Aggregator - Publications - Faculty & Research

27 Jul 2023
Blog Post

Buy big, sell small

cofounder of ApnaKlub, a wholesale digital platform that helps kirana owners aggregate their buying power and access credit tools and other services. “These are micro businesses that run on tight margins. If shopkeepers run out of... View Details

31 Mar 2023
News

How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?

real good data, maybe at all. And to the degree that we have it, in ways that are so aggregated that it's kind of meaningless. It is these normed averages that don't mean a whole lot. What we're hoping to do is to take the data that's... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

18 Nov 2021
News

Strength in Numbers

Their solution? The Goodness Web, a nonprofit that finds its strength in connection, through “a web of people who can aggregate resources—whether that is philanthropic dollars or contacts—to do good, better,” Swartz explains. Currently in... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Sep 2017
News

Read All About It: Journalism Can Be Profitable

news content creation business. Creating high-quality news content is an expensive endeavor and one that doesn’t scale that easily. These companies are platforms that can aggregate consumer demand and sell advertising against that. It’s... View Details

Keywords: April White; New York Times; newspapers; Google; Wirecutter; social media; Facebook; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

24 Oct 2013
News

Searching for a Better Society

help searchers get to the best content as quickly as possible. We publish 20 percent of the world's scientific content. If we can help medical researchers, for example, search better—help them get access to content faster, aggregate... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Mar 2018
News

Democratizing Data to Favor Farmers

harvest data with one another to help find the best performing seeds—which represented their largest variable expense. The idea quickly evolved into developing a completely independent, farmer-driven information source identifying top seeds, benchmarking farm... View Details

Keywords: Sasha Issenberg

13 Dec 2016
First Look

December 13, 2016

channel is selection and market reallocation whereby competition leads to factor reallocation both within and between domestic firms and exits of the least productive firms. We investigate the roles of these different mechanisms in determining View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

22 Mar 2011
First Look

First Look: March 22

not important at the aggregate level. Hence, our results support the use of PAYT as an effective tool to increase waste sorting. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-093.pdf The Consequences of Financial Innovation: A... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Mar 2016
HBS Case

Can Customer Reviews Be 'Managed?'

people with young kids all have very different expectations. Q: So what started as an aggregation of consumer reviews is now blossoming into much more of a full-service type environment. Is there the potential there for some kind of bias... View Details

Keywords: by Brian Kenny; Advertising; Travel

28 May 2019
News

Case Study: Building the Base

initial step in his quest to help readers—particularly millennials and Gen Zers—better understand how the news is spun. The company’s launch product is a free daily newsletter that aggregates headlines from both the left and the right,... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

09 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

How Business Leaders Can Strengthen American Schools

prevalent? The private sector's $4 billion per year investment in education is a drop in the bucket when you consider the $600 billion total spent annually on US K-12 education. But it is still a significant sum with high-impact potential. Unfortunately, no clear,... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

01 Jan 2005
News

Nancy M. Barry, MBA 1975

approached her to become its second president, Barry was ready to make the move. During the past fifteen years, the network's aggregate portfolio has grown to more than $8 billion, and WWB has gone from serving some 20,000 low-income... View Details

12 Feb 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

‘UpTick’ Brings Wall Street Pressure to Students

aggregated levels offer a number of jumping-off points for discussion, and students can't hide behind 20/20 hindsight—their original choices are there for all to see. An unexpected result from the program's introduction offers a good... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services; Education

19 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Wrapping Your Alliances In a World Wide Web

product information standards makes the current aggregation and dissemination of such content an expensive and inefficient proposition—an effort duplicated by each distributor in the channel. This problem is further compounded by... View Details

Keywords: by Andrew McAfee

27 Jul 2020
Blog Post

HBS Summer Fellows Respond to COVID-19

volunteers, we aggregate high-quality support resources, use targeted digital advertising to get the right resources to the right people, and build solutions for communities when one doesn’t already exist. Raquel and HBS sectionmate... View Details

27 Sep 2011
First Look

First Look: September 27

KironHarvard Business School Case 810-086 In February 2010, management of the Huffington Post, a fast-growing but not-yet-profitable Internet newspaper that aggregates blog posts from unpaid contributors and excerpts of stories originally... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 May 2015
Research & Ideas

How Crowds and Experts Kickstart the Arts

aggregation allowed the funding of many projects that were slightly outside the purview of what judges focused on, suggesting that Kickstarter's democratization enables a greater breadth of artistic production, says Nanda. At the same... View Details

Keywords: Re: Ramana Nanda; Entertainment & Recreation

31 Oct 2004
What Do You Think?

Should the Wisdom of Crowds Influence Our Thinking About Leadership?

effective, have to have three characteristics: diversity of points of view, independence from each other's opinions, and decentralization (with access to and the ability to draw on "local knowledge"). And they have to have some kind of mechanism for View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

05 Feb 2001
What Do You Think?

Do MBA Programs Face “The Innovator’s Dilemma”?

content ... [with] aggregation and interpretation of knowledge [as] ... their core competency," all of which gives them significant competitive advantages in the educational market. However, this doesn't mean that onsite programs can... View Details