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  • December 2018 (Revised February 2020)
  • Case

Fishbowl: Scaling Up

By: Leslie K. John
Fishbowl is a social media app that allows professionals to connect with other relevant professionals both within their company and across industry. Unlike many other social media apps, on which users typically present idealized portraits of themselves, on Fishbowl,... View Details
Keywords: Communication Technologies; Customer Value; Value Chain; Interpersonal Communication; Talent and Talent Management; Customer Value and Value Chain; Entrepreneurship; Business Model; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Advertising; Product Marketing; Digital Platforms; Consumer Behavior; Network Effects; Emotions; Motivation and Incentives; Trust; Applications and Software; Technology Adoption; Social Media; Communications Industry; Employment Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Technology Industry; Telecommunications Industry; United States
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  • 06 Dec 2018
  • News

Source Code

moment of saying, ‘Every banker’s going to have one of those things,’ ” she says. VisiCalc was presented on an Apple computer, and Dubinsky—not knowing the difference between hardware and software back then—saw the machine’s logo and... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Daniel Hertzberg
  • 18 Feb 2021
  • Blog Post

SIPs in 2021

experience with skin tone-matching technology and samples; CareTech (Vivek Agrawal, Felicia Hanitio, and Mili Sanwalka), a personalized learning platform for domestic care workers; and Space Factory (Conan Cooper, Cyrus Hessabi, Malory McLemore, and Aaron Yang), View Details
  • 15 Jan 2013
  • First Look

First Look: January 15

maps and financial data relating to the processes used during (1) an office visit to a plastic surgeon for three different diagnoses and (2) application and removal of three different casts in the orthopedic cast room. Students calculate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Mar 2008
  • First Look

First Look: March 4, 2008

company. A simple portfolio strategy of going long the buy recommendations with school ties and going short buy recommendations without ties earns returns of 5.40% per year. We test whether Regulation FD, targeted at impeding selective... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2018
  • News

Making Sense of the Modern Startup

compensated for bearing non-diversifiable risk—in other words, what’s left over after you take all of these disparate projects and throw them in a single portfolio of every risky project in the world. And yet, everywhere I went, venture... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
  • 01 Jun 2007
  • News

Mission Possible

experience never left Chertavian, who wrote his HBS application essay about starting a school to close what he saw as an “opportunity divide.” After HBS, Chertavian set that goal aside to cofound a successful View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Margie Kelley; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance
  • 26 Oct 2010
  • First Look

First Look: October 26, 2010

sequencing, and coalition building certainly find application in multi-deal situations. Yet beyond such concepts, negotiation analysts can find special value in thinking in terms of campaigns, with multiple interdependent fronts, that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance

each company in the portfolio is acting in a socially responsible manner. So-called green funds attempt to invest in socially responsible companies but often their selection criteria, which are often based on the industry a company is in... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
  • January 2024 (Revised June 2024)
  • Case

School of Rock: Tuning into Structured Empowerment (A)

By: Tatiana Sandino, Jeffrey Rayport, Samuel Grad and Stacy Straaberg
In summer 2021, School of Rock was a youth-oriented music education company with 291 franchise- and company-owned schools globally. Before CEO Rob Price’s hire in 2017, School of Rock’s nonconformist rock ‘n’ roll culture led to variability in teaching styles,... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Plan; Change Management; Transformation; Communication Strategy; Decisions; Curriculum and Courses; Teaching; Employee Relationship Management; Knowledge Sharing; Leadership Style; Business or Company Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Style; Marketing Strategy; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Franchise Ownership; Performance Expectations; Performance Improvement; Strategic Planning; Attitudes; Conflict Management; Corporate Strategy; Applications and Software; Technology Adoption; Education Industry; Music Industry; Massachusetts; United States
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  • 18 Nov 2014
  • First Look

First Look: November 18

subsequent growth into a diversified group. Download working paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2520237 Optimal Aggregation of Consumer Ratings: An Application to Yelp.com By: Dai, Weijia, Ginger Jin, Jungmin Lee,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 12, 2006

worldwide for exquisite design of consumer electronics products, strives to better integrate software design into its traditional physical product design processes to meet the demands of a post-iPod world. Details the Bang & Olufsen... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2019
  • News

The One That Got Away

capital management company and the first software-as-a-service application for enterprises to manage contract workers. It had $2 million in revenues at the time of investment. After a few fits and starts with the business model,... View Details
  • 22 May 2012
  • First Look

First Look: May 22

Cooke, Mario D. Parrilli, and José L. Curbelo. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012 Abstract An abstract is unavailable at this time. Publisher's Link: http://www.e-elgar.com/bookentry_main.lasso?currency=US&id=14530 Evaluating the Impact of the Mozilla View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Apr 1997
  • News

Facing the Music

my colleague [HBS assistant professor] Jeffrey Rayport says, recorded music is one of those products that is actually 'dematerializing' - it's moving out of the realm of physical 'product' and becoming pure service." One possible future View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
  • 17 Apr 2012
  • First Look

First Look: April 17

practitioners take this approach to applications in finance, there are huge gains to be achieved. We caution the reader that since our intention in this piece is to call attention to aspects of life and aspects of finance that are not... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 04 Jun 2013
  • First Look

First Look: June 4

examine the legal basis of applicable rights and identify the circumstances in which such transfers are permitted. Publisher's link: http://www.benedelman.org/publications/legal-aspects-of-transfer-of-ips-may2013.pdf 2006 Review of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Feb 1997
  • News

Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management

transcend rational thinking." The course, which debuted in 1995, is designed to optimize the marketing efforts of entrepreneurs, who typically lack the time and resources for conventional marketing activity. The course is organized around four themes: choosing a View Details
  • 01 Dec 2010
  • News

The Transformers

social impact. And the way to magnify that impact is to give away valuable knowledge to anyone who can use it. Bridgespan is unique in another equally important way. It is a pioneer in the application of data-driven strategy and... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 13 Oct 2015
  • First Look

October 13, 2015

The new capabilities and vast quantities of data that smart, connected products offer are redefining the activities of the core functions of companies—sometimes radically. As software and cloud-based operating systems become integral to... View Details