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- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
An online shipping platform that uses social networks and smartphones. Low-cost medical care and monitoring that helps seniors to live at home. The "Skype" of broadband,... View Details
- March 1998 (Revised June 1999)
- Case
DigitalThink: Building a Sales Force
By: Michael J. Roberts, Joseph B. Lassiter III and Christina L. Darwall
A broad set of issues faces a young company in the Internet-based training business as it begins to sell its product to corporate customers. Issues include: profile of attractive candidates, compensation, definition of territory, definition of quotas, and role of... View Details
Roberts, Michael J., Joseph B. Lassiter III, and Christina L. Darwall. "DigitalThink: Building a Sales Force." Harvard Business School Case 898-193, March 1998. (Revised June 1999.)
- 11 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Does Democracy Need a Marketing Manager?
contributions. For example, on the liberal side of the spectrum, you have Democracy for America, founded by Howard Dean, and also Moveon.org. However, online enthusiasm does not necessarily translate into... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Using the Collections - Photography Collections - Historical Collections
HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Photography Collections Introduction Large Collections Automobile View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Case Study: Sound Check
who plays classical piano and jazz guitar, and Pemberton, a drummer, thought they could offer musicians an online platform that would help them connect with fans in a... View Details
- 26 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 26, 2016
health care so that our economy can improve and so that patients can make informed decisions. We must move away from fee-for-service reimbursement, which incentivizes doing more, and begin paying for good... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- May 2015
- Case
Venture Republic, 2011
By: W. Carl Kester and Mayuka Yamazaki
In December 2011, the founders of Venture Republic, a Japanese developer and operator of on-line search engines for shopping and travel, faced a decison about whether or not to take the company private in a management buyout transaction just three years after an... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Hunting Red Balloons
In December, the government agency DARPA tethered to the ground ten red weather balloons at random locations around the United States in a test to see how social networks might mobilize and use the Internet... View Details
- 02 Apr 2014
- What Do You Think?
Has the Post-Capitalist Economy Finally Arrived?
entrepreneurship " Peter McCann pointed out that things are déjà vu all over again. "There will be increased productivity but the day of zero marginal cost for more than a small set of goods and View Details
- September 2017
- Teaching Note
Dick's Sporting Goods
By: Jose B. Alvarez and Matthew G. Preble
This is the teaching note to accompany Rajiv Lal, Jose B. Alvarez, and Matthew G. Preble, “Dick’s Sporting Goods,” HBS No. 517-007 (Boston, Massachusetts: Harvard Business School Publishing, 2017). View Details
Keywords: Sporting Goods; Retail; Employees; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Product Marketing; Demand and Consumers; Consumer Behavior; Product; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Partners and Partnerships; Business Strategy; Competition; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Internet and the Web; E-commerce; Retail Industry; United States; Pennsylvania
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Shape of Things to Come
Image by John Ritter With the rise of the online MBA and part-time programs, how do you make the ongoing case for students investing in two years at HBS? Nitin Nohria: A transformational experience takes... View Details
- 07 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
How to Help Small Businesses Survive COVID's Next Phase
permanently as of July 10. And almost half of owners surveyed in late June by the online business network Alignable said they lacked enough cash to get through one month and... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Ready for Take-Off
(MBA '77) of Communispace, a software environment for virtual collaboration within companies. Tracy A. Lawrence (MBA '99) of GetConnected.com, Inc., an Internet channel where consumers can comparison-shop among telecommunications... View Details
Keywords: Spingboard
- March 2020
- Case
Sizmek Chapter 11: Surviving Walled Gardens in Their Ad Tech Empire
By: Ayelet Israeli, Danilo Tauro and Sarah Gulick
This case provides a post-mortem of the advertising technology (adtech) company Sizmek. Sizmek grew via multiple acquisitions, with the vision of becoming an integrated adtech company that could leverage AI to buy digital media, while creating and serving display and... View Details
Keywords: Digital Marketing; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Mergers and Acquisitions; Applications and Software; Internet and the Web; Competition; Marketing; Advertising Industry; Advertising Industry; United States; Europe
Israeli, Ayelet, Danilo Tauro, and Sarah Gulick. "Sizmek Chapter 11: Surviving Walled Gardens in Their Ad Tech Empire." Harvard Business School Case 520-087, March 2020.
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
with Urban Water Partners RelayRides explanatory video FashionStake-Reuters story An online shipping platform that uses social networks and smartphones. Low-cost medical care View Details
- Profile
Nikki Skovran
way to get exposure to a wide range of industries and functions in a short period of time,” she says. Looking ahead, Nikki is not sure whether she will stay in public service... View Details
Stephen M. Case
Case, the founder, has built America Online into the world’s largest online service provider with over 20 million members, and View Details
Keywords: Communications
- 15 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 15
Apartment Rental Market Peter A. Coles, Joshua Gans, and Wei-Yuan YuHarvard Business School Case 912-009 Jon Pastor and Lawrence Zhou were inspired by the same problem: the View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Case Study: Confidence Builder
Illustration by Suharu Ogawa Illustration by Suharu Ogawa Confi began in 2015 as a free online resource for credible and relatable answers to health questions that women weren’t comfortable asking their... View Details
- 20 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
Lessons of Successful Entrepreneurs
CEO of Silk Road Technologies. For the true entrepreneur, he continued, reality is the superior teacher; and school is an excuse to delay failure. Although their topic was "Post Boom Internet... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne