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Indo dota a su red de ventas de una nueva tecnología móvil (A)
Almenar, E.; Comín, Marta; Sieber, SandraCase SI-168Information Technologies, Innovation and Change, Knowledge and CommunicationEn 2006, el fabricante óptico Indo se planteó dar un giro a la manera de trabajar del equipo de ventas de la división de gafas. La sustitución del material físico por información "on line" permitiría a sus comerciales trabajar con mayor agilidad y disponer de información siempre actualizada. Pero el nuevo sistema podía causar reticencias entre los clientes, acostumbrados a tocar el producto, y entre los mismos comerciales, reacios a cambiar un mo...Starting at €8.20
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Indo Gives its Sales Force New Mobility Technology (A)
Almenar, E.; Comín, Marta; Sieber, SandraCase SI-168-EInformation Technologies, Innovation and Change, Knowledge and CommunicationIn 2006, Indo, an optics manufacturer, decided to change the working method of its sales division for glasses. Physical material was replaced with online information that facilitated the work of the sales personnel and ensured they always had the most up-to-date information. But the new system was not completely accepted by clients, who were used to touching the product. Even some members of the sales staff were wary about changing an effective w...Starting at €8.20
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Indo Gives its Sales Force New Mobily Technology (B)
Almenar, E.; Comín, Marta; Sieber, SandraCase SI-169-EInformation Technologies, Innovation and Change, Knowledge and CommunicationAfter introducing a new sales system for glasses as a pilot program, Indo, an optical company, expanded the scope of its experiment to check the results. The case study describes how the sales personnel and clients accepted the change from a partially computerized system to one that was thoroughly computerized.Starting at €5.74
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Aibnb (A) and (B), Teaching Note
Edelman, Benjamin; Luca, MichaelTeaching Note HBS-912021-EInformation TechnologiesTeaching Note for 912019 and 912020.Starting at €0.00
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Indo dota a su red de ventas de una nueva tecnología móvil (B)
Almenar, E.; Comín, Marta; Sieber, SandraCase SI-169Information Technologies, Innovation and Change, Knowledge and CommunicationTras haber introducido un nuevo sistema de ventas de gafas en una prueba piloto, la empresa óptica Indo amplió el alcance de su experimento para comprobar la fiabilidad de los resultados. El caso describe cómo aceptaron comerciales y clientes el cambio de un sistema parcialmente informatizado a otro digitalizado en gran medida.Starting at €5.74
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Airbnb (A) (Spanish version)
Edelman, Benjamin; Luca, MichaelCase HBS-914S09Information TechnologiesAfter widely-publicized complaints of destructive guests and unreliable hosts, online apartment rental site Airbnb explores mechanisms to facilitate trust between guests and hosts. Flexible online reputation systems can collect and share information with ease, but Airbnb must decide which information guests and hosts should have to provide and how much flexibility each should have in selecting whom to do business with. A full-featured system coul...Starting at €8.20
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TiVo 2011
Tonijuan, Gemma; Comín, Marta; Valor Sabatier, Josep; Nueno, José LuisCase SI-178-EInformation Technologies, Knowledge and Communication, MarketingTiVo is a digital video recorder, developed and marketed by TiVo, Inc. and introduced in 1999. TiVo provides an electronic television programming schedule, whose features include "Season Pass" schedules which record every new episode of a series, and "WishList" searches which allow users to find and record shows that match their interests by title, actor, director, category or keyword. TiVo is facing declining revenues and is exploring a number o...Starting at €8.20
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Airbnb (A)
Edelman, Benjamin; Luca, MichaelCase HBS-912019-EInformation TechnologiesAfter widely-publicized complaints of destructive guests and unreliable hosts, online apartment rental site Airbnb explores mechanisms to facilitate trust between guests and hosts. Flexible online reputation systems can collect and share information with ease, but Airbnb must decide which information guests and hosts should have to provide and how much flexibility each should have in selecting whom to do business with. A full-featured system coul...Starting at €8.20
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Airbnb (B) (Spanish version)
Edelman, Benjamin; Luca, MichaelCase HBS-914S14Information TechnologiesSupplements the (A) case.Starting at €5.74
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Algorithms Need Managers, Too
Luca, Michael; Kleinberg, Jon; Mullainathan, SendhilArticle HBS-R1601H-EInformation TechnologiesAlgorithms tend to be myopic. They focus on the data at hand--which often pertains just to short-term outcomes. Algorithms are powerful predictive tools, but they can run amok when not applied properly. Consider what often happens with social media sites. Today many use algorithms to decide which ads and links to show users. But when these algorithms focus too narrowly on maximizing click-throughs, sites quickly become choked with low-quality con...Starting at €8.20