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Winning with Digital Platforms Online Course | HBS Online
models Advise a startup platform, Picabuu, on how it might acquire new customers Sketch an idea for a platform that a company you’re familiar with might launch and determine the transition’s feasibility and obstacles Module Review and... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
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Financial Services 24/7
"What did people do before ATMs?" That's a question that causes most twentysomethings to draw a blank. They don't remember the days when people conducted their banking - face-to-face with a teller - between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. on weekdays. The View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2006
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The Hard Way
years of training and placing job seekers. Why should she risk financial ruin on a big-ticket real estate purchase? The idea first surfaced when Russo’s accountant matter-of-factly suggested that she stop paying office rent — upwards of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
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The First Scrum
were never able to convince him that rugby was a good idea at HBS, but it was outside his authoritative control. We just went on and did our thing. TWO SCOTS INTRODUCE GAME OF RUGBY TO BUSINESS SCHOOL'S PLAYING FIELDS —Harbus, April 24,... View Details
- 24 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 24
how roles encode individual responsibilities so that coordination between relative strangers is possible. We extend this research by introducing key tenets from team effectiveness research to theorize when role-based coordination might be more or less effective. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 12
enabled by creativity and the right organizational flexibility and mindset. The case highlights the key role of performance metrics in building a flexible system that could be refined through experimentation and testing, steadily improving performance with the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2011
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American Democrats, their beliefs and values suggest that Peronists are the Argentine equivalent of the Republicans. Third, given that these beliefs are non-standard (for economists) we present a model formalizing some of their key aspects (for example, the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 11, 2007
approach thus runs counter to the idea that globalization is a homogeneity-producing process and the view that society is moving from particularism to universalism. With globalization, not only has the local remained important, but in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2018
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Up by the Roots
trading. And yet, even with many of the necessary pieces in place, the NYC fintech scene of the early 2000s just wasn’t catching fire. What was missing? Turns out, all it needed was a match. Nearly a decade ago, when Niko Karvounis (MBA 2011) and Lowell Putnam first... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
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Building a Better MBA
challenge is to hammer out details for implementing changes in the three areas where there’s broad agreement for action. Ideas abound. In response to an invitation from Light, fifty faculty members sent the committee detailed curriculum... View Details
- 15 Sep 2016
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The Burning Man Project
Donatella Versace. It is so much fun planning for Burning Man, organizing, thinking, scouring thrift shops. That's all part of the Burning Man experience. This idea of radical self-reliance means you don't buy a costume in a costume shop.... View Details
- 13 Dec 2016
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December 13, 2016
unreliable, and crushingly expensive. There is no shortage of proposed solutions, but central to the best of them is the idea that health care needs more competition. In other sectors, competition improves quality and efficiency, spurs... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 22 May 2012
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widely distributed and available, open innovation complements traditional innovation logics. We induce these ideas from the literature and with extended examples from Apple, NASA, and LEGO. We suggest that task decomposition and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Management, Marketing Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Caroline Elkins Business of Ideas Business, Government & the International Economy Fall 2025 Q2 1.5 Robin Ely Authentic Leader Development Organizational Behavior Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 ^ back to top... View Details
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Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector
fountain, an actual fountain, not a water fountain. So I had no idea that the thing you drank water out of was called a water fountain. And they all thought I was talking about the drinking fountain. And I had so many of those moments... View Details
- 03 Sep 2018
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Moving Pictures
was terrible.” But he did seem to have something to say. During his summer breaks, Singer interned at Nickelodeon, working in the strategy and legal groups and later following up that experience with a stint at the Disney Channel. “The View Details
- 20 Sep 2012
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US Competitiveness at Risk
participation is critical to prosperity because the more people who work as a proportion of the total working-age population, the higher per capita income will be whatever the wage level. All of this is threatening the American dream, the View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 19 Jun 2017
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Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?
didn't really believe that sexism in the workplace existed, and then we went to that meeting, and it was just shocking to me. And so we've had a lot of interesting experiences since we started pymetrics, and I think it's just brought home the View Details
- 04 Dec 2012
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undermines creative thinking in tasks that draw on knowledge from multiple cultures. Three studies (a network survey and two experiments) found that ambient cultural disharmony decreased individuals' effectiveness at connecting ideas from... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Dec 2010
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contrast, managers without positional power over team members proactively used redundant communication to enroll team members in the interpretation process—leading team members to believe that they had come up with the idea that... View Details