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- 10 Nov 2008
- Research Event
Social Media Leads the Future of Technology
sticking point currently for businesses is spanning the gap between the physical and the digital world, he continued. "Right now there are significant problems understanding how to take what we are getting at point of sale in the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 24
a variety of metrics, Trader Joe's ranked as one of the most successful grocers in the United States in 2013. Experts estimated that the company had the highest sales per square foot of any major grocery chain, even significantly high... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 13 Mar 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)
whole thing (shout out to Thales Teixeira!), which has been incredibly helpful in figuring out our business model and buying advertisements. Until very recently, we were the ones designing all of our ads, buying all of our search terms,... View Details
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
countries for the period 2001–2010. We uncover the following stylized facts: In emerging Asia, real depreciations are associated with faster growth of firm-level total factor productivity (TFP), sales and cash-flow, higher probabilities... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
policy resolution. In so doing, they engender excess burden. This paper posits, calibrates, and simulates a life cycle model with earnings, lifespan, investment return, and future policy uncertainty. It then measures the excess burden... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
alignment in supply/demand planning. We model the interaction between a sales and a manufacturing function within a firm, or between an upstream and downstream firm. We claim that misalignment is costly both... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Curtis Wu (MBA 2018)
kind of disposition, I never thought I could end up in the sales organization of a beer company after college. While many of my classmates used their pre-application years to craft their resumes, I felt empowered to take a big risk... View Details
- 17 Apr 2019
- Blog Post
Coming Home to HBS
consider myself lucky to have met them. After HBS, I left the East Coast for California, joining the Tech world for the first time, straight in the heart of Silicon Valley. While developing my career at Microsoft, I was learning about the commercial and go-to market... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Swimming with the Stream
some point.” Release day Old Model: Use videos to build buzz New model: Use videos to make sales When she was working as a digital analyst at Interscope Records before HBS, Gandhi identified a common pattern: Labels would first release a... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
(revised) Authors:Itai Ashlagi, Benjamin G. Edelman, and Hoan Lee Abstract We model competing auctions for online advertising, with attention to the participation costs that limit advertisers' interest in using small ad platforms. When... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-025.pdf Deterring Online Advertising Fraud Through Optimal Payment in Arrears Authors:Benjamin G. Edelman Abstract I develop a screening model with delayed payments and probabilistic delayed observation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
fundamental business model has not changed in more than 100 years: very smart outsiders go into organizations for a finite period of time and recommend solutions for the most difficult problems confronting their clients. But at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53561 Innovation, Reallocation and Growth By: Acemoglu, Daron, Ufuk Akcigit, Harun Alp, Nicholas Bloom, and William R. Kerr Abstract—We build a model of firm-level innovation,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
An SUV Built for African Roads—by African Workers
has revamped more than just the design, says Yong, a former Bain consultant and Acumen Global Fellow who joined the automaker in 2016. “We have also rethought the conventional automotive business model itself,” with specific decisions in... View Details
Keywords: Amy Yee
- 18 May 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Anjali Vaidya (MBA 2010)
an incredibly successful advertising model on desktop to mobile devices. I learned about the mobile ecosystem and its vocabulary: apps, developers, deep-linking, SDKs, APIs, server-side, device IDs, carriers, exchanges, SSPs, DSPs, DMPs,... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
landlord, the entrepreneur, or the worker contributed most to England's prosperity. Later, as HBS Dean, Gay's primary duty was to prepare his students for their role in the administrative organization that was emerging as the business View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
manufacturing, which is very high-skilled with fluctuating demand. Similarly, with IT, we were first-movers to cloud computing, which saves on fixed IT costs.” Looking ahead, CGM is building on its core strength: family. “Our business View Details
- 09 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership
industry grows, the playing field is leveled, where one or two business models gain dominance, and managers who thrive in maximizing opportunities become the primary leadership archetype. The growth phase of the airline industry was... View Details
- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
make the new model work? Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/309085-PDF-ENG Sara Campbell Ltd. (C) Romana L. Autrey, V.G. Narayanan, and Julia RozovskyHarvard Business School Supplement 110-034 Supplements the Sara... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
in the Networked Age by Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha, and Chris Yeh (MBA 2000) (Harvard Business Review Press) The employer-employee relationship is broken. The old model of guaranteed long-term employment no longer works in a business... View Details