Digital Platform - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Jan 2019
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Case Study: Beating Bias

establishing an audience, then adding targeted ads and affiliate marketing, Patel aims to build a “commenting platform 2.0,” he says: Media companies could license the product to enable more robust user-generated discussion within the... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Dec 2016
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Starting Lineup: Upturning Travel

(ThinkStock) (ThinkStock) As Airbnb has proven, the travel industry is ripe for innovation. What’s next for several alumni- run startups that are reinventing the vacation? The Company The Founder The Pitch The News NewUGo CEO Mei Zhang (MBA 1996) Founded in 2015 An... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Jun 2018
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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

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustrations by Dan Page

16 May 2018
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ALUMNI NVC Finals and Regional Roundup

2015) told an audience of 500 that DynamiCare Health uses a digital platform to monitor and reward addicts for active recovery efforts, eliminating degrading methods of drug testing. DynamiCare took the top... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Dec 2018
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Lifelong Learning about Leadership

careers and lives, and the other utilizes HBS’s online learning platform to share the School’s pedagogy with broader audiences. More than 70 MBA alumni from the classes of 1995– 2005—all seasoned professionals at an inflection... View Details

13 Nov 2020
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Student Startups Help Fight COVID-19

startup, which is led by Sophia Richter, Tina Beilinson, and Julia Cole (all MBA 2020), quickly adapted its affordable online offerings to include classes geared to birth and postpartum challenges associated with the coronavirus. Hikma Health added a module to its... View Details

01 Sep 2014
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014

Publishing Platform The Education of a Value Investor: My Transformative Quest for Wealth, Wisdom, and Enlightenment by Guy Spier (MBA 1993) Palgrave Macmillan This candid memoir takes readers into some of the darker corners of Wall... View Details

Keywords: faculty research; Alumni Research

01 Dec 2022
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The State of Play

platforms will become ubiquitous, he doesn’t think we’ll ultimately live in a realm that’s purely digital: “I think we’ll end up in a world where the digital is overlaid on the real world, and you can go... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

22 Nov 2024
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Deep Reading

Photos by Sandra Singh Last year, while taking classes on the Mishna, the first written collection of Jewish oral traditions, Antoine Leboyer (MBA 1992) wanted to dive deeper into the material. He found while there was a flood of additional texts and commentaries,... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

01 Jun 2025
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Navigating Uncertainty: Dean Datar on HBS’s Path Forward

our graduates to lead in a rapidly changing world. HBS students must know how to both use and leverage emerging tools like artificial intelligence and digital technologies. This is why we have launched a new required course called Data... View Details

01 Jun 1999
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Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town

the School a "living model of the highest standards of integrity, respect for others, and personal responsibility." Clark's intranet tour included a visit to HBS Publishing, where he scrolled through an online case; a stop at the course View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Dec 2020
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In Review

Competitiveness Project. What we learned allowed us to launch a steady stream of projects, including those focused on creating stability in the financial system, business and the environment, the future of work, advancing gender equity, and driving View Details

25 Aug 2022
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In My Humble Opinion: Road Tested

One and Revolution Money, Gregg shifted to B2B with a move to FleetCor, a provider of fuel cards and business-payment products, before becoming CEO in 2017 of RoadSync, a digital payment platform targeting... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; trucking; leadership; fintech; career

01 Jun 2001
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Q&A: Donna Dubinsky

A member of the team that introduced the phenomenally successful PalmPilot, Donna Lee Dubinsky (MBA 1981) has a handle on the handheld computer market. She was one of the brains behind the Pilot, the standard-setting personal digital... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; PalmPilot; Apple; Telecommunications; Information

15 Jun 2021
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The Path Ahead

is to have a digital research infrastructure that is similarly heralded for its excellence. There are many opportunities to digitize the MBA program as well. Can we create a View Details

21 Nov 2013
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Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins

keyboard on smart devices (just like Polaroid believed consumers needed to instantly print their digital photos—when was the last time you printed a photo!). They kept their platform closed, avoiding the... View Details

Keywords: Telecommunications; Information; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

01 Jun 2020
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How Sports Should Use Its Timeout

about, if you think about something as basic as wifi, or connectivity in a venue, laying that groundwork now is necessary to ensure fans feel safe, because there's a whole host of infrastructure investments that need to be made in order for your contactless payments,... View Details

30 Oct 2018
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Paths of Victory

continents. “We continue to build a new category in the digital manufacturing space. We empower engineering and manufacturing professionals to design, order, and commission custom factory equipment as fast as three days, through a... View Details

Keywords: Alumni New Venture Contest; Support Activities for Transportation; Transportation; Machinery Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Administration of Human Resource Programs; Government

25 Feb 2020
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Action Plan: Just Breathe

executives would find out that I was meditating,” Burton admits. Today, he wants everyone to know about the workplace benefits of meditation and other stress-management techniques. Six years ago, Burton founded Whil, a digital training... View Details