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- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
involves subsidizing one user group and profiting from the other. The second challenge is coping with winner-take-all dynamics that often prevail in markets with network effects. The third challenge is "platform envelopment," which occurs when a platform...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
Jumpstarting Innovation: Using Disruption to Your Advantage
wallet" by adding new business models—for example, if you currently have a product business, can you add information, services, or solutions? Can you expand into adjacent businesses by either taking over activities that used to be...
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by Lynda M. Applegate
- Web
CFO Letter - Annual Report 2016
million in capital activity, up from $81 million in the prior year and $19 million seven years earlier. The increase was primarily driven by construction activity at the Chao Center, Klarman Hall, and the Life Lab, plus the renovation of HBP’s new headquarters View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
A Binary Formula
change is in the air. While trucks continue to rumble in and out of the container-cargo rail yard opposite the HBS parking lot, the depot’s days are numbered. Adjacent to it, several blocks of low-rise commercial buildings are already...
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- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
growth. The case traces the evolution of Under Armour’s brand and describes how the company chose to extend or not extend its brand into adjacent categories and markets in the past. Now Under Armour needs to decide on their next steps....
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Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 10
in a multi-platform bundle. Dominant firms otherwise sheltered from entry by standalone rivals can be vulnerable to an adjacent platform provider's envelopment attack. We develop a taxonomy of envelopment attacks and analyze conditions...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Spangler Effect
around food and drink. A frequent campus visitor, Dick Spangler remembers the day in Dean Clark’s office when the subject of a campus center first came up. “The Dean said, ‘I need to talk to you about something. Let’s walk over here to the parking lot then View Details
- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
that the time was now to capitalize on the trust that the platform had built with its members and explore adjacent opportunities. The options in front of them represented a wide variety of ways to grow, but how should the team prioritize...
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Carmen Nobel
- Web
From the CFO - Financial Report 2015
Klarman Hall, a new facility adjacent to the Spangler Center. Scheduled for opening in fiscal 2018, Klarman Hall has been designed to leverage the School’s convening power by accommodating the hundreds of diverse events hosted by HBS each...
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- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
Market day also means it’s a busy day for Gregoria Alvarez Reyes, whose store sits on an adjacent corner, right in the path of foot traffic. For the past 11 years, Reyes has owned and operated Farmacia Fradoni in this northwest section of...
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- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
growth. Regional industry growth also increases with the strength of related clusters in the region and with the strength of similar clusters in adjacent regions. We also find evidence of the complementarity between employment and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
growth of wages, number of establishments, and patenting. Industry and cluster level growth also increases with the strength of related clusters in the region and with the strength of similar clusters in adjacent regions. Importantly, we...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
transforming an entrepreneurial company into an institutionalized firm, Çavuşoğlu established adjacent businesses such as movie advertising and ticket sales. The most recent step in transforming Mars was to establish a movie distribution...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
founders are faced with the challenge of how to maintain growth. Do they vertically integrate more into the back-end, or should they try to do acquisitions in adjacent markets? The case is intended to be used in conjunction with the...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
neuroscience, strong progress has been made in understanding how neuroscience can inform consumer decision making. Here, we sketch the development of this discipline and compare it to that of the adjacent field of neuroeconomics. We...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
have more income-decreasing discretionary accruals. Further, relative to adjacent periods, the evidence is concentrated in the two calendar quarters immediately preceding the 2004 election, consistent with heightened incentives for firms...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
method for identifying economically related peer firms and for measuring their relative importance. Our results show that firms appearing in chronologically adjacent searches by the same individual (Search-Based Peers or SBPs) are...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Winning with Digital Platforms Online Course | HBS Online
Network Bridging Featured Exercises Describe ways platforms can reduce users’ adoption costs Determine how a firm can overcome its chicken-or-egg problem Consider how to adapt business models as new marketplace challenges arise Define the factors platforms must...
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- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Winning Season
IMAGINATION: Construction is expected to begin this spring on Ballpark Village, adjacent to Busch Stadium (right). In its first phase, the complex will include retail and entertainment venues, restaurants, condominiums, and office space....
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- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
adjacent parking lot, which he hopes will be part of a redevelopment project when the nearby Joe Louis Arena, where the Detroit Red Wings hockey team plays, is demolished. “This is an area that eventually is going to get developed. It...
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April White; photographed by Brian Kelly