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- 23 Jun 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Using Financial Innovation to Support Savers: From Coercion to Excitement
- January 2010 (Revised May 2012)
- Case
TopCoder (A): Developing Software through Crowdsourcing
By: Karim R. Lakhani, David A. Garvin and Eric Lonstein
TopCoder's crowdsourcing-based business model, in which software is developed through online tournaments, is presented. The case highlights how TopCoder has created a unique two-sided innovation platform consisting of a global community of over 225,000 developers who... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Innovation and Invention; Two-Sided Platforms; Motivation and Incentives; Social and Collaborative Networks; Competition; Software; Technology Industry
Lakhani, Karim R., David A. Garvin, and Eric Lonstein. "TopCoder (A): Developing Software through Crowdsourcing." Harvard Business School Case 610-032, January 2010. (Revised May 2012.)
- 14 Jul 2021
- News
FT Business Books: July Edition
- 18 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Eliminating Non-Competes Could Reshape Tech
jobs with competitors. They can often even prevent them from working in the same industry, especially when employers are intentionally vague in defining the competition in non-compete agreements. As Professor Matt Marx View Details
- 03 Aug 2022
- News
How Will Amazon Approach U.S. Primary Care?
- October 2009
- Supplement
Noble Group (CW)
By: C. Fritz Foley and Matthew Johnson
What role does trade finance play in facilitating global supply chain management? Richard S. Elman, founder and CEO of Noble Group Ltd., a global commodities trading company based in Hong Kong, must raise capital to support the firm's working capital and investment... View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; Supply Chain Management; Trade; Global Strategy; Investment; Capital; Hong Kong
- Web
Exploring Trade Links in the Interior - A Chronicle of the China Trade
Related Collections Site Credits China’s commercial revolution gained further momentum in 1860 when the new, large-scale upcountry purchase of tea and silk became fully developed. — Yen-P’ing Hao, The... View Details
- 10 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
COVID-19 Lessons: Social Media Can Nudge More People to Get Vaccinated
Public health officials who took to social media to push people to get the COVID-19 vaccine may have wondered if they were screaming into a void. Over the course of the pandemic, health agencies around the world—ranging from the World... View Details
- February 20, 2014
- Article
How to Thrive While Leading a Family Business
By: Josh Baron and Rob Lachenauer
This article explores the differences between family business executives who thrive and those who struggle. It discusses how family business environments are inherently complex due to the intertwinement of work and life. Thriving leaders exhibit four key behaviors:... View Details
Keywords: Family and Family Relationships; Work-Life Balance; Family Ownership; Outcome or Result; Leadership Style
Baron, Josh, and Rob Lachenauer. "How to Thrive While Leading a Family Business." Harvard Business Review (website) (February 20, 2014).
- 13 Mar 2017
- News
Amazon Brick & Mortar
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Year 2000 Computer Problem and You: Disaster for Some, Lessons for All
can't do it all, you can probably do enough to satisfy customers and stay in business. Do you foresee crises as dramatic as some of those described in the press? You mean... View Details
- Career Coach
Ryan Kim
Ryan (HBS '02, Harvard College '95) is particularly interested in helping students and alumni find balance and meaning in their career choices. Throughout his adult life, he... View Details
- 06 Nov 2012
- Op-Ed
Stop Talking About the Weather and Do Something: Three Ways to Finance Sustainable Cities
The wrath of Hurricane Sandy has illuminated a fundamental question: How do we ensure that our cities are resilient in the face of inevitable future disasters? A destroyed city is not a sustainable city. I'm making the case that it's time to stop complaining about... View Details
- 13 Mar 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)
Taylor Wiegele and Sierra Smith on Shark Tank (photos by ABC) How did you come up with the idea for Zorpads? Sierra Smith: “We started Zorpads as part of a school project for FIELD 3 (which apparently no... View Details
- 08 Nov 2024
- News
Latino Alumni Banquet Marks 20th Year, Atlanta Club Celebrates 90 Years of Connection
HBS Latino Alumni Association Banquet Marks 20 Years The HBS Latino Alumni Association (HBSLAA) held its 20th Annual Banquet on October 5, bringing together 80 alumni, guests, and current HBS students for dinner and a panel discussion at the New England Aquarium in... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
Jo Tango
Jo Tango is the MBA Class of 1962 Senior Lecturer of Business Administration. He helps teach "The Entrepreneurial Manager" (TEM), a required course for all 900 first-year students and of which he... View Details
Benjamin C. Esty
Benjamin Esty is the Roy and Elizabeth Simmons Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Over the years, he has taught a variety of courses ranging from advanced corporate finance and project finance to competitive strategy and leadership. He... View Details
- 09 May 2024
- Research & Ideas
Called Back to the Office? How You Benefit from Ideas You Didn't Know You Were Missing
development (R&D), making the finding relevant for leaders of research-intensive organizations trying to calibrate hybrid work policies. To be sure, remote work can reduce... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
- 26 Mar 2025
- News
Alumni Explore a Changing Hong Kong; Meet the Leader: HBS Club of Singapore
extends far beyond our campus. What does the club mean to you? The HBS Club of Singapore is part of my identity. It’s meaningful for me to be able to bring our alumni together... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- September 2022 (Revised April 2023)
- Case
Cesaro e Associati
By: Christina R. Wing and Amram Migdal
This case describes the leadership succession planning process at Cesaro e Associati (Studio Cesaro), founded in 1986 by Franco Cesaro in the northeastern Italian state of Veneto. In 2022, Franco was contemplating retirement and passing leadership of his firm, which... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Family Business; For-Profit Firms; Restructuring; Small Business; Change; Change Management; Competency and Skills; Experience and Expertise; Talent and Talent Management; Entrepreneurship; Governance; Leadership; Leading Change; Management; Management Succession; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Ownership; Family Ownership; Private Ownership; Personal Development and Career; Relationships; Family and Family Relationships; Consulting Industry; Europe; Italy
Wing, Christina R., and Amram Migdal. "Cesaro e Associati." Harvard Business School Case 623-021, September 2022. (Revised April 2023.)