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Harvard Business School Online Courses & Learning Platforms
Choose a subject area: Digital Transformation Marketing Business Essentials Leadership & Management Entrepreneurship & Innovation Strategy Finance & Accounting Business in Society Featured Courses AI Essentials for Business Professors...
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- 31 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
From SpinPop to SpinBrush: Entrepreneurial Lessons from John Osher
fact the product of a sharp intellect and dozens of lessons learned over the course of a long career. "He's a street-smart guy, and he has this observational power. He had in mind designing the perfect company, which included the...
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- 25 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
An Organization Your Customers Understand
becomes confused about its purpose and whom it is designed to serve. In popular marketing textbooks, students are taught that a customer is any person or organizational unit that plays a role in the...
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by Robert Simons
- 17 May 2016
- First Look
May 17, 2016
with contracts, if any agent’s preferences are not substitutable, then the existence of a stable outcome cannot be guaranteed. In many-to-many matching with contracts, a new market design issue arises: the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Blog
Is AI Coming for Your Job?
Ayelet Israeli is the Marvin Bower Associate Professor in the Marketing Unit and cofounder of the Customer Intelligence Lab at the Digital, Data, and Design (D) Institute at HBS. Iavor Bojinov: Those who...
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- 18 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 18
Economists: A Market Design Perspective Authors:Peter A. Coles, John Cawley, Phillip B. Levine, Muriel Niederle, Alvin E. Roth, and John J. Siegfried Publication:Journal of Economic Perspectives...
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Martha Lagace
- March 1986 (Revised May 1996)
- Background Note
Introduction to Options
Designed to help students develop an understanding of option contracts and markets.
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Mason, Scott P. "Introduction to Options." Harvard Business School Background Note 286-104, March 1986. (Revised May 1996.)
- October 2010 (Revised May 2012)
- Background Note
Reverse Engineering, Learning, and Innovation
By: Willy C. Shih
This background reading looks at reverse engineering in the context of piracy and knock-offs in emerging markets like China. It first considers legal aspects of reverse engineering in strong property rights regimes like the United States as a way of unpacking the legal...
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Crime and Corruption;
Learning;
Engineering;
Innovation and Invention;
Intellectual Property;
Knowledge Use and Leverage;
Emerging Markets;
China;
United States
Shih, Willy C. "Reverse Engineering, Learning, and Innovation." Harvard Business School Background Note 611-039, October 2010. (Revised May 2012.)
- February–March 2013
- Article
The Mobile Banking and Payment Revolution
By: Sunil Gupta
Mobile technology is revolutionizing the global banking and payment industry. It offers new opportunities for banks to provide added convenience to their existing customers in developed countries and reach a large population of unbanked customers in emerging markets....
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Emerging Markets;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Banks and Banking;
Banking Industry
Gupta, Sunil. "The Mobile Banking and Payment Revolution." European Financial Review (February–March 2013), 3–6.
- August 2016 (Revised December 2016)
- Module Note
Strategy Execution Module 2: Building a Successful Strategy
By: Robert Simons
This module reading describes the basics of building a successful strategy. Topics in this module include a discussion of the distinction between corporate and business strategy; how to conduct a SWOT analysis of market dynamics and internal capabilities; the use of...
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Management Control Systems;
Implementing Strategy;
Strategy Execution;
Business Strategy;
Five Forces;
Distinctive Capabilities;
Emergent Strategy;
Mission Statements;
Strategy;
SWOT Analysis;
Competitive Advantage
Simons, Robert. "Strategy Execution Module 2: Building a Successful Strategy." Harvard Business School Module Note 117-102, August 2016. (Revised December 2016.)
- May–June 2019
- Article
U-Shaped Conformity in Online Social Networks
By: Monic Sun, Michael Zhang and Feng Zhu
We explore how people balance their needs to belong and to be different from their friends by studying their choices of a virtual-house wall color on a leading Chinese social-networking site. The setting enables us to randomize both the popular color and the adoption...
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Conformity;
Normative Social Influence;
Social Networks;
Field Experiment;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Behavior;
Attitudes;
Social Media
Sun, Monic, Michael Zhang, and Feng Zhu. "U-Shaped Conformity in Online Social Networks." Marketing Science 38, no. 3 (May–June 2019): 461–480.
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
It's Not Technology That Will Take the Swiss Watch Down
- February 2010
- Case
Corporate Strategy at Berkshire Partners
By: Julie M. Wulf and Scott Waggoner
The managing directors of Berkshire Partners, a mid-sized private equity firm, address strategic and organizational challenges in response to turbulent market conditions, rapid firm growth, and the transition of leadership from its founding partners to the next...
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Private Equity;
Management Teams;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Design;
Organizational Structure;
Competitive Advantage;
Corporate Strategy;
Financial Services Industry;
Boston
Wulf, Julie M., and Scott Waggoner. "Corporate Strategy at Berkshire Partners." Harvard Business School Case 710-414, February 2010.
- June 2005 (Revised June 2006)
- Case
Ducati Corse: The Making of a Grand Prix Motorcycle
By: Francesca Gino and Gary P. Pisano
Examines the product development strategy and processes of the Ducati motorcycle racing team during the 2003-2004 Grand Prix seasons. Invites discussion of appropriate design and development strategies to facilitate learning across product generations. Specifically,...
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Design;
Business Strategy;
Product Marketing;
Knowledge Use and Leverage;
Motorcycle Industry;
Italy
Gino, Francesca, and Gary P. Pisano. "Ducati Corse: The Making of a Grand Prix Motorcycle." Harvard Business School Case 605-090, June 2005. (Revised June 2006.)
- June 2014 (Revised March 2016)
- Case
Relating to Peapod
By: Susan Fournier and Jill Avery
Explores the relationships formed between consumers and the Peapod consumer-direct grocery delivery service, as revealed through an ethnographic study of Boston-area Peapod shoppers conducted between the Summer of 1997 and the Fall of 1999. Three representative case...
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Brands and Branding;
Customer Relationship Management;
Marketing Strategy;
Service Industry;
Boston
Fournier, Susan, and Jill Avery. "Relating to Peapod." Harvard Business School Case 314-142, June 2014. (Revised March 2016.)
- 13 Apr 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
The ‘IKEA Effect’: When Labor Leads to Love
- 01 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Dissent in Decision-Making
along" seem crude and outdated workplace mantras when contrasted with the sophistication of modern business, yet they are still considered sound advice. Compensating Candor HBS professor Max Bazerman of the Negotiation, Organizations & View Details
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by Garry Emmons
- 16 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
When the Internet Runs Out of IP Addresses
roadblocks are delaying its widespread implementation, probably for many years. So what happens when the last IPv4 address is assigned? Harvard Business School professor Benjamin G. Edelman proposes a solution: Create a market for holders...
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"Creating Competitive Advantage Through Knowledge Management" (with Elie Ofek)
This project explores how the concept of Knowledge Management (KM) is likely to impact competition among professional services firms (e.g. Consultants, Accounting Firms and Advertising Agencies). Assuming that the "KM technology" exhibits economies of scale, first we...
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- April 2017
- Article
Racial Discrimination in the Sharing Economy: Evidence from a Field Experiment
By: Benjamin Edelman, Michael Luca and Daniel Svirsky
In an experiment on Airbnb, we find that applications from guests with distinctively African-American names are 16% less likely to be accepted relative to identical guests with distinctively White names. Discrimination occurs among landlords of all sizes, including...
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Discrimination;
Field Experiment;
Bias;
Airbnb;
Prejudice and Bias;
Race;
Accommodations Industry
Edelman, Benjamin, Michael Luca, and Daniel Svirsky. "Racial Discrimination in the Sharing Economy: Evidence from a Field Experiment." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 9, no. 2 (April 2017): 1–22.