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  • 01 Dec 2016
  • News

Case Study: Sweat the Technique

digital, including allowing users access to a stream of information that they can track and sync with other performance data. While the shift would add both cost and time—and potentially push Nix into a more saturated wearables market... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
  • September 2010
  • Case

Angie's List

Angie's List is a paid subscription-based service that gives consumers online access to member-submitted reviews of plumbers, electricians, and other home service providers. Customer and revenue growth are strong, but customer acquisition costs are high and the company... View Details
Keywords: Internet and the Web; Price; Competitive Advantage; Product Launch; Service Industry; United States
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  • 01 Mar 2015
  • News

Ask the Expert: Inside the Fed

prospects and declining oil price outlook influence the timing and pace of the Fed interest rate normalization? —Tongurai Limpiti (AMP 181, 2011) One of the best things about serving on the board of directors at a regional Reserve Bank is... View Details
Keywords: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance
  • 21 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Are Crummy Products Your Next Growth Opportunity?

explored how great companies often lose their ability to innovate and eventually fail at the hands of much smaller, "disruptive" competitors. "Basically any stock you wish you have owned started out as a disruptive... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • September 2005 (Revised May 2007)
  • Case

OuterLink Corporation (A)

By: Josh Lerner and Brenda Chia
Zero Stage Capital is addressing a troubled investment in OuterLink Corp., which has a capital deficit of $30 million and was written off by all but one of its investors as a victim of the technology bubble. The venture organization must decide whether to shutter the... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Decisions; Venture Capital; Private Equity; Price Bubble; Investment; Financial Services Industry
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  • June 2000 (Revised September 2000)
  • Case

Amazon.com: Exploiting the Value of Digital Business Infrastructure

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Meredith Collura
Enables a thorough analysis of Amazon.com and the company's value proposition, in terms of its business concept, digital business capabilities, and community and shareholder value. Examines the company's complex set of business models and web of business relationships,... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Asset Pricing; Capital; Financial Management; Technological Innovation; Business or Company Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Relationships; Competitive Strategy; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry
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  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Confronting the Challenges that Face Bricks-and-Mortar Stores

that merchandise would no longer carry individual price tags and that shoppers might be overcharged at the register. More recently, customers have expressed concern that electronic shelf labels could be used to raise View Details
Keywords: by Raymond Burke; Retail
  • 17 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 17

networks historically provided (e.g., information about potential workers, monitoring, and reputation foundations). Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/wkerr/Ghani_Kerr_Stanton_MSCI_OdeskDiaspora-8-26-13.pdf September 2013... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2019
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019

created an industrial empire in Hamilton, Ohio, that employed thousands, including hundreds of poor whites who came from Kentucky to southeastern Ohio to find work. And it’s the story of three of his sons, who went on to run Fortune 500/New York View Details
  • 19 Jul 2016
  • First Look

July 19, 2016

due to significant investments in people and technology. The company’s stock price dropped 10% on the news, the largest one-day decline since 1998. In February 2016, Walmart reported that revenues for 2015... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Other Student Organizations | MBA

Association under MBA Student & Academic Services. Below is information on several such associations. For more information about the Joint Degree Program Student Associations at HBS, please contact Irene Pak... View Details
  • 2007
  • Working Paper

Dynamics of Platform Competition: Exploring the Role of Installed Base, Platform Quality and Consumer Expectations

By: Feng Zhu and Marco Iansiti
This paper seeks to answer three questions. First, which drives the success of a platform, installed base, platform quality or consumer expectations? Second, when does a monopoly emerge in a platform-based market? Finally, when is a platform-based market socially... View Details
Keywords: Price; Network Effects; Digital Platforms; Monopoly; Quality; Competitive Advantage; Digital Platforms
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  • 01 Jun 2025
  • News

Venture: A Welcome Assist

40 percent of issues. For the other 60 percent, either you work with us, you work with your own team, or you hire consultants to help you get there,” Bervell says. “If we can’t get you compliant within the first month, then you get your money back.” The View Details
Keywords: Jen Mcfarland Flint; photo courtesy Michael Bervell; Information; Information
  • 15 Dec 2011
  • News

An HBS gift guide

Bill Roedy, Sweetriot, S’well bottle, the Nature Conservancy, Tea Collection, and Zobha) Guilt-free holiday jewels Amy Jain & Daniella Yacobovsky (MBA 2010) Co-founders, BaubleBar “As hard as we tried, we couldn’t find a place to buy high quality pieces without a high... View Details
Keywords: Bulletin Staff; holiday; gift giving; Manufacturing; Retail Trade
  • 10 May 2022
  • News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2022

videos this morning.” Balancing act: “In leadership, there’s a tension between getting good information from multiple stakeholders and a more top-down approach, where you trust your intuition, take a minority point of view, and run with... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2008
  • News

Stanford Lets Students Customize

also take an integrated approach. And even in the discipline-based foundations courses, we often look at issues from a general management perspective, which requires some integration.” The new curriculum comes with a hefty price tag. To... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 29 Aug 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy

attention―manufacturing of launch vehicles and satellites―its growth is in fact quite strong. That’s especially true when you adjust for the quality improvements and price declines in that area; something our research is the first to... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Aerospace
  • 13 Nov 2012
  • First Look

First Look: November 13

  PublicationsMisvaluing Innovation Authors:Lauren Cohen, Karl Diether, and Christopher Malloy Publication:Review of Financial Studies (forthcoming) Abstract We demonstrate that a firm's ability to innovate is predictable, persistent, and relatively simple to compute,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2022
  • News

Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change

at the School to accelerate climate solutions and help society adapt to the changes already upon us. We are seeking to maximize ways to reach the broad community of practitioners who can both benefit from and inform this work, through... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
  • 31 Oct 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?

of five doctors believed that DTCA did not provide information in a balanced manner, and a similar proportion felt that it encouraged patients to seek treatments they did not need. Physicians as a group were more equivocal about other... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls