Market Design - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2004
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Toy Story

one was surprised. On the retail side, the large discount chains — WalMart and Target in particular — had steadily taken market share from specialty toy stores, in some cases using toys as a loss leader to pull in traffic. The ripple... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; toys; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

June 2022 (Revised October 2022)
Background Note

Digital Commerce and Delivery: Preparing Food and Retail Value Chains for a 50-50 World

By: William R. Kerr, Daniel O'Connor, Paige Boehmcke and Will Ensor

Increasing digitalization of grocery retail and quick commerce reveals insights about managing complex supply chains at scale and shifting revenue streams from product sales to data monetization. How are the roles of retailers changing? What happens if marginal cost... View Details

Keywords: Grocery Delivery; Grocery; Digitalization; Fulfillment; Delivery; Supply Chain; Disruption; Food; Supply Chain Management; Market Design; Trends; Value Creation; Goods and Commodities; Customer Value and Value Chain; Digital Transformation; Retail Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; United States; China

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01 Sep 2018
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An SUV Built for African Roads—by African Workers

create a prototype of an off-road vehicle, recruiting local mechanics and welders in the coastal town of Kilifi. That laid the foundation for the company’s latest model, the Mobius II, a sleek SUV designed and made in Kenya, with rugged... View Details

Keywords: Amy Yee

13 Mar 2019
News

The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)

it was an incredible example of the power of marketing, regardless of whether you have a better product.” Wiegele: “Since I design our ads and run our marketing, I’m always thinking about the ‘Dumb Ways to Die’ case and the Science of... View Details

05 Jun 2007
First Look

First Look: June 5, 2007

stake in a number of portfolio companies at Fair Market Value. As they conside whether to exercise their option to purchase Bain Capital's stake in Artisan Entertainment, the company has an extremely successful launch of "The Blair... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2003
News

Dean Clark Addresses Journalists

HBS experience. As for the “barrel,” Clark observed that HBS and other business schools can also make important contributions by studying ways to design markets more effectively, reduce conflicts of... View Details

Keywords: Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

01 Mar 2018
News

Realizing The Potential Of One Harvard

academic ventures. Debuting this spring, the Harvard Business Analytics Program (HBAP) was designed and will be taught by faculty from HBS, the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Harvard’s Faculty of... View Details

01 Dec 2018
News

Collaborative Cures

long. Enter the Blavatnik Biomedical Accelerator, which identifies early-stage, highly promising technologies developed by Harvard faculty, and then helps those selected navigate the early stages of development so that they can go to View Details

September 2019 (Revised August 2020)
Case

Engineering an Inclusive Bioeconomy

By: Tarun Khanna, Raffaella Sadun and Susie L. Ma

In 2019, entrepreneur Juan Carlos Castilla-Rubio was developing a project he hoped could generate and share wealth from the natural resources of the Amazon without destroying those resources. His idea, called Earth Bank of Codes (EBC), would create a library of the... View Details

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May 2008
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Kenny Kahn at Muzak (B)

By: Linda A. Hill and Emily Stecker

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Keywords: Organizations; Geographic Location; Innovation and Invention; Employees; Management Teams; Brands and Branding; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Design; Music Industry

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01 Jun 2000
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Seeing the Light

Living in Los Angeles and working as a marketer for a global biotechnology firm, Jana Kirlin Brownell (MBA '83) saw her career path take an unexpected turn. More than once, her father had asked her to come home and take over the Kirlin... View Details

10 May 2004
Research & Ideas

Rethink the Value of Joint Ventures

For many multinational firms doing business in unfamiliar countries, it made sense to create joint ventures with local firms. After all, that local knowledge of customs, suppliers, and markets could save the newcomer months—maybe even... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

01 Oct 2000
News

After the Revolution: Putting the Internet in Perspective

This is truly a revolution." Nolan underlined the advantage that new-economy companies have over their incumbent competitors, using drugstore.com as an example. Taking only a year to build, drugstore.com has become the fastest-growing company to reach $1 billion in... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

9 AM – 9 AM EDT, 12 Sep 2018
HBS Online

HBX Leading with Finance

Gain a deep understanding of the principles of finance - a toolkit for making smart financial decisions and the confidence to communicate those decisions to key stakeholders. Program Dates: September 12, 2018 - October 24, 2018 View Details

07 Jul 2010
First Look

First Look: July 7

Building the Water Cube Robert Eccles, Amy C. Edmondson, and Dilyana KaradzhovaHarvard Business School Case 410-054 Arup, an engineering firm, collaborated with PTW Architects and China Construction Design Institute to develop a View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Fast Answer

FIELD Global Immersion Resources: India

Where can I find country, industry and market information and news about India? Industry and market research View Details

01 Dec 2008
News

Business at the Summit

making and the culmination of HBS’s yearlong centennial observance, the three-day event was designed to galvanize thinking and action around the 21st century’s transcendent business challenges. What no one expected, but what dominated the... View Details

Keywords: leadership; alumni events; Centennial; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Finance; Management

Milton Bradley

Bradley created a business that has become synonymous with fun, family games. Initially marketing British games in the US, Bradley went on to patent a variety of new games including Zoetrope or “Wheel of Life” and Historoscope, a... View Details

Keywords: Fabricated Goods

11 Jan 2000
Lessons from the Classroom

New Game, New Rules: Developing Managers for a Competitive World

changes simultaneously. The globalization of markets and competition, the rapid maturation of the information age, the expansion of the service-based economy, the impact of deregulation and privatization, the explosion of the knowledge... View Details

Keywords: by Staff