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  • February 1999 (Revised March 2001)
  • Case

Egghead to Egghead.com (A)

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Marie Bell
Over the course of 12 months in 1997 and 1998, Egghead senior management decided to shut down its 180 brick-and-mortar retail stores and move to an electronic store. The case describes the evolution of that process, and the role of its CEO George Orban, and poses... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Internet and the Web; Transformation; Decisions; Corporate Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Market Transactions; Buildings and Facilities; Retail Industry
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  • 01 Jul 2002
  • Research & Ideas

What it Takes to Lead Through Turmoil

change. The emphasis is on "us," not "them." At this point, the company's business model and organizational chart might be re-evaluated. Kanter recalled the concept of "kaleidoscope... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Dec 2011
  • First Look

First Look: December 20

threats to intellectual property (IP) and models the interactive impact of modularity and state-sanctioned IP rights on these threats. It identifies strategies for capturing value in so-called "open... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 27 Oct 2021
  • Blog Post

HBS Impact Investing Fund Course: An Experiential Education in Social Financing

At the end of the semester, the teams will prepare an investment memo with a financial model and impact plan, and present a recommendation to the fund’s Investment Committee (IC). The IC is composed View Details
  • 01 Dec 2015
  • News

Research Brief: What Makes a Mobile Money Service Thrive in an Emerging Market?

Ishan Sachdev (MBA 2013) Since 2009, more than 80 mobile money services have popped up in emerging markets to offer financial services to the millions of people who have a cell phone but no traditional bank account. Taking advantage View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
  • 12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 25 Apr 2017
  • Webinars: Trending@HBS

A Recipe for Digital Disruption

In recent years, a new wave of digital disruption has been taking over the Internet. In this talk, Associate Professor Teixeira will show how a variety of firms, both incumbents and startups, are using digital technologies to break the bonds between activities that... View Details
  • October 2000 (Revised May 2001)
  • Case

Digitas (A): Strategic Interactive Group

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, David Lane and Courtenay Sprague
Kathy Biro, president of Digitas, an e-strategy consulting firm, has successfully grown out of the company's roots in the strategic interactive group. Her challenges now include managing the integration of the SIG with Digitas's other component, direct marketing firm... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Business Strategy; Internet and the Web; Integration; Expansion; Business or Company Management; Business Model; Organizational Design; Consulting Industry; Massachusetts
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  • 10 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How to Look at Globalization Now

theoretical model that looks beyond its idiosyncratic elements. Looking at prices alone is insufficient to look at the relative viability of globally standardized vs. locally customized products.— Pankaj... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 15 Sep 2020
  • Blog Post

One Month into the New MS/MBA Biotech

a unique background in terms of prior academics, professional experience, and long-term goals, so there’s definitely no one-size-fits-all model for the “ideal candidate”. We hope to get a chance to welcome... View Details
  • November 2024
  • Case

Group AMANA: Built to Last

By: Hise Gibson and Fares Khrais
The case chronicles the Bsaibes brothers’ journey in founding and operating Group AMANA; a contracting business founded in 1993, based in the United Arab Emirates with operations across the Middle East. Over the years, the business found itself grappling with major... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Family Business; Transformation; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Succession; Business Strategy; Construction Industry; Middle East; Saudi Arabia; United Arab Emirates
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  • 04 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 4

businesses have led the venture capital model to adapt in fundamental ways over the prior decade. We both document and provide a framework to understand the changes in the investment strategy of VCs in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • April 2011 (Revised February 2015)
  • Course Overview Note

The Online Economy: Strategy and Entrepreneurship — Course Architecture Note

By: Peter Coles and Benjamin Edelman
This note provides an overview of the Harvard Business School course "The Online Economy: Strategy and Entrepreneurship." It covers the framework for the course, key principles within each course module, and a synopsis of each case, along with the lessons the case is... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Business Plan; Business Education; Curriculum and Courses; Entrepreneurship; Business Strategy; Information Technology; Internet and the Web
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  • 10 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 10

for all titles released by a sample of over 200 artists. I analyze sales dynamics from January 2005 to April 2007—a period in which the share of unbundled units jumped from roughly one-third to two-thirds... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Sep 2015
  • Blog Post

4 Challenges All Early-Stage Startups Face

evaluation of the ideas introduced to see if any of the business models could be applied to a different vertical. That allowed us to be exhaustive in our options and would also... View Details
  • 13 Nov 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018

of Corporate Compliance Programs: Establishing a Model for Prosecutors, Courts, and Firms By: Soltes, Eugene F. Abstract—When prosecutors, courts, and regulators make charging and sentencing decisions, they... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • Web

1.17 Field Based Learning / Independent Projects | MBA

reimbursed by HBS once the student provides a verified certificate confirming the successful completion of the course. The Late Drop Policy and deadlines apply to Online Independent Project enrollment.... View Details
  • 05 Jun 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018

F. Newman, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen Abstract—Little is known theoretically, and even less empirically, about the relationship between firm boundaries and the allocation of decision rights within firms. We develop a View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 21 Jun 2011
  • First Look

First Look: June 21

2007-09 likely marks the beginning of the end of the Chimerican relationship. In this paper, we look at this era as economic historians, trying to set events in a longer-term perspective. In some ways,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 21

histories spanning generations, we combine induction and deduction to propose reputation as a meta-resource that allows firms to activate their conventional resources. We conceptualize reputation as consisting of prominence, perceived... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 25 Feb 2002
  • Research & Ideas

The Country Effect: Does Location Matter?

School's ongoing International Seminar Series. This area of research is of universal interest. After all, a basic question that any multinational business would like to answer is this: Is there a single... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne