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- 23 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 23
and prices as a function of the consumer population's valuation for the service and show that competition has three main effects on the marketplace. First, competition drives the provision of services with a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 10
http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/110024-PDF-ENG Zappos.com 2009: Clothing, Customer Service and Company Culture Frances X. Frei, Robin J. Ely, and Laura WinigHarvard Business School Case 610-015 On July 17, 2009, Zappos.com, a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
and Marketing Services Industry? Myth vs. Realty Authors:Alvin J. Silk and Charles King III Publication:Journal of Current Issues and Research in Advertising (forthcoming) Abstract We analyze changes in concentration levels in the U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
of Search Engine Services: Channel Interdependence in Search Engine Results By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Zhenyu Lai Abstract—The authors examine prominent placement of search engines' own services and effects on users' choice of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
Janisse Publication:Best Paper Proceedings of the Academy of Management (2012). Abstract We examine the internal supply chains at two service organizations to discover the source of disruptions that erode employees' efficiency. Through... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Right Way to Manage Customer Churn for Maximum Profit
the example of an online retailer who suddenly sees a monthly shopper stop buying for two months. “Customers just stop using the service but don’t have to tell the company.” In order to manage churn,... View Details
- 17 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
Quantifying the Economic Impact of the Internet
recent TNS study reported the leading activities of Internet users as: used a search engine to find information (81 percent); looked up the news (76 percent); used online banking (74 percent); looked up the weather (65 percent);... View Details
- 18 Nov 2022
- HBS Case
What Does It Take to Safeguard a Legacy in Asset Management?
many of its funds as mid-size. Shifting to a majority mid-sized fund designation might confuse the investment community that now associated Brown Capital with its winning small-company strategy. What’s more, their mid-sized company fund had weathered some rocky... View Details
- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
care depends on the degree to which the hospital "co-specializes" in related areas (complementary spillovers). We find evidence of complementarities in specialization between cardiovascular care and related service areas.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
the mechanism of industry migration proposed in models like Duranton (2007). Shaping Online Consumer Choice by Partitioning the Web Authors:Jolie M. Martin and Michael I. Norton Publication:Psychology and Marketing 26, no. 10 (October... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround
play in the global marketplace currently and in the future? A: The Panama Canal will never again be as important to the United States as it was before World War II, but its importance to the world economy is set to grow. The continuing... View Details
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
high commitment and broad responsibilities, the leadership intended to provide a level of client service that would justify premium rates. However, the system is not working. Issues include: tips are lower than expected, reducing expected... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Dec 2019
- Research & Ideas
Identify Great Customers from Their First Purchase
customers spread over six markets. The researchers extracted six variables to represent first-time customers’ acquisition behavior, including whether the purchase was made online or offline, number of items purchased, prices, discounts,... View Details
- 04 Jun 2001
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Future of the Subscription Model?
information to music in order to sell advertising. As questions are being raised about the ability of telephone service providers, newspapers, and others to sell subscriptions in the future, I recently asked readers what the future of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 28 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, February 28
internal factors that constrain or enable these responses, and examine how the firms’ responses affect their performance. Our empirical context is the U.S. newspaper industry, which has experienced increased competition following the entry of Craigslist, an View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
out an Industrial Internet, connecting machines and devices, collecting their data and operations, and providing services to clients based on analytics of this data and information. The case considers the implications of such an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 30
online retailer demonstrates that cost transparency improves sales. In particular, cost transparency led to a 44% increase in daily unit sales. This research implies that by revealing costs-typically tightly guarded secrets-marketers can... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Fix This! Why is it so Painful to Buy a New Car?
1989 about service in the auto industry, Ford Motor Co.: Dealer Sales and Service, puts it best: “Nothing much has changed over 25 years. The experience is still generally awful.” Sure, there have been pockets of customer-service... View Details
- November 2008 (Revised March 2011)
- Case
a-connect: In Search of Talent Partners (A)
By: Robert G. Eccles and Dilyana Karadzhova
a-connect was started in 2002 by three former McKinsey partners who wanted to develop an alternative business model consulting firm, which they have positioned as a high-end staffing company. The company has been very successful, growing to revenues of CHF 30 million... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Decision Choices and Conditions; Initial Public Offering; Selection and Staffing; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketplace Matching; Expansion; Consulting Industry
Eccles, Robert G., and Dilyana Karadzhova. "a-connect: In Search of Talent Partners (A)." Harvard Business School Case 409-036, November 2008. (Revised March 2011.)