Publications

29 Oct 2021
Blog Post

Helping Women in Mexico to Live Fulfilled and Healthy Lives

three C’s: Content, Community, and Care. For Content, Plenna is a modern source of information for women’s health; you can find tips on birth control, managing vaginal infections, and general gynecology. We’re also building a strong Community, a View Details

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Global Activities 2020-2021 - Global Activities 2021

and three previous recipients had their funding extended. Moni Alli (MBA 2021) , founder of Front Edge, a lending platform in Lagos, Nigeria, that provides access to affordable working capital solutions. Nelly-Ange Kontchou (MD/MBA 2018)... View Details

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Affinity Groups | Employment

of Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, Sherri Charleston, the Office of Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging acts as a convener, catalyst, capacity builder and community building resource. A wide array of workshops, events, and View Details

01 Jun 2014
News

What’s Next

to a continually evolving global business landscape. Curriculum Innovations What is the unique competence of HBS, and how will you deal with the distance learning revolution that is happening? Alan B. Steiner (MBA 1965), Colorado Springs, Colorado There has been much... View Details

Keywords: HBS Campaign; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

21 May 2019
Cold Call Podcast

If the Key to Business Success Is Focus, Why Does Amazon Work?

Keywords: Re: Sunil Gupta; Retail

03 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 3, 2009

Strategic Interactions in Two-Sided Market Oligopolies (revised) Authors:Emmanuel Farhi and Andrei Hagiu Abstract Strategic interactions between two-sided platforms depend not only on whether their decision variables are strategic... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Asia Pacific - Global Activities 2021

around the world can learn from and take to heart for years to come.” Understanding Post-Pandemic Global Supply Chains As Professor Willy Shih discusses in a Harvard Business Review webinar, because of the central role many Chinese companies play in global supply... View Details

July 2011 (Revised January 2013)
Case

Digital Microscopy Is Making Me Crazy!

By: Willy Shih

For Carl Zeiss Microimaging, modular hardware and software enabled customers to tailor Zeiss's broad range of microscopy systems hardware and software to meet a wide range of needs from basic scientific research in the biological and medical sciences to clinical... View Details

Keywords: Information Infrastructure; Applications and Software; Corporate Strategy; Disruptive Innovation; Science-Based Business; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Business Conglomerates; Digital Platforms; Opportunities; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Computer Industry

February 2018
Case

Amazon, Google, and Apple: Smart Speakers and the Battle for the Connected Home

By: Rajiv Lal and Scott Johnson

Amazon, Google, and Apple all offer their own smart speaker. The devices represent each firm's entry point into the connected home market. All three companies come into the space with their own strengths and weaknesses. Who will win? View Details

15 Dec 2015
First Look

December 15, 2015

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50234 December 2015 Harvard Business Review What Is Disruptive Innovation? By: Christensen, Clayton M., Michael Raynor, and Rory McDonald Abstract—For the past 20 years, the theory of View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

October 2023
Case

CornerUp: Digitizing the Corner Store

By: Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui, Stacy Straaberg and Diego Zainos De La Sota Riva

In July 2023, Jason Diaz, co-founder and CEO of CornerUp, assessed the progress of his business-to-business e-procurement software application (app) startup, founded in January 2022. CornerUp began as a fast-moving consumer packaged goods (FMCG) distributor in New York... View Details

Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Small Business; Transition; Decisions; Social Entrepreneurship; Geographic Location; Disruptive Innovation; Market Participation; Digital Platforms; Trust; Business Strategy; Expansion; Information Infrastructure; Internet and the Web; Technology Adoption; Value Creation; Technology Industry; United States

17 Apr 2014
News

York Street Partners, Busbud Take Top Honors in Alumni New Venture Competition

2014, York Street Partners will launch its asset management platform, and with it private equity, real estate, and fixed income funds—none of which currently exist in the Sri Lankan market. Future plans include exploring a venture capital fund and a crowd funding View Details

Keywords: New Venture Competition; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

13 Jan 2021
News

Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”

1960s—but its most influential product might just be its model of entrepreneurship: disruptive, asset-light and capital-intensive businesses with a scale-at-all-cost mentality and no fear of failure. But now something is threatening to View Details

Profile

Michael Maples

and then I try to develop a point of view about what is happening.” When a startup appears that is congruent with that point of view, Maples sees an investment opportunity. He calls these ventures “Thunder Lizards”, the rare, wildly View Details

08 May 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 8, 2018

Harvard Business School Case 818-013 Magpie: Developing and Using Buyer Personas The founders of a start-up platform for publishers have developed preliminary personas of target customers and are evaluating the implications for initial... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

March 2021
Supplement

Facebook's Libra (B): The Privatization of Money?

By: Marco Di Maggio, Ethan Rouen, George Serafeim and Amy Klopfenstein

This case addresses the events that took place following the conclusion of the case “Facebook’s Libra (A): The Privatization of Money?” In October 2019, several months after the conclusion of the A case, multiple members of the Libra Association announced that they... View Details