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- 03 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Box Office Power of Stars
in your research? Does the HSX accurately reflect a movie's predicted and actual profitability? A: The Hollywood Stock Exchange is an online market simulation that revolves around movies and movie stars. It is a game—no real money is... View Details
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
model from a social networking site to an online gaming business came with new challenges. They hired almost an entirely new staff, cultivated View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
calibration, the model explains 58% of the log variance of income per worker. This figure should be compared to the 42% success rate of the usual model. Online Advertising: Rustlers and Sheriffs in the New... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 8, 2016
while users who are influenced by listings' visual presentation and page position became more likely to click on Google's own Flight Search listing. The authors consider implications of these findings for competition policy and for online... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Disruptive Innovation Changes Education
theory of disruptive innovation, often applied to a variety of other industries, such as technology and health care. Christensen's theory was first explored in his two New York Times bestsellers, The Innovator's Dilemma (1997) and The... View Details
- 15 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat
expansion," Ghemawat argues. While identifying similarities from one place to the next is essential, effective cross-border strategies will take careful stock of differences as well. An expert on global strategy, Ghemawat lays out an action plan for business in... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
the level of new investment. But, in the case of investment centers, Economic Value Added, or EVA, is likely to be the most effective single-period measure because it is designed to encourage only value-increasing investment decisions.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Jul 2015
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First Look: July 21, 2015
counterweights, encouraging the preservation of some valued elements of the old institutional order alongside new elements that allow for change and survival. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49377... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 26, 2007
Warner. However, it has also begun to explore new ways to expand its online advertising model, experimenting with more elaborate forms of advertising (involving graphics, animation, and video). Google has... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
minimal attention from historians and sociologists of science, whose analysis of scientific infrastructure has instead focused on formal scientific communication through journal articles and online forums, the formation of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
Your Customer Relationships By: Avery, Jill, Susan Fournier, and John Wittenbraker Abstract—Consumers have always had relationships with brands, but sophisticated tools for analyzing customer data are finally allowing marketing organizations to personalize and manage... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
Like many business leaders, Donovan Neale-May routinely seeks out information on business innovation and management trends. He reads reports from market analysis firms, white papers from companies in his field, and articles in online... View Details
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
researcher-collected data, the Internet opens exceptional possibilities both by increasing the amount of information available for researchers to gather and by lowering researchers' costs of collecting information. In this paper, I explore the Internet's View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Strategy: Aligning Planning and Execution
an interview with HBS Working Knowledge. "Obtaining One Strategy in times of change means the organization will respond in a holistic fashion to new challenges, staying aligned for maximum competitive impact." The book follows... View Details
- 13 May 2014
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First Look: May 13
of upgrades in freemium companies, and the six questions that new business enterprises should explore when considering the freemium model. The article mentions how four companies including NYTimes.com newspaper and Dropbox cloud storage... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2017
- What Do You Think?
Do Bitcoin and Digital Currency Have a Future?
for market manipulation (and) used as payment method for online crime.” Bitcoin does not have a future as a currency, Turnbull said, because of the cost of operating sufficient computers to collectively document every single transaction.... View Details
- 02 Aug 2020
- What Do You Think?
Is the 'Experimentation Organization' Becoming the Competitive Gold Standard?
the probability of success for ideas central to a strategy. Frequent testing has been especially relevant for retailers, whose merchandise displays offer endless opportunities to test product placement ideas. Now organizations whose businesses are primarily View Details
- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
Series, No. 15325, September 2009 Abstract Evidence on the "funding gap" for investment innovation is surveyed. The focus is on financial market reasons for underinvestment that exist even when externality-induced underinvestment is absent. We conclude that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Oct 2017
- Research Event
In an Era of 'Fake News,' What is the Future of Advertising and Publishing?
therefore broadly shared by users. He warned that it would be difficult to realistically restrain the sharing of misinformation as long as the online business model was based heavily on user engagement. The benefits and drawbacks of the... View Details
- 25 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 25
stores are multi-sided platforms (MSPs). We propose a definition that provides a more precise notion of MSPs by requiring that they enable direct interactions between the multiple customer types that are affiliated with them. Several important implications of this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne