e-commerce - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Feb 2016
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February 2, 2016

Harvard Business School Case 516-017 Flipkart: Transitioning to a Marketplace Model Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal, cofounders of India's largest e-commerce company, Flipkart, were reviewing the foregoing Facebook post, which had gone... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Jul 2014
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campaigns, and e-commerce in order to keep growing not just in China, but in other emerging markets as well. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/going-social-durex-in-china/an/714430-PDF-ENG View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

19 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018

Can companies bet that a reunion would last? Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/717035-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 518-056 Amazon Buys Whole Foods The June 2017 news that e-commerce giant Amazon was paying $13.7... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

25 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 25, 2007

Examines the type of security that is appropriate for an Internet company to have on its site. Focuses on a 20-person electronic e-commerce company trying to decide what parts of the information security product line they should acquire... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Bill Doyle MBA ‘92, Harvard University; S.B., Materials Science and Engineering, MIT Bill is the Executive Chairman of Novocure Ltd., a commercial stage oncology company pioneering Tumor Treating Fields therapy for solid tumor cancers and the Executive Chairman of... View Details

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Mercado Libre: The Best Is Yet to Come

By: Krishna G. Palepu, Fernando Fragueiro, Carla Larangeira and Mariana Cal

In 2024, Marcos Galperín, CEO and co-founder of Mercado Libre, reflected on its 25-year rise as Latin America’s largest marketplace, fintech leader, and most valuable public company. With operations spanning 18 countries and a robust ecosystem combining e-commerce,... View Details

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19 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019

near absence of strong processes for internal operations such as HR, accounting, credit, invoicing, and collections. During this financial crunch, Flipkart (India’s e-commerce unicorn) offered BlackBuck $20 million in convertible debt... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 21

ever-growing e-commerce site, and fierce competition, Amoruso wondered what opportunity to tackle next. Should she concentrate on product line expansion into lingerie, swimwear, cosmetics, and fragrances? How would a brick and mortar... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne

26 Jul 2010
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Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn

also mind the gap over time. When UPS acquired Mail Boxes Etc. and FedEx acquired Kinko's, they helped to mind the gap for growing e-commerce sales deliveries. Neither firm can compete with the post office on individual residential... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail; Consumer Products

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Story In an age of overnight e-commerce millionaires, one HBS entrepreneur is savoring the satisfaction of building a business the hard way. Complete Table of Contents December 1999 From the Editors Pearson Hunt Editor, 1942-1946 Dan Fenn... View Details

02 Oct 2015
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The ‘F’ Word

founded Alibris, an e-commerce company that sells used, rare, and out-of-print books. We failed, a lot—HBS has a case on our more interesting failures. Our biggest setback came early. We planned to launch our commercial website and close... View Details

Keywords: Walt Disney Studios

13 Sep 2019
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Hollywood Ending

experience didn’t make her risk averse, she says. “It made me a better CEO. When you run for office, you really cannot care what people think about you, so I learned to be a lot tougher.” As CEO from 1998 to 2008, Whitman transformed eBay from a tiny startup into one... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photo by Christina Gandolfo

01 Dec 2001
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September 11: A Community Reflects

'89) Steven L. Glick (MBA '89) of Greenwich, Connecticut, was a managing director at Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) and headed the e-Client effort at the firm's institutional e-commerce group, CSFBNext. He was attending a conference on... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg

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China, and the interdependence of technology and digital markets. We will look at how firms confront markets and politics in technological innovation and competition (data access and management, financial technology, semiconductors), in frontier markets (platform View Details

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