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- December 2000
- Background Note
Online Market Makers
By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Chris Hackett
Describes the business model for online market makers, firms that use the Internet to organize a marketplace, providing participants with a virtual "place" to trade, rules to govern their exchanges, and infrastructure to support trading. First it proposes a definition...
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Eisenmann, Thomas R., and Chris Hackett. "Online Market Makers." Harvard Business School Background Note 801-308, December 2000.
- August 2004 (Revised August 2005)
- Background Note
Online Auction Markets
eBay, Yahoo!, and Amazon.com entered the online auction market within four years of one another, along with a host of smaller Web sites. Five years later, eBay clearly outstripped its competitors, despite the fact that Yahoo! and Amazon both had a huge installed base...
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Yin, Pai-Ling. "Online Auction Markets." Harvard Business School Background Note 705-411, August 2004. (Revised August 2005.)
- July 2014 (Revised August 2014)
- Case
AmazonFresh: Rekindling the Online Grocery Market
By: Rory McDonald, Clayton Christensen, Robin Yang and Ty Hollingsworth
More than a decade after the high-profile failures of several early online grocers, grocery remains the largest single U.S. retail category and one of the few that has not yet migrated online. Amazon began testing its grocery-delivery service, AmazonFresh, in Seattle,...
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Keywords:
Innovation;
New Markets;
Grocery;
Operations Strategy;
Innovation and Invention;
Strategy;
Emerging Markets;
Learning;
Service Operations;
Internet and the Web;
Business Model;
Food and Beverage Industry;
United States
McDonald, Rory, Clayton Christensen, Robin Yang, and Ty Hollingsworth. "AmazonFresh: Rekindling the Online Grocery Market." Harvard Business School Case 615-013, July 2014. (Revised August 2014.)
- February 2015
- Article
Risk, Information, and Incentives in Online Affiliate Marketing
By: Benjamin Edelman and Wesley Brandi
We examine online affiliate marketing programs in which merchants oversee thousands of affiliates they have never met. Some merchants hire outside specialists to set and enforce policies for affiliates, while other merchants ask their ordinary marketing staff to...
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Keywords:
Affiliate Marketing;
Incentives;
Fraud;
Advertising;
Internet and the Web;
Marketing Communications;
Ethics;
Digital Marketing
Edelman, Benjamin, and Wesley Brandi. "Risk, Information, and Incentives in Online Affiliate Marketing." Journal of Marketing Research (JMR) 52, no. 1 (February 2015): 1–12. (Lead Article.)
- February 2011 (Revised February 2012)
- Case
Online Marketing at Big Skinny
By: Benjamin Edelman and Scott Duke Kominers
Describes a wallet maker's application of seven Internet marketing technologies: display ads, algorithmic search, sponsored search, social media, interactive content, online distributors, and A/B testing. Provides concise introductions to the key features of each...
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Keywords:
Advertising Campaigns;
Digital Marketing;
Resource Allocation;
Marketing Strategy;
Performance Evaluation;
Internet and the Web;
Retail Industry
Edelman, Benjamin, and Scott Duke Kominers. "Online Marketing at Big Skinny." Harvard Business School Case 911-033, February 2011. (Revised February 2012.) (request a courtesy copy.)
- August 2020 (Revised January 2021)
- Case
Digital Marketing at HBS Online
By: Sunil Gupta and Rajiv Lal
In July 2020, the management team of Harvard Business School Online (HBS Online) had to decide how to allocate its marketing budget for fiscal year 2021 between various digital channels and its portfolio of courses. Since its launch in 2014, HBS Online had grown to...
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Keywords:
Marketing Strategy;
Advertising;
Digital Marketing;
Marketing Channels;
Brands and Branding;
Business Education;
Education Industry;
United States;
Boston
Gupta, Sunil, and Rajiv Lal. "Digital Marketing at HBS Online." Harvard Business School Case 521-027, August 2020. (Revised January 2021.)
- 09 Feb 2012
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Online Marketing
Questions To Be Answered: What's the strategy for managing consumer reviews on my site? Do people watch online video ads?. How can I get more out of my customer loyalty campaign? Are online coupon programs...
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- March 2017
- Teaching Note
AmazonFresh: Rekindling the Online Grocery Market
By: Rory McDonald
Teaching Note for HBS No. 615-013.
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- December 2013 (Revised March 2016)
- Case
Managing Online Reviews on TripAdvisor
By: Thales Teixeira and Leora Kornfeld
In 2013, TripAdvisor was the most visited online travel site in the world. It hosted a massive repository of information on hotels and travel services, and provided millions of reviews written by consumers. Consumers were becoming increasingly motivated to read and...
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Keywords:
Online Word-of-mouth;
Online Reviews;
Hotels;
Internet and the Web;
Marketing Communications;
Marketing Reference Programs;
Digital Marketing;
Customer Satisfaction;
Accommodations Industry;
Travel Industry
Teixeira, Thales, and Leora Kornfeld. "Managing Online Reviews on TripAdvisor." Harvard Business School Case 514-071, December 2013. (Revised March 2016.)
- 19 Dec 2018
- News
Online Retailers Aim to Shake Up the Wedding Market
- 2013
- Chapter
The Design of Online Advertising Markets
By: Benjamin Edelman
Because the market for online advertising is both new and fast-changing, participants experiment with all manner of variations. Should an advertiser's payment reflect the number of times an ad was shown, the number of times it was clicked, the number of sales that...
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Keywords:
Misleading and Fraudulent Advertising;
Online Advertising;
Price;
Market Design;
Measurement and Metrics;
Sales;
Motivation and Incentives;
Internet and the Web
Edelman, Benjamin. "The Design of Online Advertising Markets." Chap. 15 in The Handbook of Market Design, edited by Nir Vulkan, Alvin E. Roth, and Zvika Neeman. Oxford University Press, 2013.
- 2015
- Working Paper
Online Word of Mouth and Product Review Disagreement
By: Frank Nagle and Christoph Riedl
Studies of online word of mouth have frequently posited―but never systematically conceptualized and explored―that the level of disagreement between existing product reviews can impact the volume and the valence of future reviews. In this study we develop a theoretical...
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Keywords:
Online Word Of Mouth;
Online Communities;
Viral Marketing;
Online Product Reviews;
Quality;
Internet and the Web;
Consumer Behavior;
Marketing Reference Programs;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Digital Marketing;
Analytics and Data Science
Nagle, Frank, and Christoph Riedl. "Online Word of Mouth and Product Review Disagreement." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 13-091, May 2013. (Revised May 2015, selected for AOM Best Paper Proceedings.)
- November–December 2018
- Article
Online Network Revenue Management Using Thompson Sampling
By: Kris J. Ferreira, David Simchi-Levi and He Wang
We consider a network revenue management problem where an online retailer aims to maximize revenue from multiple products with limited inventory constraints. As common in practice, the retailer does not know the consumer's purchase probability at each price and must...
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Keywords:
Online Marketing;
Revenue Management;
Revenue;
Management;
Marketing;
Internet and the Web;
Price;
Mathematical Methods
Ferreira, Kris J., David Simchi-Levi, and He Wang. "Online Network Revenue Management Using Thompson Sampling." Operations Research 66, no. 6 (November–December 2018): 1586–1602.
- Web
Marketing - HBS Online
Certificate Courses (1) Digital Marketing Strategy Professor Sunil Gupta Develop digital marketing strategies that reach and retain customers. 6 weeks, 6-7 hrs/weekApply by March 18$1,750Certificate What You...
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- 10 Dec 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Information and Incentives in Online Affiliate Marketing
- Web
Online Digital Marketing Strategy Course | HBS Online
with a Certificate of Completion from HBS Online Earn by: completing this course Learn More about what you earn Syllabus 6 Modules, 35-40 Hours Download full syllabus 6 hrs Module 1 Marketing in the Digital...
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- October 2014
- Module Note
Market Design in Online Businesses (Abridged)
By: Peter Coles and Benjamin Edelman
The purpose of this note is to characterize the challenges entrepreneurs may face in creating a well-functioning ecosystem of users, and to equip entrepreneurs with tools to overcome these obstacles. The note is meant to accompany the final module of the "The Online...
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Keywords:
Platform Design;
Network Effects;
Market Design;
Information Technology Industry;
Information Industry;
Advertising Industry
Coles, Peter, and Benjamin Edelman. "Market Design in Online Businesses (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Module Note 915-016, October 2014.
- Article
Priced and Unpriced Online Markets
By: Benjamin Edelman
With forces both supporting and opposing zero prices, typical Internet-related activities—like surfing the web, web searches, and e-mail, along with behind-the-scenes practices like domain names and the allocation of IP (Internet Protocol) addresses—present a natural...
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Edelman, Benjamin. "Priced and Unpriced Online Markets." Journal of Economic Perspectives 23, no. 3 (Summer 2009): 21–36.
- February 2011 (Revised June 2014)
- Teaching Note
Online Marketing at Big Skinny
By: Benjamin Edelman and Scott Kominers
Teaching Note for 911033.
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- 25 May 2011
- News