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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
Citizen Year — SEF 2009 honoree Global Citizen Year is disrupting the traditional path to college and creating a new generation of global leaders through a "bridge" year of service learning and leadership training in Africa, Latin... View Details
- 02 Dec 2017
- News
Helping HBS Make Big Bets
Leadership Fellows program, she discovered nonprofit arts organizations as “an ideal way to scale the impact of the arts.” Established in 2001, the program connects graduating MBA students with nonprofit and public-sector organizations to work in leadership roles for a... View Details
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
prizes that are awarded to high-quality innovations may encourage future innovation. U.S. patent data indicate a 40% increase after 1851 in patenting for prizewinners compared with other exhibits. Results are robust to controlling for technology-specific pre-trends and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Supporting our Exceptional Faculty
Bell In recruiting candidates for HBS faculty positions over the years, one of the many qualities I’ve looked for is what I call “boundless interest,” a passion for not just business but for inquiry as well. Our exceptional faculty — over... View Details
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Lessons from the Browser Wars
In a famous example of how first movers can lose their advantage, second-mover Microsoft won the Web browser wars from Netscape and continues to dominate the market today. But that competition was the subject of another "war,"... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
NFL Players Tackle Cases at HBS
quarterback for the Kansas City Chiefs. As frequent targets of investment pitches, some of which turn out to be scams, several participants said they had already learned enough to be more astute in evaluating proposals that come their way. For their part, HBS... View Details
- 10 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 10
Publications 2006 Regional Studies Spatial Determinants of Entrepreneurship in India By: Ghani, Ejaz, William R. Kerr, and Stephen O'Connell Abstract—We analyze the spatial determinants of entrepreneurship in India in the manufacturing and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Rehito “Ray” Hatoyama (MBA 2008)
just signed on to do with Fox. To become a truly competitive global company, you need to have a broad portfolio. Hello Kitty is great, but we need to have other properties to grow even further. We also want to expand our business model... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
commitment. “If I can support doctoral students, they will go on to teach hundreds if not thousands of students and impact even more people through their research.” On the topic of organizational behavior, Nadler emphasizes the evergreen View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Save the Dates
Together and Moving Apart: Convergence and Competition in the Global Economy” London, England June 21–24, 2005 For more information on these events, visit the links above or call the Alumni Relations office at 617–495–6890. View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
RallyPoint a Winner
i-lab, RallyPoint won the $100,000 MassChallenge start-up competition last fall and was a runner-up in the 2012 HBS Business Plan Contest. In December, it announced that it had raised $1 million from angel investors. As Weiss explained to... View Details
- June 2000 (Revised September 2000)
- Case
Amazon.com: Exploiting the Value of Digital Business Infrastructure
By: Lynda M. Applegate and Meredith Collura
Enables a thorough analysis of Amazon.com and the company's value proposition, in terms of its business concept, digital business capabilities, and community and shareholder value. Examines the company's complex set of business models and web of business relationships,... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Asset Pricing; Capital; Financial Management; Technological Innovation; Business or Company Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Relationships; Competitive Strategy; Web Services Industry; Web Services Industry
Applegate, Lynda M., and Meredith Collura. "Amazon.com: Exploiting the Value of Digital Business Infrastructure." Harvard Business School Case 800-330, June 2000. (Revised September 2000.)
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
advertising agency services and the slow pace of change over several decades. We model an agency's decision as a tradeoff between the fixed cost to the advertiser of establishing a relationship with an agency and pecuniary economies of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Right Fit for Software Testing
consultants, and the work they might do for Specialisterne." A Winning Model The case also brings to the fore the potential of like-minded companies to build a business model around qualities in employees that at least in the past... View Details
- 16 Jun 2017
- Blog Post
What is the HBS Leadership Fellows Program?
graduates can experience high-impact management positions in nonprofit and public sector organizations (for one year) at a competitive salary. We checked in with the Social Enterprise Initiative’s Director of Programs, Margot Dushin, to... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 21 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Loyalty: Don’t Give Away the Store
crucial to find ways to reward loyalty through non-price offers. In competitive environments, the cost of affecting customer behavior is much higher. Retailers should use card data to think of services in a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Business Plan Contest Has Many Winners
With its ninth annual competition last May, the HBS Business Plan Contest has become a well-established start-up that hits “home runs” every year. This year’s traditional track winner was Karen Grajwer (MBA ’05), founder of Uplift, an... View Details
- 16 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018
program in El Salvador is giving unemployed youths the skills to work in the country’s growing service sector. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53719 2018 The China Questions: Critical Insights into a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
After Ozempic
commitments to global health because most of the product is sold in the US to people who can afford it or have the insurance to cover it? Or should Novo do what it can to enhance its profits now, before the competition arrives, to... View Details
- 17 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Tech for the People
Enterprise Initiative that provides competitive salaries to graduating MBAs who work for a year in nonprofit and public sector organizations. Spending his first post-HBS year as a Leadership Fellow made total sense for Tsai, a Stanford... View Details