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- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
PublicationsCapitalism: Its Origins and Evolution as a System of Governance Author:Bruce R. Scott Publication:Springer-Verlag, 2011 Abstract Two systems of governance, capitalism and democracy, prevail in the world today. Operating...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
Hyunjin Kim, and Michael Luca Abstract—Can new data sources from online platforms help to measure local economic activity? Government datasets from agencies such as the U.S. Census Bureau provide the...
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Carmen Nobel
- 14 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 14
relies on platforms and horizontal ecosystems of firms producing complementary products. Using three case studies—software, animation and mobile telephony—we illustrate two key sources of inefficiencies that this mismatch can create, all...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Program Policies - HBS Online
Exceptions Participant Discount Learning Requirements Course Platform Certificate Programs Participants are expected to fully complete all work on the course platform in English in a thoughtful and timely...
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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Global Perspectives
second-largest continent: Africa. “Policymakers, investors, and builders can learn from the African experience, where public-private partnerships and deployments of technologies are illuminating new ways to approach the task of funding infrastructure despite a scarcity...
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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
that the affordable housing buzz started in India, along with the Indian president's call for a "slum-free India." Apprehensive about both government and real-estate developers, my husband, an architect from Italy, and I moved to Delhi...
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- 23 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 23, 2008
mode of governance in the American economy: business schools became essential sites for the development of tools and methods for the management of the new large, diversified conglomerates (input-output approaches, linear programming,...
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Martha Lagace
- 22 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business
lending in this market. Traditional bank loans may yield a return of 5 to 7 percent, but many alternative lending platforms charge yields ranging from 30 to 120 percent of the loan value, depending on the size, term duration, and risk...
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- 05 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 5
role of firms as facilitators of globalization during the nineteenth century and more recently and as preservers of it when governments sought to close it down in the interwar years. However the ability of firms to shape the world was...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Maybe Uber isn't God's Gift to Mankind
own drivers). Uber routinely frustrates regulators as much as it pleases consumers. It has fielded cease and desist orders from governments all over the world, often continuing operation even when ordered to stop. Yet venture capitalists...
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- 22 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
generations of the same family may even cease to regress towards the mean. Moreover, we demonstrate that government interventions intended to ameliorate inequality may in fact lower intergenerational mobility—even when they do not...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 22, 2016
technologies and companies; and who should own platform technologies built, at least in part, by the research of multiple parties and government funding. Purchase this case:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- October 2020 (Revised November 2023)
- Case
COVID-19 Testing at Everlywell
By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Olivia Hull
In March 2020, as COVID-19 spreads rapidly across the U.S., Everlywell founder Julia Cheek considers how to respond as a small start-up specializing in at-home lab testing. After making dramatic budget cuts, she decides to pivot the organization to address the...
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Entrepreneurship;
Business Strategy;
Venture Capital;
Health Care and Treatment;
Health Disorders;
Leading Change;
Technology Adoption;
Digital Platforms;
Competitive Strategy;
Science;
Adaptation;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Crisis Management;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Ethics;
Government Legislation;
Health;
Health Testing and Trials;
Health Pandemics;
Consumer Products Industry;
Health Industry;
Technology Industry;
Texas;
United States
Bussgang, Jeffrey J., and Olivia Hull. "COVID-19 Testing at Everlywell." Harvard Business School Case 821-001, October 2020. (Revised November 2023.)
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Robert Goodwin
talking about? Africa, for example, is littered with good intentions and strategic plans for what needs to happen. But there aren’t a lot of people on the ground who have the knowledge to follow through with implementation. A huge lesson I learned from my View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Publishing Platform This book offers guidance to baby-boomers in three main sections. “Finding Your Gifts” helps you appreciate the good things in your life, how to add to them, and make the best of your resources. “Digging the...
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- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
such a way that talent is developed along with the business. Publisher's link: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/esm/doifinder/10.1057/9781137294678.0085 August 2013 International Journal of Industrial Organization Information and Two-Sided View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Aug 2021
- News
A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
prosper. We know that many white banks, for example, the Bank of Italy, they were the beneficiary of the federal government after the Second World War saying that, "We want to create a middle class in America." You know, Daniel, and prior...
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- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
part of solving public problems Government that can scale: Harnessing platform techniques for innovation and growth The lessons unfold in the timely episodes Weiss has seen and studied: the US Special...
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- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
GovDelivery, as the company became known, was one of the first companies to move governments into the cloud; one of the first to sell them software as a service (SaaS); and in 2007, the only one with 3 million citizens registered to use...
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Carmen Nobel
- 12 Jul 2020
- Book
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020
of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein, which describes the complicity of the federal government in redlining policies that confined Black people in segregated neighborhoods with low...
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