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- 26 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
New Winners and Losers in the Internet Economy
more jobs than the consumer support services layer—365,000 compared to 245,000—but it grew at a slower pace (70 percent) than the support services layer (229 percent). "The consumer support layer is... View Details
- 14 Dec 2010
- Op-Ed
Tax US Companies to Spur Spending
been a saving grace in ensuring that the financial crisis did not cause further damage to the economy. With traditional monetary and fiscal policy instruments seemingly exhausted, the mobilization of that cash hoard can prove critical to... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai
- 11 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
E-Commerce Unplugged
In this excerpt, Nohria and Leestma outline the challenges and rewards awaiting businesses that target the mobile-commerce customer. The best place to start? Develop a thorough knowledge of consumer behavior.The race for dominance in View Details
Keywords: by Nitin Nohria & Marty Leestma
- 25 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lean Strategy Not Just for Start-Ups
upgrades, forming hypotheses and conducting experiments with each new version along the way. Intuit adopted such a strategy when developing Fasal, a mobile platform that delivers agricultural market price information to farmers in India.... View Details
- 10 Apr 2019
- HBS Case
How Entrepreneurs Can Turn Lead Into Gold
cats, or whatever,” says Andy Wu, assistant professor of business administration in the Strategy unit of Harvard Business School. “What’s overlooked is a comprehensive framework for how you mobilize the resources—such as financing,... View Details
- 19 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Codeacademy’s Delicate Work of Adding Monetization Without Crushing Mission
free and still build a strong business model through add-on products and services that they may charge for. Q: How do online companies walk the line between community-building and monetization strategies? Should one or the other come... View Details
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
http://hbr.org/product/Whole-Foods--the-Path-to-/an/615019-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 915-001 Pivots and Incentives at LevelUp LevelUp's mobile payments service lets users scan a smartphone barcode... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Strategy for Small Fish
ventures during the venture capital boom of the late 1990s was selecting areas that had no staying power, such as Web calendars or Web-dispatched limousine services. Over time, it was inevitable that these new niches would merge with existing ones. The View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
citizens’ service requests—such as potholes and broken streetlamps—and efforts by city government to address them became more trusting and supportive of government. Study 3 (N=21,986) was a natural experiment using data from a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jul 2021
- Office Hours
Readers Ask: Which Companies Are Transforming Work?
significant population of lower-skilled, lower educational-attainment workers out there, many who speak English as a second language, who have worked in service industries that have been very, very badly damaged by COVID. They’re going to... View Details
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
healthcare services is taking place from Asia to Africa. In India, the Avarind Eye Hospital provides routine eye surgeries to the highest quality standards at perhaps a tenth of the developed country price. A mass production approach to... View Details
- March 2017
- Teaching Note
Hello Alfred: Come Home Happy
By: Joseph B. Fuller and Carin-Isabel Knoop
Teaching Note for HBS No. 316-154. View Details
- 05 Jun 2000
- What Do You Think?
What’s Happening to Our Patience?
meet product and service providers more than halfway on this issue? One respondent is convinced that "patience is a frontier of competition." If this is true, there may be a real competitive advantage awaiting the Internet-based... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 12, 2008
in addition to the already competitive mobile communication segment where the company's once dominant market share was heavily eroded. Mao had to decide on the pricing strategies for the company's various product lines, including fixed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy
when NASA started investing in the commercial space sector in a more concerted way. It created a program called Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS). It spent $500 million to start seeding rocket launch companies to provide a... View Details
- 10 Feb 2016
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: New Insights into Career Development
Christensen discusses economic theory and personal happiness. WORKING PAPERS Looking Up and Looking Out: Career Mobility Effects of Demographic Similarity among Professionals Kathleen L. McGinn and Katherine L. Milkman study processes of... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
and services including computers, handheld devices, servers, and digital entertainment, employed 172,000 people and posted $104 billion in sales in 2007. PSG, one of HP's three major divisions, offered notebook and desktop personal... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
Two Decades Later, is the 'New Economy' Finally Here?
the Great Recession. The New Economy proved to be vastly over-hyped. In light of continued advances in such things as artificial intelligence, the sharing of resources enabled by new information platforms, and the mobilization of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
corporate sales from multiple sources, including approximately 50 million mobile devices. These measures contain information from both the earnings quarter (within quarter) and the period between that quarter's end and the earnings... View Details
- 20 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 20, 2016
countries with higher nominal bond-stock betas have significantly larger nominal bond risk premia and borrow less in local currency. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51643 Android and Competition Law: Exploring and Assessing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne