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- 10 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017
zone is located. In tandem with its value in practice, BATNA has become a wildly successful acronym (with over 17 million Google entries). Yet the initial characterization of this concept in Getting to Yes (Fisher, Ury, and Patton, 1991)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
and how to measure collaborative success. Several audience members weighed in, including HBS Dean Nitin Nohria. “My real dream is that we should build in Allston a company like Google or Facebook,” Nohria said. “Yes, I celebrate the fact... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
- 19 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Racist Umpires and Monetary Ministers
they would be worried about losing members to neighboring churches and weigh those recruits more highly. For the national Methodist church, on the other hand, it doesn't matter which local congregation a Methodist belongs to. "It's like one division of View Details
- 19 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy
competitors has profound implications for their business models and the logic with which they operate. An example that illustrates our result is that of Google and Microsoft. Both firms offer consumers online services to manage e-mail,... View Details
- 19 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017
of big data. Rather than relying on artistic vision, Peck wanted the company to use the mining of big data obtained from Google Analytics and the company’s own sales and customer databases to select the next season’s assortment. Peck was... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 25 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 25
that while INRIX's industry-leading technology platform and customized services had set the firm apart, large location-based services companies could more easily enter the sector, posing a significant threat. In recent years, due to the proliferation of smartphones,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
Harvard Business School Case 716-474 The Great East Japan Earthquake (F): Google Japan's Response and Recovery Efforts No abstract available. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/716474-PDF-ENG Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/612045-PDF-ENG Recorded Future: Searching the Web for Alpha Christopher MalloyHarvard Business School Case 212-057 Recorded Future was a software company that aimed to aggregate the information on the Internet in a way that... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
develop their own apps and profit from them, but Apple holds final authority over what gets sold on its platform. Compare Apple's controlled approach with Google, which runs its Android on open-source software, allowing users to customize their own apps with few... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 15 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Apple Pay’s Technology Adoption Problem
when several other similar services with big name sponsors such as Google have failed to gain much traction? Apple has a chicken-and-egg game to solve. Consumers won't use the service unless it's in use at a compelling number of stores.... View Details
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
twenty-first-century collaboration, made possible by twenty-first-century information technologies. [ ] In this chapter we explore the new possibilities that digital networks create for firms as they seek to collaborate with customers. What's Your View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
ventures together, each of which had had increasingly attractive outcomes, but none of which had reached their full potential. The number on the table from Google was a big one. Should the deal be completed, it would be the biggest win... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
Why Are Web Sites So Confusing?
Macy's) may decide to stop by a small design store while walking around the mall. And while flipping through the pages of a magazine in search of the article promised on the cover, readers are exposed to advertising, which produces most of the revenues. In the same... View Details
Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu & Bruno Jullien
- 29 Jan 2015
- Op-Ed
The Fall of Greece
experience and rather disappointing professional careers. One can check this easily by searching on Google the members of the new government. My sense is that 2015 will be another year of great uncertainty for Greeks as the new government... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- 01 Jan 2020
- What Do You Think?
Why Not Open America's Doors to All the World’s Talent?
recipients are not highly paid (regardless of talent), saying that “green card data show the following percentages of foreign workers at Levels I or II making below-median wages (for a given region): Amazon 91%; Facebook 91%; and Google... View Details
- 15 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Search vs. Display Advertising Quandary
behavior, they do a search on Google when they are ready to make a decision," says Gupta. "So search ads get all the credit for the sale. But search ads are at the bottom of the [purchase] funnel; display ads are at a higher level.... View Details
- 31 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
One Quarter of Entrepreneurs in the United States Are Immigrants
immigration in the United States. For example, even though advocates often use examples like Brin to argue for expanding the H-1B program, which is used for employment-based immigration by adults, the Google founder actually came to the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 03 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Tricky Business of Managing Web Advertising Affiliates
(CJ), LinkShare, and Google Affiliate Network (GAN), which shut down in April 2013—to schemes used by some sites to entice consumers to click: cookie-stuffing, adware, typosquatting, and loyalty apps. Cookie-stuffing: A user visiting a... View Details
- 27 Jul 2019
- Op-Ed
Does Facebook's Business Model Threaten Our Elections?
on investment of the targeted ad model they’ve perfected is far superior to traditional advertising. Both Google and Facebook have an effective duopoly on digital advertising, though Amazon is starting to put up meaningful numbers. As... View Details
Keywords: by George Riedel