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- 17 Jan 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Expectations, Network Effects and Platform Pricing
- 25 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Class of 2021 Student Profiles
received,” Thomaz joined Teach for Brazil (Ensina Brasil) where he was responsible for managing alumni and partnership strategies. HOME REGION São Paulo, Brazil UNDERGRAD EDUCATION Universidade de São Paulo PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE Ensina Brasil, McKinsey, View Details
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
New Research Explores Multi-Sided Markets
reducing search costs. EBay creates value by reducing search costs for buyers and sellers, and at the same time it saves on shared costs by offering PayPal as a convenient payment platform. And in performing these services, it is also... View Details
- 27 Mar 2017
- Blog Post
Should Entrepreneurs Get an MBA?
In his encouraging entrepreneurs not to go to business school, PayPal co-Founder and Gawker toppler Peter Thiel faults MBA programs for producing “extremely herd-like thinking.” He’s not alone – Elon Musk also rails against business... View Details
- Profile
Stephanie Tilenius
just about every day.” From Intel to eBay – and back to HBS Since completing her MBA in 1996, Stephanie’s career has paralleled the growth of the Internet itself, taking her from FireFly (eventually bought by Microsoft), Intel, and PlanetRx (her own company), to View Details
- Career Coach
Jade Haynes
in technology and startups. Jade can provide insights into how these industries recruit, what the job experience will look like, and how they can help meet your personal criteria in a post-MBA career. She is happy to help with career visioning, interview prep, resume... View Details
- 11 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 11, 2006
markets: Boston, San Francisco, and Philadelphia. Purchase this case:http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=806166 PayPal Merchant Services Thomas Eisenmann and Lauren Barley 806-188 In early... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
@Soldiers Field
Horbaczewski (MBA 2008), whose speedy competitors reached 100 mph. PayPal cofounder and tech investor Max Levchin stopped by the i-lab to hear a few pitches from Harvard entrepreneurs, including Brittany Davis (MBA 2015), cofounder and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
@Soldiers Field
modified by former product manager Ellen Chisa (HBS 2016). Former New Jersey Governor and EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman chatted with professor Joe Lassiter about the future of nuclear energy, hosted by the HBS Business & Environment Initiative. View Details
- Career Coach
Mo Fong
Google, Mo worked at PayPal in risk management and was the Executive Director of the Stanford Educational Leadership Initiative (https://seli.stanford.edu/). She started her career as a high school math and chemistry teacher and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Turning Point: Make Your Life Count
equitable world. Photos from Rosita’s childhood and career: Rosita Najmi is executive director of the Micron Foundation. In addition, she has been a leader at the World Bank, the Gates Foundation, Omidyar Network, Accion, Mercy Corps, and the social impact arms of... View Details
- 30 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30
(2) how Duke Energy’s CEO supported pending U.S. legislation addressing climate change, and (3) how Chobani Yogurt’s CEO publicly supported refugees. Students are then provided with the situation faced by PayPal CEO Dan Schulman after... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Nov 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Activist Investors Became Respectable
(Editor's Note. Carl Icahn is in the news again. On Monday, SEC filings revealed the militant investor has sold his entire stake in eBay, after successfully pushing the company to spin off its PayPal operation. Harvard Business School... View Details
- 20 Feb 2013
- News
Thanking Veterans Online
from fraud, yet simple enough for users to validate their status in a matter of seconds. Hall and Thompson's solution to this problem is Troop ID, a digital ID card that links an email address and password to a person's military credentials the way View Details
- 02 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ‘A Social Strategy’
sale. Second, a third of those who participated in a group gift sign up for a PayPal account. Finally, an- other third returned to visit eBay within a month with the intent to purchase other items. Importantly, eBay obtained all of these... View Details
- 20 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
When CEOs Become Activists
business community was swift and dramatic. Deutsche Bank froze the creation of 250 jobs in Cary. More than 100 business leaders, many from well-known companies, signed a letter to Gov. McCrory opposing the new state law. PayPal cancelled... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
closer to Earth. Two years ago, the agency awarded a nearly $7 billion contract to SpaceX—launched in 2002 by PayPal and Tesla Motors cofounder Musk—and Boeing to transport US astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) starting... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
headquarters. Like eBay Germany, eBay itself grew tremendously, in part from acquisitions like PayPal and Skype. But, growth in core areas, like auctions, had slowed. This case explains how eBay Inc. and eBay Germany tried to keep their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
WHITMAN When Meg Whitman joined a fledgling online auction start-up in 1998, not many people outside of serious collectors of Beanie Babies had heard of eBay. After ten years under her leadership, the company now has 16,000 employees in 39 countries, it owns View Details
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
attack on eBay, starting in January 2014. The case examines how John Donahoe, CEO of eBay, should respond to Icahn's demand that eBay spin off PayPal and accept Icahn's two nominees to the board of directors. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne