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16 Aug 2006
Research & Ideas

Is MySpace.com Your Space?

and young adulthood. It is likely that there will always be an age demographic skew to these products. But a new generation is growing up in the glare of Friendster and MySpace and YouTube and LinkedIn, and I for one don't have a clue... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Advertising; Information; Publishing

28 Oct 2024
Op-Ed

Latino Voters Have Grown More Politically Divided. That’s Not Surprising.

John Judis and Ruy Teixeira heralded a new age of US politics in their 2002 book, The Emerging Democratic Majority. The book predicted that the growing Latino population, coupled with a clear Democratic lead in many other growing segments... View Details

Keywords: by Richard Calvo, Vincent Pons, and Jesse M. Shapiro

17 May 2011
First Look

First Look: May 17

income taxation. I show analytically how age dependence improves policy on both the intratemporal and intertemporal margins. I use detailed numerical simulations, calibrated with data from the U.S. PSID, to generate robust policy... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

February 2000 (Revised May 2001)
Case

BET.com

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Pauline M Fischer

Black Entertainment Television, a leading cable programmer, is launching BET.com, an Internet portal targeted toward African-Americans. This case examines the challenges facing BET management as it defines its service offerings and target customer segments in a... View Details

Keywords: Product Positioning; Ethnicity; Internet and the Web; Age; Race; Decision Choices and Conditions; Business Startups; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; United States

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01 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Immigrant Innovators: Job Stealers or Job Creators?

China is six years or longer." "This notion of the backlog for the green card has got to be resolved," he says. Separately, Kerr is researching whether the H-1B program induces age discrimination. While his previous research shows no... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology

25 Apr 2012
What Do You Think?

How Will the “Age of Big Data” Affect Management?

The challenges Big Data pose for managers include "identifying which data are relevant" (Subrata Chakraborty) and "seeing through the woods to know what to use and what not" (Pieter J de Beer). Scott Waller expressed the fear that "the View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

11 Jun 2019
Book

These Aren't Beach Books, but Managers Should Read Them Anyway

Business of Platforms: Strategy in the Age of Digital Competition, Innovation, and Power David Yoffie and colleagues reveal the principles that have made platform businesses the most valuable firms in the world and the first... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

21 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

Lessons for Retailers from the Rebirth of Indie Bookstores

compete in the age of Amazon.” “What happened in this sector has potential implications for other brick-and-mortar stores attempting to compete in the age of Amazon.” All independent bookstores are unique,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Entertainment & Recreation

05 Oct 2016
What Do You Think?

Can the US Economy Regain the Growth and Prosperity of the Past?

increased immigration would help reverse current trends. As he put it, “Those folks tend to be younger, with growing families which require furniture, food, clothing. Our ‘native’ population is aging and doesn’t earn or spend as much.”... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

14 Nov 2007
First Look

First Look: November 14, 2007

father, James Cole, must set compensation that meets the needs of the family and the business. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808078 Managing in the Information Age Module Note for... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

31 May 2017
Sharpening Your Skills

10 Harvard Business School Research Stories That Will Make Your Mouth Water

quality with affordable prices. Gary Pisano and Oldani explain how. A Bank That Takes Parmesan Cheese as Collateral: The Cheese Stands a Loan Nikolaos Trichakis discusses the Italian regional bank Credito Emiliano, which accepts young Parmigiano-Reggiano as collateral,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Food & Beverage

20 Jun 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 20

more calculations are needed to determine the relative effectiveness of nudging. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52754 The Rise of American Ingenuity: Innovation and Inventors of the Golden Age By:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

You Won't Make It If You Fake It

quickly, until Theranos was challenged by a Wall Street Journal investigation. On the surface, Holmes’ story seemed to be the perfect narrative. The would-be Silicon Valley entrepreneur dropped out of Stanford at the age of 19 to found... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

02 Nov 2020
What Do You Think?

Is Antitrust Just a Quaint Notion in the Digital Age?

information age in which the “product” is readily shared, can’t be hoarded, and is a result of a network, how will it be feasible for regulators and courts to prohibit business relationships or “break up” business strategies in which one... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail; Technology; Telecommunications; Communications; Consumer Products; Service

August 2020 (Revised January 2021)
Supplement

Facelift at Olay (B)

By: Sunil Gupta, Rajiv Lal and Olivia Hull

This supplement to Facelift at Olay (A) explains the major steps Procter & Gamble’s skincare brand Olay took to reverse several years of declining sales. View Details

Keywords: Advertising; Advertising Campaigns; Demographics; Age; Brands and Branding; Marketing Channels; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Digital Marketing; Transformation; Marketing Strategy; Social Marketing; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; United States; Ohio

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01 Dec 2020
What Do You Think?

How Can We Get Companies to Invest More in Low-Wage Workers?

labor? What do you think? References: David Autor, David Mindell, and Elisabeth Reynolds, "The Work of the Future: Building Better Jobs in an Age of Intelligent Machines," MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future, November 17, 2020,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

24 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Do We Tax?

the US tax code tag? A: We do some tagging, but tagging is severely limited in reality relative to what the standard theory would say. Theory suggests we should tag height, gender, race, facial symmetry, place in birth order, native language, parental traits,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Legal Services

08 Aug 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

Parmigiano-Reggiano, Jane Austen, and Other Things You Didn't Know About Finance

with a twist. They are swapping out investment advisers for financial robots, and passing along the savings. Research Papers A Bank That Takes Parmesan as Collateral: The Cheese Stands a Loan Italian regional bank Credito Emiliano accepts young Parmigiano-Reggiano as... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

17 Sep 2024
Cold Call Podcast

Fawn Weaver’s Entrepreneurial Journey as an Outsider in the Spirits Industry

Keywords: Re: Hise O. Gibson; Food & Beverage; Tourism

15 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Rethinking E-Leadership

employees undeniable proof that the Industrial Age corporate culture is gone, and that you are creating an environment for the future. The way to do that is to blatantly and offensively break with the past through loud statements of... View Details

Keywords: by Melissa Raffoni

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