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  • Profile

Arthur Rock

a simple but profound desire: he wanted to help talented people build great companies. “Anyone who comes into the office and says `I have this business plan and you’re going to make a lot of money if you invest with me’ doesn’t stand... View Details
  • 08 Nov 2016
  • First Look

November 8, 2016

forthcoming European Competition Journal Android and Competition Law: Exploring and Assessing Google's Practices in Mobile By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Damien Geradin Abstract—Since its launch in 2007, Android has become the dominant View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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From the Chief Financial Officer | Annual Report 2024

more robust mobile app. Executive Education Tuition (in millions) FY24 $ 245 FY23 224 FY22 174 FY21 81 FY20 146 Publishing Revenue (in millions) FY24 $ 304 FY23 310 FY22 302 FY21 274 FY20 262 HBS Online expanded its portfolio in fiscal... View Details
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Terms of Use - HBS Online

accessible at the online.hbs.edu and/or myhbx.org web domains) or any other websites, applications, programs or online or mobile products or services of Harvard Business School Online (collectively, the “Services”). The term “Services”... View Details
  • 01 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Connecting With Nonprofits

conceptualize these as the Cross-Sector Collaboration Continuum along which there are three types and stages of relationships (see Figure 1): Philanthropic Stage. This is the most common type of relationship between businesses and nonprofits. It largely consists of... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
  • 17 Mar 2015
  • First Look

First Look: March 17

sole product was its eponymous mobile application (app) that allowed users to create collages from photographs and other images-face an important strategic decision in June 2014. Since its founding roughly two years earlier, the company... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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 providers and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2014
  • News

Afghanistan’s Hope and Light

Hekmatullah Ebrahimkhil prays next to a network tower on a hill overlooking Qargha Lake, outside Kabul. Ebrahimkhil is helping his father guard and service one of the mobile communication towers on the hill—part of an innovative community... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 01 Sep 2013
  • News

Who Are We?

remarks Kourouma, a native of Ivory Coast. Inspired to solve this problem, in 2007 he launched Afric Xpress, whose mobile platform allows cellphone users—a population that the World Bank recently estimated as totaling 650 million and... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Julia Hanna; Dan Morrell; social media,; Twitter; SodaStream; consulting; consultant; CEO; farming; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Agriculture; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Rail Transportation; Transportation
  • 28 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 28

has long been recognized as an engine for economic growth and development. Unlike bank loans, where the entrepreneur receives money and is left alone as long as the payments arrive on the pre-arranged schedule, venture capital investments... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 27 Jan 2003
  • Research & Ideas

New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities

company to be more competitive because it is easier to source skilled people, access suppliers efficiently, and operate productively. In money management, for example, every road show comes to Boston because there is a cluster of major... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2010
  • News

Letters to the Editor

international banking, I am familiar with “the old shell game” of tax evasion via the transfer pricing mechanism. Differentiating between tax avoidance and tax evasion in this area is often very difficult indeed. But very big View Details
Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance
  • 08 Dec 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 8

Indian bureaucrats support our key predictions. Politicians use frequent reassignments (transfers) across posts of varying importance to control bureaucrats. High-skilled bureaucrats face less frequent political transfers and lower... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23

opportunities to practice their skills in time frames connected to actual buying processes. They can do so by using the same technologies that are “disrupting” their customer-contact activities: videos and mobile apps that reps can view... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Apr 2016
  • First Look

April 19, 2016

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50952 The Great Training Robbery By: Beer, Michael, Magnus Finnstrom, and Derek Schrader Abstract—In 2012 U.S. corporations spent $164.2 billion on training and education. Overwhelming evidence and experience shows,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jan 2008
  • First Look

First Look: January 15, 2008

Diffusion Curves Authors:Diego Comin, Bart Hobijn, and Emilie Rovito Periodical:Journal of Technology Transfer (forthcoming) Abstract This paper documents the sources and measures of the cross-country historical adoption technology (CHAT)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Sep 2014
  • Op-Ed

Tackling Climate Change Will Cost Less Than We Think

energy conservation alone. And this is all in a world in which we are spending a ridiculously small amount of money on clean energy research, and the private sector has only minimal incentives to invest. In 2014, for example, the... View Details
Keywords: by Rebecca Henderson; Energy; Utilities
  • 24 May 2023
  • Blog Post

Innovating, Funding, and Scaling Climate Solutions at Harvard Business School: Day Three of Harvard Climate Action Week

to business, the money and skills necessary to fund a decarbonized future, and different approaches to building a just and skilled workforce. Tufano’s session on financing highlighted the growing sense of urgency in finding sufficient... View Details
  • 11 May 2010
  • First Look

First Look: May 11

Author:Jay W. Lorsch Publication:Executive Counsel 7, no. 1 (February/March 2010) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Preview the Article: http://www.executivecounsel.info/v7/i1/lessons-from-the-crisis-about-governing-financial-institutions/ Multinationals Make... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 28, 2009

original product is subsidized by the virgin raw material cost because the original product "feeds" the by-product process. The values of these two costs/subsidies determine which operating regime is optimal. These two costs also serve as mechanisms to View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace