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Help Terms of Use 12ms Harvard Business School has provided a suite of alumni services through its Alumni Website for the benefit of the HBS community. Services exclusive to the HBS community are protected by HBS Login and require a... View Details

20 Mar 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018

choices. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/618038-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 218-064 OpenInvest Founded by a team of hedge fund and NGO alumni, OpenInvest launched its View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Jun 2012
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First Look: June 26

India, ask for another assignment, or look at other opportunities outside the company? Purchase this supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/312072-PDF-ENG Transforming Verizon: A Platform for Change Rosabeth Moss Kanter and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Dec 2022
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2022 Climate Symposium: Tackling Climate Together

textiles that could bypass the toxic chemical dying and unsustainable materials sourcing of todays textiles industry. SpaceSense: A platform designed to help geospatial data scientists and developers build AI solutions faster, easier and... View Details

11 Jan 2021
Research & Ideas

Is A/B Testing Effective? Evidence from 35,000 Startups

School Working Knowledge. [Image: themacx] Related Reading How Hackathons Help Decide Platform Winners and Losers Recessions Push Some Entrepreneurs to Launch Too Soon Rethinking Business Strategy in the Age... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

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down further as you progress in your search. Company List: Database Strengths/Unique Features Infogroup US Historical Business Data Annual, geo-coded records of United States businesses and... View Details

March 2024 (Revised April 2024)
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Angel City Football Club: Scoring a New Model

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Jennifer Fonstad and Nicole Tempest Keller

In January 2024, Kara Nortman, Julie Uhrman, and Natalie Portman, the founders of Angel City Football Club (ACFC) were developing the club’s first three-year strategic plan. Founded in 2020, ACFC had a star-studded investor group, including Portman and celebrities such... View Details

Keywords: Sports; Entertainment; Entrepreneurship; Brands and Branding; Venture Capital; Business Model; Corporate Strategy; Digital Marketing; Sports Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; United States; California; Los Angeles

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January 2011 (Revised June 2011)
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Intellectual Property Intermediaries

By: Andrei Hagiu

During the past 5 to 10 years, several different intermediation business models have emerged for the intellectual property (IP) market. This note describes the most prominent ones: non-practicing entities (or patent trolls), defensive patent aggregators, online IP... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Intellectual Property; Auctions; Digital Platforms; Information Technology; Service Industry

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14 Aug 2019
Sharpening Your Skills

The Manager's Guide to Leveraging Disruption

In 1995, Harvard Business School professors Clayton M. Christensen and Joseph L. Bower wrote a seminal article for Harvard Business Review, Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave. Those words launched... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2024
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Leveraging Generative AI

Four decades after HBS became the first business school in the country to require the use of personal computers in the MBA Program, the School is undergoing a different kind of technological transformation, one that leverages generative... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

22 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019

predictions. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54314 January–February 2019 Harvard Business Review Cracking Frontier Markets By: Christensen, Clayton M., Efosa Ojomo, and Karen Dillon Abstract— With... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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Online Leadership Principles Course | HBS Online

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04 May 2015
Research & Ideas

Need to Solve a Problem? Take a Break From Collaborating

those facts and find a solution, a team of Boston researchers reports. "When it comes to solving problems, connectedness is a double-edged sword," says Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Ethan Bernstein, co-author of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Video Game; Web Services

09 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 9

Public Education: Cases in Education Entrepreneurship Author:Stacey Childress Publication:Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Education Press, 2010 Abstract Based on a popular education entrepreneurship course at Harvard Business School,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

9 AM – 10 AM EDT, 12 Jun 2019
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HBS Online Disruptive Strategy

Make innovation a reality with strategies from two-time World's Most Innovative Business Thinker, Clayton Christensen. June 12, 2019 - July 10, 2019 View Details

16 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

Your Customers Have Changed. Here's How to Engage Them Again.

Opportunities also exist for B2B technology firms. Suppliers can provide customers with enhanced ecommerce services that are in great demand. Shopify provides multiple services to small businesses to enable greater digital footprints.... View Details

Keywords: by Rohit Deshpandé, Ofer Mintz, and Imran S. Currim; Retail; Service

01 Dec 2023
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Venturing Forth

period stretching from the late 2010s to 2021 saw a rash of seed funds, incubators, angel investors, and crowdfunding platforms all arrive on the scene, plying early stage companies with cash. Meanwhile, the massive VC firms were raising... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

11 Jun 2019
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These Aren't Beach Books, but Managers Should Read Them Anyway

Business of Platforms: Strategy in the Age of Digital Competition, Innovation, and Power David Yoffie and colleagues reveal the principles that have made platform businesses... View Details