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- 23 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 23
telecommunications industry, we address the following questions: What factors contribute to a firm's ability to learn by supplying and building technological and market capabilities? Does it matter to whom the firm supplies? Is involvement in product View Details
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Anna Secino
- 10 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World
a high margin. That's similar to a fashion brand like Chanel (though fashion brands have higher margins). Acurio is following a portfolio logic, similar to, say, Penguin, which has Penguin Classics and all...
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- 19 Nov 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Moral Leader
25-year business career that included 10 years in fashion retailing; 12 years in mutual fund and brokerage financial services; serving as a director on nonprofit and corporate boards; and chairing the Better Business Bureau here in...
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- 09 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 9
has been little empirical evidence on the propensity with which core-periphery structures are observed in practice, the factors that explain differences in the design of such structures, or the manner in which these structures evolve over...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
moving "downmarket" without diminishing their prestige or alienating existing customers. The authors suggest various ways to cater to new, non-core customers in a way that differentiates the newcomers from a brand's core clientele. Examples are cited for...
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Carmen Nobel
- 31 Oct 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017
1990s, these two historical trends met, as the concept of sustainable development spread to large conventional corporations, and visionary green firms scaled or were acquired by conventional big businesses. The concept of sustainability became socially constructed in a...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Annual Report 2016 - Annual Report 2016
business background. 165 Participants from 76 colleges More on PEEK Jul 2015 Summer Venture in Management Designed to increase diversity and opportunity in business education, the Summer Venture in Management Program is a one-week...
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- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
shopping environment. We build a demand model in which consumers choose how to allocate their spending over different product categories to maximize their direct utility under contingent free shipping. We estimate model parameters using transaction data from a pure...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 22, 2008
2006-2007 Annual Report for Shoppers' Stop Group (SSG), action shots of healthy-looking people dressed in the latest fashions amid the words "Redefining Retail" brought a smile to his face. As managing director of SSG—a Rs 8.9...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 8, 2016
approaches can be reconciled through the Lean Strategy process, which ensures that startups innovate in a disciplined fashion and make the most of their limited resources by knowing "what not to do." Deliberate strategy sets the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
relies on Costco as a distributional partner, which adds credibility as well as helps to the brand without overspending on advertising. A logistics system allows Vizio to import televisions from a manufacturer in China in just-in-time View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 02 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t
habits as well, such as a growing preference for sharing items rather than owning them, and encouraging "showrooming" where shoppers visit stores only to test products—then buy them more cheaply online. The user benefits from lower cost, lower effort, or saved time....
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by Michael Blanding
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
of yoga is alive and well at our festivals.” Corporate sponsors also want in, to get their brands in front of the primarily female attendees with the disposable income for travel, food, and lodging, on top of $100 to $500 entrance fees. Wanderlust works with potential...
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Deborah Halber
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
(MBA 1989) (St. Martin's Griffin) The story of a French woman perfumer who escapes from Europe at the beginning of World War II and seeks (and finds) success in Los Angeles as a perfumer and fashion designer...
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- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
understanding of how to develop meaningful experiences for recent high school graduates. Realizing that the global pandemic would be an issue for members of the class of 2020, she launched Global Citizen Academy, a leadership experience View Details
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
platform and its evolution. We describe three ways of representing platform architectures: network graphs, design structure matrices, and layer maps. We conclude by addressing a number of fundamental strategic questions suggested by a...
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- 07 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure
chapters in seminars. That so enormous an achievement was the product of lonely research tells what a great scholar Schumpeter was."4 The design of Business Cycles—a three-country study of the United States, Britain, and Germany,...
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by Thomas K. McCraw
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
1968) Forefront Books As the son of Max Feldman, the self-proclaimed “sodbuster from Omaha” and brilliant founder of the successful fashion shoe store chain Fratelli Massimo, Josh Feldman has always known his destiny, working alongside...
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- Forthcoming
- Book
The Everything Token: How NFTs and Web3 Will Transform the Way We Buy, Sell, and Create
By: Steve Kaczynski and Scott Duke Kominers
We demystify the coming digital revolution, showing how NFTs will transform our online and offline interactions.
NFTs aren’t just pictures on the internet, or a fad that has come and gone. Rather, they’re a new technology for creating digital assets and... View Details
NFTs aren’t just pictures on the internet, or a fad that has come and gone. Rather, they’re a new technology for creating digital assets and... View Details
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Economic Systems;
Microeconomics;
Entrepreneurship;
Cultural Entrepreneurship;
Information Technology;
Innovation and Invention;
Innovation Strategy;
Digital Platforms;
Digital Strategy;
Digital Transformation;
Internet and the Web;
Technology Adoption;
Marketing;
Marketing Strategy;
Product Marketing;
Product Positioning;
Markets;
E-commerce;
Market Design;
Value;
Customer Value and Value Chain;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Innovation and Management;
Organizational Structure;
Customer Ownership;
Ownership;
Fashion Industry;
Fashion Industry;
Fashion Industry;
Fashion Industry;
Fashion Industry;
Fashion Industry;
Fashion Industry;
Fashion Industry;
Fashion Industry
Kaczynski, Steve, and Scott Duke Kominers. The Everything Token: How NFTs and Web3 Will Transform the Way We Buy, Sell, and Create. Portfolio/Penguin, forthcoming.
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
makers investigating the operational processes, clinical outcomes, and financial performance of hospitals. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=14-024.pdf Work Design Drivers of Organizational...
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Sean Silverthorne