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Street League Skateboarding
Higgins, Robert F.; Snively, ChristineCaso HBS-817145-EIniciativa emprendedoraIn 2013, Street League Skateboarding, a professional skateboarding league founded in 2010, just concluded its annual Street League World Tour. The growing action sports property had purchased time on ESPN2 to air its events, and though ESPN was the most-watched sports television network in the U.S., Street League President Brian Atlas had become impatient with the network's lack of support. Atlas planned to meet with network representatives in th...Desde 8,20 €
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Whistle Sports: An Online Sports Network for Millennials
Higgins, Robert F.; Snively, ChristineCaso HBS-816006-EIniciativa emprendedoraBy January 2015, Whistle Sports, a multi-platform sports network for millennials, had attracted over 54 million online subscribers on Youtube, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Google+, and Vine. It established partnerships with several professional sports leagues and amassed 225 partner channels on YouTube. Its revenue was largely generated through advertisements featured on YouTube. Whistle Sports recently announced that it raised $32 million in Se...Desde 8,20 €
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Recruiting
Cappelli, Peter; Harvard Business Review; Holmes, Dane E.Artículo HBS-R1903B-ELiderazgo y Dirección de personasBusinesses 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...Desde 8,20 €
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Fitbit
Herzlinger, Regina E.; Snively, Christine; Mehta, SarahCaso HBS-317007-EConocimiento y comunicaciónIn 2019, Fitbit lost its leadership in the wearable sensor market to Apple and to cheaper alternatives. Why did it lose its market position? How will the proposed acquisition affect it and Google?Desde 8,20 €
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A Novel Way to Boost Client Satisfaction
Harvard Business ReviewArtículo HBS-F1902A-EServicios y operacionesResearchers 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...Desde 8,20 €
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NYC311
Kontokosta, Constantine E.; Weiss, Mitchell B.; Snively, Christine; Gulick, SarahCaso HBS-818056-EIniciativa emprendedoraJoe Morrisroe, executive director for NYC311, had some gut instincts but no definitive answer to the question he was just asked by one of the Mayor's deputies: "Are some communities being underserved by 311? How do we know we are hearing from the right people?" Founded in 2003 as a phone number for residents to dial (311) from a landline for information on city services and to log complaints, the city launched a 311 website and mobile app in 2009...Desde 8,20 €
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A Manager's Guide to Augmented Reality
Porter, Michael E.; Heppelmann, James; Harvard Business Review; Jouret, Guido; Morse, GardinerArtículo HBS-R1706B-ETecnologías de la informaciónWhile 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...Desde 8,20 €
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Mobile Broadband and the Telecommunications Industry in 2011
Applegate, Lynda M.; Herman, Kerry; Snively, ChristineCaso HBS-814009-EIniciativa emprendedoraMobile broadband carriers provide network access to the Internet for a range of devices (typically portable or mobile), including consumer devices such as smartphones, tablets and E-Readers, but also a host of new emerging devices. Mobile broadband networks enable data to travel in packets over telecommunication (telecom) companies' wireless (or cellular) networks. The number of worldwide mobile cellular subscriptions reached 6 billion in 2011, r...Desde 8,20 €
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Why You Should Rotate Office Seating Assignments
Harvard Business ReviewArtículo 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...Desde 8,20 €
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When Platforms Attack
Harvard Business ReviewArtículo HBS-F1510A-EDirección estratégicaAmazon 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...Desde 8,20 €