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- February 2020 (Revised April 2021)
- Case
StockX: The Stock Market of Things
By: Chiara Farronato, John J. Horton, Annelena Lobb and Julia Kelley
Founded in 2015 by Dan Gilbert, Josh Luber, and Greg Schwartz, StockX was an online platform where users could buy and sell unworn luxury and limited-edition sneakers. Sneaker resale prices often fluctuated over time based on supply and demand, creating a robust... View Details
Keywords: Markets; Auctions; Bids and Bidding; Demand and Consumers; Consumer Behavior; Analytics and Data Science; Market Design; Digital Platforms; Market Transactions; Marketplace Matching; Supply and Industry; Analysis; Price; Product Marketing; Product Launch; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Fashion Industry; North and Central America; United States; Michigan; Detroit
Farronato, Chiara, John J. Horton, Annelena Lobb, and Julia Kelley. "StockX: The Stock Market of Things." Harvard Business School Case 620-062, February 2020. (Revised April 2021.)
- Web
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of Digital Innovation and Strategy CORe AI Essentials for Business Alternative Investments Business Analytics Business and Climate Change Business Strategy Creating Brand Value Design Thinking and Innovation Digital Marketing Strategy... View Details
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
managers and policymakers whose actions we study.” The consequence of the lack of relevant research is that the business world—and the rest of the world, for that matter—is losing out on some serious brainpower and analytical reason.... View Details
- 20 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting the Marketing Mix Right
to the effectiveness of their marketing instruments” Thomas J. Steenburgh, an associate professor in the Marketing Unit at Harvard Business School, has developed a new analytical tool that more accurately measures the effectiveness of... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 23 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative
data-driven, fact-based, analytical decision-making. The problem is that data are only available about the past. If you're trying to be innovative, and you have this data-driven mindset, you can't go forward. So experimenting essentially... View Details
- March 2019
- Case
HOPI: Turkey's Shopping Companion
By: Sunil Gupta, Donald Ngwe and Gamze Yucaoglu
The case opens in 2017 as Onur Erbay, CEO of HOPI, a multi-vendor loyalty platform, is contemplating a critical decision. The case chronicles the origins of Boyner Group, the parent company of HOPI and a major retailer in Turkey, and development of retail and customer... View Details
Keywords: Loyalty Programs; Multi-vendor Platform; Retail; Big Data; Customer Relationship Management; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Business Model; Analytics and Data Science; Competitive Strategy; Decision Making; Applications and Software; Digital Platforms; Technology Industry; Retail Industry; Turkey
Gupta, Sunil, Donald Ngwe, and Gamze Yucaoglu. "HOPI: Turkey's Shopping Companion." Harvard Business School Case 519-057, March 2019.
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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Second Place in the 2024 Strategic Management Society Best Conference Paper Prize Competition for “The Uneven Impact of Generative AI on Entrepreneurial Performance” with Nicholas Otis, Rowan Clarke, Solène Delecourt, and David Holtz. Rembrand M. Koning : Winner of the... View Details
- 03 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Is the Future of MBA Education?
needs, the extent to which they were being met revealed disparity. Q: Why is MBA education at a crossroads? Garvin: We are approaching the end of an era. Since 1959, business schools have taken a more analytical and discipline-based... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
corporation." The Cologne, Germany, native says she was drawn to the HBS program for its combination of rigorous training and applied research. "My field of interest is the intersection of behavioral economics and the theory of the firm,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Business Suits You: Experimenting with Professional Identity
"provisional selves" provide temporary solutions that less-experienced professionals can use to "bridge the gap between their current capacities and self-conceptions and the representations they hold about what attitudes and behaviors are... View Details
- Student-Profile
Alexandra C. Feldberg
work, I developed a deep interest in gender and knowledge transfer in organizations. Although I enjoyed the analytical aspects of consulting work, I missed being in an academic environment. I realized that the depth, precision, and rigor... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Adapting to Meet Changing Needs
Sciences (SEAS), and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences debuted the Harvard Business Analytics Program (HBAP), an online certificate offering for executives focused on quantitative analysis and data science. A few months later, the first... View Details
- 08 Aug 2023
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Employee Analytics: Productivity Dream or Micromanagement Nightmare?
With more data available than ever before, why would any executive gamble on a hunch—especially for decisions that involve their own employees? An emerging field that uses data to study human behavior at work, “people analytics” is... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Leadership: Getting Down to Fundamentals
KHURANA: Creating analytical traction and academic legitimacy for a hard-to-define quality that’s needed now more than ever before. In June, Professors Rakesh Khurana and Nitin Nohria cochaired a two-day, cross-disciplinary colloquium at... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 28 May 2019
- News
Leading Questions
lesson she learned from Professor Boris Groysberg in an HBS classroom: “The most important leadership skills in the future aren’t going to be analytical or diagnostic skills. The thing that will make the most difference is the skill of... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Inside Modern HR
go head-to-head with other corporate functions to bring more analytical rigor to talent decision-making. For example, we can look at our hiring data over the last five years and correlate a college major or a previous workplace against... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Leaders must be strategists first
questions facing a business,” says Montgomery, the Timken Professor of Business Administration and Director of Research at HBS. Once the heart of leadership, strategy has devolved to an analytical problem to be solved, a left-brain... View Details
- 08 May 2019
- News
Fellowships Enable Students to Broaden Their Impact
the data analytics team, he brought to the nonprofit his solid background in behavioral economics from Emory University and his financial acumen from his trading days. Agarwal’s goal was to use data and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
helped with your business career? The HBS approach to case studies and the analytical frame of mind that they teach are invaluable. My whole analytical framework came from Harvard. Now, what didn’t work very... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Clubs Hopping
computing changes the way people use data to make decisions. “We’re seeing more of analytics and big data as a means not just to support the decision a person wants to make, but also as a way to provide insights, questions, and ideas you... View Details