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General Management - Faculty & Research

General Management Overview Faculty Curriculum Awards & Honors Doctoral Students February 13, 2025 Article How to Build a Life: How to Realize Your Own Love Supreme By: Arthur C. Brooks 2025 Article Sale of Private Equity–Owned Physician... View Details
  • 20 Mar 2007
  • First Look

First Look: March 20, 2007

sales, inventory, and gross margin. We show that our model can be used to benchmark retailers' performance in sales, inventory, and gross margin simultaneously. Finally, we show that our model can be used to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • February 2021
  • Case

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
Keywords: Business Model; Decision Making; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention; Leading Change; Management; Marketing; Product Launch; Operations; Supply Chain; Distribution; Networks; Sales; Strategy; Adaptation; Information Technology; Applications and Software; Digital Platforms; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Technology Industry; North America
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  • 15 Sep 2015
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September 15, 2015

pricing decisions on a daily basis. Rue La La is in the online fashion sample sales industry, where they offer extremely limited-time discounts on designer apparel and accessories. One of the retailer's main challenges is pricing and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018

Methods By: Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Ryan Allen, and Michael G. Endres Abstract—We describe how to employ machine learning (ML) methods in theory development. Compared to traditional causal inference methods, ML methods make far fewer a priori assumptions about the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

instrument that will both disrupt traditional business models and potentially preserve them. The early works of William Abernathy on roadblocks to innovation and Richard Rosenbloom on technology and information transfers in the 1960's and... View Details
  • 10 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 10

for all titles released by a sample of over 200 artists. I analyze sales dynamics from January 2005 to April 2007—a period in which the share of unbundled units jumped from roughly one-third to two-thirds of total unit sales. My View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 18

are not as ethical as we think we are. In Blind Spots, leading business ethicists Max Bazerman and Ann Tenbrunsel examine the ways we overestimate our ability to do what is right and how we act unethically without meaning to. From the collapse of Enron and corruption... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 19

B. Yoffie Publication:Journal of Economic Perspectives Abstract The patent market consists mainly of privately negotiated, bilateral transactions, either sales or cross-licenses, between large companies. There is no eBay, Amazon, New York... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 May 2024
  • HBS Case

Banned or Not, TikTok Is a Force Companies Can’t Afford to Ignore

you. It doesn’t rely on what you say. It observes what you do and choose not to do and builds a model of who you are.” Ghosh’s analysis debuts at a time when TikTok is drawing fresh scrutiny related to how its Chinese owners influence... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology
  • 06 Jun 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Skills and Behaviors that Make Entrepreneurs Successful

that increase confidence in a person’s entrepreneurial abilities. Like the conviction of Marla Malcolm Beck and husband Barry Beck that high-end beauty retail stores and spas, tightly coupled with online stores, was the business model of... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Working Knowledge
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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

in buying and selling, why understanding the difference matters, and the implications for areas such as sales hiring, training, pricing, use of new tools, and performance management. Slides How to Make Hybrid Work Work Associate Professor... View Details
  • 18 Jul 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Will Global Demand for Oil Peak This Decade?

Is the globe’s thirst for oil finally topping out? A major international energy watcher says yes, predicting last month that demand for global oil for transport will peak around 2026, plateau for all uses by 2028, and possibly hit a zenith by the end of the decade.... View Details
Keywords: by Alvin Powell, Harvard Gazette; Energy; Industrial Products; Auto; Green Technology
  • August 2018
  • Teaching Note

IguanaFix

By: Frank V. Cespedes and Thomas Eisenmann
Teaching Note for HBS No. 817-056. IguanaFix, based in Argentina, is a platform business that connects consumers with home improvement contractors. The founders are evaluating growth options and an investment offer. The case focuses on scaling issues for a venture... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurial Marketing; Home Improvement Services; Marketing Management; Scaling; Entrepreneurship; Marketing; Sales; Digital Platforms; Growth and Development Strategy
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  • 16 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 16, 2010

had suggested—and if so, who should be charged how much and for what? Could YouTube charge users for downloading content, a model it was now beginning to test? Or would it be better for the online video giant to continue to pursue an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2023
  • News

Thinking Ahead

information from the underlying data. There’s a larger attack surface, if you will, for potential adversaries.” The models themselves also increase in size, he adds, with more parameters and a greater capacity to memorize data, creating... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Illustrations by Chris Gash; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
  • 21 Nov 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Buy Now, Pay Later: How Retail's Hot Feature Hurts Low-Income Shoppers

with Gen Z shoppers in their teens and 20s. The payment method made up $97 billion—or 2.1 percent—of total US e-commerce sales in 2020, a figure that is expected to double by 2024. BNPL is so lucrative, merchants are paying fintech... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Retail; Financial Services; Technology
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Profiles - MBA

chance to learn from those I worked with. Professional goals: I hope to build and lead products at the forefront of AI and data, enabling machine learning to benefit society. Some long-term visions that I hope to contribute toward include steering AI View Details
  • 11 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 11

organizations, Kaplan and Haas identify five common mistakes when managers attempt to cut health care costs. The mistakes are triggered, primarily, by working from the line-item expense categories on P&Ls, rather than clinically based structural View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Entrepreneurial Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research

Business Model . Designing organizational structures and processes that allocate responsibilities, promote cross-functional integration, recruit/develop/promote employees, acquire critical resources and financing, and budget/monitor... View Details