Publications

March 2011 (Revised August 2014)
Background Note

Social Media in Health Care

By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Selin Gunal Tyler and Charles C. Huang

This note reviews the social media firms in health care that help providers and consumers to interact and their nascent business models. View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Health Care and Treatment; Digital Platforms; Social and Collaborative Networks; Health Industry

16 Oct 2019
Research & Ideas

Read Our Most Popular Stories of the Quarter

education nonprofit wants nothing less than to “provide a free world-class education for anyone, anywhere. (8,230 visits) How to Be a Digital Platform Leader The most valuable companies in the world have one... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

July 2022
Case

Metaverse Seoul

By: Mitchell Weiss and Samantha Markowitz

In May 2022, the Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) launched the pilot of Metaverse Seoul, a government-run metaverse. SMG had delivered a virtual version of Seoul’s mayor’s office. The team aimed to gain insights as they worked towards building a broad, immersive,... View Details

Keywords: Metaverse; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention; Digital Platforms; Internet and the Web; Government Administration; Public Administration Industry; South Korea; Asia

Web

HBS - From The Dean

dynamism of our campus while building on the knowledge and skills we had gained in hybrid learning and remote work. Our new normal will be to take what we’ve always done well—teaching and research—and infuse it with new tools and View Details

Web

Tools & Services | Information Technology

about web design, implementation, management, and support at HBS. Data, Reporting, & Analytics Explore IT supported reporting and analytics platforms for HBS community information assets. Deliver We ensure the availability and security of... View Details

April 2005 (Revised February 2006)
Case

Monster Networking

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and David Andrew Vivero

The management at Monster.com, the leading U.S. provider of online recruitment services, must decide how to proceed with Monster Networking (MN), a new business launched in late 2003. MN helps users identify other individuals who can offer career advice. Monster.com... View Details

Keywords: Digital Platforms; Internet and the Web; Social and Collaborative Networks; Recruitment; Service Industry; Employment Industry; United States

Keywords: Ecommerce;#53;#Media & Publishing;#64;#Software/App;#29;#Entertainment;#16;#Consumer Products & Packaged Goods;#1;#Advertising;#237;#Artificial Intelligence

19 Dec 2016
Blog Post

The Making of An Internship: Impact

influence an organizations’ success longterm. Watch as three Class of 2017 students highlight the projects they worked on during their summer internships, and the impacts they made. Francesca Ioffreda created the business case for a new View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Dec 2014
News

Forecasting ’15

Health Care: Data-Driven Diagnosis Robert Wah (AMP 175, 2008) President, American Medical Association; Global Chief Medical Officer, Computer Sciences Corporation “We’re entering the third phase of health information technology. The first phase was to get off of paper... View Details

Keywords: Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

25 Aug 2022
News

The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto

that you didn’t in previous incarnations of the web. And more important, the platforms actually have a strong incentive to educate consumers and help them understand. Because once you own your digital... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

Anthony Soohoo

a Fortune 100 company. He led one of the largest digital transformations in history, delivering multi-billion dollars of incremental revenue and record profits, catalyzing Walmart Home to become the nation’s largest retailer for home... View Details

03 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

Why Fierce Competitors Apple and Amazon Became ’Frenemies’ Over eReaders

terms, both companies would like nothing better than to have customers to themselves, wrapped up in their own seamless media universes: iTunes, iPad, and Apple TV on the one hand; and Kindle, Amazon Prime, and Fire TV on the other. “Even though these View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Information; Publishing; Technology

01 Jun 2022
News

3-Minute Briefing: Earl “Butch” Graves Jr. (MBA 1988)

platforms reach about 9.5 million unique visitors each month. We are now the number-one Black digital media brand. Ten years ago, when we started our directory of African Americans sitting on Fortune 500... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

Web

Europe - Global Activities 2021

Europe Europe Job-Matching Platforms Address the Refugee Crisis Pictured: The European refugee crisis continues to escalate—between 2011 and 2019 alone, more than 6 million people applied for asylum in the European Union. The assignment... View Details

05 Feb 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019

open platforms and then provide a brief history of open digital platforms. I go on to argue that the success of open platforms in competition with vertically integrated firms... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Sep 2024
News

Far-Reaching Impact

Above: Teachers in India's daycare system draw on Rocket Learning's digital platform to enhance learning. Photo courtesy Rocket Learning When the news reached Namya Mahajan (MBA 2022) as her HBS graduation was approaching that she would receive financial assistance to... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

29 Aug 2024
News

A Kick Start for Latin American Startups

supports the real estate industry through a platform that allows brokers to digitize their operations, enabling access to a larger client base and performance data, options that so far have not reached their... View Details

Web

Marketing - HBS Online

New Credential of Digital Innovation and Strategy Build the skill set and strategic acumen to compete in the digital world through a combination of forward-looking coursework, unique team activities with a... View Details

01 Mar 2007
News

Microsoft’s Ballmer Makes His Pitch

conducted, and developing platforms to promote digital reading. “It’s stunning that we still read so much on paper,” said Ballmer. In addition, the company will push forward with major efforts to build its... View Details

Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

November 2021 (Revised April 2022)
Case

EbonyLife Media (A)

By: Andy Wu, Feng Zhu, Pippa Tubman Armerding and Wale Lawal

Founded by Mosunmola “Mo” Abudu in 2012 with a mission to bring high-quality African stories to the world, EbonyLife was the company behind many of Nigeria’s biggest films and TV shows. The company began as a television channel on the Africa-wide direct broadcast... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Mission and Purpose; Growth and Development Strategy; Digital Platforms; Consumer Behavior; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Nigeria; Africa