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    Mitchell B. Weiss

    Mitch Weiss is the Richard L. Menschel Professor of Management Practice at the Harvard Business School. He created and teaches the school's course on Public Entrepreneurship—on public leaders and private entrepreneurs who invent a difference in the... View Details

    • 16 Oct 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018

    DSMC holds as a consistent pattern in a dynamic equilibrium. Given DSMC, clusters of firms making different complementary goods, including open platforms with surrounding ecosystems, can survive and compete effectively against integrated... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • October 2011
    • Supplement

    Jack Hughes, Founder and Chairman of TopCoder, In-class comments 4/8/11

    By: David A. Garvin
    TopCoder's crowdsourcing-based business model, in which software is developed through online tournaments, is presented. The case highlights how TopCoder has created a unique two-sided innovation platform consisting of a global community of over 225,000 developers who... View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; Growth and Development; Technological Innovation; Problems and Challenges; Motivation and Incentives; Competition; Online Technology; Information Technology Industry
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    • September 2023
    • Teaching Note

    Esquel Group

    By: William C. Kirby and Noah B. Truwit
    Teaching Note for HBS Case Nos. 307-076 and 322-058. These cases focus on the experience of China's largest shirt manufacturer, Esquel Group, and how it manages various aspects of government relations in China and abroad. The A case identifies a wide variety of social... View Details
    Keywords: International Relations; Trade; Globalized Markets and Industries; Fashion Industry; China
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    • 25 May 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: May 25

    ad platform can offer, an advertiser may forego use of an ad platform that the advertiser otherwise finds profitable. Mergers between ad platforms can increase advertiser... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 2003
    • Report

    UK Competitiveness: Moving to the Next Stage

    By: Michael E. Porter and Christian H.M. Ketels

    In October 2002, the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) appointed Professor Michael Porter and his team to conduct a brief, three-month review of the existing evidence on UK competitiveness. The effort was funded jointly by the ESRC and the Department of... View Details

    Keywords: Competition; Economics; Performance Productivity; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Research and Development; Competency and Skills; Investment; Assets; Corporate Strategy; Policy; Management; Knowledge Use and Leverage; United Kingdom; United States
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      Deborah M. Winshel

      Deborah Winshel is a member of the Faculty of the Harvard Business School where she teaches Leadership and Corporate Accountability to first year MBAs and executives.

      Most recently, Deborah was a Managing Director and Global Head of Social Impact at... View Details

      • February 2011 (Revised November 2012)
      • Case

      PatientsLikeMe: An Online Community of Patients

      By: Sunil Gupta and Jason Riis
      PatientsLikeMe (PLM) is an online community where patients share their personal experiences with a disease, find other patients like them, and learn from each other. The company was founded by Jamie and Ben Heywood when their 29-year-old brother was diagnosed with ALS... View Details
      Keywords: Business Startups; Health Disorders; Knowledge Sharing; Growth and Development Strategy; Product Launch; Digital Platforms; Social and Collaborative Networks; Health Industry
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      • 19 May 2014
      • Research & Ideas

      Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy

      information. Social networking on Facebook would be of little value if users provided no personal information, and digital assistants such as Apple's Siri require access to consumers' location, contact lists, and calendar to be helpful. A... View Details
      Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products
      • April 2006 (Revised June 2008)
      • Case

      Peoplepower, Inc.: The Republic of the Philippines

      By: Noel Maurer
      In 2006, the Philippines faces a difficult choice. Japan has offered the country a trade agreement that includes access to the Japanese labor market for Philippine nurses and other professionals. The same trade agreement, however, means opening the country's... View Details
      Keywords: Diasporas; Developing Countries and Economies; Trade; Foreign Direct Investment; Human Capital; Business and Government Relations; Conflict and Resolution; Japan; Philippines
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      • 23 Mar 2003
      • Research & Ideas

      AIDS in Africa—What’s the Solution?

      companies that depend on migrant workers such as the mining industry must consider the social dynamic created by men working away from their families many months out of the year. The sex trade in which those... View Details
      Keywords: by Julie Jette
      • July 2022
      • Teaching Plan

      Wellthy: The Economics of Caring

      By: Brian Trelstad
      Teaching Plan for HBS Case No. 320-028. In 2014, Lindsay Jurist-Rosner (MBA ’09) founded Wellthy, a B2C business that coordinates care for working professionals seeking help to support loved ones with chronic diseases or aging parents. With personal experience as a... View Details
      Keywords: B2B Vs. B2C; Future Of Work; Health; Social Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Health Care and Treatment; Recruitment; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Health Industry; United States
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      • 2010
      • Working Paper

      The Job Market for New Economists: A Market Design Perspective

      By: Peter A. Coles, John Cawley, Phillip B. Levine, Muriel Niederle, Alvin E. Roth and John J. Siegfried
      This paper provides an overview of the market for new Ph.D. economists. It describes the role of the American Economic Association (AEA) in the market and focuses in particular on two mechanisms adopted in recent years at the suggestion of our committee. First, job... View Details
      Keywords: Cost Management; Information; Surveys; Jobs and Positions; Job Interviews; Job Search; Emerging Markets; Digital Platforms; Service Operations; Internet and the Web
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      • October 2011
      • Supplement

      An Interview with Jack Hughes, Founder and Chairman of TopCoder

      By: David A. Garvin
      TopCoder's crowdsourcing-based business model, in which software is developed through online tournaments, is presented. The case highlights how TopCoder has created a unique two-sided innovation platform consisting of a global community of over 225,0000 developers who... View Details
      Keywords: Growth and Development; Technological Innovation; Problems and Challenges; Motivation and Incentives; Competition; Online Technology; Information Technology Industry
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      • 08 Sep 2015
      • First Look

      September 8, 2015

      complaints per year. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49555 The Value of Corporate Citizenship: Protection By: Minor, Dylan Abstract—We explore the notion that corporate citizenship, as obtained through Corporate View Details
      Keywords: Carmen Nobel
      • 08 Oct 2021
      • Research & Ideas

      How Newspaper Closures Open the Door to Corporate Crime

      Some may shrug at the inevitable passing of the local newspaper, writing it off as a dinosaur that doesn’t have much to offer in our modern world of blogs, social media sites, and streamed soundbites. But no news is not necessarily good... View Details
      Keywords: by Avery Forman
      • 21 Oct 2024
      • Research & Ideas

      What Happens in Vegas Could Shape the Metaverse

      company would be more than likes, comments, and shares, he said, and Meta would develop the community on top of the Oculus platform it bought for $2 billion in 2014. The Facebook-Meta name change came a year-and-a-half into the COVID-19... View Details
      Keywords: by Scott Nover; Computer; Information Technology
      • 13 Jan 2020
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Recognition Incentives for Internal Crowdsourcing: A Field Experiment at NASA

      Keywords: by Jana Gallus, Olivia S. Jung, and Karim R. Lakhani; Aerospace
      • 26 Mar 2020
      • Blog Post

      The Road Untraveled: VC Perspectives on COVID-19

      Brian Hollins (MBA 2021) spent six years at Goldman Sachs prior to HBS focused on venture capital and growth equity investing for the firm. He will be joining Lightspeed Venture Partners this summer, and is a co-Founder of BLCKVC, a View Details
      • 2023
      • Working Paper

      Mapping Organizational-Level Networks Using Individual-Level Connections: Evidence from Online Professional Networks

      By: Shelley Xin Li, Frank Nagle and Aner Zhou
      Organization-level networks facilitate the flow of information and business activities in the economy. Prior research relies solely on high-level connections to measure these networks. Therefore, to understand the role of employee connections at all job levels in... View Details
      Keywords: Networks; Value; Social and Collaborative Networks; Innovation and Invention; Knowledge Sharing; Employees; Social Media
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