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- 24 May 2018
- News
Distance Still Matters in Business, Despite the Internet
Experimentation Works: The Surprising Power of Business Experiments
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* 9 Best Business Books for 2020...
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- January 2002 (Revised September 2022)
- Case
Aqualisa Quartz: Simply a Better Shower
By: Youngme E. Moon and Kerry Herman
Harry Rawlinson is managing director of Aqualisa, a major U.K. manufacturer of showers. He has just launched the most significant shower innovation in recent history: the Quartz shower. The shower provides significant improvements in terms of quality, cost, and ease of...
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Problems and Challenges;
Product Launch;
Consumer Behavior;
Product Positioning;
Technological Innovation;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Sales;
Strategy;
Manufacturing Industry;
Consumer Products Industry;
United Kingdom
Moon, Youngme E., and Kerry Herman. "Aqualisa Quartz: Simply a Better Shower." Harvard Business School Case 502-030, January 2002. (Revised September 2022.)
- Web
Getting a Peek Into the HBS Experience - MBA
Government Health Care / BioTech Manufacturing Private Equity Real Estate Retail Social Enterprise Technology Venture Capital Audiences Audiences FirstGen+ College Diverse Perspectives International LGBTQ+ Military Socioeconomic Inclusion...
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Trust
Entrepreneurial ventures often fail in the developing world because of the lack of something taken for granted in the developed world: trust. Over centuries, the developed world has built customs and institutions such as enforceable contracts, an impartial legal...
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All Is Well in Texas: How Julia Cheek Founded Her At-Home Lab Testing Startup, EverlyWell - MBA
Government Health Care / BioTech Manufacturing Private Equity Real Estate Retail Social Enterprise Technology Venture Capital Audiences Audiences FirstGen+ College Diverse Perspectives International LGBTQ+ Military Socioeconomic Inclusion...
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- May 2019 (Revised January 2020)
- Case
The Video-Streaming Wars in 2019: Can Disney Catch Netflix?
By: Anita Elberse and Monica Cody
Bob Iger, CEO of entertainment conglomerate Disney, thrilled investors with details about Disney’s upcoming foray into video streaming in April 2019. Disney’s move was only the latest in a series of actions taken by new and established entertainment companies in a...
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Television;
Entertainment;
Media;
Television Entertainment;
Management;
Strategy;
Disruption;
Information Technology;
Competition;
Media and Broadcasting Industry;
Entertainment and Recreation Industry
Elberse, Anita, and Monica Cody. "The Video-Streaming Wars in 2019: Can Disney Catch Netflix?" Harvard Business School Case 519-094, May 2019. (Revised January 2020.)
- April 2014
- Article
Botsourcing and Outsourcing: Robot, British, Chinese, and German Workers Are for Thinking—Not Feeling—Jobs
By: Adam Waytz and Michael I. Norton
Technological innovations have produced robots capable of jobs that, until recently, only humans could perform. The present research explores the psychology of "botsourcing"—the replacement of human jobs by robots—while examining how understanding botsourcing can...
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Waytz, Adam, and Michael I. Norton. "Botsourcing and Outsourcing: Robot, British, Chinese, and German Workers Are for Thinking—Not Feeling—Jobs." Emotion 14, no. 2 (April 2014): 434–444.
- Web
Alumni Engagement | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
2023 | HBS Alumni Bulletin Elevator Pitch: Feedback Laxmi Wordham (MBA 2001) Chief Growth Officer, Bright Feeds Concept: Bright Feeds uses patent-pending drying technology and an AI-driven processing... Re: Laxmi Stebbins Wordham (MBA...
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- 07 Nov 2023
- Cold Call Podcast
How Should Meta Be Governed for the Good of Society?
- 13 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk
with technology take longer, they're harder to follow. I'm involved, in addition to running Merck, I co-chair the commission in New Jersey about re-opening the state. Corporate America is asking what it needs to do about racial...
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- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Vital Signs
Image by Edmon De Haro Illustration by Edmon De Haro The signs of strain were there long before the pandemic: Health care workers had been managing under tremendous pressures while working long hours in understaffed hospitals. Then COVID unleashed an unprecedented...
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- August 2018 (Revised February 2023)
- Case
Hubble Contact Lenses: Data Driven Direct-to-Consumer Marketing
By: Jill Avery and Ayelet Israeli
As its Series A extension round approaches, the founders of Hubble, a subscription-based, social-media fueled, direct-to-consumer (DTC) brand of contact lenses, are reflecting on the marketing strategies that have taken them to a valuation of $200 million and debating...
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DTC;
Direct To Consumer Marketing;
Health Care;
Mobile;
Attribution;
Experimentation;
Experiments;
Churn/retention;
Customer Lifetime Value;
Internet Marketing;
Big Data;
Analytics;
A/B Testing;
CRM;
Advertising;
Marketing;
Marketing Channels;
Marketing Strategy;
Media;
Brands and Branding;
Marketing Communications;
Digital Marketing;
Consumer Behavior;
Acquisition;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Social Media;
E-commerce;
Analytics and Data Science;
Health Industry;
Consumer Products Industry;
United States;
North America;
Europe
Avery, Jill, and Ayelet Israeli. "Hubble Contact Lenses: Data Driven Direct-to-Consumer Marketing." Harvard Business School Case 519-011, August 2018. (Revised February 2023.)
- 05 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
Video: Welcome MBA Class of 2025
yours as a gift. That's what the case method enables you to do over a period of time as you practice it. Active listening. Technology and the impact of technology on business is accelerating at a very fast...
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- 12 May 2022
- News
Why Digital Is a State of Mind, Not Just a Skill Set
- Web
Generative AI - Alumni
AI-generated materials to maintain ethical standards and authenticity. Striking a balance between leveraging technological advancements and upholding personal responsibility ensures that GenAI becomes an efficient and ethical tool in the...
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- 14 Apr 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Facts and Figuring: An Experimental Investigation of Network Structure and Performance in Information and Solution Spaces
- Teaching Interest
Overview
Launching Technology Ventures
Launching Technology Ventures (LTV) is designed for students who are actively working on their own startups or who will work at early-stage startups. The course material is, in particular, focused on new businesses in the...
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Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
technologies are reshaping work and life in potentially emancipatory ways. Many of these redeployments and innovations are aimed at advancing equality. Which of these tools hold promise, and which are fundamentally incompatible with that...
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- 28 Nov 2023
- Book
Economic Growth Draws Companies to Asia. Can They Handle Its Authoritarian Regimes?
case of China, businesspeople outside of China have found the regime’s efficiency and the country’s market size and innovation ecosystem attractive, and with good reason. But many people misunderstand how power is practiced in China. The key View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne