Platform - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2022
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Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change

for tomorrow. The BEI aims to leverage HBS’s unique platform to help move the needle on climate change and accelerate climate solutions. Critical issues such as these are also among the focal points for HBS’s new Institute for the Study... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

03 Aug 2020
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A Clean Start

help solve this environmental conundrum. A chemical engineer, Brix had spent his career at Chevron in research and technology and then at Microsoft in IoT and automation. Then, in 2017, he turned his attention toward creating a renewable View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

18 Oct 2016
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China, artificial intelligence, and Jim Breyer

presentation was that at the bottom of the website it said, ‘A Mark Zuckerberg Production’,” he recalled. “I knew he was passionate about the site and making it a platform beyond college campuses.” “I caved,” he said. “It was five cents a... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

25 Apr 2023
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Class of 2022 Startups Sweep Alumni New Venture Competition

Clubs News Clubs News In a first-ever result, all of the winners in the 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition (ANVC) hail from the same HBS class: the MBA Class of 2022. The ANVC finale, held virtually on March 22 and 23, brought eight global regional winners together... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jun 2014
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What’s Next

Engagement Opportunities The "Case for HBS" ebook NN: We have been giving both of these questions a lot of thought, particularly since the launch of the edX/HarvardX platform more than a year ago. We've approached this at HBS not as an... View Details

Keywords: HBS Campaign; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2020
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Staying the Course

recommended curriculum saw larger and faster gains in math knowledge—as much as 7.5 percentile points on a standardized test—than those who did not. The challenge for the CEO was ramping up access to the platform as the country began to... View Details

Keywords: April White; online education

01 Sep 2018
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Turning Point: Power Outlet

platform and training moms to be advocates in public arenas. We still have so far to go with this issue. It’s something that we want to work on proactively, not reactively. I can’t stop. As an introvert, I never expected to do something... View Details

01 Sep 2020
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Saving Grace

though people may have strong ideas about corporate behavior, they haven’t had the levers to deploy the collective power of their ownership. Perhaps, Savova suggests, a tech-enabled platform like PensionBee could help with that. Also, the... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

25 Jan 2016
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Helping Young African Managers Find Their Way Home

tremendous value to our target audience.” The main focus of YAM is to shrink that management talent gap in Africa. It does this by providing networking opportunities; educating companies and young business people about the opportunities in Africa; offering career... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

19 Jan 2016
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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

24 Feb 2014
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A Capital Idea for Small Business

businesses to get funding. A number of crowd-funding platforms had appeared, but none were really set up to serve small businesses. I wondered if there was an opportunity there, and I called John to discuss the idea. Our conclusion was... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; crowd-funding; online communities; Finance; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

08 Dec 2015
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Living the Legacy

full of reporters. He’s not just going to sit there and nod. He’s going to question assumptions and refute them.” How does CORe differ from other online programs? Paul felt that HBX maximized the web platform whereas many other online... View Details

13 May 2014
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Inside Africa

considered the ownership of Africa.com to be a tremendous opportunity and responsibility,” she says. “I thought that, when I retired, which I imagined would be a long time from now, I would turn it into this great platform to tell the... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

01 Jun 2022
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Ink: Start Small, Rise Above

by getting them paid faster with the NowAccount, but we’re also building out the NowNetwork, a curated platform where small businesses can connect with more customers so they can engage in commerce. Our economy needs more entrepreneurs. View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

25 Jun 2020
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Covering All Corners

sessions via video calls, as well as peer support. We’ve also provided health care professionals with widely unavailable vitamins and minerals, including vitamins C and D, to bolster their immunity. And through platforms like Zoom, we... View Details

21 May 2019
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Confronting the Future of Climate Change in the Midwest

2016), cofounder of Chicago-based Lotic Labs, a data platform for more efficient water markets. “Those costs have to be borne by investors who have to take certain kinds of risks and think about risks in a different way,” he adds. There... View Details

Keywords: Agriculture

20 Oct 2016
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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

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Support Activities for Transportation; Transportation

01 Sep 2010
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Letters to the Editor

Individual Donors Enrich Fellows’ Experience As a beneficiary of the HBS Leadership Fellows program, I was excited to see the June cover story about the program and the profiles of several colleagues associated with it. Â As the article suggests, the program provides a... View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

09 Mar 2021
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Empowering School Leaders to Meet Today's Challenges

the program using HBS’s distinctive online platform to enable accessibility in an affordable way (each course costs less than $500). “One of the things that we know about the most effective school leaders and business leaders is that they... View Details