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Globalization - Faculty & Research
were considering several exit options including selling to a competitor or to a private equity firm. The co-founders decided, instead, to embark on a seven-year process to transfer 100% of the ownership of the company from themselves and... View Details
- 21 Jun 2022
- HBS Case
Free Isn’t Always Better: How Slack Holds Its Own Against Microsoft Teams
Commission has taken accusations against Microsoft seriously in the past, he says. Yoffie adds that Salesforce’s next crucial decision is whether to keep selling Slack as a premium service, add it to a service bundle, or offer it for... View Details
- 11 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Fix This! Why is it so Painful to Buy a New Car?
prices. And high-end dealerships can make car buying feel like a trip to the spa. But overall, little has changed in the high-pressure business of selling vehicles. So what should the industry be doing to make customers feel better about... View Details
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About - Business History
He specializes in business, labor, and economic history. He is author of Fortune Tellers: The Story of America's First Economic Forecasters (2013) and Birth of a Salesman: The Transformation of Selling in America(2004). He is currently... View Details
- 26 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Paid Promos Take the Shine Off YouTube Stars (and Tips for Better Influencer Marketing)
For sponsored content to be perceived as authentic, it has to somehow mesh with the influencer’s overall persona. A fashion influencer hocking aprons? Reasonable. A music influencer selling chips? Suspicious but not unreasonable. The key... View Details
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
http://hbr.org/search/613073-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 813-140 18 Months in a Startup: Zaggora.com The founders of Zaggora reflected back on a tumultuous year and a half in which they had generated, from just $40,000 in personal savings, a multi-million... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
Can Amazon Remake Health Care?
First, the supply chain in health care is a mess. There are so many intermediaries selling to other people, and Amazon has done extremely well by streamlining the supply chain. So they must be thinking that the current insurers and other... View Details
- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations
like that was explicitly designed to engage the drives, the skills, the smarts, and the emotions of such people in a collaborative effort to design, produce, and sell products and services of value to the wider world? After we have... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
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In The Classroom - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
Case 207-084 Selling Biovail Short By: Malcolm P. Baker , Chris Lombardi & Aldo Sesia NOV 2006 | Harvard Business School Case 207-071 Fortress Investment Group By: Malcolm P. Baker , Carlos M. Galvez & James Quinn JAN 2008 | Harvard... View Details
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Cars on Time
The Rise of Installment Selling Home Finance Cars on Time The Secondary Credit Market The Usurer's Grip Research Links Credits For the first few decades of automobile history, cars were luxury items. The people who bought them did so for... View Details
- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
IPO or M&A? How Venture Capital Shapes a Startup's Future
Entrepreneurs rarely consider who will ultimately own their startups—and what that means for founders—when they court venture capitalists. New research suggests they should. A startup funded by VCs who tend to work with the same group of partners are more likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 28 Jan 2020
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Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking
to buy stakes in the venture, because he felt that the potential buyers were interested only in the number of users they could sell to rather than the bigger dream of reducing class distinctions. In essence, no dream, no deal. (Of course,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
“cloak” their most valuable trades. This takes the form, for instance, of a manager who sells her entire position of Microsoft on March 30, and then repurchases to re-establish the same position on April 1. This manager will economically... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 16 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
When the Internet Runs Out of IP Addresses
roadblocks are delaying its widespread implementation, probably for many years. So what happens when the last IPv4 address is assigned? Harvard Business School professor Benjamin G. Edelman proposes a solution: Create a market for holders of previously assigned but... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Case Study: The Home Team
make sure they weren’t getting a dud. “Now it’s a red flag to try to sell a car without proactively offering a CARFAX report. That’s how we’d like to see this go,” says Kennealey. The Question: Nester has received zero pushback on its $87... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Case Study: Testing the Waters
Illustration by Christina Spano Endurance training was nothing new to Lauren Picasso (MBA 2014), who’d raced through her younger years as a cross-country runner and swimmer. In 2017, when she was director of marketing at Jet.com and looking for a physical challenge,... View Details
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Mollie Breen
about 'return on technology' when they need to hear about 'return on investment.' I learned a big lesson: tech won't sell itself. You need a business plan and a strategy – how will this make money?" Finding support in... View Details
- 16 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Getting the Message: How the Internet is Changing Advertising
Internet—ad serving. The firm sells ad space on the Web sites it represents and has invested heavily in developing technology to deliver targeted ads to these sites, with the simple goal of "making advertising work on the Web."... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 24 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
The 'Amazon Effect' Is Changing Online Price Competition—and the Fed Needs to Pay Attention
phenomena.” “In a world with online competition, we need to reconsider what makes prices sticky, not just across time but also across locations.” Cavallo focuses on multichannel retailers—those that have an online presence but sell most... View Details
- 11 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
The High Risks of Short-Term Management
the financial crisis, companies like New Century Financial or Countrywide Financial built their success by incentivizing their employees on volume--to sell as many mortgages as possible with little regard for quality—and the stock market... View Details