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- 11 Mar 2021
- News
Leading with Heart
percent. We were seeing a massive write-off—$30 odd million of ingredients because nobody's buying anything. And at the same time, one night, my wife and I are trying to order online grocery. And the online... View Details
- 13 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Paid Search Ads Pay Off for Lesser-Known Restaurants
it would be different.” An experimental field study was born. Yelp agrees to run free ads The genesis of the advertising project came while Luca was having coffee with Geoff Donaker, then COO of Yelp. Yelp, which hosts consumer View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
a wide assortment of consumer durables. Two years later, Barford took Beatty into the big time, buying up a larger competitor, General Steel Wares, Inc. (GSW). As head of the new concern, Barford reorganized GSW and developed it into the... View Details
- 06 May 2021
- HBS Case
How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups
As CEO of Caribu, Tuchman set about to expand its online library of books and games and became one of the few Latina founders with a technology-based growth company. Miami native Felecia Hatcher held corporate jobs in technology until the... View Details
Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Every Trick in the Book
of books that make up its online inventory on hand—but the curation is not specific to the location. Nationwide ordering trends and reviews inform what is available on the shelves in Los Angeles, Chicago,... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 28 Jul 2016
- Op-Ed
Where is TripAdvisor for Doctors?
TripAdvisor demonstrates the reach and power of recommendation services for consumers: it has become the world’s largest travel site with 340 million unique monthly visitors and 350 million reviews online... View Details
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News - Research Computing Services
Effective February 11, all necessary compliance documentation, including Institutional Review Board (IRB) documentation, Data Use Agreements (DUA) and Data Safety (DAT) documentation, must be complete and approved before submitting a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
At Consoleya, a coworking space in Cairo’s former French Consulate, multiple levels of meeting rooms and workspaces operate at capacity, from a ground-floor café to a rooftop deck. The scene—coders bent over laptops, concepts scrawled on whiteboards, clusters of people... View Details
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Guidelines for Choosing Resources - Research Computing Services
importing a text file (e.g., .csv), you may need to request up to 10x the size of the text file. We discourage ongoing reading and writing of text files; to save time and RAM, try to read your text files into binary data files and work primarily with those. You can... View Details
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
NGOs, and business associations in order to understand the challenges from multiple perspectives: psychology, sociology, law, and insurance. The group used these insights to create an open-source online guidebook. TurkFurnit translated... View Details
- 10 May 2020
- Blog Post
Let’s Hear it For the Moms – The Incredible Balancing Act of Student Mothers
HBS! Rachel Silverstein | Class of 2020 Little(s): Jamie (4 months) Pre-HBS Industry: Consumer startup Proudest Accomplishment: Getting into HBS :) Post-HBS Job: Consulting How do you do it? I have an extremely supportive husband! And... View Details
- 27 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Social Network Marketing: What Works?
it's important to understand both who influences purchase decisions in online communities and which groups of users can be influenced. “Viral campaigns truly leverage the network aspect of these social networking sites.” "By understanding... View Details
- 15 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Remembering Alfred Chandler
great-grandfather, the business editor and analyst Henry Varnum Poor, to 2 recent volumes, published while he was in his 80s: Inventing the Electronic Century: The Epic Story of the Consumer Electronics and Computer Industries and Shaping... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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cell phone and television network business, and started his own phone company. Ed Jones Jr. MBA 1972 In 1973, the Harvard Business Review published Edward Jones's personal account, “What It's Like to Be a Black Manager.” At the time he... View Details
- 14 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
How to Profit from Scarcity
Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge.Marketers are trained to match supply to demand. Everything that View Details
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
large tech companies and retailers are making bold moves into the industry. These health care “entrants” aim to leverage their general skills in serving consumers to address barriers in health care delivery. Will these new entrants be... View Details
- 19 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Privacy Protection Notices Turn Off Shoppers
By now, it’s an expected right-of-passage. As you enter credit card information for an online purchase, up pops two familiar words: “Privacy Notice.” Does seeing those words make you more confident about the transaction, knowing that the... View Details
- 04 Jun 2014
- What Do You Think?
Does Internet Technology Threaten Brand Loyalty?
choice, why would you have to be brand loyal?" Consumer loyalty, he continued, "will vary and fluctuate on a technological continuum of innovation/change (loyal one day and maybe not the next)." Based on personal... View Details
- 13 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
Hiding Products From Customers May Ultimately Boost Sales
Retailers routinely swap out the products they display to customers. It’s called assortment rotation, and it’s a popular business strategy for many brick-and-mortar and online stores alike. Retailing trends such as “fast fashion” (think... View Details
- 29 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Creating the Perfect Super Bowl Ad
convert consumer interest to purchases it might be time to reduce the volume on talking babies and dancing monkeys and up the attention on brand. Teixeira is now talking with companies that are trying to connect television ad campaigns... View Details