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  • 29 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 29

charged to developers and to hold passive expectations. We show that platforms with more market power (monopoly) prefer facing more informed users. In contrast, platforms with less View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

    Bowman Gray

    Gray developed the famous advertising slogan for Camel cigarettes: “I’d walk a mile for a Camel.” An early radio advertiser, Gray sponsored the Camel Pleasure Hour in the 1930s. Gray led the campaign against Lucky Strike, which vied with... View Details
    Keywords: Food & Tobacco
    • 01 Mar 2007
    • News

    Security Chief

    separate technology, product development, and marketing operations. The reorganization imposed much-needed focus and put renewed emphasis on accountability for on-time, on-budget product delivery. “At the beginning of 2006, we were... View Details
    Keywords: Roger Thompson; technology-based security business; Management; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management
    • July 2010 (Revised December 2010)
    • Case

    AdMob (A)

    By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski, Samuel Cohen and Nithya Vaduganathan
    AdMob's CEO is deciding between international expansion and increasing the number of publishers to strengthen the company's advantage in the mobile advertising industry. AdMob displayed advertising on global devices, powered 6,000 websites and 1,000 applications, and... View Details
    Keywords: Digital Marketing; Growth and Development Strategy; Resource Allocation; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Expansion; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Advertising Industry
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    • August 2000 (Revised November 2001)
    • Case

    Edmunds.com (A)

    By: Stephen P. Bradley and Christina Akers
    Edmund's began in 1966 as a publisher of new and used vehicle guides and grew into one of the leading third-party automotive web sites of today. This case explores how Edmunds.com gained a competitive edge using strategic partnerships and alliances, as well as careful... View Details
    Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Business Strategy; Success; Product Positioning; Partners and Partnerships; Competitive Advantage; Auto Industry; Information Technology Industry
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    • 01 Dec 2006
    • News

    Quelch in Vietnam

    HBS professor and senior associate dean John Quelch met with Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung at a reception in Hanoi in September. The prime minister briefed Quelch on his country’s economic situation, outlined its ongoing View Details
    Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
    • Fast Answer

    Defense Industry Research

    Where would I find research reports on the defense industry? Frost & Sullivan 
    Reports covering technology and market trends in various technology, energy and manufacturing related fields. BCC Research Reports on major... View Details
    • Profile

    Max Wibaux

    GlaxoSmithKline. L’Oréal. Lindt & Sprungli. With a resumé that includes significant marketing roles in these and other CPG companies, Max Wibaux, MBA 2019, already has an impressive decade of experience behind him. "I loved the... View Details
    Keywords: CPG
    • 01 Apr 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: April 1

    we find evidence that proximity is positively associated with coordination and overall performance. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/14-092_0272c9fd-0da7-4bad-811c-77eb8db9ef81.pdf Competing in New View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • October 2009
    • Article

    Democratizing Entry: Banking Deregulations, Financing Constraints, and Entrepreneurship

    By: William R. Kerr and Ramana Nanda
    We examine entrepreneurship and creative destruction following US banking deregulations using Census Bureau data. US banking reforms brought about exceptional growth in both entrepreneurship and business closures. Most of the closures, however, were the new ventures... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Market Entry and Exit; Capital Markets; Banks and Banking; Growth and Development; Disruptive Innovation
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    • 10 Oct 2018
    • News

    Working with a Giver’s Spirit

    Manny Ayala (MBA 1992) is managing director of Endeavor Philippines, a branch of the global Endeavor organization, which fights poverty by finding and supporting high-impact entrepreneurs. “Our mission statement is to create an economic multiplier effect in View Details
    • 01 Oct 2001
    • News

    A Janus-Faced Reflection

    time for the unpleasantness of the last eighteen months. Still, the changes wrought by technology, and to be wrought by biotechnology, aren't going away. They are here to stay, just like the more fundamental shift from a manufacturing to a service-based economy and the... View Details
    Keywords: Walter Kiechel; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
    • June 2010 (Revised September 2010)
    • Case

    athenahealth: Innovating in Response to a Crisis in Healthcare

    When Jonathan Bush and his partner, Todd Park, realized that their revolutionary approach to delivering clinical care was being stymied by the inefficiencies in the healthcare system and insurance red tape, they turned their proprietary technology, athenaNet, to a new... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Health Care and Treatment; Information Management; Innovation and Invention; Brands and Branding; Product Development; Health Industry; United States
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    • May 2001
    • Supplement

    Asian Strategies: Ian Buchanan

    By: Tarun Khanna
    Ian Buchanan, senior VP of Booz-Allen & Hamilton, comments on Sime Darby and the Asian financial crisis. He also discusses the value propositions of different types of business groups in Malaysia. View Details
    Keywords: Financial Crisis; Growth and Development Strategy; Industry Structures; Strategy; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Consulting Industry; Service Industry; Asia; Malaysia
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    • 23 Sep 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: September 23

    that pursue a social mission through the use of market mechanisms. These hybrid organizations, often referred to as social enterprises, combine aspects of both charity and business at their core. In this paper we distinguish between two... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 11 Sep 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: September 11, 2007

      Working PapersStrategic Interactions in Two-Sided Market Oligopolies Authors:Emmanuel Farhi and Andrei Hagiu Abstract Strategic interactions between two-sided platforms depend not only on whether their decision variables are strategic... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 01 Nov 2018
    • News

    Showing Girls the Possibilities

    Ann Fudge (MBA 1977) is the former chairman and CEO of marketing giant Young & Rubicam Brands and serves on a number of corporate boards. In this interview, she talks about another, more personal focus of her efforts and energies. “If I... View Details
    • 01 Feb 1997
    • News

    Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management

    Course descriptions by Elaine Gottlieb, Judith A. Ross, and John Simon (sidebars by Elaine Gottlieb) Whether they come to HBS with a business plan in mind or become entrepreneurially inclined later in their careers, students who take HBS elective courses in... View Details

      Jon Staff

      Consumer brand building - Mission/vision/values development and adherence - Co-founder and early stage team building - DTC marketing - Go-to-market strategies - Hospitality startups - Real estate businesses... View Details
      • 24 Apr 2014
      • News

      Meeting an essential health care need in India

      When his mother became ill in 2008, Krishna Mahesh (MBA 2005) came face to face with India’s deep deficit of quality hospital beds. It inspired him to launch Sundaram Medical Devices, which develops high-tech, low-cost hospital beds that... View Details