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New Credential of Digital Innovation and Strategy Build the skill set and strategic acumen to compete in the digital world through a combination of forward-looking coursework, unique team activities with a diverse global network, and a... View Details

01 Sep 2010
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Start-Ups Make Their Pitch

Medical Devices, the regional finalists were: Boston: iSpecimen (Mike Pierce, MBA ’01, interim COO) is building a network that connects clinical laboratories and hospital electronic medical record systems at leading institutions. The system will provide researchers... View Details

Keywords: awards; Furniture and Related Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

14 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 14

dynamics may not converge, but if they do converge, then the limit strategy profiles constitute a subset of the Nash equilibria of the stage game. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-126.pdf Quantity vs. Quality:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 May 2012
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First Look: May 15

and Yaron Yehezkel Abstract In the context of platform competition in a two-sided market, we study how ex-ante uncertainty and ex-post asymmetric information concerning the value of a new technology affects the View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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Fola Folowosele

bar that I set for myself as well. How has HBS prepared you for your summer internship and long term career? I split my summer into two parts - I interned at PUMA for the first month before spending the rest of my summer as an internal View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Consumer Products

26 Feb 2018
Research & Ideas

The Airbnb Effect: Cheaper Rooms for Travelers, Less Revenue for Hotels

has grown rapidly at a time when plenty of other industry-disrupting platforms have flourished, including Uber, Craigslist, and Spotify. Airbnb offers listings in 191 countries, and its total number of listings—4 million-—is higher than... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Travel

14 Aug 2019
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The Manager's Guide to Leveraging Disruption

one of the forces that threatens established companies can also be a source of salvation: disruptive change. How to Be a Digital Platform Leader The most valuable companies in the world have one thing in common: all are leaders in the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

2018
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The Welfare Effects of Peer Entry in the Accommodation Market: The Case of Airbnb

By: Chiara Farronato and Andrey Fradkin

We study the effects of enabling peer supply through Airbnb in the accommodation industry. We present a model of competition between flexible and dedicated sellers - peer hosts and hotels - who provide differentiated products. We estimate this model using data from... View Details

Keywords: Peer To Peer; Digital Platforms; Market Entry and Exit; Competition; Accommodations Industry

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30 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018

content has grown quicker than Yelp and TripAdvisor. Overall, these results shed light on platform strategy and market entry: tying can facilitate entry in complementary markets, even when the tied product... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

21 Nov 2013
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Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins

keyboard on smart devices (just like Polaroid believed consumers needed to instantly print their digital photos—when was the last time you printed a photo!). They kept their platform closed, avoiding the design and distribution of public... View Details

Keywords: Telecommunications; Information; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

04 Apr 2018
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Rebuilding the Girl Scouts Brand

the Girl Scouts. They know the uniforms or the cookies. Those are great things, but they’re not a true representation of the Girl Scouts as an organization,” Pitter-Armand observes, and it’s the brand relevance that the G.I.R.L. platform... View Details

06 Dec 2021
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HBS Curricula Explore the Complexities of Innovation

Leading with People Analytics Managing Customers for Growth: Strategy and Analytics EXECUTIVE EDUCATION Competing in the Age of AI—Virtual Competing in the Age of Digital Platforms Driving Digital View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Jun 2018
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Floor It

the experience of businesses including Keurig, Peloton, and Rent the Runway to develop more effective strategies to engage and educate patients about precision medicine, the need for genetic testing, and the importance of sharing that... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li

05 Dec 2006
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First Look: December 5, 2006

Science Foundation. The developed platform offers an unprecedented view of the R&D-to-patenting innovation process and a close analysis of the strengths and limitations of the Industry R&D Survey. The files are linked through a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 17

with a dominant platform that earns more than under compatibility. We also find that incompatibility generates larger total welfare than compatibility when horizontal differences between platforms are small.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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GO Corporation

By: Josh Lerner, Thomas J. Kosnik, Tarek AbuZayyad and Paul C. Yang

GO faces a crisis in March 1991 when Microsoft announces the introduction of a competing operating system for pen-based computers. GO's managers must work with its venture financers, Kleiner Perkins, to redesign its financing, alliance, and product development... View Details

Keywords: Value Creation; Digital Platforms; Competition; Private Equity; Adaptation; Crisis Management; Information Technology Industry; Computer Industry

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BiGS Research | Institute for Business in Global Society

world. Research Projects The Green Industrial Strategy Project A partnership between the Institute for Business in Global Society and the Berkeley Economy and Society Initiative, The Green Industrial View Details

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Forest L. Reinhardt | About

HBS campus. Professor Reinhardt has taught HBS’s required MBA courses on Strategy and on Business, Government, and the International Economy. He has developed and introduced elective courses on Food and Agribusiness, on Energy, and on... View Details

02 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

Excerpt: ‘A Social Strategy’

book excerpt What My Research Revealed, In Broad Strokes From A Social Strategy: How We Profit From Social Media By Mikolaj Jan Piskorski As I began my research, it quickly became clear that there are two major ways in which companies have tried to leverage social... View Details

01 Dec 2006
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dynamics and strategies used by firms that recognize the transformative power of these “invisible engines.” Shorter discussions of Internet-based software platforms offer glimpses into a future in which the... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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