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    Tarun Khanna

    Tarun Khanna is the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at the Harvard Business School. For almost three decades, he has studied entrepreneurship as a means to social and economic development in emerging markets. At HBS since 1993, after obtaining degrees from Princeton... View Details

    • 16 Oct 2013
    • Op-Ed

    Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking

    With more than 7,500 views and 180-plus tweets, I want to thank everyone for taking the time to read the original HBS Working Knowledge piece, The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking, and, in particular, for sharing your thoughts with one... View Details
    Keywords: by Joe Lassiter; Energy; Utilities
    • 08 Jul 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: July 8, 2008

    tail in action-reviewing sales data from Nielsen SoundScan, Nielsen VideoScan, the online music service Rhapsody, and the Australian DVD-by-mail service Quickflix. What she found may surprise you: Blockbusters are capturing even more of... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • Research Summary

    Crowdsourced reviews

    To determine whether online consumer reviews influence the way that reputation is formed, Professor Luca has combined reviews from the website Yelp.com with public restaurant data. He has shown that a one-star increase in Yelp ratings results in a 5- to 9-percent... View Details

    • Research Summary

    Managing in an Information Age

    By: Lynda M. Applegate
    Lynda M. Applegate's research focuses on the influence of information technology on markets and organizations. Her findings on the evolution of electronic commerce and on the role of information technology as an enabler of flexible and adaptive ... View Details
    • March 2011 (Revised March 2012)
    • Case

    Fraunhofer: Innovation in Germany

    By: Diego A. Comin, J. Gunnar Trumbull and Kerry Yang
    Fraunhofer is one of the largest applied research organizations in the world. With 17,000 employees and a 1.6 billion euros budget, Fraunhofer has 60 institutes in Germany that cover most fields of science. The case examines the consequences that Fraunhofer has for the... View Details
    Keywords: Economy; Entrepreneurship; Financial Markets; Government and Politics; Labor; Markets; Outcome or Result; Research and Development; Competitive Strategy; Germany
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    • December 2022
    • Case

    Taylor Farms: Adding Value to Fresh Produce

    By: José B. Alvarez, Forest L. Reinhardt, Jenyfeer Martinez Buitrago and Pedro Levindo
    In October 2022, Bruce Taylor (HBS MBA, 1981), Chairman and CEO of Taylor Farms, the leading producer of salads and healthy fresh foods in the United States, wondered whether this was the right time for Taylor Farms to venture into the Controlled Environment... View Details
    Keywords: Technology Adoption; Cost vs Benefits; Logistics; Environmental Sustainability; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
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      The Everything Token: How NFTs and Web3 Will Transform the Way We Buy, Sell, and Create

      A Harvard Business School professor and a16z crypto research partner and a career marketer and Web3 entrepreneur demystify the coming digital revolution, showing how NFTs will transform our online and offline... View Details

        Sampling Bias in Entrepreneurial Experiments

        Using data from a prominent online platform for launching new digital products, we document that ‘sampling bias’—defined as the difference between a startup’s target customer base and the actual sample on which early ‘beta tests’ are conducted—has a systematic and... View Details
        • Article

        Repositioning and Cost-Cutting: The Impact of Competition on Platform Strategies

        By: Robert Seamans and Feng Zhu
        Organizational structures are increasingly complex. In particular, more firms today operate as multi-sided platforms. In this paper, we study how platform firms use repositioning and cost-cutting in response to competition, elucidate external and internal factors that... View Details
        Keywords: Platform Strategy; Repositioning; Cost-cutting; Intra-firm Learning; Multi-Sided Platforms; Cost Management; Product Positioning; Organizational Structure; Competitive Strategy; Knowledge Acquisition; Journalism and News Industry
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        • 26 Apr 2016
        • First Look

        April 26

        April 2016 Review of Economic Studies Landing the First Job: The Value of Intermediaries in Online Hiring By: Stanton, Christopher, and Catherine Thomas Abstract—Online markets for remote View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
        • 2015
        • Working Paper

