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- August 2018
- Teaching Note
IguanaFix
By: Frank V. Cespedes and Thomas Eisenmann
Teaching Note for HBS No. 817-056. IguanaFix, based in Argentina, is a platform business that connects consumers with home improvement contractors. The founders are evaluating growth options and an investment offer. The case focuses on scaling issues for a venture... View Details
- 2016
- Working Paper
Controlling Versus Enabling
By: Andrei Hagiu and Julian Wright
Revenue sharing between principals and agents is commonly used to balance double-sided moral hazard. We provide a theory of how, when such revenue-sharing is optimal, a principal allocates control rights over decisions that either party could make. We show that the... View Details
Keywords: Control Rights; Decision Authority; Employment; Independent Contractors; Organizational Theory; Digital Platforms; Governance Controls; Ethics; Vertical Integration
Hagiu, Andrei, and Julian Wright. "Controlling Versus Enabling." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-002, July 2015. (Revised July 2016.)
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
got a high-tech upgrade. On a warm July day at a little past 11 a.m., as the early lunch crowd shuffles in, Karavites runs through the changes: digital menu boards, a mobile ordering system, a new delivery collaboration with UberEATS, and... View Details
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Angels Face the Innovator’s Dilemma
the mark. "Microsoft can innovate faster than your life can change," Christensen observed dryly. The only thing we know for sure is that nobody knows the right strategy as the disruption takes root.—Clayton M. Christensen When... View Details
- Article
Friends or Foes? Examining Platform Owners' Entry into Complementors' Spaces
By: Feng Zhu
As platform owners continue to expand their ecosystems, many of them have started to provide consumers with their own complementary applications. These moves position the platform owners as direct competitors to their complementors. This paper surveys empirical studies... View Details
Zhu, Feng. "Friends or Foes? Examining Platform Owners' Entry into Complementors' Spaces." Special Issue on Platforms. Journal of Economics & Management Strategy 28, no. 1 (Spring 2019): 23–28.
- November–December 2014
- Article
Accountable? The Problems and Solutions of Online Ad Optimization
By: Benjamin Edelman
Online advertising might seem to be the most measurable form of marketing ever invented.
Comprehensive records can track who clicked what ad—and often who saw what ad—to compare
those clicks with users' subsequent purchases. Ever-cheaper IT makes this tracking... View Details
Keywords: Online Advertising; Fraud; Optimization; Incentives; Digital Marketing; Contracts; Marketing Strategy; Organizational Design
Edelman, Benjamin. "Accountable? The Problems and Solutions of Online Ad Optimization." IEEE Security & Privacy 12, no. 6 (November–December 2014): 102–107.
- 29 Dec 2019
- Research & Ideas
Read Our Most Popular Research Stories of 2019
plans for future workforce makeup and training, and its search for opportunities from digital infrastructure and automation. What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology Technology doesn't drive disruption—customers do. The... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Nov 2014
- News
Expanding Audiences Through HBX CORe
of three offerings developed for HBX, a unique digital education initiative that enables HBS to extend its signature, case-based learning method to new audiences. The full suite of HBX programs includes specialized courses and HBX Live, a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Inbox: From Das’s Desk
classrooms, online through our HBX digital learning platform, in the regions and communities where you live, within your companies, or right in your email inbox. Our thinking is evolving toward a strategy of... View Details
- June 2004 (Revised November 2005)
- Case
PalmSource, Inc.
By: David B. Yoffie, Pai-Ling Yin and Christina L. Darwall
PalmSource CEO David Nagel had grand ambitions. In this newly spun-off company, he wanted to create the next leading software platform for hand-held devices. Explores the strategic challenges of building a platform business. View Details
Keywords: Digital Platforms; Applications and Software; Business Startups; Business Strategy; Information Technology Industry
Yoffie, David B., Pai-Ling Yin, and Christina L. Darwall. "PalmSource, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 704-473, June 2004. (Revised November 2005.)
- Web
Collections | Baker Library
rare books, broadsides, photographs, company annual reports, and audiovisual and digital materials, as well as works of art by a diverse range of artists from around the world. Collection Areas Highlights Collecting View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution
willingness to pay. Lal: They've created new sources of value for their customers that did not exist before. Q: And PetSmart. What's made them so successful? Lal: PetSmart saw the online threat early and built a strategy to insulate... View Details
- 24 Oct 2013
- News
Searching for a Better Society
corporate finance at Ernst and Young, as especially inspirational. "What was special," Dumon recalls, "was his energy. He made it fun." After graduating from HBS, Dumon returned to Europe and began working for McKinsey as a technology View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: Reemerging Technologies
the world who said this is the only way to listen to music. But today a new generation raised on digital music is also taking notice. Is reemergence a short-lived trend? Reemergent technologies often communicate authenticity, community,... View Details
- Web
From the Chief Financial Officer | Annual Report 2024
The increase largely represented spending on incremental projects, DTx, and IT infrastructure. Key accomplishments in fiscal 2024 included strategy and planning to modernize the IT portfolio, the initial implementation of a new View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Say “Green Cheese”
HOUSENBOLD: Picture perfect. All over America, shoeboxes full of print photos are gathering dust. But hard copy is not dead: There’s a growing demand for homemade picture books and scrapbooks whose pages people can design online themselves and fill with their own View Details
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Site Credits - A Chronicle of the China Trade
Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership Networked Business... View Details
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Marketing Strategies 21 OCT 2024 | The Parlor Room Harvard Business School Professor Sunil Gupta joins host Chris Linnane to unpack data analytics' pivotal role in digital marketing and offers View Details
- 21 Nov 2013
- News
Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins
keyboard on smart devices (just like Polaroid believed consumers needed to instantly print their digital photos—when was the last time you printed a photo!). They kept their platform closed, avoiding the design and distribution of public... View Details
- April 2018
- Supplement
Flipkart (B): The Ongoing Battle for India's E-Commerce Market
By: Sunil Gupta, Das Narayandas and Rachna Tahilyani
In 2017, both Flipkart and Amazon claimed leadership position in India's recently concluded key annual festive season sale, but it was too early to declare victory. Amazon continues to invest heavily in India. Competition from newer players is increasing. Media reports... View Details
Gupta, Sunil, Das Narayandas, and Rachna Tahilyani. "Flipkart (B): The Ongoing Battle for India's E-Commerce Market." Harvard Business School Supplement 518-097, April 2018.