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  • 14 Dec 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Airbnb Hosts Discriminate Against African-American Guests

Due to racial discrimination, white vacationers have an easier time booking an Airbnb rental property than African-Americans do, according to a new study from faculty at Harvard Business School. The problem seems to lie in all the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Accommodations; Web Services
  • 12 Apr 2010
  • Research & Ideas

One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting

business units. As each unit sees its role in a broader context and begins to better understand the consequences of its decisions on other units, better decisions that craft and reinforce a sustainable strategy will be made for the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 19 May 2015
  • First Look

First Look: May 19

retained its talent; and how Chinese private enterprise can go global. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/415050-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 515-032 American Well: The DTC Decision In late 2013,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 12, 2006

this context, "platforms" provide infrastructure and rules that facilitate users' transactions. The article provides an introduction to strategic challenges that confront platform providers serving two-sided markets. The first... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Aug 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Why Companies Shouldn't Delay Software Updates—Even After CrowdStrike's Flaw

The CrowdStrike tech security outage in July revealed the true interdependence—and fragility—of global computer systems. Following several high-profile data breaches, policymakers are calling on businesses to do more to fix code... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Technology; Information Technology; Computer; Web Services
  • 14 Feb 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Desktop Search and Revenue Streams

The name of the game in Internet search has always been helping users find what they're looking for as quickly as possible, as precisely as possible. The panelists at the 2005 Cyberposium's "Search Visionary" session at Harvard View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
  • 15 Aug 2024
  • Op-Ed

Post-CrowdStrike, Six Questions to Test Your Company's Operational Resilience

companies will live and die based on their ability to bounce back from a crisis.” Demand for digital transformation and artificial intelligence (AI) will raise the stakes for strategic data and platform management, exposing more companies... View Details
Keywords: by Hise Gibson and Anita Lynch
  • June 2024
  • Teaching Note

Beamery: Using Skills and AI to Modernize HR

By: Boris Groysberg, David Lane, Susan Pinckney and Alexis Lefort
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 424-004. Unicorn human relationships startup Beamery evaluates it growth versus depth strategy as its strategic partners and customers could become future competitors in a quickly changing AI based human resources and talent management... View Details
Keywords: Analysis; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Business Startups; Business Plan; Disruption; Transformation; Talent and Talent Management; Decisions; Diversity; Ethnicity; Gender; Nationality; Race; Residency; Higher Education; Learning; Entrepreneurship; Fairness; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Global Strategy; Growth and Development; AI and Machine Learning; Digital Platforms; Disruptive Innovation; Technological Innovation; Job Offer; Job Search; Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Product; Mission and Purpose; Strategic Planning; Problems and Challenges; Corporate Strategy; Equality and Inequality; Valuation; Value Creation; Employment Industry; United Kingdom
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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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  • 04 Oct 2007
  • What Do You Think?

Has Managerial Capitalism Peaked?

Internet, it doesn't take a billion dollar R&D platform to discover the next technology platform." Jim Winkelmann agreed, but with a caveat: "The rebirth as always (will) be in the entrepreneurial sector creating... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 15 Jan 2008
  • First Look

First Look: January 15, 2008

profitability of a vertically integrated monopoly. We then use our model to compare open and closed standards regimes, to understand how commoditization affects a cluster, to determine the relative profits of platform firms and firms that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Feb 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Evolving for Success [Part One]

A whole new way of working, leading, and living is in store for every human being, thanks to the Internet, according to HBS professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter. But how best can people and businesses make their mark? In her new book Evolve!:... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 01 May 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 1, 2018

Artificial Intelligence and the Machine Learning Revolution in Finance: Cogent Labs and the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) No abstract available. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/218080 Harvard View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Jan 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Maybe Uber isn't God's Gift to Mankind

It’s easy to understand why so many people embrace transportation network companies like Uber and the growing number of other ride-sourcing startups, which enable drivers to make money using their own vehicles. By allowing passengers to hail a ride via a smartphone... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Transportation; Insurance
  • 25 Mar 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments

Should companies let employees keep working remotely after the COVID-19 pandemic ends? Assessing the impact of remote work has involved a lot of guesswork for business leaders, but it doesn’t have to be that way. Consider the Chinese... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 30 May 2019
  • What Do You Think?

Is There a Distinctive West Coast Style of Management?

internet startups, two Stanford Graduate School of Business professors, Jim Collins and Jerry Porras, wrote an influential book about “successful habits of visionary companies.” In it, they advanced their theories based on an extensive... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Education
  • 17 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 17

http://papers.nber.org/papers/w16922 Historical Trajectories and Corporate Competences in Wind Energy Authors:Geoffrey Jones and Loubna Bouamane Abstract This working paper surveys the business history of the global wind energy turbine... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 3, 2008

http://papers.nber.org/papers/w14222   Cases & Course MaterialsCognizant Technology Solutions Harvard Business School Case 408-099 In the highly competitive information technology outsourcing industry, Cognizant Technology Solutions... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 15

and dramatic increases in urbanization. This paper reviews the goals, business models, and partnerships involved in eight early "ecocity" projects to begin to identify success factors in this emerging industry. Ecocities, for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Jun 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?

Want to get a heated debate going among technologists? Ask them this question: Can the open source software movement defeat (or severely cripple) Microsoft in the marketplace? With little academic attention focused on this question, Harvard View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

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