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- 18 Feb 2019
- Book
What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology
do-it-yourself clothes washing). Customers evaluate the startup in comparison to what they already have. If you want to thoroughly understand a new business idea, you must take the current reality as your foundation. The second layer is to develop the View Details
- November 2020
- Case
Guild Education: Unlocking Opportunity for America's Workforce
By: William A. Sahlman, Michael D. Smith, Nicole Tempest Keller and Alpana Thapar
Founded in 2015, Guild Education is an education marketplace that connects employers and universities to provide employees with ‘education as a benefit.’ The Denver-based company is transforming traditional tuition assistance programs by facilitating direct payment by... View Details
Keywords: Education; Digital Platforms; Information Technology; Employees; Social Enterprise; Education Industry; Technology Industry; Colorado
Sahlman, William A., Michael D. Smith, Nicole Tempest Keller, and Alpana Thapar. "Guild Education: Unlocking Opportunity for America's Workforce." Harvard Business School Case 821-050, November 2020.
- 12 Dec 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Clocky, the Runaway Alarm Clock
this growth phase?" The case describes the prototypes that Nanda developed as potential complements to Clocky: Ticky, which sported digital minute and hour hands as opposed to a standard digital... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Competing in the Age of AI
Above: Karim Lakhani discussed GenAI with alumni during his presentation at When Professor Karim Lakhani leads discussions about generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), he often begins by asking audience members to stand if they’ve used an AI tool like ChatGPT or... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 24 Jul 2017
- Research & Ideas
People Have an Irrational Need to Complete 'Sets' of Things
“Global Survival Kit” condition chose to donate all six items, compared with just 5 percent in the “gift” condition and 3 percent in the cash condition. “The strength of the increase was a really nice surprise,” says Doug Wayne, director of national View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- January 2015 (Revised May 2018)
- Case
$19B 4 txt app WhatsApp...omg!
By: David Collis, Ashley Hartman and Aakash Mehta
In February 2014, Facebook announced the acquisition of WhatsApp for $19 billion. WhatsApp, founded in 2009, was a relatively young company that employed only 50 people and earned merely $10 million in revenue in 2013. It was one of many mobile messaging services that... View Details
Keywords: WhatsApp; Facebook; Mobile Messaging; Social Network; Acquisitions; Value Added; Strategy Alignment; Monetization; Social Platforms; Technology; Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Acquisition; Communication Technology; Social and Collaborative Networks; Value Creation; Social Media; Applications and Software; Digital Platforms; Communications Industry; Information Technology Industry
Collis, David, Ashley Hartman, and Aakash Mehta. "$19B 4 txt app WhatsApp...omg!" Harvard Business School Case 715-441, January 2015. (Revised May 2018.)
- 29 Oct 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Robots in the Boardroom
recent research from Harvard Business School faculty marks the possibilities and pitfalls that could occur along this digital transformation. A Good Place to Start Ethics Bots and Other Ways to Move Your Code of Business Conduct Beyond... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Student Spotlight: 2023 HCC Co-Presidents Reflect on Their Time at HBS and the Current Health Care Systems - Blog: Health Supplement
Practitioners Topics Topics Biotech/pharma Care Delivery Clinical Trials Digital Health Global Health Health Care Entrepreneurship Health Care Innovation Health Care Investment Health Care at HBS Insurance/payor Medical... View Details
- 20 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
It's No Joke: AI Beats Humans at Making You Laugh
gears. Those little explanations help people wrap their heads around these recommendations,” Yeomans says. “The more businesses can do to explain how these systems work, the more likely people are to trust them and accept them.” And for a company in today’s View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 15 May 2017
- Sharpening Your Skills
The Promises and Limitations of Big Data
services firms are using digital information about their customers to offer them a whole new range of customized products under the category of fintech. Cities are using data from Google Street View to guide economic development. And... View Details
- Web
Research - Health Care
UAE for fibroids or adenomyosis were captured from electronic health record timestamps and... May 2024 Article Tepid Uptake of Digital Health Technologies in Clinical Trials by Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Firms By: Caroline Marra... View Details
- 23 Jun 2023
- News
Highlights from the Spring 2023 Alumni Board Meeting
the School, and how that research is tied to practice, continuing to increase affordability and access, establishing a digital infrastructure for the School to complement our physical campus, and exploring and strengthening the role of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The World’s Littlest Book on Climate: Ten Facts in Ten Minutes About CO2 By Mike Nelson, Pieter Tans, and Michael Banks (MBA 1983) Independently Published In this updated edition of the world’s smallest book on the world’s biggest... View Details
Keywords: podcasts
- August 2018 (Revised October 2019)
- Case
C3.ai—Driven to Succeed
By: Robert Simons and George Gonzalez
CEO Tom Siebel navigates his artificial intelligence (ai) startup through a series of pivots, market expansions, and even an elephant attack to become a leading platform ad service provider. The case describes his unusual management approach emphasizing employee... View Details
Keywords: Strategy Execution; Performance Measurement; Critical Performance Variables; Strategic Boundaries; Internet Of Things; Artificial Intelligence; Software Development; Big Data; Machine Learning; Business Startups; Management Style; Business Strategy; Performance; Measurement and Metrics; Organizational Culture; AI and Machine Learning; Digital Transformation; Applications and Software; Digital Marketing; Analytics and Data Science; Technology Industry; United States; California
Simons, Robert, and George Gonzalez. "C3.ai—Driven to Succeed." Harvard Business School Case 119-004, August 2018. (Revised October 2019.)
- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why IT Does Matter
the Internet, the cost of communications was seen as limiting IT's wider use. Packet switching was invented as a way to digitize voice, data, and video in a matter that enabled digital computers (and its... View Details
Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan
- 07 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
2022 Climate Symposium: Tackling Climate Together
chemical recycling technology that is able to remove contamination and reproduce virgin plastic qualities. Earthbond: Digital platform that combines traditional group guarantees with carbon accounting and innovative financing to make... View Details
- Web
Marketing Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
"Retention Futility: Targeting High-Risk Customers Might Be Ineffective" (February 2018). Jill J. Avery : Overall winner of the 2019 Case Centre Awards and Competitions for “Accor: Strengthening the Brand with Digital Marketing” with... View Details
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What You Can Support - Alumni
and should be a force for good and is developing new insights and tools to address key societal challenges. Digital Innovation HBS is harnessing the latest technology to educate students, conduct real-world research, and provide lifelong... View Details
- 14 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
MBAs Accelerate Their Social Enterprise Ventures
investments. Through Solara’s IoT-enabled systems with dynamic pricing, digital payments, and booking features, farmers can operate their own irrigation businesses, serving their non-pump owning neighbors water at rates below current... View Details
- Web
Modern Capitalism: Mergers and Syndicates - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School
Transcontinental Railroad in the Gilded Age,” The Journal of American History 90, no. 1 (June 2003), p. 23. Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams, An Autobiography . Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1918, p. 240. Copyright © 2012 Presidents and Fellows of Harvard... View Details