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- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books You Got This! A Straightforward, No-Nonsense Playbook for Crushing 130+ Workplace Challenges By Heidi Abelli (MBA 1993) Palmetto Publishing Stepping into the corporate world can feel like navigating a labyrinth, especially when... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Too Much of a Good Thing?
predicts. That all has social fallout, of course. Salter notes that one result in the United States will be a widening income gap as a growing pool of less-educated, low-skilled American workers see jobs that match their abilities... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- Web
Design Thinking Course | HBS Online
design heuristics and apply research-based personas and behavior models to make innovations easier to adopt. Highlights Match Mental Models, Reduce Complexity, and Prevent Errors Developing Research-Based Personas Anticipate Needs,... View Details
- Web
2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
Professor Laura Alfaro + More Info – Less Info Fueled by a series of recent political events and actors, anti-globalization has been growing. From the rise of political platforms pinning blame on openness to imports and immigration to the... View Details
- 12 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
Harvard Climate Entrepreneurs Circle: Taking Climate Solutions from Idea to Action, Faster
while their core platform continues to serve the nation and globally, with over 10,000 unique visitors a month. What background do Climate Circle founders have? As you can begin to see from the founders I’ve regaled you with, Climate... View Details
- August 2015
- Case
Building an e-Commerce Brand at Wayfair
By: Thales Teixeira and Elizabeth Anne Watkins
Wayfair, Inc. comprised five home goods, furniture, and décor e-commerce brands. Wayfair.com, the main brand, which was responsible for the majority of sales, targeted the mass-middle home-goods market. AllModern, DwellStudio, Joss & Main, and Birch Lane were niche... View Details
Keywords: E-commerce; Wayfair; Wayfair.com; Amazon; Retailing; Furnishing; Funnel; Attribution; ＂Marketing Analytics＂; Brand Building; Digital Platforms; Marketplace Matching; Marketing; Marketing Communications; Marketing Strategy; Internet and the Web; Media; Supply Chain; Supply Chain Management; Communication; Advertising; Resource Allocation; Decisions; Advertising Industry; Communications Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Retail Industry; United States
Teixeira, Thales, and Elizabeth Anne Watkins. "Building an e-Commerce Brand at Wayfair." Harvard Business School Case 516-028, August 2015.
- Web
Career Support - Business & Environment
positions. BEI maintains relationships with a number of organizations and individuals who can offer career advice and opportunities to current students. There are several ways to connect with alumni: HBS Initiatives Mentor Match Program... View Details
- Web
Sustainable Investing Course | HBS Online
Screening and Portfolio Tilts Engagement and Proxy Voting ESG Integration and Alpha Generation Sustainable Public Market Funds Featured Exercises Evaluate the ESG performance of various companies Match ESG use cases to corresponding... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Full Court Press
On May 28, 2022, the Basketball Africa League (BAL) held the championship game of its second season, pitting the club team Petro de Luanda, from Angola, against US Monastir, from Tunisia. Traffic snarls outside the stadium, congestion tightened by temporary road... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 06 Aug 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Super Bowl Ads Sell Products, but Do They Sell Brands?
compelling story was told in anticipation of a product launch, and that became sort of the benchmark going forward for must-see TV and what brand storytelling could look like on this phenomenal platform when you've got one out of every... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Closing the 'Network Gap'
first semester, 10 percent of the Class of 2022—70 people from a wide array of backgrounds—volunteered their own networks and knowledge to help. This outpouring of support, however, was still not enough to match the number of requests... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Apr 2024
- News
Generosity Multiplied
There’s little doubt that James Reed (MBA 1990) loves his job. After all, he’s the chairman and CEO of Reed, the United Kingdom’s first and largest jobs website, and he takes the company’s slogan—“Love Mondays”—to heart. Even so, he admits he has a side hustle. When... View Details
- July 1996
- Case
Edmund's--www.edmunds.com
Edmund's publishes an automobile price guide in books (600,000 units per year) and over the Internet (16,000 users a day and growing). The site can be visited at www.edmunds.com. In the marketplace, it makes money selling books. In the marketspace, they make their... View Details
Keywords: Business or Company Management; Digital Platforms; Marketplace Matching; Information Publishing; Information Industry; Auto Industry
Sviokla, John J. "Edmund's--www.edmunds.com." Harvard Business School Case 397-016, July 1996.
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Generosity Multiplied
not running the wildly successful recruitment firm, Reed is deeply involved with the Big Give, an innovative match-funding platform that hosts online fundraising appeals for charities. By engaging philanthropists and companies to View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- January 2018 (Revised February 2018)
- Technical Note
Making Markets
Explains how to identify and capitalize on marketplace design opportunities. Defines markets and marketplaces and describes the basic functions of each. Discusses attributes (e.g., heterogeneity of participants' preferences and asymmetry in available information) that... View Details
Keywords: Marketplaces; Two-Sided Markets; Entrepreneurship; Market Design; Digital Platforms; Marketplace Matching; Market Participation; Market Transactions; Market Entry and Exit; Digital Platforms; Auctions
Eisenmann, Thomas R., and Scott Duke Kominers. "Making Markets." Harvard Business School Technical Note 818-096, January 2018. (Revised February 2018.)
- 30 Sep 2024
- News
The Making of a Streaming Sensation
had their own, I don't want to say excuse, but their own reason. And probably for their own platforms at that time when they were commissioning, they were probably the right reasons, but you just kind of keep going and keep going. And... View Details
- February 2000 (Revised May 2001)
- Case
eBricks.com
eBricks.com is developing an online marketplace for construction materials. The start-up company faces two decisions: 1) whether to merge with BluelineOnline.com, a firm providing project management solutions for the construction industry; and 2) whether to develop an... View Details
Keywords: Strategic Planning; Digital Platforms; Internet and the Web; Marketplace Matching; Decision Choices and Conditions; Business Startups; Construction Industry
Eisenmann, Thomas R. "eBricks.com." Harvard Business School Case 800-327, February 2000. (Revised May 2001.)
- 04 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 4
the nature of competition. Furthermore, relative to platforms that cannot charge such fees, platforms that charge positive (negative) access fees to consumers have weaker (stronger) incentives to divert... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- February 2022
- Case
NFX Capital and Moov Technologies
By: Scott Duke Kominers and Nicole Tempest Keller
In July 2019, James Currier, a general partner at San Francisco-based NFX Ventures, was considering a seed stage investment of $1.5 million in Moov Technologies, a B2B marketplace for used industrial equipment. NFX was a venture capital firm focused on seed-stage... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Network Effects; Marketplace Matching; Digital Platforms; Market Design; Applications and Software; Semiconductor Industry; Financial Services Industry; San Francisco
Kominers, Scott Duke, and Nicole Tempest Keller. "NFX Capital and Moov Technologies." Harvard Business School Case 822-045, February 2022.
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Data Tips & Toolkits - Research Computing Services
popular platform provides automatic text captioning of the audio uploaded onto YouTube. Watson speech-to-text API : a machine learning API that can transcribe audio files into text, among other capabilities. VLC player : a free, open... View Details