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- May 2005
- Exercise
Forecasting the Adoption of E-books
By: Elie Ofek
Gives students an opportunity to understand the challenges inherent in forecasting the diffusions of innovations. Provides data for forecasting the adoption of electronic books. Students are encouraged to use the Bass Model framework, while being cognizant of its... View Details
Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Framework; Books; Analytics and Data Science; Product Launch; Internet and the Web; Technology Adoption
Ofek, Elie. "Forecasting the Adoption of E-books." Harvard Business School Exercise 505-063, May 2005.
- September 2000
- Teaching Note
MarketSoft TN
Teaching Note for (9-800-069). View Details
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Gurus in the Garage
interviewed share one habit: they refuse to make decisions for the entrepreneurs. Otherwise, their teaching methods vary tremendously. Learning by Doing When Michael Chiarello, founder and CEO of NapaStyle, was developing the idea for his "media-driven View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
badly. Other apparent areas of interest in the last 12 months included corporate social responsibility, marketing techniques, and, of course, the ubiquitous Lady Gaga. Here are the Top 10 most-read articles and 10 most-read working papers... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
firms large enough to finance their own laboratories could create a “virtuous cycle” where staying on the leading edge of science got them first to market with new products, in turn delivering higher profits to fund still more research.... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
in a culture where it's very difficult for people to tell other people what to do. It's not the usual supervisory manager-submanager structure found in the United States." Before coming to Turtle Island, Evanson was involved in the emerging View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
been held in makeshift storefronts in anonymous locations. In 2007 the authors took sample sales to the Internet with a members-only website for a select national group of 13,000 young, high-end shoppers. They provide straight talk on how... View Details
- 30 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30
identified by KT’s team include the Internet of Things (including connected cars and smart city/homes), media, health, energy, and security and surveillance, which might provide some quick wins both in terms of revenues and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Donna L. Dubinsky, MBA 1981
When Donna Dubinsky joined Palm Computing in 1992, the eight-person start-up was one of several companies developing a personal digital assistant. Under her leadership, Palm introduced the first successful PDA, creating a multi-billion dollar View Details
- 13 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Humblebragging’ is a Bad Strategy, Especially in a Job Interview
that when given the choice to brag or to humblebrag, it's better to straight-out brag. "When people first join Twitter, one of the first things they notice is that a lot of people humblebrag," says Francesca Gino, a professor in the Negotiation, Organizations &... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- December 2018
- Case
Choosy
By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Julia Kelley
Founded in 2017, Choosy is a data-driven fashion startup that uses algorithms to identify styles trending on social media. After manufacturing similar items using a China-based supply chain, Choosy sells them to consumers through its website and social media pages.... View Details
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Algorithms; Machine Learning; Neural Networks; Instagram; Influencer; Fast Fashion; Design; Customer Satisfaction; Customer Focus and Relationships; Decision Making; Cost vs Benefits; Innovation and Invention; Brands and Branding; Product Positioning; Demand and Consumers; Supply Chain; Production; Logistics; Business Model; Expansion; Internet and the Web; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Digital Platforms; Social Media; Technology Industry; Fashion Industry; North and Central America; United States; New York (state, US); New York (city, NY)
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
Out-Innovate, calls it the “frontier market model.” Founded in places with limited resources and nascent entrepreneurial ecosystems, these startups have to be scrappier and leaner. And these limitations, Alex says, make businesses more... View Details
- Article
Network Effects Aren't Enough
By: Andrei Hagiu and Simon Rothman
In many ways, online marketplaces are the perfect business model. Since they facilitate transactions between independent suppliers and customers rather than take possession of and responsibility for the products or services in question, they have inherently low cost... View Details
Keywords: Digital Platforms; Competition; Internet and the Web; Network Effects; Market Participation
Hagiu, Andrei, and Simon Rothman. "Network Effects Aren't Enough." Harvard Business Review 94, no. 4 (April 2016): 65–71.
- March 2017 (Revised March 2022)
- Case
Flashion: Art vs. Science in Fashion Retailing
By: Kris Ferreira and Karim R. Lakhani
Kate Wilson, retail analytics manager at Flashion, a fashion flash-sale site, is tasked with developing analytics to optimize pricing for first-exposure products on the site. Many in the industry have relied on years of experience and intuition to determine pricing—can... View Details
Keywords: Analytics; Pricing; Data; Service Operations; Forecasting and Prediction; Internet and the Web; Technology Adoption; Mathematical Methods; Decision Making; E-commerce; Retail Industry; Fashion Industry; United States
Ferreira, Kris, and Karim R. Lakhani. "Flashion: Art vs. Science in Fashion Retailing." Harvard Business School Case 617-059, March 2017. (Revised March 2022.)
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
the time that as far as the Internet was concerned, the government was not involved. That observation intrigued me. Later, I listened to a conversation between two FIBS historians regarding the enclosure movement in England between the... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
A Random Sampling of HBS Graduates in the News
breathtaking Internet IPOs - the company's stock went from $17 to $95.50 on its first day of trading. "It's the first pure-play journalism IPO," Kramer told USA Today (January 26, 1999), adding that the wonders of the Web are such that... View Details
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
gives firms discretion to manage impairments. We test this argument in a sample of firms with market indications of impairment (firms with book goodwill and market-to-book ratio below one). We find that the frequency of non-impairment in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
entrepreneurship in organizational sectors. Prior research suggests that firm foundings are driven by collective patterns of activity—that is, by patterns of prior foundings—including support from related markets as well as institutional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jul 2024
- News
Reddit’s Rise
sort of ships passing and had a great meeting and I got really excited because it’s really rare that you get to work on an asset that is, I think, a pillar of the internet and has such a big audience. It was hard to get that large an... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Evolution of Modern Pricing Models
models—we need to go back to when consumers started paying attention to pricing online. The internet becomes widespread starting in 1994, and suddenly you can know the price of something with very minimal effort. And so companies needed... View Details