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  • 13 Jul 2016
  • HBS Case

How Uber, Airbnb, and Etsy Attracted Their First 1,000 Customers

who have rides to offer. (Same idea as Airbnb, which connects people needing rooms with home-owners.) So to launch as a platform service, these companies need to find users on both the supply and demand... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail; Service; Transportation
  • February 2004 (Revised March 2004)
  • Case

Fuel Cells: The Hydrogen Revolution?

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Ryland Matthew Willis
The challenges faced in establishing hydrogen fuel cell-powered transportation in the United States, which promises to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and dependence on imported oil is examined. Foremost among these challenges is a "chicken-and-egg" dynamic: consumers... View Details
Keywords: Taxation; Environmental Sustainability; Infrastructure; Government Administration; Energy Sources; Business and Government Relations; Network Effects; Transportation; Green Technology Industry; Energy Industry; European Union; Japan; United States
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  • December 2023
  • Article

When Should the Off-Grid Sun Shine at Night? Optimum Renewable Generation and Energy Storage Investments

By: Christian Kaps, Simone Marinesi and Serguei Netessine
Globally, 1.5 billion people live off the grid, their only access to electricity often limited to operationally-expensive fossil fuel generators. Solar power has risen as a sustainable and less costly option, but its generation is variable during the day and... View Details
Keywords: Energy; Renewable Energy
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    Joseph B. Lassiter

    Joe is the Senator John Heinz Professor of Management Practice in Environmental Management, Retired. He focuses on one of the world’s most pressing problems: developing clean, secure and carbon-neutral supplies of reliable, low-cost energy all around the world. He... View Details

    Keywords: oil ＆ gas; oil ＆ gas; oil ＆ gas; oil ＆ gas; oil ＆ gas; oil ＆ gas; oil ＆ gas; oil ＆ gas
    • Web

    Placement - Doctoral

    Placement Tradition of Success The demand for faculty at business schools has never been greater. Graduates of the HBS Doctoral Programs have gone on to become prominent scholars in a wide range of disciplines at many of the world’s most... View Details
    • 11 Apr 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing

    cost systems with only two parameters. One is the cost rate of supplying resource capacity (such as cost per minute for people and machine-driven processes, or cost per cubic meter per day in a warehouse). The second is an estimate of the... View Details
    Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
    • Article

    The Growing Strategic Importance of End-of-Life Product Management

    By: Michael W. Toffel
    Requiring manufacturers to manage the their products when they become waste is an innovative form of regulation, one that has been adopted by countries in Asia, Europe, and North America on a variety of products that range from vehicles to appliances to batteries.... View Details
    Keywords: Product; Environmental Sustainability; Cost Management; Wastes and Waste Processing; Strategy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Manufacturing Industry; Asia; Europe; North and Central America
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    • 2015
    • Working Paper

    Multi-Product Duopoly With Cross-Product Cost Interdependencies

    By: Gary Biglaiser and Andrei Hagiu
    Many multi-product firms incur a complexity fixed cost when offering different product lines in different quality tiers relative to the case when offering all products lines in the same quality tier (high or low). Such fixed costs create an interdependency between... View Details
    Keywords: Multi-product Duopoly; Vertical Differentiation; Fixed Costs; Cost; Profit; Business Strategy; Duopoly and Oligopoly
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    • 10 Feb 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Are Prices So High Right Now—and Will They Ever Return to Normal?

    sectors should eventually return to normal, Cavallo says. “The problem right now is that demand is increasing in a context of limited supply,” Cavallo says. “So, if there are no more supply disruptions, I... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne
    • September 1991 (Revised December 1993)
    • Case

    Tombow Pencil Co. Ltd.

    Tombow Pencil Co. Ltd., one of Japan's two premier pencil manufacturers, has been using a subcontractor network in order to respond to changing market conditions. The system currently faces a new challenge as Tombow moves to address a volatile business market for... View Details
    Keywords: Production; Supply Chain Management; Manufacturing Industry; Japan
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    • Research Summary

    Overview

    By: Reshmaan N. Hussam

    Engaged with field work in South Asia and East Africa, Professor Hussam places a focus on exploring questions with strong theoretical motivation in the economics literature as well as relevant downstream policy implications. Her research spans four broad interests.... View Details

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    Technology & Operations Management - Faculty & Research

    manufacturing and the development of physical products. Over the past several years, we have expanded our research, course development, and course offerings to encompass new issues in information technology, supply chains, and service... View Details
    • March 2024 (Revised November 2024)
    • Case

    Kawasaki Heavy Industries Bets on Clean Hydrogen

    By: Gunnar Trumbull, Nobuo Sato and Akiko Kanno
    Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI), an engineering manufacturer headquartered in Japan, was aiming to scale up its hydrogen production and establish a global hydrogen supply chain. The initiative was in line with Japan's energy strategy, as the country seeks to transition... View Details
    Keywords: Renewable Energy; Demand and Consumers; Competition; Growth and Development Strategy; Infrastructure; Supply Chain; Manufacturing Industry; Energy Industry
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    • May 2014
    • Article

    Information and Two-Sided Platform Profits

    By: Andrei Hagiu and Hanna Halaburda
    We study the effect of different levels of information on two-sided platform profits under monopoly and competition. One side (developers) is always informed about all prices and therefore forms responsive expectations. In contrast, we allow the other side (users) to... View Details
    Keywords: Responsive Expectations; Passive Expectations; Wary Expectations; Information; Performance Expectations; Two-Sided Platforms; Monopoly
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    • 31 Oct 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Do Measures of Financial Constraints Measure Financial Constraints?

    Keywords: by Joan Farre-Mensa & Alexander Ljungqvist
    • Web

    Strategy - Faculty & Research

    Business School Working Paper, No. 26-002, July 2025. Supply and Demand for Strategists By: Quan Le , Quan Le and Quan Le July 2025 | Module Note | Faculty Research This module note introduces students to... View Details
    • Article

    The Pitfalls of Pricing Algorithms: Be Mindful of How They Can Hurt Your Brand

    By: Marco Bertini and Oded Koenigsberg
    More and more companies are relying on pricing algorithms to maximize profits. The use of artificial intelligence and machine learning enables real-time price adjustments based on supply and demand, competitors’ activities, delivery schedules, and so forth. But... View Details
    Keywords: Algorithmic Pricing; Dynamic Pricing; Price; Change; Information Technology; Brands and Branding; Perception; Consumer Behavior
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    • 16 Nov 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    Turning One Thousand Customers into One Million

    and Uber can scale up quickly thanks to affordable technology and networked providers. Credit: AntonMatveev To overcome those challenges, the startups followed similar strategies, initially focusing more on the supply side than on the... View Details
    Keywords: by Thales S. Teixeira and Michael Blanding; Retail; Transportation; Accommodations
    • 17 Aug 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    ‘Not a Bunch of Weirdos’: Why Mainstream Investors Buy Crypto

    want to consider doing so. Since the study suggests that crypto investing has edged into the mainstream, it means businesses are likely to see more consumer demand for spending of crypto as a currency in lieu of dollars and cents. Crypto... View Details
    Keywords: by Ben Rand
    • Web

    Podcast - Business & Environment

    farmers and discusses how a “post-aid” world demands new tools, structures, and partnerships for impact investing. Read the Transcript Previous Episodes Forecasting Climate Risk with Geospatial AI: Sarah Russell of X , the Moonshot... View Details