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- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
"platform") around the rapidly expanding online video industry. Simultaneously, CEO Jeremy Allaire was completing a major funding round that would enable the company to make strategic investments in some or all of several... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?
installations. Q: What are you working on next? A: These days, online shoppers face deceptive offers that promise discounts ("$10 off your next order") while they attempt to check out at ordinary retail Web sites. Because an... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
High Honors
launched Tokyo-based Rakuten, a 10,000-person company that began as an online shopping mall and now includes banking, travel, e-book, and credit card divisions. With a market capitalization of approximately... View Details
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
physical assets (such as health records); combining data within and across industries (to, say, coordinate supply chains); trading data (as mobile providers do with information on users' whereabouts); and codifying best-in-class capabilities (such as View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jul 2024
- Op-Ed
Corporate Boards Are Failing in Their No. 1 Duty
in multiple innovations, including smartphones, search, online purchasing, and social media. Lead director John Thompson led the board committee that chose insider Satya Nadella as its next CEO. Nadella completely changed Microsoft’s... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
large positive effects. Our results highlight the importance of mitigating user costs in small-value transactions. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55630 The Impact of Increasing Search Frictions on View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Mar 2023
- News
Exploring Talent Markets; Aid for Turkey
stories, their pain, and their loss, and also focus on the most vulnerable: the children," says Hammerman. The March 15 online event featured Atabek and fellow panelists Samir Beyaz (PhD 2017, GSA Harvard), an assistant professor at Cold... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
rich Brazilians. That sprawling financial district outside Sender's window? It didn't exist 20 years ago. "This was a swamp," she says. "There was nothing." Now it's considered one of the city's "downtowns," with lunch hour mobs of dress shirts and heels flooding... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social... View Details
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-025.pdf Deterring Online Advertising Fraud Through Optimal Payment in Arrears Authors:Benjamin G. Edelman Abstract I develop a screening model with delayed payments and probabilistic delayed observation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
An online shipping platform that uses social networks and smartphones. Low-cost medical care and monitoring that helps seniors to live at home. The "Skype" of broadband, offering free Internet service. On an April morning known as "Super... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
with Urban Water Partners RelayRides explanatory video FashionStake-Reuters story An online shipping platform that uses social networks and smartphones. Low-cost medical care and monitoring that helps seniors to live at home. The “Skype”... View Details
- 08 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019
Marketing, Jill Wehunt, and analyst Mark Morse as they tackle a predictive analytics project to increase sales in the Mom & Baby unit of a nationally recognized retailer, PriceMart. Wehunt observed that in the midst of the chaos that surrounded a new baby, parents’... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
customers amid an explosion of online retail options. Grab users can also courier parcels or order food delivery through its app. Go-Jek’s app does those things too, and also lets users order concert tickets and even a beautician to their... View Details
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
oneself is also a purely positive proposition (that says nothing about what that commitment should be other than it be bigger than oneself). Download the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1850544 Cases & Course Materials View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
demand. Furthermore, downstream and upstream product was coming online from other parts of the world, including Russia. As a result, Alcoa had lost its historical market dominance and stock premium. Belda was convinced that for Alcoa to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
emergency phase, 230 trained miners from FIBA's lignite mining subsidiary, Polyak, spent 10 days searching under the rubble and rescuing 30 people. FIBA CP, the Group's commercial property management subsidiary's shopping malls, as well... View Details
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51107 Ideological Segregation Among Online Collaborators: Evidence from Wikipedians By: Greenstein, Shane, Yuan Gu, and Feng Zhu Abstract—Do online communities... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
held online retailer of shoes, clothing, and other soft-line retail categories, learned that Amazon.com, a $19 billion multinational online retailer, had won its Board of Directors' approval to offer to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/817051-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 617-060 Ant Financial Headquartered in Hangzhou (China), Ant Financial has grown into a fintech “Unicorn.” The fintech empire that the company established spanned verticals such... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne