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- 27 Jan 2015
- News
A Data-Science Lender Takes on Student Debt
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Across HBS Generations
Every autumn, more than 1,000 alumni and their guests visit HBS for class reunions. They return for the academic and social events, of course, and to reconnect with classmates. But there is another powerful pull as well — something to do with nostalgia and going back... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Lerner Honored for Research
Lerner The most esteemed international prize in entrepreneurship research was awarded in February to HBS professor Josh Lerner, author or coauthor of five books, including most recently Boulevard of Broken Dreams, the first in-depth examination of the failed efforts of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Cyberposium
Hosted and organized by the student-run TechMedia Club, Cyberposium is the world's largest MBA technology conference. Some 700 people attended the 18th annual event, "The Battle for Access," held at HBS on November 4, to learn more about the competitive, disruptive,... View Details
- October 2009
- Article
Shaping Online Consumer Choice by Partitioning the Web
By: Jolie M. Martin and Michael I. Norton
This research explores how partitioning attributes in online search interfaces changes the valuations of those attributes-and impacts subsequent choice-such that attributes that are displayed as separate categories tend to receive greater decision weight than... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Information Management; Demand and Consumers; Research; Internet and the Web; Valuation
Martin, Jolie M., and Michael I. Norton. "Shaping Online Consumer Choice by Partitioning the Web." Psychology & Marketing 26, no. 10 (October 2009): 908–926.
- February 2001 (Revised November 2009)
- Case
Amazon.com (C)
At the end of 1998, Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos ponders the next moves for his company. Having secured the leadership position as the leading online book seller in the United States, Amazon.com has now moved into the product categories of CDs and videos by... View Details
Keywords: Expansion; Internet and the Web; Business Growth and Maturation; Books; Growth and Development Strategy; Retail Industry; Germany; United Kingdom; United States
Rayport, Jeffrey F., and Dickson Louie. "Amazon.com (C)." Harvard Business School Case 901-021, February 2001. (Revised November 2009.)
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Knowledge Integration Rules at Yale
JOEL PODOLNY: New courses reach across disciplines. Yale set out in the fall of 2006 to create a distinctive new model of management education, one that eliminated traditional discipline-based courses and replaced them with courses designed to integrate teaching and... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
The Small Business Difference: How Smaller Companies Manage with Less
was software that could mine huge databases and organize information that was both usable and affordable for small businesses. But when it didn’t take off with its target customers, Slayton and his team were quick to adapt. Sensing a new... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
The Harvard Clubs of Australia: Networking with a Cause
social side and on the scholarship side." New leadership will be chosen this year at each club's annual general meeting. For further information on the Harvard Clubs of Australia, visit www.harvard.org.au. Amy Burton View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
Sasha Novakovich (MBA ’99) was in her second year at HBS when she and classmate Tracy Lawrence got the idea for what would become GetConnected, a company that processes voice, data, and video services transactions for retailers. Despite some ups and downs, it thrived.... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; contests; Information; Information; Information; Information; Information; Information; Information; Information
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Groundwork
In the foreground of this fall 1926 photo, workers construct the Weeks Bridge; in the distance, the HBS campus takes shape (Harvard University Property Information Resource Center) Except for the brief reign of commencement mortarboards,... View Details
- November 2020
- Teaching Note
DayTwo: Going to Market with Gut Microbiome
By: Ayelet Israeli
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 519-010. DayTwo is a young Israeli startup that applies research on the gut microbiome and machine learning algorithms to deliver personalized nutritional recommendations to its users in order to minimize blood sugar spikes after meals.... View Details
Keywords: Start-up Growth; Startup; Positioning; Targeting; Go To Market Strategy; B2B Vs. B2C; B2B2C; Health ＆ Wellness; AI; Machine Learning; Female Ceo; Female Protagonist; Science-based; Science And Technology Studies; Ecommerce; Applications; DTC; Direct To Consumer Marketing; US Health Care; ＂USA,＂; Innovation; Pricing; Business Growth; Segmentation; Distribution Channels; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Startups; Science-Based Business; Health; Innovation and Invention; Marketing; Information Technology; Business Growth and Maturation; E-commerce; Applications and Software; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; Israel; United States
- 2023
- Chapter
Generalized Matching: Contracts and Networks
By: John William Hatfield, Ravi Jagadeesan, Scott Duke Kominers, Alexandru Nichifor, Michael Ostrovsky, Alexander Teytelboym and Alexander Westkamp
Keywords: Matching; Matching With Contracts; Matching Markets; Matching Platform; Market Design; Digital Platforms; Economics; Networks
Hatfield, John William, Ravi Jagadeesan, Scott Duke Kominers, Alexandru Nichifor, Michael Ostrovsky, Alexander Teytelboym, and Alexander Westkamp. "Generalized Matching: Contracts and Networks." Chap. 14 in Online and Matching-Based Market Design, edited by Federico Echenique, Nicole Immorlica, and Vijay Vazirani, 303–322. Cambridge University Press, 2023.
- 2022
- Article
Open or Closed? Your Mind, Your Decision!
By: Gerald Zaltman
The marketing profession faces challenging times. The shelf life for decisions and the half-life of the knowledge used, are becoming shorter and shorter while the problems addressed are becoming messier. Fortunately, the emergence of what I call the “prosthetic age” is... View Details
Zaltman, Gerald. "Open or Closed? Your Mind, Your Decision!" Special Issue on Reflections of Eminent Marketing Scholars. Foundations and Trends® in Marketing 16, nos. 1-2 (2022): 300–307.
- June 2020
- Article
Frenemies in Platform Markets: Heterogeneous Profit Foci as Drivers of Compatibility Decisions
By: Ron Adner, Jianqing Chen and Feng Zhu
We study compatibility decisions of two competing platform owners that generate profits through both hardware sales and royalties from content sales. We consider a game-theoretic model in which two platforms offer different standalone utilities to users. We find that... View Details
Keywords: Compatibility; Platform Competition; Profit Foci; Digital Platforms; Competition; Profit; Decision Making
Adner, Ron, Jianqing Chen, and Feng Zhu. "Frenemies in Platform Markets: Heterogeneous Profit Foci as Drivers of Compatibility Decisions." Management Science 66, no. 6 (June 2020): 2432–2451.
- Article
Value-based Healthcare: Implications for Thyroid Cancer
By: A.K. Ying, T.W. Feeley and M. E. Porter
Today's delivery of care to thyroid cancer patients is complex, and costly, with uneven outcomes that can be improved. The incidence of thyroid cancer is rising and requires coordinated, multidisciplinary care with high volume centers that is not always available in... View Details
Keywords: Bundled Reimbursement; Healthcare Reform; Integrated Practice Units; Outcomes; Patient-reported Outcomes; Thyroid Cancer; Health Care and Treatment; Cost; Information Technology; Value
Ying, A.K., T.W. Feeley, and M. E. Porter. "Value-based Healthcare: Implications for Thyroid Cancer." International Journal of Endocrine Oncology 3, no. 2 (May 2016): 115–129. (e-Pub 4/2016.)
- 2018
- Working Paper
Need for Speed: The Impact of Website Performance on Online Retail
By: Santiago Gallino, Nil Karacaoglu and Antonio Moreno
The share of e-commerce sales is rapidly increasing and so are the associated losses generated by website outages and slow websites. We leverage novel retail and website performance data to investigate the impact of website performance on online sales. This question is... View Details
Keywords: Online Retail; Quasi-experiments; Abandonment; Synthetic Control; Internet and the Web; Performance; Service Operations
Gallino, Santiago, Nil Karacaoglu, and Antonio Moreno. "Need for Speed: The Impact of Website Performance on Online Retail." Working Paper, October 2018.
- 2013
- Article
The Impact of Electronic Health Record Use on Physician Productivity
By: Julia Adler-Milstein and Robert S. Huckman
To examine the impact of the degree of electronic health record (EHR) use and delegation of EHR tasks on clinician productivity in ambulatory settings.
Study Design: We examined EHR use in primary care practices that implemented a web-based EHR from athenahealth... View Details
Study Design: We examined EHR use in primary care practices that implemented a web-based EHR from athenahealth... View Details
Keywords: Electronic Health Records; Health Care; Productivity; Healthcare IT; Information Technology; Performance Productivity; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry
Adler-Milstein, Julia, and Robert S. Huckman. "The Impact of Electronic Health Record Use on Physician Productivity." Special Issue on Health Information Technology. American Journal of Managed Care 19, no. SP10 (2013): SP345–SP352.