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- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Linking the Globe: The Role of Media and Communications
19th or 20th? How international can a global media company be? What are the boundaries? What are the political implications of global media and how will media play a political role? The Reuters View Reuters CEO Job said the View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
The True Value of a Tweet
assumption is the notion that you can make things go viral—and in fact, studies show that’s not easy. A 2012 study of millions of messages on Twitter and Yahoo! found that more... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle
In Israel, getting into business is not so much a matter of what university you went to but rather what military unit you served in. And that may be the single thing you need to understand about what makes... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Learning to Speak the Language of Business
Mikitani Main article: Where Innovation Rules Case study: Englishnization at Rakuten From Pinterest to Kobo, how Japan's Rakuten is building a global internet giant (Wired.co.uk) You might call Hiroshi Mikitani (MBA 1993) the Jeff Bezos... View Details
- 18 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
'Likes' Lead to Nothing—and Other Hard-Learned Lessons of Social Media Marketing
To ease congested lines at airports, for example, TSA workers answer questions online about items that can or can’t be carried aboard planes—a bit of helpful pre-planning communication many flyers appreciate. When companies do screw up,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Important Is Quality of Labor? And How Is It Achieved?
discussion arose as to just what quality of labor is and how it can be measured and developed on the national level. To Nari Kannan, "Quality of labor is such a broad term. It all depends upon 'labor... View Details
Keywords: by by Jim Heskett
- 11 Jul 2016
- HBS Case
Neurodiversity: The Benefits of Recruiting Employees with Cognitive Disabilities
with ASD have average or above average intelligence, yet 85 percent are unemployed. “Their intellectual horsepower is quite high,” Harvard Business School’s Gary P. Pisano says of the ASD population. “They do View Details
- 02 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Networked Incubators: Hothouses of the New Economy
the Internet economy. It shares certain features with other incubators—mainly, it fosters a spirit of entrepreneurship and offers economies of scale. But its key distinguishing... View Details
- 10 Apr 2008
- News
The Sum of Our Own Greatness
Group: Tom Ryder, David Habeeb, and Ruth Page. Inspiration for the title came from a Theodore Roosevelt quote: “We cannot do great deeds as a nation unless we are willing to do the small things that make up the sum View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Cyberposium: Pros and Cons of Outsourcing
point of view, it will create a new paradigm,” said Gupta. Radio frequency ID tags, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), and online gaming were among the other topics covered. The conference, which drew over... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Evolution of Modern Pricing Models
models—we need to go back to when consumers started paying attention to pricing online. The internet becomes widespread starting in 1994, and suddenly you can know the price of something with very minimal... View Details
- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
own future and control what its destiny is. We say that our mission is to help build a better Internet, and people sometimes sort of smile, but if you talk to the people at Cloudflare they go, No no we’re serious. We think that the View Details
- March 2022
- Article
Learning to Rank an Assortment of Products
By: Kris Ferreira, Sunanda Parthasarathy and Shreyas Sekar
We consider the product ranking challenge that online retailers face when their customers typically behave as “window shoppers”: they form an impression of the assortment after browsing products ranked in the initial positions and then decide whether to continue... View Details
Keywords: Online Learning; Product Ranking; Assortment Optimization; Learning; Internet and the Web; Product Marketing; Consumer Behavior; E-commerce
Ferreira, Kris, Sunanda Parthasarathy, and Shreyas Sekar. "Learning to Rank an Assortment of Products." Management Science 68, no. 3 (March 2022): 1828–1848.
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2006
receive double bilateral cochlear implants,” Sommer says. “Now I can hear a golf ball hitting the bottom of the cup or the sound of rain on the window, all the little things... View Details
- Web
Continuity of Strategic Direction - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Value Chain Continuity of Strategic Direction Continuity of Strategic ... Continuity of Strategic Direction Strategy is about making choices. The hardest View Details
- 08 Jan 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Leading Amidst Competing Technical and Institutional Demands: Revisiting Selznick’s Conception of Leadership
Keywords: by Marya L. Besharov & Rakesh Khurana
- 06 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
The Business of Medicine: MD/MBA Students Having an Impact
the health, educational, and racial disparities exacerbated by poverty. “All the things you don’t associate with a Harvard Med student, I have seen and lived through,” he says, telling of close family... View Details
- 21 Nov 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
The New Challenge of Leading Financial Firms
leading any other kind of institution," says Groysberg. "If you become a leader in a manufacturing company, for example, all you're basically going to have to do is manage. When you become a leader in a major financial... View Details
- March–April 2017
- Article
What's the Value of a Like?: Social Media Endorsements Don't Work the Way You Might Think
By: Leslie John, Daniel Mochon, Oliver Emrich and Janet Schwartz
Brands spend billions of dollars a year on lavish efforts to establish and maintain a social media presence. But do those campaigns actually increase revenue? New research provides an answer to this question, which has vexed marketers ever since social media burst upon... View Details
Keywords: Social and Collaborative Networks; Consumer Behavior; Marketing Strategy; Digital Marketing; Social Media
John, Leslie, Daniel Mochon, Oliver Emrich, and Janet Schwartz. "What's the Value of a Like? Social Media Endorsements Don't Work the Way You Might Think." Harvard Business Review 95, no. 2 (March–April 2017): 108–115.