        Match Your Own Price? Self-Matching as a Retailer's Multichannel Pricing Strategy

        By: Pavel Kireyev, Vineet Kumar and Elie Ofek
        Multichannel retailing has created several new strategic choices for firms. With respect to pricing, an important decision is whether to offer a "self-matching policy." Self-matching allows a multichannel retailer to offer the lowest of its online and in-store prices... View Details
        Keywords: Price Self-matching; Multichannel Retailing; Pricing Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Price; Distribution Channels; Supply and Industry; Retail Industry
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        • May 2002 (Revised October 2002)
        • Case

        Telewest Communications plc

        By: Lynda M. Applegate and Laure Mougeot Stroock
        Created in 1992, Telewest has become the second largest broadband communication provider in the United Kingdom, offering telephone, cable television, and cable Internet services, as well as television and online content to the U.K. entertainment market. The first to... View Details
        Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Technological Innovation; Growth and Development Strategy; Industry Structures; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Expansion; Telecommunications Industry; Europe; United Kingdom
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        • 15 Apr 2002
        • Research & Ideas

        In the Virtual Dressing Room Returns Are A Real Problem

        comparisons based on independent performance evaluations. (Although for online purchases, as for catalog purchases, brand names help consumers infer certain aspects of quality or fit, especially for consumers making repeat purchases.)... View Details
        Keywords: by Jan Hammond & Kristin Kohler; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Consumer Products; Manufacturing; Retail
        • March 2001 (Revised June 2002)
        • Background Note

        E-Commerce in Latin America

        By: Lynda M. Applegate, Luiz Felipe Monteiro and Meredith Collura
        Examines the vast potential offered by e-commerce in Latin America. Addresses both B2B and B2C e-commerce, as well as the specific economic, cultural, and technological barriers for doing business online in the region. View Details
        Keywords: Trade; Entrepreneurship; Market Transactions; Service Delivery; Online Technology; Latin America
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        • November 2018
        • Article

        Global Evidence on Economic Preferences

        By: Armin Falk, Anke Becker, Thomas Dohmen, Benjamin Enke, David Huffman and Uwe Sunde
        This article studies the global variation in economic preferences. For this purpose, we present the Global Preference Survey (GPS), an experimentally validated survey data set of time preference, risk preference, positive and negative reciprocity, altruism, and trust... View Details
        Keywords: Economic Preferences; Economics; Behavior; Surveys; Analytics and Data Science; Global Range
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        • 02 Feb 2007
        • Working Paper Summaries

        Do Employment Protections Reduce Productivity? Evidence from U.S. States

        Keywords: by David H. Autor, William R. Kerr & Adriana D. Kugler
        • November 2013 (Revised November 2014)
        • Case

        Freemium Pricing at Dropbox

        By: Thales Teixeira and Elizabeth Anne Watkins
        Online storage company Dropbox provided remote-storage over the internet of any type of computer file, along with file sharing, synchronization and backup. Using a freemium pricing strategy whereby a basic service was free-of-charge and a premium service was paid,... View Details
        Keywords: Marketing Strategy; Price; Internet; Information Technology Industry
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        • 2008
        • Article

        Industrial Specialization and Regional Clusters in the Ten New EU Member States

        By: Orjan Solvell, Christian H.M. Ketels and Goran Lindqvist
        Purpose—The purpose of this paper is to provide an analysis of regional concentration patterns within ten new European Union (EU) member states, EU10, and make comparisons with EU15 and the US economy.
        Design/methodology/approach—Industrial... View Details
        Keywords: Geographic Location; Policy; Employment; Industry Clusters; Industry Structures; European Union; United States
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        • 28 Feb 2005
        • Research & Ideas

        Amazon, eBay and the Bidding Wars

        lower. But sniping isn't a universal strategy for success, says Roth, who teaches in the School's Negotiation, Organizations & Markets unit. It's all in the rules of the game. On Amazon.com, for example, where end-of-auction deadlines... View Details
        Keywords: by Sara Grant; Web Services; Technology