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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Reality to News Biz: Drop Dead
of newspapers and magazines. And yet, as print ads flee online for pennies on the dollar — and newsprint prices jump while circulation and newsstand sales slump — these enterprises have never seen their...
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- 14 Nov 2012
- News
Remembering His Roots
to business schools as well as some of the tuition. The RFDF Exchange, an online platform that allows students to raise money for their respective educational pursuits, is a major component. “Each student is a stock with a starting View Details
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farmworkers
- 08 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 8, 2008
of luck is the share of the oil industry in the state's economy multiplied by the price of oil. The correlation is negative, suggesting that more reliance on luck is correlated with less individualism. We provide three short models that...
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Prosper with Multi-Channel Retailing
prior to coming to Gap. She said that when the company launched walmart.com, the first thought was to literally replicate the store online. The company quickly learned that customers weren't willing to pay shipping costs on, say, toilet paper. However, she said the...
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- 21 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Music Downloads: Pirates—or Customers?
industry consider peer-to-peer services as marketing tools rather than the enemy? Should online pricing be different from in-store pricing? What happens when broadband makes it as easy to illegally download...
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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Books
The Heart of Change by John P. Kotter and Dan S. Cohen Searching for a Corporate Savior by Rakesh Khurana Making Markets: How Firms Can Design and Profit from Online Auctions and Exchanges by Ajit Kambil and Eric Van Heck Leading Terms:...
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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
She·sesh·un (noun) Ly·ing flat (verb) Post·cook·ie (adj.) Bi·o·rev·o·loo·shun (noun) Dig·i·tul no·mad (noun) Di·ver·si·ty wa·shing (verb) Meem Stock (noun) When the price of supposedly “dull” stocks like BlackBerry and GameStop hit the...
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- 08 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 8
limited intermediation, and corporate opportunism. Investor tastes, when combined with imperfectly competitive intermediaries, lead prices and interest rates to deviate from fundamental values. Opportunistic firms respond by issuing...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
RealNetworks, CNET, and Judo Strategy
Bonnie (MBA '90), CEO of CNET, whose Web sites—not to mention a radio station and several print magazines—provide a wealth of information to technology buffs and buyers alike. Founded in 1992, CNET has fared so well in the marketplace that last summer it bought the...
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by Jim Aisner
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Up by the Roots
its wine, but inferior product from Canada and China had begun flooding the market, driving down retail prices from $50 a pound that year to $12 a pound by 2006. Instead of joining the family business, Hsu went to work for General Mills...
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Francis Storrs
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
level thanks to the extreme form of fiscal decentralization that the Brazilian government adopted in the Constitution of 1891, which gave states the sole right to tax exports. We also use indices of export prices for each state as...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
'I Know Why You Voted for Trump' and Other Motivation Misperceptions
studies consumer decision-making, with a particular interest in how we make sense of other people’s choices. Just five days after the election, Barasz conducted an online survey that asked Trump voters what spurred them to vote for the...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Innovation and Renovation: Optimizing Product Line Architecture - Course Catalog
time: extending lines are part of the tool kit necessary in managing a product or service over time, and in satisfying customer needs more precisely and blocking competitive advances. Cases include Evernote, an online notetaking app. We...
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- 26 Oct 2017
- News
Can Farming Save the Planet?
SFP raises funds from individuals, foundations, and endowments to achieve its goals. The huge demand for organic goods such as corn, oats, and alfalfa, and the higher prices they command than traditionally grown crops, creates a dramatic...
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- 30 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 30, 2016
widespread adoption of their online self-service customer support solution that they were expecting based on early success in helping clients save and generate substantial amounts of money. Dr. Jacob O. Wobbrock and Dr. Andrew J. Ko are...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Latest Model
Prysm Group Cofounders Hurder (left) and Barrera: bringing an industry-agnostic approach to helping business leverage emerging technologies Prysm Group cofounders Hurder (left) and Barrera: bringing an industry-agnostic approach to helping business leverage emerging...
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- 10 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 10
abstract available. Publisher's link: http://www.europeanbusinessreview.com/?p=6747 Working Papers Price Coherence and Excessive Intermediation By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Julian Wright Abstract—Suppose an intermediary provides a benefit...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
Google's own Flight Search listing. The authors consider implications of these findings for competition policy and for online marketing strategies. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=44724 Enhancing the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
the scientists themselves. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52220 January 2017 American Economic Review Are Online and Offline Prices Similar? Evidence from Large...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Nov 2016
- Blog Post
Why We Recruit: Wayfair
OrganizationKate Gulliver, Vice President Talent Operations, Wayfair; HBS '09 Describe your organization in three to five sentences.Wayfair is one of the world's largest online destinations for all things home. Through our e-commerce...
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Consumer Products / Retail