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Luc Sirois
and growth to build new organizations.” Equally life-changing were the guest lectures taught by the likes of Jeff Bezos, who, at the time, was merely the founder of an online used bookstore. “To have those encounters right there, in... View Details
- 26 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 26, 2016
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/216076-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 516-094 Airbnb, Etsy, Uber: Acquiring the First Thousand Customers By 2016, two-sided online platforms (or marketplaces) were pervasive among the highest... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
“Blank” Inside: Branding Ingredients
the quality of what's inside. We need the assurance of the Sunkist brand. A variant on this theme is ingredient branding: putting the brand of an ingredient on the outside of a product to increase its appeal. When is the provider of the final product or View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Case Study: The Speed of Light
impact our service and quality. How do we grow without diluting our main value proposition?” The Answers: What do you want to be when you grow up? A successful regional player in the New Jersey marketplace... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
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Edwin Yu: Bidding on the Future
went from leading portal to overextended venture incubator in just one year. The founder and owner was removed, and Yu, 36, was left to pick up the pieces. As chairman and CEO, he is now restructuring and refocusing the company to be a digital View Details
- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
such period on record. Significant financial failures returned to the marketplace in the late 1980s with the savings and loan crisis, followed by a rash of bank failures in the early 1990s that forced the government to recapitalize the... View Details
- 02 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Networked Incubators: Hothouses of the New Economy
systems for finding elite technical graduates. In addition, CarOrder.com made use of CollegeHire.com, a Trilogy portfolio company that provides a sophisticated online service to place high-tech college... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Innovation: Revenge of the Nerds
all these students, learning practical business skills every day but not yet applying them in the real world,” says Petitti. “And we saw all these businesses with needs.” To connect the two groups, the team built an online View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
HBS Conferences Explore Range of Issues
Wilkins (MBA '70), and Terry L. Jones (MBA '74) and awards for civic and community service to Benaree Pratt Wiley (MBA '72) and Kenneth A. Powell (MBA '74). (Powell was also recently elected president of the HBS African-American Alumni... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Expanding Summer Fellowships to Support Students
part of the HBS's Arthur Rock Center Accelerator program last year. ShelfLife is a B2B marketplace that enables small businesses to take advantage of economies of scale in the food and beverage packaging supply chain. “Specialty food and... View Details
- 12 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 12, 2016
customers rather than take possession of and responsibility for the products or services in question, they have inherently low cost structures and fat gross margins. They are highly defensible once established, owing to network effects.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
The High Cost of the Slow COVID Vaccine Rollout
months of the pandemic writing about marketplace design tactics that could provide support—for example, by leveraging delivery marketplaces to bring food to the elderly or by distributing hand sanitizer more... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Tap into Valuable Alumni Resources
Business Review is available free online, and HBS Working Knowledge, a free weekly online business management publication, is e-mailed to alumni who sign up. We also have access to the extensive resources and View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
GLF Showcases London
for the GLF, the board this year has organized around three committees, each with a variety of projects. Priority one for the Alumni Career Services Committee, chaired by Andy Waite (MBA ’93), is assisting with the successful launch of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Shape of Things to Come
Image by John Ritter With the rise of the online MBA and part-time programs, how do you make the ongoing case for students investing in two years at HBS? Nitin Nohria: A transformational experience takes time. Most of our students aren’t... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Laura Scher of Working Assets
the company also donates a percentage of online customer purchases. And, most recently, Working Assets created a similar donation mechanism through the long-distance telephone and Internet services it now... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: On the Fly
free-market competition. While market liberalization internationally is still evolving, the consumer benefits of the competitive marketplace are pretty compelling. Putting any one carrier in charge of the infrastructure that forms the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
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Adam Kanner
live events without cannibalizing full price tickets or hurting the brand, he could fill a huge market niche. In 2009, Kanner, MBA ‘98, started ScoreBig, an online ticketing service with a... View Details
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Winners & Success Stories | New Venture Competition
largest wireless carriers. SupplierMarket Jon Burgstone, MBA 1999 Asif Satchu, MBA 1999 SupplierMarket.com (purchased by Ariba) is an online marketplace for buying and selling manufactured direct materials.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Negative Ad Power
believe the charges. It’s unheard of for consumer marketers to run ads that name their competitor but not themselves. What accounts for the difference? The primary reason we see more negative advertising in politics than in the commercial View Details