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- 17 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 2/5
words to share how outraged and disappointed I am by the continued extrajudicial killing of Black men and women. I feel a deep tension as I am inspired by the energy and passion of those that have gathered to stand together across the... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
construction to finance. Atlanta, by contrast, has had to build about half its Olympic facilities (at a cost of $550 million) and raise about three times as much money as the LA committee. The 1996 Games will dwarf the 1984 event and... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 15 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Black Swans and Big Trends Can Ruin Anyone's Internet Prediction
anticipate that blogging and user-generated video would become mainstream phenomena within a few years. Because it turned a blind eye to these black swans and big trends, Speed Trap assumed that market shares would remain stable in key... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Alumni Books Perfect Is Boring: 10 Things My Crazy, Fierce Mama Taught Me about Beauty, Booty, and Being a Boss by Tyra Banks (OPM 42, 2012) and Carolyn London TarcherPerigree Tyra Banks and her mother, Carolyn, share what they’ve learned... View Details
- 19 May 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Winner Targets India Dropouts
developing countries. Raj De Datta The three of us come from very different backgrounds (entrepreneurship, private equity, and general management) but share a common passion for the problems of economic development; we wanted to identify... View Details
- 12 Oct 2017
- Blog Post
Why I Spent this Summer Coding
would it cost to build/change/scale this? - is a frequent question in startup land (elsewhere too) where recruitment targets are typically behind schedule. In my case, I saw two main options to building a MVP (minimum viable product):... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
The Race Against Resistance
and new antibiotics—which are priced higher than their older counterparts to recoup development costs—have to compete for a share of that finite budget. In recent years, many large pharma companies have stopped their antibiotic research... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 19 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
Marketing Marijuana
users are the opposite; they are looking for variety and willing to pay extra for it. "Many recreational users come in from out-of-state and enjoy the novelty of the shopping experience—and the cost structure goes up if you offer a... View Details
- 02 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping
Gareth Olds grew up toeing the poverty line. For years his parents struggled to support three children in Anchorage, Alaska, where food costs run high. His stepfather held down a steady but low-paying job as a dental assistant, and his... View Details
- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Studying Japan from the Inside
political leaders in the country are wrestling with the question, what comes next? Will Japanese companies adopt western business practices, and at what cost to its own uniqueness? As with the School's four other international research... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- Web
Demo Day | New Venture Competition
urgent gap in medical equipment availability by facilitating equipment sharing and redistribution through an asset light model. By pioneering Africa's foremost medical equipment-sharing marketplace, the platform ensures hospitals can... View Details
- 17 Jun 2020
- News
Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines
Calm During Coronavirus Chaos,held on May 31. “Neil has led a number of sessions for the HBS Club of Toronto,” says the club’s president, Kazi Ahmed (MBA 2011). “That got us thinking about what he could share that might help people cope... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
looking at observational data on user traffic to Yelp from search engines, we find that Google’s exclusion of downstream competitors may have been effective. The share of Yelp’s traffic coming from Google has declined over this period,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
epidemiology, cost, and market share information given in the case to estimate potential cost savings one year after the introduction of biosimilars. The case also explores qualitative questions around the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
years, the mutual fund would shake up established norms of wealth creation and distribution in the United States. Indeed, it would help reshape America by uniting Wall Street and Main Street, two disparate worlds that previously had View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
despite the limited powers of central authorities. We also offer a framework for reasoning about future prices of IP addresses and then explore the role of rentals in sharing information about the value of IP address and assuring... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
headlines and rack up revenues in the billions, a number of smaller U.S. companies — some publicly traded, others privately owned — refuse to be overshadowed. However modest their comparative size, their market share still reaches into... View Details
- 10 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017
“particularly on high cost of failure situations where good information on potential service providers is correspondingly of high value.” Angie's List had a paid subscription model as it charged “members” for access to the information... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2023
- News
Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in San Francisco
times—from climate change and environmental sustainability to racial equity and social and economic inclusion—and then sharing that research with students, practitioners, policy makers, and the general public to affect meaningful change.... View Details
- 12 Aug 2008
- Op-Ed
Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising
strategically, Google can increase advertisers' costs. Increased Costs To Advertisers Once Google controls a substantial share of inventory at Yahoo, advertisers' search advertising options will be severely... View Details