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  • April 2021 (Revised July 2021)
  • Case

StockX: The Stock Market of Things (Abridged)

By: Chiara Farronato, John J. Horton, Annelena Lobb and Julia Kelley
Founded in 2015 by Dan Gilbert, Josh Luber, and Greg Schwartz, StockX was an online platform where users could buy and sell unworn luxury and limited-edition sneakers. Sneaker resale prices often fluctuated over time based on supply and demand, creating a robust... View Details
Keywords: Markets; Auctions; Bids and Bidding; Demand and Consumers; Consumer Behavior; Analytics and Data Science; Market Design; Digital Platforms; Market Transactions; Marketplace Matching; Supply and Industry; Analysis; Price; Product Marketing; Product Launch; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Fashion Industry; North and Central America; United States; Michigan; Detroit
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  • February 2017
  • Case

BlaBlaCar: The Road Ahead...

By: Karim R. Lakhani, Arun Sundararajan, Emilie Billaud and Caroline Caltagirone
In 2017, the co-founders of BlaBlaCar—the world’s largest long-distance carpooling company—reflected on the evolution of their venture and the way forward. BlaBlaCar had reached critical mass and size; yet staying still was not going to be enough to be relevant and... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Transformation; Decision Making; Values and Beliefs; Growth and Development Strategy; Digital Platforms; Network Effects; Strategic Planning; Competitive Strategy; Expansion; Internet and the Web; Transportation Networks; Transportation Industry; Web Services Industry; France; Europe
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  • Web

Managing and Innovating in Financial Services - Course Catalog

navigate and shape an environment in which competition, technology and regulation are constantly changing. We will look at a variety of financial institutions and financial service providers including banks, nonbank financial... View Details
  • 25 Mar 2021
  • News

Alumni Honor Nitin Nohria and Support His Legacy

looks at how the company built a digital organization that leverages AI and other technologies to speed its operations, manage its processes, and ensure quality across research, testing, and manufacturing in... View Details
  • 23 Sep 2019
  • Blog Post

Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training

an effective solution for companies. She co-wrote the journal article with HBS doctoral student Grace Cormier, as well as three employees of Happify, Allison L. Williams, Acacia C. Parks, and Julia Stafford. Happify, which funded the research, competes in an... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 02 Sep 2016
  • Op-Ed

The Twitter Election

millennials. Clinton's “wipe the server with a cloth” comment revealed a quaint ignorance of technology and her podcasts have been critiqued by the Financial Times as “well-executed PR fluff.” For all the chatter about Trump's Twitter... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch and Thales Teixeira
  • 04 Dec 2014
  • News

Hacking Health Care

lifelong idealism and drive to improve world. Sirois recalls his time at HBS as providing the spark necessary to direct his energies in the early days of the emerging digital superhighway. “Technology was enabling a new world. It didn’t... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
  • 03 Apr 2007
  • First Look

First Look: April 3, 2007

the inception of the company in 1999. eClinicalWorks was a privately run business in the healthcare information technology field that took in $25 million in revenue in 2005. Revenues for 2006 were projected to reach $40 million. This... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Diversity on Teams: Our Own Harvest - Race, Gender & Equity

Just Digital Future Diversity on Teams: Our Own Harvest A Conversation with Tina Opie on Race and Appearance in the Workplace Lori Mackenzie on Identifying and Blocking Gender Bias in the Workplace In our Just View Details
  • 19 Jun 2017
  • News

Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?

But certainly, I think, in thinking about the VC profile, I think even if you have a cool technology and you think it's going to change the world, I think you have to make a business case for it. But I think sometimes potentially... View Details
  • 19 Apr 2016
  • First Look

April 19, 2016

Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/316142-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 316-140 Rumie: Bringing Digital Education to the Underserved In fall of 2015, the Toronto, Canada–based education View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Nov 2007
  • First Look

First Look: November 14, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208070 iPhone vs. Cell Phone Harvard Business School Case 708-451 The launch of Apple's iPhone marked a pivotal new chapter in the story of mobile music (the uniting of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Jun 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 20

School Case 317-103 PharmAccess and the M-TIBA Platform: Leveraging Digital Technology in the Developing World PharmAccess is an Amsterdam-based NGO working to support the development of the private health... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

A Rewarding Work Life - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

their own alumni association as well to sustain their ties to and memory of the company. EXPLORE MORE OF THE EXHIBIT EXPLORE x HOME EMERGENCE OF A NEW TECHNOLOGY The Invention of the Polarizer A RESEARCH & MANUFACTURING COMPANY... View Details
  • 17 Jul 2023
  • Blog Post

From the Panelists: Toward a Decarbonized Future: Who Pays? Who Profits?

learned during the conference. Scott Jacobs, CEO of Generate Capital, a leading sustainable infrastructure platform, offered several surprisingly upbeat messages. Jacobs wrote: “Solving the Net Zero challenge is a physical problem, not a View Details
  • 01 Jun 1999
  • News

A Random Sampling of HBS Graduates in the News

callers the opportunity to purchase the relevant CDs. The *CD service "enables real-time impulse buying," Chen told the Philadelphia Inquirer (February 11, 1999). "It is a lost sale if you can't act on it." Currently being tested in Philadelphia, *CD uses computerized... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
  • 01 Jan 2007
  • News

Donna L. Dubinsky, MBA 1981

When Donna Dubinsky joined Palm Computing in 1992, the eight-person start-up was one of several companies developing a personal digital assistant. Under her leadership, Palm introduced the first successful PDA, creating a multi-billion... View Details
  • September 1995
  • Case

Ares-Serono

By: Michael Y. Yoshino, Jean-Pierre Jeannet and Carin-Isabel Knoop
Ares Serono, a medium-size Swiss pharmaceutical company, is the global leader in the field of fertility drugs. The company has successfully transformed into one of the very few biotech firms in Europe. The case treats a set of major strategic and organizational... View Details
Keywords: Geographic Location; Globalized Firms and Management; Asset Management; Balance and Stability; Expansion; Digital Platforms; Leadership Development; Health Care and Treatment; Transformation; Family Business; Problems and Challenges; Pharmaceutical Industry; Biotechnology Industry; Switzerland; Europe
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  • 01 Dec 2020
  • News

In Review

Competitiveness Project. What we learned allowed us to launch a steady stream of projects, including those focused on creating stability in the financial system, business and the environment, the future of work, advancing gender equity, and driving View Details
  • 17 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 17

California, policy mattered a great deal. However, Danish firms, building on inherited technological capabilities and benefitting from a small-scale and decentralized industrial structure, benefitted more from Californian public policies.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne