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- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Microsoft’s Ballmer Makes His Pitch
“This is the most exciting time in the technology industry since I left Stanford Business School 26 years ago,” Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer (Harvard ’77) told a student audience that nearly filled Burden Auditorium in early December.... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Conversing in Cyberspace: Students and Alumni Talk Management
such questions to people with some real answers - HBS alumni who have made the transition themselves. Making innovative use of technology to involve HBS graduates in the classroom, Garvin conducted a pilot program on the World Wide Web in... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 26 Oct 2017
- Research Event
In an Era of 'Fake News,' What is the Future of Advertising and Publishing?
media that seemed to come out of nowhere. As Carroll put it in his opening presentation, Facebook had “put military grade PSYOP [psychological operations] weapons in the hands of anyone.” Abuses of digital technology are tearing at... View Details
- 25 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Software Platforms Revolutionize Business
As digital technologies become more ubiquitous, so will software platforms. They can potentially reduce search and transaction costs for any imaginable economic transaction. Today we can already View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
HBS Cyberposium Brings Online Future into Focus
"The Internet is an explosion like nothing we've ever seen before," declared Bob Davis, CEO of Lycos, the Internet search engine company, to an overflow crowd at the fourth annual Harvard Business School Cyberposium held last February at... View Details
Keywords: Meg Gardner
- 16 May 2018
- Blog Post
Internship Success: Mutual Growth Brings Intern and Enterprise Together
year. Fortunately, their ambitions crossed paths in the best way possible. Their experience sheds light on how MBA candidates and enterprise recruiters can find each other for mutual advantage. Czapski began his search by defining a... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 02 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
Do Online Dating Platforms Help Those Who Need Them Most?
in-your-face," Piskorski explained. "Guys who are short and a little overweight are also shying away from this feature, suggesting that the feature is not helping those who search for others most." Piskorski hopes that... View Details
- Career Coach
Minal Mehta
Minal (Harvard Business School ‘10, Stanford ‘03) has over two decades of experience in the technology industry. Most recently, she was the cofounder and CEO of AllTakes, a venture-backed online platform designed to foster secure and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Snapping Up Voters
Illustration by Chris Gash When Rob Saliterman (MBA 2011) started selling online political ads at Google, they were almost all destined for people already seeking political content, placed either on specific networks or in response to user searches. Over nearly four... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 12 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers
Blakeman says. A pitch to the right person at the right time at a bar led to a $100,000 angel investment. Diversifying his business, Blakeman started to work with prisons to put his search tools into the hands of inmates before their... View Details
- 08 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Civic Benefits of Google Street View and Yelp
use it. In the paper, Luca, Edward L. Glaeser and Scott Duke Kominers (PhDBE 2011) of Harvard University, and PhD student Nikhil Naik of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab, cite three trends that make cities particularly... View Details
- 19 Sep 2019
- News
Predicting Human Behaviors
Above: Sid Misra (MBA 2013) cofounder, Perceptive Automata (Len Rubenstein; courtesy of Perceptive Automata) Amid the hubbub of this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the world’s largest technology tradeshow, Sid Misra (MBA 2013)... View Details
Keywords: April White
- October 2000 (Revised March 2001)
- Case
eLance.com: Building a Professional Services Marketplace
By: Lynda M. Applegate and Kristin Kohler
Launched as an eBay for services, eLance promises to leverage the capabilities of the Internet to not only change the way services are bought and sold, but change the fundamental dynamics of the global economy. Building on theories posited in the HBR article by Tim... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Technological Innovation; Job Search; Business or Company Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Web Sites; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry
Applegate, Lynda M., and Kristin Kohler. "eLance.com: Building a Professional Services Marketplace." Harvard Business School Case 801-224, October 2000. (Revised March 2001.)
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Getting the Message
In 1994, the World Wide Web was not yet a household name. A new company called Yahoo! had just developed a way to look for sites on the Internet -- the search engine. HotWired debuted as the first online magazine to carry advertisements.... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- Profile
Cynthia Samanian
internship & long term career? My internship search was focused on early stage consumer internet startups based in San Francisco. One of the most helpful HBS programs was the Silicon Valley IXP. During this trip to San Francisco, I... View Details
- Fast Answer
Biotech, Medical Devices, and Pharmaceuticals: Industry/Market Overview/Analysis
Reports and market trends in spaces of biotech and pharmaceutical technologies and manufacturing-related fields. IBIS world - Market reports in spaces of biotech, pharmaceuticals, and medical devices in US, China, Australia, and UK... View Details
- 02 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Fast-track to Better Outcomes: Yoonjin Min and RapidSOS
were lofty, she found her ideal internship through an ordinary process: searching the HBS job portal. “I had been working with a career coach to look for a mission-focused health-related startup,” Yoonjin explains. “At BCG, my clients... View Details
- 08 Nov 2023
- Blog Post
Zone Defense: These self-driving, AI-powered drones do recon so soldiers don’t have to
Shield AI’s unmanned Nova drones are used in war zones around the world. Brandon Tseng calls it “self-driving technology for defense.” The long-distance, 2.8-pound quadcopter drones, running on Shield AI’s Hivemind software, can navigate... View Details
- November 2015
- Case
Upwork: Reimagining the Future of Work
By: Feng Zhu, Rory McDonald, Marco Iansiti and Aaron Smith
Upwork, the world's largest freelance talent platform, was the result of a merger between the two leading online freelancing companies in 2014, Elance and oDesk. After the merger, the company operated as Elance-oDesk and continued to manage two online... View Details
Keywords: Platforms; Employment; Digital Platforms; Market Transactions; Business Processes; Information Technology; Internet and the Web; Job Search
Zhu, Feng, Rory McDonald, Marco Iansiti, and Aaron Smith. "Upwork: Reimagining the Future of Work." Harvard Business School Case 616-027, November 2015.
- 23 Mar 2020
- Working Paper Summaries