The Revolution in Advertising: From Don Draper to Big Data Why Comparing Apples to Apples Online Leads To More Fruitful Sales What do you think? What big flops... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Advertising; Technology
  • 20 Nov 2019
  • Research & Ideas

It's No Joke: AI Beats Humans at Making You Laugh

on friends, family, and even strangers on the Internet when they’re deciding which products to purchase or even which people to date. And they put a lot of trust in their fellow humans; 83 percent of people say they trust recommendations from friends and family, and 66... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • Web

Leadership - Faculty & Research

annually on academic abilities, emotional intelligence, and specific skillsets. IQanat also offered students who did not receive scholarships access to short, intensive on-campus events or online educational programs. By 2025, the IQanat... View Details
  • 28 Jun 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Keep or Cut Workers? How Companies Reacted to the COVID-19 Crisis

“There was not a single person or car,” he recalls. The eerily quiet scene was a jarring reminder that the pandemic was taking a huge toll on many businesses that saw sales and revenue figures abruptly plummet. Rouen and two fellow... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • 06 Oct 2015
  • First Look

October 6, 2015

States and the European Union. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49803 Online Network Revenue Management Using Thompson Sampling By: Ferreira, Kris Johnson, David Simchi-Levi, and He Wang Abstract—We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Oct 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018

and service its own customer relationships and manage the effectiveness and efficiency of its sales funnel. Currently, a team of chat representatives worked with marketing to qualify and prime prospects for HubSpot’s View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman