Publications

10 Jan 2011
Research & Ideas

Is Groupon Good for Retailers?

spas, paintball parties, etc., at a major markdown—up to 90 percent off a retailer's usual prices—and then requiring the retailer to pay a big chunk of the voucher revenues back to Groupon. But the Chicago-based firm is "the fastest growing company in View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising; Technology

23 Feb 2009
Research & Ideas

Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn

downtime created by the collapse of the Internet bubble gave rise to a host of new applications that we now collectively know as Web 2.0. Technologies and materials left unused due to the collapse of one industry can be creatively... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

November 2016 (Revised December 2016)
Case

Anthology: Pivoting the Business Model

By: Shikhar Ghosh and Christopher Payton

In July 2014, after 18 months and eight unsuccessful product launches, the CEO of Yabbly has agreed to sell his company to a larger, well-funded startup, providing a return of capital for his investors and a home for his team. Two weeks prior to the scheduled closing,... View Details

Keywords: Mergers ＆ Acquisitions; Business Model; Business Plan; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Innovation Strategy; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Internet and the Web; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Exit or Shutdown; Fairness; Valuation; Technology Industry; Consumer Products Industry; North America; United States; Seattle

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

The Knowledge Coach

himself. An expert coach understands this. Kleiner Perkins venture capitalist Vinod Khosla was mentoring the young start-up team at Zaplet. But Khosla also sent another of his protégés, Joe Kraus (founder of Web portal Excite), to talk... View Details

Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap

15 Nov 2004
Research & Ideas

Solving the Health Care Conundrum

HBR, Stewart was editorial director of Business 2.0, where he set editorial policy, developed story ideas, wrote feature articles on management trends, and penned a Web column, "Barely Managing." Stewart also served as a member... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health

06 Mar 2018
First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

2015. Using web scraping, we collected daily prices for controlled and non-controlled goods and measured the differential effects on inflation, product availability, and price dispersion. We first show that, although price controls are... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

How Businesses Can Respond to AIDS

Harvard AIDS Institute. It was co-sponsored by UNAIDS and the World Economic Forum. The fourth conference in the series will be held in Beijing on November 5, 2003, to coincide with the World Economic Forum Asian regional summit. For more information, see the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

12 May 2003
Research & Ideas

How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?

several years ago to connect the back end of its 50,000 stores with company headquarters. But it soon dawned on executives that 90 percent of Starbucks customers use the Web, and many are high-end business travelers. Offering them Web... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne & Martha Lagace; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications

27 Sep 2016
First Look

September 27, 2016

uncertain, ambiguous, and complex (VUCA), Web 2.5-enabled economy. We show that a trio of forces of digital disruption—specifically the disintermediation of the services of instructors and facilitators, the disaggregation of the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Jun 2010
First Look

First Look: June 2

was called the Knowledge Management (KM) Appliance, but as Web 2.0 tools came into wider use, this evolved into what the company called "Cognizant 2.0" (C2), which was designed to ensure that the KM Appliance capabilities for... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

04 Nov 2008
First Look

First Look: November 4, 2008

monetization potential of his business. That business, called Improbable Research, encompassed a magazine (Annals of Improbable Research), a high-profile annual event (the Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony), a web site (improbable.com), a series of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

29 Jul 2008
First Look

First Look: July 29, 2008

Social Networks Authors:Adam M. Kleinbaum and Michael L. Tushman Publication:HBS Centennial Issue. Harvard Business Review 86, nos. 7/8 (July - August 2008) Abstract Idea brokers are good at sparking cross-divisional innovation through their broad social networks. But... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

19 Jun 2012
First Look

First Look: June 19

alienating existing customers. The case follows Eileen Fisher's initial forays into social media as they chase a younger demographic and demonstrates the opportunities and pitfalls that await big brands when they enter the world of Web... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

May 2016 (Revised April 2018)
Case

Building the Digital Manufacturing Enterprise of the Future at Siemens

By: Willy Shih

This case describes the motivation for and the development of Siemens' digital manufacturing enterprise vision, which became the foundation for its implementation of Industrie 4.0. While the effort started with a purely defensive move by Anton Huber, head of the... View Details

22 Sep 2009
First Look

First Look: September 22

the mechanism of industry migration proposed in models like Duranton (2007). Shaping Online Consumer Choice by Partitioning the Web Authors:Jolie M. Martin and Michael I. Norton Publication:Psychology and Marketing 26, no. 10 (October... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

13 Mar 2007
First Look

First Look: March 13, 2007

surprise, none of these manipulations led to a better understanding of the task. Our results demonstrate and emphasize the robustness of the winner's curse phenomenon. Innovation and Its Discontents Authors:Adam B. Jaffe and Josh Lerner Periodical:Capitalism and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

January 2021 (Revised May 2021)
Case

Ocado Group: Ready for the Future

By: José B. Alvarez, Damien McLoughlin and Natalie Kindred

September 2013
Case

PadFone vs. FonePad

By: Willy Shih and Sen Chai

To Jonney Shih, Chairman of ASUSTek Computer, the introduction of Apple's iPad made clear the need to transition his company to a new cloud-computing era. But the company's roots in the manufacture of Windows-powered desktop and notebook PCs bounded the creativity of... View Details