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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 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
- 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 Sep 2013
- News
Passion & Purpose
Thomas A. James “As an undergrad at Harvard, I majored in economics and minored in philosophy. There are a lot of connections between the two.” During 40 years as CEO of Raymond James Financial, James, a Baker Scholar, transformed the family firm into a global... View Details
- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Enterprising Women
business leaders, moderated by HBS professor Myra Hart, at the Harvard Business School Entrepreneurship Conference. Robin Chase said that being a woman did not hinder her ability to start Zipcar, a service allowing customers to rent cars... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 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
- 30 Apr 2019
- News
Leading Schools That Change Lives
increase financial aid and community ties was right in line with our historic mission.” Salesianum’s donors agreed. Under Kennealey’s leadership, financial aid has grown by 200 percent. Last year, the school provided more than $1 million... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
On the Outside at HBS
minorities at both the student and the faculty level. This would alleviate the discomfort minority students feel with not only having to prove themselves as individuals in the classroom but also having to serve as spokespersons for their minority group. It would also... View Details
- 25 Jul 2013
- News
An Engine of Education Innovation
the principles of enterprise to education. "It was an extraordinary opportunity: They agreed to let a 30-year-old Internet entrepreneur develop a course on education reform at the best business school in the world. That doesn't even make... View Details
- April 2000 (Revised June 2000)
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E-Loan: The CarFinance.com Acquisition
E-Loan is an online mortgage lender that acquired an auto-lending arm in August of 1999. This case examines E-Loan's purchase of CarFinance.com and highlights E-Loan's strategy-setting process. In addition, the case explores business development as a strategic process... View Details
Keywords: Strategic Planning; Internet and the Web; Change Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Financial Services Industry
Hansen, Morten T., and Jeffrey Berger. "E-Loan: The CarFinance.com Acquisition." Harvard Business School Case 400-072, April 2000. (Revised June 2000.)
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Student & Academic Support | MBA
Student & Academic Support The MBA Student & Academic Services (SAS) team works closely with students during their time at HBS. Students with a documented disability or learning difference , or who may have a chronic medical condition or... View Details
- 16 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed?
virtually mandates changes to contracts as requirements are added or changed; and financial incentives that reward lowball contractor bids and provide negative sanctions for failing to spend all the allocated funds." It doesn't help... View Details
- 05 Sep 2000
- What Do You Think?
Whither the Information Economy?
"person-to-person" basis, with or even without an Internet intermediary. Cleveland provided one of the first theoretic explanations for the New Economy. Because of information technology, we can... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2013
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Double Vision
found that TV ads not only can spur web traffic—the browser is at the ready, after all—but can drive sales, too. But which ads push the most? As part of the study, Teixeira and his colleagues collected thousands of ads hawking products frequently purchased... View Details
Keywords: Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Mark Pincus (MBA 1993)
When I started Zynga, I realized that our generation has the opportunity to build the digital skyscrapers that may be around for the next century. These are Internet treasures because we can’t remember life before these 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
- 07 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
Putting Health Care Consumers in the Driver’s Seat
health-care service and medical technology providers can play in consumer-driven health-care reform. Wrapping up the conference, representatives from each of several breakout meetings summarized their take... View Details
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Nikki Skovran
models for Awethu, including an Internet café and graphic design services, three of which were ultimately launched by the enterprise. This summer, Nikki’s “deep rooted sense of adventure” will take her to Sydney, Australia where she will... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
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Curing Health Care
athenahealth "Patients' health information is either on paper and isolated or electronic and isolated," Bush tells the assembled crowd, his voice rising. That this little thing remains so difficult in the Internet age, often because many... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
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GLF Showcases London
for kids ages 11 to 18. Get details and register online at www.alumni.hbs.edu/glf/. But don’t wait until the last minute. Based on the huge success of the Shanghai forum last June, the London event will quickly reach its limit of 1,000 participants. In addition to... View Details