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- 30 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 30, 2008
competition effect whereby increasing rivalry shapes, and often decreases, incentives to expend effort and invest in innovation; and 2) a parallel search effect whereby adding greater numbers of "searchers" benefits innovation...
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Martha Lagace
- July – August 2008
- Article
Should You Invest in the Long Tail?
By: Anita Elberse
The blockbuster strategy is a time-honored approach, particularly in media and entertainment. When space is limited on store shelves and in traditional distribution channels, producers tend to focus on a few likely best sellers, hoping that one or two big hits will...
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Demand and Consumers;
Distribution Channels;
Sales;
Marketing Strategy;
Online Technology;
Motion Pictures and Video Industry;
Music Industry;
Retail Industry
Elberse, Anita. "Should You Invest in the Long Tail?" HBS Centennial Issue Harvard Business Review 86, nos. 7/8 (July–August 2008): 88–96. (HBS Centennial Issue.)
- 23 Jul 2021
- Blog Post
Trends in Consumer Products
A job search in Consumer Products requires thorough research to understand how Covid has affected a company’s business. Most consumer products companies had very uneven business results—some brands saw enormous growth and others saw...
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- 19 Sep 2023
- HBS Case
How Will the Tech Titans Behind ChatGPT, Bard, and LLaMA Make Money?
students that we're in a new world. There’s copyrighted and not copyrighted, and then there's also public and private. And so, the issue right now is that you can have copyrighted data that is also public. For instance, any newspaper publisher that allows their news...
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- 01 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 1, 2018
2018 Atlas of Moral Psychology In Search of Moral Equilibrium: Person, Situation, and Their Interplay in Behavioral Ethics By: Lee, Julia J., and F. Gino Abstract—This comprehensive and cutting-edge volume maps out the terrain of moral...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
isn't easy. Publisher's link: http://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/strategic-decisions-for-multisided-platforms/ January 2014 Harvard Business Review The New Patterns of Innovation By: Parmar, Rashik, Ian Mackenzie, David Cohn, and David Gann Abstract—The View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
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Help - Alumni
do not store your location in these instances; the request is only used for that individual search query. I have a seasonal address; will it be mapped? Your seasonal address will temporarily replace your...
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- 02 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
Convenience Stores (A) Faced with a persistent robbery problem at his convenience store company, Sean Sportun, security and loss prevention manager at Mac’s of Central Canada, looked to standardize safety...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
FAQs - Alumni
617-384-5977 For more information about Profile Updates and Subscriptions, please visit alumni.hbs.edu/help. The Class Store What is The Class Store? The Class Store is an opportunity for alumni...
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- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
publishing) are likely to reshape the structure of demand for executive development. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51662 The Impact of Increasing Search Frictions on Online Shopping Behavior:...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Jul 2016
- HBS Case
How Uber, Airbnb, and Etsy Attracted Their First 1,000 Customers
scouring craft fairs across the country to identify the best vendors at each, and pitching them on opening up an online store on the site. “They first brought their customers, and then they brought other artisans who followed the...
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- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
popularity of price-matching apps for mobile phones made price differences between retailers transparent, online and offline. Shoppers' desire to test electronics first-hand before purchase drove them to use Best Buy stores as...
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Carmen Nobel
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Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni
Federated Department Stores began in 1936 at Abraham & Straus and continued, after 20 years of success at A&S, at Burdines. As president and CEO of Burdines, Daniels expanded and revitalized the Florida chain. After his retirement from...
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- 28 Nov 2018
- HBS Case
On Target: Rethinking the Retail Website
fruitful streak came to an abrupt halt with the United States financial crash in the fall of 2008. Target was hit hard—much harder, in fact, than Walmart. Five years later the company was still struggling. With more than 1,800 stores and...
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- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
Karthik, David F. Drake, and Douglas Fearing Abstract—Mobile money systems, platforms built and managed by mobile network operators to allow money to be stored as digital currency, have burgeoned in the developing world as a mechanism to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
Skills and Behaviors that Make Entrepreneurs Successful
that increase confidence in a person’s entrepreneurial abilities. Like the conviction of Marla Malcolm Beck and husband Barry Beck that high-end beauty retail stores and spas, tightly coupled with online stores, was the business model of...
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- 26 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Japanese Businesses Are So Good at Surviving Crises
started to reopen: Keep outdoor UNIQLO signs on. Yanai believed that keeping the lights on would be important to the community psychologically. Indeed, many customers searching for open stores were grateful...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees
‘I’m spending my kids’ inheritance,’ ” Diamond recalls. He even made a trip to what he still calls “the candy store of genealogy”—the Mormon church’s genealogical library in Salt Lake City, which had expanded its collections to include...
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and retail stores offered brand visibility and synergy with the online experience. Spear had to decide whether FIGS’s small team should pursue one or more of these opportunities, and, if so, whether to pursue them concurrently or with a...
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