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- 19 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy
receive lower prices in return but also because, in some cases,firms provide better service. A: There are many examples of how firms exploit consumer personal information to improve online services. Retailers and travel agencies, for...
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- 11 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Riding the Internet Fast Track
a series of six "filters" to answer this critical question. If a company is going to make the investment required to aggressively pursue an Internet opportunity, management needs to believe in each of the following: Online View Details
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by Peter Jacobs
- 17 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Protecting against the Pirates of Bollywood
middle class, and the fact that India's film industry sold 3.2 billion tickets in 2009. “Movie piracy in India is rampant—you can get one online the day after a release” Harvard Business School Associate Professor Lakshmi Iyer, a native...
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- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
"platform") around the rapidly expanding online video industry. Simultaneously, CEO Jeremy Allaire was completing a major funding round that would enable the company to make strategic investments in some or all of several...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 May 2016
- First Look
May 17, 2016
than 10 months of cash on hand, Tom Leung, the founder and CEO of Yabbly, must decide where to focus his resources. His startup, a question-and-answer application for shopping decisions, had benefited from a strong showing at the SXSW...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?
installations. Q: What are you working on next? A: These days, online shoppers face deceptive offers that promise discounts ("$10 off your next order") while they attempt to check out at ordinary retail Web sites. Because an...
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- 02 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t
one-stop shopping of traditional retailers—rather than say, spending the extra time showrooming for a television or booking a Zipcar. On the whole, however, there is a clear trend towards more and more decoupling as innovative companies...
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by Michael Blanding
- 28 Jul 2016
- Op-Ed
Where is TripAdvisor for Doctors?
TripAdvisor demonstrates the reach and power of recommendation services for consumers: it has become the world’s largest travel site with 340 million unique monthly visitors and 350 million reviews online covering 6.5 million hotels,...
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- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
large positive effects. Our results highlight the importance of mitigating user costs in small-value transactions. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55630 The Impact of Increasing Search Frictions on View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: First Look: October 10
announcement, served as a credible commitment to the government's privatization agenda. Download the paper from SSRN ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w13427 Mental Accounting and Small Windfalls: Evidence from an Online Grocer...
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
An online shipping platform that uses social networks and smartphones. Low-cost medical care and monitoring that helps seniors to live at home. The "Skype" of broadband, offering free Internet service. On an April morning known as "Super...
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- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-025.pdf Deterring Online Advertising Fraud Through Optimal Payment in Arrears Authors:Benjamin G. Edelman Abstract I develop a screening model with delayed payments and probabilistic delayed observation...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
find that changes in the local business landscape is a leading indicator of housing price changes and that the entry of Starbucks (and coffee shops more generally) into a neighborhood predicts gentrification. Each additional Starbucks...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
oneself is also a purely positive proposition (that says nothing about what that commitment should be other than it be bigger than oneself). Download the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1850544 Cases & Course Materials View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51107 Ideological Segregation Among Online Collaborators: Evidence from Wikipedians By: Greenstein, Shane, Yuan Gu, and Feng Zhu Abstract—Do online communities...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Financial Services 24/7
them, and the notion of writing a check at the corner store to get money in a pinch suggests a scene from a Norman Rockwell painting. It is only a matter of time, online banking enthusiasts say, before the process of writing a check,...
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by Susan Young
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
Associates, Robert Waldron turned a company that was in decline in 2008 into a profitable $190-million business 10 years later by developing online learning tools as well as print workbooks for schools. In 2017, the company gifted the...
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- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
publishing) are likely to reshape the structure of demand for executive development. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51662 The Impact of Increasing Search Frictions on Online View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
process that has led to many successful product launches, but are there areas of customer need that are undervalued by the traditional process? A novel online customer analysis approach suggests untapped opportunities for innovation, but...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Aug 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Learning From Japan’s Remarkable Disaster Recovery
leadership in mobilizing people and resources in highly dynamic situations.” Each winter, 900 HBS students dispatch around the world to see businesses up close, learn what they can about how they are run, and share their own knowledge with the leaders of a wide variety...
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