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  • January 2000 (Revised April 2000)
  • Case

StarMedia: Launching a Latin American Revolution

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Jon K Rust
By the fall of 1999, StarMedia had sprinted to a sizable lead in the race to acquire Latin American Internet users. Its pan-regional, horizontal portal was the first to target Spanish- and Portuguese-language speakers on the Internet, registering 1.2 billion page views... View Details
Keywords: Private Ownership; History; Risk Management; Business Cycles; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Infrastructure; Media; Emerging Markets; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Web; Information Technology Industry; Web Services Industry
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  • June 2023
  • Case

The Business of Campaigns

By: Vincent Pons and Mel Martin
In 2022, the U.S. Congress examined the Democracy Is Strengthened by Casting Light on Spending in Elections (DISCLOSE) Act, the latest in a long series of campaign finance reforms. According to its authors, the law would be the “most consequential overhaul of federal... View Details
Keywords: Political Elections; Government Legislation; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business and Government Relations; United States
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  • 08 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 8

partly a result of poor corporate governance. We also provide evidence of a channel through which the benefits of ownership concentration outweigh its costs. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-100.pdf   Cases & Course MaterialsBank of America:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 17, 2006

Course. Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=307011 iPod vs. Cell Phone: A Mobile Music Revolution? Harvard Business School Case 707-419 In 2006, a nascent market for music-enabled View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4

Publication:Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization (forthcoming) Abstract We discuss the birth of a new economy in a society that has only recently emerged from a 22-year-long civil war. The pace of growth so far has been fast but uneven. We find that aid... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 02 Jan 2024
  • Research & Ideas

10 Trends to Watch in 2024

The lightning-fast ascent of generative AI isn’t the only sea change on the horizon for businesses in the new year. The global economy is in flux as war, climate change, trade issues, and infrastructure problems demand attention. Many companies continue to struggle to... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 03 Apr 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018

Reminders of Future Busyness Encourage Consumers to Buy Time By: Whillans, A.V., Elizabeth W. Dunn, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Spending money on time-saving purchases improves happiness. Yet, people often fail to spend their View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 23

However, for many allocation of indivisible goods models (see Velez, 2008, and references therein), fairness can be restored if a sufficiently large amount of money is available for distribution/compensation as well. Interpreting the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • March 2015
  • Case

BOLT: Seed Venture Capital Firm

By: William A. Sahlman and Robert F. White
BOLT is a different kind of seed venture capital firm built to serve the needs of early-stage startups at the intersection of hardware and software.

In the past decade, the cost of entrepreneurial experimentation has dropped dramatically, particularly in web... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurial Finance; Accelerator; Entrepreneurship; Finance; Venture Capital; Applications and Software; Information Infrastructure; Strategy
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  • 21 Apr 2023
  • Research & Ideas

The $15 Billion Question: Have Loot Boxes Turned Video Gaming into Gambling?

Players have long been able to buy virtual items with real money in video games, such as special weapons and features. But Nintendo raised the ire of parents and regulators in 2018 when it added so-called loot boxes—a virtual lottery for... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis; Video Game; Media & Broadcasting
  • 28 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 28

Modigliani-Miller capital structure irrelevance propositions. The case focuses on two questions: (1) From a shareholder's perspective, how is Apple's cash different from cash in a bank or money market account? (2) Can Apple create... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni

social enterprise. D Ashraf M. Dahod (MBA 1981) Fellowship The Ashraf M. Dahod Fellowship was established through the generosity of Ashraf M. Dahod (MBA 1981) in honor of his 25th Reunion. Dahod is the cofounder, CEO and president of Starent Networks Corp., a designer... View Details
  • 22 Nov 2011
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First Look: November 22

unavailable at this time. Purchase this note:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/412057-PDF-ENG Sephora Direct: Investing in Social Media, Video, and Mobile Elie Ofek and Alison Berkley WagonfeldHarvard Business School Case 511-137... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: September 13

consoles (particularly handheld ones) were facing increasing substitution from online and mobile games played on social networks and/or mobile phones (e.g. Zynga's Farmville). First, could Nintendo come up... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 May 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Should Retailers Match Their Own Prices Online and in Stores?

to lose money if they grant price discounts in-store to inquiring customers—although some will do so to appease an angry customer or through a sense of fairness. In some cases, however, self-matching is the best strategy to earn higher... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail
  • 18 May 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Are Banks the ‘Bad Guys’? Overdraft Fees Are Crushing Low-Income Customers

people." “The misconception is that checking accounts are vanilla products that don't screw people,” says Marco Di Maggio, the Ogunlesi Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at HBS. “Well, overdraft fees are a form of credit. The bank is lending you... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services
  • Web

Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

Education (1) Mining (1) Misleading and Fraudulent Advertising (1) Mission and Purpose (20) Mobile Technology (8) Money (4) Monopoly (6) Moral Sensibility (25) Motivation and Incentives (146) Multi-Sided... View Details
  • 30 May 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Racial Bias Might Be Infecting Patient Portals. Can AI Help?

registered nurses. The statistical evidence suggests that medical teams tended to prioritize messages from white patients, says Ariel Stern, a visiting professor at Harvard Business School and one of the study’s authors. As mobile... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand; Health
  • 12 Aug 2019
  • Research & Ideas

How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities

guidelines. Companies at this stage often wait too long to hire people experts—both human resources managers and experienced recruiters who get the startup-to-scale scene. That's a big mistake. Investing money in these roles early will... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
  • 15 Nov 2022
  • Op-Ed

Why TikTok Is Beating YouTube for Eyeball Time (It’s Not Just the Dance Videos)

At the end of June 2022, a video was posted on TikTok with the theme, “I know Victoria’s secret.” The secret was that Victoria was “an old man who lives in Ohio making money off of girls like me cashing in on body issues.” The song was... View Details
Keywords: by John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld