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  • 2009
  • Working Paper

Do Friends Influence Purchases in a Social Network?

By: Raghuram Iyengar, Sangman Han and Sunil Gupta

Social networks, such as Facebook and Myspace have witnessed a rapid growth in their membership. Some of these businesses have tried an advertising-based model with very limited success. However, these businesses have not fully explored the power of their members to... View Details

Keywords: Marketing; Network Effects; Sales; Power and Influence; Social and Collaborative Networks; Web Sites; South Korea
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  • 22 Oct 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Want Hybrid Work to Succeed? Trust, Don’t Track, Employees

innovation, specific collaboration needs, or team building—meeting in person may be preferable. But rather than dictate a one-size-fits-all approach, Neeley says, business leaders should allow individuals... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • March 2024
  • Case

Nomad: A License to Bank

By: Paul A. Gompers and Pedro Levindo
In late 2023, Lucas Vargas, CEO and co-founder of Nomad, a fintech that offered financial services in the United States for Brazilian residents, had to decide what to do to ensure the company’s continued expansion. Nomad launched its first product, a U.S. digital bank... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Startups; Customer Satisfaction; Decision Making; Entrepreneurship; Banks and Banking; Initial Public Offering; Global Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy; Product Launch; Organizational Culture; Going Public; Ownership Stake; Innovation and Invention; Strategic Planning; Business and Government Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Risk and Uncertainty; Business Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Corporate Strategy; Diversification; Expansion; Vertical Integration; Leadership; Law; Banking Industry; Technology Industry; Service Industry; Brazil; United States; North America; Latin America
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  • Web

New Venture Competition | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Competition 31 Student teams participating in 2024 Social Enterprise Track $75 k. Grand Prize 841 Social Enterprise Track teams since 2001 Resources & Benefits Workshops A series of workshops View Details
  • Web

Alumnae Circles - Alumni

ensure you receive communications critical to your membership, please add no-reply@chronus.com to your email contacts and safe senders list. All other communications sent outside of Chronus will come from HBS Alumnae Circles (... View Details
  • 04 Apr 2024
  • News

The Making of a Medical Milestone

in health care consulting, and then I was an investment banker with Merrill Lynch and Centerview Partners. I then joined the executive team at Sanofi where I was Chief Strategy... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • Article

Power to the People

By: Eric D. Werker

Every nongovernmental organization has a mission statement. For example, CARE, one of the world's largest and best-funded NGOs, explains its mission as serving "individuals and families in the poorest communities in the world. Drawing strength from our global... View Details

Keywords: Mission and Purpose; Food; Service Operations; Inflation and Deflation; Experience and Expertise; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Knowledge; Poverty; Agribusiness; Diversity; Non-Governmental Organizations; Innovation and Invention; India
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  • 01 Mar 2024
  • News

Unlocking the Power of Community

When Tara Fung (MBA 2016) explains Co:Create, the company she cofounded in 2022 and now leads as CEO, she doesn’t mention Web3 first. “We help innovative brands and creators unlock the power of community,” she explains. Co:Create does this with a new, gamified approach... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • Web

Alumni - Business & Environment

Alumni Alumni Climate Impact Alumni Climate Impact Alumni founders highlight the innovative solution their company is implementing to address the climate problem. Alumni Events View a complete list of business and environment related... View Details
  • Portrait Project

Alex Angelopoulos

hubs felt out of reach. A small startup of five was the antidote to my distress. Huddled around a laptop in a cramped, buzzing co-working space in Athens, our team competed with Goliaths, fueled only by our determination, creativity,... View Details
  • Fast Answer

Search Funds

industry description, annual revenues, number of employees, and year established. Each annual file consists of a snapshot of InfoGroup's data as of the last day of each year, creating a time series of data. Access via WRDS platform -... View Details
  • Web

Online Requests - Research Computing Services

(HBS affiliates only) This form allows you to request changes to an existing project space on our HBSGrid cluster storage, such as adding additional individuals to the space and/or increasing the size of the space. RCS will obtain... View Details
  • 13 Mar 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Tricky Business of Nonprofit Brands

NGOs to be seen working in the field, actively and effectively helping in the middle of a humanitarian crisis. In addition to the media coverage that results in increased donations, the NGO brand is strengthened View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • 31 Jan 2023
  • Research & Ideas

It’s Not All About Pay: College Grads Want Jobs That ‘Change the World’

Businesses seeking highly educated talent would do well to appeal to college graduates’ desire to “change the world.” And in doing so, they might change the world a little, too—by offering jobs that come with the unintended effect of... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 07 Nov 2022
  • News

Victoria’s Secret Buys Alumni-Founded Adore Me

everything that they do.” In a press release announcing the sale, Hermand Waiche noted that, “We have significantly grown our business over the past decade, and are excited to bring our technology, purchase experiences, inclusive... View Details
Keywords: Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores
  • 04 Dec 2023
  • Blog Post

My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service

focusing a lot on financial analysis for the team and putting together various communications documents for them to help demonstrate their value across the park service. We presented to senior leadership... View Details
  • 12 Feb 2020
  • Blog Post

Trying Out New Career Options with SIPs (Short Intensive Programs)

Short Intensive Programs (SIPs) offer students an excellent opportunity to think about career choices, gain practical skills, and explore topics they might otherwise never get to study.  View Video SIPs are no fee, no credit courses,... View Details
  • 20 Dec 2017
  • Lessons from the Classroom

How to Design a Better Customer Experience

into consideration the intense emotions of parents and children. So Dietz and his team embarked on a patient-centered redesign by attempting to view the diagnostic procedure... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 2016
  • Working Paper

Operations in the On-Demand Economy: Staffing Services with Self-Scheduling Capacity

By: Itai Gurvich, Martin Lariviere and Antonio Moreno
Motivated by recent innovations in service delivery such as ride-sharing services and work-from-home call centers, we study capacity management when workers self-schedule. Our service provider chooses capacity to maximize its profit (revenue from served customers minus... View Details
Keywords: Strategic Servers; On-demand Economy; Independent Capacity; Distributed Systems; Uber; Service Operations; Performance Capacity
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  • 29 Jul 2013
  • Research & Ideas

A Manager’s Moral Obligation to Preserve Capitalism

Ramanna, who holds appointments as the Henry B. Arthur Fellow, supporting the research and teaching of business ethics, and as a Marvin Bower Fellow, helping faculty launch innovative new business agendas.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding