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12 Jan 2010
First Look

First Look: Jan. 12

publisher), Barnes & Noble (the largest bricks-&-mortar retailer), Apple and Sony (as manufacturers of competing devices), Google (as a major provider of free e-content), and Adobe (as a competitor in creating an e-book standard).... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

17 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?

every retail sector. Part of that is being driven by Amazon, because they can quickly deliver to your home. It's all relative. When Amazon or Google Express was not there, driving 20 minutes was not that big a deal. Now 20 minutes seems... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

23 Jun 2020
Book

Beginning America Over Again with a New Electoral System

some point early on, the startup that becomes Apple or Google first consisted of a few people in a garage or dorm. And in the case of political innovation, there is an entrenched political-industrial complex engineered to quash any new... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

25 May 2016
Research & Ideas

How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health

that enable consumers to self-monitor exercise levels, sleep patterns, and blood pressure have sold briskly. Despite Google Health’s failed effort to facilitate patients’ collecting their medical records electronically in one place, there... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Health

05 Nov 2014
What Do You Think?

Are We Entering an Era of Neuromanagement?

Gerald Nanninga, after citing a number of conditions for the idea's introduction, even ventured to describe the path by which the practice will be implemented this way: "It would start at places where people already do almost anything to get in, like View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

03 Jun 2014
First Look

First Look: June 3

looks to build a mobile technology product development team by executing an "acquisition-hire" (i.e., "acqui-hire") to acquire New York City-based start-up Stamped, a mobile application company launched by former View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur

Now you have programmatic buying; the algorithm does all that. There is no comparative advantage in media buying anymore. So suddenly you need an engineering mind, you need a data-analytics mind, and you need the data scientists who work with View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Advertising

17 Jan 2012
First Look

First Look: January 17

CornellHarvard Business School Case 112-040 Yahoo! faces a number of governance and strategic challenges in late 2011 as it tries to compete with rivals such as Google and find ways to monetize its shareholding and business links with... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Oct 2017
Research Event

In an Era of 'Fake News,' What is the Future of Advertising and Publishing?

ad on Facebook for a product you searched for on Google just moments before. The second panel, “Revenue Models & Adjacent Media Spaces,” discussed the benefits and drawbacks of this new hyper-connectivity. It was moderated by Bharat... View Details

Keywords: by Jen Deaderick; Media & Broadcasting; Journalism & News

02 Sep 2014
Research & Ideas

Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping

what could become a wildly successful company, but I also want to make sure my kids have health insurance. If I have this outside option, if I have access to public health insurance, then I'm more likely to join. The founders of the next View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

08 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

The Critical Computer Science Principles Every Strategic Leader Needs to Know

is Google Chrome. Initially considered a tool for browsing the web, Wu writes, “Today, it is fair to say that Chrome is both: an application capable of running on most operating systems, and an operating system that runs the Chrome suite... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Technology; Information Technology

17 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?

have no awareness of the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989. The government can kick Google out of China, but all bets are off when Chinese students return from travel outside the country. Q: And yet, the government is not opposed to so... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg

12 May 2009
First Look

First Look: May 12, 2009

http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=209036 Symbian, Google & Apple in the Mobile Space (A) Harvard Business School Case 909-055 Symbian, maker of a leading mobile smartphone operating system, faces new... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jul 2019
What Do You Think?

Are Super Stretch Goals Only for the Very Young?

product or a new way of thinking about the business. The leader of the Google X team that developed Project Loon (the self-driving car), Astro Teller, is cited by investor John Doerr for this elegant definition: “If you want your car to... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

31 Oct 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017

(rate and direction) and value-capture strategies in response to Google’s entry threat and actual entry into their markets. We find that, after Google’s entry threat increases, affected developers reduce innovation and raise the prices for the affected apps. Once View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

29 May 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018

algorithm using Google Streetview), we find that gentrifying neighborhoods tend to have growing numbers of local groceries, cafés, restaurants, and bars, with little evidence of crowd-out of other types of businesses. For example, the... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

25 Nov 2014
First Look

First Look: November 25

ratios. Conversely, peer firms identified by Google and Yahoo Finance, as well as product market competitors gleaned from 10-K disclosures, turned in consistently worse performances. We contextualize these results in a simple model that... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

04 Apr 2019
Cold Call Podcast

Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?

it? Kenny: It's a real lack of transparency. George: When I was writing the case I was in Europe, and the European regulations, GDPR General Data Protection Regulations, came out. You had to approve Google and Facebook if you wanted to... View Details

Keywords: Re: Mandi Nerenberg

29 Jun 2015
HBS Case

Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records

as data companies. Partnerships could alleviate this concern. For example, Philips recently aligned itself with Salesforce.com, a leader in customer relationship management approaches that could be applied to patients. Consumer tech companies: Consumer tech companies... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health; Technology

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

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