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Front Page News: The Effect of News Positioning on Financial markets

This paper estimates the effect of presentation of information on financial markets, using quasi-random variation in prominent "front page" positioning of news on the Bloomberg... View Details

November 2014
Case

Taryn Rose Launches Dresr: Street Marketing a Luxury Brand

By: Lena G. Goldberg, Marcel Saucet and Christine Snively

Serial entrepreneur and shoe designer Taryn Rose, M.D., prepared to launch a new e-commerce platform, Dresr, which would connect shoppers with tastemakers online. Dresr would bring the service element found in brick and mortar luxury stores into the online shopping... View Details

Keywords: E-commerce; Online Platforms; Online Marketing; Footwear; Legal Aspects Of Business; Street Marketing; Entrepreneurship; Internet and the Web; Luxury; Marketing Strategy; Digital Platforms; Legal Liability; Fashion Industry; Technology Industry

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18 May 2007
Working Paper Summaries

Media Markets and Localism: Does Local News en Español Boost Hispanic Voter Turnout?

Keywords: by Felix Oberholzer-Gee & Joel Waldfogel; Entertainment & Recreation; Media & Broadcasting

September 2006 (Revised November 2007)
Exercise

Market Making Exercise

By: Malcolm P. Baker

Students make a market in a new security, posting bid and offer prices and quantities for a new derivative security. View Details

Keywords: Financial Instruments; Financial Markets; Price

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1996
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New and Improved: The Story of Mass Marketing in America

Keywords: Marketing Strategy; United States

1990
Book

New and Improved: The Story of Mass Marketing in America

Keywords: Marketing; History; United States

1993
Book

New and Improved: The Story of Mass Marketing in America

Keywords: Marketing Strategy; United States

March 2008
Course Overview Note

Dynamic Markets

By: Joshua D. Coval and Erik Stafford

The Dynamic Markets course at Harvard Business School is organized around the hands-on application of financial decision making in a wide variety of capital market settings. The course relies heavily on in-class simulations of a range of market settings where students... View Details

Keywords: Value Creation; Decision Making; Capital Markets; Competitive Strategy; Profit; Applications and Software; Information; Strategy; Price; Outcome or Result; Curriculum and Courses; Theory

14 Feb 2011
Research & Ideas

Clay Christensen’s Milkshake Marketing

Updated to clarify a failure rate figure included in an earlier version. When planning new products, companies often start by segmenting their markets and positioning their merchandise accordingly. This... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail; Service; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage

1990
Book

New and Improved: The Story of Mass Marketing in America

Keywords: Marketing Strategy; United States

Marketing Metaphoria

Why do advertising campaigns and new products often fail? Why do consumers feel that companies don't understand their needs? Because marketers themselves don't think deeply about consumers' innermost thoughts and feelings. Marketing Metaphoria is a groundbreaking book... View Details

22 Jun 2017
Cold Call Podcast

ShotSpotter: A Gunfire Detection Business Looks for a New Market

Keywords: Re: Mitchell B. Weiss; Technology

22 Nov 2018
News

WhatsApp Names New India Head to Grow its Biggest Market

Keywords: Telecommunications; Information

December 2010
Article

Life in the Fast Lane: Origins of Competitive Interaction in New vs. Established Markets

By: Eric L. Chen, Riitta Katila, Rory McDonald and Kathleen M. Eisenhardt

Prior work examines competitive moves in relatively stable markets. In contrast, we focus on less stable markets where competitive advantages are temporary and R&D moves are essential. Using evolutionary search theory and an experiential simulation with in-depth... View Details

Keywords: Balance and Stability; Competitive Advantage; Supply and Industry

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10 Apr 2013
News

New Harvard Business School program expands on marketing case studies of Jay-Z, Lady Gaga

February 1987 (Revised October 1989)
Teaching Note

Rohm and Haas (A): New Product Marketing Strategy, Teaching Note

By: V. Kasturi Rangan

Teaching Note for (9-587-055). View Details

Keywords: Chemical Industry

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04 Sep 2015
News

Foreign investors navigate turmoil in Chinese markets with new playbook

February 12, 2021
Article

The Commercial Space Age Is Here

By: Matt Weinzierl and Mehak Sarang

In May of 2020, SpaceX made history as the first private company to send humans into space. This marks not only a tremendous technological achievement, but also the first indication that an entirely new “space-for-space” industry—that is, goods and services designed to... View Details

Keywords: Space Economy; New Markets; Emerging Markets; Opportunities; Entrepreneurship; Commercialization; Aerospace Industry