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- May–June 2021
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Capturing Value in Platform Business Models that Rely on User-Generated Content
By: Hemang Subramanian, Sabyasachi Mitra and Sam Ransbotham
Business models increasingly depend on inputs from outside traditional organizational boundaries. For example, platforms that generate revenue from advertising, subscription, or referral fees often rely on user-generated content (UGC). But there is considerable... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Network Effects; Mergers and Acquisitions; Valuation; Risk and Uncertainty
Subramanian, Hemang, Sabyasachi Mitra, and Sam Ransbotham. "Capturing Value in Platform Business Models that Rely on User-Generated Content." Organization Science 32, no. 3 (May–June 2021): 804–823.
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Business of Ideas - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Business of Ideas Course Number 1161 Professor Caroline Elkins Fall; Q2; 1.5 credits Course Overview: Today, ideas matter more than ever. Idea generators – from opinion columnists and... View Details
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
wheat farm in Saskatchewan) and let the free market do the rest. But this was impractical advice. Farmers conditioned by three generations of cradle-to-grave security were not about to become good homesteaders. Furthermore, there was no... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
explore interactions between private business and public health, and demonstrate how consumers can create better and less expensive care for themselves. Book Excerpt: Consumer Power in Shaping Public Health Healthcare and education are... View Details
- 30 Jun 2010
- News
Congressional Pork Is Bad for Business
research by three HBS professors suggests otherwise. The research project began with the premise that as a state's congressional delegation grows in powerful committee assignments, businesses back home benefit from the increased flow of... View Details
- 06 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
How Younger Immigrants Gain an Edge in American Business
For refugees fleeing troubled regions as disparate as Afghanistan and Ukraine, finding meaningful work in the United States is not only key to their own success, but also crucial for businesses navigating labor shortages. New research... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- April 1996 (Revised March 1998)
- Supplement
Starlite: Confidential Instructions for P. Foster, VP of HR Business Imaging Division
By: Kathleen L. McGinn and Julia Morgan
Supplements Starlite Corp.: General Information. View Details
McGinn, Kathleen L., and Julia Morgan. "Starlite: Confidential Instructions for P. Foster, VP of HR Business Imaging Division." Harvard Business School Supplement 396-353, April 1996. (Revised March 1998.)
- December 2009
- Article
Restructuring Within an Academic Health Center to Support Quality and Safety: The Development of the Center for Quality and Safety at the Massachusetts General Hospital
By: Richard Bohmer, Jonathan David Bloom, Elizabeth Mort MD, Akinluwa Demehin and Gregg Meyer MD
Recent focus on the need to improve the quality and safety of health care has created new challenges for academic health centers (AHCs). Whereas previously quality was largely assumed, today it is increasingly quantifiable and requires organized systems for... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Design; Performance Improvement; Quality; Safety; Massachusetts
Bohmer, Richard, Jonathan David Bloom, Elizabeth Mort MD, Akinluwa Demehin, and Gregg Meyer MD. "Restructuring Within an Academic Health Center to Support Quality and Safety: The Development of the Center for Quality and Safety at the Massachusetts General Hospital." Academic Medicine 84, no. 12 (December 2009): 1663–1671.
- 14 Jun 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
“Power from Sunshine”: A Business History of Solar Energy
- February 1996 (Revised June 1996)
- Teaching Note
General Mills Board and Strategic Planning and Lukens Inc., The: The Melters' Committee (A) & (B) TN
By: Jay W. Lorsch, Cynthia A. Montgomery and Lisa J. Chadderdon
Teaching Note for (9-491-117), (9-493-070), and (9-493-071). View Details
- 06 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Women MBAs at Harvard Business School
In 1962, the Harvard Business School faculty voted for women to be directly admitted to the two-year MBA Program for the first time. In September 1963, eight female students enrolled in the Class of 1965, alongside 676 men. The School has... View Details
- 18 Jul 2024
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces Its 2024-2025 Blavatnik Fellows
Harvard Business School (HBS) has named its 2024-25 Blavatnik Fellows and the program’s eleventh cohort. Launched in 2013, the Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship is part of a gift from the Blavatnik Family Foundation to... View Details
- 12 Jul 2020
- Book
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020
well into, is my colleague Shoshanna Zuboff’s magisterial The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. This book is one of genius. It provides a sweeping description of the rise and impact of business models that are premised on harvesting and... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 06 Sep 2022
- Blog Post
Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business & Environment
What are the career opportunities in business and environment? In Summer 2022, over 65 MBA students found internships at the intersection of business and the environment. This post provides a sample of some... View Details
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Doing Business in a Divided World - Alumni
societal goals beyond shareholder value. Reading Materials Case Study: General Mills: Responding to the Killing of George Floyd For your personal use. Further posting, copying or distribution is not permitted. Report: Doing View Details
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Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership
Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century Request the Data A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A Robert S. Abbott Chicago Defender, 1905–1940 Benjamin Abrams Emerson Radio & Phonograph Corporation, 1922–1966... View Details
- 16 Jun 2016
- Blog Post
Why Entrepreneurs Should Consider Business School
Before I came to HBS, I bootstrapped a software company, Proximate, for three years.* We make social-media marketing software for alumni and trade associations. In many ways, HBS made starting my own business possible. I was a 2+2 admit,... View Details