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  • 16 Jul 2019
  • News

The Making of a Movement

repeat riders, we realized Cycle for Survival could have a bigger impact than anyone ever imagined,” says David. Given their marketing and finance experience (Jen was Nickelodeon’s senior vice president of View Details
Keywords: Greg Forbes Siegman; cancer
  • 19 Jan 2016
  • First Look

January 19, 2016

stages and later in its subsequent growth into a diversified business group. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50341 November 2015 Annual Review of Financial Economics Financing Innovation By: Kerr, William... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Jul 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Is a Gap in Small-Business Credit Holding Back the American Economy?

access to public institutional debt and equity capital markets and the uncertainty of small business profits makes retained earnings a necessarily less stable source of capital. About 48 percent of business owners report a major bank as their primary View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills; Manufacturing
  • 31 Aug 2020
  • Research & Ideas

State and Local Governments Peer Into the Pandemic Abyss

can explain over 660,000 of the state and local government jobs lost in April, about two-thirds of the total observed declines.” In their research, Green, an assistant professor in the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School, and... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 08 Apr 2015
  • What Do You Think?

Are Technology Companies Ripe for Disruption?

close proximity to one another, frequenting the same restaurants, and speaking a language of their own? They represent a classic "cluster" from the world of competitive strategy. But are they denied exposure to consumers who are... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer; Technology
  • 12 Mar 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Crowded at the Top: The Rise of the Functional Manager

managers) and those focused on administrative functions (such as finance managers, HR directors, and legal department managers). Wulf explains that the administrative functional managers were those most directly affected by IT... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • Web

Podcast - HBS Online

consumer engagement levels. Amy Edmondson on Building High-Performing Teams 07 OCT 2024 | The Parlor Room As mentioned in Poets&Quants , The Parlor Room 's second season kicks off with Harvard Business School Professor Amy Edmondson... View Details
  • Web

Entrepreneurship Outside the Valley - Course Catalog

of context that affect the decisions of players in the sector. These areas will be highlighted in six modules which include differences in industry structure and the macroeconomy, availability and access to talent, financing sources,... View Details
  • Web

Past Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

leadership among the business community by founding the Ebola Private Sector Mobilization Group (EPSMG). Our project evaluated the role that AM and EPSMG played during the Ebola crisis in Liberia. Measuring the "Impact" in Impact Investing Spring 2015 | Focus: Impact... View Details
  • 26 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 26, 2007

from investors. CircleLending is a pioneer in the informal lending market, a largely unstudied and little understood consumer finance segment. Asheesh Advani, the founder and CEO of CircleLending, must... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 1998
  • Chapter

Configuring a Supply Chain to Reduce the Cost of Demand Uncertainty

By: J. H. Hammond, Marshall L. Fisher, Walter Obermeyer and A. Raman
Keywords: Supply Chain Management; Cost Management; Demand and Consumers; Risk Management; Risk and Uncertainty
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  • 18 Sep 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

of products and sell each product infrequently. At the same time, consumer browsing information is typically tracked by online retailers and is much more abundant than purchase data. We propose a demand model that caters to this type of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • April 2021 (Revised July 2021)
  • Case

StockX: The Stock Market of Things (Abridged)

By: Chiara Farronato, John J. Horton, Annelena Lobb and Julia Kelley
Founded in 2015 by Dan Gilbert, Josh Luber, and Greg Schwartz, StockX was an online platform where users could buy and sell unworn luxury and limited-edition sneakers. Sneaker resale prices often fluctuated over time based on supply and demand, creating a robust... View Details
Keywords: Markets; Auctions; Bids and Bidding; Demand and Consumers; Consumer Behavior; Analytics and Data Science; Market Design; Digital Platforms; Market Transactions; Marketplace Matching; Supply and Industry; Analysis; Price; Product Marketing; Product Launch; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Fashion Industry; North and Central America; United States; Michigan; Detroit
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  • 06 Nov 2012
  • First Look

First Look: November 6

mark-plans backfire, consumer preferences shift, or tried-and-true practices fail to work in a new context. So is innovation just a low-odds crapshoot? In The Architecture of Innovation, Harvard Business School professor Josh Lerner-one... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 7, 2009

financing institutions, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and the International Development Association (IDA). We find that developing countries serving on the Board of Executive Directors can expect an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Aug 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Off and Running: Professors Comment on Olympics

New subways or water projects need to be repaid from usage fees over the very long term. London or Beijing may upgrade a transit line to accommodate the rush of athletes and visitors, but these municipalities can and should find a way to View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Sports
  • 2011
  • Working Paper

Quantity vs. Quality: Exclusion by Platforms with Network Effects

By: Andrei Hagiu
This paper provides a simple model of platforms with direct network effects, in which users value not just the quantity (i.e., number) of other users who join, but also their average quality in some dimension. A monopoly platform is more likely to exclude low-quality... View Details
Keywords: Multi-sided Platforms; Exclusion; Quality And Quantity; Cost; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Network Effects; Market Participation; Digital Platforms; Monopoly; Quality; Motivation and Incentives; Strategy
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  • 05 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 5, 2007

raised Audax Group's first fund, and are not able personally to finance the purchase, which would require approximately $30 million. They must decide whether to go through with the purchase, and how to View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Dec 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2018

decisions and shipping policies in determining purchase outcomes and profits. Consumers are less sensitive to shipping fees than to product prices, but free shipping for orders above the minimum is a strong motivator for increasing... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Feb 2020
  • News

Capitol Ideas to Combat Climate Change

sticker shock would carbon prices trigger?). Elizabeth Lewis (MBA 2006), engagement officer for climate and impact investing at the International Finance Corporation, also responded that government policies needed to require more... View Details
Keywords: April White; photos by Jack Conroy