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Prita Kumar
since then which is why I felt so strongly about starting something in the digital space,” Kumar said. To that end, Booya Fitness is an online boutique fitness studio aimed at women looking for great instruction, heart-pumping... View Details
- 05 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 5
e-books eroded publishers' profitable print formats. E-readers like Kindle, as well as Apple's iPad, that invigorated the digital book market are discussed. Also includes a general overview of book publishing including the K-12 and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
dividends income as if they were separate sources of income. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54113 Nowcasting Gentrification: Using Yelp Data to Quantify Neighborhood Change By: Glaeser, Edward L., Hyunjin Kim, and Michael Luca... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
composition as a key but largely endogenous part of development, while structural economies conceptualizes it as a fundamental driver. Competitiveness policy is about leveraging existing clusters as a platform for upgrading microeconomic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- October 2012 (Revised August 2013)
- Case
Global Unichip Corporation (A)
By: Willy Shih and Chen-Fu Chien
Global Unichip Corporation (GUC) is a design services company that acts as a front-end to TSMC, the world's largest semiconductor foundry. In so doing, it masked the complexity of the latest process technologies, and reduced the entry barriers for small firms to... View Details
Keywords: Abstraction; Value-network; Entry Barriers; Intermediaries; Dis-intermediation; Aggregator; Vertical Specialization; Technology Adoption; Digital Platforms; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Horizontal Integration; Vertical Integration; Technological Innovation; Innovation Strategy; Innovation and Management; Industry Structures; Information Infrastructure; Complexity; Information Technology; Semiconductor Industry; Technology Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Taiwan
Shih, Willy, and Chen-Fu Chien. "Global Unichip Corporation (A)." Harvard Business School Case 613-048, October 2012. (Revised August 2013.)
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
revolutionizing everything from online payments and wealth management to cybersecurity and insurance through digital technologies as diverse as blockchain and artificial intelligence. Despite being the world’s financial capital and home... View Details
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707493 PublicationsMerchant or Two-Sided Platform Author:Andrei Hagiu Periodical:Review of Network Economics (forthcoming) Abstract This paper provides a first pass at... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Presentation Round-Up
to the fact that anyone can access it from any computer as long as they have a browser, she said. Her company, Desktop.com, is building an integrated Internet desktop services platform and product in much the same spirit, to allow people... View Details
- 19 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate
emissions, address plastic waste, conserve water resources, and more. As more companies develop their climate strategies and implement projects, the question is not “will there be a job in climate for me” but “is this the climate job I find fulfilling and impactful.”... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate
address plastic waste, conserve water resources and more. As more companies develop their climate strategies and implement projects, the question is not “will there be a job in climate for me” but “is this the climate job I find fulfilling and impactful.” Climate... View Details
- October 2020 (Revised March 2021)
- Supplement
Migros Turkey: Scaling Online Operations During COVID-19 (C)
By: Antonio Moreno and Gamze Yucaoglu
The case opens in August 2020 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 navigating Migros through COVID-19 and the unprecedented... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Strategy; Digital Platforms; Information Technology; Technology Adoption; Value Creation; Globalization; Competition; Expansion; Logistics; Profit; Resource Allocation; Diversification; Corporate Strategy; Crisis Management; Health Pandemics; Strategic Planning; Food and Beverage Industry; Turkey
Moreno, Antonio, and Gamze Yucaoglu. "Migros Turkey: Scaling Online Operations During COVID-19 (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 621-062, October 2020. (Revised March 2021.)
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
funds." A few years later, he adds, big acquisitions and IPOs started happening in the MENA region, catalyzing a virtuous cycle of entrepreneurial activity and investment: Amazon acquired Souq for $580 million in 2017 and Uber purchased Careem for $3.1 billion in 2019.... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Case Study: Alumni Advice for a Health Care Startup
workers), who work as virtual health care assistants, handling everything from long-term care arrangements to transportation. Wellthy’s digital platform is designed as a consumer- friendly project management... View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
filled with leafy greens and fed by precisely tuned LED lights. An intricate digital system measures the room’s temperature and the CO2 levels inside the units every 30 seconds, adjusting as necessary; another delivers computer-calculated... View Details
- 15 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Health Is Wealth | The Path To Creating A Venture
elsewhere.” Leveraging the HBS alumni network, Rachel secured an internship between her RC and EC years at naviHealth, Inc... a digital health company. This internship allowed her to make an impact at the organization by working on... View Details
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5.1 Information Technology | MBA
access of users who are found to have repeatedly infringed the copyrights of others (e.g., via platforms such as BitTorrent), and may also take disciplinary action. Students with questions about copyright or this policy are invited to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Homeschooled
Image by John Ritter About a month before schools began to close in the United States in response to the pandemic, Sal Khan (MBA 2003) (pictured above, right), founder and CEO of the online learning platform Khan Academy, began to see... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
experience? How can we leverage data to develop marketing opportunities on streaming platforms with millions of broadcasters? And how can we grow the fan base from its mostly male, largely millennial roots? Each answer has the potential... View Details
- 03 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 3
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-005.pdf The Influence of Prior Industry Affiliation on Framing in Nascent Industries: The Evolution of Digital Cameras Authors:Mary J. Benner and Mary Tripsas Abstract New industries sparked by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
collection and privacy. Finally, we discuss emerging challenges surrounding software-driven medical devices, including open regulatory questions, advancements in underlying digital technology, and the likely necessity of new payment and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman