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- 18 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
4 Ways to Make Your Company Conversations Count
engaging. Keep the conversation flowing and limit the amount of time you are talking at students by sharing details about your company and hiring process in advance. Within your Company Conversation event posting in our recruiting View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 19 Jan 2016
- News
Electric Avenues
on a Tuesday at 2 p.m., who’s going to show up?” Agora, the online platform Sze launched last year, offers a place for citizens to interact with their elected representatives using everything from message boards to streaming video chats.... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 16 Jul 2013
- News
Embracing Chaos
someone else has run away with the whole market." Venkatesan points to Apple, which waited for better distribution systems in India before it established its presence. "But Samsung didn't wait, and has the whole market now." The book, he... View Details
- 10 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017
innovation, we propose several new topic areas—performance trajectories, response strategies and hybrids, platform businesses, and innovation metrics—to guide subsequent empirical work. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Smart Moves
industry changed around the ideas we had. Today, the car is a mobile computing platform and the average luxury car has more than 200 sensors collecting information. We pull information from various sensors in real time and create services... View Details
- 04 Dec 2020
- News
Hour by Hour
familiar with your systems and your culture,” notes Morris. “And we’re trying to get people who have had that training, to be able to use it to earn additional income.” Syrg also specializes in improving retention rates, surveying... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Homeschooled
Image by John Ritter About a month before schools began to close in the United States in response to the pandemic, Sal Khan (MBA 2003) (pictured above, right), founder and CEO of the online learning platform Khan Academy, began to see... View Details
- 20 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 20
operations? Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/517108-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 905-409 The Electronic Product Code: Future Impact on the Global Food System The Electronic Product Code (EPC) is a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
academic psychologists, Harvard Business School professors, directors of organizations, and government officials. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51447 Winter 2017 Oxford Review of Economic Policy The Market Design and Policy of Online... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
Two Decades Later, is the 'New Economy' Finally Here?
“Many decisions, judgments, and forecasts now made by humans should be turned over to algorithms Even though machine learning systems still lack common sense, they are accomplishing ‘useful work’ and are advancing rapidly.” The massive... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance
macroeconomics) and enliven them in a managerial setting. The materials in the last three modules are innovative as they provide a platform for exploring some of the lessons that have emerged from recent waves of scholarship in... View Details
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
in Two-Sided Markets Authors:Andrei Hagiu and Daniel Spulber Abstract The strategic use of first-party content by two-sided platforms is driven by two key factors: the nature of buyer and seller expectations (favorable vs. unfavorable)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
such a way that talent is developed along with the business. Publisher's link: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/esm/doifinder/10.1057/9781137294678.0085 August 2013 International Journal of Industrial Organization Information and Two-Sided View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
systems were in need of an update, and since GLBG last made heavy IT investments in the late 1990s, the technology had changed considerably. GLBG sought Rechtin’s advice on whether or not it should build a new data center, pursue a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 15, 2008
product design, production, distribution, and system integration may be split up among hundreds or even thousands of firms. Different firms will design and produce the different components of a complex artifact (like the processor,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Apr 2017
- News
Chicago Becomes a Hub of Startup Action
a clone of Silicon Valley, but as a unique, networked support system with its own identity. Positioning Chicago as a city conducive to entrepreneurship required ongoing, deliberate efforts on the part of Emanuel (who was sworn in as mayor... View Details
- December 2012 (Revised October 2022)
- Case
Plastiq
By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Gaurav Jain, Liroy Haddad, Luke Langford and Matt Noble
The young CEO of a venture-backed startup needs to figure out his go to market strategy and the right profile for his first key sales hires. Should he develop partnerships with channels that would provide leverage or build out a direct sales force? And should the sales... View Details
Keywords: Payments; Sales; Channels; Credit Cards; Digital Platforms; Selection and Staffing; Cost vs Benefits; Salesforce Management; Marketing Channels; Business Startups; Business Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Partners and Partnerships; Management Systems
Bussgang, Jeffrey J., Gaurav Jain, Liroy Haddad, Luke Langford, and Matt Noble. "Plastiq." Harvard Business School Case 813-125, December 2012. (Revised October 2022.)
- 30 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Do Social Movements Sway Voters? Not Really, Except for One
researchers gathered data from Twitter (the platform now called X), Google searches, and high-frequency surveys like The Gallup Poll Social Series, Nationscape, and Cooperative Congressional Election Study to chart the evolution of online... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Helping Women in Mexico to Live Fulfilled and Healthy Lives
three C’s: Content, Community, and Care. For Content, Plenna is a modern source of information for women’s health; you can find tips on birth control, managing vaginal infections, and general gynecology. We’re also building a strong Community, a View Details
- 15 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Health Is Wealth | The Path To Creating A Venture
body health through at-home lab testing, a precision multivitamin membership, in-app progress tracking, and an engaged, health-focused community. By combining science with health and wellness data, Rootine delivers a precision nutrition View Details