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- 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
- 18 Oct 2016
- Op-Ed
Why Business Should Invest in Community Health
million grant to scale a successful medical knowledge sharing and collaborative practice platform pioneered by Project Echo in 2003 to expand specialty care access and quality at the centers. Long involved in community initiatives, IBM... View Details
- 04 Oct 2007
- What Do You Think?
Has Managerial Capitalism Peaked?
Internet, it doesn't take a billion dollar R&D platform to discover the next technology platform." Jim Winkelmann agreed, but with a caveat: "The rebirth as always (will) be in the entrepreneurial sector creating... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 15 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
Post-CrowdStrike, Six Questions to Test Your Company's Operational Resilience
companies will live and die based on their ability to bounce back from a crisis.” Demand for digital transformation and artificial intelligence (AI) will raise the stakes for strategic data and platform management, exposing more companies... View Details
Keywords: by Hise Gibson and Anita Lynch
- 03 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
9 Lessons from the Class of 2019
Maha hopes to ultimately run for political office in Pakistan. View Video 3. A Lesson in Creating Innovative Products to Serve Far-Reaching Needs Wil Ely noticed a gap in technology platforms for skilled workers in the U.S. By using My... View Details
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Affinity Groups | Employment
of Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, Sherri Charleston, the Office of Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging acts as a convener, catalyst, capacity builder and community building resource. A wide array of workshops, events, and View Details
- 12 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 12, 2008
workers. Purchase the note: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=708492 PCCW now Harvard Business School Case 709-405 In 2007, PCCW had to formulate a strategy for growth of its successful NOW TV platform and its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
resilience intervention platform (Happify), employees who were assigned to and used a scaled-down psychoeducational version of the platform, and employees who did not use their assigned platform (i.e., a... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- November 2019 (Revised February 2022)
- Teaching Note
Innovation at Uber: The Launch of Express POOL
By: Chiara Farronato and Sarah Mehta
Teaching Note for HBS No. 619-003. Set in March 2018, the Case follows ride-sharing company Uber as it develops and launches a new product called Express POOL. The Teaching Note offers guidance for instructors who wish to use the case either with or without its dataset... View Details
- May 2016 (Revised April 2018)
- Case
Building the Digital Manufacturing Enterprise of the Future at Siemens
By: Willy Shih
This case describes the motivation for and the development of Siemens' digital manufacturing enterprise vision, which became the foundation for its implementation of Industrie 4.0. While the effort started with a purely defensive move by Anton Huber, head of the... View Details
Keywords: Big Data; Internet Of Things; Internet Of Everything; Industrie 4.0; Digital Factory; Digital Enterprise; Digital Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Production Management; Production Planning; Computer Software; Germany; German Manufacturing; Machinery and Machining; Information Technology; Digital Platforms; Technological Innovation; Production; Supply Chain; Applications and Software; Information Infrastructure; Internet and the Web; Analytics and Data Science; Manufacturing Industry; Germany
Shih, Willy. "Building the Digital Manufacturing Enterprise of the Future at Siemens." Harvard Business School Case 616-060, May 2016. (Revised April 2018.)
- 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
- 04 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Predictions, Prophets, and Restarting Your Business
Bezos was still working on Wall Street. After decades of tax-free sales, ecommerce was just 11.4 percent of US retail sales in 2019, according to the Department of Commerce. Meanwhile, social media usage on the major platforms had been... View Details
Keywords: by Frank V. Cespedes
- 11 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
How AI Could Ease the Refugee Crisis and Bring New Talent to Businesses
instance, Paulson says she recently had a conversation with an executive MBA student who is designing a platform for matching patients with mental health care providers and wanted to learn from the Immigration Policy Lab’s experience. “I... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The Exchange: Takeaways from the Takedown
because it would’ve been violating all kinds of transportation laws. Ultimately, they said Uber was a technology platform that simply connected people. Airbnb ignored zoning laws in some instances. They have largely described this as... View Details
- 10 Jan 2020
- Blog Post
PRIDE in the HBS Community
a platform for us to share our stories and let others know that there will always be a community for everyone no matter who you are. Soltan Bryce (MBA 2021) When I first thought about pursuing an MBA three years ago, my first question... View Details
- 04 Oct 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #10: Amanda Li (MBA 2018): Speeding Climate Change Solutions Through Project Finance Efficiencies
one-to-five megawatt projects. From tax credits, to a $27B national green bank facility with low income community targets, banks and funds that can do smaller deals will flourish. Banyan’s platform was made to help here, and can... View Details
- 21 May 2019
- News
Confronting the Future of Climate Change in the Midwest
2016), cofounder of Chicago-based Lotic Labs, a data platform for more efficient water markets. “Those costs have to be borne by investors who have to take certain kinds of risks and think about risks in a different way,” he adds. There... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 14 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society
and processes are likely to lead the merger of such activities as logistics and financial services. This can provide large-scale platforms with common protocols (the precursors of digital platforms and what... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace