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  • 04 Jun 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Why dot.coms Will Rise Again

McFarlan's high-spirited session, called "Global Internet and E-Commerce Strategies in the 21st Century," stressed the creative approaches four companies—Li & Fung, Cisco Systems, Charles Schwab & Co. Inc., and Merrill... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • July 2019 (Revised November 2019)
  • Case

Osaro: Picking the Best Path

By: William R. Kerr, James Palano and Bastiane Huang
The founder of Osaro saw the potential of deep reinforcement learning to allow robots to be applied to new applications. Osaro targeted warehousing, already a dynamic industry for robotics and automation, for its initial product—a system which would allow robotic arms... View Details
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Machine Learning; Robotics; Robots; Ecommerce; Fulfillment; Warehousing; AI; Startup; Technology Commercialization; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Logistics; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Information Technology; Commercialization; Learning; Complexity; Competition; E-commerce
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  • December 2017 (Revised March 2019)
  • Case

Armarium: Luxury Fashion Brands for Rent

By: Jill Avery, David Fubini, Natasha Dossa and Devon Stewart
Armarium, a two-sided online platform that offered consumers the opportunity to rent the most coveted, current season high fashion clothing and accessories from the top global luxury brands, had emerged from its first sales season with two distinct customer segments:... View Details
Keywords: Brand Management; Retailing; Sharing Economy; Luxury Brand; Ecommerce; Startup; Fashion; Brand Positioning; Customer Acquisition; Internet Marketing; Marketing; Marketing Channels; Marketing Strategy; Brands and Branding; Business Startups; Luxury; Consumer Behavior; Growth and Development Strategy; Social Media; E-commerce; Fashion Industry; Retail Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; United States; North America
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  • 03 Jun 2020
  • Blog Post

Jeff Surette and Mike Peters: A Winning Team at TB12

body coaches on training, nutrition, and cognitive health. Meanwhile, the team is also focused on product development in the consumer goods space and growing their e-commerce business. In addition, the company has a mobile app and has... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
  • 01 Apr 2000
  • News

Q & A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti

private-sector employees? There are differences in compensation and entrepreneurship, although the employees who work on our Web site are just as creative and excited about their work as folks at any e-commerce business! Overall, there... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • 04 Jun 2001
  • Research & Ideas

RealNetworks, CNET, and Judo Strategy

intact for the Internet, and there is enormous growth potential," Yoffie said. "We still expect 700 million users by 2005 and somewhere between $7 and 8 trillion in e-commerce sales within that time frame. With the likes of... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
  • 20 May 2020
  • Blog Post

Jeff Surette and Mike Peters: A Winning Team at TB12

body coaches on training, nutrition, and cognitive health. Meanwhile, the team is also focused on product development in the consumer goods space and growing their e-commerce business. In addition, the company has a mobile app and has... View Details
  • 01 Apr 2001
  • News

Beyond Accommodation

operation when Gibbons arrived. He has since led the agency through unprecedented growth to $296 million in sales in FY2000. “I push the organization in a lot of ways it hasn’t been pushed before,” says Gibbons, who also led the effort to launch NIB’s View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley; AT&T; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services
  • 03 Aug 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Why Fierce Competitors Apple and Amazon Became ’Frenemies’ Over eReaders

frenemies limited to the Apple-Amazon example. The same pattern may emerge when competing platforms with asymmetric profit strategies. For example, Amazon recently listed its Chinese e-commerce site as a virtual store on the massive... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Information; Publishing; Technology
  • June 2022
  • Case

Worten Portugal: Becoming a Digital Marketplace

By: Antonio Moreno, Pedro Amorim and Tonia Labruyere
With Amazon's entry into Portugal, Miguel Mota Freitas, CEO of Portuguese electronics chain Worten, is reflecting on their strategy of building a competitive marketplace. View Details
Keywords: Digital Transformation; Digital Strategy; Digital Platforms; Brands and Branding; E-commerce; Logistics; Service Delivery; Supply Chain; Competitive Strategy; Diversification; Consumer Products Industry; Electronics Industry; Retail Industry; Portugal; Spain
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  • September 2016 (Revised February 2017)
  • Case

Angie's List: Ratings Pioneer Turns 20

By: Robert J. Dolan and Ayelet Israeli
In 1995, before people “googled” or “yelped,” Angela Hicks (HBS, 2000) was establishing her Angie’s List as a pioneer in the accumulation and dissemination of consumer rating information. Hicks focused on the home repair and maintenance market and, as she put it,... View Details
Keywords: Pricing; Pricing Strategy; Services; Product Line Management; Growth; Conjoint Analysis; Market Research; Freemium; Growth Strategy; Two Sided Markets; Ecommerce; Platform; Platform Business; Platform Businesses; Platform Strategy; Platforms; Platforms And Ecosystems; Business Model; Internet and the Web; Business Growth and Maturation; Growth and Development Strategy; Price; Strategy; Digital Platforms; E-commerce; Service Industry; United States
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  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Women Leading Business: A New Kind of Conversation

international flavor to this program. EE: Who are some of the HBS faculty and the issues they will be discussing in the 1999 Executive Forum? Hart: We'll be kicking off with Nancy Koehn discussing revolutions in commerce, particularly in retailing. The introduction and... View Details
Keywords: Re: Myra M. Hart & Cynthia A. Montgomery
  • 29 Sep 2015
  • First Look

September 29, 2015

significant changes, but the engineering and economic challenges of the industry made any move into that space a risky bet. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/716401-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 616-003 SF Express: From Delivery to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Apr 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

attraction, retention, and motivation of talent in organizations. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/119007-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 518-097 Flipkart (B): The Ongoing Battle for India's E-Commerce Market In... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • November 2020
  • Teaching Note

DayTwo: Going to Market with Gut Microbiome

By: Ayelet Israeli
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 519-010. DayTwo is a young Israeli startup that applies research on the gut microbiome and machine learning algorithms to deliver personalized nutritional recommendations to its users in order to minimize blood sugar spikes after meals.... View Details
Keywords: Start-up Growth; Startup; Positioning; Targeting; Go To Market Strategy; B2B Vs. B2C; B2B2C; Health ＆ Wellness; AI; Machine Learning; Female Ceo; Female Protagonist; Science-based; Science And Technology Studies; Ecommerce; Applications; DTC; Direct To Consumer Marketing; US Health Care; ＂USA,＂; Innovation; Pricing; Business Growth; Segmentation; Distribution Channels; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Startups; Science-Based Business; Health; Innovation and Invention; Marketing; Information Technology; Business Growth and Maturation; E-commerce; Applications and Software; Health Industry; Technology Industry; Insurance Industry; Information Technology Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Israel; United States
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  • 18 Jun 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Caught in the Cogs: When Manufacturing and IT Meet

service their entire IT operation in a proprietary environment in a single remote location. Freed from the burdens of day-to-day IT management," he said, "companies can devote more of their time to the strategic thinking that will enable them to improve their... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
  • 18 Sep 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Big Deals: Financing Large-Scale Investments

latest e-commerce enterprise. And in a new MBA elective course he has developed, Large-Scale Investment, Esty examines how private firms structure, value, and finance large, first-of-a-kind (or greenfield) projects. "Although the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 18 Apr 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Prosper with Multi-Channel Retailing

with their best customers. While some retailers at the beginning of the e-commerce phenomenon feared that adding another channel would simply add costs and erode their other channels, she said the opposite is true in many cases.... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette; Consumer Products; Retail
  • 16 Nov 2021
  • Blog Post

Building an Internship Program at Your Startup: An Interview with Facily’s Diego Dzodan (MBA 1999)

social e-commerce operated there in lower income areas. During that trip, he identified an opportunity to bring a similar model to Latin America and the entrepreneurship seed was planted yet again. It was time to leave the “dream job” and... View Details
  • 28 Mar 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, March 28

Shippo, prepares her pitch for a Series A funding round following a successful seed round. Customer adoption of Shippo’s e-commerce dashboard application, which allows small and medium retailers to compare delivery rates between shipping... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne