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      • August 2013 (Revised September 2015)
      • Case

      Coursera

      By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Hyunjin Kim
      By providing free and open-access online courses at a large scale, Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) platforms seek to innovate the business models of the traditional higher education industry. In a little over a year, Coursera had grown at a rapid rate to emerge as a... View Details
      Keywords: Business Models; Strategy; Competition; Business Model; Internet and the Web; Higher Education; Competitive Advantage; Education Industry
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      Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Hyunjin Kim. "Coursera." Harvard Business School Case 714-412, August 2013. (Revised September 2015.)
      • 2013
      • Working Paper

      Where do the Most Active Customers Originate and How Can Firms Keep Them Engaged?

      By: Clarence Lee, E. Ofek and Thomas Steenburgh
      In this paper, we study how firms offering Web services can acquire and develop an active customer base. We focus on two basic questions. First, how does the method of customer acquisition affect the way customers use the service to meet their own needs and to interact... View Details
      Keywords: Customer Engagement; Adoption Routes; Hidden Markov Models; Search; Word-of-Mouth; Digital Media; Customer Relationship Management; Internet and the Web; Mathematical Methods; Consumer Behavior; Entrepreneurship; Marketing Reference Programs; Web Services Industry
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      Lee, Clarence, E. Ofek, and Thomas Steenburgh. "Where do the Most Active Customers Originate and How Can Firms Keep Them Engaged?" Working Paper, 2013. (Revise and Resubmit at Management Science.)
      • June 2013 (Revised August 2013)
      • Case

      AVA.ph: Growing a Filipino E-Commerce Company

      By: William R. Kerr and Henry Motte-Munoz
      AVA is a three-year old e-commerce company in the Philippines. From its early start mimicking the Gilt Groupe concept of online flash sales, the company has grown into a broader e-commerce platform for local fashion commerce. Oliver Segovia needs to evaluate where AVA... View Details
      Keywords: Digital Platforms; Business Growth and Maturation; Internet and the Web; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Fashion Industry; Retail Industry; Philippines
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      Kerr, William R., and Henry Motte-Munoz. "AVA.ph: Growing a Filipino E-Commerce Company." Harvard Business School Case 813-188, June 2013. (Revised August 2013.)
      • 2013
      • Dissertation

      Designing Freemium: A Model of Consumer Usage, Upgrade, and Referral Dynamics

      By: Clarence Lee, Vineet Kumar and Sunil Gupta
      Abstract. Over the past decade "freemium" (free + premium) has become the dominant business model among internet start-ups for its ability to acquire and monetize a large install-base with limited marketing resources. Freemium is a hybrid strategy where a firm offers... View Details
      Keywords: Discrete-Continuous Choice Dynamic Structural Models; Bayesian Estimation; Word-of-Mouth; Digital Services; Freemium; Entrepreneurship; Business Model; Motivation and Incentives; Marketing Strategy; Internet and the Web; Consumer Behavior; Marketing Reference Programs; Business Startups
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      Lee, Clarence, Vineet Kumar, and Sunil Gupta. "Designing Freemium: A Model of Consumer Usage, Upgrade, and Referral Dynamics." Diss., Harvard Business School, 2013. (Job Market Paper.)
      • February 2013
      • Case

      YouTube Channels

      By: Sunil Gupta and Dharmishta Rood
      In December 2011 YouTube launched a website redesign that made Channels the central focus of the site. This redesign was the company's first foray into a strategy designed to foster long-form user engagement. YouTube invested $100 million in 100 Channels, often created... View Details
      Keywords: Competition; Internet and the Web; Entertainment; Growth and Development Strategy; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry
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      Gupta, Sunil, and Dharmishta Rood. "YouTube Channels." Harvard Business School Case 513-078, February 2013.
      • February 2013
      • Case

      18 Months in a Startup: Zaggora.com

      By: Tom Nicholas
      The founders of Zaggora reflected back on a tumultuous year-and-a-half in which they had generated, from just $40,000 in personal savings, a multi-million dollar sportswear enterprise selling Hotpants to women. These were hotpants not of the 1960s hipster variety, but... View Details
      Keywords: Internet and the Web; Growth Management; Problems and Challenges; Business Startups; Brands and Branding; Innovation and Invention; Corporate Finance; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Sports Industry
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      Nicholas, Tom. "18 Months in a Startup: Zaggora.com." Harvard Business School Case 813-140, February 2013.
      • 2013
      • Working Paper

      Do Display Ads Influence Search?: Attribution and Dynamics in Online Advertising

      By: Sunil Gupta
      As firms increasingly rely on online media to acquire consumers, marketing managers feel comfortable justifying higher online marketing spend by referring to online metrics such as click-through rate (CTR) and cost per acquisition (CPA). However, these standard online... View Details
      Keywords: Internet and the Web; Digital Marketing
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      Kireyev, Pavel, Koen Pauwels, and Sunil Gupta. "Do Display Ads Influence Search? Attribution and Dynamics in Online Advertising." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 13-070, February 2013.
      • January 2013 (Revised March 2017)
      • Case

      CloudFlare, Inc.: Running Hot?

      By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Alex Godden
      In July 2012, the cofounders of CloudFlare, a Silicon Valley startup that protects websites and accelerates their traffic, are considering the implications of five employees' resignations over the prior three months. Was this natural attrition for a high-tech venture... View Details
      Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Employee Relationship Management; Organizational Structure; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Growth Management; Internet and the Web; Entrepreneurship; Resignation and Termination; Business Startups; Information Technology Industry; Web Services Industry; California
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      Eisenmann, Thomas R., and Alex Godden. "CloudFlare, Inc.: Running Hot?" Harvard Business School Case 813-145, January 2013. (Revised March 2017.)
      • January 2013
      • Case

      Zappos.com 2009: Clothing, Customer Service, and Company Culture (MM)

      By: Frances X. Frei and Robin J. Ely
      On July 17, 2009, Zappos.com, a privately-held online retailer of shoes, clothing, and other soft-line retail categories, learned that Amazon.com, a $19 billion multinational online retailer, had won its Board of Directors' approval to offer to merge the two companies.... View Details
      Keywords: Customer Relationship Management; Internet and the Web; Mergers and Acquisitions; Organizational Culture; Growth and Development Strategy; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Retail Industry
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      Frei, Frances X., and Robin J. Ely. "Zappos.com 2009: Clothing, Customer Service, and Company Culture (MM)." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 612-701, January 2013.
      • January 2013 (Revised June 2018)
      • Case

      Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google 2018

      By: John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld
      Four businesses had, by 2012, grown to dominate the infrastructure that all firms rely on to reach online customers. Will the balance of power among the four persist, will one take command at the expense of the other three, or are all four more vulnerable than they... View Details
      Keywords: Internet and the Web; Competitive Advantage; Infrastructure; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Growth and Development; Service Industry; Retail Industry; United States
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      Deighton, John, and Leora Kornfeld. "Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google 2018." Harvard Business School Case 513-060, January 2013. (Revised June 2018.) (request a courtesy copy.)
      • 2013
      • Working Paper

      Internet Appendix for "Inflation Bets or Deflation Hedges? The Changing Risks of Nominal Bonds"

      By: Adi Sunderam, Luis M. Viceira and John Y. Campbell
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      Sunderam, Adi, Luis M. Viceira, and John Y. Campbell. Internet Appendix for "Inflation Bets or Deflation Hedges? The Changing Risks of Nominal Bonds". Working Paper, 2013.
      • December 2012
      • Case

      Blink Booking

      By: William R. Kerr, Magnus Thor Torfason and Alexis Brownell
      Rebeca Minguela hopes to create an arbitrage platform, similar to Rocket Internet, that can bring start-up ideas and opportunities to Spain. However, Blink Booking, her first venture and proof of concept, is rocked by a co-founder's breach of confidence and departure.... View Details
      Keywords: Clones; Cloning; Rocket Internet; Start-up; Equity Split; Arbitrage; Incubator; Mobile App; Expansion; Spain; Europe; Entrepreneurship; Ethics; Internet and the Web; Information Technology Industry; Accommodations Industry; Travel Industry; Spain; Europe
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      Kerr, William R., Magnus Thor Torfason, and Alexis Brownell. "Blink Booking." Harvard Business School Case 813-121, December 2012.
      • November 2012 (Revised May 2013)
      • Case

      ASUSTeK and the Google Nexus 7 Tablet

      By: Willy C. Shih and Jyun-Cheng Wang
      Days after Jerry Shen introduced a new tablet computer at the Consumer Electronics Show, a Google meeting convinced him to go with a lower price point and co-branding as the Nexus 7. While his company would have a premier position at launch, companies like Samsung... View Details
      Keywords: Nexus; Google; ASUSTeK; Android; Tablet; Kindle; Kindle Fire; Notebook Computers; ODM; Apple; Price Point; App Store; Ecosystem; Open Handset Alliance; Reference Design; iPad; EMS; Electronic Manufacturing Services; Smartphone; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Product Marketing; Product Launch; Product Positioning; Industry Structures; Product Design; Product Development; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Digital Platforms; Information Technology; Internet and the Web; Computer Industry; Information Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Taiwan; United States
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      Shih, Willy C., and Jyun-Cheng Wang. "ASUSTeK and the Google Nexus 7 Tablet." Harvard Business School Case 613-056, November 2012. (Revised May 2013.)
      • 2014
      • Working Paper

      Search-Based Peer Firms: Aggregating Investor Perceptions Through Internet Co-Searches

      By: Charles M.C. Lee, Paul Ma and Charles C.Y. Wang
      Applying a "co-search" algorithm to Internet traffic at the SEC's EDGAR web-site, we develop a novel method for identifying economically-related peer firms and for measuring their relative importance. Our results show that firms appearing in chronologically adjacent... View Details
      Keywords: Peer Firm; EDGAR Search Traffic; Revealed Preference; Co-search; Industry Classification; Analytics and Data Science; Internet and the Web; Mathematical Methods; Corporate Finance
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      Lee, Charles M.C., Paul Ma, and Charles C.Y. Wang. "Search-Based Peer Firms: Aggregating Investor Perceptions Through Internet Co-Searches." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 13-048, November 2012. (Revised September 2013, March 2014, June 2014, July 2014.)
      • November 2012
      • Teaching Note

      Groupon (TN)

      By: Sunil Gupta, Ray Weaver and Yien Hao Lock
      On November 4, 2011, Groupon, a marketing services company that promoted local businesses by selling deeply discounted vouchers for their products and services, completed its initial public offering that valued the company at $17 billion. Within a year Groupon's share... View Details
      Keywords: Social Networking; Media; Technology; Strategy; Business Growth and Maturation; Marketing Strategy; Marketing; Internet and the Web; Social Media; Retail Industry; Service Industry; Technology Industry; North America; United States
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      Gupta, Sunil, Ray Weaver, and Yien Hao Lock. "Groupon (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 513-046, November 2012.
      • 2012
      • Report

      Economic Value of the Advertising-Supported Internet Ecosystem

      By: John A. Deighton and Leora Kornfeld
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      Deighton, John A., and Leora Kornfeld. "Economic Value of the Advertising-Supported Internet Ecosystem." Report, Interactive Advertising Bureau, New York, September 2012.
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      The Market That Wasn't: The Non-emergence of the Online Grocery Category

      By: Chad Navis, Greg Fisher, Ryan Raffaelli and Mary Ann Glynn
      We examine the non-emergence of a potential new market category. In the late 1990s the entrepreneurial firms that attempted to sell groceries online attracted significant resources, made meaningful technological advancements and generated immense publicity, yet online... View Details
      Keywords: Internet and the Web; Food; Emerging Markets; Service Industry; Food and Beverage Industry
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      Navis, Chad, Greg Fisher, Ryan Raffaelli, and Mary Ann Glynn. "The Market That Wasn't: The Non-emergence of the Online Grocery Category." Proceedings of the Frontiers in Managerial and Organizational Cognition Conference 1 (September 2012).
      • August 2012 (Revised October 2015)
      • Case

      LinkedIn Corporation, 2012

      By: David Yoffie and Liz Kind
      Since its inception in 2003, LinkedIn had become a leading Silicon Valley institution with a brand name that was recognizable throughout the U.S. and in many countries overseas. As of March 2012, LinkedIn was the world's largest professional network on the Internet... View Details
      Keywords: Social Networking; Media; Technology; Strategy; Growth Management; Internet and the Web; Corporate Strategy; Social and Collaborative Networks; Brands and Branding; Social Media; Service Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; California
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      Yoffie, David, and Liz Kind. "LinkedIn Corporation, 2012." Harvard Business School Case 713-420, August 2012. (Revised October 2015.)
      • June 2012 (Revised October 2012)
      • Teaching Note

      TripAdvisor (TN)

      By: Sunil Gupta
      By 2010, TripAdvisor (TA) was the largest travel site in the world operating in 24 countries and 16 languages, with listings for 455,000 hotels, 92,000 attractions and 564,000 restaurants in over 71,000 destinations worldwide. It had over 40 million reviews from 35... View Details
      Keywords: Marketing; Digital Marketing; Marketing Strategy; Internet and the Web; Travel Industry; Tourism Industry; China; United States
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      Gupta, Sunil. "TripAdvisor (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 512-108, June 2012. (Revised October 2012.)
      • June 2012 (Revised August 2013)
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      Driving Towards a Disruption?

      By: Willy Shih and William Noble
      As Clayton Christensen drove to the studio to deliver an online executive education class, he pondered the future of management education. How big a threat did online degree programs, corporate universities, and other innovations in the delivery of management training... View Details
      Keywords: Disruptive Technology; Performance Trajectories; Disruptive Innovations; Business Education; Business School; Internet And Online Services Industries; Disruptive Innovation; Higher Education; Corporate Strategy; Internet; Performance; Education Industry; Boston
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      Shih, Willy, and William Noble. "Driving Towards a Disruption?" Harvard Business School Case 612-101, June 2012. (Revised August 2013.)
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