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- March 1998 (Revised March 1999)
- Case
Dell Online
By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Marie Bell
Dell started online commerce for its PCs in 1996, and by 1997 had achieved a sales rate of $3 million a day. The case describes the internal process that led to these dramatic results and poses the question of how the firm should leverage this activity to meet Michael...
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Keywords:
Consumer Behavior;
Market Transactions;
Goals and Objectives;
Business Processes;
Distribution Channels;
Internet and the Web;
Information Infrastructure;
Competitive Advantage;
Computer Industry;
Retail Industry
Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Marie Bell. "Dell Online." Harvard Business School Case 598-116, March 1998. (Revised March 1999.)
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Online Leadership Principles Course | HBS Online
HBS Online Earn by: completing this course Certificate of Specialization Prove your mastery of leadership and management Earn by: completing any three courses within this subject area to earn a Certificate of Specialization Learn More...
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- 19 Dec 2018
- News
Online Retailers Aim to Shake Up the Wedding Market
- December 2000
- Background Note
Online Market Makers
By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Chris Hackett
Describes the business model for online market makers, firms that use the Internet to organize a marketplace, providing participants with a virtual "place" to trade, rules to govern their exchanges, and infrastructure to support trading. First it proposes a definition...
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Eisenmann, Thomas R., and Chris Hackett. "Online Market Makers." Harvard Business School Background Note 801-308, December 2000.
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Business Finance Course Online | HBS Online
Prepare for future professional opportunities and jumpstart your career by gaining an understanding of financial concepts, terms, and principles. Leading with Finance offered the perfect opportunity to refresh my core finance skills and interact with a global group of...
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Disruptive Innovation Online Course | HBS Online
products, businesses, and just everything in life. Daniella PatrickInnovation Lab Product Manager at Accenture What You Earn Certificate of Completion Boost your resume with a Certificate of Completion from HBS Online Earn by: completing...
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Online Business Strategy Course | HBS Online
my suggestions have a solid business basis. Jennifer MoretFinancial Analyst What You Earn Certificate of Completion Boost your resume with a Certificate of Completion from HBS Online Earn by: completing this course Certificate of...
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Business Economics Online Course | HBS Online
with a Certificate of Completion from HBS Online Earn by: completing this course Certificate of Specialization Signify your deep expertise in strategy Earn by: Completing any three courses within this subject area to earn a Certificate of...
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Online Business Strategy Courses | HBS Online
Mayank DubeyManager, Marketing CommunicationsSustainable Business Strategy What sets HBS Online apart? Our flexible, online programs are designed to bring the Harvard Business School classroom to you, and...
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Online Business Essential Courses | HBS Online
8 weeks, 6–8 hrs/weekApply by June 10$1,750Certificate What You Earn Certificate Boost your resume by completing an HBS Online course. Credential of Readiness Prove your mastery of business fundamentals by completing the three-course CORe...
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- 23 Oct 2019
- News
An Experiment in Online Education Reaches 50,000 Learners in Five Years
speak with the professor and with each other. In 2014, Harvard Business School launched HBX—an innovative platform that aimed to replicate the unique pedagogy and intensity of an HBS on-campus classroom. Five years and one name change later, Harvard Business School...
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- August 2021
- Article
Information Seeding and Knowledge Production in Online Communities: Evidence from OpenStreetMap
By: Abhishek Nagaraj
The wild success of a few online communities (like Wikipedia) has obscured the fact that most attempts at forming such communities fail. This study evaluates information seeding, an early-stage intervention to bootstrap online communities that enables contributors to...
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Keywords:
Online Communities;
Knowledge Production;
Crowdsourcing;
Innovation;
Digitization;
Internet and the Web;
Digital Platforms;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Analytics and Data Science;
Knowledge Dissemination
Nagaraj, Abhishek. "Information Seeding and Knowledge Production in Online Communities: Evidence from OpenStreetMap." Management Science 67, no. 8 (August 2021).
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Online Leadership and Management Courses | HBS Online
different aspects of my job. Overall, I feel more confident in situations that might have once felt intimidating. Sara Simon PiogerBusiness Owner, TILT LanguesNegotiation Mastery What sets HBS Online apart? Our flexible, View Details
- November 2000 (Revised December 2000)
- Background Note
Online Content Providers
By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Alastair Brown
Describes the business model for online content providers, companies that distribute copyright content via the Internet. Focuses on their revenue and cost drivers and on the ways that online content providers create value for consumers. Also investigates the benefits...
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Keywords:
Internet and the Web;
Customers;
Value Creation;
Business Model;
Internet and the Web;
Cash Flow;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Problems and Challenges;
Decision Making;
Profit;
Information Industry
Eisenmann, Thomas R., and Alastair Brown. "Online Content Providers." Harvard Business School Background Note 801-261, November 2000. (Revised December 2000.)
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Online Learning Track Programs | HBS Online
HBS Online is currently offering a Learning Track in: Leadership & Management Strategy Entrepreneurship & Innovation Business in Society Finance & Accounting What You Earn Certificate of Specialization By completing any three courses...
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Online Business Courses & Certifications | HBS Online
Online Learning Success If you’re interested in exploring online education but aren’t sure where to start, this guide is for you. Access Your Free E-Book What sets HBS Online...
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- February 2019 (Revised June 2019)
- Case
Where to Grow Next at Online Marketplace OLX
By: Thales Teixeira, Leandro A. Guissoni and Samy Dana
The CEO of OLX Brazil, an online classifieds platform business, is debating among multiple paths to grow sustainably (i.e., profitably) without the need for investor money. The options under consideration are (1) penetration growth by focusing on the core, (2) new...
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Keywords:
Online Marketplace;
Growth;
Customer Acquisition;
Facebook;
Two-sided Network;
E-commerce;
Classifieds;
Naspers;
Schibsted;
Innovation;
Startup;
Digital Platforms;
Internet and the Web;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Business Model;
Innovation and Invention;
Business Startups;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Brazil
Teixeira, Thales, Leandro A. Guissoni, and Samy Dana. "Where to Grow Next at Online Marketplace OLX." Harvard Business School Case 519-064, February 2019. (Revised June 2019.)
- August 2004 (Revised August 2005)
- Background Note
Online Auction Markets
eBay, Yahoo!, and Amazon.com entered the online auction market within four years of one another, along with a host of smaller Web sites. Five years later, eBay clearly outstripped its competitors, despite the fact that Yahoo! and Amazon both had a huge installed base...
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Yin, Pai-Ling. "Online Auction Markets." Harvard Business School Background Note 705-411, August 2004. (Revised August 2005.)
- May–June 2023
- Article
Need for Speed: The Impact of In-Process Delays on Customer Behavior in Online Retail
By: Santiago Gallino, Nil Karacaoglu and Antonio Moreno
The impact of delays has been widely studied in various offline services. The focus of this study is online services, and we explore the impact of in-process delays—measured by website speed—on customer behavior. We leverage novel retail and website speed data to...
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Keywords:
Online Retail;
Quasi-experiments;
Abandonment;
Synthetic Control;
E-commerce;
Internet and the Web;
Consumer Behavior;
Policy;
Retail Industry
Gallino, Santiago, Nil Karacaoglu, and Antonio Moreno. "Need for Speed: The Impact of In-Process Delays on Customer Behavior in Online Retail." Operations Research 71, no. 3 (May–June 2023): 876–894.