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- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
products for different business contexts requires that a firm deploy different new-product development processes. Products designed for stable and mature end-user markets require a process optimized for control and efficiency. In... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
Authors:Bettina-Elisabeth Klaus and Markus Walzl Publication:Journal of Mathematical Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We consider several notions of setwise stability for many-to-many matching markets with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- March 2020
- Supplement
Poppy (B)
By: Thomas R. Eisenmann, Scott Duke Kominers, Jeff Huizinga and Allison Ciechanover
Avni Patel Thompson, founder and CEO of Poppy, an online marketplace for on-demand childcare, revisits the venture's final months, and discusses the steps she took in the wake of the shutdown. This case explores experiments the company conducted to refine its original... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Marketplace Matching; Business Model; Business Exit or Shutdown; Personal Development and Career; United States
Eisenmann, Thomas R., Scott Duke Kominers, Jeff Huizinga, and Allison Ciechanover. "Poppy (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 820-715, March 2020.
- January 1990 (Revised March 1991)
- Case
American Red Cross Blood Services: Northeast Region
By: Robert L. Simons
Recounts the financial difficulties and management changes experienced by American Red Cross Blood Services: Northeast Region (NER) during the 1980s. After summarizing industry-wide changes in the collection, testing, and distribution of blood and blood products, the... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Budgets and Budgeting; Financial Management; Restructuring; Health; SWOT Analysis; Social Enterprise; Marketplace Matching; Management Style; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Health Industry; North and Central America
Simons, Robert L. "American Red Cross Blood Services: Northeast Region." Harvard Business School Case 190-078, January 1990. (Revised March 1991.)
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-114.pdf Platforms and Limits to Network Effects (revised) Authors:Hanna Halaburda and Mikołaj Jan Piskorski Abstract We model conditions under which agents in two-sided matching View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
counterparts. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55026 Economists (and Economics) in Tech Companies By: Athey, Susan, and Michael Luca Abstract—As technology platforms have created new markets and new... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
the most fertile area for business research in the next decade. By more deeply understanding human cognition, emotion, motivation, and behavior, managers could tailor products and services to unmet and previously unrecognized needs with exquisite accuracy. They could... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From
do well to consider it as an opportunity instead. An employee who is ready to move on is no longer the best match and there’s no point standing in the way of their dreams. Instead, focus on what you can do to turn your company into a... View Details
Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
Case of Search Platforms Authors:Hanna Hałaburda and Mikołaj Jan Piskorski Abstract We show that a two-sided platform can successfully compete by limiting the choice of potential matches it offers to its customers while charging higher... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: First Look: October 10
two bands they had signed, Maroon 5 and Flyleaf. Known for its grassroots marketing campaigns, Octone operated through a unique joint-venture model with SonyBMG Music Entertainment's RCA Music Group, which enabled the nimble record label... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Meeting China’s Need for Management Education
Companies are sufficiently convinced of their need for much more training of their managers, and their respect for their leading universities is such that they are very willing to pay market rates for their executives to attend programs... View Details
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
When In-House Research Isn’t Enough
Internet and of the international scope of Intel Capital's reach, currently encompassing more than 175 companies outside the United States. With stock markets floundering and many venture capitalists sitting on the sidelines, Intel's... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 20 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Long-Term Fix to US Competitiveness
beginning of the Industrial Age that the advent of mass production would mean there would be no jobs for the vast majority of the population, but we reinvested and gained productivity and expanded the economy." Innovation has driven the country's strength in world... View Details
Keywords: by Stephanie Schorow & Harvard Gazette
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
U.S. corporations, which enjoy ready access to the deepest capital markets in the world. Venture capital, for example, and the public equity markets that support it, has channeled money to innovative ideas... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Education, Technology, and Business: What’s the Catch?
expensive process of selling and marketing to schools, said Kim, whereby every sale is done in person. Kalliarekos commented on the massive confusion about the industry in general. "Is there an education industry?" he asked,... View Details
- 05 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
creating opportunities for norm reinforcement. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52457 Strategy-Proofness of Worker-Optimal Matching with Continuously Transferable Utility By: Jagadeesan, Ravi, Scott Duke... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Apr 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Why Private Investors Must Fund 'New Nuclear' Power Right Now
Drbouz In June 2016, I gave a TED Talk called We Need Nuclear Power to Solve Climate Change. The talk discussed the world’s realistic options for reducing fossil CO2 emissions soon enough to contain climate change’s more severe effects. To my surprise, that talk has... View Details
- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Linking the Globe: The Role of Media and Communications
Italian soccer star on the cover; in England, the English one; in Germany, the German one. Otherwise people don't buy it." "The Internet is Hell," he said, "but it gives us a chance to reach each one of you everywhere at anytime." View Details
- 08 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019
model’s correct and incorrect classifications, the cutoff point on the curve that matches true positives and true negatives, and the payoff matrix Wehunt and Morse construct. Students can then follow the link directly from their model to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 8, 2018
about the popularity of songs and romantic matches (Experiments 1B and 1C). Yet, researchers predicted the opposite result (Experiment 1D). Algorithm appreciation persisted when advice appeared jointly or separately (Experiment 2).... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne