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  • March 2018 (Revised July 2018)
  • Case

Cadre

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann, Scott Duke Kominers and David Lane
Late in 2017, CEO Ryan Williams and his team debated whether Cadre should become not only a technology-enabled investment manager, but also an online trading exchange providing high levels of liquidity for investors in commercial real estate (CRE) equity. Cadre was a... View Details
Keywords: ＂Cadre,＂; Entrepreneurship; Market Design; Digital Platforms; Strategy; Internet and the Web; Private Equity; Financial Services Industry; Real Estate Industry; United States
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  • 15 Jun 2021
  • News

The Path Ahead

heartened to see that many of our alumni are leading these efforts. In my own work, I have observed growing interest from boards of directors in tackling environmental issues as well as the tremendous social... View Details
  • November 1999 (Revised June 2000)
  • Case

VerticalNet (www.verticalnet.com)

By: Das Narayandas
VerticalNet, a leading creator of targeted business-to-business vertical trade communities on the Internet, is trying to expand its model to facilitate e-commerce. Mark Walsh, the CEO of VerticalNet, has to decide how far he can extend the firm's business model without... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Decisions; Digital Platforms; Expansion; Internet and the Web
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  • 19 Jan 2022
  • In Practice

7 Trends to Watch in 2022

As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and... View Details
Keywords: by HBS News
  • September 1996 (Revised April 1997)
  • Case

GO Corporation

By: Josh Lerner, Thomas J. Kosnik, Tarek AbuZayyad and Paul C. Yang
GO faces a crisis in March 1991 when Microsoft announces the introduction of a competing operating system for pen-based computers. GO's managers must work with its venture financers, Kleiner Perkins, to redesign its financing, alliance, and product development... View Details
Keywords: Value Creation; Digital Platforms; Competition; Private Equity; Adaptation; Crisis Management; Information Technology Industry; Computer Industry
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  • 01 Dec 2014
  • News

@Soldiers Field

arm might lift a barbell.” The 229 RCs who signed up for lunch roulette were connected with three perfectly randomized HBS classmates. Hosted by the Student Association and the Digital Initiative, the project used an open source computer... View Details
Keywords: John Shad (MBA 1949); Educational Services
  • 28 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 28, 2008

off if platforms were compatible, the quest for market dominance by competing platform providers prevents them from agreeing to a common standard. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Apr 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54810 forthcoming Review of Economic Studies Gifts of the Immigrants, Woes of the Natives:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 05 Nov 2024
  • Book

Building the Road to 'Small Business Utopia' with AI and Fintech

of a portal from which the business owner could operate all their financial activities? What if this intelligent platform knew when the business might need credit and could offer relevant options which were... View Details
Keywords: by Karen G. Mills; Financial Services
  • 21 Nov 2013
  • News

Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins

keyboard on smart devices (just like Polaroid believed consumers needed to instantly print their digital photos—when was the last time you printed a photo!). They kept their platform closed, avoiding the... View Details
Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises
  • Article

Network Effects Aren't Enough

By: Andrei Hagiu and Simon Rothman
In many ways, online marketplaces are the perfect business model. Since they facilitate transactions between independent suppliers and customers rather than take possession of and responsibility for the products or services in question, they have inherently low cost... View Details
Keywords: Digital Platforms; Competition; Internet and the Web; Network Effects; Market Participation
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  • 01 Mar 2019
  • News

Napkin Finance: Say It in a Picture

sketching them out within the space limitations of a fouror five-inch square. With a library of hundreds of digital napkins and counting—along... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 06 Sep 2024
  • Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces 2024 Goldsmith Fellows

effort to create a network of individuals committed to working in social enterprise. The 2024 Goldsmith Fellows are: Princess Aghayere. Princess is co-founder and director of finance for Rebound Liberia, a... View Details
  • 23 Jun 2016
  • Op-Ed

Brexit: Should Britain Stay or Go?

Britain’s perceived glory days in the nineteenth century, when the country was the economic hub of the world. The Governor of the Bank of... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dante Roscini
  • November 2000
  • Exercise

Atlantis-Biovent Negotiation: Confidential Instructions for Atlantis

By: Michael A. Wheeler
This two-party exercise illustrates bidding strategy in the context of settling a large insurance claim. Specifically, the claimant (Biovent) and the insurer (Atlantis) are asked to submit confidential offers to a dispute resolution Web site that will determine whether... View Details
Keywords: Insurance; Bids and Bidding; Digital Platforms; Negotiation Process; Conflict and Resolution; Strategy; Internet and the Web
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  • May 2017
  • Supplement

Betfair (B), (C), and (D) Case Slides

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and John Heilbron
Contains slides related to the Betfair B, C, and D cases.
Abstracts:
B) Buoyed by success in the market for gambling contracts, Betfair attempts to enter the market for financial products using its exchange model.
C) Prompted by a takeover bid from... View Details
Keywords: Betfair; Exchange; Betting; Leisure Industry; Betting Markets; Market Design; Digital Platforms; Diversification; Business Model; Laws and Statutes; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Financial Services Industry; Europe
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  • 01 Jun 2023
  • News

The Exchange: The Tech Leader’s Tightrope

Bernardino, California. Here, McGee and Hsieh discuss the evolution of the case and the conversations it has inspired, as well as the changing dimensions of the economic... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government
  • 14 Feb 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The World in Your Palm?

As makers of everything engage in an all-out features war to cram the most services, accessories, and functions into a single product, the real question for many is this: Does the consumer really want an all-in-one View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Nov 2010
  • First Look

First Look: November 2, 2010

data and then thinking about the potential complementarities of strategies from a portfolio construction context. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/211025-PDF-ENG News in the Digital... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Apr 2013
  • First Look

First Look: April 2

Political Economy." By: Rithmire, Meg Abstract—The study of Chinese political economy has undergone a sea change since the late 1990s; instead of debating the origins and direction View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne