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  • 2016
  • Working Paper

Controlling Versus Enabling — Online Appendix

By: Andrei Hagiu and Julian Wright
Section 1 of this online appendix contains the proof of the technical Lemma (Lemma 2) used in the Proof of Lemma 1 in the main paper, which states that Ω* (.) is continuous and differentiable at R*. Section 2 provides the linear example with cost differences between... View Details
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  • 2023
  • Working Paper

PRIMO: Private Regression in Multiple Outcomes

By: Seth Neel
We introduce a new differentially private regression setting we call Private Regression in Multiple Outcomes (PRIMO), inspired the common situation where a data analyst wants to perform a set of l regressions while preserving privacy, where the covariates... View Details
Keywords: Analytics and Data Science; Mathematical Methods
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  • 16 Nov 2015
  • HBS Seminar

Vish Krishnan, Professor of Innovation, Technology & Operations, University of California San Diego Rady School of Man

  • 29 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 29, 2007

resource for executives and managers at all levels seeking to brush up on their knowledge of macroeconomic dynamics. Information or Opinion? Media Bias as Product Differentiation Authors:Bharat Anand, Rafael... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Article

Repositioning and Cost-Cutting: The Impact of Competition on Platform Strategies

By: Robert Seamans and Feng Zhu
Organizational structures are increasingly complex. In particular, more firms today operate as multi-sided platforms. In this paper, we study how platform firms use repositioning and cost-cutting in response to competition, elucidate external and internal factors that... View Details
Keywords: Platform Strategy; Repositioning; Cost-cutting; Intra-firm Learning; Multi-Sided Platforms; Cost Management; Product Positioning; Organizational Structure; Competitive Strategy; Knowledge Acquisition; Journalism and News Industry
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The Returns to Skills During the Pandemic: Experimental Evidence from Uganda

By: Livia Alfonsi, Vittorio Bassi, Imran Rasul and Elena Spadini
The Covid-19 pandemic represents one of the most significant labor market shocks to the world economy in recent times. We present evidence from a field experiment to understand whether and why skilled and unskilled workers were differentially impacted by the shock, in... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; System Shocks; Labor; Competency and Skills; Development Economics; Uganda
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    Robert J. Dolan

    Robert J. Dolan is the Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Rochester and began his academic career in 1976 as a faculty member at the Graduate School of Business of the University of Chicago. He joined... View Details

    • 03 Jan 2007
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Banking Deregulation, Financing Constraints and Entrepreneurship

    Keywords: by William Kerr & Ramana Nanda; Banking
    • May 2017
    • Teaching Note

    Hilti Fleet Management (A) and (B)

    By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Oliver Gassmann and Roman Sauer
    These notes are meant to accompany Hilti Fleet Management (A): Turning a Successful Business Model on Its Head (717-427) and Hilti Fleet Management (B): Towards a New Business Model (717-465).
    This case explores the introduction of fleet management in the... View Details
    Keywords: Hilti; Business Model Innovation; BMI; Fleet Management; Decision-making; Implementation; Power Tools Industry; Europe; Switzerland; Liechtenstein; Business Model; Restructuring; Transformation; Transition; Customer Value and Value Chain; Customer Focus and Relationships; Construction; Innovation and Invention; Leasing; Strategy; Decision Making; Growth Management; Construction Industry; Switzerland; Liechtenstein; Germany; Austria; Europe; United States; Asia; Brazil; China; Latin America; Africa; Japan; Hong Kong; France; Italy; Spain
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    • 29 Oct 2024
    • HBS Seminar

    Lynn Wu, Wharton

    • 16 May 2016
    • HBS Case

    Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer

    when more than 50 people in 11 states were sickened by an initial E. coli outbreak. “Do those smaller local organic growers have the experience, resources, and commitment to test their products for various food safety risks?” The chain... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage
    • 23 Jan 2018
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018

    to 50,000 points. They were also refocusing on the remainder of the Chase Sapphire product portfolio to assess differentiation among the products and to identify white space in... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Web

    Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni

    1993) Founder, Chairman and CEO Rakuten Group, Inc. Tsedal Neeley Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration Harvard Business School The Power of AI Explore with Ewa Duerr, head of product management at Google Cloud Artificial... View Details
    • 02 Oct 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: October 2, 2007

    unidimensional concept captured by the cumulative production volume or number of projects completed by a team. Implicit in this approach is the assumption that teams are stable in their membership and internal organization. In practice,... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • Research Summary

    Simultaneous Distinction, Democratization and Omnivorism Effects: A Longitudinal Analysis of Dynamic Symbolic Boundaries in Counterfeit Consumption Networks

    Sociologists have long examined the interactive relationship between social structure, taste and power.  This literature has overwhelmingly fallen into three, ostensibly competing, theoretical “camps”: Distinction, where high-status consumers use... View Details
    • Program

    Managing Innovation

    Summary What differentiates the world's most innovative companies? How do you design an innovation strategy? And how do you execute a cutting-edge innovation initiative? This program takes a deep dive into the latest innovation tools,... View Details
    • 17 Feb 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: Feb. 17

    Publication:Quantitative Marketing and Economics 7, no. 3 (September 2009): 237-266 Abstract This study presents a signaling model of advertising for horizontally differentiated products. The central ingredients of the model are two... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 23 Dec 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Global Agglomeration of Multinational Firms

    Keywords: by Laura Alfaro & Maggie Chen
    • November 2019 (Revised December 2020)
    • Case

    Grupo Éxito: Facing Colombia's Competitive Grocery Retail Industry

    By: José B. Alvarez, Carla Larangeira, Jenyfeer Martinez Buitrago and Miguel Diaz Moreno
    Grupo Éxito, a leading South American retailer, faced declining market shares in Colombia in 2019 with the arrival of low-cost competitors and emerging digital trends. Originally founded in Medellín, Éxito had over the course of its seventy-year history evolved from a... View Details
    Keywords: Grocery; Market Share; Information Technology; Trends; Competitive Strategy; Retail Industry; Colombia; Latin America
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    Transforming Customer Experiences

    Summary Superior customer service can differentiate your business in the marketplace—if you design the right offerings and execute flawlessly. Led by HBS thought leaders who are experts in customer experience management, this program... View Details