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08 Mar 2016
First Look

March 8, 2016

that UGC on platforms ranging from Yelp to Facebook has a large causal impact on economic and social outcomes ranging from restaurant decisions to voting behavior. These findings often leverage unique data sets and methods ranging from... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Jul 2008
First Look

First Look: July 29, 2008

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Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 Feb 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

investors in marketplace lending improves screening outcomes but also creates adverse selection. In maximizing loan volume, the platform trades of these two forces by choosing intermediate levels of platform... View Details

19 Feb 2025
Blog Post

Meet the HBS African American Student Union Leadership

business leaders, professionals, and students for an immersive full-day conference in Boston. The conference gives admitted and prospective students an opportunity to engage with the current AASU members, it facilitates networking between current students and alumni,... View Details

18 Apr 2023
Blog Post

HBS Students and Alumni Fostering a Supportive Community

business and sparked his interest in leveraging it to address social issues, which ultimately led him to HBS. Alexxis Isaac (MBA 2020) Mbanusi, who now works for Guild Education, a tech platform that helps employers reskill their... View Details

September 2023 (Revised December 2023)
Case

TetraScience: Noise and Signal

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Tom Quinn

In 2019, TetraScience CEO “Spin” Wang needed advice. Five years earlier, he had cofounded a startup that saw early success with a hardware product designed to help laboratory scientists in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical spaces more easily collect data from... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Organization; Restructuring; Forecasting and Prediction; Digital Platforms; Analytics and Data Science; AI and Machine Learning; Organizational Structure; Network Effects; Competitive Strategy; Biotechnology Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States; Boston

March 2011
Case

MorphoSys AG: The Evolution of a Biotechnology Business Model

By: Gary P. Pisano, Ryan Johnson and Carin-Isabel Knoop

In the biotech world, the 18-year-old Munich-based company MorphoSys was a rarity: it was profitable. The company achieved this profitability not by developing and selling its own drugs, but by licensing access to its proprietary library of human antibodies. Recently,... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Profit; Intellectual Property; Rights; Risk Management; Digital Platforms; Product Development; Business and Shareholder Relations; Vertical Integration; Biotechnology Industry; Munich

January 2004 (Revised October 2006)
Case

Electronic Arts in Online Gaming

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Justin Wong

Electronic Arts (EA), the world's largest independent video-game publisher, must decide whether to support Microsoft's initiatives in online gaming. Historically, EA has been platform-agnostic, releasing versions of its titles for all major console platforms. However,... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Digital Platforms; Network Effects; Policy; Customer Focus and Relationships; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Revenue; Segmentation; Sales; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Electronics Industry

March 2021 (Revised August 2024)
Case

Hotwire.com: Navigating Through Turbulence

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Manny de Zarraga and Eric Levine

On September 10, 2001, after speaking at an industry conference at New York’s World Trade Center, Hotwire co-founder Spencer Rascoff boarded a flight from Newark to San Francisco. After returning home, Rascoff awoke the next morning to a phone call informing him that... View Details

Keywords: September 11; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Business Growth and Maturation; Disruption; Decisions; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Growth Management; Digital Platforms; Problems and Challenges; Risk and Uncertainty; Expansion; Internet and the Web; Leading Change; Leadership Style; Air Transportation Industry; Tourism Industry; San Francisco

15 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

The Unspoken Messages of COVID-19 Restrictions

partnership with the online review platform Yelp helped the researchers evaluate consumers’ interest in dining at restaurants as well as ordering food for delivery and takeout. The team found that: People across the US had largely stopped... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Food & Beverage

13 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

Rescuing Products with Stealth Positioning

its market penetration—like that of rivals Microsoft (with the Xbox) and Nintendo (with the GameCube)—has been limited by a narrow customer base of mostly males in their late teens and twenties. Sony's goal is to make the PlayStation a broad View Details

Keywords: by Youngme Moon

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help them through the post-partum period and help their baby grow. We want to be the platform that millions of women are checking in with everyday to answer their most pressing questions during this very special time in their lives. The... View Details

27 Jul 2020
Blog Post

HBS Summer Fellows Respond to COVID-19

requests for essential deliveries of food and medicine in their local community. We are on a mission is to efficiently allocate resources to at-risk and underserved communities with the power of technology. Laurens De Poorter (MBA 2020), Co-Founder, Bloomup: Our team... View Details

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Four Steps to Building the Psychological Safety That High-Performing Teams Need | Working Knowledge

something wrong.’ It’s about inviting voices in an ongoing way, explaining why you legitimately care about what others see and think,” Edmondson says. They also ask questions: What do you think? Do you have an idea? “This is designed to give someone that small but... View Details

15 Nov 2020
News

Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint

migrant workers. Choudhury will teach the case in his elective course, Managing Global Operations. California Research Center When the pandemic forced people around the world to work remotely, use of the video conferencing platform Zoom... View Details

01 Jun 2001
News

Q&A: Donna Dubinsky

technology from a competitor? We felt the Palm OS was the best platform for a handheld. OK, we were biased on this subject! We knew that we could get a product to market much faster by licensing the operating system rather than creating... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; PalmPilot; Apple; Telecommunications; Information

01 Sep 2014
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014

Publishing Platform The Education of a Value Investor: My Transformative Quest for Wealth, Wisdom, and Enlightenment by Guy Spier (MBA 1993) Palgrave Macmillan This candid memoir takes readers into some of the darker corners of Wall... View Details

Keywords: faculty research; Alumni Research

16 Jul 2013
News

Embracing Chaos

where he lives with his wife. "We've created a platform so that if you want to make a difference, there's a place for you to come in, meet like-minded people, and have resources and a brand so you can go out and have an impact in the... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

25 Apr 2023
News

Class of 2022 Startups Sweep Alumni New Venture Competition

Clubs News Clubs News In a first-ever result, all of the winners in the 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition (ANVC) hail from the same HBS class: the MBA Class of 2022. The ANVC finale, held virtually on March 22 and 23, brought eight global regional winners together... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

23 Sep 2019
Blog Post

Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training

need to have skills to cope. And it’s when workplaces need to make sure employees are getting the help they need.” Stressed-out workers seek online tools Whillans decided to explore whether an internet-based platform called Happify, which... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

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