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14 Nov 2007
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First Look: November 14, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208070 iPhone vs. Cell Phone Harvard Business School Case 708-451 The launch of Apple's iPhone marked a pivotal new chapter in the story of mobile music (the uniting of View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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From the Chief Financial Officer - Annual Report 2020

Restricted and unrestricted current use gifts, which accounted for 7 percent of our total revenues in fiscal 2020, will remain integral to the School’s financial health this year. The School’s ability to innovate in its curricula, support the faculty’s ambitious... View Details

01 Mar 2017
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017

The authors propose a practical and sustainable approach to one of the greatest challenges facing leaders today: transforming a business in the face of imminent disruption. They build upon the lessons of Xerox, Apple, and Barnes & Noble to describe the process of... View Details

March 2021 (Revised August 2024)
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Hotwire.com: Navigating Through Turbulence

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Manny de Zarraga and Eric Levine

On September 10, 2001, after speaking at an industry conference at New York’s World Trade Center, Hotwire co-founder Spencer Rascoff boarded a flight from Newark to San Francisco. After returning home, Rascoff awoke the next morning to a phone call informing him that... View Details

Keywords: September 11; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Business Growth and Maturation; Disruption; Decisions; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Growth Management; Digital Platforms; Problems and Challenges; Risk and Uncertainty; Expansion; Internet and the Web; Leading Change; Leadership Style; Air Transportation Industry; Tourism Industry; San Francisco

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16 Jul 2024
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Advancing Health Equity: Social Enterprise Summer Fellow Simona Stancov (MBA 2025)

preventive interventions in Burkina Faso Efforts to better understand and address out-of-pocket costs in Benin Development of a costing tool to estimate resource needs for digitizing campaigns in Africa Why did you choose this internship... View Details

16 Jun 2016
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Why Entrepreneurs Should Consider Business School

like: Entrepreneurial Finance, Venture Capital and Private Equity, Launching Technology Ventures, and Entrepreneurial Sales and Management. You'll also find courses on big data, digital marketing, and product management. There are more... View Details

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Historical Research - India

Periodicals 19th Century UK Periodicals Online, 1800-1900 Part 2 of this collection entitled "Empire" includes journals related to the expansion of the British empire published in Britain, India, Canada, South and East Africa, Canada, Australia and New... View Details

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Video Management Policy | About

signed a policy establishing acceptable use of the video management system. Information Technology – Desktop support personnel have access to one camera for viewing the main lobby to identify awaiting walk-up customers. Media Services – Select View Details

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Social Media Guidelines for Faculty and Staff | About

account, we urge you to consult the University’s “ Communications guidelines and best practices ” resource, which provides further information and guidance on brand identity requirements, digital accessibility, and particular social media... View Details

01 Sep 2020
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Good Odds

better digital experience buying food,” he says. “They expect to interact with brands they can love and that care about waste, not brands that they can tolerate. We think we’re pushing on an open door.” View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; food industry; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

04 Sep 2019
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Case Study: Up in the Air

is building the platform, signing partnerships with software houses (70 and counting), and creating a digital fingerprint for each engineer—incorporating a mix of professional competencies and a person’s psychometric profile. Meanwhile,... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

17 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

Beyond Pajamas: Sizing Up the Pandemic Shopper

for online retailers. Companies should use the data they collect from digital interactions to learn about these new customers: How do the new e-commerce customers compare to the pre-pandemic ones? Are they buying the same products at the... View Details

Keywords: by Ayelet Israeli, Eva Ascarza, and Laura Castrillo; Retail

20 Aug 2001
Research & Ideas

Making an Ally of Uncle Sam

businesses. Consider, for example, the debate about Napster, the online service for sharing digital and music files. Napster triggered a firestorm of outrage in the music industry about piracy of music. The Recording Industry Association... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Watkins, Mickey Edwards & Usha Thakrar

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The Critical Minutes After a Virtual Meeting That Can Build Up or Tear Down Teams | Working Knowledge

Psychology and Behavior The Critical Minutes After a Virtual Meeting That Can Build Up or Tear Down Teams Weak communication and misunderstandings during virtual meetings can give way to resentment and rifts when the cameras turn off. Research by Leslie Perlow probes... View Details

01 Jun 1996
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Four Professors to Retire

an integral part of their administrative and educational experience. With advisors from Apple Computer and other software vendors, Crum and his colleagues developed a networked client-server computer environment that produced HBS's first interactive View Details

Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage

17 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?

face a host of challenges in the years ahead. For some retailers, ecommerce threatens to digitize the products they sell and leave them without anything meaningful to stock in their stores. For others, hyper-competitive online retailers... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

23 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 23, 2007

these periods of uncertainty as motivation to innovate, taking digital technology into new territory. Pixar Studios, MSNBC, the Xbox, and the phenomena of "infotainment" all arose from the ashes of the corporate controversies.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

02 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 2, 2010

data and then thinking about the potential complementarities of strategies from a portfolio construction context. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/211025-PDF-ENG News in the Digital World: Who Pays? Stephen P.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019

created by digital firms, and describe challenges and responsibilities for leaders of both digital and traditional firms. Packed with examples from the most powerful and innovative AI-driven competitors, and... View Details

09 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

recognized the urgency for a change in its business model from the traditional “Windows first” strategy, with its reliance mainly on the sales of on-premises licensed software. Thus, the company began to shift its strategy to an “AI/cloud first” strategy to capture the... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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