Online Service Marketplace - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 May 2017
News

David G. Bradley, MBA 1977

Counsel while earning a law degree at Georgetown, “so I was comfortable with research.” As he pitched his services to companies in need of legal advice, he refined and expanded his business plan to focus on research in the financial... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

16 Apr 2013
First Look

First Look: April 16

Publications 2006 Stanford University Press Wall Street Research: Past, Present, and Future By: Groysberg, Boris, and Paul M. Healy Abstract—Wall Street equity analysts provide research products and services on publicly traded companies... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Ahmed Alimi

business model diamond - value proposition, route-to-market, technology & operations model, and cash flow formula – all in just five days." Though Ahmed dropped off the team after the Bootcamp, it provided the seed for a new idea: "an View Details

Keywords: Financial Services; Financial Services

27 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

How Remote Work Changes What We Think About Onboarding

practice of onboarding new employees. Although hiring is already a forgotten luxury for many firms, at least for the time being, others are still bringing aboard new people, such as those who made hiring commitments before the outbreak worsened. And then there are... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg

20 Aug 2008
Op-Ed

The Time is Right for Creative Capitalism

beginning to exert themselves. Entrepreneurs and their creations have always been the sinews of capitalism. So we can look to organizations like (RED), founded by Bono and Bobby Shriver, or Kiva-the online microlender created by two... View Details

Keywords: by Nancy Koehn

23 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Three-Dimensional Strategy: Winning the Multisided Platform

When start-up thredUP launched its peer-to-peer online exchange for used children's clothes two and a half years ago, its creators were the latest generation of entrepreneurs competing online as multi-sided... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

17 Dec 2013
First Look

First Look: December 17

two studies from an online labor market in the United States, and (3) a laboratory experiment. Our findings suggest that worker productivity is higher on bad rather than good weather days and that cognitive distractions associated with... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

18 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

How Disruptive Innovation Changes Education

our schools." The ability of these lenses to shed new light on complicated problems has been proven in contexts ranging from national defense to semiconductors; from health care to retailing; and from automobiles to financial View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

16 Aug 2018
News

Working with a Giver’s Spirit

Philippine tech incubator behind a number of remarkable companies, including Ayannah, which uses social media and mobile platforms to provide digital commerce and payment services to the world’s unbanked; PawnHero, an View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

13 Nov 2019
Research & Ideas

Don't Turn Your Marketing Function Over to AI Just Yet

how new products or services would perform at various prices or with different characteristics. The machine learning algorithms that might power such a device are, at least for now, incapable of producing such promising results. But what... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

22 Nov 2011
First Look

First Look: November 22

Authors:Ejaz Ghani, William R. Kerr, and Stephen O'Connell Abstract We analyze the spatial determinants of female entrepreneurship in India in the manufacturing and services sectors. We focus on the presence of incumbent female-owned... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis

pandemic. Consumers consider the brands they use to be trusted partners and look to them for information about the crisis and how it is affecting their companies, employees, and the products and services they provide. Brands should try to... View Details

Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman

18 Feb 2019
Book

What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology

models. Some entrepreneurs I’ve met understand that the mere porting of a business model online isn’t enough. It might benefit users, but it creates downsides, too. TaskRabbit accelerates the process of choosing people to perform chores... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Service; Service; Service; Service

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A Tradition of Philanthropy - Alumni

founded. The HBS African-American Alumni Association, led by Walter Ross (MBA 1973)—pictured presenting the Association’s Distinguished Service Award to Dean Baker—was instrumental in endowing the fellowship, aided by Dean John McArthur.... View Details

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Fundraising - Alumni

wisely and that your experience is successful and rewarding. We will provide the following services and resources: Information on HBS initiatives and programs An experienced staff member to help facilitate your efforts Strategies for... View Details

Profile

Wombi Rose

doing different things for different partners," says Wombi of his FIELD 2 experience. Wombi's assignment was challenging: A local television station wanted to expand its existing online dating service... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Manufacturing/Energy; Retail/Hospitality

31 May 2017
What Do You Think?

Can Amazon Do What Walmart Couldn’t, Stop the 'Wheel of Retailing'?

In 1997, a young entrepreneur visited a class at Harvard Business School taught by my colleague, Len Schlesinger. The class discussed a case based on the visitor’s fledgling online retailing company that had rapidly expanded sales to $100... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

24 Jan 2020
News

Clayton M. Christensen Dies at 67

and taught for many years the MBA elective curriculum offering, Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise, which uses a general manager's lens to evaluate theories about strategy, innovation, and management to predict which tools, strategies, and methods will be... View Details

20 Jan 2023
News

Free Spirits

find an alternative that he loved as much as the real deal. In Walker, he found an award-winning brewer who recognized the opportunity in the marketplace and was up for the challenge—against the advice of everyone in the industry, as the... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Food Services and Drinking Places; Food Services and Drinking Places

06 May 2021
HBS Case

How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups

As CEO of Caribu, Tuchman set about to expand its online library of books and games and became one of the few Latina founders with a technology-based growth company. Miami native Felecia Hatcher held corporate jobs in technology until the... View Details

Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo

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