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- 20 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Maybe Uber isn't God's Gift to Mankind
It’s easy to understand why so many people embrace transportation network companies like Uber and the growing number of other ride-sourcing startups, which enable drivers to make money using their own vehicles. By allowing passengers to... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- News
BioMine Strikes Gold
category, and browse buying guides, helping customers make an informed buying decision. vinsnap is a mobile automotive marketing company. The application organizes car searches... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
what would make people join our clubs and buy our products. Plus, it became fashionable to promote women, and there I was with my HBS MBA. Cathy Benko (MBA 1989), vice chairman and chief talent officer,... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Skydeck Voices: For My Next Act
You shouldn’t ask me about retirement, because I’ve done absolutely no planning for it other than financial. And I’d hope to be able to work as long as I’m enjoying it, which I think could be a few years yet. Morrell: In this episode of Skydeck, you’ll hear from some... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Prima Datarina
think about the ballets we’re presenting as part of a portfolio,” says Hodges, who joined the organization in 2014. “Taking that approach makes it possible to balance our mission of developing new works while meeting financial... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2015
Realms: Journeys in Pen & Paint by Krish V. Krishnan (AMP 184, 2013) (Shanti Arts LLC) This is the written and artistic chronicle of Krishnan’s travels around the globe as he explores and portrays places of awe-inspiring holiness,... View Details
- 03 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Fierce Competitors Apple and Amazon Became ’Frenemies’ Over eReaders
is not really making a profit on hardware sales. It prices its hardware low as a way to encourage people to buy a lot of e-books." Apple, on the other hand, makes several... View Details
- 30 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds
of individual investors are able to wield great influence on management teams of companies in their investment portfolios. By contrast, index funds almost run on autopilot—with no active investor analyzing companies, rewarding those that View Details
- Web
Industrial Production & Materials - Business & Environment
Sustainability Associate and Advisor to BEI Gina Pak HBS MBA 2015 Founding Member / Marketing, Blueland “Our mission is to make it easy for people to make the environmentally responsible choice in the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Courting the Poor
manner, through virtual showrooms (see photo above) that use computers and sales staff to help customers navigate the store’s inventory and make a purchase. “The company had an amazing influence on customer behavior,” Frei notes. “People... View Details
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
agreed with this statement that shareholder value is no longer everything. These are the folks that make up the Business Roundtable. And the Business Roundtable is a group of 140 CEOs of the largest companies in America. And they got... View Details
- 10 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
New Venture Competition 2022: Business and Environment Ventures
2023TerraTrade is a two-sided marketplace that eliminates consultants & enables corporates to buy power directly from renewable energy projects. TerraTrade aims to harness the potential of corporations to combat climate change by... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
opportunities to sell something at a profit. These opportunities are exploited by adventurous investors who are willing to risk large losses in order to make large gains. A community in which everyone attempted to View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Case Study: Something New
Anomalie offers brides a new way to buy a wedding dress—custom designed, online, and at a reasonable price. That makes the company, well, an anomaly in the $55 billion United States wedding industry, which... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 05 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Radical Change, Entrepreneurial Opportunity
others to buy into your perspective? Is a digital camera a substitute for an analog camera? Is it a PC peripheral? Is it something like a camcorder? And how do consumers make sense of it? What features do... View Details
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Cristina Ros Blankfein
people buy the product again from that channel and make sure we keep driving that metric. How did you decide to take the leap? Jen and I went to Whole Foods and bought all sorts of purees and juices and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Rediscovering America
for more companies to practice “values-based capitalism.” Could you cite any examples? There is a growing number of well-run, profitable companies that have values at the center of their management strategy. One outstanding example is IBM, which, in addition to View Details
- 25 Feb 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Scholars and Students Unpack the Digital Business Revolution
ago," says Lakhani. But access to data is not the same thing as understanding the data correctly. "Many of the tools available now make it easy to look at correlations between two factors and draw incorrect conclusions; that can... View Details
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Shawn Tuli
Bank, impressed upon me the importance of improved real estate within a community, and how proud he was to help people buy their own homes.” After three years in an advisory role at Goldman Sachs, where Shawn worked with many clients with... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Robots to the Rescue
Mountz Photo courtesy Kiva Systems Kiva's robots in action Main article: Where Innovation Rules In the News: Boston Globe: Amazon Buys Kiva for $775M Those who know Mick Mountz (MBA 1996) well were not overly surprised when he started a... View Details