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- 13 May 2014
- Op-Ed
The Alibaba Effect
great online giants. “Alibaba's only limits are those imposed by the speed at which these enterprises continue to grow” Still largely unknown in the West, Alibaba dominates China's Internet and logistics space with over 600 million... View Details
- 17 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 17
PatientsLikeMe: An Online Community of Patients Sunil Gupta and Jason RiisHarvard Business School Case 511-093 PatientsLikeMe (PLM) is an online community where patients share... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
Why Are Web Sites So Confusing?
stories. Indeed, all of these intermediaries are in the business of matching consumers with products. Trouble is, prior to visiting an intermediary, consumers are interested only in some products, which may not necessarily be the ones... View Details
Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu & Bruno Jullien
- 25 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
It’s All in a Name: Reputable Investors Help Startups Shine
a new study coauthored by Harvard Business School Professor Shai Bernstein. “Attracting high-quality talent is an important challenge for any young firm, and it’s critical to establishing reputation and growth.” “One of the key challenges... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 02 May 2005
- What Do You Think?
Where is Consumer Generated Marketing Taking Us?
the time, I bet he would have spent significant time on the online underground." Fernando Polo dismissed the potential pitfalls of bias caused by listening only to outspoken users of the Internet by saying, "Excuses such as... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 16 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 16, 2008
theoretical explanation for workplace silence based on implicit theories of voice. Cases & Course MaterialsASUSTek Computer Inc. Eee PC (A) Harvard Business School Case 609-011 ASUSTek Computer was the world's largest manufacture of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2007
Cases & Course MaterialsAcelero Learning: Building a Culture of Performance Harvard Business School Case 307-048 No abstract available. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=307048 Cintas y... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Playbook for Small-Business Job Creation
As Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA), Karen Mills spent four years as part of President Barack Obama's senior economic team and a member of his Cabinet, specifically focused on the health and growth of America's... View Details
- 25 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 25
Download working paper: http://www.nber.org/papers/w20667 Multi-Sided Platforms By: Hagiu, Andrei, and Julian Wright Abstract—We study the economic tradeoffs that drive organizations to position themselves closer to or further away from a multi-sided platform (MSP)... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 8
Cases & Course MaterialsGLOBIS Mukti Khaire, Akiko Kanno, and Nobuo SatoHarvard Business School Case 811-061 Yoshito Hori, dean of the Graduate School of Management, GLOBIS University, was planning to launch a full-time English MBA... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Economic Jitters Push Pandemic Job Seekers to Big Companies, Not Startups
The coronavirus pandemic is spurring job applicants to seek positions at big companies and avoid startups in what new research calls an economic “flight to safety.” Job applicants using AngelList Talent, the largest online recruitment... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 19 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Here Comes Internet2—Time to Shed Dot Vertigo
fallacious," Nolan charged. In a lively discussion with about fifty HBS alumni held during reunion weekend this summer, Nolan, who spent a year's sabbatical concentrating on Internet2, described the current state and potential of the beast. Though its View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
Yoffie Publication:Harvard Business Review 87, no. 4 (April 2009) No abstract is available at this time. Purchase the article: http://hbr.harvardbusiness.org/2009/04/whats-your-google-strategy/ar/1 The Geography of Trade in View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Global Investments Are Still a Good Bet
sense to be diversified than it used to in the past, since, at the end of the day, all markets are moving together,” says Luis Viceira, George E. Bates Professor and Senior Associate Dean for International Development at Harvard Business... View Details
- 16 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Has Apple Reinvented the Watch?
Watch out. Apple hopes to claim a new frontier on your wrist. The company announced its new Apple Watch on Tuesday, sending journalists and a bevy of other observers, online and off, into a flurry of analysis and speculation over a... View Details
- 12 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Unexpected Link Between Cadavers and Careers
jointly decide to donate their bodies to science after they die. In Individuals' Decision to Co-Donate or Donate Alone: An Archival Study of Married Whole Body Donors in Hawaii, published online by the Public Library of Science, the... View Details
- 06 Nov 2000
- What Do You Think?
Succession at GE: What’s Next?
Summing Up It was announced today (November 27) that Jeffrey Immelt, 44-year-old president and CEO of GE Medical Systems, will succeed Jack Welch as CEO of GE. A CNN online news flash stated that he is "a natural leader,"... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 21 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 21, 2015
new drug markets. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49384 Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 715-438 The Transformation of NCR During his tenure as CEO since 2005, Bill Nuti... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is Denial Endemic to Management?
And yet when poor results from the measures are presented to management, they can be ignored or, worse yet, denied, as happened so often in the days leading up to the recent Great Recession. It's denial that's the concern of Richard Tedlow in his new book, Denial: Why... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Be an Angel Investor
the big Internet wins of the late 1990s, you may not know a thing about early-stage investing. By the same token, if you had 10 failures in multiple industries, you might not know anything either. But you will if you keep paying attention. Reading View Details
Keywords: by David Amis & Howard Stevenson