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- 05 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
The HBS New Venture Competition Turns 25: Celebrating A Quarter Century of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
View Video Cashex is building services to make life easier for African migrants by offering seamless digital banking that allows Africans in the US to send money to their families with zero transaction fees. Peter M. Sacerdote $25,000... View Details
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Financing New Ideas - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
School Jobs MBA Recruiting Rock Center: Entrepreneurship Social Enterprise Initiative HBS Working Knoweldge Harvard Business School Executive Education More HBS YouTube: Executive Education Harvard Business Review Harvard Business School Contact Related Links Resources... View Details
- 05 Jun 2017
- News
Women on Boards: A Course Becomes a Movement
new skills that boards should be developing for issues such as digital or cyber security,” she says. “And now I have a clear and personal action plan for moving forward, including what career choices I should make in the coming years to... View Details
Keywords: Margaret Kelley
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Entrepreneur Daniel S. Bricklin: A Class Act
the single most important factor in the rapid proliferation of personal computers. Bricklin, who took a shine to computer programming while still in high school in the 1960s, earned an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering and computer science at MIT. He... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 12 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs
Beyond offering advice on digital marketing and leveraging social media, your investors may also be helpful with brand awareness and offer PR opportunities. Perhaps they are sponsoring an event where you or a key member of your team can... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
the wake of advances made in digital technology. "Fuji experienced the same situation that buggy whip manufacturers confronted when cars were invented," she says. "The difference is that there are dozens of additional... View Details
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Annual Report 2016 - Annual Report 2016
“Who owns space?” to digitally enabled prescription medicine to cultured beef. View episodes A Vision for the 21st Century Alumni events were held in Seattle and Cleveland, two of six cities visited during FY16 as part of The Harvard... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Life in Lockdown
marketplace for neurotechnology digital health products, was accepted into the Harvard i-lab Venture Incubation Program and the Rock Accelerator; she is now working on it full-time with cofounders Brian Smith (MBA 2017) and Sofia Warner... View Details
- 29 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 29
bias. We discuss both the theoretical and practical implications of our findings. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2280370 Digital Dark Matter and the Economics of Apache By: Greenstein, Shane, and Frank Nagle... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 19
Africa, Nike has decided to change its target market focus and to use digital and social media platforms to connect more extensively with consumers. In addition, Nike plans to launch innovative new boots and engage in corporate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Oct 2018
- News
“A Shout Through Time”
fundamental goodness of people is the point about how connected we all are; and I don't want to really overstate the role of technology because I think that we're connected fundamentally even without our phones, even without our digital... View Details
- November 1998 (Revised February 1999)
- Case
Microsoft Office: Finding the Suite Spot
By: Stefan H. Thomke and Steven Sinofsky
Describes a key decision-making process within Microsoft's Office products division. At a time when the PC software business has a great deal of uncertainty, Microsoft's management has to make a key decision regarding the future of software suites. A strengthening of... View Details
Keywords: Decisions; Applications and Software; Strategic Planning; Organizational Design; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Product Development; Managerial Roles; Growth and Development Strategy; Risk and Uncertainty; Goals and Objectives; Digital Platforms; Innovation and Management; Computer Industry; Information Technology Industry
Thomke, Stefan H., and Steven Sinofsky. "Microsoft Office: Finding the Suite Spot." Harvard Business School Case 699-046, November 1998. (Revised February 1999.)
- April 2019
- Case
Afterpay U.S.: The Omnichannel Dilemma
By: Antonio Moreno, Donald Ngwe and George Gonzalez
In 2018, Nick Molnar, the founder of the Australia-based online payment service Afterpay began its expansion to the U.S. market. The service had gained a loyal following in Australia by enabling customers to pay for online purchases through four interest-free... View Details
Keywords: Omnichannel Retail; Multi-sided Platforms; Value Creation; Business Model Innovation; Fintech; Digital Marketing; Disruptive Innovation; Business Startups; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Business Organization; For-Profit Firms; Change Management; Customer Value and Value Chain; Customer Relationship Management; Customer Satisfaction; Financing and Loans; Microfinance; Global Strategy; Marketing Channels; Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Digital Platforms; Product Development; Supply Chain Management; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Networks; Network Effects; Internet and the Web; Financial Services Industry; Retail Industry; Technology Industry; United States; Australia
Moreno, Antonio, Donald Ngwe, and George Gonzalez. "Afterpay U.S.: The Omnichannel Dilemma." Harvard Business School Case 519-086, April 2019.
- 28 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 28
digital assessment and print-based workbook series called Ready®, Ready® Common Core, and i-Ready® Diagnostic and Instruction. In 2014, as sales are booming, Waldron and his team wonder how CA can stay competitive in the rapidly evolving... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 27, 2007
letter from the Recording Industry Association of America, Inc. (RIAA) asking him to shut down eDonkey, MetaMachine's popular file-sharing system. In September 2005, more than 30 million users relied on eDonkey to share digital files,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought
Knowledge “Everything is rapidly evolving,” says Luca, the Lee J. Styslinger III Associate Professor at HBS, “and this survey helps to get some baseline understanding of what is happening in close to real-time.” Those responses could come from government, larger... View Details
- 29 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Uber Is Worth Saving and How To Do It
from ordinances regulating limos and taxis. The company even allegedly built a digital tool that would alert staff when code enforcers were on the way.) Kanter says the same disrespect shown for authorities on the outside seemed to seep... View Details
- 13 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 13, 2016
the status quo, primarily because of the lack of a decision-making mechanism amongst the brothers. The firm rapidly went downhill, before declaring bankruptcy in 1875. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/316186-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School... View Details
- 03 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Healthcare Conference Looks At Ailing Industry
was developed elsewhere, such as a digital form of DNA. The goal now is to redefine disease based on the underlying biological mechanisms, Lander said. By that token, diseases are going to surprise us. Reclassifying them means that some... View Details
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Smaller Collections - Photography Collections - Historical Collections
wooden chests, and porters transporting tea chests to shippers. Also of interest are general views of people and landscapes. The images represent fine examples of nineteenth-century commercial photographs in China and Japan, some of which were delicately hand-colored... View Details