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- 15 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of New-Market Disruption
a 1.3" drive for $50, then Nintendo would be interested in purchasing millions of units for their gaming cartridges. According to a Nintendo manager, "the software writers' dream is to have more cheap storage. We're always... View Details
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities
sets. To demonstrate the sets, he secured informal permission from his employer to string an electrical wire from a local hilltop to serve as an antenna for the reception of signals from Philadelphia stations. When customers who purchased... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
Austin, explores the motivations behind such partnering.What motivates organizations to collaborate? It is important to understand the motivating forces behind the decisions of businesses and Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) to enter... View Details
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
cause of blindness. In October 2009 the company entered into licensing and purchase option agreements with Alcon, which is now taking Potentia's drug candidate through Clinical 2 trials with a to-market goal of 2014. "The Business Plan... View Details
- 28 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Harness Auction Fever
professor Deepak Malhotra. "These might all increase the likelihood of overbidding due to auction fever." This research comes from a recently published paper, coauthored with Gillian Ku, "Towards a Competitive Arousal Model of View Details
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
returned to debt within six weeks. One to two years after intervention, treatment individuals were borrowing at the same rate as control households. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54587 Show or Tell? Improving Agent View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Name Your Price. Really.
Pro-self? Furthermore, Santana borrowed a concept from strategic games and socially interdependent decision-making that divides people based on their "social value orientation" (SVO). When faced with a decision on how to... View Details
- 21 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
What Happens in Vegas Could Shape the Metaverse
that felt a bit wacky at first. “One day, David purchased a superhero skin in Fortnite, and I thought that was insane,” Wu says. “And eventually I spent $60 on virtual clothes myself.” What can metaverse developers learn from Las Vegas?... View Details
- 25 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 25
necessary. Yet IP address transfer rules also need to facilitate purchase by the networks that need the addresses most, from the networks that value them least. We propose a market rule that avoids excessive fragmentation while almost... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 09 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation
why people aren't consuming. Sometimes they just don't have a job they are seeking to get done. For example, many people can afford to purchase personal computers but choose not to because there are no jobs that are important enough to... View Details
- 12 Aug 2008
- Op-Ed
Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising
are at http://www.benedelman.org/bio and http://www.benedelman.org/publications. Relevant disclosures appear on the final page of my testimony. Today the Committee considers the important question of Google's proposed purchase of certain... View Details
- 01 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 1, 2006
students to debate the company's concept, its strategic decision on how quickly it would like to grow, and some key decisions on its supply chain. At the time of the case (2006), small... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 5
scanner panel data from a single California location of a major grocery chain, and completely controlling for consumer heterogeneity, we demonstrate that bringing your own bags simultaneously increases purchases of environmentally... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
the failure of many other large institutions. Most of the 600 institutions recapitalized by the federal government over the last year do not satisfy either criterion. A lot of bailout decisions were made ad hoc without a clear rationale.... View Details
- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
signatories. Could the costs be minimized under a new agreement without reducing the benefits? Did buying local goods help create the most jobs in a country? What was the role of business? Everyone wondered what the potential ramifications of the new NAFTA, or lack of,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
for Phase II, a massive mixed-use scheme of more than 7.2 million square feet of market rate residential and commercial development. Kruti Jain, the 28-year-old daughter of Lalitkumar and CEO of KUL, and her team must weigh many decisions... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn
customers willingly pay higher prices. The relevant readers are general managers responsible for a P&L, marketing and sales managers responsible for making product and selling decisions (including pricing), and people in operations... View Details
- 25 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cyber-Marketing: Scouting the Digital Communications Frontier
medium's effectiveness will derive more from its abundance of selectable information than from its ability to stir viewer emotions. A consumer can now order a new car online, for instance, selecting from a lengthy menu of carefully described options. But motivating an... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- 15 Feb 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
Delivering Information Services: A 30-Year Perspective
sense customers' needs (by electronically monitoring their purchasing decisions) and respond to them (by integrating that information with the supply chain). EE: Do participants in the DIS course tend to come to HBS with a specific... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
Hang Lung Properties and the Chengdu Decision (B) John D. Macomber, Michael Shih-Ta Chen, and Keith Chi-Ho WongHarvard Business School Supplement 210-092 Second phase of auction for a prime retail development parcel in Chengdu, China.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne