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  • 17 Mar 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?

face a host of challenges in the years ahead. For some retailers, ecommerce threatens to digitize the products they sell and leave them without anything meaningful to stock in their stores. For others, hyper-competitive online retailers... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
  • 19 Nov 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Wrapping Your Alliances In a World Wide Web

new digital economy, coupled with the growing size of the EC and IT sectors within the overall economy, we can no longer afford to further postpone attention to efficient business process interfaces between supply-chain trading partners.... View Details
Keywords: by Andrew McAfee

    Anthony Soohoo

    digital strategy that resulted in the company’s launch of their first over-the-top streaming service, as well as their first distribution partnerships with YouTube and Netflix. During his tenure, CBS.com... View Details
    Keywords: Ecommerce;#53;#Media & Publishing;#64;#Software/App;#29;#Entertainment;#16;#Consumer Products & Packaged Goods;#1;#Advertising;#237;#Artificial Intelligence
    • Web

    From the Chief Financial Officer | Annual Report 2024

    research highlighted the year’s achievements. Fiscal 2024 marked the third year of the School’s digital transformation (DTx), which was launched by Dean Datar as a strategic priority to accelerate opportunities to use data and artificial... View Details
    • Web

    HBS - From The Dean

    community. It was also a year when we made significant progress on several important priorities. At a moment when AI took center stage with the advent of ChatGPT, our own digital transformation—exploring how we can leverage data and... View Details
    • 01 Sep 2014
    • News

    Feedback

    BULLETIN EXPANDS DIGITAL OFFERINGS Following on the heels of the June debut of our iPad edition, the Bulletin is now available for download in the Google Play and Kindle Fire newsstands. Smartphone users have new options, too: The... View Details
    • 14 Oct 2002
    • Research & Ideas

    The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society

    new digital technologies with a new logic of capitalism. What kinds of businesses and services do you think could be first in line? A: Exactly how distributed capitalism will emerge and develop will be an... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • Article

    Why Do Intermediaries Divert Search?

    By: Andrei Hagiu and Bruno Jullien
    We analyze the incentives to divert search for an information intermediary who enables buyers (consumers) to search affiliated sellers (stores). We identify two original motives for diverting search (i.e., inducing consumers to search more than they would like): 1)... View Details
    Keywords: Market Intermediation; Search; Two-Sided Markets; Platform Design; Demand and Consumers; Motivation and Incentives; Internet and the Web; Digital Platforms; Distribution Channels; Business Strategy; Retail Industry
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    • 19 Jan 2022
    • In Practice

    7 Trends to Watch in 2022

    Kominers: NFTs go mainstream Last year saw a huge spike in the creation and sale of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), digital ownership records stored on distributed ledgers called blockchains. People bought and... View Details
    Keywords: by HBS News
    • 17 Aug 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    Protecting against the Pirates of Bollywood

    release date. Doing so, however, would negate cost savings achieved by reusing film copies across staggered release dates. Studios could also limit a film's distribution to digital, not analog, screens, the copies tagged with electronic... View Details
    Keywords: by Kim Girard; Motion Pictures & Video
    • 01 Jun 2015
    • News

    Screen Grab

    Home Entertainment, the network’s DVD and digital distribution division. “The most exciting thing about this area is waking up and knowing that whatever you thought was true yesterday is not true today.” In... View Details
    Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment
    • Web

    Delivered by fast service cars - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

    planned system of fast distribution and replacements. Deliveries are made to dealers every few days by fast service cars. Typical of their up-to-the minute equipment, the illustrated truck is refrigerated, ventilated, insulated, to guard... View Details
    • Web

    HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer

    is reinventing how organizations compete in the digital world. The School welcomed the first cohort of fellows at the Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society (BiGS), bringing together researchers and practitioners to address... View Details
    • 2007
    • Working Paper

    Why Do Intermediaries Divert Search?

    By: Andrei Hagiu and Bruno Jullien
    We analyze the incentives to divert search for an information intermediary who enables buyers (consumers) to search affiliated sellers (stores). We identify two original motives for diverting search (i.e. inducing consumers to search more than they would like): i)... View Details
    Keywords: Demand and Consumers; Motivation and Incentives; Internet and the Web; Digital Platforms; Distribution Channels; Business Strategy; Retail Industry
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    • March 2008 (Revised June 2011)
    • Case

    MySpace

    By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski, David T. Chen and Carin-Isabel Knoop
    The case, set in late 2007, examines what MySpace—the largest online social network—should do to respond to its agile competitor, Facebook. Since its inception MySpace had experienced phenomenal growth, acquiring 20 million members in its first 20 months of operation,... View Details
    Keywords: Open Source Distribution; Partners and Partnerships; Social and Collaborative Networks; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Internet and the Web; Digital Platforms; Information Technology Industry
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    • Web

    Introduction - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

    Railroads Finance Management Business Analysts Mass Distribution Mergers & Syndicates Research Links Introduction More than 240,000 miles of railroad track laid down in the United States from the mid-to-late 1800s connected vast regions... View Details
    • Web

    HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer

    record 352,000 readers in fiscal 2022, reflecting the strong demand for high-quality digital and print content that gives managers and executives the tools to enhance both personal and organizational competitiveness. HBS Online revenues... View Details
    • February 2020
    • Supplement

    Indigo Agriculture: Harnessing Nature

    By: Michael W. Toffel and James Barnett
    Indigo Agriculture used a digital-enabled research and development (R&D) process to launch its initial product, microbial coatings for agricultural seeds, which increase crop yields while reducing the need for fertilizers. In doing so, the company developed direct... View Details
    Keywords: Operations; Supply Chain; Social Enterprise; Product Development; Distribution Channels; Business Strategy; Digital Platforms; Environmental Sustainability; Science-Based Business; Climate Change; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Green Technology Industry; United States; Massachusetts
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    • May 2024
    • Teaching Note

    The Meteoric Rise of Skims

    By: Ayelet Israeli, Jill Avery and Leonard A. Schlesinger
    Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 524-023, "The Meteoric Rise of Skims." View Details
    Keywords: Brand; Branding; Direct-to-consumer; DTC; Influencers; Influencer Marketing; Fashion; Growth; Direct Marketing; Influence; Reputation; Social Influence; Consumer Goods; Consumer Products; Female Entrepreneur; Female Protagonist; Entrepreneurship And Strategy; Brand ＆ Product Management; Competitive Advantage; Online Followers; Retail; Retail Formats; Retailing; Online Retail; Celebrities; Celebrity; Celebrity Endorsement; Go To Market Strategy; Apparel; Startup Marketing; Startups; Brands and Branding; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Distribution Channels; Digital Marketing; Advertising; Power and Influence; Social Media; Fashion Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Consumer Products Industry; United States
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    • 16 Oct 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018

    input more valuable. Distributed supermodular complementarity (DSMC) exists when two or more independent actors can create complementary value by pursuing their own interests and will not find it advantageous to combine in order to... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman