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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Case Study: Something New
sold for $5,000 in a boutique might cost as little as $200 in labor and supplies. By working directly with the factories, Anomalie can produce a custom gown for about $1,200. In the first two months that it was open for business, Anomalie... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Democratizing Funding, Diversifying Funders
Alvaro Dominguez Alvaro Dominguez In early 2018, a New York startup called Roomi opened itself up to the type of investors known by Wall Street traders as “mom-and-pop investors,” although an IPO was nowhere in sight. The company, which... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Research Brief: Unveiling the Truth about Transparency
Transparency in a Simple Labor Market,” she and Brown University’s Bobak Pakzad-Hurson drew on data from online platforms used by employers seeking temporary workers; they also conducted an experiment that involved managers and... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Contributing to a Better Future
attending HBS, Keller worked at McKinsey and then served as global program director for Open for Business, a small LGBTQ+ rights nonprofit that used research on the connections between business performance, economic performance, and... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
service outlets. "When Gerry was hired, it was the company's first deliberate action to view consumer packaged goods as an important growth platform for Starbucks," says Barry Beeninga, a 16-year veteran of the company who worked with... View Details
- 24 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni New Venture Competition Finalists Named
solve clotting, infection, and clogging issues. Alumnus: Andrew Jones, MBA 1997 Region: Mid-Atlantic US Pawame: Making solar energy affordable in Africa through a microfinance approach using mobile payments. Alumnus: Alexandre Skander Allegue, PLDA 18, 2015 Region:... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Case Study: Golden Ticket
(iStock) The startup shorthand for the year-old G8 Rocket (pronounced “gate rocket”) is SAP meets Square—an enterprise platform designed for local vendors. In G8 Rocket’s case, those vendors are typically high-school athletic departments,... View Details
- 11 Jan 2019
- News
Case Study: Beating Bias
establishing an audience, then adding targeted ads and affiliate marketing, Patel aims to build a “commenting platform 2.0,” he says: Media companies could license the product to enable more robust user-generated discussion within the... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Labs Enable Large-scale Research
and respond more quickly to emerging issues in the business world. REINVENTING THE FUTURE OF BUSINESS READ MORE STORIES REINVENTING THE FUTURE OF BUSINESS READ MORE STORIES The launch of the Institute in July marked the opening of 12... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
An SUV Built for African Roads—by African Workers
facility. Now Mobius is about to embark on an ambitious growth plan by opening a new factory. With $20 million in investments and loans to date, the company designed, built, and sold their proof of concept, then developed the Mobius II... View Details
Keywords: Amy Yee
- 18 Apr 2022
- News
Home Grown
the internet on the lock screen is that you have all options of monetization open for you, right? So clearly advertising is a big option and that’s where, you know, our own InMobi ads platform becomes really... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
She·sesh·un (noun) Ly·ing flat (verb) Post·cook·ie (adj.) Bi·o·rev·o·loo·shun (noun) Dig·i·tul no·mad (noun) Di·ver·si·ty wa·shing (verb) Meem Stock (noun) When the price of supposedly “dull” stocks like BlackBerry and GameStop hit the roof earlier this year, driven by... View Details
- 30 Oct 2018
- News
Paths of Victory
each category—met in mid-April at the Rock Center to give one last 90-second pitch to the judges and audience. In each category, the Grand Prize winner took home $75,000; the Runner-up $25,000; and the Crowd Favorite $5,000. Applications for this year’s alumni track of... View Details
- 18 Mar 2008
- News
Election ’08, HBS Style
venue last year,” said Drew Sloan, who was running with Matt Haldeman on a platform of bringing students and the SA closer together. Mike McGlade noted that the SA pays over $100 for their kegs and that the cheapest snack food from... View Details
- 30 Jul 2024
- News
Reddit’s Rise
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Jen Wong (MBA 2004) joined Reddit as COO in 2018, the user-generated content site wasn’t exactly a burning building...but it might have been... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
These Walls Can Talk
that is forecasted to grow to almost $39 billion in the next five years. Shortly after Liang joined SmartThings, Samsung purchased the two-year-old company for a rumored $200 million. SmartThings sells a hardware hub to network your home’s Internet-enabled devices and... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 14 Nov 2012
- News
Remembering His Roots
education opportunities. But HBS gave Curiel more effective tools. “HBS opened my eyes to the power and resources of business and the possibility that it could be harnessed for the greater good,” he says. The Rising Farmworkers Dream Fund... View Details
Keywords: farmworkers
- 28 May 2019
- News
Case Study: Building the Base
ground. After establishing an audience, then adding targeted ads and affiliate marketing, Patel aims to build a “commenting platform 2.0,” he says. Media companies could license the product to enable more robust user-generated discussion... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Your Fullest Self
to hide. She began wearing wigs and extensions for the convenience and versatility they offered, not as a necessity. That experience was the seed for what inspired her to leave a secure position at Shell and launch Upgrade, an online View Details
- 10 Feb 2016
- News
Helping Young African MBAs Go Home
help bridge those gaps, he cofounded Young African MBAs (YAM), which provides networking opportunities, educates young professionals and companies about the opportunities in Africa, offers career support, and provides a platform for... View Details