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- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Confronting the Challenges that Face Bricks-and-Mortar Stores
an average of 20 to 30 minutes just to learn how to shop in most text-based Internet grocery-shopping systems. By contrast, it takes them only two to three minutes to learn how to shop in a 3-D virtual store modeled after a familiar...
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- 07 Jun 2019
- Book
Are You a Digital Manager?
Complex trends in globalization, demographic shifts, and new technologies are raising urgent challenges for managers on an everyday level. Because of the number of companies undergoing digital transformation, managers need to navigate an intense speed-to-market...
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by Martha Lagace
- 04 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Predictions, Prophets, and Restarting Your Business
hard decisions about returning to the market. Here’s a common prediction: Social distancing forces people to do more buying online and communicating through social media, thus accelerating a permanent, big shift after the crisis to more ecommerce and View Details
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by Frank V. Cespedes
- 26 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 26, 2016
virtually every county and industry in the United States. We study the impact of this reform on county-sector employment growth over the subsequent three years. Despite firms being paid just 15 days sooner, we find payroll increased 10...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 29, 2008
Supplement (C), 108-035: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=108035 Purchase Supplement (D), 108-036: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=108036 Facebook View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
Strategic Interactions in Two-Sided Market Oligopolies (revised) Authors:Emmanuel Farhi and Andrei Hagiu Abstract Strategic interactions between two-sided platforms depend not only on whether their decision variables are strategic...
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Martha Lagace
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
hamper the growth of the Android platform may have merely shifted the sales to weak IP countries. This study sheds light on the emerging patent enforcement strategy literature by highlighting the heterogeneity in the efficacy of national...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
compared to a simple deficit rule that limits the maximum amount of deficit per period. Whereas the deficit rule does not perform well, the debt rule yields welfare gains virtually equal to the optimal rule. Download working paper:...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
virtually all of them shared a deep concern for the sustainability of the market system, but their beliefs about how to respond varied widely. Some said that changing their behavior would be unnecessary or even inappropriate. Others were...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Brexit: Should Britain Stay or Go?
that the rest of the countries in the EU are Britain’s largest market – countries to which it needs unimpeded access. Foreign firms and banks invest in Britain because it is a business-friendly platform for accessing that wider market....
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by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dante Roscini
- 08 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Fashion Your New E-Business Model
Social or regulatory systems (ownership incentives, freelancing, virtual work, distance learning, digital copyright laws) Although Industrial Age markets and power bases were built on proprietary infrastructure, participants within...
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by Lynda M. Applegate
- 31 Oct 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017
Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53418 Threat of Platform-Owner Entry and Complementor Responses: Evidence from the Mobile App Market By: Wen, Wen, and Feng Zhu Abstract—We examine how app developers on the Android mobile View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
the platform centrally and imposing it on the business units afterwards. The jury was still out on whether this approach would drive digitalization within Siemens fast enough, given the exponential developments in data generation and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
for the time we reasonably need to get things done,” Whillans says. Gracefully bow out of extraneous activities. Many employers are trying to help their employees unwind by scheduling virtual coffee breaks, lunch gatherings, and happy...
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by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
School Supplement 609-102 No abstract is available at this time. Purchase this supplement: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=609102 Linden Lab: Crossing the Chasm Harvard Business School Case 809-147 In early 2008, managers at Linden Lab,...
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Martha Lagace
- 23 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’
communicate with them in a dynamic, two-way fashion. Fifth, there is technological change. As digital networks make instant connectivity the norm of business life, and as social media platforms grow more powerful and more ubiquitous, a...
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- 13 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 13
275,000 people. The case provides an update on TopCoder's growth and resulting changes in its platform and business model, specifically, its decision to virtualize the project management role. Issues related...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 14
relies on platforms and horizontal ecosystems of firms producing complementary products. Using three case studies—software, animation and mobile telephony—we illustrate two key sources of inefficiencies that this mismatch can create, all...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 20
a "great surprise," another wondered if Buffett was investing with his heart rather than his head (he was a paperboy as a child), and a third said it was a "feat of financial engineering." Virtually all of them...
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Anna Secino
- 19 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
LEED-ing by Example
services that are friendly to the environment (a 1993 US executive order) and to "stimulate the use of green standards in private procurement" (a 2008 communication from the Commission of the European Communities). But despite these justifications, there has been View Details