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14 Feb 2012
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its decision regarding the business model (i.e., whether to subsidize buyers or sellers), the access fees, and the size of the platform. A slight increase in the platform's belief advantage may induce the... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

04 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

Why dot.coms Will Rise Again

harebrained scheme." Mentors In The Garage According to Professor Dorothy Leonard, Silicon Valley has crucial lessons to teach big corporations, and the lessons are not necessarily about which Internet business View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

17 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 17

identified and classified in terms of specifying, allocating, and utilizing capacity. The first two categories reflect challenges faced by infrastructure providers; the last category, challenges faced by airlines. Building Effective View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

February 2021
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Threadless: The Renewal of an Online Community

By: Shane Greenstein, Karim Lakhani and Christian Godwin

Threadless, an online apparel company and artist community which Jake Nickell founded in 2000, continued to maintain its status as a top company in the online apparel industry during its second decade. From 2010 to 2020, Threadless continued to operate its... View Details

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21 Sep 2016
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Shabana Azmi: Leveraging Bollywood Fame into Social Good

fighting intolerance and religious extremism. All of which makes her seemingly an unusual interview subject for Harvard Business School's Creating Emerging Markets series, sponsored by the HBS Business... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Motion Pictures & Video

02 Mar 2011
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Managing the Open Source vs. Proprietary Decision

on customized software, bundled software, and (to a lesser extent) support services are significantly more likely to engage in some open source than pure software developers. Synergies are likely to make it more attractive to combine open source with some View Details

Keywords: by Josh Lerner & Mark Schankerman; Technology

08 Jul 2013
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Everything Must Go: A Strategy for Store Liquidation

liquidation process. “We don't spend enough time thinking about the death or liquidation of businesses” "When we were first exposed to the issue of store liquidations, we didn't have a sense of how big it was—that there is a massive industry focused on helping... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail

04 Apr 2005
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Can an Organization’s “Deep Smarts” Be Preserved?

the phenomenon in large, publicly-listed business organizations. What are the causes? As Simon Griffiths puts it, "While we continue to focus on the short term, we will lose the benefits of working for the long term. Wisdom is only... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

07 Jul 2009
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between the regions and the headquarters in London, the types of funds the firm will raise, and the skills required of employees. One of the final challenges is whether Actis, which has produced a very good track record, even needs to change its View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 Jun 2015
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bring their internal and external agency resources together and arrive at a more collaborative operating model for advertising services. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49259 Cases & Course... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Dec 2014
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controversial) shift in its business model from "retail" projects involving individual volunteers to "wholesale" projects with for-profit partners from the San Francisco Bay Area. Its CEO... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 May 2009
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The Unseen Link Between Savings and National Growth

particularly in developing, technology-poor countries. Harvard Business School professor Diego Comin teamed with Harvard University's Philippe Aghion and Brown University's Peter Howitt to research the issue and write the working paper... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

20 Feb 2013
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Big Deal: Reflections on the Megamerger of American and US Airways

filed for bankruptcy protection in November 2011. For the smaller US Airways, it was a chance to bulk up to compete on an equal footing with the big domestic carriers on the tarmac, United and Delta. In their articles below, Harvard View Details

Keywords: Re: Rosabeth M. Kanter & Stuart C. Gilson; Air Transportation

21 Jul 2015
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First Look: July 21, 2015

Watchmaking By: Raffaelli, Ryan Abstract—In this qualitative study, I examine the factors that influence the re-emergence of market demand for a legacy technology in a mature institutional field. I extend previous work related to field emergence and institutions,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

March 2019 (Revised May 2019)
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Fetchr: A New Way of Last Mile Delivery

By: V.G. Narayanan and Eren Kuzucu

By mid-2016, five years of aggressive growth had transformed Fetchr from a small logistics startup to a 1,000-employee, full-fledged last-mile delivery company operating across four countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Already beneficiaries of the... View Details

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03 Jul 2012
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PublicationsTalk, Inc.: How Trusted Leaders Use Conversation to Power Their Organizations Authors:Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind Publication:Harvard Business Review Press, 2012 Abstract How can leaders make their big or growing... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 May 2013
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Can LEGO Snap Together a Future in Asia?

where top execs tested whether the current business model was robust enough for the challenges lying ahead. While LEGO has sold toys in Asia for three decades, there is serious potential to improve market... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation

05 Feb 2001
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The Ten Deadly Mistakes of Wanna-Dots

as a reward for his years of loyal service. (Never mind that he has no Internet business experience; he surfs the Web, doesn't he?) Find the simplest, least-demanding thing you can do on the Web. Go for copyware that looks like what... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

10 Mar 2011
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To What Degree Does the Job Make the Person?

Influence Social Judgements and Decisions," Science, 2010. Amy Cuddy, "Just Because I'm Nice, Don't Assume I'm Dumb," Harvard Business Review, February, 2009, p. __. Amy J. C. Cuddy, Susan T. Fiske, and Peter Glick,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

22 Feb 2011
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structurally, functionally, geographically, and strategically diverse firm. The full data set comprises more than 100 million electronic mail messages and over 60 million electronic calendar entries for a sample of more 30,000 employees over a three-month period in... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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First Look: February 14

Why dot.coms Will Rise Again

First Look: July 17

Threadless: The Renewal of an Online Community

Shabana Azmi: Leveraging Bollywood Fame into Social Good

Managing the Open Source vs. Proprietary Decision

Everything Must Go: A Strategy for Store Liquidation

Can an Organization’s “Deep Smarts” Be Preserved?

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First Look: December 16

The Unseen Link Between Savings and National Growth

Big Deal: Reflections on the Megamerger of American and US Airways

First Look: July 21, 2015

Fetchr: A New Way of Last Mile Delivery

First Look: July 3

Can LEGO Snap Together a Future in Asia?

The Ten Deadly Mistakes of Wanna-Dots

To What Degree Does the Job Make the Person?

Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade

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