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Search for Special Collections | Baker Library

books, articles, media, and more. HOLLIS - Harvard Library Catalog HOLLIS for Archival Discovery is the search platform for manuscript and archival collections' online finding aids and collection guides.... View Details

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Lavinia Teodorescu | MBA

recreate this human bond in the online world?" — Francois-Henri Pinault, Kering Tech areas of interest: Fashion Tech, AI/ML, 3D Virtual Worlds & the Metaverse Formative experience at the intersection of technology and business: Since the... View Details

19 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 19

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nejo.12003/abstract Working PapersInvestment Incentives in Open-Source and Proprietary Two-Sided Platforms Authors:Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Gaston Llanes Abstract We study incentives to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Aug 2022
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Case Study: Sound Check

who plays classical piano and jazz guitar, and Pemberton, a drummer, thought they could offer musicians an online platform that would help them connect with fans in a meaningful if virtual way. The founders... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Dec 2016
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Starting Lineup: Upturning Travel

(ThinkStock) (ThinkStock) As Airbnb has proven, the travel industry is ripe for innovation. What’s next for several alumni- run startups that are reinventing the vacation? The Company The Founder The Pitch The News NewUGo CEO Mei Zhang (MBA 1996) Founded in 2015 An... View Details

Keywords: April White

25 Apr 2014
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Bringing a new funding model to the life sciences industry

Andrew Farquharson (MBA 1999) wants to change the landscape for biomedical financing. The cofounder of VentureHealth, an online funding platform based in Silicon Valley, Farquharson leverages deals with... View Details

07 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

How to Help Small Businesses Survive COVID's Next Phase

software. During the last week of August, about 25 percent of respondents to the US Census Bureau’s Small Business Pulse Survey said they were increasingly using online platforms to promote goods and... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Food & Beverage; Service

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Your Personalized Experience | MBA

positions. Build Your Target List CPD is here to help students can find companies they’re interested in working with, identify contacts for networking, and manage their outreach. Students can leverage the CPD career search platform to... View Details

24 Apr 2014
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Empowering Japan through e-commerce

he developed a web-based shopping mall—Rakuten, which roughly means “optimism”—often called the Amazon.com of Japan. “We created an online marketplace where customers can interact with shop owners, and we empower our merchants to build... View Details

01 Jun 2020
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Will Challenged Amazon Tweak Its Retail Model Post-Pandemic?

ablokhin SUMMING UP Is the Amazon Organization Losing Its Ability to Learn? There was little sympathy for Amazon’s loss of online retail market share at the outset of the current global pandemic among respondents to this month’s column.... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

06 Dec 2021
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Action Plan: Whole Sale

online platforms such as YouTube or, more recently, TikTok, to discover new products, but digital sales in the category were not on par with other consumer goods. The explanation: “Beauty is a fun purchase... View Details

Keywords: April White; ecommerce; bricks and mortar; marketing; beauty

26 Feb 2018
Research & Ideas

The Airbnb Effect: Cheaper Rooms for Travelers, Less Revenue for Hotels

performance of hotels versus Airbnb, the researchers used hotel data from STR, which tracks more than 161,000 hotels, as well as proprietary data provided by Airbnb, creating "the perfect setup to study market competition between new View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Travel

30 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

Do Social Movements Sway Voters? Not Really, Except for One

researchers gathered data from Twitter (the platform now called X), Google searches, and high-frequency surveys like The Gallup Poll Social Series, Nationscape, and Cooperative Congressional Election Study to chart the evolution of View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

22 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019

Platforms Thrive and Others Don’t By: Zhu, Feng, and Marco Iansiti Abstract— In the digital economy, scale is no guarantee of continued success. After all, the same factors that help an online View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

29 Oct 2018
Research & Ideas

Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'

caught the attention of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, who sought her advice about online advertising, later offering her a position as Microsoft’s consulting chief economist, where she worked on the search advertising View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Technology; Education

01 Sep 2013
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High-Level Impact

a venture capital fund, the HBS Fund provides seed funding for the School to act quickly but thoughtfully to capitalize on new concepts, such as FIELD, the yearlong experiential course for all first-year MBAs; the Harvard Innovation Lab; and HBX, an View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

25 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Lean Strategy Not Just for Start-Ups

upgrades, forming hypotheses and conducting experiments with each new version along the way. Intuit adopted such a strategy when developing Fasal, a mobile platform that delivers agricultural market price information to farmers in India.... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

14 Jul 2021
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The First Five Years: Nicolas Manes (MBA 2020)

the pandemic impact you and your work? “The pandemic actually helped us, because it raised awareness about the importance of social and environmental responsibility. Also, customers became more prone to online purchasing and technology... View Details

03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009

catalog and online channels. We show that the emergence and strength of cannibalizing and complementary effects vary over time, across type of channel, and by type of customer and provides insight into when and where managers can expect... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

17 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 17

world's largest online platform for outsourced contracts, where India is the largest country in terms of contract volume. We use an ethnic name procedure to identify ethnic Indian users of oDesk in other... View Details