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- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America Globalizing Latin American Beauty By: Jones, G. Abstract—This article discusses the growth over time of the beauty industry in Latin America and its bias towards celebrating whiter rather than...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11
their worth from their multisided platforms (MSPs), which facilitate interactions or transactions between parties. Many MSPs are more valuable than companies in the same industries that provide only products or services: For instance,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- December 2022
- Supplement
Freelancer, Ltd. Case Supplement
By: Christopher Stanton, Karim R. Lakhani, Jin Hyun Paik and Nina Cohodes
Over the course of the 2010s, the rapid advancement of mobile technologies and the rise of online freelancing platforms seemed to portend a radical transformation of labor markets into on-demand, flexible talent pools. Even though several Fortune 500 companies,...
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Keywords:
Labor Markets;
Freelancers;
Change Management;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Human Capital;
Employment;
Digital Platforms;
Global Range;
Adoption;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Computer Industry;
Computer Industry;
Computer Industry;
Computer Industry;
Australia;
United States;
Philippines
Stanton, Christopher, Karim R. Lakhani, Jin Hyun Paik, and Nina Cohodes. "Freelancer, Ltd. Case Supplement." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 823-707, December 2022. (Click here to access this case.)
- May 1992 (Revised July 1994)
- Case
Breaking with the Past?: Four Examples of Product Change
Describes four examples of product change where the new version of the product makes a "break with the past" in some important respect. The four examples are those of the IBM PS/2 family of personal computers, Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet software, Nikon's line of SLR...
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Product Design;
Change;
Information Technology Industry;
Information Technology Industry;
Information Technology Industry;
Information Technology Industry
Dhebar, Anirudh S. "Breaking with the Past?: Four Examples of Product Change." Harvard Business School Case 592-097, May 1992. (Revised July 1994.)
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
models in the operations management literature. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=47633 Harvard Business School Case 816-028 Duetto: Industry Transformation with Big Data No abstract available at this...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Innovation Is Magic. Really
far enough. They stopped asking the next round of innovation questions, leaving Apple to reap the benefits from recognizing that the crucial thing wasn't just the device itself, but the magical way in which the entire music industry could...
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- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
an electronic version of a patient questionnaire that had been designed and vetted by a group of subspecialty experts. We integrated that survey into our EHR. To assess the effects of our new EHR system and the new process flow for...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
framework to address this problem, allowing a firm to better align the design of its development processes to the specific aims of individual projects. We illustrate this framework with examples from Hewlett-Packard, a large, diversified View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
contingent control rights when they are prohibited from doing business with other portals and that contingent control rights are less likely to appear as the industry matures. Our findings are consistent with theoretical explanations that...
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Carmen Nobel
- 11 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Financial Services 24/7
week for it to clear will be equally unfathomable. Technology is transforming the banking industry so rapidly that anything less than around-the-clock electronic access to bank accounts seems unthinkable....
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by Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Vivek Ranadivé
for other industries under the umbrella of TIBCO Software. "In many ways, the trading floor of the 1990s was a microcosm of e-business today," he observes. "Starting a company to automate the financial View Details
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Julia Hanna;
Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing;
Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing;
Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing;
Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing;
Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing;
Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing;
Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing;
Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing;
Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing;
Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing
- 25 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 25, 2006
paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/06-061.pdf Cross Functional Alignment in Supply Chain Planning: A Case Study of Sales & Operations Planning Authors:Rogelio Oliva and Noel Watson Author's Abstract In 2002, Leitax, a niche consumer View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
Business School Case 707-012 Clearwater was trying to market value-added products in a traditionally commodities based industry while facing supply uncertainties and regulatory, environmental, and foreign exchange challenges. Clearwater...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 28
decide whether now is the time to sell his firm's investment in Tri-Northern Distribution. Brazos, a middle-market leveraged buyout group, created the company two years earlier through the acquisition of two electronic security...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
car company. You need to go to business school.” In 2006, during his first year at HBS, Rogers sought out sectionmate Jeff Jones (MBA 2007), who had just left a job at Ford. On a run along the Charles one day, Jones laid out the state of the automotive View Details
- 17 Jul 2014
- Panel Discussion
Monitoring the Monitors: How Social Factors Influence Supply Chain Auditors
By: Jodi L. Short and Michael W. Toffel
Keywords:
CSR;
Corporate Accountability;
Corporate Social Responsibility;
Outsourced Production;
Outsourcing;
Sustainability;
Sustainability Management;
Auditing;
Audit Quality;
Gender;
Conflicts Of Interest;
Bias;
Apparel and Accessories Industry;
Apparel and Accessories Industry;
Apparel and Accessories Industry;
China;
India;
Pakistan;
Bangladesh;
Mexico;
Brazil;
Viet Nam;
Indonesia;
Philippines;
Sri Lanka;
Taiwan;
South Korea
Short, Jodi L., and Michael W. Toffel. "Monitoring the Monitors: How Social Factors Influence Supply Chain Auditors." Elevate Limited Webinar, July 17, 2014. (Webinar coordinated by Elevate Limited.)
- 19 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 19
virtual currency including electronic payments. Since its inception in 2009 by an anonymous group of developers, Bitcoin has served tens of millions of transactions with total dollar value in the billions. Users have been drawn to Bitcoin...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
given that product architecture has been shown to be an important predictor of, among other things: product performance, product variety, process flexibility, and future industry evolution. We explore this relationship in the software...
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Martha Lagace
- September 2014
- Article
The Interrelationships Between Brand and Channel Choice
By: Scott Neslin, Kenshuk Jerath, Anand Bodapati, Eric T. Bradlow, John A. Deighton, Sonja Gensler, Leonard Lee, Elisa Montaguti, Rahul Telang, Raj Venkatesan, Peter C. Verhoef and Z. John Zhang
We propose a framework for the joint study of the consumer's decision of where to buy and what to buy. The framework is rooted in utility theory where the utility is for a particular channel/brand combination. The framework contains firm actions, the consumer search...
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Brand Choice;
Channel Choice;
Utility Theory;
Marketing;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Consumer Behavior;
Learning;
Electronics Industry;
Electronics Industry;
Electronics Industry;
Electronics Industry;
Electronics Industry
Neslin, Scott, Kenshuk Jerath, Anand Bodapati, Eric T. Bradlow, John A. Deighton, Sonja Gensler, Leonard Lee, Elisa Montaguti, Rahul Telang, Raj Venkatesan, Peter C. Verhoef, and Z. John Zhang. "The Interrelationships Between Brand and Channel Choice." Marketing Letters 25, no. 3 (September 2014): 319–330.
- January 2023
- Supplement
Apple: Privacy vs. Safety (B)
By: Henry McGee, Nien-hê Hsieh and Christian Godwin
In 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the globe, Apple and Google partnered to develop a contact tracing application that would collect information about users infected with the disease and notify those who they had been in contact with. While Apple/Google’s...
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Iphone;
Encryption;
Data Privacy;
Customers;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Decision Making;
Ethics;
Values and Beliefs;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Government and Politics;
Health;
Health Pandemics;
Leadership;
Markets;
Safety;
Social Issues;
Information Technology;
Telecommunications Industry;
Telecommunications Industry;
Telecommunications Industry;
Telecommunications Industry;
Telecommunications Industry;
United States;
Europe
McGee, Henry, Nien-hê Hsieh, and Christian Godwin. "Apple: Privacy vs. Safety (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 323-066, January 2023.