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- 11 Oct 2017
- Blog Post
Designing Internship Projects for Greater Impact
interns. “It’s a benefit to students to learn on the ground, and a benefit to us to get quality talent,” she says. “We’re always thinking about where they can add tangible value over a short period of time.” EquaLife’s most recent intern, Kristina Hristova, took the... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
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Past Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
research into how governments best incorporate technology and IT platforms for the purposes of providing services and connecting with their constituents. The research explores how the government, private sector, and individual... View Details
- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
continued and expanded, with further empirical exploration of a distributed model of innovation that includes communities and platforms in a variety of contexts and with the development of theory to explain the economic underpinnings of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 22
seeking to double her budget for social media and other digital marketing initiatives for 2011. A number of digital efforts implemented in the past two years seem to be bearing fruit, and there is a desire to intensify Sephora's social media, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
James Reinhart
disastrous. For James Reinhart, HBS MBA 2009, the foray into online resale began as a virtual swapping platform for grownups looking for a way to empty their closets and upgrade their wardrobes. The idea... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto
want to buy. We’re also seeing environmental costs with the energy usage of certain bitcoin architectures. Meanwhile, digital wallets that people use to hold cryptocurrency don’t have many of the protections people are used to and expect from other forms of digital... View Details
- 14 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?
the like. Right now, a developer must accept a dramatically reduced price for that kind of land. But PRT could connect outlying buildings directly to a subway platform and a restaurant district. A PRT-connected outlying building could be... View Details
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Patrick Chun
wanted to do." Seeking an opportunity to reflect, a platform for pursuing entrepreneurial ideas, and an opportunity to return to Harvard Square, Patrick applied to HBS. Putting concepts to the test In his RC year, Patrick entered not... View Details
- 12 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 12, 2016
Spontaneous Deregulation: How to Compete with Platforms That Ignore the Rules By: Edelman, Benjamin G., and Damien Geradin Abstract—Many successful platform businesses—think Airbnb, Uber, and YouTube—ignore... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Year in Review | Annual Report 2024
EndoShunt Medical Inc. MesaQuantum Solara (also a 2024 New Venture Competition Social Enterprise Track Grand Prize winner) Stratagen Bio Online Milestones Play Video duration: 57:44 Connext 2024 In May, Harvard Business School View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
She·sesh·un (noun) Ly·ing flat (verb) Post·cook·ie (adj.) Bi·o·rev·o·loo·shun (noun) Dig·i·tul no·mad (noun) Di·ver·si·ty wa·shing (verb) Meem Stock (noun) When the price of supposedly “dull” stocks like BlackBerry and GameStop hit the roof earlier this year, driven by... View Details
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
possibilities for expanding by building on the Clinic's platform of service delivery are investigated. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=607013 Cluster Mobilization in Mitteldeutschland... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
edX, a new non-profit joint venture that would provide a platform for massive open online courses (MOOCs). edX did not produce original courses or instructional content—it made a web View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
Regulate Companies like Airbnb and Uber? By: Edelman, Benjamin G., and Damien Geradin Abstract—New software platforms use modern information technology, including full-featured web sites and mobile apps, to allow service providers and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Aug 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Built for Global Competition from the Start
Association board in two months. Trouble was, Grinna lacked a technical background. In class discussion, students consider whether Grinna should hire local programmers or a CTO to do the work; outsource the work using a global labor View Details
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
What’s an Internet Business Model? Ask a Health Care Professional
Internet, Applegate explained, is the fundamental merging between platform providers and the businesses being built on these platforms. "More and more, we're seeing that businesses doing business on top of the 'Net are also providing the... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
speaking with a worker at the BulkWhiz warehouse. Amira Rashad (MBA 1998) Amira Rashad (MBA 1998) Rashad: I am Amira Rashad. I am founder and CEO of BulkWhiz, an online bulk grocery platform based out of... View Details
- 03 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 3
Organizing the Vacation Rental Industry In less than 10 years, cofounders Brian Sharples and Carl Shepherd had transformed HomeAway from just another Internet startup into the world's leading vacation-rental marketplace-a global online... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers
and those with lack of access to education and transportation face after prison.” The manufacturer Owens Corning finally gave him a chance. At the same time, he set out to solve the problem his experience revealed. Blakeman spent weekends building an View Details
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Asia Pacific - Global Activities 2021
possibilities. The School taught him to think innovatively about the one problem he wanted to help solve in the next decade—access to education. With support from the Harvard i-lab and Rock Center, Gumulia and cofounder Sean Widjaja created Edukita, an View Details