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- 01 Dec 2006
- News
The Hard Way
students to fill the remaining six floors. In relatively no time, Russo had turned a high-risk acquisition into a high-profile success. Her name now personified the company, and her determination propelled it to new heights. Even then,... View Details
- November 2017
- Teaching Note
Tencent
By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
Teaching Note for HBS No. 718-426.
Tencent had undergone many transformations since it was founded in 1998 as a simple messaging service. In 2017, it was the largest online games provider in China with a wide range of game types, China’s largest social networking... View Details
Keywords: Tencent; Tencent Holdings; WeChat; Social Networking; Social Networks; Gaming; Gaming Industry; Video Games; Computer Games; Mobile Gaming; Portals; Payments; Mobile Payments; O2O; Online-to-offline; E-commerce; Messaging; Subscription Model; Freemium; Mobile App Industry; Smartphone; PC; Monetization Strategy; Antitrust; Streaming; Cloud Computing; Artificial Intelligence; Big Data; Alibaba; Facebook; JD.com; Tesla; Bundling; Synergies; Digital Strategy; Imitation; Licensing; Agility; Entry Barriers; Online Platforms; Advertising; Digital Marketing; Business Ventures; Acquisition; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Conglomerates; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Organization; For-Profit Firms; Joint Ventures; Restructuring; Communication Technology; Blogs; Interactive Communication; Interpersonal Communication; Entertainment; Film Entertainment; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Music Entertainment; Investment; Investment Portfolio; Price; Revenue; Geographic Scope; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Global Strategy; Multinational Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Business History; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Product Positioning; Social Marketing; Network Effects; Market Entry and Exit; Digital Platforms; Industry Growth; Monopoly; Media; Distribution Channels; Service Delivery; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Public Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Business and Government Relations; Groups and Teams; Networks; Opportunities; Social and Collaborative Networks; Strategy; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Commercialization; Competition; Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Cooperation; Corporate Strategy; Diversification; Expansion; Horizontal Integration; Vertical Integration; Information Technology; Internet and the Web; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Applications and Software; Information Infrastructure; Value Creation; Emerging Markets; Product Development; Segmentation; Business Units; Communication; Profit; Information Industry; Information Industry; Information Industry; Information Industry; Information Industry; Information Industry; Information Industry; Information Industry; Information Industry; Information Industry; Information Industry; Information Industry; Information Industry; Asia; China; Canton (province, China)
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
explanations (e.g., availability of knowledge) and demand-side explanations (e.g., a challenging task) for why people source knowledge, but thus far the influence of information processing-how people interpret and synthesize... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 25
Sloan Management Review (forthcoming) Abstract Many people today in the information technology world and in corporate boardrooms are talking about "big data." Many believe that, for companies that get it right, big data will be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
that reports detailed location, ownership, and operation information for plants in more than 100 countries, we construct a spatially continuous index to measure the significance and extent of agglomeration between multinational firms. Our... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 21, 2008
disciplinary boundaries. The Doctoral Consortium at the Design Science Research Conference in Information Sciences and Technology (DESRIST) was an important milepost in their evolution. It provided a forum where students and leading... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
for rigorous accounting research. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50473 forthcoming Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Hiding Personal Information Reveals the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde
acquisition of small- and medium-sized companies, Baker first observed the corrosive effect of corruption. "I didn't come out of HBS equipped to deal with it," he recalls. "It was so harmful to the business process, I started trying to... View Details
- 22 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Advertising: It’s Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore
or more agencies (or "networks" of specialized service agencies) under common ownership as quasi-independent entities. But since the mid-1980s, waves of mergers and acquisitions have created potential conflicts of interest as independent... View Details
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
using simulated reinforcement learning agents, we find that both in settings where subjects are given complete information about auction payoff rules and in settings where they are given no information about... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
industries. Extreme Teaming provides new insights into the world of complex, cross-industry projects and the ways they must be managed. The authors analyze contemporary cases that expose the complex demands of cross-boundary collaboration on management and View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018
Amit Seru Abstract—We examine whether firms have an informational advantage in selecting arbitrators in consumer arbitration as well as the impact of the arbitrator selection process on outcomes. We collect data containing roughly 9,000... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 10
the effects of changes in comparability, we examine changes to information asymmetry for firms domiciled in the U.K. Domestic standards in the U.K. that preceded IFRS adoption are considered very similar to IFRS (Bae et al., 2008);... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 7, 2006
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/06-024.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsNone PublicationsChallenges in Managing Large Projects Editors:J. Ronald Fox and Donn B. Miller Publication:Defense Acquisition University Press, 2006 Abstract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 22, 2006
of athletic footwear, should respond to Adidas' planned acquisition of Reebok—a transaction that would join the second- and third-largest companies in the industry. Highlights the unique aspects of New Balance's strategy—focusing on fit... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn
how to divide a fixed or shrinking pie between you and the customer. Firms can do this when they craft organizational processes that gather and analyze information across their customer portfolio. And this has important implications for... View Details
- February 2022
- Teaching Note
AptDeco: Circular Economy Furniture Marketplace
By: Ayelet Israeli
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 521-069. AptDeco, a used furniture marketplace, was growing rapidly in the tri-state area. The co-founders were confident that the business model, financial position, and unit economics positioned AptDeco for scaling in the massive $120... View Details
Keywords: E-Commerce Strategy; Mobile; Word-of-Mouth; Word Of Mouth; Word-of-mouth Marketing; Internet Marketing; Growth Strategy; Platform; Platforms; Two Sided Markets; Two-sided Market; Two-sided Marketplace; Two-Sided Markets; Two-sided Network; Black Entrepreneurs; Black Leadership; African Americans; African-American Protagonist; Circular; Peer-to-peer Markets; Furniture Industry; Growth Hacking; Monetization Strategy; Growth Management; Marketing Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Digital Platforms; Marketing Channels; Digital Marketing; Consumer Behavior; Acquisition; Retention; Growth and Development Strategy; Customer Focus and Relationships; Expansion; Brands and Branding; E-commerce; Retail Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Technology Industry; Web Services Industry; United States; North America; New York (city, NY); New York (state, US)
- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Smart Moves
advertisers, historical and real-time traffic information to insurance underwriters, and more. Mistele was a Detroit kid, the son of a lawyer, who had an early interest in technology. “When I was in high school, I worked for an electrical... View Details
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
copper-mining company, widely considered to be one of the most professionally managed firms in South America in spite of the fact that it was 100% government-owned. A $10.5 billion company in 2005, Codelco faced the challenge of incorporating View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients
information provided by office culture is gone. You could wear your best suit and have a two-hour meeting in the middle of the day with the C-suite of your firm’s biggest competitor without anyone being the wiser. Pause for a moment and... View Details