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31 Oct 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017

(rate and direction) and value-capture strategies in response to Google’s entry threat and actual entry into their markets. We find that, after Google’s entry threat increases, affected developers reduce innovation and raise the prices for the affected apps. Once View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

02 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Women, Work, and the "M" Word

Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs. She has held roles at Google and in the Obama Administration. Jannine earned her BA from the University of Pennsylvania, an MBA from HBS, a Fulbright Scholar, and a Blavatnik fellow in healthcare at HBS. This... View Details

19 May 2016
Research Event

Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium

and how to measure collaborative success. Several audience members weighed in, including HBS Dean Nitin Nohria. “My real dream is that we should build in Allston a company like Google or Facebook,” Nohria said. “Yes, I celebrate the fact... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel

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Women, Work, and the “M” Word - Blog: Health Supplement

healthcare provider focused on underserved communities that was incubated within Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs. She has held roles at Google and in the Obama Administration. Jannine earned her BA from the University of Pennsylvania, an MBA... View Details

04 Dec 2019
News

Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders

of trying to go for those home runs all the time and the next Google or the next Facebook, you know, you can certainly make great returns when you go for singles and doubles. And we've seen that by having a diverse group of people, the... View Details

11 Sep 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018

case describes how Google designed and launched an internal matching market to assign individual workers with projects and managers. The case evaluates how marketplace design considerations—and several alternative staffing models—could... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

04 Jan 2010
Research & Ideas

Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009

as Facebook and MySpace (and in South Korea, Cyworld), the business viability of these sites remains in question. While many sites are attempting to follow Google and generate revenues from advertising, will advertising be effective? If... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

29 Jun 2015
HBS Case

Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records

as data companies. Partnerships could alleviate this concern. For example, Philips recently aligned itself with Salesforce.com, a leader in customer relationship management approaches that could be applied to patients. Consumer tech companies: Consumer tech companies... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health; Technology

02 Feb 2015
Research & Ideas

Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t

Over the past two decades, entire industries have been disrupted by Internet competitors who "unbundled" their content and delivered it to consumers in new ways. Newspapers lost out to Google and Craigslist, record companies to iTunes and... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

19 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Racist Umpires and Monetary Ministers

they would be worried about losing members to neighboring churches and weigh those recruits more highly. For the national Methodist church, on the other hand, it doesn't matter which local congregation a Methodist belongs to. "It's like one division of View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports; Information; Publishing

17 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?

have no awareness of the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989. The government can kick Google out of China, but all bets are off when Chinese students return from travel outside the country. Q: And yet, the government is not opposed to so... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg

10 Aug 2010
First Look

First Look: August 10

Financial. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/310137-PDF-ENG Google in China (C) John A. QuelchHarvard Business School Supplement 511-024 An abstract is not available at this time. Purchase this... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

20 Jun 2012
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching Leadership: What We Know

considered to be the first formal textbook specifically designed to "teach leadership". Since then, the field of leadership has exploded. A simple Google search of "leadership books" returns more than 84 million hits.... View Details

Keywords: by Scott A. Snook, Rakesh Khurana & Nitin Nohria; Education

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Commencement 2015 Address | About

such a hard time coming to grips with their shared fate. Today it’s become quite common to see photos of places from high above. We’ve all had the experience of using Google Earth to look at photos of our homes from a high altitude. But... View Details

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Commencement 2013 Address | About

existed. The people leading these firms are HBS alumni who literally created the field. That may sound astonishing today, but it’s not that unusual. If you look at some of the most popular employers today, you’ll see names like Google and... View Details

25 Aug 2022
News

The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto

cases and then making it very intuitive and simple, like the original Google home page. I think a lot of the innovation today is around trying to understand the core consumer-use cases and the needs that crypto technology can really... View Details

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

05 Dec 2016
News

The Dragon’s Tale

censorship on the rise, most young people in China today have no awareness of the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989. The government can kick Google out of China, but all bets are off when Chinese students return from travel outside the... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

31 Jan 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52140 Winter 2017 CPI Antitrust Chronicle Google, Mobile and Competition: The Current State of Play By: Edelman, Benjamin G. Abstract— I present Google practices that have raised objections... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

10 Jan 2011
Research & Ideas

Is Groupon Good for Retailers?

At first blush, the two-year-old online start-up Groupon seems a bit audacious. For starters, there's the news that the deal-of-the-day website turned down a $6 billion acquisition offer from Google last month. Then there's the company's... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising; Technology

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Strategic Financial Analysis Online Course | HBS Online

as addition or division). Since some exercises will require learners to draw on data from multiple financial statements, learners should also be comfortable writing formulas that reference cells from different spreadsheet tabs. Can the spreadsheet exercises be... View Details

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