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26 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 26

Working PapersCompeting Ad Auctions: Multi-homing and Participation Costs Authors:Itai Ashlagi, Benjamin Edelman, and Hoan Soo Lee Abstract We model competing auctions for online advertising, with attention to the participation costs... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

25 Aug 2022
News

Case Study: Sound Check

who plays classical piano and jazz guitar, and Pemberton, a drummer, thought they could offer musicians an online platform that would help them connect with fans in a meaningful if virtual way. The founders... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Dec 2020
News

Finding The Right Patient-Provider Match

health care systems to simplify the process of finding doctors and booking appointments for patients. It also provides a sophisticated enterprise management tool that helps health systems track, maintain, and manage provider data. The Kyruus View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Dec 2006
News

Inside Intel

indistinguishable from one another. Fabs 4 and 5 both came online in 1979, each more efficient and more expensive than their predecessors. From humble beginnings, manufacturing was well on its way to becoming one of Intel’s competitive... View Details

Keywords: Richard S. Tedlow; Hanna, Julia; technology; manufacturing; innovation; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing

25 Aug 2022
News

Labs Enable Large-scale Research

LAB The rapid advancement of the crypto sector has sometimes been compared to the early days of the internet. As the internet sprints toward a Web3 future (Web 3.0, the next iteration of the World Wide Web) that will enable users to actively participate in and reap the... View Details

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Global - Global Activities 2020

Global Operations, in the spring of 2021. California Research Center When the pandemic forced people around the world to work remotely, use of the video conferencing platform Zoom exploded. The California Research Center helped produce... View Details

25 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 25

Download working paper: http://www.nber.org/papers/w20667 Multi-Sided Platforms By: Hagiu, Andrei, and Julian Wright Abstract—We study the economic tradeoffs that drive organizations to position themselves closer to or further away from a... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

07 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

How to Help Small Businesses Survive COVID's Next Phase

software. During the last week of August, about 25 percent of respondents to the US Census Bureau’s Small Business Pulse Survey said they were increasingly using online platforms to promote goods and... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Food & Beverage; Service

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Understanding the Benefits of Our Virtual Programs

We spoke with four participants of our live online programs to learn more about their experience: Augusto Bassanini, President & CEO, United Grain Corporation Trey Ford, Vice President, Platform Strategy and... View Details

09 Mar 2021
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Empowering School Leaders to Meet Today's Challenges

the program using HBS’s distinctive online platform to enable accessibility in an affordable way (each course costs less than $500). “One of the things that we know about the most effective school leaders... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

23 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 23

the world's largest online platform for outsourced contracts, where India is the largest country in terms of contract volume. We use an ethnic name procedure to identify ethnic Indian users of oDesk in other... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

Do Social Movements Sway Voters? Not Really, Except for One

researchers gathered data from Twitter (the platform now called X), Google searches, and high-frequency surveys like The Gallup Poll Social Series, Nationscape, and Cooperative Congressional Election Study to chart the evolution of View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2018
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June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

Publishing Platform This book offers guidance to baby-boomers in three main sections. “Finding Your Gifts” helps you appreciate the good things in your life, how to add to them, and make the best of your resources. “Digging the... View Details

25 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Lean Strategy Not Just for Start-Ups

upgrades, forming hypotheses and conducting experiments with each new version along the way. Intuit adopted such a strategy when developing Fasal, a mobile platform that delivers agricultural market price information to farmers in India.... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

01 Dec 2020
News

In Review

disseminate our research in new ways, including blogs, video cases, podcasts, and large-scale events in Klarman Hall. Internationalization? We inherited a powerful international platform from my predecessors that we strengthened by... View Details

14 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

Desktop Search and Revenue Streams

accessible and useful to you,'" he said. Like Yahoo, Google also recently launched a desktop search product. Mark Kroese, general manager of information services and Merchant platform product marketing at MSN, said it is clear that... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette

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Prita Kumar

since then which is why I felt so strongly about starting something in the digital space,” Kumar said. To that end, Booya Fitness is an online boutique fitness studio aimed at women looking for great instruction, heart-pumping... View Details

01 Feb 2001
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Books

provides a hands-on blueprint for adopting the core principles of e-culture: treat strategy as improvisational theater; nurture networks of partners; reconstruct organizations as online and offline "communities"; and attract and retain... View Details

Keywords: books; research; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

08 May 2012
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First Look: May 8

supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/812116-PDF-ENG OpenIDEO Karim R. Lakhani, Anne-Laure Fayard, Natalia Levina, and Stephanie Healy PokrywaHarvard Business School Case 612-066 The case describes OpenIDEO, an online offshoot... View Details