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Fund where he leads investments in life sciences, software and frontier technologies. Deep has over 20 years of experience helping build and grow internet and software businesses. Prior to SoftBank, he served as SVP of Products and User...
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- March 2016 (Revised May 2018)
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Reinventing Best Buy
By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
On March 1, 2017, Best Buy Company, Inc., North America’s largest retailer of consumer electronics and appliances, announced a third year of comparable-store sales increases and a 20.8% increase in domestic comparable online sales. These results were in marked contrast...
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Hubert Joly;
Renew Blue;
Showrooming;
Webrooming;
E-commerce;
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Online Retail;
Multichannel Retailing;
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Turnaround;
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Consumer Electronics Accessories;
Appliances;
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Store Experience;
Store Size;
Store Pickup;
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Wells, John R., and Gabriel Ellsworth. "Reinventing Best Buy." Harvard Business School Case 716-455, March 2016. (Revised May 2018.)
Alvin E. Roth
Al Roth is the George Gund Professor of Economics and Business Administration in the Department of Economics at Harvard University, and in the Harvard Business School. His research, teaching, and consulting interests are in game theory, experimental economics, and... View Details
- 04 Oct 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Reviews, Reputation, and Revenue: The Case of Yelp.com
- 31 Aug 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
Exclusivity and Control
- 20 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The 5 Strategy Rules of Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs
would adopt, such as Word, Internet Explorer, and Windows Media Player. Even more importantly, such platforms would allow creative developers outside your organization to add their unique value. Grove faced a crucial decision regarding...
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Seminars & Conferences - Faculty & Research
Entrepreneurial Management Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students More Local Events Local Community Events Harvard Wyss institute- upcoming events Berkman Center for Internet and Society-...
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Past Issues - Alumni
seek success in a future of dizzying possibilities Long-Term Investor: Dick Jenrette Q & A: Gustavo Herrero Executive Director, HBS Latin American Research Center Complete Table of Contents April 2000 Getting the Message How the Internet...
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- 22 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Why Salespeople Struggle at Leading
times what they spend on online advertising. Sources: SBI Magazine, “The World’s Largest Sales Forces”; Selling Power, “500 Largest Sales Forces 2018”; Interactive Advertising Bureau, “IAB Internet Advertising Revenue Report 2017.” The...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation
images or creating albums. Where digital camera makers found success was in marketing their products to consumers who used to order double prints of their photos and mail them to relatives. The digital technology enables consumers to use the View Details
- February 2001 (Revised February 2018)
- Case
The iPremier Company (A): Distributed Denial of Service Attack
By: Robert D. Austin, Larry Leibrock and Alan Murray
Describes a new CIO trying to manage a denial of service (DOS) attack against his e-retailing business. The attack and its aftermath provide students an opportunity to discuss the business issues that are interwoven with computer security issues.
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Austin, Robert D., Larry Leibrock, and Alan Murray. "The iPremier Company (A): Distributed Denial of Service Attack." Harvard Business School Case 601-114, February 2001. (Revised February 2018.)
- 31 Jul 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Investment Incentives in Proprietary and Open-Source Two-Sided Platforms
- July 2016
- Case
Spotify
By: Anita Elberse and Alexandre de Pfyffer
In November 2014, Spotify's chief content officer Ken Parks learns that record label Big Machine Records has requested the immediate removal of superstar artist Taylor Swift's entire catalogue from Spotify's music streaming service. Is it time for Spotify to reconsider...
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Entertainment;
Marketing;
Superstar;
Music;
Entertainment Marketing;
Media;
Digital Technology;
Creative Industries;
Product Portfolio Management;
General Management;
Management;
Strategy;
Internet and the Web;
Open Source Distribution;
Creativity;
Music Entertainment;
Product Marketing;
Music Industry
Elberse, Anita, and Alexandre de Pfyffer. "Spotify." Harvard Business School Case 516-046, July 2016.
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Citation guides
instructions on using EndNote with Harvard resources. Additional help can be found on the EndNote Online User Manual and on YouTube. Please note that saving files to an EndNote compatible...
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- 19 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Is Wikipedia More Biased Than Encyclopædia Britannica?
questions. "The Internet makes it so easy for people to aggregate; some scholars worry that people will self-select into groups with a similar ideology," says Zhu. As a result, the Internet may lead to more...
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- 30 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Future of IT Consulting
Johnston: Your research refers to the PC in the 80's and the Internet in the 90's as triggers of explosive growth for the IT consulting industry. Have you identified a third trigger for this decade? Nolan and Bennigson: The trigger in...
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- 24 Oct 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Diasporas and Outsourcing: Evidence from oDesk and India
- 14 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Top 5 Myths About HBS
your question, is an HBS interview hard to prepare for? I would say yes in the sense that you can't go to the internet and download the 10 questions that HBS is going to ask you. If you googled "HBS interview questions" then you'll...
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- August 2021
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Yummy: Delivering Value to Venezuela
By: Ayelet Israeli, Jenyfeer Martinez Buitrago and Carla Larangeira
By June 2021, Yummy had become Venezuela’s first and largest food delivery app and last-mile logistics company. In Caracas, the nation’s capital, Yummy held a 55% market share, while operations in other cities had already started to take place, including in three of...
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Internet and the Web;
Health Pandemics;
Business Startups;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Expansion
Israeli, Ayelet, Jenyfeer Martinez Buitrago, and Carla Larangeira. "Yummy: Delivering Value to Venezuela." Harvard Business School Case 522-034, August 2021.
- 03 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
Why Confronting Racism in AI 'Creates a Better Future for All of Us'
share research on the intersection of race and capitalism—specifically, on race and technology since we live in the age of the digital transition and race is inherently embedded in algorithms and code simply because of who created the View Details
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by Barbara DeLollis