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- 05 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
Using Competition to Reform Healthcare
business of providing services to patients. (Those who are uncomfortable with the notion of businesses in health care can substitute the term service lines.) The question... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Fostering a Supportive Community
culture was familiar, especially for someone coming from a low-income background. Students like him, as well as those who were the first in their families to attend college, often face unique challenges in adjusting to academic, cocurricular, and social life at HBS.... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Mele
- 27 Apr 2018
- News
Placing Nurses Where They Are Needed
Alejandro Moreno (MBA 1988) is CEO of Nightingale Nurses, a service that provides traveling nurses to hospitals and health care facilities across the United States. In this interview, he talks about the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Beantown as a Beacon
replicated elsewhere. Here are a few Boston-born ideas highlighted by the event's panelists that appear ready for export. TWO BIRDS, ONE JOB Attacking poverty and a national labor shortage While serving as a Big Brother, Internet... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
point is not whether public or private providers deliver the service but the efficiency, quality, and cost-effectiveness of that service,” says Jeremy Pelczer (AMP 162, 2002), president and CEO of American... View Details
- 07 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
How to Help Small Businesses Survive COVID's Next Phase
like this.” Concentrate on the best profit opportunities. Small-business owners must identify their most valuable products and services and eliminate everything else. If a restaurant’s tried-and-true burger has a stronger gross profit... View Details
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The Market That Wasn't: The Non-emergence of the Online Grocery Category
By: Chad Navis, Greg Fisher, Ryan Raffaelli and Mary Ann Glynn
We examine the non-emergence of a potential new market category. In the late 1990s the entrepreneurial firms that attempted to sell groceries online attracted significant resources, made meaningful technological advancements and generated immense publicity, yet online... View Details
Navis, Chad, Greg Fisher, Ryan Raffaelli, and Mary Ann Glynn. "The Market That Wasn't: The Non-emergence of the Online Grocery Category." Proceedings of the Frontiers in Managerial and Organizational Cognition Conference 1 (September 2012).
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
hosting and infrastructure. We explore trends in the concentration of the DNS space since at least 2011. In addition, we examine changes in domains’ tendency to “diversify” their pool of nameservers—how frequently domains employ DNS management View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Allen Yang
connected to the Internet through their phones. It spoke to the power of technology. The trip was a very sobering experience, but it left me feeling very optimistic about what was possible. It captures what’s great about business: the... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
EMC's Ruettgers Finds Gold in Data Storage
providing an unglamorous but essential (and lucrative) support service. EMC stores, safeguards, organizes, and makes instantly accessible the currency that, in the information age, constitutes companies' inherent wealth: their corporate... View Details
- 13 May 2014
- Op-Ed
The Alibaba Effect
great online giants. “Alibaba's only limits are those imposed by the speed at which these enterprises continue to grow” Still largely unknown in the West, Alibaba dominates China's Internet and logistics space with over 600 million... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The MBA Turns 100
MBA in a box over the Internet for 59 bucks. So the MBA title has come to mean less because the label now covers a rapidly proliferating set of things.” That’s not the only issue worrying Dean Light and his counterparts at the nation’s... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Gift for MBA Global Reach
activities overseas,” stated Rubenstein, who has ties to the School through his wife, Alice Rogoff Rubenstein (MBA ’78), and through service on the Board of Dean’s Advisors. Said Dean Nitin Nohria, “This extremely generous and important... View Details
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Rebecca Greenbaum
Duxbury, Massachusetts, gave her a lifelong love of the sea. The Naval Academy became the choice that felt "closest to home." Rebecca's service record became a series of escalating responsibilities. On the USS Decatur, a guided... View Details
Keywords: Financial Services
- 14 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
Desktop Search and Revenue Streams
The name of the game in Internet search has always been helping users find what they're looking for as quickly as possible, as precisely as possible. The panelists at the 2005 Cyberposium's "Search Visionary" session at Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
Regulate Companies like Airbnb and Uber? By: Edelman, Benjamin G., and Damien Geradin Abstract—New software platforms use modern information technology, including full-featured web sites and mobile apps, to allow service View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond Accommodation
thought it would allow me to have a direct impact for a while.” The interesting business model that attracted Gibbons to NIB was also the organization’s weak point only a few years earlier. As a nonprofit organization established by the federal government to View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Download This
Downloading music from the Internet doesn’t kill CD sales after all, concludes a surprising new study by HBS associate professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Associate Professor Koleman Strumpf of the University of North Carolina at Chapel... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- News
BioMine Strikes Gold
Fellowship winner. The organization is based in New Delhi, India, where it provides economically viable housing solutions for under-served populations, starting with India and for communities around the world. (Watch Mehra explain how... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Fostering financial freedom for low-income individuals
Scott Cook (MBA 1976) wants to change lives through initiatives he created as cofounder of Intuit. These include the Intuit Tax Freedom Project, which provides free online tax preparation services for... View Details