Online Marketplace - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2013
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The New Rules of E-Commerce

Mikitani (MBA 1993) is not shy about pursuing the big idea, in this case a belief that English is the lingua franca of business and learning it would give his organization a competitive edge. Rakuten, founded in 1997, operates an online... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; e-commerce; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

01 Feb 2001
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Ready for Take-Off

(MBA '77) of Communispace, a software environment for virtual collaboration within companies. Tracy A. Lawrence (MBA '99) of GetConnected.com, Inc., an Internet channel where consumers can comparison-shop among telecommunications providers. Lydia M. Marshall (MBA '75)... View Details

Keywords: Spingboard

01 Dec 2016
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Starting Lineup: Upturning Travel

daily grind: “Forget the city, forget work, and remember who and what is most important.” Born at the Harvard i-lab, Getaway recently used an online real estate investment marketplace to raise $110,000 in... View Details

Keywords: April White

26 Apr 2011
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BioMine Strikes Gold

marketing, were as follows: Africa Angus Rowe, OPM 38 2009 LifeQube mobile clinic management Watch their pitch. Asia-Pacific Oliver Segovia, MBA '10 Jennifer Kelly, MBA '10 AVA invitation-only shopping platform Watch their pitch. Canada Zaheed Poptia, MBA '06 CardSwap... View Details

Keywords: Mining (except Oil and Gas); Mining; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Jun 2011
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Show Me The Money — Or Not

course, winning the contest is no guarantee of success. Conversely, a number of plans that failed to make the semifinals found success in the marketplace. Contest judges panned Stig Leschly’s (MBA 1997/JD 1998) plan for Exchange.com, an View Details

01 Dec 2015
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Euro Vision

million valuation, he might have missed his investment in auxmoney, an online marketplace for peer-to-peer loans. 3 Get comfortable on planes Rimer still lives in Geneva but is in London a few days a week.... View Details

Keywords: Jason Feifer

01 Apr 1998
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Sparking Internet Commerce

ATTRACTING INVESTORS like moths to a flame is Firefly Network, Inc. (www.firefly.com), a privately held firm in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that strives to make the Internet more consumer-friendly. Firefly CEO and co-founder Nicholas Grouf explains that the company's... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

12 Apr 2011
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Twelve Global Finalists Compete at HBS

LifeQube mobile clinic management Asia-Pacific HBS Club of Shanghai Oliver Segovia, MBA '10 Jennifer Kelly, MBA '10 AVA invitation-only shopping platform Canada HBS Club of Toronto Zaheed Poptia, MBA '06 CardSwap online giftcard View Details

Keywords: Multiple alumni

12 Apr 2012
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HBS Welcomes Eleven Alumni Startups

name, and cast your vote to the right to predict the winner. asia-pacific HBS Club of Shanghai Sophia Shing, MBA 1997 Founder Little Teacher mobile language learning canada HBS Club of Toronto Jennifer Lee Koss, MBA 2008 Co-founder and CEO PIXIE curated View Details

Keywords: Bulletin Staff; Alumni New Venture Contest

05 Jan 2016
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Alumni Top Two New Lists of Rising Stars

cofounder of RubiconMD, an online venture that allows primary-care doctors to consult with specialists online. Michael Belkin (MBA 2012), CEO and cofounder of Distinc.tt, a social network for the LGBT community. Adam Besvinick (MBA 2013),... View Details

Keywords: Forbes; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 2018
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What I Do: Minnie Ingersoll (MBA 2002)

Three years ago, Minnie Ingersoll pressed her career coach with a basic query: What does a COO actually do? After 12 years at Google, Ingersoll had cofounded the online car marketplace Shift in 2013, taking... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Peter and Maria Hoey

25 Feb 2020
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Case Study: The Credit Bureau

moves about a dozen times before buying a home, and all too often the bookshelf purchased for one apartment isn’t needed in the next. As a result, about 10 million tons of furniture go to landfills every year, Ramírez says. He and Aditya Khilnani (MBA 2019) founded the... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Real Estate

01 Jun 2016
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Case Study: On the Table

Philippe Cahuzac (far right) and his Gaia Design cofounders (Photos courtesy of Gaia Design) Philippe Cahuzac (far right) and his Gaia Design cofounders (Photos courtesy of Gaia Design) Gaia Design is a Mexico-based online furniture... View Details

13 Nov 2020
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Expanding Summer Fellowships to Support Students

part of the HBS's Arthur Rock Center Accelerator program last year. ShelfLife is a B2B marketplace that enables small businesses to take advantage of economies of scale in the food and beverage packaging supply chain. “Specialty food and... View Details

22 Jul 2014
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Hungry for Change

with a vendor to build an online marketplace that will essentially be a Craigslist of hunger, where restaurants or even smaller entities can post food availability—say, 50 pounds of chicken breasts at a... View Details

Keywords: Agriculture

01 Jun 2000
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HBS Business Plan Contestants Pin Their Hopes on the Internet

on hand at this year's event to offer some words of wisdom to those following in their footsteps. Jon Burgstone and Asif Satchu (both MBA '99) have raised $48 million in venture capital to fund their online View Details

01 Mar 2023
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The Latest Model

a missed opportunity. “Blockchain platforms are mini-economies written in code,” she explains. These digital systems are intended to help people carry out transactions and create value. And who better to help guide the implementation of a new digital currency or... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; blockchain; cryptocurrency; economic models; innovation; consulting; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Jun 2022
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Closing the 'Network Gap'

alma mater and the companies I’ve worked at, I was only exacerbating the network gap.” Schrier, who is white, had met Hu virtually through the HBS network prior to their first year, and although they had been pursuing independent startups in the travel and View Details