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- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
Working PapersCPC/CPA Hybrid Bidding in a Second Price Auction Authors:Benjamin Edelman and Hoan Soo Lee Abstract We develop a model of online advertising in which each advertiser chooses from multiple advertising measurement...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
facilitate innovation among its diverse subsidiaries. But when news reports surfaced revealing struggles within Alphabet companies including Nest, the smart thermostat maker, observers began to wonder if the reorganization made sense...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
1,000 people in 180 cities around the world. In this episode of Skydeck, Associate Editor Jen Flint talks to two of Cloudflare’s founders, Michelle Zatlyn (MBA 2009) and Matthew Prince (MBA 2009), about how the business began 10 years ago in the midst of the financial...
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- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
Internet-enabled, branchless banking model. But Rodríguez doesn’t just hand these companies money and wish them well. He wants them to thrive—to grow and scale. He wants them to do so well, in fact, that they attract competitors, forcing View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
for me, there's a Staples at the corner. I park, grab my laptop and my briefcase, and sprint down the street. The guy at Staples tells me I can recover my disk with Norton Utilities. I tell him I'm no tekkie, but he tells me it's real easy to use. I'm in a hurry, and...
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- 22 Jan 2020
- News
What It Takes
distribution business, and when steel prices generally go down, this company will start selling everything in their inventory at a loss, and the company will go bankrupt. So the way I chose to resolve this problem, like a complete...
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- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
of information at their disposal. But they're unsure of how to sort through it and use it to make smart decisions. The result? They're struggling with profit-sapping supply chain problems including stock-outs, overstock, and discounting....
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
become even more popular as the COVID-19 pandemic has made both the Valley’s products and its real estate prices seem ever more impractical. But if those dire predictions come true, it might not be because of inflated valuations. It could...
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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
intelligence, and marketing. It doesn't take much investment, just a lot of creativity, smart data analysis, and agility. It has now emerged as the new word for growth used by start-ups and entrepreneurs in India and across the world....
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- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Where Does Apple Go From Here?
licenses to small number of players, then they will still run the risk that they will continually get downward pressure on price by competitors like Dell, and greater availability of options by customers using Microsoft software. It's...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
unexpected event in turn. Luck played a part, but so did smart leadership and sensemaking. Until the last reactor went into cold shutdown, Masuda's team took nothing for granted. With each new problem they encountered, it recalibrated,...
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Carmen Nobel
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
design business models to generate winner-take-all effects similar to the network externalities that high-tech companies such as Microsoft, eBay, and Facebook often create. A good business model creates virtuous cycles that, over time, result in competitive advantage....
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Sean Silverthorne
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Podcast - Forum for Growth & Innovation
completely different way. And you'd sit there and you'd go, "Wow, that was either really smart," what he just said, or it wasn't. And so I had him pegged for getting a three in a number of these courses and in fact, as it turns out, they were really View Details
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Podcast - Forum for Growth & Innovation
transformation B creating tomorrow, that's the idea of dual transformation. And when executed well, it can be a phenomenally powerful way to do exactly what you said, deflect the threats, seize the opportunities. Adobe is an example between 2009 and 2019 had its...
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- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
discounts and Amazon encouraged consumers to compare prices using smart phones, Best Buy was becoming a showroom for lower cost retail models. International expansion was struggling and domestic sales of...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Podcast - Forum for Growth & Innovation
worked in laundry detergent, so one of the areas where we did that very well was in India, where we launched, which was a pretty breakthrough at the time, a single-use sachet, which wasn't a breakthrough. They already existed, but at a View Details
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
thought that being smart was the main attribute of a great leader. I was a great problem solver. That’s how I would move forward in life. And I would say, following the crisis we’ve been going through and following my life’s journey, this...
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- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
complexity of pulling together idea, sound, and movement into a unified whole. The squirrel skitters to the edge of our path, thinks better of it, and darts back to safety—a smart decision, since Langford never saw it. Which isn’t to say...
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Podcast - Forum for Growth & Innovation
admirable person. Derek van Bever: Part of Clay's secret sauce was that he was always learning. You know, for somebody, as you say, who was as smart as he was he was, a great thinker maybe because he was so humble, you know? He would...
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Podcast - Forum for Growth & Innovation
keen to say, of all the things we can build, what is the stuff that is definitely desirable by the market, and definitely viable in that we can genuinely put a good price on it and realize revenue from the investment we make? And, I think...
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