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- 17 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 17, 2007
profits than the two-sided platform mode when the chicken-and-egg problem due to indirect network effects for the two-sided platform mode is more severe and when the degree of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 5
tension between the two sets of activities. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2294928 Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 714-412 Coursera By providing free and open-access online courses at a large... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
returns. However, these findings are driven by differences in the stocks recommended and their market capitalization. After controlling for these selection effects, we find no difference in the performance of the buy- View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
forthcoming Handbook of International Trade and Transportation Transportation Cost and the Geography of Foreign Investment By: Alfaro, Laura, and Maggie Chen Abstract—Falling... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- February 2021
- Teaching Plan
Soofa: Displaying the Right Path?
By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Amy Klopfenstein
This teaching plan serves as a supplement to the case “Soofa: Displaying the Right Path?” HBS 820-098. The case explores the tension between two different financing and expansion plans for a startup, and explores issues related to business model pivots and industry... View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Business Model; Business Plan; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Decision Making; Decisions; Judgments; Ethics; Geography; Geopolitical Units; Finance; Investment; Markets; Market Entry and Exit; Demand and Consumers; Media; Society; Urban Development; Sustainable Cities; Information Technology; Information Infrastructure; Digital Platforms; Strategy; Business Strategy; Expansion; Relationships; Capital; Venture Capital; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; North and Central America; United States; Massachusetts; Cambridge
- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
& Innovation at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. With the end of President Obama's Administration drawing near, Kalil and his team of "policy entrepreneurs" must work to... View Details
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
destruction of trust and stability by one administration jeopardizes decades of step-by-step development. Other countries may seize at the current opportunity, but they can only gain in a comparative sense. We can destroy special View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Presentation Round-Up
to the fact that anyone can access it from any computer as long as they have a browser, she said. Her company, Desktop.com, is building an integrated Internet desktop services platform and product in much... View Details
- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
Creating a Venture Ecosystem in Brazil: FINEP's INOVAR Project Authors:Ann Leamon and Josh Lerner Abstract An abstract is unavailable at this time. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
continued and expanded, with further empirical exploration of a distributed model of innovation that includes communities and platforms in a variety of contexts View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
and Fortune 500 executives. The bet-by providing "no-strings-attached" help to ecosystem partners, the partners might someday reciprocate by steering founders seeking funding to a16z. The case... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
edX, a new non-profit joint venture that would provide a platform for massive open online courses (MOOCs). edX did not produce original courses or instructional content—it made a web platform through which... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- December 2015 (Revised February 2016)
- Case
Ocado
By: José Alvarez, David E. Bell and Damien McLoughlin
In 2015, U.K.-based Ocado was the world's largest pure player in the online home-delivery grocery business and was gaining a growing share of the highly competitive U.K. grocery market. Ocado had made heavy investments in technology, including a highly automated... View Details
Keywords: Ocado; Grocery; Retail; Online Grocery; Supermarket; Delivery Models; Service Models; United Kingdom; Technology; Operations Management; Digital Platforms; Competition; Internet and the Web; Service Operations; Service Delivery; Supply Chain; Marketing; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; United Kingdom
- September 2012 (Revised April 2013)
- Case
Digital Microscopy at Carl Zeiss: Managing Disruption
By: Willy Shih
Ulrich Simon, the head of the Microscopy business group at Carl Zeiss AG knew that his unit was facing a disruptive threat, so he chartered a special team to tackle the industrial segment. Given a high degree of autonomy, the project team developed an understanding of... View Details
Keywords: Modularity; High Technology Products; Emergent Strategy; Product Lines; Corporate Strategy; Digital Platforms; Disruptive Innovation; Technology Industry; Germany
Shih, Willy. "Digital Microscopy at Carl Zeiss: Managing Disruption." Harvard Business School Case 613-039, September 2012. (Revised April 2013.)
- 20 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Long-Term Fix to US Competitiveness
ecosystem of partnerships and collaborations." Three panelists outlined some of those collaborations. Mary L. Fifield, president of Bunker Hill Community College, described that school's partnership... View Details
Keywords: by Stephanie Schorow & Harvard Gazette
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
related future transactions—or even the current transaction—without the platform’s involvement and without paying any fees the platform may charge. This technical note assesses which marketplaces are most... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Lessons for Retailers from the Rebirth of Indie Bookstores
commerce, and civic organizations, reinforcing the social fabric and engendering a strong sense of customer and community loyalty. Curation: Despite the increasing... View Details
- February 2014
- Article
Responses to Entry in Multi-Sided Markets: The Impact of Craigslist on Local Newspapers
By: Robert Seamans and Feng Zhu
How do firms respond to entry in multi-sided markets? We address this question by studying the impact of Craigslist, a website providing classified-advertising services, on local U.S. newspapers. We exploit temporal and geographical variation in Craigslist's entry to... View Details
Keywords: Digital Platforms; Market Entry and Exit; Internet and the Web; Newspapers; Advertising; Journalism and News Industry; Journalism and News Industry
Seamans, Robert, and Feng Zhu. "Responses to Entry in Multi-Sided Markets: The Impact of Craigslist on Local Newspapers." Management Science 60, no. 2 (February 2014): 476–493.
- 16 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
Read Our Most Popular Stories of the Quarter
great customer service is no longer the responsibility of just one department. Creating the customer-centric organization. (12,182 visits) What Machine Learning Teaches Us about CEO Leadership Style Researchers use machine-learning to look for links between a CEO's... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
SuperCorp: Values as Guidance System
into their products and services, from sources (e.g., labor conditions in paper plants where company stationery is manufactured) to applications and ultimate fate (e.g., how used computers are disposed of).... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter