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- 01 Sep 2015
- First Look
First Look -- September 1, 2015
lifecycles. Publisher's link: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2338575 June 22, 2015 Harvard Business Review Is Programmatic Advertising the Future of Marketing? By: Rayport, Jeffrey F. Abstract—No abstract available...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
Working PapersLocal R&D Strategies and Multi-location Firms: The Role of Internal Linkages Authors:Juan Alcácer and Minyuan Zhao Abstract This study looks at the role of firms' internal linkages in highly competitive technology...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
of the next blockbuster, why superstars are paid unimaginable sums, and how digital technologies are transforming the entertainment landscape. Full of inside stories about some of the world's most successful entertainment brands,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 22
Using Public-Private Partnerships to Improve Firm Survival, Employment Growth, and Innovative Performance Authors:Chai, Sen, and Willy C. Shih Abstract Scientific research and its translation into commercialized technology is a driver of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Aug 2005
- HBS Case
Classic Cases Live On at HBS
to leave, all in about one hour." More than thirty years later, Professor David Upton makes Benihana the very first case he teaches in his Technology and Operations Management course (POM's successor). Explains Upton, "After...
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by Garry Emmons
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
Strategies to Fight Ad-sponsored Rivals Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Feng Zhu Abstract We analyze the optimal strategy of a high-quality incumbent that faces a low-quality ad-sponsored competitor. In addition to competing through adjustments of tactical...
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Martha Lagace
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
these dynamics—and the feasibility of improving them—to get a more realistic picture of its long-term prospects. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55510 Financial Development and Technology Diffusion By:...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
What Your Competition is Telling You
discover that our skills weren't necessarily honed to respond precisely to customer demand, our technologies weren't all they should be, and our manufacturing wasn't as efficient as we'd thought." In his soon-to-be-published book of...
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by David Stauffer
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
these two relationships may operate in a circular fashion. Second, we consider whether advertising these benefits of charitable giving—asking people to give in order to be happy—may have the perverse consequence of decreasing charitable...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 24
and resource-efficient development with the use of information and communication technologies to better manage complex urban systems. Book: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415893169/ Integrated Reporting Requires Integrated...
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Carmen Nobel
- 26 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
When Other Companies Compete Like Crazy, Dare to Be Different
studies on companies including Microsoft, Sony, and Intel, and consults with consumer marketing companies in the area of innovation. She also serves on the board of directors of Avid Technology and the board of governors of the American...
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by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 16 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 16
it's benefiting them. Enterprise 2.0 makes clear that the new technologies are good for much more than just socializing—when properly applied, they help businesses solve pressing problems, capture dispersed and fast-changing knowledge,...
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Martha Lagace
- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
conditions of state ownership, the tale told by The Big Ditch serves as a vital and object lesson for those who question the ability of governments to run companies effectively. Bold Retreat: A New Strategy for Old Technologies...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
every evening at their scheduled times, and feared that if television audiences migrated to VOD, their revenues from selling advertising time would decrease. How could Burke and Roberts convince the networks to team up with Comcast and...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
world of advertising by transforming the way Americans watched television. BCM had developed a technology to make television "clickable," enabling viewers to interact with the content on their...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan
direct-to-consumer would have to involve direct relationships with multiple manufacturers—or seem to; I don't know if it has to require that. And no one has found the model to do that. Q: Do you think part of Webvan's demise was a problem of technology, that the View Details
- October 2016
- Supplement
24 Hour Fitness (B): Ownership Changes, 2005–2016
By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
In 2016, 24 Hour Fitness was the number-two fitness chain in the United States, generating revenues of $1.4 billion from 441 clubs serving 3.8 million members. Based in San Ramon, California, 24 Hour Fitness operated clubs in 13 states. Having grown rapidly to become...
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Wells, John R., and Gabriel Ellsworth. "24 Hour Fitness (B): Ownership Changes, 2005–2016." Harvard Business School Supplement 717-423, October 2016.
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
transactions and markets we see. When my colleagues and I have helped design markets and allocation procedures, we have often found that distaste for certain kinds of transactions is a real constraint, every bit as real as the constraints imposed by View Details
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Martha Lagace
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How to Launch Your Digital Platform: A Playbook for Strategists
By: Benjamin Edelman
The ubiquity of Internet access has caused a sharp rise in the number of businesses offering platforms that connect users for communication or commerce. Entrepreneurs are particularly drawn to these platforms because they create significant value and have modest...
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Platforms;
Launch;
Mobilization Strategy;
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Network Effects;
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Edelman, Benjamin. "How to Launch Your Digital Platform: A Playbook for Strategists." Harvard Business Review 93, no. 4 (April 2015): 90–97. (Reprinted in Launch a Start-Up That Lasts, Harvard Business Review OnPoint, Winter 2016.)
- 19 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 19
Hongyi Li Publication:European Business Review (May-June 2012) Abstract An abstract is unavailable at this time. Read the article: http://www.europeanbusinessreview.com/?p=6417 The Flattening Firm—Not As Advertised Author:Julie Wulf...
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Sean Silverthorne