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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Starting Lineup: Upturning Travel
in 2011 “The best way to book bus tickets,” aggregating information on a half-million bus routes in 63 countries. Winner of the 2014 Alumni New Venture Competition’s Best Investment category, Busbud has debuted a product that allows third... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
A Renter’s Market
City–based Redbrick with an economist partner in 2002. “Millions of individuals buy a unit or two to rent out as income producers,” Lee says. “But there existed no fund that went after single-family houses in some sort of aggregate way... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Research Brief: The Real Cost of Countering China
Illustration by Patric Sandri Over the last five years, global supply chains have come under unprecedented stress from the pandemic, natural disasters, geopolitical events, and general anti-globalization sentiments. Nowhere is this more evident than in the trade... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Social Entrepreneurship Fellows Named
’08/MPA ’09). Both have been named HBS Social Entrepreneurship Fellows for 2010 and awarded $25,000 grants to advance their enterprises. Brehm, along with his wife, Faith, is cofounder of the online venture AbilityTrip (www.abilitytrip.com), which View Details
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Fostering Innovation in Social Enterprise Across Harvard
leaders an opportunity to explore social entrepreneurship and test ideas for social innovation in a rigorous yet supportive environment.” This year, the $75,000 Peter M. Sacerdote Grand Prize was awarded to Mosaic, a health care data View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Optimizing search technology
for example, search better—help them get access to content faster, aggregate information in a more efficient way—then we can help them get closer to a cure.” Dumon became interested in search technology while at eBay, where he served as... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
A World of Information at Your Fingertips
news sources that covers the globe; and ABI/Proquest, which aggregates business and management publication articles. For those who need in-depth information on companies, including financial reports and market research from more than... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Case Study: Building the Base
initial step in his quest to help readers—particularly millennials and Gen Zers—better understand how the news is spun. The company’s launch product is a free daily newsletter that aggregates headlines from both the left and the right,... View Details
- 11 Jan 2019
- News
Case Study: Beating Bias
in his quest to help readers—particularly millennials and Gen-Zers—better understand how the news is spun. The launch product is a free daily newsletter that aggregates headlines from both the left and right, with analysis that... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Multimedia Simulation Provides Real-World Reality Check
four of these teams are then aggregated into an industry. Team members study data and collaborate on beer design, pricing, and packaging, as well as on decisions concerning manufacturing and marketing. After each round, reports are... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
William Fung: E-Commerce and Efficiency
private-label manufacturing of quality products. “Up to now, we haven’t been able to service the small customers, such as country clubs, in a cost-effective way,” says Fung. But with the Internet, the company can provide “limited customization,” View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Students craft their post-HBS lives
reflection. “One of the course goals is to help students develop self-knowledge and live with greater intentionality,” explains Francis, who journals regularly. “We created an app that prompts students to reflect daily and then aggregates... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Data-Driven Diligence
same way, he’d later learn through Moneyball, that baseball teams were using analytics to find undervalued players. The problem was, Coats needed data—lots of it. “I kept asking VCs and others in the industry, ‘Has anyone ever aggregated... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 06 Oct 2020
- News
Clearing the Path to Citizenship
consult its resources monthly, and its aggregate data has spurred policymakers to consider disparities in the government’s procedures. In an analysis undertaken before the pandemic, Boundless found that the average processing time for... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
value of its philanthropic giving. The foundation recently raised a $120 million Growth Capital Aggregation Pilot fund that is investing in only three social sector organizations, including Youth Villages. The Decade Ahead IDEAS RULE:... View Details
- 02 Sep 2022
- News
Strength in Numbers
ineffective.” Their solution? The Goodness Web, a nonprofit that finds its strength in connection, in “a web of people who can aggregate resources—whether that is philanthropic dollars or contacts—to do good, better,” Swartz explains. The... View Details
- 31 Mar 2023
- News
How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we're going to highlight another one of the great podcasts here at HBS: Managing the Future of Work, hosted by professor and visiting fellow at the... View Details
- 18 Nov 2021
- News
Strength in Numbers
Their solution? The Goodness Web, a nonprofit that finds its strength in connection, through “a web of people who can aggregate resources—whether that is philanthropic dollars or contacts—to do good, better,” Swartz explains. Currently in... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Read All About It: Journalism Can Be Profitable
news content creation business. Creating high-quality news content is an expensive endeavor and one that doesn’t scale that easily. These companies are platforms that can aggregate consumer demand and sell advertising against that. It’s... View Details
- 24 Oct 2013
- News
Searching for a Better Society
help searchers get to the best content as quickly as possible. We publish 20 percent of the world's scientific content. If we can help medical researchers, for example, search better—help them get access to content faster, aggregate... View Details