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- 28 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It! Newspapers Lose Web War
In an effort to defend their core market from attack, newspaper companies were missing the new emerging market altogether.— Clark Gilbert Gilbert: The newspaper business worked for several reasons. First,... View Details
- November 2021 (Revised April 2022)
- Case
EbonyLife Media (A)
Founded by Mosunmola “Mo” Abudu in 2012 with a mission to bring high-quality African stories to the world, EbonyLife was the company behind many of Nigeria’s biggest films and TV shows. The company began as a television channel on the Africa-wide direct broadcast... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Mission and Purpose; Growth and Development Strategy; Digital Platforms; Consumer Behavior; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Nigeria; Africa
Wu, Andy, Feng Zhu, Pippa Tubman Armerding, and Wale Lawal. "EbonyLife Media (A)." Harvard Business School Case 722-372, November 2021. (Revised April 2022.)
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Technological Disruption Changes Everything
who are focused on their existing and most profitable markets and don't see the threat coming from below. Exhibit A: The death of Digital Equipment Corp., which, along with a string of other minicomputer... View Details
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Industrial Giant
great deal of time in the car." Combining these two things may well make OnStar extremely popular. However, there are several other aspects of OnStar that raise concerns that it might become the 1990s version of Roger Smith's robots. Entering the online... View Details
- 28 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur
They are eager to go to a global market by buying a global brand because they have the cash sitting on their balance sheet. So it was interesting to hear that Ranjan Kapur was on the same wavelength about brand building. Q: View Details
- October 2001
- Case
Meg Whitman and eBay Germany
By: Linda A. Hill and Maria Farkas
After acquiring the German online auction company Alando.de, eBay CEO Meg Whitman and her team must integrate Alando's Web site with the company's existing platform. The acquisition is the first step of eBay's journey to become a global trading platform. In addition to... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Integration; Digital Platforms; Internet and the Web; Globalized Markets and Industries; Germany
Hill, Linda A., and Maria Farkas. "Meg Whitman and eBay Germany." Harvard Business School Case 402-006, October 2001.
- 21 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 21, 2015
acquisitions of companies that were important providers of transaction software in the retail and hospitality industries. Now, in late November 2013, Nuti and his team were considering a third potential major acquisition: Digital Insight,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jul 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Evolution of Apple
In the context of the computer industry at large, professor David Yoffie explores the ups and downs of a company that's always been a bit different in "Apple Computer, 2006." The case poses this question: Given its 2 percent computer View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 1
mind-set and will be expected to offer your CEO deep insights on key business decisions. This article explores those developments in more detail and explains other findings about the latest requirements in each of seven C-level jobs: CIO, chief View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
literature. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-058.pdf Media Markets and Localism: Does Local News en Español Boost Hispanic Voter Turnout? Authors:Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Joel Waldfogel Abstract Since the dawn of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Music Downloads: Pirates—or Customers?
industry consider peer-to-peer services as marketing tools rather than the enemy? Should online pricing be different from in-store pricing? What happens when broadband makes it as easy to illegally download an entire CD as an individual... View Details
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
EPOC, and highly sophisticated software that can translate a person's emotions, cognitive thoughts, and facial expressions into digital outcomes. Emotiv wants the technology to be adopted by mainstream consumers and is leaning towards the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Mar 2021
- Book
Succeeding in the New Work-from-Anywhere World
emphasize answers to those recurring questions. They include: How do you measure productivity? How do you trust people you barely see? How do you even think about digital tools? Blanding: One of the recommendations you make in the book is... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 18 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017
preferences. Finally, we find no evidence that CEO activists using economic language are more persuasive in their appeals. The Relevance of Broker Networks for Information Diffusion in the Stock Market By: Di Maggio, Marco, Francesco... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- April 2000 (Revised June 2001)
- Case
DoubleClick Buys Abacus (A)
By: John A. Deighton
By acquiring Abacus, DoubleClick won the power to serve ads with unprecedented precision, because it brought together Web surfers' online and offline identities. Several competitors had developed advanced systems for serving ads on the web, but DoubleClick had the... View Details
Keywords: Information; Rights; Internet and the Web; Ethics; Competitive Advantage; Social Issues; Customer Focus and Relationships; Digital Marketing; Advertising Industry
Deighton, John A. "DoubleClick Buys Abacus (A)." Harvard Business School Case 500-091, April 2000. (Revised June 2001.) (request a courtesy copy.)
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
obtain bandwidth larger (smaller) than s/(s+f). The paper constitutes a first step towards a general analytical foundation for scarce resource allocation in peer-to-peer file sharing networks. PDF not available. Peer-to-Peer File Sharing and the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 20, 2018
consequentially experienced higher asset growth and increased market share during the crisis. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54253 November 8, 2018 NEJM Catalyst Transitioning Payment Models:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Oct 2016
- What Do You Think?
Can the US Economy Regain the Growth and Prosperity of the Past?
very proficient in mobilizing capital to stoke innovation and create new industries for sustained growth. It should focus on immense global market opportunities ” Tip Parker suggested what those new global View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 25 Apr 2012
- What Do You Think?
How Will the “Age of Big Data” Affect Management?
organized. Other facts are generated by so-called digital sensors operating worldwide in industrial equipment, autos, and the like. By linking the sensors, an "industrial Internet" can be created. These trends appear to have "opportunity"... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 07 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 7
formula for estimating the lifetime value of each piece of content. As the business models of print and broadcast media declined, Demand had figured out how to leverage digital and social media tools to bring down the costs of creating... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne