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- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Breaking Down Barriers: The Electronic Wallet
As people get more accustomed to using the Internet to conduct business transactions, their demands will become more sophisticated. Cyberspace is jam-packed with startups trying to second-guess what consumers of the future will want. "Whole new View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Entrepreneurs Speak at HBS
companies with estimated annual revenues of $4 billion, is one of the world's most colorful business leaders. His oft-repeated message: "If your business isn't fun, it's ultimately going to be worthless to you." From its airline to... View Details
- 31 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Marketing’s Conventional Wisdom
marketing and psychology. Moon is a recipient of the HBS Student Association Award for teaching excellence and has twice received a Hellman Faculty Fellowship, presented annually to a junior faculty member for outstanding research. Gary Emmons: Are there View Details
- 27 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 27
20th century, automobiles and airlines pushed rail into the background as an often-troubled and neglected mode. After a review of the long history of rail in the U.S., this paper examines the situation in the 21st century, including the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Airbnb Lesson for Startups? Success Takes More Than Technology
wealthy tourists. Airbnb remains Y Combinator’s biggest success story, but it was aggressive on-the-ground outreach that helped speed its early growth in key markets. Add in an industry with entrenched leaders and a limp economy in the... View Details
- 01 May 2000
- What Do You Think?
Can You Hard-Wire Performance?
viable alternative. Original Article Several months ago, the General Electric Company announced that it had closed a deal with Boeing that specified that only GE aircraft engines would be installed on the newest version of 777 aircraft built and sold by Boeing. This... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Role of Government When All Else Fails
In When All Else Fails: Government as the Ultimate Risk Manager, David A. Moss explores government's role as insurer of last resort in everything from crafting consumer protection law to bailing out airlines after September 11th. He... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Getting Personal
marketing and psychology. Moon is a recipient of the HBS Student Association Award for teaching excellence and has twice received a Hellman Faculty Fellowship, presented annually to a junior faculty member for outstanding research. Are there View Details
- 02 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t
Over the past two decades, entire industries have been disrupted by Internet competitors who "unbundled" their content and delivered it to consumers in new ways. Newspapers lost out to Google and Craigslist, record companies to iTunes and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 21 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 21
April 2010, the eruption of a volcano wreaked havoc in the airline industry and placed Aer Arann on the brink of liquidation. For founder, sole owner, and chairman, Padraig O'Ceidigh, the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 5, 2006
Working PapersThe Industry R&D Survey — Patent Database Link Project Authors:William R. Kerr and Shihe Fu Abstract This paper details the construction of a firm-year panel dataset combining the NBER Patent Dataset with the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 May 2009
- What Do You Think?
Do Innovation and Entrepreneurship Have to Be Incompatible with Organization Size?
still come from one source, search and advertising, despite the organization's emphasis on providing time and an organization for innovation among its associates. I remembered the airline Song, which had introduced service innovations... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Innovation: Frozen Assets
and Derek Jeter at the launch of the Luvo food truck this summer in New York City. (Courtesy of Luvo) Growth for the three-year-old Luvo, though, requires overcoming a few cultural hurdles. While frozen-food sales spiked at the outset of the recession, the View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 29 Jul 2013
- News
Opening New Markets for Black South African Winemakers
wine-making. But apartheid had prevented them from owning land or gaining access to capital. Wine had become a $3 billion export industry for South Africa, but just 2 percent of the market was held by black South Africans, who comprise 85... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Power of Imperfect Eating By Kavita Bhatnagar (SELP 11, 2022) Penguin Enterprise Rather than dictating which foods are good or bad, this book weaves together stories that mirror the intricate, emotional, and often imperfect... View Details
- 23 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn
needs first, in the airline industry alone, Southwest Airlines, Ryanair, and JetBlue were founded during downturns on the principles of delivering value. In terms of affordable luxuries, consider the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 19, 2010
provide these experiences? Purchase this module note:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/611004-PDF-ENG Southwest Airlines One Report TM Robert G. Eccles, Beiting Cheng, and Susan ThyneHarvard Business School Case 411-042 In 2009,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Will Machine Learning Make You a Better Manager?
that enable them to predict new patterns for the future. ”We are in a new industrial revolution led by algorithms” We have all seen the process in action, whether it’s Amazon telling us we “may also like” to buy an Instant Pot... View Details
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
for firms from industrialized economies and negative effects for firms in other emerging economies, which are less export-intensive and more import-intensive. Motivated by these facts, we build a dynamic model in which real depreciations... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 15, 2016
transparency and weak governance in resource rich countries. However, we document that industry self-regulation has generated information to substitute for the gap in voluntary company disclosure. We also find some evidence that these... View Details