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Recruiting
Cappelli, Peter; Harvard Business Review; Holmes, Dane E.Article HBS-R1903B-ELeadership and People ManagementBusinesses have never done as much hiring as they do today and never done a worse job of it, says Peter Cappelli of Wharton in "Your Approach to Hiring Is All Wrong." Much of the process is outsourced to companies such as Randstad, Manpower, and Adecco, which in turn use subcontractors to scour LinkedIn and social media for potential candidates. When applications come--always electronically--software sifts through them for keywords that hiring ma...Starting at €8.20
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A Novel Way to Boost Client Satisfaction
Harvard Business ReviewArticle HBS-F1902A-EService and Operations ManagementResearchers have learned to mine a unique set of data that serves as a slow-motion replay of how an organization and its people function: the company's e-mail. Although e-mail analysis has largely focused on internal communications, a new study uses it to examine how employees interact with clients. Researchers studied the e-mail behaviors of teams working with key client accounts at a global professional services firm. Each month during the stud...Starting at €8.20
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Web Site Blues (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Maruca, Regina Fazio; Siegel, David; Carpenter, Candice; Ticoll, David; Rayport, JeffreyArticle HBS-99209-EMarketingSo far, Rachel Soltanoff's instincts had been right. As CEO in this fictional case study, she had successfully navigated TradeRite Software's transition from a news service for stockbrokers to a $70 million provider of shrink-wrapped software geared toward both brokers and the growing day-trader market. Now a well-financed start-up, Stocknet.com, was testing a very competitive product that traders could download directly over the Web. And TradeRi...Starting at €8.20
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A Manager's Guide to Augmented Reality
Porter, Michael E.; Heppelmann, James; Harvard Business Review; Jouret, Guido; Morse, GardinerArticle HBS-R1706B-EInformation TechnologiesWhile the physical world is 3-D, most data is trapped on 2-D pages and screens. This gulf between the real and digital worlds limits our ability to exploit the volumes of information available to us. Augmented reality, a set of technologies that superimposes digital data and images on physical objects, is closing this gap. By putting information directly into the context in which we'll apply it, AR increases our ability to absorb and act on it. A...Starting at €8.20
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Wayfair
Rayport, Jeffrey; Ma, Susie L.; Preble, MatthewCase HBS-819045-EMarketingIn 2016 Niraj Shah and Steve Conine, founders of online home goods retailer Wayfair, are faced with a decision about how to improve user experience on their e-commerce sites. A key driver of consumer interest and conversion to purchase in the home categorStarting at €8.20
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Voi Technology
Rayport, Jeffrey; Hull, OliviaCase HBS-820099-EEntrepreneurshipVoi Technology, a fast-growing start-up out of Sweden, is competing in the highly contested European e-scooter sharing market. With a presence in nearly 40 cities in Europe by February 2020, the firm is working hard to improve its unit economics to reachStarting at €8.20
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Why You Should Rotate Office Seating Assignments
Harvard Business ReviewArticle HBS-F1802A-EDesign firms have long claimed that workspace reorganizations promote collaboration and creativity, and research studies back up those claims. But the financial return has been hard to prove--until now. Research at a South Korean e-commerce firm finds that relocating "merchandisers"--employees who source product deals--near employees they hadn't previously had much contact with boosted creativity among those with high deal-sourcing ability and si...Starting at €8.20
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Delivering the Goods at Shippo
Bussgang, Jeffrey J.; Rayport, Jeffrey; Hull, OliviaCase HBS-817065-EEntrepreneurshipLaura Behrens Wu, CEO of software start-up Shippo, prepares her pitch for a Series A funding round following a successful seed round. Customer adoption of Shippo's e-commerce dashboard application, which allows small and medium retailers to compare delivery rates between shipping providers and print package labels, has been steady in the nine months since it went live. But traction with the firm's developer-friendly product, an API that allows la...Starting at €8.20
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When Platforms Attack
Harvard Business ReviewArticle HBS-F1510A-EStrategyAmazon began life as an online bookseller, of course, but now there are few products you can't buy on the site. New research led by HBS's Feng Zhu investigates a common worry of Amazon's third-party sellers: What happens when, instead of just matching buyers and sellers, the platform decides to offer competing products itself? Zhu's team examined 164,000 products sold exclusively by third parties and found that 10 months later, Amazon had begun d...Starting at €8.20
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Chewy.com (A)
Rayport, Jeffrey; Preble, MatthewCase HBS-818079-EService and Operations ManagementIn late 2013, Ryan Cohen, cofounder and CEO of the fast growing online pet food and pet products retailer Chewy.com, has to make a "bet the company decision"-whether to keep working with Chewy's third-party logistics (3PL) provider to fulfill customer orders, or whether to take this critical function in-house. Cohen worries that the company's 3PL will not be able to serve Chewy's customers as it continues to grow, and reaching scale is essential ...Starting at €8.20