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- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014
Publishing Platform The Education of a Value Investor: My Transformative Quest for Wealth, Wisdom, and Enlightenment by Guy Spier (MBA 1993) Palgrave Macmillan This candid memoir takes readers into some of the darker corners of Wall... View Details
- 20 Jul 2015
- Blog Post
My Journey to Working with At Night Management / PRMD Music
working in the iTunes group. For many years, it was the most important digital release platform in the music industry. Yet we were disconnected from the creative part of the industry, far away from the... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports
- August 2008 (Revised July 2011)
- Case
Consumer Payment Systems — United States
By: Benjamin Edelman and Andrei Hagiu
In 2008, the U.S. consumer payments landscape was characterized by the ongoing prevalence of credit and debit card networks, the decline of checks, the rise of stored value cards, and the growth of new payment methods such as PayPal, Bill Me Later, and decoupled debit.... View Details
Keywords: Borrowing and Debt; Financial Management; Personal Finance; Digital Platforms; Motivation and Incentives; Competitive Strategy; Internet and the Web; United States
Edelman, Benjamin, and Andrei Hagiu. "Consumer Payment Systems — United States." Harvard Business School Case 909-006, August 2008. (Revised July 2011.) (request a courtesy copy.)
- 26 Feb 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Airbnb Effect: Cheaper Rooms for Travelers, Less Revenue for Hotels
Farronato, a Harvard Business School assistant professor, and Andrey Fradkin, postdoctoral fellow at the Initiative on the Digital Economy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "You might find a Fifth Avenue apartment or a... View Details
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
for strategic problem formulation and problem solving relative to which deviations and counterproductive moves can be specified and measured. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55554 Multi-Homing and View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
gamification techniques to engage and motivate employees to learn. This study empirically examines the performance consequences of gamified training by conducting a field experiment in a professional services firm. We find that the main effect of adopting the gamified... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Student Startups Help Fight COVID-19
startup, which is led by Sophia Richter, Tina Beilinson, and Julia Cole (all MBA 2020), quickly adapted its affordable online offerings to include classes geared to birth and postpartum challenges associated with the coronavirus. Hikma Health added a module to its... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
What’s Next
Engagement Opportunities The "Case for HBS" ebook NN: We have been giving both of these questions a lot of thought, particularly since the launch of the edX/HarvardX platform more than a year ago. We've approached this at HBS not as an... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Starting Lineup: Upturning Travel
(ThinkStock) (ThinkStock) As Airbnb has proven, the travel industry is ripe for innovation. What’s next for several alumni- run startups that are reinventing the vacation? The Company The Founder The Pitch The News NewUGo CEO Mei Zhang (MBA 1996) Founded in 2015 An... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Crucible: Relocation
Illustration by Caroline Tomlinson When we discussed the concept of crucibles at HBS, my best guess then—based on my dating record and polycystic ovaries—was that I might struggle with finding a life partner and with fertility. As I re-emerge from my first real... View Details
Keywords: Zhang, Qian
- 31 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Scholarly Crowd Explores Crowdsourcing
Cox Pahnke, Dan Wang, and Benjamin Hallen. Ripe for study. In a plenary talk on crowdsourced contests and competitions, Lakhani outlined numerous areas in need of further study, which is made much easier by hundreds of crowdsourcing View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Nov 2024
- News
Deep Reading
Photos by Sandra Singh Last year, while taking classes on the Mishna, the first written collection of Jewish oral traditions, Antoine Leboyer (MBA 1992) wanted to dive deeper into the material. He found while there was a flood of additional texts and commentaries,... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Lifelong Learning about Leadership
careers and lives, and the other utilizes HBS’s online learning platform to share the School’s pedagogy with broader audiences. More than 70 MBA alumni from the classes of 1995– 2005—all seasoned professionals at an inflection... View Details
- October 2015
- Case
Facebook: The First Ten Years
By: Shane Greenstein, Marco Iansiti and Christine Snively
Facebook celebrated its ten year anniversary in February 2014. Over the past decade it has grown into the largest social network in the world with one billion users. After filing an IPO in 2012 at a $104 billion valuation (the third largest IPO in U.S. history), the... View Details
- March 2008 (Revised March 2013)
- Teaching Note
MySpace (TN)
By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski
Teaching Note for 708499. View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
The State of Play
platforms will become ubiquitous, he doesn’t think we’ll ultimately live in a realm that’s purely digital: “I think we’ll end up in a world where the digital is overlaid on the real world, and you can go... View Details
- 13 Feb 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53942 From the Digital to the Physical: Federal Limitations on Regulating Online Marketplaces By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Abbey Stemler Abstract—Online marketplaces have transformed how we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
self-managed microenterprises. Platforms were Haier’s business platforms operating in five major sectors: white goods transformation, investment and incubation, financial holdings, real estate, and cultural... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- December 1999
- Case
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (A5): Solaris 7: Rich Green on Product Strategy and Culture Change
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Jane Roessner
Solaris, Sun Microsystems' version of the UNIX operating system, was an amorphous collection of capabilities that had accumulated over the years, a product the company vaguely wished it could market and sell better. Developing and marketing Solaris 7 would help... View Details
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
Strategic Interactions in Two-Sided Market Oligopolies (revised) Authors:Emmanuel Farhi and Andrei Hagiu Abstract Strategic interactions between two-sided platforms depend not only on whether their decision variables are strategic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace