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- 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
- 08 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 8
examples such as TripAdvisor, Wikipedia, and the New York Times, the authors offer strategies for competing in markets with network effects. New entrants should focus on customer groups that they are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
http://hbr.org/product/the-information-superhighway-meets-the-highway-technology-and-mobility-trends-and-opportunities/an/314093-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 614-032 GE and the Industrial Internet CEO Jeff Immelt considers whether GE is moving fast enough on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2015
- First Look
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
- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
our sample). August 2013 Marketing Letters To Groupon or Not to Groupon: The Profitability of Deep Discounts By: Edelman, Benjamin, Sonia Jaffe, and Scott Duke Kominers Abstract—We examine the profitability and implications of online... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 21, 2007
decisions confronting the founding management team of a new online financial services company. Prosper Marketplace is an internet-based market for individuals to borrow money from other individuals who wish... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 7
Course MaterialsDemand Media John Deighton and Leora KornfeldHarvard Business School Case 511-043 Google search had helped Demand Media grow to be a $1.9 billion online publisher. Then, social media and smartphone apps began to change the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 May 2014
- First Look
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
- 16 Nov 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Data.gov: Matching Government Data with Rapid Innovation
Obama-to move government data to the Web-lead to public benefits much faster? Data.gov, the subject of a new HBS case study, taught for the first time this summer, highlights the potential of raw data to spur citizen creativity and... 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
- 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
- 21 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 21, 2009
Online Video Harvard Business School Case 709-447 In late March 2007, CBS faces an important decision about its online video strategy. A just-announced joint online... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
Publisher's Link: http://hbr.org/product/seven-strategy-questions-a-simple-approach-for-bet/an/14832-HBK-ENG Competing against Online Sharing Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Andres Hervas-Drane Publication:Management Decision 48, no.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 29, 2008
use oil price fluctuations to construct a new instrument to test the impact of transfers from wealthy OPEC nations to their poorer Muslim allies. The instrument identifies plausibly exogenous variation in foreign aid. We investigate how... 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
- 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
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
isn't easy. Publisher's link: http://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/strategic-decisions-for-multisided-platforms/ January 2014 Harvard Business Review The New Patterns of Innovation By: Parmar, Rashik, Ian Mackenzie, David Cohn, and David... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 3
we identify core insights about how firms compete against one another in established markets. Based on our evaluation, we argue that a promising research opportunity for strategy lies in exploring how firms strategically interact in new... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 13 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Paid Search Ads Pay Off for Lesser-Known Restaurants
these paid search ads, which appear on top of a Yelp user’s online search results for, say, “Chinese Food” or “Cheap Dinner,” spotlight restaurants that might otherwise blend inconspicuously into a list of many competitors. “There are... View Details