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- October 2000 (Revised March 2001)
- Case
BizRate.com
By: Youngme E. Moon
BizRate is a market research firm that collects point-of-purchase customer feedback data from retailing merchants. It then makes its findings available to consumers in the form of "BizRate star ratings," which are displayed on its website. To date, its primary revenue... View Details
Keywords: Business Education; Marketing Channels; Internet and the Web; Customer Relationship Management; Trust; Business Model; Marketing Strategy; Internet and the Web; Business Divisions; Debates; Retail Industry
Moon, Youngme E. "BizRate.com." Harvard Business School Case 501-024, October 2000. (Revised March 2001.)
- January 2021
- Case
Anodot: Autonomous Business Monitoring
By: Antonio Moreno and Danielle Golan
Autonomous business monitoring platform Anodot leveraged machine learning to provide real-time alerts regarding business anomalies. Anodot’s solution was used in various industries in order to primarily monitor business health, such as revenue and payments, product... View Details
Keywords: Digital Platforms; Internet and the Web; Knowledge Sharing; Information Management; Sales; Value Creation; Product Positioning; Israel
Moreno, Antonio, and Danielle Golan. "Anodot: Autonomous Business Monitoring." Harvard Business School Case 621-084, January 2021.
- July 2008 (Revised June 2011)
- Case
mixi (A)
By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski, Masaru Nomura and Kanako Miyoshi
Kasahara, the founder and CEO of mixi, the most successful Japanese on-line social network, is deciding between two strategic options: (i) B2C or (ii) C2C to leverage the power of the social network. In the B2C option, mixi would become a portal for on-line shopping... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Digital Platforms; Social and Collaborative Networks; Business Strategy; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Internet and the Web; Japan
Piskorski, Mikolaj Jan, Masaru Nomura, and Kanako Miyoshi. "mixi (A)." Harvard Business School Case 709-413, July 2008. (Revised June 2011.)
- January 2002 (Revised May 2002)
- Case
Digital China Holdings Limited: ERP as a Platform for Building New Capabilities
By: F. Warren McFarlan, Guoqing Chen and Kai Reimers
This case analyzes a complex ERP implementation that takes place in one of the leading companies in China. The issues are indistinguishable from those facing a U.S. organization. View Details
Keywords: Internet and the Web; Technology Adoption; Information Technology; Complexity; Problems and Challenges; China
McFarlan, F. Warren, Guoqing Chen, and Kai Reimers. "Digital China Holdings Limited: ERP as a Platform for Building New Capabilities." Harvard Business School Case 302-080, January 2002. (Revised May 2002.)
- February 2000 (Revised August 2000)
- Case
Priceline.com: Name Your Own Price
By: Robert J. Dolan
Priceline.com is a new concept shifting the setting of price from sellers to buyers. The company aspires to use its patented process of advertising units of demand at named prices to suppliers in many categories. This case focuses on its initial use in the airline... View Details
Keywords: Price; Internet and the Web; Marketing; Emerging Markets; Consumer Products Industry; Travel Industry; United States
Dolan, Robert J. "Priceline.com: Name Your Own Price." Harvard Business School Case 500-070, February 2000. (Revised August 2000.)
- 2001
- Article
Online-Marketing-Controlling
By: Alexander Kracklauer, D. Quinn Mills, Olaf Passenheim and Dirk Seifert
- December 1996 (Revised July 1997)
- Case
Studio Realty
By: Clayton M. Christensen and Bret J. Baird
Studio Realty created an "electronic open house" technology, by which home buyers sitting in a comfortable setting, could tour a home, viewing its rooms, its exterior, and surroundings, by clicking on digital images. Studio Realty attempted to sell or license its... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Internet and the Web; Sales; Demand and Consumers; Failure; Innovation and Management; Market Entry and Exit; Real Estate Industry
Christensen, Clayton M., and Bret J. Baird. "Studio Realty." Harvard Business School Case 697-036, December 1996. (Revised July 1997.)
- 08 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Fashion Your New E-Business Model
Consumers are looking for the ability to bundle the products they want in a fashion unique to each individual, and the View Details
Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate
- March 2018 (Revised July 2018)
- Case
Cadre
By: Thomas R. Eisenmann, Scott Duke Kominers and David Lane
Late in 2017, CEO Ryan Williams and his team debated whether Cadre should become not only a technology-enabled investment manager, but also an online trading exchange providing high levels of liquidity for investors in commercial real estate (CRE) equity. Cadre was a... View Details
- 06 Jan 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Should Management Deal With “Anonymous”?
But user names, passwords, and Internet addresses have been pilfered from sites like Gawker, reportedly giving the hackers access to planned web... View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett
- April 2001
- Teaching Note
Microsoft Carpoint
By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Steven Silverman and William A. Sahlman
Teaching Note for (9-898-280). For book only - not listed on case. View Details
- December 2002 (Revised October 2006)
- Case
Tesco Plc.
By: David E. Bell
Tesco, a supermarket chain, has been transformed from a third-rate retailer to a global leader in the past ten years. This case describes how that was accomplished. Interviews with Tesco employees explain the company's approach to understanding customers, motivating... View Details
Keywords: History; Motivation and Incentives; Leadership; Internet and the Web; Supply Chain Management; Global Strategy; Globalization; Customer Focus and Relationships; Business Strategy; Retail Industry
Bell, David E. "Tesco Plc." Harvard Business School Case 503-036, December 2002. (Revised October 2006.)
- January 2018 (Revised August 2020)
- Background Note
Continuous Software Development: Agile's Successor
By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Samuel Clemens and Olivia Hull
In recent years, the twin software development methodologies of continuous delivery and continuous deployment have risen to prominence in the start-up world and beyond. These methods have enabled technology companies large and small to accelerate their product... View Details
Keywords: Continuous Improvement; Continuous Development; Continuous Delivery; Continuous Integration; Product Development Processes; Computer Programming; Agile; Waterfall; Software Applications; Software Engineering; Applications and Software; Information Technology; Technological Innovation; Product Development; Customer Focus and Relationships; Entrepreneurship; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Quality; Product Marketing; Product; Infrastructure; Information Infrastructure; Web Services Industry; Web Services Industry; Web Services Industry; Web Services Industry; Massachusetts; Boston
Bussgang, Jeffrey J., Samuel Clemens, and Olivia Hull. "Continuous Software Development: Agile's Successor." Harvard Business School Background Note 818-055, January 2018. (Revised August 2020.)
- January 2000
- Case
greatEntertaining.com
By: Myra M. Hart and Nicole Tempest
GreatEntertaining.com is the result of years of planning, testing, and adapting the concept before committing to launch the business. Focus, value creation, and productive partnerships are key issues. View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Strategic Planning; Partners and Partnerships; Adaptation; Value Creation; Web Services Industry
Hart, Myra M., and Nicole Tempest. "greatEntertaining.com." Harvard Business School Case 800-274, January 2000.
- July 2024
- Case
Freelancer, Ltd.
By: Christopher Stanton, Karim R. Lakhani, Jin Hyun Paik and Nina Cohodes
Over the course of the 2010s, the rapid advancement of mobile technologies and the rise of online freelancing platforms seemed to portend a radical transformation of labor markets into on-demand, flexible talent pools. Even though several Fortune 500... View Details
Keywords: Freelancers; Labor Markets; Internet and the Web; Digital Platforms; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Human Capital; Change Management; Globalized Firms and Management; Employment; Global Range; Employment Industry
Stanton, Christopher, Karim R. Lakhani, Jin Hyun Paik, and Nina Cohodes. "Freelancer, Ltd." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 823-706, July 2024.
- June 2024 (Revised August 2024)
- Technical Note
Web3 Business Model Design for Entrepreneurs
By: Shikhar Ghosh and Liang Wu
Ghosh, Shikhar, and Liang Wu. "Web3 Business Model Design for Entrepreneurs." Harvard Business School Technical Note 824-177, June 2024. (Revised August 2024.)
- January 2002
- Exercise
Socrates, Inc.
By: Alan D. MacCormack and Kerry Herman
Socrates, Inc., a provider of e-learning tools and technologies to educational institutions and, potentially, corporations, must decide which of several opportunities to pursue next and which priorities to focus on in terms of better structuring the firm's processes... View Details
Keywords: Business Plan; Business Startups; Internet and the Web; Opportunities; Business Processes; Organizational Structure; Decision Choices and Conditions; Organizational Design; Education Industry; Information Technology Industry
MacCormack, Alan D., and Kerry Herman. "Socrates, Inc." Harvard Business School Exercise 602-115, January 2002.
- April 2009
- Article
What's Your Google Strategy?
By: Andrei Hagiu and David B. Yoffie
Hagiu, Andrei, and David B. Yoffie. "What's Your Google Strategy?" Harvard Business Review 87, no. 4 (April 2009).
- April 2011
- Teaching Note
Cork'd: Building a Social Network for Wine Lovers (TN)
Teaching Note for 911026. View Details
- June 2007
- Teaching Note
Comergent Technologies Inc.: Enterprise E-Commerce (TN)
By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Marie Bell
Keywords: Internet and the Web