Industrial Internet - Publications - Faculty & Research

26 Feb 2014
News

The First Five Years: Morgan Hermand-Waiche (MBA 2010)

HERMAND-WAICHE What's the story behind Adore Me? "I had always wanted to start a company in the United States and after three years at McKinsey & Company, and following my graduation from HBS, I felt ready to take the plunge. Prior to launching Adore Me, I partnered... View Details

Keywords: online shopping; fashion; Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

Fast Answer

Web traffic statistics

by Industry , and select the categories for Internet and Online Services and Media . Use a web search engine to search for [website name] and traffic statistics. Search analyst reports in LSEG... View Details

26 Jun 2000
Research & Ideas

A New Ecosystem for Business and Society

In their opening comments at the IS2K conference, Harvard University President Neil L. Rudenstine and Harvard Business School Dean Kim B. Clark called forth, respectively, the spirits of the industrial past and the high-tech future to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

IT Links for Boundaryless Companies

David Upton's Alumni Conference report on the state of information technology for business-to-business began with a lesson in technology history because, said the HBS professor, "understanding doesn't come easy without an understanding of the View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss

03 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Web Services

coding over a new solution." Using a common code base to build applications that automate repetitive tasks is key to serving the needs of various business partners. The Customer's View Representing the customer perspective, GM's CTO Tony Scott outlined transitions... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Service

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Media Metamorphosis: Advertising in the Technology Age

of Internet advertising on the industry as a whole. According to Silk and his colleagues, changes in the industry's external environment fit into three broad categories: technical, regulatory, and economic.... View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs; Advertising

October 2001
Case

Meg Whitman and eBay Germany

By: Linda A. Hill and Maria Farkas

After acquiring the German online auction company Alando.de, eBay CEO Meg Whitman and her team must integrate Alando's Web site with the company's existing platform. The acquisition is the first step of eBay's journey to become a global trading platform. In addition to... View Details

Keywords: Acquisition; Integration; Digital Platforms; Internet and the Web; Globalized Markets and Industries; Germany

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01 Dec 2000
News

Latin America's Decade

Quaxar.com, an e-commerce and Internet consulting firm based in Miami, took a different approach to the matter of start-up capital. Leonel Azuela (MBA 2000), managing partner of Quaxar, explains that "we opted for a strategic partnership... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Julia Hanna; Latin America; research; infrastructure; Hospitality; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Apr 2000
News

Getting the Message

for the marketing industry lies in developing transactional-based models that enable consumer and client to work together more closely." HBS professor John A. Deighton agrees, describing the Internet as a... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Apr 2000
News

Marketing Muscle

Edwards's role in making Yahoo! one of the most recognized names in the Internet economy taught the industry a lesson in the importance of brand-name recognition. Shunned no longer, marketers are "the new... View Details

01 Mar 2008
News

One-on-One with Jim Breyer

About half the deals are next-generation Internet companies such as Facebook, Brightcove, Prosper Marketplace, and Glam Media. The other half would be the more traditional technology-based deals where there is defensible technology and... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

16 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

How to Compete Like a Judo Strategist

Several best practices, as explained by past and current masters of judo strategy, can help you reach the top of your game. While there are no substitutes for mastering the concepts of judo strategy and carefully studying your industry... View Details

Keywords: by David B. Yoffie & Mary Kwak

01 Apr 1998
News

Deals For Sale

IF BUSINESS-TO-BUSINESS commerce over the Internet is the wave of the future - and analysts project such transactions will increase a thousandfold by 2001 - then Scott Randall and his company, FairMarket (www.fairmarket.com), are riding... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 Jun 1999
News

Where Main Street Meets Wall Street

distributing mutual fund product over the Net." Vanguard's John Brennan believes that "the Internet is going to have a tremendous effect on the mutual fund industry and its investors. It will make everything... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Jun 1997
News

HBS Cyberposium Brings Online Future into Focus

"The Internet is an explosion like nothing we've ever seen before," declared Bob Davis, CEO of Lycos, the Internet search engine company, to an overflow crowd at the fourth annual Harvard Business School... View Details

Keywords: Meg Gardner

01 Dec 1997
News

Gregory Slayton (MBA '90)

At the time, "we were bigger than Yahoo!," says Slayton, who parted ways with Worlds when he couldn't convince his colleagues that they needed to shift to Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML), now the industry standard. In 1996, he... View Details

12 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

Creating Value Across Borders

system. In France and Germany, the university systems create a lot of inventions but not necessarily innovations. The third difference is the varying tolerance for income disparity across cultures. While that tolerance is very high in the U.S., in many other countries,... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

October 2001 (Revised February 2002)
Case

Nasdaq Japan: E-Merging Markets

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Kristin M. Kohler

Describes the design and launch of Nasdaq Japan. Addresses issues concerning the design of electronic markets, the impact of information technology on market structures and relationships, the launch of new ventures by established firms, and the cultural issues that... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Financial Markets; Technological Innovation; Management; Industry Structures; Competitive Strategy; Information Technology; Internet and the Web; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; Japan