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17 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 17

content? The Times had several choices in designing the paywall, including determining the digital content, pricing, as well as how to interface with readers of secondary news websites like blogs that posted links to news articles. Should... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

28 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 28, 2008

members to help select winning designs. Threadless encouraged community members to actively participate by critiquing submitted designs, blogging about their daily lives, posting songs and videos inspired by the designs, and, most... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 Dec 2018
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journal articles, blog posts, and podcasts. “The work is extremely exciting—we think it’s breakthrough—but it is very hard to figure out how to package it in a way that is digestible by normal people,” she says. “One of the examples I... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Daniel Hertzberg

27 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 27

KironHarvard Business School Case 810-086 In February 2010, management of the Huffington Post, a fast-growing but not-yet-profitable Internet newspaper that aggregates blog posts from unpaid contributors and excerpts of stories originally... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018

picture. Furthermore, in both contexts, communications postadoption influenced engagement, albeit in different ways. Firm-to-customer communications, through company posts to Twitter and blog entries, had varying effects on customer... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

HBS classes during the morning hours, and then in the afternoon we were managing a volunteer organization that was experiencing surging demand,” Kapoor noted in an HBS “MBA Voices” blog post. “With all of the negative COVID-19 headlines,... View Details

November 2017
Teaching Note

Tencent

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth

Teaching Note for HBS No. 718-426. Tencent had undergone many transformations since it was founded in 1998 as a simple messaging service. In 2017, it was the largest online games provider in China with a wide range of game types, China’s largest social networking... View Details

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