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- 10 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 10
Working PapersPlatform Envelopment (revised) Authors:Thomas Eisenmann, Geoffrey Parker, and Marshall Van Alstyne Abstract Due to network effects and switching costs, platform providers often become entrenched. To enter established... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Jul 2015
- News
Lights! Camera... Market!
afterward I thought it could really work. “We felt that this project just fit with our brand,” Simon adds. “At Terra, we’ve always taken chances. We made sweet-potato chips when everyone was making white potato chips, and we always push the View Details
- Profile
Tiffany Niver
technology and pushing forward the envelope and innovation in consumer-facing technology businesses. I also think that HBS makes us think about our broader legacy and the ways we will push forward issues and agendas outside of our... View Details
- 28 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Importance of ‘Don’t’ in Inducing Ethical Employee Behavior
task of scoring themselves on the anagram test. They were told to pay themselves from the envelope on their desks according to their performance. The results showed that the students who completed the cheese maze were far more likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 24 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
My Classroom Experience During Harvard Business School’s Summer Venture in Management Program
organizations of all kinds.) Soon the room was enveloped by a steady buzz of eager discussion. The voices of Professor Anita Elberse and Admissions Officer Angela Gibbons-Williams cut through all the others: “Welcome to the 40th year of... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
Lovepop Woos The Sharks
investments from other Boston companies, including an institutional seed round led by [venture firm] Accomplice. With all the capital, we want to perfect the online gifting experience. Our goal is to redefine expectations for what can fit in an View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Ink
Tracking.” Excerpt “They’d watch for the ice man, pick up the small loose pieces that fell when he was carrying the ice, and suck on them like popsicles. They used to stand under the railway bridge at Queen and De Grassi Streets when the steam engine was on the tracks.... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Joel Bines
absolutely on the cutting edge." Given his experience pushing envelopes and forging new territory, you might say Bines is, at last, perfectly qualified for his job. View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
explanations of workplace silence. We discuss implications of these results for theory and practice and suggest directions for future research. Paper not available Working PapersPlatform Envelopment Authors:Thomas Eisenmann, Geoffrey... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Crucibles of Crisis Leadership - Course Catalog
The class concentrates on different leaders and situations. Some of these people and contexts are from the past; others are much more recent. In each instance, the relevant people are enveloped by a profound crisis that they did not see... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Barbie: Reviving a Cultural Icon at Mattel
Like countless others in the summer of 2023, HBS professor Elie Ofek went to the theater to see the blockbuster film Barbie and found himself enveloped by the pink-drenched marketing blitz that had all but taken over the world. To Ofek,... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
"Service-Profit Chain" Links Members of Service Management Unit
developed while studying airlines. Schlesinger notes that the individual perspective of each member contributes to the overall body of knowledge and the shared intellectual concerns of the unit: "We can push the envelope on the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Action Plan: Casting Call
market over the years. While the company continues to make envelopes and printed products, it also produces packaging for pharmacies and other e-commerce mailing needs. With 9 manufacturing facilities and more than 20 sales offices in the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; hobbies; balance; meaning; longevity; aging; Paper Manufacturing; Manufacturing
- 30 Sep 2014
- News
Life Lessons on the Open Seas
fragile human lives, with untapped potential, so you need to push the envelope as hard as possible to obtain the best benefit for the participant,” Callahan adds. “At the same time, you have to take very responsible risks when doing this,... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Prosper with Multi-Channel Retailing
views its stores as its most critical selling platform, and inside them it works hard to be in tune with its customers' aspirational leanings. Music pours through Bose sound systems and the stores are sprayed with a scent to envelop... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Letters to the Editor
for a number of years in Southeast Asia and have a rather less restrictive view of corruption than most Westerners. In Thailand, my company would not leave envelopes of cash on plates but did allow some other practices. Corruption should... View Details
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
Platform Envelopment Authors:Thomas R. Eisenmann, Geoffrey Parker, and Marshall Van Alstyne Abstract Due to network effects and switching costs, platform providers often become entrenched. To dislodge them, entrants generally must offer... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
question, and by the third class we were supposed to understand quite a lot about not only the company but also the people, personalities, power struggles, etc. Who else would have done that? I still get chills forty years later when I think about it. He pushed the... View Details
- 11 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Group Loyalty a Force for Good or Evil?
those participants who took the loyalty pledge, 20 percent had cheated.. But for those who didn’t take the pledge, more than twice as many—44 percent—had cheated. In a follow-up experiment, participants were given an envelope full of... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
of legal systems. Many of the arguments have been theoretically, rather than empirically, informed. The subject of "capitalism," too, which is thriving in American graduate history programs, appears to have the potential to View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman