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February 2011
Case

Chegg: Textbook Rental Takes Flight

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann, William A. Sahlman and Evan W. Richardson

In late 2010, Silicon Valley-based Chegg, the leading online college textbook rental company, is scaling rapidly. The case recounts Chegg's history from its origins as a distant competitor to Craigslist in college classified listings through a pivot into textbook... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Higher Education; Entrepreneurship; Books; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Service Operations; Renting or Rental; Online Technology; Education Industry; Service Industry; California

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28 Mar 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, March 28

months of runway remaining, Behrens Wu must decide where to direct the company’s limited resources. Should Shippo stay focused on the app while raising View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Mar 2014
First Look

First Look: March 25

variables approach. The negative effect is strongest in poor countries, suggesting that high profits stymie economic development rather than enable it. Consistent with the rent-seeking mechanism of View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Incentives and Operational Excellence

delivery—for free. If you run the video store, you worry about the customer who comes in specifically to rent The Matrix but leaves annoyed and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

23 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

This Crisis Loan Program Preserved Jobs—and Made Money

payments, and are forgivable if firms use the cash infusion for essentials like rent and to retain most workers. A catastrophe in France A dozen years ago, as the Great... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

01 Jun 2011
News

Students Start-Ups Tap New HBS Fund

people to work at promising start-ups. Vinamea (Gurvan Rallon and Cornelius Frey, both HBS ’12): A platform that allows people to rent a portion of a vineyard and receive their share of the year’s vintage.... View Details

Keywords: awards

01 Jun 2002
News

Steven Murch: Philanthropist-in-Training

wrote his business plan, found a partner, and left Microsoft in 1997 in order to start VacationSpot, an online reservations network for consumers seeking to rent vacation properties. “We worked hard on it for three years,” states Murch.... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Health, Social Assistance

09 Jan 2013
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Understanding Customers

Crisis It was the Valentine's Day from hell for JetBlue employees and more than 130,000 customers. Under bad weather, JetBlue fliers were trapped on the runway at JFK for... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

01 Dec 2013
News

14 for '14

industries, fashion lovers want to be able to put their stamp on the things they buy. Trend-wise for spring: varsity meets Vogue with ensembles that combine ultrafeminine florals with sportier separates. So dust off your crimson... View Details

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment; Finance; Government; Information; Retail Trade

William Bernbach

Bernbach catapulted the Doyle Dane Bernbach advertising agency into national prominence with innovative and creative campaigns. Doyle Dane Bernbach broke into the front ranks of advertising agencies with... View Details

Keywords: Services

Portrait Project

Akash Gupta

wouldn’t be seeing Mom again. I thought that she would eventually come back, not knowing that her inability to pay rent was the result of years spent fighting an invisible battle. Only later did I find out... View Details

05 Dec 2018
Blog Post

Leadership Fellow Henry Tsai: Working With City Leadership To Leverage Technology

work directly with the senior leadership of the city.” In addition to the projects above, Henry worked on a Housing Rent Registry project with... View Details

Alumni Changing the World

Tawan Davis

Tawan Davis, MBA 2006, Founder and CEO of The Steinbridge Group, along with COO Sacasha Brown, MBA 2006, is creating a positive ripple effect for working class families. Based in Philadelphia and New York, Steinbridge has built a network... View Details

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Joseph O'Donnell | Baker Library

Joseph O'Donnell MBA 1971, Boston Concessions Play Video duration: 1:20:54 Joseph “Joe” O’Donnell, HBS 1971. Interview conducted in June 2001 Joseph “Joe” O’Donnell, HBS 1971, started his first concession while still in high school, View Details

25 Apr 2016
News

Trail Blazer

coalition came out of McMinn’s community outreach efforts as owner of Vineyard 29, in St. Helena, where he moved in 2004 after buying the winery. “When we started the Vine Trail, I didn’t own a bicycle,” he... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade; Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation; Transportation

09 May 2013
News

Road Trip

Ready to roll: (from left) Singer, Gerald, Baker, and Alaoui. Photo Courtesy of MBAxAmerica On or about Independence Day, July 4, four HBS students will pile into their rented RV and set out to discover America. No, this is not... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Management

26 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Behind India’s Economic and Political Woes

conditions, people are scrambling and realizing that it's tough to refinance their debts. For instance, a landlord of an apartment building in Bangalore has a short -term loan in dollars that is being serviced or paid for in rupee receivables. In other words, View Details

Keywords: by Zeenat Potia

01 Jun 2014
News

Case Study: A Souped-Up Strategy

Bookalokal is a social dining platform that launched in Brussels in 2012. The initial concept: Connect travelers with locals through home-cooked, gourmet meals in people's homes. Prospective diners search through Bookalokal's online... View Details

09 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate

Chattanooga, Tennessee, the fourth-largest mall REIT in North America with a market cap of $8 billion. "REITs at the time were paying dividends in the high single digits,... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Construction; Real Estate

18 Dec 2007
First Look

First Look: December 18, 2007

borrowers and lenders is feasible, the incentive effect of credit reporting is negligible, as bilateral banking relationships discipline borrowers. Information sharing nevertheless affects market outcome by weakening lenders' ability to... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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