Publications

January 2003 (Revised March 2004)
Case

Silverado (A)

By: Jan W. Rivkin and Charles J. Woodard

Silverado has raised $50 million and launched its first product: an Internet-based trivia game with innovative software. In a highly uncertain environment, the young management team must decide whether to continue developing the product and whether to branch out into... View Details

Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Technological Innovation; Strategic Planning; Internet and the Web; Decision Choices and Conditions; Product Launch; Business Strategy; Entertainment and Recreation Industry

September 2002 (Revised October 2002)
Case

Managing Knowledge and Learning at NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)

By: Dorothy A. Leonard and David Kiron

Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) faces a serious loss of knowledge--both because of the "faster, better, cheaper" mandate for Mars missions and from the retirement of key personnel. An extensive knowledge management system for NASA/JPL includes formal knowledge-capture... View Details

Keywords: Knowledge Management; Knowledge Dissemination; Leadership Development; Internet and the Web; Risk and Uncertainty; Organizational Culture; Retirement; Human Resources; Human Capital

01 Apr 2000
News

Strike Up the Broad(band)

could just as likely widen the divide between rich and poor, because information technology to date has generally increased the demand for skilled, higher-paid workers while reducing the need for unskilled workers." "Let us hope," the authors conclude, "that a... View Details

01 Mar 2016
News

Art Collecting’s New Egalitarianism

interest to your means.” Online auction houses like 1stdibs and Paddle8—founded by Aditya Julka and Osman Khan (both MBA 2009)—offer access to collectors of all levels and have made tracking down rare pieces less of a chore. “One of the beauties of the age of the View Details

01 Apr 2001
News

Khoo Teng Chye: Technology Turnaround in Singapore

Singapore. Each piece of equipment in PSA’s terminals is computerized and linked to a network. Singapore’s shipping companies, customs operation, and port authority are all connected to PSA’s Portnet data-processing system, which has been available on the View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes; Transportation

01 Jun 2001
News

Books: Judo Strategy

Netscape research was documented in Competing on Internet Time, an earlier book by Yoffie and MIT colleague Michael A. Cusumano, and inspired Yoffie to pursue the concept further. After tracking references to judo in the management... View Details

Keywords: Microsoft; Netscape; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Sep 2010
News

Start-Ups Make Their Pitch

help consumers locate a business or person to handle local service needs, get price quotes, and book appointments. Southern California: Kiwilimón (Deborah Dana Beyda, MBA ’08, cofounder) is a food and recipe Internet portal for... View Details

Keywords: awards; Furniture and Related Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

24 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

How To Be an Angel Investor

the big Internet wins of the late 1990s, you may not know a thing about early-stage investing. By the same token, if you had 10 failures in multiple industries, you might not know anything either. But you will if you keep paying... View Details

Keywords: by David Amis & Howard Stevenson

18 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

When In-House Research Isn’t Enough

Internet and of the international scope of Intel Capital's reach, currently encompassing more than 175 companies outside the United States. With stock markets floundering and many venture capitalists sitting on the sidelines, Intel's... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

05 Aug 2021
Blog Post

Closing the Education Gap with Kei Takatsuka (MBA 2022)

focused on building a go-to market strategy for an ed-tech company that had bases in South Africa, Kenya, and Nigeria, but was looking to expand to Ghana. “I did a lot of interviews with local teachers and government officials along with View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital; Technology; Entrepreneurship

13 Jun 2017
News

Finding Common Ground

by what might be the shortest dot-com career on record. He accepted a job offer at an Internet startup in New York City at the height of the bubble, only to have the business fold just as he and his wife were packing for the move. “The... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

01 Apr 1999
News

A Vibrant Brand

monthly that covers hip hop, R&B, soul, reggae, and jazz - and the cultures that surround them - has made hugely successful forays onto the Internet and in the fashion, book publishing, and music industries. Catching Rolling Stone Vibe... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Oct 1999
News

The Class of 1974: Timed for a Change

world-class performance in racehorses? Section F is not unique in its achievements. Who on the B-School Blades could have predicted that when Barry Allardice stopped living out of his car he would become an investment banker? How about Larry Kramer's View Details

Keywords: Charles B. ("Chuck") Mercer

March 17, 2021
Other Article

Beyond Pajamas: Sizing Up the Pandemic Shopper

By: Ayelet Israeli, Eva Ascarza and Laura Castrillo

A first look at how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted e-commerce apparel shopping in the US and the UK. Extensive analysis and interactive graphics utilizing millions of transactions.
While the pandemic is still playing out, our preliminary investigations... View Details

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07 May 2018
News

What I Learned from Visiting All 54 African Countries

well. Morrell: Part of your upcoming plans include a return to the States. What are you looking forward to about your return to the States? And similarly, what are you dreading? Tapon: I'm looking forward to consistent utilities. In other words, View Details

09 Sep 2016
News

MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding

those words with ones and zeros. Drop them in a phone line. And it knew to go from one phone number to another phone number. That got replaced by words on a digital page, that went through the internet protocol and it would go from one... View Details

March 2008 (Revised April 2008)
Supplement

Opening Dot EU (B)

By: Benjamin Edelman

EURid considers possible market mechanisms to allocate initial domain names within the Internet's newly-created "dot EU." European Union regulations and community norms substantially constrain EURid's approach, preventing the use of the most natural economic mechanisms... View Details

Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Internet and the Web; Resource Allocation; Auctions; Information Industry; Europe

April 2005 (Revised February 2006)
Case

Monster Networking

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and David Andrew Vivero

The management at Monster.com, the leading U.S. provider of online recruitment services, must decide how to proceed with Monster Networking (MN), a new business launched in late 2003. MN helps users identify other individuals who can offer career advice. Monster.com... View Details

Keywords: Digital Platforms; Internet and the Web; Social and Collaborative Networks; Recruitment; Service Industry; Employment Industry; United States