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- February 2021 (Revised March 2021)
- Case
AptDeco: Circular Economy Furniture Marketplace
By: Ayelet Israeli and Jamie Merkrebs
AptDeco, a used furniture marketplace, was growing rapidly in the tri-state area. The co-founders were confident that the business model, financial position, and unit economics positioned AptDeco for scaling in the massive $120 billion furniture market, despite its... View Details
Keywords: E-Commerce Strategy; Mobile; Word-of-Mouth; Word-of-mouth Marketing; Word Of Mouth; Internet Marketing; Growth Strategy; Platform; Platforms; Two Sided Markets; Two-sided Market; Two-sided Marketplace; Two-Sided Markets; Two-sided Network; Black Entrepreneurs; Black Leadership; African Americans; Circular; Peer-to-peer Markets; Furniture Industry; Furniture; Growth Hacking; Monetization Strategy; African-American Protagonist; Growth Management; Marketing Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Digital Platforms; Marketing Channels; Digital Marketing; Consumer Behavior; Acquisition; Growth and Development Strategy; Customer Focus and Relationships; E-commerce; Retail Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Technology Industry; Web Services Industry; United States; North America; New York (city, NY); New York (state, US)
Israeli, Ayelet, and Jamie Merkrebs. "AptDeco: Circular Economy Furniture Marketplace." Harvard Business School Case 521-069, February 2021. (Revised March 2021.)
Christina M. Wallace
A self-described “human Venn diagram” Christina Wallace has crafted a career at the intersection of business, technology, and the arts. She is a Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business... View Details
- 17 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 17
of NiSource's recent proposal to pursue a tax-advantaged spin-off its pipeline business. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/215026-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 815-001 Growth Hacking at Bazaart (A) The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Article
The Art of Balancing Autonomy and Control: What Managers Can Learn from Hackathon Organizers about Spurring Innovation.
By: Hila Lifshitz - Assaf, Sarah Lebovitz and Lior Zalmanson
Today, managers recognize that innovation requires a high level of work autonomy for their employees. This encourages curiosity, enables independent thinking, and provides an environment in which employees can experiment and test new problem-solving approaches with... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Hackathon; Autonomy; Control; Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management
Lifshitz - Assaf, Hila, Sarah Lebovitz, and Lior Zalmanson. "The Art of Balancing Autonomy and Control: What Managers Can Learn from Hackathon Organizers about Spurring Innovation." MIT Sloan Management Review 60, no. 2 (Winter 2019): 1–6.
- September 2013 (Revised November 2013)
- Case
AngelList
By: Ramana Nanda and Liz Kind
In early 2010, Naval Ravikant and Babak Nivi posted a list of angel investors on the Venture Hacks blog as a resource for founders looking for funding prior to seeking venture capital. The list quickly evolved into AngelList, a separate matchmaking platform for... View Details
Keywords: Angel Investors; Venture Capital; Entrepreneurial Finance; Finance; Entrepreneurship; Investment; Financial Services Industry; United States
Nanda, Ramana, and Liz Kind. "AngelList." Harvard Business School Case 814-036, September 2013. (Revised November 2013.)
- 07 Nov 2023
- Research & Ideas
When Glasses Land the Gig: Employers Still Choose Workers Who 'Look the Part'
graphic designers, for instance, it is better to be female, and to have a high quality, professional-looking photo (with a small plus for glasses). Other hacks for programmers: Grow a beard and keep a computer visible, Troncoso finds.... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
- 26 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 26
Publications International Marketing Review Achievement Motivation, Strategic Orientations and Business Performance in Entrepreneurial Firms: How Different Are Japanese and American Founders? By: Deshpandé, Rohit, Amir Grinstein, Elie Ofek, and Sang-Hoon Kim... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni
Equity Initiative Panelists: Gil Addo (MBA 2011) , RubiconMD Professor Jeffrey J. Bussgang (MBA 1995), on behalf of Hack Diversity, Flybridge VC Sarah Fay , Glasswing Ventures, All Raise Leslie Feinzaig (MBA 2007) , Graham & Walker... View Details
- 24 Feb 2016
- HBS Seminar
David Brumley of Carnegie Mellon University
- 13 Jul 2016
- HBS Case
How Uber, Airbnb, and Etsy Attracted Their First 1,000 Customers
a better job of making apartments appealing than the online classified site, but first they had to siphon away its customers. To do that, Chesky and Gebbia created software to hack Craigslist to extract the contact info of property... View Details
- 17 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
How Entrepreneurs Can Find the Right Problem to Solve
Ethnography. Observing prospects performing the job you hope to improve or replace can be extremely insightful. You may find hacks they would never tell you about in an interview or discover a whole new set of problems in their process.... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- Web
Clubs - Business & Environment
transition to a sustainable system. MIT Student Clubs MIT student clubs host some events that are open to HBS students, such as cross-school mixers and public events like the MIT Sustainability Summit , MIT Climate & Energy Prize , MIT Climate & Energy View Details
- Web
Skydeck - Alumni
We’re All Going to Get Hacked Companies shouldn’t just react to the inevitable hack, says Red Seal CEO Ray Rothrock (MBA 1988) —they should prepare for it. The Promise of Personalized Medicine Rich Horgan (MBA 2018) is on an urgent... View Details
- Web
HBS Entrepreneurship Summit - Alumni
that Work: Increasing Diversity in Startups, VCs and Tech Moderator: Colleen Ammerman, Director, Race, Gender & Equity Initiative at Harvard Business School Panelists: Gil Addo (MBA 2011), RubiconMD Jeffrey J. Bussgang (MBA 1995), Hack... View Details
- 08 Feb 2010
- HBS Case
Looking Behind Google’s Stand in China
of action? A: The hacking incident was probably the last straw in a rather long line of issues. Sooner or later, Google had to stand up for its principles. They have always been at odds internally as to whether or not being in China,... View Details
- Web
Research & Development, Project Code SX-70 - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
always start with a fantasy," Land asserted. "Part of the fantasy technique is to visualize something as perfect. Then with the experiments you work back from the fantasy to reality, hacking away at the components." 58 To that end, the... View Details
- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
property owners who wanted to rent out their properties. Where could they find this kind of information? A large number of owners had already posted their properties on a popular online classified website, Craigslist. Airbnb founders developed a piece of software that... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Sep 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Can the Threat of Networks Be Reduced?
is this term an oxymoron?) received attention. To some degree, readers adopted a “user beware” stance. This becomes even more relevant in view of the massive hacking of Yahoo’s email user base that was disclosed after the column was... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Web
Protecting Yourself Against Social Engineering | Information Technology
tactics because it is usually easier to exploit your natural inclination to trust than it is to discover ways to hack your software. For example, it is much easier to fool someone into giving you their password than it is for you to try... View Details
- 06 Apr 2016
- What Do You Think?
As Tim Cook, How Would You Tackle Apple's Next Challenge?
Summing Up--Is Product Security A Potential Distraction for Apple’s Leadership? The saga of Apple’s stand-off with the United States government over the Company’s refusal to assist the FBI in hacking its own iPhone product to aid in a... View Details