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- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
Since its official launch four years ago, the School's Initiative on Social Enterprise has flourished, providing ever-greater support and know-how for HBS students, alumni, and...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- May 2005
- Exercise
Forecasting the Adoption of E-books
By: Elie Ofek
Gives students an opportunity to understand the challenges inherent in forecasting the diffusions of innovations. Provides data for forecasting the adoption of electronic books. Students are encouraged to use the Bass Model framework, while being cognizant of its...
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Forecasting and Prediction;
Framework;
Books;
Analytics and Data Science;
Product Launch;
Internet and the Web;
Technology Adoption
Ofek, Elie. "Forecasting the Adoption of E-books." Harvard Business School Exercise 505-063, May 2005.
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Straight to the Heart
with someone until we meet in person. What is your strategy when it comes to making the Internet work for your clients? People think online dating is an efficient way to get to know someone, View Details
- 08 Jan 2001
- What Do You Think?
Have We Extended the Boundaries of the Firm Too Far?
standards of the Internet and willing to transfer databases to a "rival supplier" in the event of an unsatisfactory relationship...
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by James Heskett
- Web
Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work
encompasses a wide array of questions about computing, communication, and Internet markets. Research AWS and Amazon SageMaker: The...
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- 06 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Cut Salaries or Cut People? The Best Way to Survive a Downturn
inbound call center, working in six divisions selling different digital services, such as cable TV packages, cellular phone plans, and internet connectivity services. The...
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by Rachel Layne
- 05 Sep 2014
- Blog Post
CPD on the Road in Manila
the 40+ medians common throughout Europe and Japan. Labor continues to be one of the country’s biggest exports with overseas workers remitting cash to their families back home,...
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- 12 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Facing the New World Order
has a real advantage, to kind of shed some of the barnacles that were created during the Internet experiment and View Details
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by Staff
- March 2020
- Module Note
Business Model Transformation in the Platform Age
By: Feng Zhu
Although some digital platforms are highly successful, most firms today are still traditional product- or service-based firms. To take advantage of the opportunities created by platform business models, traditional firms can work with existing platforms to become their...
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Platforms;
Platform Businesses;
Platform Disruption;
Internet and the Web;
Business Model;
Transformation;
Digital Platforms
Zhu, Feng. "Business Model Transformation in the Platform Age." Harvard Business School Module Note 620-109, March 2020.
- Web
Shared Value Measurement - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
integrated shared value strategy and measurement process includes four steps. The Shared Value Measurement Process The above steps originate from View Details
- 23 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Learning Curve: The Brother-and-Sister Team Behind a New Edtech Nonprofit
As the children of civil servants living in northern India, siblings Azeez Gupta (MBA 2019) and Namya Mahajan (MBA 2022) enjoyed educational advantages that millions of their lower-income peers did...
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- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation
funding. Things have changed with the rise of the Internet and dot-coms; VCs now take a much more proactive role in View Details
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by Susan Young
- 23 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
It’s Called ‘Price Coherence,’ and It’s Surprisingly Bad for Consumers
restrictions imposed by the intermediaries, who want consumers to focus less on price differences and more on the benefits of value-added services that they provide, such as...
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- October 2015
- Case
Bigbelly
By: Mitch Weiss and Christine Snively
To accelerate Bigbelly's sales growth and its "smart cities" positioning, its CEO planned to shift his company from equipment sales to a subscription service. Jack Kutner hoped to re-position Bigbelly's solar-powered trash compacting stations beyond trash and recycling...
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Public Entrepreneurship;
Smart Cities;
Government Innovation;
Internet Of Things;
IoT;
Anything As A Service;
Platform As A Service;
Infrastructure As A Service;
PaaS;
Xaas;
Bigbelly;
Jack Kutner;
B2G;
Civic Innovation;
City Innovation;
Government Technology;
Govtech;
Civic Technology;
Entrepreneurship;
Sales;
Innovation and Invention;
Digital Platforms;
Internet and the Web;
Web Services Industry;
Web Services Industry;
Web Services Industry;
Web Services Industry;
Web Services Industry;
Massachusetts;
United States;
Boston;
Chicago;
Philadelphia;
New York (city, NY)
Weiss, Mitch, and Christine Snively. "Bigbelly." Harvard Business School Case 816-005, October 2015.
- February 2015 (Revised September 2016)
- Teaching Note
Making stickK Stick: The Business of Behavioral Economics
By: Leslie K. John and Michael Norton
Email mking@hbs.edu for a courtesy copy.
This Teaching Note explains the theory of the case and teaching plan for the case: Making sticK Stick: The Business of Behavioral Economics (514019). The case focuses on a... View Details
This Teaching Note explains the theory of the case and teaching plan for the case: Making sticK Stick: The Business of Behavioral Economics (514019). The case focuses on a... View Details
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Behavioral Economics;
Behavior Change;
B2B Vs. B2C;
Human Resource Management;
Marketing Of Innovations;
Health & Wellness;
Weight Loss;
Charitable Giving;
Marketing;
Consumer Behavior;
Entrepreneurship;
Internet and the Web;
Health;
Business Model;
Sales;
Human Resources;
Health Industry;
United States
John, Leslie K., and Michael Norton. "Making stickK Stick: The Business of Behavioral Economics." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 515-088, February 2015. (Revised September 2016.) (Email mking@hbs.edu for a courtesy copy.)
- 05 Aug 2002
- What Do You Think?
Is Platform Leadership Old Hat or the Wave of the Future?
Summing Up Platform leadership, the process by which base technologies are developed and on which innovations created by many entrepreneurs can be based, may be characteristic of View Details
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by James Heskett
- 26 Jul 2011
- News
An Entrepreneur of the Arts
Sister Cities International. “Most importantly,” she says, “the OPM program inspired me to look for opportunities to grow and expand while leveraging my existing brand. My OPM classmates gave me a lot of inspiration View Details
- 14 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove on the Confident Leader
opportunities, and defined the opportunities for packet software. That framework is changing now. The Internet is redefining software. View Details
- January 2009
- Case
Microsoft's Search
By: Jan W. Rivkin and Eric J. Van den Steen
In 2008, executives at Microsoft must decide how to compete against Google in the market for Internet search and advertising. The case describes how Microsoft has responded to a set of competitive threats in the past, how Google has gained a dominant position in...
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Rivkin, Jan W., and Eric J. Van den Steen. "Microsoft's Search." Harvard Business School Case 709-461, January 2009.
- July 2001 (Revised May 2002)
- Case
WWWW - Who Will Win Wireless?
This case discusses different players in the wireless Internet industry and asks readers to evaluate the likelihood that they will create and capture value.
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Hallowell, Roger H., Sherry W. Fairbank, Rosina L Giuliante, and Jennifer L. Jacobs. "WWWW - Who Will Win Wireless?" Harvard Business School Case 802-012, July 2001. (Revised May 2002.)