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- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Think globally, crowdfund locally
E ric Sonnier (MBA 2014) cofounded Local Lift (formerly Equity Endeavor) to help small businesses find the resources to make enhancements to their operations. The crowdfunding platform Sonnier launched with HBS classmate Broderick... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Case Study: Sneak Peak
Case Study features alumni and faculty offering advice on strategy to alumni who are leading businesses at a crossroads. Charles Philp (MBA 2006) started Colorado-based Sneakz Organic with his business partner in 2012 after a lightbulb... View Details
- 01 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Airbnb Lesson for Startups? Success Takes More Than Technology
Investors riding the wave of technology public offerings have been waiting for a powerhouse debut from Airbnb, which logged its 500 millionth customer booking in March. After all, the home-sharing giant isn’t your typical unicorn. Unlike some of its Silicon Valley... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Book Review: Getting Beyond Yes
Every company needs a strategy—a forward-looking plan for the future—and every company needs to keep that bottom line growing through sales. But all too often, the folks devising the grand plan and the folks sealing the deals are not on the same page. In his new book,... View Details
- 02 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ‘A Social Strategy’
book excerpt What My Research Revealed, In Broad Strokes From A Social Strategy: How We Profit From Social Media By Mikolaj Jan Piskorski As I began my research, it quickly became clear that there are two major ways in which companies have tried to leverage social... View Details
- August 2019 (Revised October 2019)
- Supplement
Preserving Trust at Care.com (B)
By: Krishna G. Palepu and Julia Kelley
The (B) case describes the company’s response and subsequent developments. View Details
Keywords: Business Strategy; Corporate Governance; Digital Platforms; Market Design; Emerging Markets; Trust; Technology Industry; United States
Palepu, Krishna G., and Julia Kelley. "Preserving Trust at Care.com (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 120-012, August 2019. (Revised October 2019.)
- 04 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 4
PublicationsCases about Redefining Global Strategy Authors:Pankaj Ghemawat and Jordan I. Siegel Publication:Harvard Business Publishing, 2011 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Publisher's Link:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Crowdfunding capital for small business
involved in several startups and knew how difficult it was for small businesses to get funding. McGee passed away in November 2015. A number of crowdfunding platforms had appeared, but none was really set up to serve small businesses,” he... View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Fellowship Enables Opportunity in Africa
operations head at Peak Investment Capital, an SME investment platform in Accra. Doha Tantawy (MBA 2019), a native of Cairo, Egypt, will work as a strategy and business development associate at Misr... View Details
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Kraft Accelerator
(pdf) HBS Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator Unique Venture Models (pdf) HBS Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator Disparities: Activating the Right Strategy (pdf) HBS Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator 10 Best Practices from Virtual... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
@Soldiers Field
arm might lift a barbell.” The 229 RCs who signed up for lunch roulette were connected with three perfectly randomized HBS classmates. Hosted by the Student Association and the Digital Initiative, the project used an open source computer algorithm created by... View Details
- 19 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 19
PublicationsSetting Health Priorities: Strategy versus Tactics Authors:Chu, Michael, David E. Bloom, and Elizabeth Cafiero Publication:Impact: The Magazine of PSI Abstract Health decision makers throughout the world are faced with a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Fast Answer
Managing Service Operations: Research resources for new service design
sophisticated retrieval and personalization tools to create numerous reports. Note: Follow the instruction on the page to set up individual account. For a multimedia learning module on Capital IQ check out our Learn with Baker Library Capital IQ Introduction.... View Details
- 06 Aug 2020
- News
Defining Flex Work
The COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on the workplace has been seismic, causing many companies to completely rethink their strategies and models. It was especially disruptive, says Anna Auerbach (MBA 2010), because companies had already been... View Details
- March 2018 (Revised July 2018)
- Case
Cadre
By: Thomas R. Eisenmann, Scott Duke Kominers and David Lane
Late in 2017, CEO Ryan Williams and his team debated whether Cadre should become not only a technology-enabled investment manager, but also an online trading exchange providing high levels of liquidity for investors in commercial real estate (CRE) equity. Cadre was a... View Details
- August 2013
- Technical Note
Raising the Level of Abstraction
By: Willy Shih
This technical note discusses abstraction as a way of generalizing a process or component for wider application. By hiding complexity inside a module, abstraction enables system designers to think at a higher level. This lowers entry barriers to using (and reusing) a... View Details
Keywords: Abstraction; Modularity; Commercialization; Information Technology; Information Infrastructure; Information Technology; Applications and Software; Digital Platforms; United States; Asia; Europe
Shih, Willy. "Raising the Level of Abstraction." Harvard Business School Technical Note 614-019, August 2013.
- November 1999 (Revised June 2000)
- Case
VerticalNet (www.verticalnet.com)
By: Das Narayandas
VerticalNet, a leading creator of targeted business-to-business vertical trade communities on the Internet, is trying to expand its model to facilitate e-commerce. Mark Walsh, the CEO of VerticalNet, has to decide how far he can extend the firm's business model without... View Details
Narayandas, Das. "VerticalNet (www.verticalnet.com)." Harvard Business School Case 500-041, November 1999. (Revised June 2000.)
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
Case of Search Platforms Authors:Hanna Hałaburda and Mikołaj Jan Piskorski Abstract We show that a two-sided platform can successfully compete by limiting the choice of potential matches it offers to its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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About | HBS Online
some of the highlights: 2014 : Our course platform launches, along with our first two programs: CORe and Disruptive Strategy 2015 : CORe becomes the program Harvard Business School offers to incoming... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
Imprint “You are fierce. You are bold. You are unique. You are driven. You are inspiring. YOU ARE A GIRL MOGUL.” As founder and CEO of Mogul, Pham has created one of the most successful platforms for girls worldwide. In Girl Mogul, she... View Details