Platform Design - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2015
News

Case Study: Golden Ticket

(iStock) The startup shorthand for the year-old G8 Rocket (pronounced “gate rocket”) is SAP meets Square—an enterprise platform designed for local vendors. In G8 Rocket’s case, those vendors are typically... View Details

06 Dec 2021
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HBS Curricula Explore the Complexities of Innovation

Digital Initiative, was how to develop the skills and insight to become a leader in the digital age. Today’s MBA Program has multiple electives designed to help students conceive, lead, and execute digital innovation initiatives and... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Feb 2001
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HBS and Stanford in Online Collaboration

HBS and Stanford University are teaming up to explore online executive management education. The new collaboration between these pioneers in electronic learning is designed to create a distribution platform... View Details

Keywords: HBS Interactive; e-learning; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2015
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Ink

the trio mastered five rules of strategy: Look forward, reason back. Figure out where you want your company to be in five years, then reason back to identify steps to get you there. Make big bets, without betting the company. Be bold, go for big wins, but not in a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Apple; Microsoft; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Computer Systems Design and Related Services

01 Sep 2024
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Far-Reaching Impact

Above: Teachers in India's daycare system draw on Rocket Learning's digital platform to enhance learning. Photo courtesy Rocket Learning When the news reached Namya Mahajan (MBA 2022) as her HBS graduation was approaching that she would... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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Demo Day | New Venture Competition

chemicals and petroleum-based materials using green, scalable technology. Kyra Health Lucas Hearn (MBA 2025), Ned Jackson Lovely Kyra Health is an AI-native Individual Coverage Health Reimbursement Arrangement (ICHRA) platform View Details

01 Sep 2010
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Social Entrepreneurship Fellows Named

I’ve told my straight friends about problems like this, they express surprise and ask what they can do to help.” That’s where Friendfactor comes in. The enterprise is developing a social networking platform that will launch this fall to... View Details

Keywords: Awards; disability; gay rights; Accommodation; Hospitality

26 Apr 2011
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BioMine Strikes Gold

marketing, were as follows: Africa Angus Rowe, OPM 38 2009 LifeQube mobile clinic management Watch their pitch. Asia-Pacific Oliver Segovia, MBA '10 Jennifer Kelly, MBA '10 AVA invitation-only shopping platform Watch their pitch. Canada... View Details

Keywords: Mining (except Oil and Gas); Mining; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

11 Jul 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11

July–August 2017 Harvard Business Review Finding the Platform in Your Product: Four Strategies That Can Reveal Hidden Value By: Hagiu, Andrei, and Elizabeth J. Altman Abstract—Five of the 10 most valuable companies in the world... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Entrepreneurship in Life Sciences - Course Catalog

opportunities for entrepreneurial innovation. This course is primarily designed for students who are interested in exploring entrepreneurial opportunities within the life sciences, including exploring ideation, generating and/or licensing... View Details

15 May 2012
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First Look: May 15

its suspension, consistent with the importance of reputation. Larger firms and those with greater growth options were more likely to leave, also consistent with the reputation argument. Read the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1557231 ... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

09 Mar 2021
Blog Post

New BEI Director: Lynn Schenk

social impact-focused work at HBS. Over the past year and half as BEI’s associate director, Lynn helped to design and deliver a significant on-campus convening (one of the last pre-Covid on-campus convenings), bringing together more than... View Details

10 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 10

Working PapersPlatform Envelopment (revised) Authors:Thomas Eisenmann, Geoffrey Parker, and Marshall Van Alstyne Abstract Due to network effects and switching costs, platform providers often become entrenched. To enter established... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

18 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 18

television advertising influences online shopping. We construct a massive dataset spanning $3.4 billion in spending by 20 brands, including measures of brands' website traffic and transactions as well as ad content measures for 1,224 commercials. We use a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Jul 2019
Blog Post

Tech for the People

Shireen Santosham (MBA 2008) and Mayor Sam Liccardo immediately supported the idea,” says Tsai, which led to the October 2018 launch of Host Corps. This public/private initiative drew on a concept Airbnb devised to use its platform to... View Details

19 Oct 2023
Blog Post

New Venture Competition 2023: Business and Environment Ventures

Business Development; Dr. Joseph Laux, CTO; Dr. Bhawna Nagar, Research Projects - Grensol closes the materials loop for car recycling to valorize industrial waste, recover valuable resources, and produce energy. TOP FINALISTS Earthbond - Chidalu Onyenso (MBA 2023)-... View Details

01 Dec 2016
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Case Study: Sweat the Technique

asset. —George Corbin (MBA 1993) Develop the disposable and license out the rights (bearing royalties and potentially producing earlier milestone revenues or other income) to an existing digital platform. Having the platform in... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

09 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 9

has been little empirical evidence on the propensity with which core-periphery structures are observed in practice, the factors that explain differences in the design of such structures, or the manner in which these structures evolve over... View Details