Capture - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 Jan 2002
Research & Ideas

Read All About It! Newspapers Lose Web War

de-coupling mechanism could allow firms to capture the benefits of being motivated by the threat to their core business, without being bound by its rigidity-producing effects. By separating those who were running the business from the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation; Information; Publishing

16 May 2011
Research & Ideas

What Loyalty? High-End Customers are First to Flee

industry's rich array of data made it a prime subject for such a study. "Banks maintain customer data at a very fine grade level, and the government captures competitive data, so we have a very good picture of when competitors enter... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

06 Jan 2003
What Do You Think?

China: The Next Big Market Opportunity or the Next Big Bubble?

"massive issues around the respect of intellectual property rights" in arguing, "It's high time to call into question portions of the Chinese miracle." Perhaps Jack Zhang captured the sense of many respondents best... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

18 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

Tech Investment the Wise Way

value network created around a given business shapes the role that suppliers and customers play in influencing the value captured from commercialization of an innovation. The parties in the value network can benefit from coordination if... View Details

Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough & Richard S. Rosenbloom

21 Nov 2024
News

Mother Nurture

Julia Cole, Tina Keshani, and Sophia Richter (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) When Tina Keshani (MBA 2020), Julia Cole (MBA 2020), and Sophia Richter (MBA 2020) met at Startup Boot Camp in their first year at HBS, they quickly discovered they shared a vision to create a... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

06 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI

case capturing some of the dilemmas faced by African economies. South Africa is the largest economy in Africa by quite a distance, and is an illustration of the macro determinates of foreign direct investment, he said. Werker, whose... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

30 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

Tracks of My Tears: Reconstructing Digital Music

it is difficult to see how this strategy would affect less-established artists, and I think the long-run effects are difficult to predict. A better approach might be to continue to push for higher prices online and generally more flexibility in setting prices. The key... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Music

25 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]

their children's or relatives' college educations. The business would require a huge technology infrastructure, to capture millions of consumers' purchases and to direct company rebates on their spending (for credit-card and telephone... View Details

Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg

01 Jun 2016
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016

the Box: 40 Stories of Leading CEOs by Aparna Piramal (MBA 2002) (Random Business) The author explores the connections between work spaces and work styles of 40 progressive leaders, capturing their quirks, individual styles of working,... 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 Jun 2004
News

Luxe Redux

not just a $10,000 restaurant-quality stove. Creating, marketing, and selling the “killer app” product that captures that meaningful quality in an increasingly crowded, noisy marketplace is luxury’s ongoing challenge — and for alumni who... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; luxury; Retail Trade

18 Dec 2012
First Look

First Look: December 18

advantage of distributed innovation and outsourcing can bridge the tension between value creation and value capture by modifying the modular structure of their technical systems. Specifically, we introduce the concept of "IP... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

24 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)

It's Climate Week in New York City. The schedule features a UN Climate Summit, a People's Climate March, the Clinton Global Initiative, substantial criticism of the whole endeavor, and plenty of agitated interaction. There is a lot of noise here. How can businesses cut... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Energy; Utilities

16 Aug 2010
Lessons from the Classroom

HBS Introduces Marketing Analysis Tools for Managers

purchasing life. The CLV formula incorporates metrics that capture the outputs of three key customer strategies that firms employ: asset acquisition (attracting new customers to the firm); asset maximization (maximizing the value the firm... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

06 May 2022
Blog Post

Career Advice: Starting a Sustainable Startup

me, there are a lot of exciting opportunities in carbon capture technologies and the carbon markets. Just within the last six months, dozens of startups have received strong financing rounds from top-tier investors including Sequoia, the... View Details

20 Dec 2019
News

The 19 Musts of 2019

does Charles Darwin, who wrote that cooperative social behavior was a trait of survival and prosperity. Pearlstein ends with a beautiful quote from Robert Kennedy from 1968, that the GNP statistic our country so relies on captures... View Details

Keywords: podcast; Arts, Entertainment

01 Apr 1999
News

New Releases

in academic settings." Each chapter starts with a short anecdote that captures McArthur's unique style as well as his impact on the academic area covered. The chapter titled "Entrepreneurial Management: In Pursuit of Opportunity," for... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

05 Feb 2013
First Look

First Look: Feb. 5

http://www.hks.harvard.edu/var/ezp_site/storage/fckeditor/file/pdfs/centers-programs/programs/crisis-leadership/Working%20Together%20in%20Crises--CRJ%20March%202012.pdf Capturing History: The Case of the Federal Radio Commission in 1927... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer

song effectively maximizes profits? Could Apple charge less and capture more market share, or price higher and create more net profit? A: Apple makes little money from the sale of songs. It is estimated that record companies pocket about... View Details