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- 23 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Learning Curve: The Brother-and-Sister Team Behind a New Edtech Nonprofit
children and parents alike. “Our interests really aligned on early childhood education,” Mahajan says. Recognizing that more than 50 percent of Indians have smartphones—and that mobile internet penetration...
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- 07 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
7 Coming Out Stories from the HBS PRIDE Club
features about the LGBTQ+ community here at HBS. Ryan Flamerich, (he/him/his), Class of 2021 “Being gay is the best thing that has ever happened to me. It just took me a long time to realize it. I grew up in...
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- March 2023
- Case
Mirakl: Growing The Marketplace Economy
By: Antonio Moreno, Santiago Gallino and Emilie Billaud
Mirakl provided the technology and seller network required for companies like Macy's, Best Buy, Walmart, Siemens, or Carrefour to simply design, launch, and administer a marketplace that included products from third-party sellers. What began as a basic business idea in...
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Business Growth and Maturation;
Business Startups;
Transformation;
Technological Innovation;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Internet and the Web;
Technology Adoption;
Sales;
Information Technology Industry;
Retail Industry;
Web Services Industry;
Europe;
France;
Paris;
United States
Moreno, Antonio, Santiago Gallino, and Emilie Billaud. "Mirakl: Growing The Marketplace Economy." Harvard Business School Case 623-054, March 2023.
- 07 Feb 2019
- Book
How Big Companies Can Outrun Disruption
is prepared for the fact that with all the great things like tolerance for failure and so forth, there is an equally important set of behaviors required that may be a lot less pleasant for some people....
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by Martha Lagace
- 29 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
For Entrepreneurs, Blown Deadlines Can Crush Big Ideas
projects over time, you should gain some sense of how fast the complexity is increasing. Pad your timelines aggressively to account for the larger number of things that are...
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by Rachel Layne
- Web
Developing Instructor Style - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
instructors who they perceive to be well prepared and passionately committed to their learning, despite a lack of case teaching experience. Four Things Great Teachers Do Tom DeLong Professor DeLong describes...
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- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Action Plan: Life Study
Above: photo by Beth Perkins “There’s an artistic spark in everybody,” says Ted Hartley (MMP 4, 1956). “If you can get rid of that left-brain inner critic, you can explore what will open up in the right-brain side in all View Details
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Julia Hanna
- 05 Sep 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Making the Right Technical Hire
If I had a nickel for every time I get an email or text asking if I know any full stack developers for hire, I could cover the cost of my next trip to San Francisco. I’m also struck by the number of founders...
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- Blog
Which HBS Executive Education Program is Right For Me?
thing that an applicant can bring to the call is an understanding of the type of problem they are trying to solve. Is there a specific challenge you are trying to overcome at...
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Doug Marsan
our tree. By the end of the summer, we had built a two-story treehouse about 20 feet up a large oak tree. The thing was a safety nightmare (sorry, Mom and Dad), but the experience inspired me to become an...
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- 24 May 2021
- Op-Ed
Can Fabric Waste Become Fashion’s Resource?
COVID-19 has broken fashion’s supply chain. As a result, an already wasteful industry has become more wasteful. Even before the pandemic, the global apparel industry was producing about 92 million tons of textile waste a year. That’s about one garbage truck’s worth of...
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- July 2006 (Revised February 2007)
- Case
LinkedIn (A)
By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski
In the summer of 2005, LinkedIn, a two-year-old start-up, was choosing between two options to monetize its 5 million business people network. Members could contact each other through trusted intermediaries on the network to offer or seek jobs, consulting engagements,...
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Risk and Uncertainty;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Internet and the Web;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Business Startups;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Service Industry
Piskorski, Mikolaj Jan. "LinkedIn (A)." Harvard Business School Case 707-406, July 2006. (Revised February 2007.)
- 18 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Stuck in Commuter Hell? You Can Still Be Productive
Workers commute an average 38 minutes each way between home and work—a trip that can feel like a dreadful chore before the workday even begins. In fact, long commutes lower job satisfaction and increase employee turnover. Now, recent research provides some advice to...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 21 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
OSHA Inspections: Protecting Employees or Killing Jobs?
single study cannot settle the debate over regulation, or even the debate over OSHA. This study is limited to one regulatory agency in one state; other states and other agencies could show different results. One thing the research does...
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by Michael Blanding
- 15 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
IT Job Wages Are No Longer 'Exceptional'
talent, IT workers in the rest of the country didn’t get the same bump, according to the research.“We thought we could look at the same thing in different places—how it changed over time—and compare those...
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- 07 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Effective Leaders Share the Spotlight with Their Teams
positive image. For example, Union Pacific CEO John Koraleski called on team members an average of 59 times during earnings calls in one year, making him the most inclusive manager in the study. Likewise, an View Details
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by Pamela Reynolds
- Blog
What Black Executives Really Want
networked and got things done. But no one ever asked him to lunch. Many of the Black executives found their peers standoffish, perhaps because they were not used to being around black people. They concluded...
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- 14 Dec 2016
- HBS Seminar
Siobhan O'Mahony and Rebecca Karp, Boston University
- 13 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Family Business: Leadership Roles
or group will vary with the leader and circumstances. Some leaders favor leading and let others manage; some leaders spend most of their time governing the system. A parent also does these three things in...
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by John A. Davis
- Profile
David Velasquez
Why did you choose this path at this point in time? I want to be better prepared to lead and improve the delivery of health care in our country. Patients cannot wait for our systems to be more accessible, effective, and equitable – now is...
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