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- 23 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 23
technology, three core principles have emerged that work together to ensure that complementary, interconnected products coexist and compete. These core principles are particularly important when applied to platforms, which have played a central role in enabling the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Student-Profile
Fanele Mashwama
distributive justice. “The policy space is a space where we can, and should, put our ethical convictions into practice,” he says. After graduation, Fanele spent two years with McKinsey & Company before returning to Harvard for a... View Details
- 30 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 30, 2007
Education Leadership Project (PELP), a unique partnership between the Harvard Business School, the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a network of urban school districts. This rich array of cases explores the managerial challenges... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
3 Technologies that Will Change the World - Course Catalog
the Web 3 and crypto markets, that had been seen as the big disruptive force for society a year earlier, were limping through a crypto winter. Companies that had been slated to restructure financial market declared bankruptcy. Leaders like Sam Bankman-Fried who... View Details
- Profile
Ann Chao
uncovered a different story: strong interest in the product but confusion about price and lack of awareness due to poor distribution. “We recommended a re-launch that bypassed the distribution network and... View Details
- 06 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Art of American Advertising
in the years following the Civil War—when the railroad industry created a new, national network for manufacturing and distributing consumer goods. (These were the days when "posting" referred to... View Details
- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
entering this market would present unique challenges for Vanguard. Vanguard had a philosophy espousing low-turnover investing, while ETFs enabled short-term trading. The company would also need to develop a distribution View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
‘Hybrid’ Organizations a Difficult Bet for Entrepreneurs
Consider two organizations with the same noble purpose: to solve the problem of poor eyesight in developing countries. The first, the Centre for Vision in the Developing World, follows a traditional nonprofit model, soliciting donations that fund the creation and View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 26 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Best Practices of Global Innovators
orchestrates, manages, and coordinates its network of hundreds of global partners." It just isn't possible for one firm to master all these skills. MacCormack and his team (Theodore Forbath, Peter Brooks, and Patrick Kalaher, all of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
passionate about you,” said creator Jill Soloway, herself the daughter of a transgender father, adding Amazon “has been wonderful.” That moment, transformative in more ways than one, follows in the wake of numerous successes represented by shows View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment
- Web
Souvenirs & Novelties - The Art of American Advertising
Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership View Details
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 became the largest television... View Details
- 17 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Many Small-Business Employees May Be Close to Losing Health Insurance
surveyed projected they could continue paying premiums for six or more months. Researchers used data from a survey conducted by Alignable, a North American online business networking platform. Of the 9,043 Alignable members who opened the... View Details
- 19 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
A Day at Royal FloraHolland: The Epicenter of the Global Flower Market
hour after the sale is finalized. The Operational Might of RFH Royal FloraHolland's operational scale is truly breathtaking. Managing a network of 2,300 buyers, 3,400 members, and 4,800 suppliers, it facilitates an astonishing 101,000... View Details
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
Networks Authors:Albert Creus-Mir, Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, and Andres Hervas-Drane Abstract We present a model of bandwidth allocation in a stylized peer-to-peer file sharing network with s peers (sharers)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation
different, usually simpler, distribution process. The portfolio diagnostic should identify opportunities to shape innovations, because disruption is almost always a strategic choice. A company can modify a given innovation in ways that... View Details
- 28 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 28
one of the world's largest airlines, United had a very large fleet and hub-and-spoke network that provided passengers with a wide range of destination choices, but as with any complex system unless everything ran perfectly all the time,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2013
- News
Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins
like push email with its BlackBerry Enterprise Server. This gave them a first-mover advantage, but as technology improved and data capabilities on wireless voice networks evolved rapidly and took off, the advantage turned to a burden with... View Details
- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
in the path-breaking work on authoritarian regimes. In this paper, we take a deeper look at political institutions in the two countries, demonstrating that profound differences between the polities directly impact distributional choices.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Oct 2004
- What Do You Think?
Does Speed Trump Intellectual Property?
in the end by showing employees that it is okay to cheat." Sairam Inumella asserts, "New legislation is not a solution to this 'problem' ... . Maybe this copycat competition will help the networks move toward strategies that... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett