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- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities
a business opportunity. Walson charged two dollars a month for this service, and by the middle of 1948 had 727 customers. He and other entrepreneurs soon began setting up similar "Community Antenna Television" systems in rural... View Details
- 15 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Black Swans and Big Trends Can Ruin Anyone's Internet Prediction
years, curious to see if its ideas had stood the test of time. I was surprised by the book’s sober tone. It has a morning-after hangover vibe: “I guess last night was amazing, but I can’t remember it all; I must have blacked out. Now it... View Details
- Working Paper Summaries
Determinants of Early-Stage Startup Performance: Survey Results
Keywords: by Thomas R. Eisenmann
- 11 Jul 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
Managing Proprietary and Shared Platforms: A Life-Cycle View
- 16 Oct 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Opening Platforms: How, When and Why?
- 11 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Riding the Internet Fast Track
companies with widely recognized brands. Eisenmann cites Barnes & Noble as a clear example of the latter. "It took Barnes & Noble 18 months to wake up to the threat posed by Amazon.com," he... View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
- 10 Jul 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
Platform Envelopment
- 07 Jul 2022
- HBS Case
How a Multimillion-Dollar Ice Cream Startup Melted Down (and Bounced Back)
filing for bankruptcy? And more importantly, how did Smith and Cuscuna rebound from their first failed venture to open another successful ice cream shop? The startup, like many others, was a victim of its own success, says Harvard Business School Professor View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 11 Apr 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching a ‘Lean Startup’ Strategy
major change of some sort," Eisenmann explains. "In lean startup logic, it's something you do, ideally, after you've run some decisive test to disprove a hypothesis. It can be changing the target customer segments View Details
- 07 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence
corporate America ever win back people's confidence? Harvard Management Update recently discussed this issue with Thomas R. Piper, Lawrence E. Fouraker Professor of Business Administration at Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by Harvard Management Update
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
Second, we compare patenting by venture‐backed startups and incumbent firms. Using a variety of measures, we find that VC‐backed startups are engaged in more novel and more highly cited innovations compared to incumbent firms. Incumbent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
facilitate speaking up. Download the paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=43673 Cases & Course MaterialsIntuit Inc.: Project AgriNova Thomas R. Eisenmann and Tanya... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
People Express Airlines Thomas R. Eisenmann and Lauren BarleyHarvard Business School Case 812-134 Recounts the history of People Express Airlines, which grew rapidly after its... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 23
MIT Sloan Management Review Experiments in Open Innovation at Harvard Medical School By: Guinan, Eva C., Kevin J. Boudreau, and Karim R. Lakhani Abstract—Harvard Medical School seems an unlikely organization to open up its innovation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
Review (forthcoming) Abstract Companies in Victorian Britain operated in a laissez-faire legal environment from the perspective of outside investors, implying that such investors were not protected by the legal system. This article seeks... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 17, 2007
Proprietary and Shared Platforms: A Life-Cycle View Author:Thomas R. Eisenmann Abstract In a platform-mediated network, users rely on a common platform, provided by one or more... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 14
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/109071-PDF-ENG foursquare Mikołaj Jan Piskorski, Thomas R. Eisenmann, Jeffrey J. Bussgang, and David ChenHarvard Business School Case 711-418 Co-founders of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2021
- In Practice
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021
new books to come from Patrick Rothfuss and George R. R. Martin." This summer I want to complete the Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells—a super fun series about a killer robot... View Details
Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland
- Research Summary
Business Leaders and Corporate Responsibility
By: Thomas R. Piper
Thomas R. Piper is trying to establish an appropriate sense of ethics and corporate responsibility for future business leaders. Earlier research provided compelling evidence that many future leaders seriously doubt that their interpersonal ethics can be brought into... View Details
- 14 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 14
Southeast Asia and study the opportunities and challenges presented by the changing global market dynamics. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/212026-PDF-ENG Keurig and Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Paul W. Marshall, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne