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- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why the Internet Doesn’t Change Everything
where rebels like Bishop Gaillot reside. There are pornography sites accessible to straitlaced Singaporeans, Liberian gambling dens, and secluded banking services run from the tiny island of Anguilla. There are networks of Burmese... View Details
Keywords: by Debora L. Spar
- 31 Jan 2023
- News
Female Founders' Dilemmas; UK Tech Startups
Washington Area Community Investment Fund and founder of socially conscious sustainable underwear brand Manakii. More than 50 HBS alumni tuned in to the 90-minute virtual discussion, during which the panelists touched upon a number of... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future
business in the world today, do you foresee new opportunities for HBS? In most institutions that endure, there are “inflection points” — times when forces like the economy, technology, and the social environment converge, and the future... View Details
- February 2021 (Revised March 2022)
- Case
TikTok in 2020: Super App or Supernova?
By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Dan Maher and Dan O'Brien
TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, was launched in 2012 around a simple idea – helping users entertain themselves on their smartphones while on the Beijing Subway. In less than a decade, it had become one of the world’s most valuable private companies, with investors... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Business Startups; Business Organization; Change Management; Disruption; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Global Strategy; Health Pandemics; Innovation Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy; Marketing Channels; Network Effects; Digital Platforms; Product Design; Product Development; Partners and Partnerships; Opportunities; Social Issues; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Internet and the Web; Value Creation; United States; China
Rayport, Jeffrey F., Dan Maher, and Dan O'Brien. "TikTok in 2020: Super App or Supernova?" Harvard Business School Case 821-087, February 2021. (Revised March 2022.)
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
in Iraq. Local Motors currently has three working microfactories, with plans to build a network of 50. But the pressures of military service weighed on him. He loved the Marines, but he missed his wife and three-year-old son. Two of his... View Details
- 09 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership
factors that impact the business landscape (geopolitical forces, demographic shifts, technological breakthroughs, labor policies, social mores, and government intervention). In studying the context in which business leadership emerged, we... View Details
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
http://hbr.org/product/the-weather-company/an/314083-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 814-055 Strava Strava is a new fast-growing social network for the avid cyclist and runner. The Strava case traces... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 3
managerial performance, found that managers higher in metacognitive cultural intelligence (CQ) were rated as more effective in intercultural creative collaboration by managers from other cultures. Study 2, a social View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
knowledge about process and productivity improvements that lower costs while simultaneously maintaining or improving outcomes. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51774 in press Journal of Personality and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
Broadcasting shortly afterward, however, Dodi's division was dissolved. Still under contract, she found herself with eight months of paid "vacation." "The time off helped me get the kids settled into a new culture," she says. In August 1997, Dodi became president and... View Details
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
interactive online demonstration enables first-hand exploration of the parameter space (www.mpmlab.org/groups), and available source code (supplementary materials) provides a guide to implementing psychological agent-based models.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Explaining China's Crash
corporate executives, government officials, and journalists, for allegedly spreading false rumors online about the market’s stability. And in a turnabout, authorities also announced they will not institute more interventions to rescue the... View Details
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
fascinating character to animate sometimes dry legalese.” Gleason’s quest for fair trade, or price protection, would not be easy. First off, the term “fair trade” in the 1930s had a different meaning than it does today when we use it to describe a View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
for trade liberalization who worked to reform Egypt's social security and pension systems, among other innovations. Six months after Enan joined the ministry, in early 2011, the Arab Spring swept through Cairo. Many of her friends from... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 19 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 19, 2016
well as theory and empirical research on the organizational outcomes of private political activism for social change. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51347 The Costs of Sovereign Default: Evidence... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
start a company and never harder to build one," and with Dan Isenberg, who notes that equating entrepreneurship with a start-up is not wrong, but is an incomplete picture of business formation. Significant value creation cannot occur without growth, so the failure... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
Emory University, where she graduated with 40 percent more credits than required. A year out of HBS, Wallace and classmate Alex Nelson cofounded Quincy Apparel, an online retailer providing stylish, affordable work clothes for women in a... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
that may arise. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50144 2015 The Cambridge Handbook of Consumer Psychology The Consumer Psychology of Online Privacy: Insights and Opportunities from Behavioral Decision... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 12
terms of strategic negotiation, social entrepreneurship, sustainable tourism, and economic development. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-049.pdf Endowments, Fiscal Federalism, and the Cost of Capital for States:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 17
http://journals.aomonline.org/InPress/main.asp?action=preview&art_id=1065&p_id=2&p_short=AMLE Honest Rationales for Dishonest Behavior Authors:F. Gino and S. Ayal Publication:In The Social Psychology of Morality: Exploring the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne