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- 25 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Software Platforms Revolutionize Business
solutions for myriad tasks that previously were performed in traditional, non-tech ways. In this way, they have improved the productivity of many traditional industries (just look at all the industries that use PCs today) and created brand new ones (just look at the... View Details
- 14 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Web Surfers Have a Schedule and Stick to It
the internet might be a bit more understandable if you take into account what anthropologists have discovered—that internet use inside most homes is “bursty” and “plastic.” In other words, we use little... View Details
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 28 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Harness Auction Fever
Internet Auctions" currently in press in the journal Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. Malhotra says the research carries lessons for business people who bid on everything from services to new employees.... View Details
- 04 May 2016
- What Do You Think?
What Does Boaty McBoatface Tell Us About Brand Control on the Internet?
When should control over a brand be ceded to the public? What do you think? Original Column The Internet is a wonderfully democratic device that brings large numbers of people together around ideas practically in an instant. In one sense,... View Details
- 15 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
A New Model for Business: The Museum
At first blush, the consumer appeal of a business like Groupon seems pretty obvious. The popular deal-of-the-day Internet start-up sells vouchers to restaurants, spas, and other local businesses at major markdowns--and who wouldn't want... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
where the product can be delivered directly online such as software, travel agencies, or media. Indeed, the digitalization of content paired with widespread adoption of broadband Internet is driving a major shift toward digital... View Details
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
must pay the cost of the marketplace, not the sellers. Sahlman: Scott, can you give us the short version of your career? Randall: After working at Procter & Gamble in brand management and in consumer packaged goods, I got into e-commerce with NECX and then I ran... View Details
- 04 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Start to Measure Your E-commerce Success
the company's e-commerce project objectives. Different tools and techniques are available to measure the different aspects of e-commerce performance. For example, online surveys and polls are powerful tools to help e-commerce enabled companies to better understand the... View Details
Keywords: by Marc J. Epstein
- 03 Apr 2009
- What Do You Think?
How Much Obsolescence Can Business and Society Absorb?
viewpoint will become more isolated and narrow." Brenda Walker, who chided me for not supplying the Internet link to the David Brooks column that I referenced, suggested that "trusted sources of information filtering will have... View Details
- 09 Dec 2015
- Research Event
When Hosts Attack: The Competitive Threat of Online Platforms
run on Microsoft’s Windows platform, was the dominant web browser in the 1990s until squashed by Microsoft’s own Internet Explorer. In February 2015 there was the launch of Meerkat, an app that lets users broadcast live streaming video... View Details
- 12 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Broadband Explosion: Thinking About a Truly Interactive World
communication has been elusive. That's too bad, because people have been anticipating profound effects from the ability to collaborate in real time at a distance for a long time. One of our favorite examples of this is described in a paper written in 1968 by View Details
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Web traffic statistics
Where can I get web traffic statistics for specific Internet sites? HBS subscribes to: eMarketer compiles freely available Internet and e-commerce statistics. The following provide freely available... View Details
- 28 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
Amazon, eBay and the Bidding Wars
Beware of competitors lying in the grass, says Harvard Business School professor Alvin E. Roth. His study of bidding practices on eBay suggest that those who wait until the last minute to bid—a practice called sniping—is an effective way to not only get what you want,... View Details
- 03 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Web Services
Movie buffs may recall that "plastics" was the whispered tip to Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate; if the movie were remade today, "Web services" might replace that advice. An overflow audience already seemed to know this, crowding a Hawes Hall... View Details
- 03 Nov 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Pricing and Efficiency in the Market for IP Addresses
- 15 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
We Have Better Ways to Break Habits Than Willpower. Why Don't We Use Them?
strategies—external aids like Internet blockers, nicotine patches, and swear jars. At the same time, studies show that few people use these supportive strategies. Why? “We know these kinds of strategies are helpful, and we know they tend... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
Jeffrey P. Bezos
Founding his company just as the Internet was gaining widespread usage and credibility, Bezos created the world’s largest on-line bookseller. Realizing that few bookstores, even superstores, carry more than 100,000 books, Bezos created an... View Details
Keywords: Retail
- 09 Oct 2017
- News
Saving an American Publishing Icon
David Bradley (MBA 1977) is chairman of Atlantic Media. In this interview, he explains how the rise of the internet actually saved and helped improve the venerable Atlantic magazine. “The first company I started, when I was 26 years old,... View Details