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  • 12 Feb 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 12

Cost-Benefit Analysis in Environmental Policy Abstract We conducted an analysis that explores the merits of a low-carbon development strategy for Liberia. This chapter describes both our cost-benefit analysis initiative and a plausible policy process for Liberia. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • April 2021
  • Case

Codecademy: Where to Next?

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Max Mailman and Sarah Ascherman
In March 2020, Zach Sims, co-founder and CEO of online education platform Codecademy, prepared for a meeting with his Chief of Staff Kunal Ahuja to discuss the company’s goals. Codecademy billed itself as the largest online resource for computer science literacy and... View Details
Keywords: Monetization Strategy; Business Model; Change Management; Venture Capital; Leading Change; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Management Teams; Marketing Channels; Product Marketing; Network Effects; Product Development; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Strategic Planning; Internet and the Web; Digital Platforms; United States
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  • 22 Mar 2016
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March 22, 2016

in 2012. However, doing business in emerging markets remains subject to a high degree of "policy risk," namely the risk that a government will discriminatorily change the laws, regulations, or contracts governing an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 10, 2009

average in the period 1953-2005, it was particularly high in the early 1980s and negative in the early 2000s. This paper specifies and estimates a model in which the nominal term structure of interest rates is driven by five state... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 18

business model and analyzes how his firm evolved into a diversified business group. The research supports prevailing explanations of business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 29

a new everyday low pricing policy that aimed to fit with a radical repositioning of the J.C. Penney business model and brand. However, with sales continuing to decline, the board fired Johnson in April 2013... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • June 2020
  • Supplement

Comcast Corporation (B)

By: Sunil Gupta, Henry McGee and Felix Oberholzer-Gee
The (B) case, set in the summer of 2020, highlights the concern of Comcast CEO Brian Roberts, as the streaming war intensifies. In a short period of time several new streaming services, such as Disney+, Apple TV+, Quibi, and HBO Max were launched and cable subscription... View Details
Keywords: Cable Television; Industry Evolution; Television Entertainment; Disruption; Business Model; Competitive Strategy; Media and Broadcasting Industry
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  • 10 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 10

interpretation. The case presents the history of the industry, the evolution of sequencing technology, and the business models of players in each segment. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 23

to promote financial development. The evidence here includes country fixed effect regressions and an instrumental model inspired by Engerman and Sokoloff's (2002) work, which to our knowledge has not yet been used in finance and which... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 17

opportunity for multinationals. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-011.pdf   Cases & Course MaterialsProPublica Michel Anteby, Philippe Bertreau, Charlotte NewmanHarvard Business School Case 410-140 Stephen... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • February 2000 (Revised August 2000)
  • Case

Priceline WebHouse Club

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Jon K Rust
Priceline empowered consumers to "name their own price" for airline tickets and hotel rooms; then it shopped these offers to marketers. Priceline's founder Jay Walker described the resulting transactions as a new ecosystem, that helped consumers realize lower prices... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Strategy; Disruptive Innovation; Internet and the Web; Entrepreneurship; Retail Industry
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  • 04 May 2010
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First Look: May 4

case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/810082-PDF-ENG CommonAngelTM (B) Lynda M. Applegate, Kaitlyn Simpson, Max White, and Christopher McDonaldHarvard Business School Supplement 810-011 This case discusses changes in CommonAngels'... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Sep 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation

researchers to include dynamic elements in their models that have substantially broadened the range of policies under consideration. These are very new, so their influence on policy is still relatively small, but I expect that they will... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 01 Nov 2011
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First Look: Nov. 1

into these market areas? Or should it go more aggressively to attack the coastal areas with its new 2000 cc model to be launched in late 2011? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/612029-PDF-ENG Mike Mayo Takes on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 6

regional strategies and produce scalable models. In all four of these areas, promising models have already begun to emerge. By highlighting the most successful institutions and what can be learned from them, I show how America can create... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Jun 2016
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June 28, 2016

businesses. The strategy literature uses real option theory to explain the transition to scale, but does not consider the complex relationships between corporate ventures and their parent organizations. By comparing six longitudinal cases of large firms’ new View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 25

Co. Ltd. Founded in 1986, Red Star had become the leading department store in China for furniture and home equipment products (bathroom, lamps, textiles complements, etc.). The business model of Red Star was... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 19, 2010

One explanation for these patterns is that U.S. firms are organized in a way that allows them to use new technologies more efficiently. A model of endogenously chosen organizational form and IT is developed to explain these new micro and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Nov 2011
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First Look: November 22

  PublicationsCompeting through Business Models Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Joan E. Ricart Publication:In Handbook of Research on Competitive Strategy, edited by Giovanni Battista Dagnino. Edward... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Jul 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017

global poverty; their target is to donate 10% of their profits, but as a new capital-intensive business they give 2% of their revenue. Their income streams are mainly direct-to-consumer sales along with corporate sales and a special... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel