Social Platforms - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Dec 2021
News

HBS Curricula Explore the Complexities of Innovation

platform on his own website. “We discussed how you think about building a business in a world where you depend on your competitors to go to market. That’s something that doesn’t exist in many other business types, but it’s pretty common... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

25 Feb 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

Scholars and Students Unpack the Digital Business Revolution

initiatives and projects created by the School to foster interdisciplinary research on the great problems and opportunities facing society—including such topics as business and the environment, health care, US competitiveness, social... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education; Technology

01 Jun 2017
News

The New Venture Competition Crowns a New Crop

first on-demand jobs platform. Prizes were also awarded to student teams in the business and social enterprise tracks at the event, with winners in all three categories each receiving $75,000, runners-up, $25,000; and crowd favorites,... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

04 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From

While managers feared that all the top talent would leave, instead Recruit grew to become a $20 billion tech company (roughly the equivalent of Salesforce) that employs 50,000 people globally. They have created a suite of products including View Details

Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta

01 Dec 2010
News

The Transformers

money in the bank, Bridgespan has shared its reports, case studies, and other content freely in the interest of promoting knowledge in the social sector. When your clients are nonprofits and foundations, Bradach and Tierney reasoned, the... View Details

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

14 Oct 2020
News

Sewn with Love

first time Hanazawa has wrestled with the ways she could urge her industry to focus on social impact. In 2011, an earthquake and tsunami leveled towns and cities in her home country of Japan, and she struggled with how to help. She... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

26 Feb 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019

compatibility can thus increase asymmetry between the platform owners’ profit foci and, given a sufficiently large difference in the standalone utilities, yields greater profits for both platform owners. We... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

17 Nov 2009
First Look

First Look: Nov. 17

Platform Competition, Compatibility, and Social Efficiency (revised) Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Francisco Ruiz-Aliseda Abstract Katz and Shapiro (1985) study systems compatibility in settings with... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2013
News

Climate Change as Must-See TV

where he wrote Americans and Climate Change: Closing the Gap between Science and Action. "To get action," he says, "we must build public pressure, even a social movement; we hope this series will be one more catalyst for that. Our... View Details

Keywords: videos; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services; Broadcasting (except Internet); Information; Arts, Entertainment

09 Mar 2021
Blog Post

New BEI Director: Lynn Schenk

the HBS community are already familiar with Lynn and her capacity for leadership at the intersection of business and social and environmental issues. Lynn initially joined HBS in 2017 to write case studies for a new course in impact... View Details

15 Mar 2019
News

A Model of Drive and Impact

Pablo Fernandez Alvarez (GMP 17, 2014) is cofounder of Clicars, an e-commerce platform in Spain that allows users to buy and finance refurbished cars hassle-free. In this interview, Fernandez explains the business model, the reasons... View Details

Keywords: Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers; Retail Trade

07 Dec 2016
Blog Post

Marketing Reimagined: A Recap of the 2016 Marketing Innovation Conference

content provided, but also the people they met. With a fantastic line-up of speakers and students and professionals in attendance from across the nation, our conference continues to be a great platform for aspiring and established... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports

31 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

One Quarter of Entrepreneurs in the United States Are Immigrants

immigrant from Finland who came to the United States as an exchange visitor, worked under the H1-B visa program, and ultimately became a US citizen, did the heavy lifting to wrestle the database into a platform that could track... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

06 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

Are the Olympics a Catalyst for China Reforms?

With China hosting the Summer Olympic Games starting this week, some reformers see an opportunity to use the world stage as a platform to pressure the country's leadership into expanding social freedoms.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

18 Dec 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018

performance. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55388 Product Quality and Entering Through Tying: Experimental Evidence By: Kim, Hyunjin, and Michael Luca Abstract—Dominant platform businesses often... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

29 Apr 2015
Blog Post

2+2: Challenging Conceptions of Business

Health, Documentary Film, and Social Activism. I studied the potential of documentary film to improve public health and inspire social activism. Gallatin recognized the importance of learning outside the... View Details

01 Sep 2024
News

3-Minute Briefing: Kruti Patel Goyal (MBA 2004)

My parents were in the hospitality business. They owned a motel, so we grew up working at the business as well as living at the business. I remember vividly some moments of really intense stress. And it was because my parents took a lot of risk to build the business.... View Details

Keywords: Sarah Wyman

14 Aug 2019
Sharpening Your Skills

The Manager's Guide to Leveraging Disruption

Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive InnovationChristensen's classic article from 2003 about the six keys to creating new-growth businesses. The Three Types of Leaders Who Create Radical Change Every successful social movement... View Details