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  • March 2023 (Revised June 2023)
  • Case

Metaverse Wars

By: Andy Wu, David B. Yoffie and Matt Higgins
In 2023, the term metaverse — a combination of “meta” and “universe” — had become a catch-all for a diverse set of expectations about online virtual worlds and the future of the internet. To some, the metaverse conjured images of a massive participatory videogame... View Details
Keywords: Metaverse; Technology; Virtual Reality; Facebook; Social Media; Technological Innovation; Internet and the Web; Technology Adoption
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  • March 2022 (Revised February 2023)
  • Case

Pakistan Rising: Bazaar's Growth Story (A)

By: Paul A. Gompers and Gamze Yucaoglu
The case opens in September 2021 as Hamza Jawaid and Saad Jangda, co-founders of Bazaar technologies (Bazaar), the Pakistani high growth B2B e-commerce marketplace, are contemplating whether the year-and-a half old startup should also venture into offering financing to... View Details
Keywords: B2B; Business Model; Emerging Markets; For-Profit Firms; Strategy; Digital Platforms; Information Technology; Value Creation; Globalization; Competition; Expansion; Profit; Resource Allocation; Diversification; Corporate Strategy; Pakistan
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  • Winter 2021
  • Editorial

Introduction

By: Michael A. Wheeler
This issue of Negotiation Journal is dedicated to the theme of artificial intelligence, technology, and negotiation. It arose from a Program on Negotiation (PON) working conference on that important topic held virtually on May 17–18. The conference was not the... View Details
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Information Technology; Negotiation; AI and Machine Learning
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  • 27 Jul 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Customer Loyalty Programs That Work

ExtraCare, and pay-for-membership cards for stores including Costco. In a very basic form loyalty schemes have been around for as long as people have been exchanging goods—consider the farmer who threw in an extra ear of corn for his best... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Retail
  • 14 Jun 2011
  • First Look

First Look: June 14

Diversion, Rent Extraction and Competition Authors:Andrei Hagiu and Bruno Jullien Abstract This paper studies search diversion by competing intermediaries connecting consumers with third-party stores. First, we show that endogenizing View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • September 2020 (Revised June 2021)
  • Case

Algramo

By: Michael Chu, Monica Silva and Mariana Cal
Founded in 2013 by José Manuel Moller in Chile, Algramo first became known for addressing the “poverty tax” (the surcharge paid by lower income families for staples sold in smaller sizes) through specially-designed dispensers in low-income neighborhood grocery stores... View Details
Keywords: Packaging-as-a-wallet; Plastic Waste; Business At The Base Of The Pyramid; Reusable Packaging; Alliances With FMCGs To Meet ESG Goals; Social Entrepreneurship; Environmental Sustainability; Strategy; Value Creation; Goals and Objectives; Business Model; Consumer Products Industry; Latin America; South America; Chile
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  • 19 Feb 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 19

Business School Case 513-036 As a he gets ready to release second quarter 2012 results, Ron Johnson, the new CEO of department store J.C. Penney, is reconsidering the dramatic changes he initiated for the business model and brand image of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

FAQs - Alumni

reunion attendees? On campus, lactation rooms are available and are equipped with refrigerators and a hospital-grade Medela Symphony pump, for which you will need to provide your own Medela accessory kit. Please reference the Reunions app... View Details
  • 15 Aug 2023
  • HBS Case

(Virtual) Reality Check: How Long Before We Live in the 'Metaverse'?

technological fiefdoms, similar to how social networks and mobile app stores operate today? The answer is not yet clear—and may not be for years to come. When will the metaverse make a splash? “For the last... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Technology; Computer; Information Technology
  • 13 Jul 2016
  • HBS Case

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

Teixeira. “If you don’t have customers, there is nothing to scale.” Ride-sharing app Uber pursued a similar strategy. Rather than starting out with Uber Pool or Uber X, in which drivers use their own cars, the company started with black... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail; Service; Transportation
  • Web

Help - Alumni

Fitness Portal . What are the hours of the COOP? Hours and store info for the HBS COOP are at: https://store.thecoop.com/store-locations/ The Class of 1959 Chapel HBS alumni may use the Class of 1959 Chapel for weddings and memorials,... View Details
  • 26 May 2022
  • HBS Case

Apple vs. Feds: Is iPhone Privacy a Basic Human Right?

championing privacy as controversy was swirling around an extensive US government surveillance program that had been disclosed by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden. Snowden had leaked information indicating that the government was collecting... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • Web

Podcast - Business & Environment

them easier to disassemble and repair, how secondhand retail pilot programs at IKEA stores are reaching new customers, and how investments like RetourMatras are developing circular solutions for end-of-life mattresses. Karen also... View Details
  • 28 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 28

popularity of price-matching apps for mobile phones made price differences between retailers transparent, online and offline. Shoppers' desire to test electronics first-hand before purchase drove them to use Best Buy View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 04 Jun 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Navigating Consumer Data Privacy in an AI World

aware of the tools available to help them comply with privacy regulation. Ascarza: There is a big focus on documentation. Companies have to be really thorough about recording everything: how they handle data, store it, retrieve it, and... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology; Information Technology
  • Research Summary

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Over the last decade, technology companies like Amazon, Google, and Netflix have pioneered data-driven research and development processes centered on massive experimentation. However, as companies increase the breadth and scale of their experiments to millions of... View Details
  • Research Summary

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By: Iavor I. Bojinov
Over the last decade, technology companies like Amazon, Google, and Netflix have pioneered data-driven research and development processes centered on massive experimentation. However, as companies increase the breadth and scale of their experiments to millions of... View Details
  • 16 Jun 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Your Customers Have Changed. Here's How to Engage Them Again.

environment has resulted in volatility in purchases and productivity across idiosyncratic product categories, resulting in a net economic crisis of a type that has not been witnessed by anyone alive today. Government-imposed quarantines, self-isolation, and closures of... View Details
Keywords: by Rohit Deshpandé, Ofer Mintz, and Imran S. Currim; Retail; Service
  • Web

Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

weakens bridge pilings and has put some 500,000 bridges in the United States at risk. Quickstor Rebecca Greene Todd Rudnianyn Business Track Runner-Up This new venture has developed a mobile app to facilitate the process of finding... View Details
  • 16 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive

we were busy applying for loans. Then, we did consider delivery and take out but not every menu item in our restaurant is designed to be delivery-friendly. And, delivery is not that profitable given that apps like Uber Eats take 30... View Details
Keywords: by Michael S. Kaufman, Lena G. Goldberg, and Jill Avery; Food & Beverage