Hub And Spoke - Publications - Faculty & Research

showcase the impact that HBS IT has on the rest of the HBS community, as well as make our need-to-know information easily accessible. The new website is a hub for IT to highlight the many services we provide, share our strategic plan for... View Details

20 Apr 2017
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The Weirdness of Juggling Many Different Roles at Work

05 Feb 2018
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Why CEOs are becoming activists

January 2013 (Revised October 2015)
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Pittsburgh

By: Eric Werker, Meg Rithmire, Benjamin Kennedy and Andrew Knauer

The case narrates the development of Pittsburgh from the 1940s to 2012. It analyzes the collapse of the steel industry in the early 1980s, the city's subsequent decline, and the city's later re-emergence as a hub for higher education, the tech sector, and the... View Details

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Harvard Business School and Polaroid - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

during World War II and the emergence of venture capital firms after the war also fueled the growth of high-tech startups. The greater Boston area flourished into a hub of innovation; many firms would expand... View Details

January 2020
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Lunchclub: Algorithmic Networking

By: Scott Duke Kominers and George Gonzalez

Algorithmic networking startup Lunchclub coordinates in-person meetings between professionals who would have been unlikely to meet. The company faces marketplace design, growth, and monetization challenges: The executive team has to refine Lunchclub's marketplace... View Details

Keywords: Monetization Strategy; Networking; Business Startups; Marketplace Matching; Market Design; Growth and Development Strategy; Information Industry

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30 Apr 2021
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Weekend Reading: The Soul of a CEO

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Student Spotlight: 2023 HCC Co-Presidents Reflect on Their Time at HBS and the Current Health Care Systems - Blog: Health Supplement

tremendously inequitable and fragmented. The health care system delivers innovation, ranging from cell therapies to remote patient monitoring and intervention solutions, to the privileged minority that have... View Details

March 2020 (Revised November 2020)
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FinTech Hive at DIFC: Creating a Fintech Ecosystem in Dubai

By: Marco Di Maggio and Gamze Yucaoglu

The case opens in 2019 as Raja Al Mazrouei, executive vice president of FinTech Hive (the Hive) at the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), the first and largest financial technology accelerator in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia region, contemplates her... View Details