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  • 10 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Reinventing the Industrial Giant

make it difficult for GM to meet its expectations. Kodak is another company that is attempting to reinvent itself by shifting its products and services to the new economy. Through an emphasis on digital cameras and View Details
Keywords: by Nitin Nohria, Davis Dyer & Frederick Dalzell; Manufacturing
  • 25 Mar 2018
  • News

Modernizing Infrastructure Management

make it better. “So when I left HBS, I set out on the path to find a business to acquire. I was very fortunate that I found the company I did. gWorks got its start helping counties digitize all their county records into an interactive map... View Details
  • June 2019
  • Case

ClearLife: From Prospect to Platform

By: Alexander Braun, Lauren Cohen, Mauro Elvedi and Jiahua Xu
ClearLife’s first product was a trading and analytics platform for participants in the U.S. life settlement market, the secondary market for life insurance. ClearLife played a key role in facilitating transactions and devising a common language for expressing value and... View Details
Keywords: Digital Platforms; Insurance; Entrepreneurship; Expansion; Diversification; Strategy
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  • August 2018
  • Teaching Note

IguanaFix

By: Frank V. Cespedes and Thomas Eisenmann
Teaching Note for HBS No. 817-056. IguanaFix, based in Argentina, is a platform business that connects consumers with home improvement contractors. The founders are evaluating growth options and an investment offer. The case focuses on scaling issues for a venture... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurial Marketing; Home Improvement Services; Marketing Management; Scaling; Entrepreneurship; Marketing; Sales; Digital Platforms; Growth and Development Strategy
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  • 2016
  • Working Paper

Controlling Versus Enabling

By: Andrei Hagiu and Julian Wright
Revenue sharing between principals and agents is commonly used to balance double-sided moral hazard. We provide a theory of how, when such revenue-sharing is optimal, a principal allocates control rights over decisions that either party could make. We show that the... View Details
Keywords: Control Rights; Decision Authority; Employment; Independent Contractors; Organizational Theory; Digital Platforms; Governance Controls; Ethics; Vertical Integration
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    Anthony Soohoo

    entrepreneur, and board director, Anthony has led hyper-growth initiatives and complex digital transformations at industry giants like Walmart, CBS, Yahoo!, and Apple. As an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Harvard Business School, Anthony... View Details
    • Web

    A finisher - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

    Collection, Mss:1412 :447 S544 Baker Library | Historical Collections | Site Credits | Digital Accessibility Contact Email: histcollref@hbs.edu © President and Fellows of Harvard College View Details
    • Web

    The Otis Steel Company-Pioneer: Cleveland, Ohio - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

    Company, 1929 Photograph by Margaret Bourke-White Baker Library | Historical Collections | Site Credits | Digital Accessibility Contact Email: histcollref@hbs.edu © President and Fellows of Harvard College View Details
    • January 2018 (Revised February 2018)
    • Technical Note

    Making Markets

    By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Scott Duke Kominers
    Explains how to identify and capitalize on marketplace design opportunities. Defines markets and marketplaces and describes the basic functions of each. Discusses attributes (e.g., heterogeneity of participants' preferences and asymmetry in available information) that... View Details
    Keywords: Marketplaces; Two-Sided Markets; Entrepreneurship; Market Design; Digital Platforms; Marketplace Matching; Market Participation; Market Transactions; Market Entry and Exit; Digital Platforms; Auctions
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    Staff Directory | Baker Library

    Knowledge Dina Gerdeman Senior Editor HBS Working Knowledge Karen Golden Digital Product Manager Metadata & Knowledge Systems Elliott Hadwin Accessioning Archivist Special Collections & Archives Austin Haley Information Research... View Details
    • Web

    Podcast - HBS Online

    environments. Sunil Gupta on Data-Driven Digital Marketing Strategies 21 OCT 2024 | The Parlor Room Harvard Business School Professor Sunil Gupta joins host Chris Linnane to unpack data analytics' pivotal role in View Details
    • 07 Jan 2025
    • Blog Post

    Revolutionizing Wellness: Kate Twist (MBA 2008) Shapes the Future of Consumer Health Brands

    If there were a theme to Kate Twist’s (MBA 2008) career, it would be building brands known for the emotional connection they foster with their consumers. Twist is experienced in directing powerful consumer brands. She cofounded the View Details

      Georges F. Doriot

      Doriot founded the first and one of the most successful publicly traded venture capital corporations in the United States. While American R&D funded numerous business entities, Doriot’s big success came in 1957 when he provided the $70,000 seed money (80% of the... View Details
      Keywords: Finance
      • 01 Jun 2014
      • News

      Feedback

      THE DIGITAL BULLETIN For a few years now, we've been asking how you like to read your Bulletin, and unsurprisingly, many of you have told us you'd love to have a tablet edition. We've listened to your comments and are excited to announce... View Details
      • November 2000 (Revised December 2001)
      • Case

      Alibaba.com

      By: F. Warren McFarlan, Carin-Isabel Knoop and David Lane
      This case focuses on the strategic issues of an emerging dot-com in a rapidly emerging Internet nation-China. Alibaba, a bulletin board company based in Hangzhou, China, is trying to carve out a niche in the B-to-B e-commerce world. It also shows the speed and... View Details
      Keywords: Digital Marketing; Internet and the Web; Marketing; Strategy; Service Industry; Information Technology Industry; Hangzhou; Europe; United States
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        Ralph Folz

        named one of the best places to work in Boston.   Currently, Ralph sits on numerous Boards and is an Entrepreneur in Residence at Harvard Business School, mentoring MBA students on their startups.  Go To Subjects: SaaS, Digital... View Details
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        One carton every three-quarters second - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

        William Rittase Gelatin Silver Print, 18 × 19.25 inches Industrial Life Photograph Collection, Mss:1412 :6122 I61 Baker Library | Historical Collections | Site Credits | Digital Accessibility Contact Email: histcollref@hbs.edu © President... View Details
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        Brass billets into rods - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

        inches Industrial Life Photograph Collection, Mss:1412 :59 S432 Baker Library | Historical Collections | Site Credits | Digital Accessibility Contact Email: histcollref@hbs.edu © President and Fellows of Harvard College View Details
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        A Century of Progress - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

        Silver Print, 8 × 10 inches Industrial Life Photograph Collection, Mss:1412 :41 L694 Baker Library | Historical Collections | Site Credits | Digital Accessibility Contact Email: histcollref@hbs.edu © President and Fellows of Harvard... View Details
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        Paulo Frontin StatioRio de Janiero-Brazil - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

        unknown Gelatin Silver Print, 8 × 10 inches Industrial Life Photograph Collection, Mss: 1412 :36 T355 Baker Library | Historical Collections | Site Credits | Digital Accessibility Contact Email: histcollref@hbs.edu © President and Fellows... View Details