Economics Of Digital Platforms - Publications - Faculty & Research

23 Mar 2022
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Learning Curve: The Brother-and-Sister Team Behind a New Edtech Nonprofit

approximately 150 million children ages 3 to 8, making it an ideal partner for working at scale. Rocket develops and delivers digital training materials focused specifically on boosting the skills of this... View Details

22 Nov 2016
First Look

November 22, 2016

November 2016 Quarterly Journal of Economics Stereotypes By: Bordalo, Pedro, Katherine Baldiga Coffman, Nicola Gennaioli, and Andrei Shleifer Abstract—We present a model of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Dec 2016
First Look

December 13, 2016

“cloak” their most valuable trades. This takes the form, for instance, of a manager who sells her entire position of Microsoft on March 30, and then repurchases to re-establish the same position on April 1.... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Finance Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students 2024 Elisabeth Kempf : Winner of the 2024 Second Place Jensen Prize presented by Journal of Financial View Details

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Baker Library / Bloomberg Center | About

great success investing in the utilities, steel, and rubber industries. Although he famously kept a low profile, leaders of business and government consistently sought and received his advice. George F. Baker Jr. Baker appreciated the... View Details

16 Aug 2018
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Working with a Giver’s Spirit

Philippine tech incubator behind a number of remarkable companies, including Ayannah, which uses social media and mobile platforms to provide digital commerce and payment... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

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Business, Government & the International Economy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Management, 2015–2018. Alberto F. Cavallo : Received a National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Economics of View Details

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Bibliography – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

The Interview Process Spreading the Word The "Hawthorne Effect" Research Links Guides to Archival Collections Selected Digital Historical Resources Home Bibliography Bibliography A Selection of Publications... View Details

06 Sep 2022
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Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business & Environment

role prior to HBS was a Project Manager at Roland Berger. Bobby Yang (MBA 2023, Section H), Summer Internship: MBA Intern, Office of the CEO, at nZero nZero is a 24/7 carbon data and management platform that... View Details

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Statistical & Data Services - Research Computing Services

necessitates the creation of an account on a non-HBS platform (e.g., Twitter), the researcher may be asked to "own" the account and provide access to the RCS team member to ensure that the researcher... View Details

03 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion

chômage partiel, under which the government pays a portion of a company’s wages in times of economic distress to limit layoffs. During the 2008-2009 recession, furlough... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott

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Introducing LivelyHood, A Volunteer Nonprofit Founded in Response to COVID-19 - MBA

response effort. LivelyHood is a platform that connects healthy, young volunteers with the elderly and immunocompromised in their local community for contactless deliveries. The nonprofit volunteer effort has been built by a group View Details

16 Nov 2015
Research & Ideas

Does Competition Make Us More Creative?

over and over” Gross, a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Business School and the National Bureau of Economic Research, reports his findings in Creativity Under Fire: The Effects View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising

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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

include, for example, Harvard Business Review’s printing expense. They also include strategic investments in digital infrastructure and content designed to extend the group’s record of consistent growth at a... View Details

29 Jan 2021
Op-Ed

How Influencers, Celebrities, and FOMO Can Win Over Vaccine Skeptics

vaccination are much greater than those for high technology products. Delays to getting shots in arms can reduce the odds of reaching global herd immunity, reinforce safety and health concerns across countries, and slow down the world’s... View Details

Keywords: by Rohit Deshpandé, Ofer Mintz, and Imran S. Currim

September 2020
Case

Uber at a Crossroads (2017)

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Karen Elterman

This case describes the history of Uber, its business model—including the ways it differed from that of the traditional taxi industry—and its competition with Lyft. The case is set in 2017, a year in which Uber was plagued by even more scandals than usual, though its... View Details

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04 Mar 2019
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What’s the Antidote to Surveillance Capitalism?

Future at the New Frontier of Power, author Shoshana Zuboff identifies surveillance capitalism as the danger in our midst—not totalitarian government or even business institutions that practice surveillance capitalism. She presents... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Advertising; Consumer Products

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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Use of Machine Learning from the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences for Streetchange with Nikhil Naik, Ramesh Raskar, Edward L. Glaeser, and César A. Hidalgo.... View Details

22 Feb 2024
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GCC Crossroads Aims for a Bright Future; Seattle Alumni Talk Leadership in Tech; Italy Preps for European Alumni Summit

Clubs News Clubs News Crossroads Forum Explores Future of Gulf Region More than 1,300 public and private leaders convened in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on January 30 and 31 for the Crossroads GCC Future Impact Forum, co-hosted by the HBS Club of the Gulf Cooperation Council... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

Gil Addo

Gil Addo is CEO and Co-founder of RubiconMD, a wholly-owned subsidiary of CVS Health. RubiconMD’s digital health platform empowers primary care... View Details

Keywords: Digital Health

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