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  • 16 Mar 2018
  • News

Enabling The Pursuit of Entrepreneurial Dreams

she worked in real estate investment banking at Goldman Sachs and then pivoted to the Walt Disney Company and AwesomenessTV, a digital studio that produces original programming for the emerging Generation Z. Ng knew she wanted to pursue... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2014
  • News

Innovation: Crowdfunding College Costs

noted, Cordero started GradSave, an online college savings registry that makes it possible for family and friends to contribute directly to a child's 529 plan or savings account. Parents can send digital reminders of the account's... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Gradsave; crowdfunding; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance
  • 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
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  • 2021
  • Report

The Economic Impact of the Market-Making Internet Advertising, Content, Commerce, and Innovation

By: John A. Deighton and Leora Kornfeld
This research about the economic value of the Internet is conducted approximately every four years and highlights the importance of the internet ecosystem, which enables job creation and market-making opportunities. This highly valued, extensive piece of economic... View Details
Keywords: Internet and the Web; Digital Marketing; Innovation and Invention; Communication Technology; Social Media; Advertising; Value; Brands and Branding
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  • May 2008 (Revised March 2010)
  • Supplement

Palm (B): 2001

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Kevin Boudreau and Jordan Mitchell
This case series looks at three important inflection points in Palm's history that relate to decisions about its platform: when the company was debating whether to open its operating system (OS) for licensing to third-party hardware manufacturers; 2001, when the... View Details
Keywords: History; Decisions; Business Model; Technological Innovation; Strategy; Value Creation; Digital Platforms; Rights; Competition; Computer Industry
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  • August 2020 (Revised March 2021)
  • Supplement

Migros Turkey: Scaling Online Operations (B)

By: Antonio Moreno and Gamze Yucaoglu
The case opens in February 2020 as Ozgur Tort and Mustafa Bartin, CEO and chief large-format and online retail officer of Migros Ticaret A.S. (Migros), Turkey’s oldest and one of its largest supermarket chains, are looking over the results of the fulfillment pilot the... View Details
Keywords: Grocery; Business Model; Strategy; Digital Platforms; Information Technology; Technology Adoption; Value Creation; Globalization; Competition; Expansion; Logistics; Profit; Resource Allocation; Corporate Strategy; Retail Industry; Turkey
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  • May 2008 (Revised March 2010)
  • Supplement

Palm (C): 2005

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Kevin Boudreau and Jordan Mitchell
This case series looks at three important inflection points in Palm's history that relate to decisions about its platform: when the company was debating whether to open its operating system (OS) for licensing to third-party hardware manufacturers; 2001, when the... View Details
Keywords: History; Decisions; Business Model; Technological Innovation; Value Creation; Digital Platforms; Rights; Competition
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  • 01 Mar 2019
  • News

Napkin Finance: Say It in a Picture

sketching them out within the space limitations of a fouror five-inch square. With a library of hundreds of digital napkins and counting—along with short videos, actual paper napkins, and a book to come later this year—Napkin Finance is... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 01 Feb 2000
  • News

Breaking Down Barriers: The Electronic Wallet

Internet commerce is the emergence of the electronic wallet. In its simplest form, the electronic wallet (a.k.a. the digital wallet or e-wallet) is a digital file that can be downloaded onto the consumer's... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
  • 22 Feb 2022
  • News

Vision: Learning Curve

leveraging existing technology and infrastructure to enhance the quality of early childhood education for disadvantaged kids. And while the state-run preschools and primary schools that serve this population may suffer in comparison with... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; education; entrepreneurship; startup; India; Educational Services
  • 01 Sep 2014
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014

He analyzes each type of comedy piece in the late-night TV playbook and takes you step-by-step through the process of writing it. Leading Digital: Turning Technology into Business Transformation by George Westerman (DBA 2003), Didier... View Details
Keywords: faculty research; Alumni Research
  • Article

Entry into Platform-based Markets

By: Feng Zhu and Marco Iansiti
This paper examines the relative importance of platform quality, indirect network effects, and consumer expectations on the success of entrants in platform-based markets. We develop a theoretical model and find that an entrant's success depends on the strength of... View Details
Keywords: Platform-based Markets; Winnter-take-all; First-mover Advantage; Indirect Network Effects; Video Game Industry; Quality; Network Effects; Market Entry and Exit; Digital Platforms; Motion Pictures and Video Industry
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  • Summer 2015
  • Article

Investment Incentives in Open-Source and Proprietary Two-Sided Platforms

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Gaston Llanes
We study incentives to invest in platform quality in open-source and proprietary two-sided platforms. Open platforms have open access, and developers invest to improve the platform. Proprietary platforms have closed access, and investment is done by the platform owner.... View Details
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Digital Platforms; Open Source Distribution; Investment
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  • Fast Answer

Field Course: Investing for Impact

commentary from HBS faculty. Demographics, city data, and more: Analyze Boston is the City of Boston's new open data hub, where you can find facts, figures, and maps related to our lives within the city – all in one convenient View Details
  • 25 May 2010
  • First Look

First Look: May 25

(B):http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/410104-PDF-ENG Digital Media Group: The Shanghai Bid G. Felda Hardymon and Ann LeamonHarvard Business School Case 810-099 In December 2008, Thomas G. Tsao, acting CEO of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Are Crummy Products Your Next Growth Opportunity?

Business School professor Clayton M. Christensen. At the Harvard Business School Entrepreneurship Conference 2003, Christensen provided an advance peek at his new book, which follows on his influential The Innovator's Dilemma: When New View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Mar 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?

face a host of challenges in the years ahead. For some retailers, ecommerce threatens to digitize the products they sell and leave them without anything meaningful to stock in their stores. For others, hyper-competitive online retailers... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
  • 25 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 25

operating in manufacturing and electronics. The increasing impact of digital technologies on all of its business units had prompted CEO Joe Kaeser and his team to put View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Mar 2016
  • Lessons from the Classroom

When Your Classmate is an NBA Superstar (or Fashion Model, or Movie Actress)

Boston. Elberse is remaining mum on celebrities planning to attend the next session in order to protect their privacy. Participants sign up to learn strategies for launching creative products, managing talent, coping with advances in View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Entertainment & Recreation; Sports; Media & Broadcasting; Education
  • 31 Jul 2014
  • Research & Ideas

A Scholarly Crowd Explores Crowdsourcing

Carliss Baldwin, and Stefan Thomke of HBS, Eric von Hippel of MIT, and Benjamin Mako Hill of University of Washington, in coordination with HBS Digital Initiative. View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne