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- 13 May 2024
- Research & Ideas
Picture This: Why Online Image Searches Drive Purchases
In a visual world, most online retailers still rely on consumers to define and enter their own search keywords. But using images to help shoppers sharpen their queries could push them to buy more, spend more, and feel happier about their purchases. “For a long time,...
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Seminars & Conferences - Faculty & Research
Business, Government & the International Economy Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students More Local Events Local Community Events Harvard Wyss institute- upcoming events Berkman Center for View Details
- 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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- 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
- August 2013 (Revised February 2023)
- Case
Amazon in 2023
By: Sunil Gupta and Margaret L. Rodriguez
Amazon launched its website in July 1995 to sell books online and by 2020 it has grown to become a digital giant with over $280 billion in annual sales. A large part of its growth came from expanding into a variety of businesses that some see as unrelated. Has it...
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Platforms;
Complements;
Showrooming;
Ecosystem;
Growth Strategy;
Competitive Advantage;
Network Effects;
Internet and the Web;
Business Model;
Competitive Strategy;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Digital Platforms;
Retail Industry;
Publishing Industry
Gupta, Sunil, and Margaret L. Rodriguez. "Amazon in 2023." Harvard Business School Case 514-025, August 2013. (Revised February 2023.)
- 09 Jan 2020
- Book
Rethinking Business Strategy in the Age of AI
cybersecurity threats. During the past 10 years, Iansiti and Lakhani have researched AI’s impact on businesses and have helped several companies transform their strategies, including internet pioneers like Amazon, Microsoft, Mozilla, and...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Secret of How Microsoft Stays on Top
attractive alternatives to Microsoft technologies as they did when the Internet first emerged—it's not long before the tools division starts to hear about it.—Marco Iansiti and Alan MacCormack We also evaluated Microsoft's response to a...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- August 2021
- Case
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.
- 22 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
Can Amazon Remake Health Care?
At a time when health care providers have gone all in on telemedicine, Amazon, the world’s biggest online retailer, surprised Wall Street in late July when it announced it would acquire 1Life Healthcare Inc., which runs the subscription-based One Medical primary-care...
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- 30 Nov 2007
- What Do You Think?
What Is Management’s Role in Innovation?
"a theoretical sweet spot where scale fosters innovation, beyond which the complexity starts to stifle it?" A third executive will raise questions concerning the impact of the Internet on the management of these processes. He...
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by Jim Heskett
- 12 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Investors Often Lose When They Sue Their Financial Adviser
proliferation of arbitration Companies from internet service providers to nursing home operators use arbitration to shield themselves from expensive, protracted lawsuits. Proponents say the approach resolves disputes faster than the court...
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- 04 Jun 2001
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Future of the Subscription Model?
Richard Feder maintains that the subscription model will gain momentum on the Internet as the memory of free service fades and the utility of new service increases. The response gives hope for those hoping to utilize the subscription...
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by James Heskett
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Strategy & IT - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
resource planning. See below for “How Information Gives You Competitive Advantage.” The rise of the internet unleashed the second wave of IT-driven transformation in the 1980s and 1990s. The internet enabled...
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- 09 Nov 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Simple Secret of Effective Mentoring Programs
company that operates a call center in which workers handle customer inquiries about purchasing new digital products and services, including phone, TV, and internet service. Though the company already had a robust training program in...
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by Jay Fitzgerald
- 2012
- Book
Sleeping with Your Smartphone: How to Break the 24-7 Habit and Change the Way you Work
By: Leslie A. Perlow
Does it have to be this way? Can't resist checking your smartphone or mobile device? Sure, all this connectivity keeps you in touch with your team and the office—but at what cost? In "Sleeping with Your Smartphone," Leslie Perlow reveals how you can disconnect and...
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Time Management;
Internet and the Web;
Groups and Teams;
Performance Productivity;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Service Industry
Perlow, Leslie A. Sleeping with Your Smartphone: How to Break the 24-7 Habit and Change the Way you Work. Harvard Business Review Press, 2012.
- 21 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
Did Pandemic Stimulus Funds Spur the Rise of 'Meme Stocks'?
for the superficial internet buzz that boosted investor interest—have since come down in value in 2022. After all, their rise wasn’t prompted by strong fundamentals, the paper notes. One reason for the jump in retail stock buying after...
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- January 2016 (Revised February 2016)
- Case
Citizens United and Corporate Speech
By: David Moss and Marc Campasano
The story of Citizens United began in late 2007, as leading members of the Republican and Democratic parties were preparing for the 2008 presidential primaries. Democrats expected a three-way contest in their party between Senator Barack Obama of Illinois, Senator (and...
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- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993
owners of small businesses, as well as Japanese society as a whole, Mikitani began working on a web-based shopping mall. “At the time, the Internet was at an early stage,” he notes. “No one was buying things online in Japan.” Working with...
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