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Brandon Angelini
make people think it was done professionally”). Through building something together with my parents, I learned about a lot more than a picnic table. I picked up insights about planning, hard work, thoughtfulness, and humility. My life will be View Details
- 05 Dec 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns
Keywords: by William R. Kerr
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Payment and Financial Aid - HBS Online
course's enrollment deadline. If an award or payment is only provided upon course completion, you may not use it to pay for an HBS Online course, unless the award directly reimburses you. Federal financial aid, except for eligible... View Details
- 06 Sep 2022
- Blog Post
To Go-Go: A Foodtech Startup Serves Up Scale in Latin America
enrolled in the course Challenges and Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry. In it, Izquierdo began sketching the outline of a tech-enabled business model that would eliminate everything she disliked... View Details
- 03 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Desperate for Talent? Consider Advancing Your Own Employees First
Job openings in the United States continue to hover at record high levels, exacerbated by the Great Resignation and a sputtering emergence from the pandemic. Competition remains fierce among companies struggling to find qualified workers. Yet many employers,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 08 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Hunt for Talent on Digital Platforms, Not in Resume Piles
When it comes to the job hunt, many of us have a traditional view of what it takes to find a new position: A worker searches for available openings, sends in a resume, and waits for an interview. Much View Details
- 11 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
BTG Bioliquids: Creating Fast Pyrolysis Bio-Oil from Biomass Residue Streams
fuels was in line with what other companies supported: $100-150/ton of CO2. For their business model, BTG Bioliquids chose the technology licensing route, instead of a capital-intensive View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Highly Recommended: Leah Modigliani
Wien (MBA '56) of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter's model portfolio and its list of the top-ten stocks recommended for purchase, Modigliani begins her day at 7:30 a.m. when she... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 21 Aug 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
Companies Love Big Data But Lack the Strategy To Use It Effectively
“Results show strong correlations between business performance metrics and analytics capabilities, and highlight a variety of tasks in which top performing companies use analytics ” Feng Zhu, who teaches Digital Innovation and... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why a Blended Workforce May Be Key to Lasting Competitive Advantage
In recent years, companies have been anxious about the lack of skilled workers to fill pivotal jobs. But then came COVID-19 and a subsequent recession. The ensuing business turmoil and record-high unemployment may have temporarily distracted companies from their... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller
- February 2022
- Case
NFX Capital and Moov Technologies
By: Scott Duke Kominers and Nicole Tempest Keller
In July 2019, James Currier, a general partner at San Francisco-based NFX Ventures, was considering a seed stage investment of $1.5 million in Moov Technologies, a B2B marketplace for used industrial equipment. NFX was a venture capital firm focused on seed-stage... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Network Effects; Marketplace Matching; Digital Platforms; Market Design; Applications and Software; Semiconductor Industry; Financial Services Industry; San Francisco
Kominers, Scott Duke, and Nicole Tempest Keller. "NFX Capital and Moov Technologies." Harvard Business School Case 822-045, February 2022.
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General Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
The Power of Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times (Scribner, 2017) was selected by Strategy + Business as one of the Best Business Books on Leadership in 2018. Lynn S. Paine : Winner View Details
- 30 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
How to Recover Gracefully After Shutting Down Your Startup
is doing, but “sideways” is rarely the right direction. For example, in early 2016, leaders of the package delivery venture Shyp were refining the company’s business model and dialing back earlier expansion... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 22 Sep 2022
- News
The Beauty Guide
Courtesy Michelle Freyre Courtesy Michelle Freyre When Michelle Freyre (MBA 1997) was a brand manager at Neutrogena, Michael McNamara, global president of the beauty brand at the time, asked what she wanted to do with her career. She... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 04 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Maersk’s Journey to Decarbonize Shipping
presenting a model of a Port. Image source: Sam Deutsch We closed out our trip with a visit to the Maersk museum, which highlights the company’s history and values. Maersk’s company historian (yes, that’s a... View Details
- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we’re going to be highlighting an episode of another HBS podcast: Climate Rising, which focuses on what businesses are doing, can do, and should do... View Details
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Electricity - Business & Environment
Confronting Climate Change Electricity Renewables, nuclear, and carbon capture offer massive market potential The combustion of fossil fuels to generate electricity is the largest source of greenhouse gas... View Details
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Ahmed Alimi
accountant" for the small business his mother ran in his home country, Nigeria. He continued to study accounting in high school, then pivoted to the actuarial sciences when he attended the University of Lagos. In the following six... View Details
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Research - Race, Gender & Equity
beliefs about Covid we collected in 2020, we build a model based on the psychology of selective memory. When a person thinks about an event,... April 2025 Management Science Gender and Preferences for... View Details
- November 2022
- Teaching Note
Proximie: Using XR Technology to Create Borderless Operating Rooms
By: Ariel D. Stern, Alpana Thapar and Menna Hassan
Founded by Nadine Hachach-Haram in 2016, Proximie was a digital medicine platform that used mixed reality and a host of digital audio and visual tools to enable clinicians, proctors, and medical device company personnel to be virtually present in operating rooms (ORs),... View Details