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  • 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
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  • March 2025
  • Case

Stagwell: AI and the Future of Marketing

By: Suraj Srinivasan and Radhika Kak
In early 2025, Mark Penn, Founder, CEO and Chairman of Stagwell, a global marketing company with a network of over 70+ agencies that served over 4000 blue-chip customers across 40 countries, was looking at ways that marketers should navigate the disruption emanating... View Details
Keywords: Advertising; Innovation Strategy; Change Management; AI and Machine Learning; Digital Transformation; Technology Adoption; Marketing Strategy; Service Delivery; Creativity; Business Model; Advertising Industry; Technology Industry
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  • 23 Aug 2011
  • First Look

First Look: August 23

unobserved program attributes. Our focus is on the network television industry, in which the products are television shows. We estimate a model that allows us to distinguish between the direct effect of advertising on utility and its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Program

Building a Legacy

professional network Extend your network by living and working with accomplished executives from various backgrounds, industries, and countries around the globe Build relationships with a diverse group of... View Details
  • 20 Jun 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Looking to Leave a Mark? Memorable Leaders Don't Just Spout Statistics, They Tell Stories

social programs was a much bigger problem than it was. “Even when unrepresentative of reality at large,” stories “are more easily recalled than statistics,” the study notes. “This selective recall can give rise to misperceptions about... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
  • Web

Lifelong Learning - Alumni

free coaching sessions per year, including self-assessment, interviewing prep, and offer negotiation tips. Keep Learning with Alumni Virtual Programs Expand your knowledge and skills with online programs led by HBS faculty and other... View Details
  • 29 Aug 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Decoding Insider Information and Other Secrets of Old School Chums

on their past favor-trading voting behavior," Malloy says. "So now you know where they stand better than others who aren't looking at these patterns." The researchers plan to continue investigating the effects of social View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services
  • May 2025
  • Case

IQanat: Empowering Rural Youth in Kazakhstan

By: Boris Groysberg and Maxim Pike Harrell
In June 2025, IQanat CEO Aliya Salikova considered scaling opportunities for the foundation, which provided educational opportunities for children from rural regions of Kazakhstan. Established by Kazakhstani businessman and philanthropist Aidyn Rakhimbayev, IQanat... View Details
Keywords: Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leadership; Social Enterprise; Social Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Rural Scope; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Equality and Inequality; Education Industry; Central Asia; Kazakhstan
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  • 26 Feb 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 26

award program decreased plant productivity by 1.4%, and that positive effects from awards are accompanied by more complex employee responses that limit program effectiveness. Download the paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2215922 Do Display Ads Influence Search?... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 2, 2016

households. The quality of the liquidity services provided by bank liabilities depends on their safety in case of default. Commercial bank debt is fully insured and thus provides full liquidity. However, commercial banks do not internalize the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Help - Alumni

every industry and searching the alumni directory and searching within the Employment categories can lead you to alumni who are experts in every field or who have resources or connections that may be of assistance. Social media : Many... View Details
  • July 2021
  • Article

The Effect of Price on Firm Reputation

By: Michael Luca and Oren Reshef
While a business's reputation can affect its pricing, prices can also affect its reputation. To explore the effect of prices on reputation, we investigate daily data on menu prices and online ratings from a large rating and ordering platform. We find that a price... View Details
Keywords: Pricing; Reputation Systems; IT Policy And Management; