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- 26 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 26, 2016
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/216076-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 516-094 Airbnb, Etsy, Uber: Acquiring the First Thousand Customers By 2016, two-sided online platforms (or marketplaces) were pervasive among the highest... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
The 85-year-old Business History Review, published quarterly by Harvard Business School, is the acknowledged leading peer-reviewed journal in the field. (BHR has recently been made available online through Cambridge University Press.) So... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
- 02 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/918001-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 918-002 Loss Prevention at Mac's Convenience Stores (B) Supplement to HBS No. 918-001. The case describes the inventive approaches to retail crime... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
counter this ambiguity, this paper proposes that the strength of the greedy signal relates to an individual's volunteer reputation. Results from an online experiment support this possibility: the crowd out in response to public incentives... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Dowdy Savings Bond
In the family of investment products, a U.S. savings bond might be cast as boring old Uncle Ned, snoozing away in the corner after dinner. There's nothing wrong with that—but HBS professor Peter Tufano envisions a more meaningful role for... View Details
- 26 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
David, Goliath, and Disruption
As elegantly described by HBS professor Clayton M. Christensen in his 1997 bestseller, The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail, so-called disruptive technologies are upstart innovations that manage to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
Marketing is important in campaigning. It is equally important in governing. In 2008, Barack Obama won the presidency with an uplifting call for hope and change. He leveraged online media to attract volunteers and donors, building a swell... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
- 30 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 30, 2016
216-079 The Role of the Chief Financial Officer This note profiles the role of the modern chief financial officer (CFO). It presents insights based on a variety of surveys and descriptions of HBS graduates who hold or have held the CFO... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Nov 1999
- Lessons from the Classroom
What’s Next & So What? Leading in the 21st Century
Leading in the 21st Century is an HBS Executive Education program being held in January 2000. Professors Gary Hamel and John Kotter talk about the course and the new realities of leadership and competitive success. Q: What led the two of... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
earlier, Freed-Finnegan and Wall had founded Index after observing the technological advantages that Amazon and other online retailers had over brick-and-mortar retailers. Index’s first product was a customer database tool that allowed... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Should Entrepreneurs Pitch Products or Ideas for Products?
speculation—and then, hopefully, sell it? “One of the top questions screenwriters talk about in their online communities is whether to pitch or to spec,” says Luo. In her paper published by Management Science, When to Sell Your Idea:... View Details
- 21 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Music Downloads: Pirates—or Customers?
industry consider peer-to-peer services as marketing tools rather than the enemy? Should online pricing be different from in-store pricing? What happens when broadband makes it as easy to illegally download an entire CD as an individual... View Details
- 16 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019
consumer demand across the world. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/619008-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 619-029 Amazon Acquires Whole Foods (B) This short case, meant for pairing with HBS No. 615-013,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
impressions they make. In field and online experiments in which participants take, share, and evaluate “selfies” (self-photos), we show that paradoxically, these challenges can be exacerbated by temporary sharing media—technologies that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 21
faculty and alums who have experience with corporate boards. It will provide a uniquely HBS perspective on the future of boards. Management Practices across Firms and Countries Authors:Nicholas Bloom, Christos Genakos, Raffaella Sadun,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
90 days. (These countries include Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen.) The order provoked a great deal of opposition, including an online petition entitled “Academics Against Immigration Executive Order,” which argues... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
survey a sampling of the research questions these data help to answer. Advertising Disclosures: Measuring Labeling Alternatives in Internet Search Engines Authors:Benjamin G. Edelman and Duncan S. Gilchrist Publication:Information Economics and Policy (forthcoming)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Strategy: Aligning Planning and Execution
an interview with HBS Working Knowledge. "Obtaining One Strategy in times of change means the organization will respond in a holistic fashion to new challenges, staying aligned for maximum competitive impact." The book follows... View Details
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=45468 August 2013 Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing Where Not to Eat? Improving Public Policy by Predicting Hygiene Inspections Using Online Reviews By: Kang, Jun Seok, Polina... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership
war years; and innovator Herb Kelleher at Southwest near the end of the century. In this e-mail interview, Mayo, director of the HBS Leadership Initiative and the Thomas S. Murphy Distinguished Research Fellow, discusses how executives... View Details