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13 May 2008
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First Look: May 13, 2008

Sponsor of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing and the Official dairy supplier of the games, it is betting that the brand can go further beyond China. Will the day that tykes from Topeka have a bottle of Yili milk in their hands be coming... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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A major area of Professor Torfason's research is the behavior of individual social network structures. He studies the violation of norms – specifically the use of excessive force in conflict situations – within the empirical context of a large online... View Details

November 2017
Teaching Note

Amazon.com, 2016

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth

Teaching Note for HBS No. 716-402. On January 28, 2016, Amazon announced record 2015 operating profits of $2.2 billion on $107 billion of sales, and the markets responded with cautious optimism. For years, founder and CEO Jeffrey Bezos had prioritized growth and... View Details

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25 Sep 2006
Research & Ideas

How Software Platforms Revolutionize Business

videogame consoles are no longer just gaming platforms, they are gateways to a variety of digital content, including DVD movies and Internet video for the gamer and advertising and other promotional... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Video Game

28 May 2009
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Monopolistic Competition Between Differentiated Products With Demand For More Than One Variety

Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu; Video Game; Video Game

17 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017

School Case 817-117 King Digital Entertainment Riccardo Zacconi was the co-founder and CEO of King Digital Entertainment, the video game company that had quickly established itself as the world’s leading... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 May 2009
Working Paper Summaries

Quantity vs. Quality and Exclusion by Two-Sided Platforms

Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu; Video Game; Video Game

November 2024
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Epic Games: Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite (B)

By: Andy Wu and Ronald Wang

In a significant ruling on April 24, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld portions of the district court’s decision against Epic Games back in September 2021. However, Apple’s anti-steering provisions, which restricted app developers from... View Details

Keywords: Lawsuits and Litigation; Market Transactions; Applications and Software; Video Game Industry; Video Game Industry

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January 2024
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Buurtzorg

By: Ethan Bernstein and Tatiana Sandino

As co-founders of home nursing company Buurtzorg, Jos de Blok and Gonnie Kronenberg prized both self-management and organizational learning. Buurtzorg’s 10,000 nurses across 950 neighborhood nursing teams in the Netherlands were empowered to manage themselves, both in... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Design; Management Style; Business Model; Knowledge Dissemination; Learning; Organizational Culture; Health Industry; Netherlands

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05 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 5, 2008

case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu /b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=606004 Glass Egg Digital Media Harvard Business School Case 508-066 Glass Egg is an outsource games development firm in Vietnam. They are able to... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018

evidence to challenge a common misperception about internalization theory. The theory has often been criticized for maintaining that it assumes a hierarchically organized MNE based on knowledge flowing from the home country. This is not... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

06 Nov 2023
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Did You Hear What I Said? How to Listen Better

flourish and thrive.” After all, people are good at faking when they are paying attention to others, consciously or not, smiling and nodding when they are really thinking about their favorite streaming show or the football game they... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

26 Apr 2024
HBS Case

Deion Sanders' Prime Lessons for Leading a Team to Victory

Sanders wasn’t afraid to roll up his sleeves to help his team succeed—even mowing the practice fields himself if they didn’t get mowed on time. By his third year at JSU, Sanders had posted the first undefeated season in the school’s history and boosted View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Sports

30 Jun 2022
HBS Case

Peloton Changed the Exercise Game. Can the Company Push Through the Pain?

attracted a flock of competitors: NordicTrack and Bowflex, established home equipment providers, along with SoulCycle and Exxentric’s Flywheel, began marketing their own interactive workouts. Dolan says Peloton also hurt itself by... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Media & Broadcasting; Health; Bicycle

09 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 9, 2008

order preservation, then all (pure strategy) Nash equilibria induce equal division. Next, we consider division rules satisfying efficiency, equal treatment of equals, and claims monotonicity. For claim games with at most three agents,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

31 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 31

http://www.hbs.edu/research/facpubs/workingpapers/papers0910.html#wp10-070 When the Name Is the Game Authors:Marco Bertini, John Gourville, and Elie Ofek Publication:Business Strategy Review 22, no. 3 (2011) Abstract In Romeo and Juliet,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel

09 May 2012
Research & Ideas

Clayton Christensen’s “How Will You Measure Your Life?”

called Netflix emerged in the 1990s with a novel idea: rather than make people go to the video store, why don't we mail DVDs to them? Netflix's business model made profit in just the opposite way to Blockbuster's. Netflix customers paid a... View Details

19 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 19

improvements in performance. Day 1 of the two-case series focuses on the steps taken by Klein over his eight-year tenure. Supplementary video (both for homework and in class) provides Klein's thoughts about major developments. Purchase... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Jan 2003
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The Subconscious Mind of the Consumer (And How To Reach It)

unconscious mind to identify new product opportunities. Using metaphor-elicitation techniques, firms providing farming supplies, home appliances, office systems, and beauty care have identified important unmet needs. R&D departments... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Mahoney

20 May 2008
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First Look: May 20, 2008

Working PapersGender in Job Negotiations: A Two-Level Game Authors:Hannah Riley Bowles and Kathleen L. McGinn Abstract We propose a two-level-game (Putnam, 1988) perspective on gender in job negotiations. At Level 1, candidates... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Amazon.com, 2016

How Software Platforms Revolutionize Business

Monopolistic Competition Between Differentiated Products With Demand For More Than One Variety

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017

Quantity vs. Quality and Exclusion by Two-Sided Platforms

Epic Games: Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite (B)

Buurtzorg

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New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018

Did You Hear What I Said? How to Listen Better

Deion Sanders' Prime Lessons for Leading a Team to Victory

Peloton Changed the Exercise Game. Can the Company Push Through the Pain?

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The Subconscious Mind of the Consumer (And How To Reach It)

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