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- 16 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
Turning One Thousand Customers into One Million
photographers to take inviting photos of hosts’ apartments). Following those guidelines, they were able to gradually improve their products and identify what made them resonate most with customers and suppliers. Only after that was... View Details
- 25 May 2010
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First Look: May 25
an innovative methodology to measure management practices in over 300 manufacturing firms in the U.K. We then match this management data to production and energy usage information for establishments owned by these firms. We find that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Much More Would Holiday Shoppers Pay to Wear Something Rare?
it.” You Might Also Like: How Paid Promos Take the Shine Off YouTube Stars (and Tips for Better Influencer Marketing) Burgers with Bugs? What Happens When Restaurants Ignore Online Reviews Dog Eat Dog:... View Details
- 01 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 1, 2008
b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=308065 ScriptLogic®: Point, Click, Done! Harvard Business School Case 508-114 ScriptLogic is a software company that has built a product portfolio that fits under a 'Point, Click, Done!' umbrella; its... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Oct 2023
- Research & Ideas
When Tech Platforms Identify Black-Owned Businesses, White Customers Buy
Project Implicit, a research nonprofit that collects data about bias. The authors used facial recognition technology to assign a likely race to restaurant reviewers based on their profile pictures. Researchers found that after Yelp... View Details
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
where the product can be delivered directly online such as software, travel agencies, or media. Indeed, the digitalization of content paired with widespread adoption of broadband Internet is driving a major... View Details
- 03 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 3, 2009
Deborah L. Soule and Lynda M. Applegate Abstract This paper examines virtual team learning in new product development situations. New product development activities manifest novelty, uncertainty and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 29
Publications August 2013 Harvard Business Review Press The Good Struggle: Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World By: Badaracco, Joseph L., Jr. Abstract—The question of how to lead successfully and responsibly is crucially... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2015
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First Look: May 19
http://www.amazon.com/Land-Bargains-Chinese-Capitalism-Politics/dp/1107539870/ May 2015 Journal of Economic Perspectives Bitcoin: Economics, Technology, and Governance By: Böhme, Rainer, Nicolas Christin, Benjamin Edelman, and Tyler Moore Abstract—Bitcoin is an View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Repositioning and Cost-Cutting: The Impact of Competition on Platform Strategies
By: Robert Seamans and Feng Zhu
Organizational structures are increasingly complex. In particular, more firms today operate as multi-sided platforms. In this paper, we study how platform firms use repositioning and cost-cutting in response to competition, elucidate external and internal factors that... View Details
Keywords: Platform Strategy; Repositioning; Cost-cutting; Intra-firm Learning; Multi-Sided Platforms; Cost Management; Product Positioning; Organizational Structure; Competitive Strategy; Knowledge Acquisition; Journalism and News Industry
Seamans, Robert, and Feng Zhu. "Repositioning and Cost-Cutting: The Impact of Competition on Platform Strategies." Strategy Science 2, no. 2 (June 2017): 83–99.
- 24 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Rituals at Work: Teams That Play Together Stay Together
group rituals in the workplace and reviewing past research, Norton and his coauthors determined that group rituals have three core elements: physical, communal, and psychological. “Rituals have a physical element—some specific words or... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 25 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 25
Publisher's Link: http://www.springer.com/medicine/nephrology/book/978-1-4419-1689-1 How to Do Well and Do Good Author:Rosabeth M. Kanter Publication:MIT Sloan Management Review 51, no. 2 (September 2010) An abstract is not available at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2019
- HBS Case
Walmart's Workforce of the Future
approach to the customer experience, with an emphasis on employee training and improved ecommerce and automation technology, both on the floor and in back office roles. One foundational move to beef up its technology was Walmart’s $3.3 billion acquisition of View Details
- 16 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Getting the Message: How the Internet is Changing Advertising
In 1994, the World Wide Web was not yet a household name. A new company called Yahoo! had just developed a way to look for sites on the Internet—the search engine. HotWired debuted as the first online magazine to carry advertisements.... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 14 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 14
Publications January 2014 Harvard Business Review IDEO's Culture of Helping By: Amabile, Teresa, Colin M. Fisher, and Julianna Pillemer Abstract—Leaders can do few things more important than encouraging helping behavior within their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Giving Back: Consumers Care More About How Companies Donate Than How Much
more? Over five studies conducted primarily in 2020 and 2021, Keenan and colleagues surveyed approximately 900 participants about their product preferences. In one study, participants were told that they would be thanked for their time... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 2010
- Working Paper
The Mirroring Hypothesis: Theory, Evidence and Exceptions
The mirroring hypothesis predicts that the organizational patterns of a development project (e.g. communication links, geographic collocation, team and firm co-membership) will correspond to the technical patterns of dependency in the system under development. Scholars... View Details
Keywords: Infrastructure; Product Design; Organizational Design; Practice; Groups and Teams; Social and Collaborative Networks; Information Technology
Baldwin, Carliss Y. "The Mirroring Hypothesis: Theory, Evidence and Exceptions." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-058, January 2010. (Revised June 2010.)
- 30 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018
quality products when they use a tying strategy. In this paper, we empirically explore this question by examining Google’s decision to tie its new reviews product to its search... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Jan 2016
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January 19, 2016
Grommet The Grommet, an online product launch platform, was at the brink of scaling its business. The Grommet's daily launch and sale of innovative consumer products, using personal videos created by View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated
motivated, to find meaning at work during this crisis. Research by Harvard Business School Dean Nitin Nohria and colleagues suggests that people are guided by four basic emotional needs, or drives, that are the product of our common... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams