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  • 13 Jun 2016
  • Blog Post

Is HBS Cutthroat or Collaborative?

could be described as insecure overachievers, it is understandable that one may expect a competitive nature to brew. However, in my experience, that has never been the case.  The classroom and the greater HBS ecosystem are supportive and... View Details
  • 2022
  • White Paper

The American Opportunity Index: A Corporate Scorecard of Worker Advancement

By: Matt Sigelman, Joseph Fuller, Nik Dawson and Gad Levanon
The American Opportunity Index: A Corporate Scorecard of Worker Advancement is a new effort to give companies and other stakeholders a set of robust tools that measure how well major employers are doing in fostering economic mobility for workers and how they could do... View Details
Keywords: Upward Mobility; Career Advancement; Personal Development and Career; Compensation and Benefits; Employees; Wages; Human Capital; Recruitment
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  • Web

IT Strategy: IT Modernization Drives Academic Library Innovation | Information Technology

the vanguard of academic library innovation, linked data experimentation, semantic data modeling, and digital product development through new, cutting-edge technology and processes. The current architecture needs to be redesigned to create a better information View Details
  • 01 Dec 2017
  • News

3-Minute Briefing: Wei Zhang (MBA 1999)

Facebook are all in the entertainment space. Alibaba Pictures doesn’t replicate a traditional Hollywood studio. We want to use the data and resources Alibaba has gathered in our e-commerce and internet ecosystem to create, market, and... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 05 Mar 2024
  • Blog Post

IFC India: Our Godrej Site Visit

for centuries in India. Additionally, the ecosystem serves a critical role in regulating the area’s hydrological cycle, ensuring a supply of fresh water2. Regulating the environment: Mangrove trees are a protective mechanism against... View Details
  • 04 Jun 2024
  • Blog Post

ClimateCAP 2024

crisis as we approach the midpoint of the decade. During ClimateCAP 2024, attendees heard from thought leaders and executives working towards a more sustainable and equitable business ecosystem and engaged with one another to learn new... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2016
  • News

Making Progress on Strategic Priorities

to the HBS campus during 2018–2019, creating opportunities for engagement in research and teaching. Harvard Innovation Labs With the i-lab for students, Launch Lab for alumni ventures, and Life Lab for the life sciences community, HBS has helped create an unparalleled... View Details
  • 10 Jul 2015
  • Blog Post

Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught?

opportunity for stimulating cross-discipline learning and collaboration. 3) HBS is situated in Boston, one of the top three startup and innovation ecosystems in the world, which means that you have opportunity to interact with venture... View Details
  • Web

Entrepreneurship | MBA

Launch Your Entrepreneurial Journey The Harvard Business School (HBS) community is a place where students are encouraged and inspired to pursue their entrepreneurial passions. There is a vast ecosystem of resources that supports the... View Details
  • Web

Digital Operations - Course Catalog

coordinate multi-party ecosystems through digital platforms. Students will analyze how companies adapt their processes to new industry structures, shifting competitive dynamics, and changing operational roles. Module 3: Scaling... View Details
  • January 2018 (Revised May 2018)
  • Case

AT&T Managing Technological Change and the Future of Telephone Operators in the 20th Century

By: Daniel P. Gross and William R. Kerr
By the 1930s, AT&T dominated the American phone industry, serving 10 million telephones and employing over 100,000 switchboard operators. But beginning in the mid-1910s, the company began changing from manually operated switchboards to mechanical switching systems that... View Details
Keywords: AT＆T; Bell Telephone; Phone Lines; Phone Operators; Mechanical Switching; Layoffs; Technological Change; Transition; History; Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Information Technology; Disruption; Change Management; Communications Industry; Telecommunications Industry; United States
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  • 02 Aug 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market

had had to be actively created. Supply alone did not generate demand. Second, this was a case in which actors other than the producers (that is, the artists) interpreted the product to explain and construct its value to consumers, allowing us to examine the entire... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2018
  • News

Excellence At The Intersection Of Disciplines

involving business, science, medicine, law, public policy, design, and ethics. What began with the i-lab, an incubator for students across Harvard, has evolved into an innovation ecosystem that includes the Harvard Launch Lab (for alumni)... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2017
  • News

The Middle Way

crowd that the agreement was “proof of the strength of what we could do if we decide to find common purpose.” The head of a regional lumber coalition touted the achievement, crediting his fellow speakers. A representative from the environmental groups said the... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous
  • 31 Oct 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/317040-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 817-126 CIC: Catalyzing Entrepreneurial Ecosystems (A) CIC creates "entrepreneurial ecosystems," renting out office and co-working space to start-ups and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • September 2016 (Revised September 2017)
  • Case

Collage.com: Scaling a Distributed Organization

By: Christopher Stanton and Shikhar Ghosh
Kevin Borders and Joe Golden, co-founders and co-CEOs of Collage.com, must decide how to grow their custom photo-products startup in the face of fierce competition. From 2011 through 2016, the business evolved from a hobby to a startup with $22 million in revenue and... View Details
Keywords: Remote Work; Internet and the Web; Organizational Structure; Competitive Strategy; Employees; Business Startups; Growth and Development Strategy; Consumer Products Industry; Service Industry
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  • May 2019
  • Background Note

Geographic Inequality Primer

By: William Kerr, Joseph Fuller, Manjari Raman and Donald Maruyama
There are large and persistent divides between urban centers and rural areas in America due in part to structural causes. This primer focuses on the demographic differences between urban and rural areas within the United States and the unique challenges facing rural... View Details
Keywords: Inequality; Rural; Development; Equality and Inequality; Demographics; Rural Scope; Urban Scope; Development Economics; Problems and Challenges; Globalization; United States
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  • 01 Sep 2016
  • News

The Big Business of Little Loans

Funding Circle, among others. It was a wide circle. These startups are part of a new ecosystem filling the void left by traditional banks that don’t want to lend to small businesses because they are too risky or because interest rates are... View Details
Keywords: Nancy Miller
  • 18 May 2015
  • News

The First Five Years: Anjali Vaidya (MBA 2010)

an incredibly successful advertising model on desktop to mobile devices. I learned about the mobile ecosystem and its vocabulary: apps, developers, deep-linking, SDKs, APIs, server-side, device IDs, carriers, exchanges, SSPs, DSPs, DMPs,... View Details
Keywords: Google; Yahoo; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
  • 09 May 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 9

organizational differences could account for about 16% of international differences in post-crisis GDP growth. Platforms, Open/User Innovation, and Ecosystems: A Strategic Leadership Perspective By: Altman, Elizabeth J., and Michael L. Tushman Abstract—Platform,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne