Industrial Internet - Publications - Faculty & Research

September 1998 (Revised September 1998)
Exercise

Working with Your "Shadow Partner"

Intended to introduce individuals to search engines and databases on the Internet, in particular those that are available to HBS. View Details

Keywords: Internet and the Web; Education Industry; Boston

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18 Nov 2016
Blog Post

CPD Global Market Update: Singapore

markets. The region is poised to have a massive increase in mobile and internet spending and, it’s believed that Amazon is ready to launch in Singapore too. Grab, founded by two HBS alumni, is also competing head-to-head with Uber. Grab... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

September–October 2022
Article

Should Your Company Sell on Amazon?: Reach Comes at a Price

By: Ayelet Israeli, Leonard A. Schlesinger, Matt Higgins and Sabir Semerkant

Selling on Amazon allows brands to reach millions of consumers—but that exposure comes with costs. They include smaller margins, more competition, the risk of commoditization, and less knowledge about customers. In this article, the authors present a scorecard to... View Details

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08 Apr 2009
Research & Ideas

Clayton Christensen on Disrupting Health Care

interrelated. People who have studied this industry for a long time have come up with a number of feasible ideas to get at the cost problem, including high-deductible insurance and health savings accounts. But until we make sure that the... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Health

01 Feb 1997
News

HBS Introduces Global Networking through Technology

to them wherever they are in the world," Rogers notes. Another advantage is that alumni will no longer be limited in their choice of Internet access providers. "Alumni who already have accounts with AOL may choose to keep them, but they... View Details

November 2014
Supplement

The Grommet - Video Supplement

By: Lynda M. Applegate, Karen Gordon Mills, Lena G. Goldberg and Annelena Lobb

Keywords: Retail; Internet and the Web; Entrepreneurship; Product Launch; E-commerce; Retail Industry

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14 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

The World in Your Palm?

As makers of everything engage in an all-out features war to cram the most services, accessories, and functions into a single product, the real question for many is this: Does the consumer really want an all-in-one digital device? A panel of View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

26 May 2003
Research & Ideas

What Your Competition is Telling You

employees is "a competitive world, in which you come to work every day just a little bit scared." Making The Pie Bigger If you're an independent operator and an industry giant like Wal-Mart or Barnes & Noble enters your... View Details

Keywords: by David Stauffer

01 Sep 2003
News

Jonathan Mariner

baseball’s future is fan-friendly. Mariner is part of a Commissioner’s task force charged with studying “how the next generation wants to be entertained and informed about the game.” With fans already taking advantage of Internet feeds to... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries

01 Dec 2014
News

Customizing Couture Online

“fashion’s fairy godmother.” It’s easy to remember a time when women didn’t buy high-end fashion online—it was barely a decade ago. Magnúsdóttir watched the birth of the online fashion industry as a retail consultant and a cofounder of a... View Details

Keywords: April White; fashion; Professional Services

02 Jan 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018

a major push into the production of exclusive, original programming, one of the industry's most competitive areas. Hulu's new initiatives occurred during a major transformation in the TV industry as the View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

January 2001 (Revised April 2001)
Teaching Note

Lawyers & Leases TN

By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Michele Lutz

Teaching Note for (9-801-166). View Details

Keywords: Contracts; Negotiation; Entrepreneurship; Internet and the Web; Education; Education Industry

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July 2009
Teaching Note

Microsoft's Search (TN)

By: Jan W. Rivkin and Eric J. Van den Steen

Teaching Note for [709461]. View Details

Keywords: Competition; Digital Marketing; Internet and the Web; Strategy; Markets; Computer Industry; Computer Industry

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January 2001
Teaching Note

ZEFER: Building and Positioning an e-Business Consulting Company TN

By: Richard L. Nolan and George Francis Westerman III

Keywords: Product Positioning; Internet and the Web; Business Ventures; Consulting Industry

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01 Oct 2001
News

Peter W. Olson: By the Book

world literature, including Salman Rushdie, Toni Morrison, and John Updike. In a volatile industry known for the intelligence, passion, and eccentricity of its publishers, Olson emphasizes the importance of face-to-face meetings over... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet)

10 Jun 2015
Research & Ideas

The Transparency Revolution in Corporate Reporting

growth, but we still have a very poor understanding of the value implications of these kinds of actions. So there's lots of room for improvement. Q: Are there certain companies excelling in this area, or any industries where ESG... View Details

Keywords: Re: George Serafeim

Profile

Michael Maples

Rockefeller, and try to understand what it was like to shape a vast industrial era without any precedent for what was unfolding. “These guys didn’t really know what they were doing,” Maples said. ”They were making it up... View Details

01 Mar 2009
News

A New Approach to Health-Care Reform

they know what disruptive innovation means, but I’ve found it’s often misunderstood. The simplest way to describe it — in a way that applies to health care or any industry — is innovation that transforms a product or service that... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 2000
News

Vivek Ranadivé

for other industries under the umbrella of TIBCO Software. "In many ways, the trading floor of the 1990s was a microcosm of e-business today," he observes. "Starting a company to automate the financial View Details