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- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Breaking Down Barriers: The Electronic Wallet
As people get more accustomed to using the Internet to conduct business transactions, their demands will become more sophisticated. Cyberspace is jam-packed with startups trying to second-guess what consumers of the future will want.... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Learning to Speak the Language of Business
Mikitani Main article: Where Innovation Rules Case study: Englishnization at Rakuten From Pinterest to Kobo, how Japan's Rakuten is building a global internet giant (Wired.co.uk) You might call Hiroshi Mikitani (MBA 1993) the Jeff Bezos... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
HBS Cyberposium Brings Online Future into Focus
"The Internet is an explosion like nothing we've ever seen before," declared Bob Davis, CEO of Lycos, the Internet search engine company, to an overflow crowd at the fourth annual Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: Meg Gardner
- 28 May 2019
- News
Broken Link
President Obama launched the ConnectED initiative to bring high-speed broadband to 99 percent of public schools across America within five years. Next they lobbied the FCC to modernize its long-standing federal E-rate program, which had been View Details
- 04 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
RealNetworks, CNET, and Judo Strategy
the bursting of the dot.com bubble, Yoffie asked, will the future be much less rosy? An often-used comparison with the tulip mania that overwhelmed Holland in the seventeenth century, he asserted, is not the right way to think about the View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Business Plan Contest Has Many Winners
With its ninth annual competition last May, the HBS Business Plan Contest has become a well-established start-up that hits “home runs” every year. This year’s traditional track winner was Karen Grajwer (MBA ’05), founder of Uplift, an View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A "Growing" Online Community
Argentina's farmers now have access to the Internet and are using it on a regular basis. Agropool is funded by Tempo 2, a Silicon Valley firm that has partnered with Argentine businesses to provide strategic... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
William Fung: E-Commerce and Efficiency
Internet to improve efficiency and cater to new customers is a clear winner. Group managing director William K.L. Fung (MBA ’72) understands that e-commerce is revolutionary. “But it won’t change what our business is,” he insists. “We’re... View Details
- 02 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Networked Incubators: Hothouses of the New Economy
the Internet economy. It shares certain features with other incubators—mainly, it fosters a spirit of entrepreneurship and offers economies of scale. But its key distinguishing feature is its ability to give start-ups preferential access... View Details
- 28 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
Amazon, eBay and the Bidding Wars
entirely replace sequential bidding, eBay auctions would become a lot like sealed bid auctions, in which bidders submit bids that are all opened simultaneously at the end. In fact, there are third-party providers of bidding software and... View Details
- 15 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
We Have Better Ways to Break Habits Than Willpower. Why Don't We Use Them?
strategies—external aids like Internet blockers, nicotine patches, and swear jars. At the same time, studies show that few people use these supportive strategies. Why? “We know these kinds of strategies are helpful, and we know they tend... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- Web
Charitable Lead Trust - Alumni
distribution to your heirs Expert management services provided by Harvard at no cost to you Accelerated charitable income tax deduction in some circumstances Membership in the John C. Whitehead Society How it Works You can create a trust... View Details
- 12 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Creating Online Ads We Want to Watch
Marketing Research, "Emotion-Induced Engagement in Internet Video Ads," coauthored by Teixeira and fellow researchers Michel Wedel of the University of Maryland and Rik Pieters of Tilburg University.) The researchers paid 58 adults to... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Q & A: Bain & Company's Thomas J. Tierney
called eVolution with venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins and buyout specialists Texas Pacific Group. This new partnership focuses on traditional corporations that are interested in spinning off new Internet businesses. And we've... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Plunging Into the Net
and more cases, of doing business. As millions of individuals and organizations stake out positions on the Information Highway with Web sites, the nature of business is changing. "The Internet provides new... View Details
- 06 May 2002
- What Do You Think?
What’s Driving the “New Marketing?”
to the depth of the authors' arguments) raised so few eyebrows.—James Heskett What seems to many to be new is the Internet. Comments Thomas Rector, "...the 4 Ps remain valid—even in the Internet age. ...'interactivity' View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
Alumni Books Think to Win: Unleashing the Power of Strategic Thinking by Paul Butler, John F. Manfredi, and Peter Klein (MBA 1971) (McGraw-Hill Education) The authors provide a proven plan for making strategic thinking part of any... View Details
- 25 Apr 2012
- What Do You Think?
How Will the “Age of Big Data” Affect Management?
comprehend what they may mean. But other times I know I need help. This is one of those times. Just two decades ago, we didn't have Google and other information sources; storage constraints would not have permitted Google to provide... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
Stephen M. Case
Case, the founder, has built America Online into the world’s largest online service provider with over 20 million members, and services which include commerce, e-mail, chat, and Internet access. In 1998,... View Details
Keywords: Communications
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Thomas C. Høegh
things." A principal organizer of this year's student-led "Cyberposium" conference about the Internet, Høegh has worked as content manager for Firefly, the innovative Internet startup, and serves on the boards of several online companies.... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons