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- 23 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 23
enhance the emotional payoff of charitable initiatives. 2013 pub Learning by Supplying By: Alcácer, Juan, and Joanne Oxley Abstract—Learning processes lie at the heart of our understanding of how firms build capabilities to generate and sustain View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 15 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat
Thomas Friedman, author of "The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century", opines that a number of events ranging from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the rise of the Internet have flattened the competitive... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Consumer Appeal of Underdog Branding
the way, making it a more difficult struggle for them than for others. In competition with others that have more resources, underdogs feel the odds are against them. The underdog's internal characteristics are largely positive: Underdogs... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 20
a signi cant potential upside compared with solutions obtained via classical RO methods. Working Papers Performance Responses to Competition Across Skill-Levels in Rank Order Tournaments: Field Evidence and Implications for Tournament... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 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
- 30 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Upside of Highlighting a Product's Downsides
the positive effects of transparency—highlighting a possible tension between promotion-based strategies designed to influence and transparency-based strategies designed to inform. Competitive advantage through transparency Putting it all... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 09 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices
The widespread use of pricing algorithms is reshaping the nature of competition in online markets and potentially driving up the prices of retail goods, according to recent research. These automated,... View Details
- 21 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 21
relationships with their competitors affect consumers' preferences. Through a series of experiments, we show that the competitive context in which a brand operates can affect consumers' purchase interest and purchase frequency. We show... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Lessons for Retailers from the Rebirth of Indie Bookstores
commerce, and civic organizations, reinforcing the social fabric and engendering a strong sense of customer and community loyalty. Curation: Despite the increasing sophistication of online algorithms, online... View Details
- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
are very successful in the early stages of a platform they often think the market has tipped and they don't need to worry about competition and new technology. They lose their paranoia. The reality is, even in markets with strong network... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
How to Help Small Businesses Survive COVID's Next Phase
number of tough moments,” says Karen G. Mills, senior fellow at Harvard Business School. “I’m quite concerned that we haven’t even seen the tip of the iceberg of business closures.” Yelp, the online review website, estimates that almost... View Details
- 02 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t
forcing those who watch the show to watch the ad. Some of the hottest battles are being fought over showrooming—the practice whereby consumers visit a store to check out items in person before buying cheaper online (decoupling browsing... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 26 Feb 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Airbnb Effect: Cheaper Rooms for Travelers, Less Revenue for Hotels
amenities, like a kitchen. And if you still prefer a hotel room, competition from Airbnb means you'll pay a lower price for it." Airbnb's rapid growth Airbnb, an online community marketplace where... View Details
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
and nutrition and readiness to learn in schools is also well established. Forthcoming revisions to the Millennium Development Goals are expected to again highlight the importance of disease prevention and health care to the global community. Nevertheless, the pressures... View Details
- 18 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool
like a trained oncologist? How about setting up an online competition to find out? An article being published April 18 in JAMA Oncology, a journal of the American Medical Association, describes the... View Details
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?
authors look to the future—what will the shopping experience be like for us, and for retailers, as ecommerce becomes an ever larger part of the market. In early February, 93-year-old retailer RadioShack announced it was filing for bankruptcy. A few days later,... View Details
- 19 Feb 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Amazoned: Is Any Industry Safe?
Made-up Holiday The company is throwing itself a party where all its Prime customers get the gifts. How Independent Bookstores Have Thrived in Spite of Amazon.com Independent bookstores managed to survive and even thrive in spite of View Details
- 18 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Advertisers Get Serious About Playing With Their Brands
competitive hunt for media coverage, brands have made deliberate "mistakes" or released misleading statements just to induce a spike in online chatter, revealing later that the actions were stunts damaging... View Details
- 08 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 8, 2016
while users who are influenced by listings' visual presentation and page position became more likely to click on Google's own Flight Search listing. The authors consider implications of these findings for competition policy and for View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2020
- What Do You Think?
Will Challenged Amazon Tweak Its Retail Model Post-Pandemic?
competitive challenges to Amazon in ways unimagined before the pandemic. While Amazon’s sales increased during the early months of the COVID-19 scare, by mid-April its share of online spending had fallen... View Details