Platform Business - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Jun 2017
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Rebuilding the Girl Scouts Brand

the Girl Scouts of the USA, helped launch the ambitious G.I.R.L. brand platform to increase public awareness of the hundred-plus-year-old scouting organization beyond those ubiquitous boxes of cookies. When it comes to the Girl Scout... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Feb 1999
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

(or lifelong learning) is critical if one is to keep up with a rapidly changing business and social environment. All agreed that the School is in a unique position to strengthen connectedness by offering educational programs that meet the... View Details

01 Sep 2016
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Case Study: Alumni Advice for a Health Care Startup

workers), who work as virtual health care assistants, handling everything from long-term care arrangements to transportation. Wellthy’s digital platform is designed as a consumer- friendly project management tool, and allows for... View Details

01 Jun 2018
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Floor It

aren’t working may be more quickly eliminated; patients then can be moved over to the arms of the trial that are seeing a response. The group is working to analyze indicators contributing to the successes and challenges of platform... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li

18 May 2020
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Kevin Mayer Takes Over TikTok

Kevin Mayer (MBA 1990) Jesse Grant/Getty Images for Disney Kevin Mayer (MBA 1990) Jesse Grant/Getty Images for Disney Kevin Mayer (MBA 1990) has left his position leading Disney’s streaming business to take over the video-sharing View Details

25 Feb 2020
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3-Minute Briefing: Ellen Pao (MBA 1998)

Tech has real social and ethical responsibilities, but we’ve seen that the current leadership of these platforms is not willing to make changes to promote a healthier ecosystem. When I was at Reddit, its culture needed a lot of work, and... View Details

Keywords: April White; photo by Eric Millette

01 Dec 2010
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The Transformers

in part, by how much it gave away. If that seems counterintuitive at best and downright crazy at worst, think again. The Bridgespan Group, the consultancy they created, has turned the standard business model on its head. While consultants... View Details

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

16 May 2018
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ALUMNI NVC Finals and Regional Roundup

Enterprise, and Student Business tracks — took the stage at Shad Hall to describe their business concepts in just 90 seconds. The Alumni winner, DynamiCare Health (New England region), rose to the top of a... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

24 Apr 2014
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Providing lessons in financial literacy

very excited for her vision,” Wood says of Morrison. “I thought, given my background, I could come in and make a difference.” Wood, who previously ran traditional and online businesses for Bertelsmann and Pearson Education before... View Details

01 Dec 2013
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HBX: Expanding Our Reach

guiding principles for its entry into this arena. First and foremost, the endeavor is closely tied to the School's mission of educating leaders who make a difference in the world, and every aspect of HBX will be designed to elevate the School's standing and reputation.... View Details

Keywords: online learning; curriculum; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Jun 2014
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What’s Next

Rojie Kisten (GMP 5, 2008), Cape Town, South Africa NN: When I first came to Harvard Business School in the 1980s, excluding the first-year BGIE [Business, Government, and the International Economy] course, there were virtually no global... View Details

Keywords: HBS Campaign; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

09 Mar 2021
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Empowering School Leaders to Meet Today's Challenges

the program using HBS’s distinctive online platform to enable accessibility in an affordable way (each course costs less than $500). “One of the things that we know about the most effective school leaders and View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Jun 2014
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Start Me Up

development." Too much financial engineering. Not enough enterprise and value creation. For Akhil Nigam (MBA 2007), that was a big takeaway from the 2008 economic collapse. It got the former software entrepreneur to thinking entrepreneurially again, but with a twist:... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Sep 2014
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Book Review: Getting Beyond Yes

Sustaining a Successful Enterprise course via the OpenIDEO platform to write “The Capitalist’s Dilemma,” published in Harvard Business Review Illustration by Theispot “It’s a steamy summer night in New... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon; faculty research; faculty books

24 Apr 2014
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Empowering Japan through e-commerce

hundreds of cases, a light clicked on. “It was in an HBS classroom that I first considered starting my own company,” he says. Rakuten operates e-commerce businesses in 13 countries, spearheaded a $100 million investment in Pinterest, and... View Details

13 Nov 2020
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Student Startups Help Fight COVID-19

business and pursue their own ventures—whether they are just starting out with a great idea or are ready to go to market. In response to the global coronavirus pandemic, a number of current and former teams in the Venture Program doubled... View Details

11 Jan 2019
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Case Study: Beating Bias

establishing an audience, then adding targeted ads and affiliate marketing, Patel aims to build a “commenting platform 2.0,” he says: Media companies could license the product to enable more robust user-generated discussion within the... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

24 Sep 2020
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The Race for a Vaccine

by the 1980s, that number had fallen to 18, and by 2015, it was just four. “Vaccines went out of fashion,” says HBS professor Gary Pisano, who studies the intersection of business and science. “There was a sense among investors that they... View Details

Keywords: April White; COVID-19; Scientific Research and Development Services

08 Jun 2023
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Three Alumni Clubs Celebrate Leadership, Community, and History over Dinner

civil engineering, their role in creating Harvard's Environmental Studies program, and their efforts to conserve natural spaces around New York. HBS professor and former Dean Nitin Nohria presented the Business Statesman Award to John B.... View Details