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verifies print and digital circulation, mobile apps, website analytics, social media, technology platforms and audience information for newspapers, magazines and digital media companies in the US and Canada.... View Details

08 Oct 2008
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: A Sense of Urgency

organization off its complacent platform and into a good direction. But it didn't happen. Instead of mobilizing people into action, the crisis led many managers into making fewer decisions because they didn't want to be accused of... View Details

Keywords: by John P. Kotter

01 Jan 2012
News

Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993

owners of small businesses, as well as Japanese society as a whole, Mikitani began working on a web-based shopping mall. “At the time, the Internet was at an early stage,” he notes. “No one was buying things online in Japan.” Working with three partners, he developed a... View Details

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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... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Financial Services

10 Jan 2022
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How to Get Companies to Make Investments That Benefit Everyone

does not currently exist,” he writes. “Thus, by writing this code, they obtain a direct benefit while creating a positive externality: Anyone else can also have access to this feature for no (or little) cost.” And this is done on a global View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

05 Sep 2018
Research & Ideas

The Hidden Benefit of Giving Back to Open Source Software

Contributing: Gaining Competitive Advantage Through Contribution to Crowdsourced Public Goods, published in the journal Organization Science, Nagle interviewed technology professionals and examined data from the Linux Foundation on... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Computer

2023
Working Paper

The Benefits of Revealing Race: Evidence from Minority-owned Local Businesses

By: Abhay Aneja, Michael Luca and Oren Reshef

Is there latent demand to support Black-owned businesses? To explore, we analyze a new feature that made it easier to identify Black-owned restaurants on a large online platform. We find that labeling restaurants as “Black-owned” increased customer engagement and... View Details

Keywords: Black-owned Businesses; Race; Prejudice and Bias; Ownership; Knowledge Dissemination; Digital Platforms; Consumer Behavior; Food and Beverage Industry

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Peter Gumulia

out, during which you slowly develop your decision-making muscle and, more importantly, your very own leadership philosophy.” Peter’s eagerness to explore has already yielded new opportunities. Active in the Education Club, he is currently looking for ways “to leverage... View Details

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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory

widely touted example of impact investing going mainstream. The case examines Imprint’s integration into the asset management platform at Goldman Sachs and how the approach to clients evolved post acquisition. Students will look at impact... View Details

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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

Professor Laura Alfaro + More Info – Less Info Fueled by a series of recent political events and actors, anti-globalization has been growing. From the rise of political platforms pinning blame on openness to imports and immigration to the... View Details

13 Jun 2011
HBS Case

Mobile Banking for the Unbanked

WIZZIT's founders thought there was a noble and viable business model in bringing banking to the poor, via a mobile banking platform that could be used on even the most primitive cell phone. They succeeded in finding an engineer to... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking; Communications; Telecommunications

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Participating Institutions - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Resources Resources Video Courses Data Events & Presentations Frameworks News Publications Courses Participating Institutions Participating Institutions Legend New MOC Affiliate Universities in current year Established MOC Affiliate Universities Albania... View Details

21 Jul 2022
Research & Ideas

Did Pandemic Stimulus Funds Spur the Rise of 'Meme Stocks'?

jumped after the first two stimulus payments hit in April 2020 and January 2021, driven by retail investor buying, says research by Harvard Business School Professor Robin Greenwood. "We've been through this extraordinary period in the markets, where the View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

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Judges - Alumni

Start-up culture and operations · Business model development · Team building and coaching · New business development Industry Consumer Products and Services (B2C), Technology Verticals Beauty, E-Commerce, FemTech, Lifestyles of Health and... View Details

August 2020 (Revised March 2021)
Case

Migros Turkey: Scaling Online Operations (A)

By: Antonio Moreno and Gamze Yucaoglu

The case opens in November 2019 as Ozgur Tort and Mustafa Bartin, CEO and chief large-format and online retail officer of Migros Ticaret A.S. (Migros), Turkey’s oldest and one of its largest supermarket chains, are contemplating what the best fulfillment format and... View Details

Keywords: Retail; Grocery; Business Model; Emerging Markets; For-Profit Firms; Strategy; Digital Platforms; Information Technology; Technology Adoption; Value Creation; Globalization; Competition; Expansion; Logistics; Profit; Resource Allocation; Corporate Strategy; Turkey

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17 Jun 2017
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Amazon, Whole Foods Deal a Big Win for Consumers

Source: 400tmax Editor's Note. Online retailing behemoth Amazon announced June 16 that it would acquire upscale grocery chain Whole Foods Market in a deal valued at more than $13 billion. Though the company has dabbled with the idea of a brick-and-mortar footprint in... View Details

Keywords: by Jose Alvarez and Len Schlesinger; Retail

02 Apr 2013
First Look

First Look: April 2

or incentives, but a model of innovation that too often fragments efforts by treatment modality (drugs, devices, diagnostics, and clinical treatment). We may improve individual technologies of health care, but fail to provide integrated... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2024
News

The Internet's Next Frontier

While the Crypto, Fintech, and Web3 Lab—one of 13 labs contained within Harvard’s Digital Data Design Institute—might not have the Bunsen burners and test tubes found in science and engineering labs, it does share a philosophical construct: it is a sandbox—an... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online

Technical Requirements Enrollment Academics Learning Tracks Costs, Grants & Financial Aid HBS Online for Organizations Certificates Pathways to Business Overview How are HBS Online courses delivered? We offer self-paced programs (with weekly deadlines) on the HBS... View Details

02 Jun 2009
First Look

First Look: June 2, 2009

selection processes help organizations adapt in the face of technological and market changes. We show how this process, along with the concepts of organizational ambidexterity and dynamic capabilities, may help organizations survive over... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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