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- 12 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Creating Online Ads We Want to Watch
Marketing Research, "Emotion-Induced Engagement in Internet Video Ads," coauthored by Teixeira and fellow researchers Michel Wedel of the University of Maryland and Rik Pieters of Tilburg University.) The researchers paid 58 adults to... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
ago, how central concepts such as interconnectivity and the Internet would be by the time we gathered here in 1996." "Nobody on the organizing committee had any idea, when the planning for this conference began years ago, how central... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
Stephen M. Case
Case, the founder, has built America Online into the world’s largest online service provider with over 20 million members, and services which include commerce, e-mail, chat, and Internet access. In 1998, America Online’s revenues were... View Details
Keywords: Communications
- September 1998 (Revised September 1998)
- Exercise
Working with Your "Shadow Partner"
By: Richard L. Nolan and Kelley Porter
Intended to introduce individuals to search engines and databases on the Internet, in particular those that are available to HBS. View Details
Nolan, Richard L., and Kelley Porter. Working with Your "Shadow Partner". Harvard Business School Exercise 399-051, September 1998. (Revised September 1998.)
Rene C. McPherson
programming language also enabled the company to prosper exponentially through the advent of the internet and its intense requirement for large-scale, real-time data processing. View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
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
Michael R. Bloomberg
expansive financial coverage. He parlayed his initial success on Wall Street into a full-service financial news media empire including radio stations, television programs, and Internet coverage before becoming the Mayor of New York City. View Details
Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media
Richard S. Fuld, Jr.
the collapse of the internet boom, Lehman prospered by building its bond business, investing in equities in Europe, and enhancing its overall banking and research capabilities. View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Designing Students
Iansiti and Assistant Professor Stefan H. Thomke. The occasion was last December's HBS annual Product Design Fair, which featured more than fifty student-created product designs ranging from Internet software to coffee-roasting equipment. View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Big Doings in Big Apple: New York Club Hosts Multiple Events
networking opportunities, the event, whose speakers included HBS professor Myra M. Hart, featured discussions on the specifics of financing and running a startup. Last month, the club held a one-day symposium, "The Internet for the Next... View Details
- 20 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Maybe Uber isn't God's Gift to Mankind
It’s easy to understand why so many people embrace transportation network companies like Uber and the growing number of other ride-sourcing startups, which enable drivers to make money using their own vehicles. By allowing passengers to hail a ride via a smartphone... View Details
- 2022
- Afterword
The Internet's Effects on Consumption: Useful, Harmful, Playful
By: John A. Deighton and Leora Kornfeld
Deighton, John A., and Leora Kornfeld. "The Internet's Effects on Consumption: Useful, Harmful, Playful." Afterword to The Routledge Handbook of Digital Consumption. 2nd ed., edited by Rosa Llamas and Russell Belk, 529–539. Routledge, 2022.
- 2016
- Working Paper
The Search for Peer Firms: When Do Crowds Provide Wisdom?
By: Charles M.C. Lee, Paul Ma and Charles C.Y. Wang
In knowledge-based economies, many business enterprises defy traditional industry boundaries. In this study, we evaluate six "big data" approaches to peer firm identifications and show that some, but not all, "wisdom-of-crowd" techniques perform exceptionally well. We... View Details
Keywords: Peer Firm; EDGAR Co-search; Analyst Co-coverage; Wisdom Of Crowds; Performance Benchmarking; Crowd Of Crowds; Internet and the Web; Accounting
Lee, Charles M.C., Paul Ma, and Charles C.Y. Wang. "The Search for Peer Firms: When Do Crowds Provide Wisdom?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 15-032, October 2014. (Revised November 2016.)
- 2001
- Article
Online-Marketing-Controlling
By: Alexander Kracklauer, D. Quinn Mills, Olaf Passenheim and Dirk Seifert
- 15 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
In the Virtual Dressing Room Returns Are A Real Problem
product categories on the Internet. An analysis by Harris Interactive ecommercePulse computed the ratio of dollars consumers spent offline as a result of online shopping to dollars spent online. The greater the ratio, the more likely that online shoppers use View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
another significant advance. For if the mutual fund first empowered the "little guy" by encouraging him to visit Wall Street, the Internet has captured the Street and placed it at his disposal, inside his personal computer. A Nation of... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Getting the Message
In 1994, the World Wide Web was not yet a household name. A new company called Yahoo! had just developed a way to look for sites on the Internet -- the search engine. HotWired debuted as the first online magazine to carry advertisements.... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Jeanne Jackson
When you look at two of the biggest developments in business in the last 25 years — globalization and the Internet — Jeanne P. Jackson has been right in the thick of it. Before launching her own small investment and consulting firm last... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Critical Information: MIS Monitors the Ever-Changing World of IT
General Manage-ment unit. With the growing importance of the Internet and the fact that the daily operations of most organizations now rely heavily on computer technology, IT "has moved to the top of the agenda of most CEOs," notes Nolan.... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb