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- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
Underlying this change is a story of foresighted strategy and disciplined execution—of connecting knowing to doing. In strategic terms, the IBM transformation illustrates the ideas behind dynamic capabilities, showing how the company has been able to sense changes in...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 15, 2016
driving internal reforms to make COFCO's management more competitive, innovative, and globally experienced. This case allows for a discussion of the Chinese marketplace and the evolving approach to business structures taken by the Chinese...
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- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53888 Marketplace Lending: A New Banking Paradigm? By: Vallée, Boris, and Yao Zeng Abstract—Marketplace lending relies on large-scale loan screening by investors, a major deviation from the...
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- 30 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 30
311-118 Worldwide, and in the U.S. marketplace in particular, the French cachet of L'Oréal was one of its most powerful marketing tools. However, with the opening up of emerging markets, L'Oréal had to cater to a diverse customer base: an...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
case explores French consumer goods company Danone's novel approach to knowledge management. In 2007, Human Resource Chief (Executive Vice President) Franck Mougin assesses the company's knowledge-sharing tools and considers his options going forward. Through informal...
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Martha Lagace
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
so than any of Greg's previous ventures, Quadriserv represented a move into an established marketplace with strong and entrenched incumbents. Greg had a tested record of startups in the trading and financial sectors, but the difference in...
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Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
marketplaces for intellectual property. After a successful live IP auction in the spring of 2008 (62% of 85 offered lots were sold for a total of $19.6 million), Ocean Tomo had to decide which of its five business lines to emphasize....
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Martha Lagace
- 03 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Is the Future of MBA Education?
new book, Rethinking the MBA: Business Education at a Crossroads. Employing a wealth of interviews and quantitative data, their book takes the first comprehensive approach in decades to examine the evolving MBA marketplace and its threats...
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- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
lives and the very structure and power dynamics of industries can't be managed as "silos," tucked away in corporate, university, or government research labs, in incubators, or within venture capital-funded entrepreneurial start-ups. Access to the View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
environmental protection? How should we think about the notion of firms sacrificing profits in the social interest? May they do so within the scope of their fiduciary responsibilities to their shareholders? Can they do so on a sustainable basis, or will the forces of a...
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Martha Lagace
- 22 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 22, 2015
Benjamin G., Michael Luca, and Daniel Svirsky Abstract—Online marketplaces increasingly choose to reduce the anonymity of buyers and sellers in order to facilitate trust. We demonstrate that this common market design choice results in an...
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Carmen Nobel
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Women Can Get More Venture Capital
companies that have enormous potential, certainly potential to earn more than $100 million to $500 million a year in revenue. Entrepreneurs have to be realistic when assessing their own business's potential. Is the business concept one that can scale? Is the industry...
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by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
of industries can't be managed as "silos," tucked away in corporate, university, or government research labs, in incubators, or within venture capital funded entrepreneurial start-ups. Access to the marketplace is needed to help...
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
than they answered, and Cresswell wondered if this was the best way to segment the market. While segmenting in this way was intriguing, it led to a branding challenge—as a start-up, it was difficult for onefinestay to have the resources to support multiple brand...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
generation. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/318109-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 218-043 Dianrong: Marketplace Lending, Blockchain, and 'The New Finance' in China No abstract available. Purchase this...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
the examples demonstrate ways in which market design can break barriers—physical, political, and/or metaphorical. Each example also illustrates one of four broader classes of ways that market design can create positive change: marketplace...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
transactional media marketplace and hoped that two new marketing analytics products would give it a more predictable revenue stream. But sales were behind forecast. DataXu’s large brand and advertising agency clients found the new...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
facing a disruptive threat, so he chartered a special team to tackle the industrial segment. Given a high degree of autonomy, the project team developed an understanding of the marketplace challenge and proceeded to develop and execute on...
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Carmen Nobel
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
Harvard Business School Case 516-017 Flipkart: Transitioning to a Marketplace Model Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal, cofounders of India's largest e-commerce company, Flipkart, were reviewing the foregoing Facebook post, which had gone...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
"eyeballs") has become so competitive that attention can be regarded as a currency. The rising cost of this ingredient in the marketplace is causing marketers to waste money on costly attention sources or reduce their investment...
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Sean Silverthorne