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- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Student Conferences Inspire Campus Dialogue
business leaders from the region. Session topics covered the current status and outlook for various industries and issues ranging from venture and investment capital, to entertainment and media, to consumer marketing. Other panels examined subjects such as "The View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Donald P. Nielsen, MBA 1963
performed," Nielsen says. After stepping down from the board in 2001, Nielsen turned to private investing. His first foray involved founding and funding TeachFirst, a company that uses the Internet to jump-start new teachers by sharing... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Five Honored for Missions Accomplished
American designers: Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein, and Donna Karan. How much has the store — and the business — changed over the years? Enormously. Brands and stores are now global. While the Internet has changed everything, good stores... View Details
- March 2025 (Revised April 2025)
- Case
Perplexity: Redefining Search
By: Suraj Srinivasan, Michelle Hu, Sriraghav Srinivasan and Radhika Kak
By early 2025, Perplexity had rapidly evolved from a modest startup into a popular "answer engine" valued at $9 billion. The company had boldly positioned itself as the disruptor to Google aiming to redefine search for the AI age. Through novel AI... View Details
Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Venture Capital; Innovation Leadership; Technological Innovation; Internet and the Web; Business Startups; Competitive Strategy; Business Model; Technology Industry; United States
Srinivasan, Suraj, Michelle Hu, Sriraghav Srinivasan, and Radhika Kak. "Perplexity: Redefining Search." Harvard Business School Case 125-093, March 2025. (Revised April 2025.)
- 05 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles and Working Papers 2008
marketing resources is particularly difficult because decisions need to be made at many different levels—across countries, products, marketing mix elements, and different vehicles within elements of the mix (e.g., television versus the View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 28 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Online Match-Making with Virtual Dates
Literally millions of people have found dates through online match-making services, so who says the Internet is isolating? The problem for many users, however, is that initial matches are often imperfect—even frustrating—because the... View Details
- 21 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
The VC Quandary: Too Much Money
billion a year in 1999 and 2000. Like many of those who invested in emerging high tech companies just before the bursting of the Internet bubble, Intel Capital still has some regrets from those heady days. "I think back on the 2000... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Books
eBrands: Building an Internet Business at Breakneck Speed, by Phil Carpenter, recounts the successes, failures, and fears of eBrand pioneers. It will help readers learn the essential strategies behind electronic brand-building and how it... View Details
- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
Gupta faces three major problems in teaching cases: 1) his students, accustomed to lectures, don't know how to conduct a case discussion; 2) the students are using the Internet to discover the outcome of managerial dilemmas posed in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- January 2002
- Exercise
Socrates, Inc.
By: Alan D. MacCormack and Kerry Herman
Socrates, Inc., a provider of e-learning tools and technologies to educational institutions and, potentially, corporations, must decide which of several opportunities to pursue next and which priorities to focus on in terms of better structuring the firm's processes... View Details
Keywords: Business Plan; Business Startups; Internet and the Web; Opportunities; Business Processes; Organizational Structure; Decision Choices and Conditions; Organizational Design; Education Industry; Information Technology Industry
MacCormack, Alan D., and Kerry Herman. "Socrates, Inc." Harvard Business School Exercise 602-115, January 2002.
- February 2019 (Revised June 2019)
- Case
Where to Grow Next at Online Marketplace OLX
By: Thales Teixeira, Leandro A. Guissoni and Samy Dana
The CEO of OLX Brazil, an online classifieds platform business, is debating among multiple paths to grow sustainably (i.e., profitably) without the need for investor money. The options under consideration are (1) penetration growth by focusing on the core, (2) new... View Details
Keywords: Online Marketplace; Growth; Customer Acquisition; Facebook; Two-sided Network; E-commerce; Classifieds; Naspers; Schibsted; Innovation; Startup; Digital Platforms; Internet and the Web; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Model; Innovation and Invention; Business Startups; Decision Choices and Conditions; Brazil
Teixeira, Thales, Leandro A. Guissoni, and Samy Dana. "Where to Grow Next at Online Marketplace OLX." Harvard Business School Case 519-064, February 2019. (Revised June 2019.)
- December 2010 (Revised March 2012)
- Teaching Note
Alibaba Group
By: Julie M. Wulf
Teaching Note for 710436. View Details
- February 1999 (Revised May 1999)
- Case
Onsale, Inc.
By: Youngme E. Moon
Onsale has been a pioneer in electronic commerce, offering excess and refurbished goods using an online auction format. The company is now planning to become a player in the highly competitive world of first-run computer merchandise as well. However, unlike other... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Transformation; Customers; Brands and Branding; Auctions; Network Effects; Strategic Planning; Competitive Strategy; Internet and the Web; Retail Industry
Moon, Youngme E. "Onsale, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 599-091, February 1999. (Revised May 1999.)
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
Gazette reports the news of his 42-inch, 40-pound striped bass, not his accomplishments as an Internet entrepreneur who sold his company, PlanetAll, to Amazon.com in 1998. Now Adams, his wife Megan Weeks Adams (MBA ’97), and their... View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 19 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Codeacademy’s Delicate Work of Adding Monetization Without Crushing Mission
development? A: There are over 3 billion Internet users today (up from 300 million just 15 years ago). Less than ten percent of them are from the United States. That is to say yes, internationalization is very, very important. Q: The... View Details
- 06 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 6
http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/web/product_detail.seam?R=710410-PDF-ENG&conversationId=264137&E=1234203 Daqi Harvard Business School Case 309-113 In 2008, Daqi was one of the largest Internet portals for user-generated content and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Sep 2007
- Op-Ed
Building Sandcastles: The Subprime Adventure
negative amortization) turned millions of renters into homeowners. Subprime lending soared from near 0 in the early 1990s to 20.1 percent of all originations in 2006. The subprime lenders hawked their mortgages with glitzy ads, Internet... View Details
- 31 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Marketing’s Conventional Wisdom
their parents own. So BMW, knowing that it's a fashion brand, is trying to manage different and multiple brand messages for different audiences, using the Internet and various other forms of distribution. Q: What else about marketing... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
for the coming year: encourage clubs to designate an information technology officer to run Internet sessions and develop Web resources; create a system for connecting current students to clubs and communicating more efficiently when... View Details
Keywords: Edmund A. Hajim (MBA '64)
- 17 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
If Marketing Experts Ran Elections
political advertising in this year's presidential campaign. Yet there are reasons for hope. Citizen interest in this year's primaries is high because there is no obvious winner and genuinely different candidates are competing on both sides. The View Details
Keywords: by John A. Quelch