Aggregation - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2016
News

Starting Lineup: Upturning Travel

in 2011 “The best way to book bus tickets,” aggregating information on a half-million bus routes in 63 countries. Winner of the 2014 Alumni New Venture Competition’s Best Investment category, Busbud has debuted a product that allows third... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Sep 2015
News

Data-Driven Diligence

same way, he’d later learn through Moneyball, that baseball teams were using analytics to find undervalued players. The problem was, Coats needed data—lots of it. “I kept asking VCs and others in the industry, ‘Has anyone ever aggregated... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs

24 Apr 2014
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Optimizing search technology

for example, search better—help them get access to content faster, aggregate information in a more efficient way—then we can help them get closer to a cure.” Dumon became interested in search technology while at eBay, where he served as... View Details

17 Dec 2015
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Applying Strategy Concepts In Innovative Ways Through Technology

aggregated into an industry. Team members study data and collaborate on beer design, pricing, and packaging, as well as on decisions about manufacturing and marketing. After each round of play, reports are generated that include balance... View Details

01 Mar 2008
News

A World of Information at Your Fingertips

news sources that covers the globe; and ABI/Proquest, which aggregates business and management publication articles. For those who need in-depth information on companies, including financial reports and market research from more than... View Details

Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Dec 2005
News

A Renter’s Market

City–based Redbrick with an economist partner in 2002. “Millions of individuals buy a unit or two to rent out as income producers,” Lee says. “But there existed no fund that went after single-family houses in some sort of aggregate way... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Real Estate

01 Mar 2024
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Research Brief: The Real Cost of Countering China

chain trends, with a focus on the events of 2017 to 2022. They found that trade has rebounded from the pandemic shock, but that aggregate measures—such as American goods imports—mask big changes in the origins of those goods. The research... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Sep 2010
News

Social Entrepreneurship Fellows Named

’08/MPA ’09). Both have been named HBS Social Entrepreneurship Fellows for 2010 and awarded $25,000 grants to advance their enterprises. Brehm, along with his wife, Faith, is cofounder of the online venture AbilityTrip (www.abilitytrip.com), which View Details

Keywords: Awards; disability; gay rights; Accommodation; Hospitality

02 Sep 2022
News

Strength in Numbers

ineffective.” Their solution? The Goodness Web, a nonprofit that finds its strength in connection, in “a web of people who can aggregate resources—whether that is philanthropic dollars or contacts—to do good, better,” Swartz explains. The... View Details

01 Jun 2015
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Five-Star Research

data from Seattle restaurants, Luca found that a one-star increase in a Yelp rating increased an independent restaurant’s revenue by 5 to 9 percent. (Chain restaurants didn’t see the same effect.) Yelp uses the arithmetic mean of reviewer ratings to arrive at a... View Details

Keywords: April White; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

15 Nov 2020
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Fostering Innovation in Social Enterprise Across Harvard

leaders an opportunity to explore social entrepreneurship and test ideas for social innovation in a rigorous yet supportive environment.” This year, the $75,000 Peter M. Sacerdote Grand Prize was awarded to Mosaic, a health care data View Details

11 Jan 2019
News

Case Study: Beating Bias

in his quest to help readers—particularly millennials and Gen-Zers—better understand how the news is spun. The launch product is a free daily newsletter that aggregates headlines from both the left and right, with analysis that... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Dec 2015
News

Multimedia Simulation Provides Real-World Reality Check

four of these teams are then aggregated into an industry. Team members study data and collaborate on beer design, pricing, and packaging, as well as on decisions concerning manufacturing and marketing. After each round, reports are... View Details

01 Dec 2020
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Find Your Maximum Sustainable Goodness

community, city, our country, than the pain of outsiders,” he says. We can increase our aggregate good in the world by redirecting our intentions to support people farther afield who are struggling with basic human needs. Max Bazerman is... View Details

01 Apr 2001
News

William Fung: E-Commerce and Efficiency

private-label manufacturing of quality products. “Up to now, we haven’t been able to service the small customers, such as country clubs, in a cost-effective way,” says Fung. But with the Internet, the company can provide “limited customization,” View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

01 Dec 2015
News

Complements to the Case Method

incorporated into the MBA curriculum. The School’s most complex simulation to date, “Strategic Brew” focuses on maximizing the profitability of a beer company. Students are assigned to four-member brewery teams, and four of these teams are then View Details

13 Nov 2020
News

Students craft their post-HBS lives

reflection. “One of the course goals is to help students develop self-knowledge and live with greater intentionality,” explains Francis, who journals regularly. “We created an app that prompts students to reflect daily and then aggregates... View Details

06 Oct 2020
News

Clearing the Path to Citizenship

consult its resources monthly, and its aggregate data has spurred policymakers to consider disparities in the government’s procedures. In an analysis undertaken before the pandemic, Boundless found that the average processing time for... View Details