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  • 25 Sep 2006
  • Research & Ideas

How Software Platforms Revolutionize Business

You can't see them, but we've all used "software platforms" over the last few decades, whether they are embedded in the Windows operating system, a cell phone, or game machine. In a new book, the authors term software platforms... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Web Services

    Social Strategies That Work

    Over a billion people use social platforms on the Internet, making them the most frequently visited category of sites. Some platforms, such as eHarmony, MeetUp, and Twitter, allow us to connect to strangers. eHarmony alone is estimated to account for one in six new... View Details
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    The Art of American Advertising: 1865 - 1910

    Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral... View Details
    • 19 Oct 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Are Web Sites So Confusing?

    This kind of serendipity can turn out to be a vastly more valuable consequence of search diversion than stumbling upon new products at the supermarket or while browsing aimlessly through Amazon.com. View Details
    Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu & Bruno Jullien
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    Strategy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

    Raffaella Sadun : Awarded the Premio Fondazione de Sanctis for excellence in economics research in 2022. 2021 Rebecca M. Henderson : Winner of the 2021 Responsible Research in Management Award from the Fellows Group of the Academy of... View Details
    • January 2021 (Revised June 2021)
    • Case

    Hester Pharmaceuticals (A): A Pricing Dilemma

    By: Dante Roscini and John Masko
    In August 2019, the leadership of Hester Pharmaceuticals (Hester) had a problem. Italy promised to be a key market for their new breakthrough oncology drug Akrozumab, but for almost two years, its single-payer healthcare system had been unable to agree with Hester on a... View Details
    Keywords: Macroeconomics; Trade; Price; Global Range; Global Strategy; Globalized Markets and Industries; Health Care and Treatment; Patents; Monopoly; Negotiation; Business and Government Relations; Risk and Uncertainty; Human Needs; Business Strategy; Commercialization; Pharmaceutical Industry; Italy
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    • 23 Feb 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: Feb. 23

    unavailable at this time. Publisher's Link: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=t927286744 Political Instability: Effects on Financial Development, Roots in the Severity of Economic Inequality Authors:Mark J. Roe and... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • October 2010 (Revised November 2010)
    • Case

    Belco Global Foods

    By: C. Fritz Foley and Matthew Johnson
    This case introduces students to the fundamental issues that managers face when deciding what international trade finance terms to use when transacting with other firms. In late 2009, Pam Arnold, the head of global credit at Belco Global Foods, must decide which trade... View Details
    Keywords: Trade; Credit; Financing and Loans; International Finance; Globalized Firms and Management; Food and Beverage Industry
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    • July 2017 (Revised July 2018)
    • Case

    Upwork: Creating the Human Cloud

    By: Dylan Minor and David Yoffie
    Stephane Kasriel, the new CEO of Upwork, the leading platform for freelance labor, needs to decide on how to redesign its business model. While the firm has been growing rapidly since the merger of Odesk and eLance, the newly combined firm continues to face problems of... View Details
    Keywords: Strategy; Platform; Platform Businesses; Technology; Business Model; Digital Platforms; Growth and Development Strategy; Internet and the Web; Labor
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    • 26 Mar 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: March 26

    in State-Controlled Firms By: Pargendler, Mariana, Aldo Musacchio, and Sergio G. Lazzarini Abstract—A large legal and economic literature describes how state-owned enterprises (SOEs) suffer from a variety of agency and political problems.... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 07 Sep 2007
    • What Do You Think?

    Are Elite Business Schools Fostering the Deprofessionalization of Management?

    that is not a profession? Phil Clark's comment characterizes the first line of thought. As he put it, an "elite B-school degree is seen as a ticket to connections to 'take care of (oneself),' not necessarily to provide value to any organization or build View Details
    Keywords: by Jim Heskett
    • 21 Feb 2005
    • Op-Ed

    Is Business Management a Profession?

    disciplines from which such a model could be produced—foundered for many years on disagreements about the nature of business firms and the ultimate purpose of business. The decision (made very early in the history of university-based... View Details
    Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice
    • 01 Dec 2023
    • News

    Case Study: Staking a Claim

    Illustration by Nhung Lê Kate Terry (MBA 2005) knows that no one attends their fifth-grade career fair and comes home hoping to pursue a career in insurance—but that’s exactly where she wound up. “I really fell in love with it,” she says. As cofounder and CEO of... View Details
    Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Insurance Carriers and Related Activities; Finance
    • 01 May 2014
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Revisiting the Classical View of Benefit-Based Taxation

    Keywords: by Matthew Weinzierl
    • 01 May 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: May 1, 2007

    effect of a unit of FDI on economic growth. However, this is difficult to establish because it is a function of many different country and project characteristics which are often hard to measure. Hence, we differentiate "quality... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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    Antitrust & Competition Policy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    foundations of antitrust might be updated, based on a large body of theoretical and empirical research on company strategy, competition, and economic development. The aim is to outline a new direction for... View Details
    • 01 Feb 1999
    • News

    Too Much of a Good Thing?

    - too much product (and too much production capability) chasing too few buyers - is hardly a new phenomenon. As a factor in market capitalism, overcapacity has been recognized and analyzed as a business-cycle reality by View Details
    Keywords: Garry Emmons
    • 01 Aug 2001
    • News

    Richard B. Fisher (MBA '62)

    of his first assignments—an analysis of the economic feasibility of a Canadian hydroelectric plant—required him to master the FORTRAN and COBOL programming languages. "Building a computer model was no mean... View Details
    Keywords: Richard B. Fisher; Warren A. Law; Alumni Achievement Award; Finance; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management
    • 14 Dec 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: Dec. 14

    because external capital markets became more costly, but also because the efficiency of internal capital allocation increased significantly during the crisis. Our analysis provides new evidence on how the diversification discount and its... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 08 Mar 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Representation Matters: Building Case Studies That Empower Women Leaders

    to a case are about more than the text itself. Lower student evaluations of a case may not neatly correlate with its quality or effectiveness. Cases whose protagonists join the classroom clearly resonate and may even help students to see leadership as more... View Details
    Keywords: by Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg