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- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Lessons from the Browser Wars
In a famous example of how first movers can lose their advantage, second-mover Microsoft won the Web browser wars from Netscape and continues to dominate the market today. But that competition was the subject of another "war,"... View Details
- 05 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2007
founders faced new internal and external pressures; particularly worrisome was the entry of auction giants Christie's and Sotheby's into the market. The Vaziranis' main challenge now is to consolidate their leading position in the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- April 2019
- Case
Afterpay U.S.: The Omnichannel Dilemma
By: Antonio Moreno, Donald Ngwe and George Gonzalez
In 2018, Nick Molnar, the founder of the Australia-based online payment service Afterpay began its expansion to the U.S. market. The service had gained a loyal following in Australia by enabling customers to pay for online purchases through four interest-free... View Details
Keywords: Omnichannel Retail; Multi-sided Platforms; Value Creation; Business Model Innovation; Fintech; Digital Marketing; Disruptive Innovation; Business Startups; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Business Organization; For-Profit Firms; Change Management; Customer Value and Value Chain; Customer Relationship Management; Customer Satisfaction; Financing and Loans; Microfinance; Global Strategy; Marketing Channels; Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Digital Platforms; Product Development; Supply Chain Management; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Networks; Network Effects; Internet and the Web; Financial Services Industry; Retail Industry; Technology Industry; United States; Australia
Moreno, Antonio, Donald Ngwe, and George Gonzalez. "Afterpay U.S.: The Omnichannel Dilemma." Harvard Business School Case 519-086, April 2019.
- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
and switching costs in platform markets, entrants generally must offer revolutionary functionality. We explore a second entry path that does not rely upon Schumpeterian innovation: platform envelopment. Through envelopment, a provider in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 May 2016
- First Look
May 31, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51099 May 2016 American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings Copyright Infringement in the Market for Digital Images By: Luo, Hong, and Julie Holland Mortimer Abstract—Digital technologies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
Publications August 2013 pub Cannibalization and Option Value Effects of Secondary Markets: Evidence from the U.S. Concert Industry By: Bennett, Victor Manuel, Robert Seamans, and Feng Zhu Abstract—We examine how reducing search frictions in secondary View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 8
Cournot-style competition. Meanwhile, each advertiser must pay a participation cost to use each ad platform, and advertiser entry strategies are derived using symmetric Bayes-Nash equilibrium that lead to the VCG outcome of the ad... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
setting: TV broadcast station entry into local newspaper markets from 1945 to 1963. We show that after a TV station enters the newspaper market, newspaper firms with more multi-homing consumers had higher... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 5, 2006
limit their equity exposures in politically risky countries by sharing ownership with local partners and by serving foreign markets with exports rather than local production. The residual political risk borne by parent companies leads... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities
about 400 such systems with a total of 150,000 subscribers. Thus, cable TV was born of necessity very shortly after the mass market for television broadcasting began to grow. 3 The first CATV systems carried only three channels, which... View Details
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
boundaries and high in their interiors. Several novel implications arise from this work. Among these: Modularizations create new module boundaries, hence new transaction locations where entry and competition can arise. Areas in the task... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Kayak Users Built a New Industry
are often, but not always, the first to market with their innovations. Sometimes the early user-manufacturers are displaced by large, well-capitalized companies, but in other cases, they grow up to be industry leaders. These stable... View Details
- April 1994 (Revised September 1994)
- Case
KENETECH Corporation
Involves a strategic decision about how fast to ramp up sales. Improvements in technology have driven down the cost of electric power generated from wind turbines to the point where they are competitive with fossil-fuel plants. KENETECH needs to raise equity capital to... View Details
Keywords: Renewable Energy; Borrowing and Debt; Equity; Initial Public Offering; Growth and Development Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Going Public; Sales; Competition; Energy Industry
Fruhan, William E., Jr. "KENETECH Corporation." Harvard Business School Case 294-111, April 1994. (Revised September 1994.)
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
"food deserts"-areas with limited access to affordable and nutritious food. In pursuit of these initiatives, the company's rapid entry into a heterogeneous set of new markets necessitated a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues
2001). “The state of the market has made for a more serious tone on campus, and that was reflected in this year’s conference. MBAs are never afraid to ask tough questions, and the Cyberposium provided a forum for students and industry... View Details
- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 21, 2008
diversifications are relatively unusual by Western standards, especially into technologies and markets that have relatively high entry barriers and where there is no deep-rooted national technological or... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Aug 2005
- HBS Case
Classic Cases Live On at HBS
which reduced air loss and prevented compression, resulting in greater protection. This saran "barrier coating" had been a key sales point that Sealed Air emphasized to its customers. Low-cost competitors had begun offering an uncoated bubble wrap that... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
spending needs as well as economic factors such as rising interest rates that affect different assets in different ways. Viceira's research analyzes asset allocation strategies for personal and institutional investors. He teaches investment management and capital View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Answering the Call
begun offering an uncoated bubble wrap that threatened to take market share away from Sealed Air. Should the company abandon its exclusive commitment to coated bubbles in order to fend off this challenge? Says Robert Dolan, the author of... View Details
- 13 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 13, 2010
comparative statics and time-series dynamics that are consistent with the empirical features of repo market data, including the credit crisis of 2007-2008. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-025.pdf Cases &... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne