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    George Serafeim

    George Serafeim is the Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He co-leads a Lab, within Harvard's Digital, Data, Design Institute, and serves on the faculty steering commitee of Harvard University's Salata Institute. He... View Details

    Keywords: asset management; insurance industry; automobiles; industrial goods; fashion; food; green technology
    • April 2012 (Revised October 2013)
    • Case

    eBay, Inc. and Amazon.com (A)

    By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Anant Thaker
    This case has been designed to explore strategic interactions among organizations with different business models. The case considers how a competitor successfully challenged the incumbent in a platform market defined by strong network effects and high switching costs.... View Details
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    • 01 Dec 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Modeling a Paradigm Shift: From Producer Innovation to User and Open Collaborative Innovation

    Keywords: by Carliss Y. Baldwin & Eric von Hippel
    • September 2012 (Revised December 2013)
    • Case

    Roxbury Technology Corporation

    By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
    Roxbury Technology is a Boston-based re-manufacturer of ink and toner cartridges. In early 2012 RTC was re-evaluating its approach to the company's two most important goals: reducing customer concentration and increasing profitability. RTC's largest customer accounted... View Details
    Keywords: Social Enterprise; Social Entrepreneurship; Financial Management; Customers; Diversification; Green Technology Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Boston
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    • 21 Sep 2009
    • News

    Harvard Business School Launches Programs For Real Estate Executives

    • August 2012
    • Case

    Polar Sports, Inc.

    By: W. Carl Kester and Wei Wang
    Polar Sports, Inc. is a fashion skiwear manufacturing company in Littleton, Colorado. The company has a unique design for skiwear using a special synthetic material that improves insulation and durability. The ski apparel industry is highly competitive and the best way... View Details
    Keywords: Production; Decision Choices and Conditions; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Finance; Manufacturing Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Sports Industry; Colorado
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    • November 2007
    • Background Note

    Asset Allocation I

    By: Joshua D. Coval, Erik Stafford, Rodrigo Osmo, John Jernigan, Zack Page and Paulo Passoni
    The goal of these simulations is to understand the mathematics of mean-variance optimization and the equilibrium pricing of risk if all investors use this rule with common information sets. Simulation A focuses on five to 10 years of monthly sector returns that are... View Details
    Keywords: Asset Pricing; Capital; Investment Return; Risk Management; Mathematical Methods
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    • November 2004 (Revised January 2007)
    • Case

    Ice-Fili (Abridged)

    By: John R. Wells, Pai-Ling Yin and Michael G. Rukstad
    Designed as an overview of all aspects of the strategy process: industry analysis, positioning, dynamics and sustainability, and scope issues of corporate strategy, including vertical integration, horizontal diversification, and location issues. Ice-Fili is the largest... View Details
    Keywords: Product Positioning; Geographic Location; Competition; Vertical Integration; Corporate Strategy; Retail Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Russia
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    • November 2011 (Revised April 2016)
    • Case

    Coco Chanel: Creating Fashion for the Modern Woman (A)

    By: Mukti Khaire and Kerry Herman
    Chanel, the iconic haute couture house, founded by Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel in 1913, came to embody its founder's philosophy, taste, and style and set a distinctive and influential tone for women's fashion. Coming to prominence during the height of cultural modernity in... View Details
    Keywords: Fashion And Creative Industries; Apparel Manufacturing; Business History; Business Growth and Maturation; Management Succession; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Brands and Branding; Fashion Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; North and Central America; Europe
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    • October 2007 (Revised March 2008)
    • Case

    Dove: Evolution of a Brand

    By: John A. Deighton
    Examines the evolution of Dove from functional brand to a brand with a point of view after Unilever designated it as a masterbrand, and expanded its portfolio to cover entries into a number of sectors beyond the original bath soap category. The development causes the... View Details
    Keywords: History; Expansion; Marketing Strategy; Social Marketing; Digital Marketing; Brands and Branding; Consumer Products Industry; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry
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    • March 2011
    • Case

    MorphoSys AG: The Evolution of a Biotechnology Business Model

    By: Gary P. Pisano, Ryan Johnson and Carin-Isabel Knoop
    In the biotech world, the 18-year-old Munich-based company MorphoSys was a rarity: it was profitable. The company achieved this profitability not by developing and selling its own drugs, but by licensing access to its proprietary library of human antibodies. Recently,... View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; Profit; Intellectual Property; Rights; Risk Management; Digital Platforms; Product Development; Business and Shareholder Relations; Vertical Integration; Biotechnology Industry; Munich
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    • January 2005 (Revised June 2005)
    • Case

    The Harvard Graduate Student Housing Survey

    Harvard Real Estate Services executives need to design the 2005 Graduate Student Housing Survey for maximum impact in anticipation of Harvard's long-term expansion project in Allston. Students are challenged to help executives in charge to (1) draw the lessons from... View Details
    Keywords: Design; Surveys; Housing; Higher Education; Boston
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    • 16 Mar 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    When the Internet Runs Out of IP Addresses

    roadblocks are delaying its widespread implementation, probably for many years. So what happens when the last IPv4 address is assigned? Harvard Business School professor Benjamin G. Edelman proposes a solution: Create a market for holders... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Telecommunications
    • May 2016 (Revised March 2017)
    • Teaching Note

    The Road to Kolkata: NH-34 and PPP in India

    By: Sid Yog and Ben Eppler
    It is May 2014 and construction of road NH-34 has been fraught with difficulties, but HCON CEO Arjun Dhawan can see the light at the end of the tunnel. Land acquisition is finally nearing completion throughout the entire stretch, and one parcel is almost ready to begin... View Details
    Keywords: Private Ownership; Partners and Partnerships; Construction; Emerging Markets; Infrastructure; Public Ownership; Construction Industry; India
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    • February 23, 2022
    • Article

    Can WEB3 Bring Back Competition to Digital Platforms?

    By: Christian Catalini and Scott Duke Kominers
    Like the early Internet, blockchain and Web3 applications promise a new wave of decentralization and competition—yet at the same time, it is unclear which of the dynamics that drove concentration in online platforms and services will remain in force under the Web3... View Details
    Keywords: Web3; Blockchain; Interoperability; Internet and the Web; Technological Innovation; Competition; Digital Platforms
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    • December 1994 (Revised February 1995)
    • Case

    Anne Livingston and Power Max Systems (A): Interviewing with the PowerPlayer Software Engineering Team

    Follows the entry and early experiences of engineer Anne Livingston, an African American woman, as she joins Power Max Systems in 1991 as software engineering manager for the new product development group. Power Max is facing stiff competition and wants to be first to... View Details
    Keywords: Race; Personal Development and Career; Organizational Culture; Gender; Information Technology Industry
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    • September 2008
    • Case

    TCS: The MCA 21 Project

    Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a leading outsourced software services provider based in India, must decide whether to bid on a high-profile government project within India. The project, if completed successfully, would mark another step in TCS's progression from a... View Details
    Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Developing Countries and Economies; Globalized Firms and Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Service Operations; Projects; India
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      Robert J. Dolan

      Robert J. Dolan is the Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Rochester and began his academic career in 1976 as a faculty member at the Graduate School of Business of the University of Chicago. He joined... View Details

      • 2024
      • Working Paper

      Incrementality Representation Learning: Synergizing Past Experiments for Intervention Personalization

      By: Ta-Wei Huang, Eva Ascarza and Ayelet Israeli
      This paper introduces Incrementality Representation Learning (IRL), a novel multitask representation learning framework that predicts heterogeneous causal effects of marketing interventions. By leveraging past experiments, IRL efficiently designs and targets... View Details
      Keywords: Heterogeneous Treatment Effect; Multi-task Learning; Representation Learning; Personalization; Promotion; Deep Learning; Field Experiments; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customization and Personalization
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      • 12 Jan 2004
      • Research & Ideas

      Does Your HQ Operation Fit With Corporate Strategy?

      sizes because companies are not required to report that level of detail. As a result, a survey is the only way to collect the data. Corporate headquarters need to be carefully designed to fit with the strategy. We were really trying to do... View Details
      Keywords: by Martha Lagace