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May 2003
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17 Mar 2015
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The First Five Years: Adam Enbar (MBA 2010)

“The Flatiron School is named after the Flatiron Building. It was the first skyscraper in New York City, and, for a long time, a symbol for technology transforming the landscape of a city. We hope to use View Details

Keywords: Technical and Trade Schools; Educational Services

February 2011 (Revised December 2014)
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RentJuice

By: Thomas Eisenmann and Liz Kind

RentJuice, founded in mid-2008, provided a subscription software service—sold via phone and live online webinars—that allowed real estate professionals like brokers and agents to manage and market rental listings, communicate with clients, and complete transaction... View Details

Keywords: Renting or Rental; Product Launch; Applications and Software; Property; Business Startups; Salesforce Management; Product Marketing; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry

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02 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

Do Online Dating Platforms Help Those Who Need Them Most?

Piskorski with information about its members, covering user demographics such as age, gender, height, and body type. The data also included usage patterns—how users learned about one another's profiles, how many profiles they viewed on... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology

February 2000 (Revised August 2000)
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Boston.com

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Jon K Rust

How aggressively should an incumbent move when developing an online business that threatens its core product? With Internet competitors taking direct aim at the traditional print newspaper business model, the Boston Globe fought back with its own web initiative,... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Decision Making; Change Management; Internet and the Web; Customer Relationship Management; Competitive Strategy; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; United States

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01 Dec 1996
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New Releases

the investment and financing decisions that are made during the development of entrepreneurial ventures? How about success factors for women managers, or the psychological factors that influence risk-taking? Interested in updating yourself about View Details

May 2024
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gWorks (B)

By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff

In January of 2019, Joe Heieck, CEO of gWorks, was deciding whether to proceed with his acquisition of Data Tech, that was a business roughly the same size as gWorks. gWorks, which provided geospatial software to small city and rural county governments, was acquired by... View Details

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01 Apr 1997
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Manager's Notebook

In this new series, the Bulletin will feature occasional reports on faculty research in progress. Who Has Your Number? Customer information is the lifeblood of business. Indeed, a company's success often hinges on how well it understands... View Details

Keywords: Judith Ross

March 2025
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Fostering Community at Airbnb (B)

By: Jeffrey T. Polzer, Heather Whiteman and Sarah Mehta

This case provides updates to “Fostering Community at Airbnb (A),” case no. 425-045. View Details

Keywords: Change; Communication; Competency and Skills; Human Resources; Information; Information Technology; Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Technology Industry; United States; California

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01 Apr 1997
News

HBS Research Available on World Wide Web

development of entrepreneurial ventures? How about success factors for women managers, or the psychological factors that influence risk-taking? Interested in updating yourself about information technology in... View Details

01 Mar 2015
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The Next Big Swing

play at home As the sport began to increasingly rely on the kind of data projections that drove his game, the Boston Red Sox brought on Tippett as a consultant in 2003, eventually promoting him to director of baseball information... View Details

Keywords: Andrew Clark; Information; Information; Information; Information; Information; Information

05 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: iPads, Kindles, and the Close of a Chapter in Book Publishing

bookstores—the whole physical distribution system—is on the cusp of changing fundamentally." Olson has a particularly informed view of the issue. Before arriving at HBS in 2008, he was CEO of Random House. In a recent unpublished... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Information; Information; Information

01 Mar 2023
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March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books

know regarding the decreasing life spans of jobs—and even careers—because of rapidly advancing technology and global competition. It’s about your first line of defense, your awareness—without which you may be blindsided. You need to... View Details

Keywords: Information; Information

01 Jun 2001
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Platforms and Collaborations

When Dean Kim B. Clark took the HBS helm in October 1995, one of his immediate goals was to create a state-of-the-art technology infrastructure at the School. A centerpiece of that effort was the Course Platform, launched in the fall of... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Sep 2012
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Curb Your Smartphone Habit

much bigger, which is the amount of time we are “on”—meaning at work or monitoring work remotely. Workaholics are nothing new in the managerial ranks, but technology has made a 24/7 connection to work the norm for many more people than... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; smartphones; Information; Information; Information; Information

01 Dec 2018
News

Collaborative Cures

long. Enter the Blavatnik Biomedical Accelerator, which identifies early-stage, highly promising technologies developed by Harvard faculty, and then helps those selected navigate the early stages of development so that they can go to... View Details

01 Dec 2013
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HBX: Expanding Our Reach

intended to enhance rather than compete with or substitute for current offerings. Finally, the platform will be built on a robust and self-sustaining economic model. “We are committed to leveraging technology to develop highly... View Details

Keywords: online learning; curriculum; Information; Information

01 Mar 2014
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Case Study: Gazelle's New Predators

indicator relative to competition—[and on the] elegant user interface/user experience, too." —Mark Crowther (MBA 2003) "Finding popular applications and getting information from these applications should be their strategy. If they know a... View Details

Keywords: ecommerce; Kathy Korman Frey; Information; Information; Information; Information; Information

May 2002
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Exporting IT-Enabled Services from Developing Countries

Explores the phenomenon of IT-enabled services (ITES) exports from developing countries. Reviews the business and technical drivers of this phenomenon, describes major segments of the industry, discusses key challenges facing these firms, and profiles seven ITES firms. View Details

Keywords: Information Technology; Developing Countries and Economies; Technology Industry

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