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- 10 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 10
Working PapersPlatform Envelopment (revised) Authors:Thomas Eisenmann, Geoffrey Parker, and Marshall Van Alstyne Abstract Due to network effects and switching costs, platform providers often become entrenched. To enter established... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
build an informal network of relationships with executives and business managers, which allowed them to resist being stereotyped as either compliance champions or business partners. Instead they created and shaped the perception of their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- September 2019
- Case
Shell: A Company of Opportunity?
By: Joseph B. Fuller and Emer Moloney
The Opportunity Hub was a cloud-based platform that enabled managers to market projects they were working on and associated resourcing needs as “Opportunity Owners” and employees, or “Opportunity Seekers,” to browse these statements of need and engage when they had... View Details
Keywords: Business Divisions; Change Management; Competency and Skills; Experience and Expertise; Talent and Talent Management; Energy; Energy Sources; Non-Renewable Energy; Renewable Energy; Human Resources; Employees; Retention; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Jobs and Positions; Job Design and Levels; Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Labor; Human Capital; Labor Unions; Leading Change; Resource Allocation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Evaluation; Performance Productivity; Strategic Planning; Projects; Motivation and Incentives; Business Strategy; Social and Collaborative Networks; Technology Platform; Chemical Industry; Energy Industry; Information Technology Industry; Technology Industry; United Kingdom; Netherlands
Fuller, Joseph B., and Emer Moloney. "Shell: A Company of Opportunity?" Harvard Business School Case 320-025, September 2019.
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
concentrated among firms with high growth opportunities or firms confronting adverse circumstances, consistent with boardroom connections mattering most for firms that stand to benefit most from the information communicated and resources exchanged through the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
fascinating character to animate sometimes dry legalese.” Gleason’s quest for fair trade, or price protection, would not be easy. First off, the term “fair trade” in the 1930s had a different meaning than it does today when we use it to describe a View Details
- 22 Aug 2019
- News
Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector
about that?" When you think about the network he has, as a result of those experiences, he's basically able to build a global platform for himself that he can do whatever he wants to do with. That's one example. We have a number of... View Details
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
Sprint-Nextel, and Verizon Wireless; technology and service vendors, such as RealNetworks and Microsoft; and mobile virtual network operators, such as Virgin Mobile. Covers the origins of the mobile music business, projections on its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
HBS, in which two-thirds of the student body are members. Their activities, which are open to the entire HBS community, range from running conferences to leading study trips abroad and from organizing major social events to sponsoring... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 20 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 20
challenge to centuries-long traditions in design and construction that green building represents. The contributors consider the changes associated with green building through a sociological and organizational lens. They discuss shifts in professional expertise created... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
A Conversation with Dean Clark
users, whenever they want it. We are beginning to see more cases that take advantage of this capability. And it's not just cases that have changed. Today all of our courses take advantage of network technology. From their computers,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
now if K-12 education performance doesn’t substantially improve?” The consequences of each year sending tens of thousands of unprepared kids into a harshly competitive world are already clear. They include rising social safety net... View Details
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
countries between 1985 and 2000, we find that the growth effects of FDI increase when we account for the quality of FDI. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-072.pdf How Well Do Social Ratings Actually Measure Corporate... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 4, 2008
the true value of those customers has always been a challenge. This paper develops a network model to estimate the long-term impact of each additional free customer on a company's profits, factoring in the degree to which he or she brings... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 28, 2008
improvements will be exhibited by those shamed firms that face lower-cost opportunities to improve—-and thus are particularly able to respond. We take advantage of a natural experiment, when a major social rating agency expanded the scope... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Reimagining the MBA
they can practice what they have learned in the classroom,” she explains. “Since we don’t have such facilities at our disposal, we have to build a global network of partners that are willing to become, in essence, teaching hospitals for... View Details
- 02 Apr 2014
- What Do You Think?
Has the Post-Capitalist Economy Finally Arrived?
network (government?) will need to be developed alongside of capitalism for those who do not survive the massive consolidation." What will capitalism require of us in the future? What do you think? [summing up] Is There Really a... View Details
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Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: ASIA - Alumni
of post-graduation career exploration funds that a HBS graduate may receive in their lifetime from all HBS and Harvard University sources is capped at $150,000 USD. Sources include, but are not limited to, the HBS Social Enterprise Loan... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
influence through his writings, his speeches, and ARD’s annual meetings, in which its investment companies set up booths and enjoyed an opportunity to network and talk to potential investors. “He gave a dignity or a substance to the... View Details
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
Mouse and the Wealthy Elephant Live Happily Ever After? Authors:James E. Austin and Herman B. Leonard Abstract What happens when small iconic socially oriented businesses are acquired by large corporations? Such mergers create significant... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
These Are the Good Old Days
the Bulletin about her experiences as an executive, a woman, a mother, and a New Yorker. In doing so, she shed light on some major social and business developments that have shaped — and been enriched by — the lives and careers of her... View Details