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  • April 2011 (Revised September 2011)
  • Case

Willy Jacobsohn and Beiersdorf: Managing Expropriation and Anti-Semitism

By: Geoffrey G. Jones and Christina Lubinski
This case examines the management of home and host country risk by Beiersdorf during the interwar years. It can be used both in business history courses and more generally to teach political risk management by multinational corporations. Beiersdorf, a German personal... View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; War; Business History; Multinational Firms and Management; Global Strategy; Ownership; Government and Politics; Business and Government Relations; Consumer Products Industry; Germany
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  • September 2002 (Revised May 2003)
  • Case

X-IT and Kidde (A)

By: Constance E. Bagley and David Lane
Involves a start-up, X-IT Products LLC, whose founders had designed an innovative, lightweight, and easy-to-use--yet strong--escape ladder. After X-IT had filed a patent application for the ladder in the United States, X-IT was approached by Kidde PLC, one of the... View Details
Keywords: Patents; Negotiation Process; Agreements and Arrangements; Ethics; Lawsuits and Litigation; Business Startups; Consumer Products Industry
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  • 2007
  • Working Paper

Platform Envelopment

By: Thomas Eisenmann, Geoffrey Parker and Marshall Van Alstyne
Due to network effects and switching costs in platform markets, entrants generally must offer revolutionary functionality. We explore a second entry path that does not rely upon Schumpeterian innovation: platform envelopment. Through envelopment, a provider in one... View Details
Keywords: Digital Platforms; Market Entry and Exit; Network Effects
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  • 30 Nov 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Tracks of My Tears: Reconstructing Digital Music

At the dawn of the digital music era, record labels went along with a pricing scheme devised by Apple that they are still paying for today. The idea to "unbundle" albums into separate tracks sold for 99 cents each suddenly allowed View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Music
  • 14 Oct 2009
  • First Look

First Look: October 14

Author:Benjamin G. Edelman Publication:Journal of Advertising Research (forthcoming) Abstract I offer five rights to protect advertisers from increasingly powerful ad networks—avoiding fraudulent charges for services not rendered,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Placement - Doctoral

Jeremy Stein , and Samuel G. Hanson Talia B. Gillis Business Economics, 2022 Placement: Columbia Law School, Associate Professor of Law Dissertation: Essays in Household Finance and Consumer Protection... View Details
  • 19 Feb 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Radical Design, Radical Results

When furniture designer Herman Miller presented a prototype of its sleek, mesh Aeron chair to a consumer focus group, many asked if they could see a finished, upholstered version. Innovative product design can be a risky proposition. Yet... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Consumer Products
  • Web

Hiring Organizations

Fierce Whiskers Distillery Fillip Fingo Africa FinTech Collective Fiserv Five Arrows Managers - Rothschild & Co Flyers Cocktail Co FoodCloud Forbright Bank Ford Motor Company ForgePoint Capital Forward Consumer Partners Founder Collective... View Details
  • 04 May 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

An Ounce of Prevention: The Power of Public Risk Management in Stabilizing the Financial System

Keywords: by David A. Moss; Banking; Financial Services
  • 12 Oct 2021
  • Research & Ideas

What Actually Draws Sports Fans to Games? It's Not Star Athletes.

Ferguson and Lakhani decided to test this theory using data from the Australian Football League (AFL), the wildly popular sport also known as “footy.” They detailed their findings in the recent working paper Consuming Contests: Outcome... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Sports
  • 23 Apr 2013
  • First Look

First Look: April 23

implement principles of open and distributed innovation.   Working Papers Competing with Privacy By: Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Andres Hervas-Drane Abstract—We analyze the implications of consumer privacy for competition in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership

created Influence: Medium 60 1960 19 Great Society Consumer and environmental protection movements strengthen Vehicle Safety Act and Highway Safety Act Closing merger loophole opens door for conglomerate... View Details
  • 24 Mar 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Reducing Risk with Online Advertising

merchants with these same marketing programs. Q: How should consumers protect themselves from potential fraud? A: It's highly desirable to keep your computer free of the sorts of bad software that I've... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Video Game; Web Services
  • Article

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; Information Technology Industry; Advertising Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Transportation Industry; Financial Services Industry
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  • 14 May 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Getting Down to the Business of Creativity

a three-year study of 238 professionals from seven companies in the high-tech, consumer products, and chemicals industries. Without revealing the focus of their study, they asked the subjects (all of whom were working on projects... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 30 Apr 2024
  • Book

When Managers Set Unrealistic Expectations, Employees Cut Ethical Corners

the United States. In that work, I learned that company management had known about the dangers of asbestos since the 1930s but had actively suppressed information linking it to cancer to protect the business. I became deeply curious about... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 17 Jul 2007
  • First Look

First Look: July 17, 2007

films). Similarly, we also predict and find that should DVDs are held longer than want DVDs. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-099.pdf   Cases & Course MaterialsNone this week   PublicationsDoes Employment View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Apr 2016
  • First Look

April 19, 2016

is “liking” simply a symptom of being fond of a brand? We disentangle these possibilities and find evidence for the latter: brand attitudes and purchasing are predicted by consumers’ preexisting fondness for brands and are the same regardless of when and whether View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Podcast - Business & Environment

systems often fail, how Vytal’s “borrow and return” model changes consumer behavior, and how data, technology and behavioral science underpin their service design. Fabian also discusses the evolving regulatory landscape, including... View Details
  • Web

ハーバード - Global

May 2024 | Case Net Protections (A)(B) By: Professor Ramon Casadesus-Masanell; Nobuo Sato; Akiko Kanno In Case A, set in early 2017, Net Protections (NP) is the largest Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) fintech... View Details