Economics Of Digital Platforms - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Nov 2015
Research & Ideas

Does Competition Make Us More Creative?

over and over” Gross, a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Business School and the National Bureau of Economic Research, reports his findings in Creativity Under Fire: The Effects View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising

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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

include, for example, Harvard Business Review’s printing expense. They also include strategic investments in digital infrastructure and content designed to extend the group’s record of consistent growth at a... View Details

January 2021 (Revised March 2021)
Case

Jumia's Path to Profitability

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Pippa Tubman Armerding and Gamze Yucaoglu

The case opens in September 2019 as Sacha Poignonnec and Jeremy Hodara, co-founders and co-CEOs of Jumia, the leading Pan-African e-commerce platform, are contemplating the company’s path to profitability in the aftermath of a fragile investor sentiment, as the company... View Details

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Gil Addo is CEO and Co-founder of RubiconMD, a wholly-owned subsidiary of CVS Health. RubiconMD’s digital health platform empowers primary care... View Details

Keywords: Digital Health

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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory

widely touted example of impact investing going mainstream. The case examines Imprint’s integration into the asset management platform at Goldman Sachs and how the approach to clients evolved post... View Details

01 Jan 2012
News

Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993

owners of small businesses, as well as Japanese society as a whole, Mikitani began working on a web-based shopping mall. “At the time, the Internet was at an early stage,” he notes. “No one was buying things online in Japan.” Working with... View Details

02 Aug 2016
First Look

August 2, 2016

the optimal capital requirement is around 20%. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51305 The Empirical Economics of Online Attention By: Boik, Andre, Shane Greenstein, and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Marketing Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Mitigate Racial Economic Inequality? An Analysis in the Context of Airbnb” ( Marketing Science , September–October 2021) with Nitin Mehta, Param Singh, and Kannan Srinivasan. 2021 Eva Ascarza : Finalist for... View Details

01 Mar 2004
News

Derek Ferguson

release — about the length of time it takes for a perfect digital copy to make the rounds on the Internet. “It’s changed the spending levels. It’s changed the whole process of... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

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Global Business Course | HBS Online

markets and business on a global scale and prepare for the political, social, and economic factors driving change. 4 weeks 6-8 hours per week 4 modules Self-Paced with regular deadlines This course earns you a Certificate View Details

26 Jun 2023
Blog Post

ClimateCAP 2023 & ClimateCAP Fellowship

complicated, time-consuming, and costly. We are building an end-to-end issuance platform that removes these frictions and brings in more supply of high-quality carbon credits to the market. The ClimateCAP... View Details

27 Feb 2017
Research & Ideas

Reputation is Vital to Survival in Turbulent Markets

officials randomly changing rules without due process or checks and balances. You might have, in extreme circumstances, maximum economic instability. Or you might have political instability; you might have unrest in the streets. There is... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

11 Mar 2024
News

In Harmony

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna; I’m an associate editor at the HBS Alumni Bulletin. Last November I flew to Seoul, South Korea to interview Michael Kim (MBA 1990) of MBK Partners. Often referred to as one of... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photograph by Jun Michael Park

25 Aug 2022
News

Up on the Corner

platform to broaden our expertise to new domains such as digital fabrication for affordable housing, particularly as we look to expand our mission of equitable housing in the... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Melissa Golden; Real Estate

30 Mar 2018
What Do You Think?

What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?

researcher and consultant” identified as Cambridge Analytica used a quiz app on the platform to access personal information of approximately 300,000 Facebook users and, by extension, 49.7 million View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Web Services; Information Technology

25 Aug 2014
News

Jonathan M. Nelson, MBA 1983

include wireless towers in India, Brazil, and Africa; digital television in Turkey; Hong Kong’s largest broadcaster; an award-winning video game developer; and the biggest name in endurance sports, IRONMAN, to name a few. In the United... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

07 May 2024
Blog Post

Opportunity to Offset Travel Emissions with Carbon Credits that Meet HBS Criteria

provides SDG Impact Ratings, where they rate the level of societal benefit the project is providing related to the United Nation’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). In addition to environmental goals, the SDGs include social and... View Details

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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

“Network Interconnectivity and Entry into Platform Markets” with Feng Zhu, Xinxin Li, and Ehsan Valavi. Christian Kaps : Winner of the 2019 Dutch Material Handling Thesis Award for “Towards Better Warehouse... View Details

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Strategy Execution Online Course | HBS Online

complete. What materials will I have access to after completing Strategy Execution? + – You will have access to the materials in every prior module as you progress through the program. Access to course materials and the course platform... View Details

26 Sep 2011
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Lady Gaga

Kimball Thomas (HBS MBA '11), prompts an evaluation of the pros and cons of each possibility. "Above all else, I hope the case will help students understand the economics... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Entertainment & Recreation; Music

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