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- 21 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 21
largely emphasizes the collective benefits of market creation and overlooks the costs borne by individual evangelists. Through an inductive multiple-case study of five startup competitors, we traced firms’ efforts to stake out a new View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018
literature on political risk in business and economic history by examining both new perspectives (risk encountered by companies domestically, rather than risk for foreign investors) and new settings... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
April 4, 2019 Palgrave Macmillan Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream: How Technology Is Transforming Lending and Shaping a New Era of Small Business Opportunity By: Mills, Karen G. Abstract—Fintech, Small Business & the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
Shane Abstract— No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55575 Pre-published online, December 22, 2018 Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society The New Silk Road: Implications for... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Managers, Here’s How to Bond with New Hires Remotely
field experiment at a large North American company, provides plenty of reassurance, showing that regular Zoom chats with managers fosters solid career-building connections for new workers. In fact, informal “virtual watercooler” sessions... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 10 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
of companies that are helping create the conditions for the industry’s growth by amassing knowledge about best practices, influencing the development of regulations, exploring new uses for drones, developing a professional workforce, and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- March 17, 2021
- Other Article
Beyond Pajamas: Sizing Up the Pandemic Shopper
By: Ayelet Israeli, Eva Ascarza and Laura Castrillo
A first look at how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted e-commerce apparel shopping in the US and the UK. Extensive analysis and interactive graphics utilizing millions of transactions.
While the pandemic is still playing out, our preliminary investigations... View Details
While the pandemic is still playing out, our preliminary investigations... View Details
Keywords: Retail; Retail Analytics; Consumer; Pandemic; COVID; COVID-19; Apparel; Ecommerce; Online Shopping; Online Apparel; Online Sales; Returns; CRM; Customer Retention; Customer Experience; Customer Value; Digital; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customers; Health Pandemics; Consumer Behavior; Customer Relationship Management; Internet and the Web; Behavior; E-commerce; Retail Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Technology Industry; United States; United Kingdom
Israeli, Ayelet, Eva Ascarza, and Laura Castrillo. "Beyond Pajamas: Sizing Up the Pandemic Shopper." Harvard Business School Working Knowledge (March 17, 2021).
- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54036 August 23, 2018 NEJM Catalyst Using a New EHR System to Increase Patient Engagement, Improve Efficiency, and Decrease Cost By: French, Katy, Barbra Bryce Speer, Alexis B. Guzman, Tayab... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017
working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53636 Scale versus Scope in the Diffusion of New Technology: Evidence from the Farm Tractor By: Gross, Daniel P. Abstract—Using the farm tractor as a case study, I show that... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 22 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
Platforms Thrive and Others Don’t By: Zhu, Feng, and Marco Iansiti Abstract— In the digital economy, scale is no guarantee of continued success. After all, the same factors that help an online platform expand quickly—such as the low cost... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Feb 2021
- Book
Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy
Selling is changing, but broad generalizations and false dichotomies about ecommerce, big data, and other trends—hallmarks of current sales advice—are keeping business leaders from making sound decisions, says Frank Cespedes, author of a View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 28 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
Disrupting Consumer Packaged Goods Brandless, an online direct-to-consumer seller of upscale private-label consumer packaged goods, offered consumers a limited assortment of values-conscious products delivered directly to their homes with... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 22 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
forthcoming American Economic Review Innovation, Reallocation and Growth By: Acemoglu, Daron, Ufuk Akcigit, Harun Alp, Nicholas Bloom, and William R. Kerr Abstract—We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth, and reallocation featuring endogenous... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51635 forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics Cost of Experimentation and the Evolution of Venture Capital By: Ewens, Michael, Ramana Nanda, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Abstract—We study how technological... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
primary education. While reforms helped expand bureaucratic authority, they also generated new public demands for state accountability. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52339 Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
for both brick-and-mortar and online retailers. We focus on product categories where consumers may purchase multiple products during a season and investigate a new reason why frequent assortment rotations... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- October 2011 (Revised September 2014)
- Case
Moda Operandi: A New Style of Fashion Retail
By: Mukti Khaire
Moda Operandi is a startup in the fashion industry. The firm organizes online trunk shows of designers' collections, allowing its members to directly order clothes from the collections shown in Fashion Weeks all over the world. Moda Operandi conveys the preorders to... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Distribution Channels; Internet and the Web; Design; Fashion Industry; Retail Industry
Khaire, Mukti. "Moda Operandi: A New Style of Fashion Retail." Harvard Business School Case 812-040, October 2011. (Revised September 2014.)
- 02 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019
However, app developers’ incentives to innovate are not completely suppressed; rather, they shift innovation to unaffected and new apps. Given many apps already offering similar features, Google’s entry may reduce such social... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
Hyunjin Kim, and Michael Luca Abstract—Can new data sources from online platforms help to measure local economic activity? Government datasets from agencies such as the U.S. Census Bureau provide the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019
commons, which emerged well after Hardin wrote his seminal article. Unlike the physical world Hardin wrote about, the digital world is essentially infinitely abundant, which leads to a very different tragedy and many new opportunities.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman