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How to Launch Your Digital Platform: A Playbook for Strategists
By: Benjamin Edelman
The ubiquity of Internet access has caused a sharp rise in the number of businesses offering platforms that connect users for communication or commerce. Entrepreneurs are particularly drawn to these platforms because they create significant value and have modest... View Details
Keywords: Platforms; Launch; Mobilization Strategy; Two-Sided Platforms; Network Effects; Adoption; Entrepreneurship; Transportation Industry; Transportation Industry; Transportation Industry; Transportation Industry; Transportation Industry
Edelman, Benjamin. "How to Launch Your Digital Platform: A Playbook for Strategists." Harvard Business Review 93, no. 4 (April 2015): 90–97. (Reprinted in Launch a Start-Up That Lasts, Harvard Business Review OnPoint, Winter 2016.)
- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
individual pieces. My critical decisions at the earliest stage were thus to focus on themes such as Wall Street, leadership, consumption, the workplace, communications, and transportation that added up to a credible (and relevant) set of... View Details
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
expand internationally with a regional focus on East Asia or, alternatively, a focus on the U.S. and other Western markets. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=708479 HNA Group: Moving China's Air View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
Their infrastructure, in terms of transportation (roads) and communication (broadband internet and cell phone service), is more limited. And they are relatively inaccessible: If you live in Harlan and want to hop a plane, for instance,... View Details
- 05 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Business and the Global Poor
supply-chain investments to make it possible for the small farmer to produce good-quality milk, transport it, and sell it to the company. This makes sense for the company because it needs fresh, locally produced milk, and for the small... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
panel of leading venture capitalists. Taking top prize were Kareem Howard (HBS '02) and Olufemi Omojola with VehicleSense, a venture that will manufacture wireless magnetic sensors for use in the telematics area of the transportation... View Details
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
World War I, it was allowed to share patents with AT&T, Westinghouse, and United Fruit, which used radio to communicate across its infrastructure of plantations and transportation links throughout Latin America. LR: What lies ahead... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 27 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments
didn't happen. Big companies with cash didn't spend it. Banks with cash didn't lend it. Small businesses didn't attract capital and thus didn't help reduce unemployment. Europeans were paralyzed by debt crises and transportation shutdowns... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
kerosene heaters. You can see the kerosene tanks in the picture, one per unit. Frequently, it seemed, my dad would have to transport kerosene from the outside tank to the one inside heating unit in the dining area, which did a great job... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
Competition Policy International Whither Uber? Competitive Dynamics in Transportation Networks By: Edelman, Benjamin G. Abstract—Transportation Network Companies offer notable service advances—but do they comply with the law? And if not,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
on how to transform Line 1 into a driverless line without triggering a social conflict. After the shock of the 2000 Notre Dame de Lorette subway accident, in which a train derailed and caused 25 injuries in a Paris subway station, the state-owned Paris subway operator... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
case decisions are 1) what factors are critical to the decision; 2) how to calculate the tradeoffs among transportation costs, inventory costs, and order costs; and 3) how the company's managers should coordinate to make the decision.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Art Nature Business
ice from Spy Pond in the town of Arlington, Massachusetts. Established by Frederic Tudor in Boston in 1806, prior to the age of refrigeration, the Tudor Ice Company transported ice by rail and ship from freshwater ponds to locations... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A U.S. Turnaround?
Wien In 1945, the United States was clearly the world’s leader militarily, economically, and politically. Its universities were preeminent, and its cultural life was enriched by the migration of Europeans during the previous decade. This position of leadership lasted... View Details
Keywords: Byron Wien; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
chainsaws with four-stroke engines the leaders in cars, boats, and generators. Should the company be an invention company licensing its technology; an engine designer and manufacturer selling to auto, marine, and fixed OEM companies; or a fully integrated power and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society
(UPS has already made significant strategic moves in this direction.) Other early moves are likely to involve the reconfiguration of fragmented and mutually adversarial businesses that dramatically suboptimize wealth creation. The classic examples are in the broken... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
of at least 51 people in Panama after they ingested medicine made with diethylene glycol, an industrial chemical similar to antifreeze that a Chinese company used as a substitute for pharmaceutical-grade syrup. In June, officials at the National Highway View Details
- 06 Dec 2010
- News
Rebound in the Automotive Garage
- 29 Apr 2022
- News
Clean Slate
being treated properly. Not being able to properly transport and treat waste has a wide scale impact. Forty-eight percent of all children under the age of five are undernourished because of bad sanitation. What’s more, India spends 15... View Details
- 04 Oct 2018
- News
“A Shout Through Time”
War II plane crash sites, were searching for remnants of a transport plane in Zavattarello, Italy. The team, Gruppo Ricercatori Aerei Caduti or GRAC, was set up several years ago to help collect these sorts of relics. Piero Ricci (GMP... View Details