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25 Jun 2020
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Global Centers Broaden Understanding of Business and the Pandemic

video conferencing platform Zoom exploded. In the case “Zoom Video Communications and COVID-19,” authors Associate Professor Scott Duke Kominers and George Gonzalez, the center’s senior researcher, examine Zoom’s strengths and weaknesses... View Details

11 Jun 2019
Book

These Aren't Beach Books, but Managers Should Read Them Anyway

Business of Platforms: Strategy in the Age of Digital Competition, Innovation, and Power David Yoffie and colleagues reveal the principles that have made platform businesses the most valuable firms in the world and the first... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

14 May 2013
Blog Post

MBAxAmerica Update: Week 6, New Orleans

we’re learning from our entrepreneurial summers. We also talked about the challenges and opportunities of building organizations with purpose—such as explaining to investors why, if you’re building a crowdfunding platform for small,... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship

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Jay Khil

before.” Jay’s project took her to Istanbul, where her team helped a nonprofit, Young Guru Academy, to develop an online leadership platform for middle-school students in Turkey. While Jay’s week abroad was spent advising the Academy on... View Details

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William R. Kerr | Working Knowledge

nature of work is radically transformed. The initiative produces leading research on these themes and disseminates to broader audiences through platforms like the MFW podcast series . Bill’s recent book is The Gift of Global Talent: How... View Details

29 Jul 2021
News

A Clean Start

photosynthesis, has figured out how to convert carbon dioxide and water into all types of things, from wood and fibers to fruits and grains,” he says. It’s a process that’s worked for 3.5 billion years. “We need to look at CO2 as a resource,” he explains. So Brix set... View Details

27 Mar 2019
News

Sharing the Road

over the next five to 10 years, almost 60 percent of the world's population will, in fact, live in cities instead of the rural areas. And that's going to put a huge burden on the infrastructure that cities will have to create. “The way we created Myles Cars was an... View Details

01 Jun 2014
News

Start Me Up

development." Too much financial engineering. Not enough enterprise and value creation. For Akhil Nigam (MBA 2007), that was a big takeaway from the 2008 economic collapse. It got the former software entrepreneur to thinking entrepreneurially again, but with a twist:... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

05 Feb 2025
Blog Post

Leadership with Purpose: Redefining Success and Impact with Satpal Singh (SELP—India 4, 2019)

oil and gas, and energy sectors. My goal wasn’t just to refine my skills—I wanted to broaden my perspective on strategy, innovation, and leadership in a world that was rapidly evolving. HBS offered the perfect platform for exploration.... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

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Tafadzwa Samushonga

local bank to improve their digital services. And she will be spending her summer internship working for an e-commerce company in the Philippines. Even while Tafadzwa explores other countries, she remains excited about business opportunities in Africa. She uses her... View Details

Keywords: Consulting

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Jennifer Kelly

compromise." Helping young people realize what they can do At HBS, Jennifer isn't just studying social enterprise, she's launching one of her own. Called "LeagueOfDreamers.com," the project, Jennifer says, "is an online View Details

06 Feb 2020
News

HBS Alumni Join Forces on Virus Outbreak in China

local and multilateral organizations on logistics—coordinating purchase, delivery, and customs—in their effort to contain the spread of the virus. At the same time, a group led by Ray Yang (MBA 2003), Mei Zhang (MBA 1996), and Andy Lin (MBA 2003) have used the social... View Details

25 Nov 2014
First Look

First Look: November 25

Download working paper: http://www.nber.org/papers/w20667 Multi-Sided Platforms By: Hagiu, Andrei, and Julian Wright Abstract—We study the economic tradeoffs that drive organizations to position themselves closer to or further away from a... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

15 Nov 2024
News

Driving Change

vision for what you want for humanity. Are we up to the task? I say a resounding, unqualified, categorical yes.” Drawing alumni from 30 countries and spanning six decades of experience, the two-day summit provided a platform to discuss... View Details

31 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

A Scholarly Crowd Explores Crowdsourcing

Cox Pahnke, Dan Wang, and Benjamin Hallen. Ripe for study. In a plenary talk on crowdsourced contests and competitions, Lakhani outlined numerous areas in need of further study, which is made much easier by hundreds of crowdsourcing View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

25 Aug 2022
News

Turning Point: Dream Weaver

four decades ago, there’s been a technological shift from a local delivery platform to one that is global. In tandem, we’ve seen a transformation from a culturally and ethnically centralized world of actors, writers, and directors to one... View Details

Keywords: career; life experience; Hollywood; movies; film

07 Sep 2021
News

Funding His Purpose

through its lending platform and fund management, and the consulting firm has influenced the allocation of more than $6 billion in assets. Letelier was expecting to grow “the usual 30 percent” in 2020 when the pandemic hit. With the... View Details

20 May 2014
First Look

First Look: May 20

of product development, felt that a substantial portion of the new funding was needed to rework Open English's platform to enable the additional growth. She was concerned that the company's learning platform... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Oct 2008
First Look

First Look: October 21, 2008

$1 billion valuation for the company. Three key dilemmas confronted LinkedIn, however. First, at a time when the "walled garden" model of online community building was under siege, it had to decide how far it should open its View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

July 2008 (Revised June 2011)
Case

mixi (A)

By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski, Masaru Nomura and Kanako Miyoshi

Kasahara, the founder and CEO of mixi, the most successful Japanese on-line social network, is deciding between two strategic options: (i) B2C or (ii) C2C to leverage the power of the social network. In the B2C option, mixi would become a portal for on-line shopping... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Digital Platforms; Social and Collaborative Networks; Business Strategy; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Internet and the Web; Japan

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