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Lakhani , Jin Hyun Paik and Nina Cohodes July 2024 | Case | Faculty Research Over the course of the 2010s, the rapid advancement of mobile technologies and the rise of online freelancing platforms seemed to portend a radical... View Details
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Team - Case Method Project
language from Wellesley College, where her history studies focused on the establishment of democratic institutions and inspired the belief that history education should be engaging. Julia spends her weekends freelancing as a professional... View Details
- 16 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Can Consumers Be Saved From Their Misguided Decisions?
on the problem. Then ask yourself—are those assumptions justified, and what are the things I don’t know? And what can I do to figure that out?” Rachel Layne is a freelance writer based in the Boston area. Related Reading: You're Fired:... View Details
- 20 Oct 2015
- Blog Post
What to Expect Your First Year at HBS
people. I also did freelance projects for venture capital and private equity firms (which then helped me to gain an internship in venture capital). With all this activity, it’s especially important to build out time to reflect on your... View Details
- 16 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why Technology Alone Can't Solve AI's Bias Problem
groups, including women. For instance, research shows that women receive fewer employment reviews on the popular online freelancing site TaskRabbit compared to men with the same experience—and this lack of reviews can lower the rankings... View Details
- 28 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Can You Buy Creativity in the Gig Economy?
publishing platform, the site tended to promote those books more aggressively, and in turn, flat-fee books received more views. The message, Zhu says, is simple: “The contractual agreement changes the incentives for both the freelancers... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 24 May 2017
- News
David G. Bradley, MBA 1977
a freelancer who had worked for the Atlantic and was held hostage in Libya in 2011. Bradley gathered interested parties—Gillis’s parents, journalists, lawyers—to brainstorm how they could help, and their initial success led him to bring... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
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Documenting the Wartime Effort | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
initiative to build a sizeable collection of images documenting the company and its subsidiaries around the country. Photographers included exceptional artists such as Russell Aikins, Robert Yarnall Richie, Fred Korth, and Fritz Henle. A View Details
- 11 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
Second Life: Reflections on Complementing Success with an Encore Career
formed a boutique, “CFO for hire” firm called “C-Street” that built a book of small business clients eager for seasoned financial expertise. Word spread and soon, Kloeblen was leading a small network of freelance CFOs. Then he got a call... View Details
- 17 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why a Blended Workforce May Be Key to Lasting Competitive Advantage
In recent years, companies have been anxious about the lack of skilled workers to fill pivotal jobs. But then came COVID-19 and a subsequent recession. The ensuing business turmoil and record-high unemployment may have temporarily distracted companies from their... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller
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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
of the 2017 Strategic Management Society Best Conference PhD Paper Award for “Trust and Disintermediation: Evidence from an Online Freelance Marketplace with Grace Gu (HBS Working Paper 18-103). 2016 Ryan W. Buell : Received the 2016... View Details
- 08 Sep 2008
- HBS Case
The Value of Environmental Activists
There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
and late nights studying cases. It also constrained her opportunities after graduation. “As a single mom, I could not take a full-time job,” she notes. Working as a freelance consultant in New York City, Dlodlo bought a house in New... View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
How to Start a Tech Company Without Tech Experience
(photo via Twitter) (photo via Twitter) Rob Biederman (MBA 2014) and his fellow HBS cofounders didn’t have any tech experience when they launched the online freelance marketplace HourlyNerd. Three years later the company, now known as... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Mom Corps
O'KELLY AND KIDS: An idea grows up. As a new mom doing freelance CPA work, Allison Karl O’Kelly (MBA ’99) had an idea for a start-up. The result is Mom Corps, which connects companies looking for top-tier, experienced talent with... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
You goal, girl
monthly by 2001, has solid corporate backing and features freelance writers from some of the country's top publications, Love pointed out. And she knows she's riding the crest of a social phenomenon. "Young girls today show up at women's... View Details
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About Us - Alumni
Address Changes HBS Alumni Records Soldiers Field, Boston, MA 02163 alumni_records@hbs.edu Editorial Guidelines Although most of the articles for the HBS magazine and the alumni website are staff-written, we do accept story proposals from View Details
- 22 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
3 Key Steps for Crafting Your Retirement with Intention: Advice from Career Coach, Lauren Murphy
to engage professionally into retirement with flexible freelance and contract work. “Many more companies are using freelancers and contractors to lower overhead costs,” Murphy said. “There is an opportunity... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Alumni Bookshelf
Press) Scherer examines the economics of musical composition in the 18th and 19th centuries, digging into the roots of the shift from patronage to a freelance market. The Integrity Advantage coauthored by Dana Telford (MBA 1998) (Gibbs... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Research Brief: Cultivating Creativity through Competition
freelance designers submit potential logos, and companies pay a few hundred dollars for the logo they like best. Throughout the process, designers receive one- to five-star ratings from the clients on their work, and iterate on their... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson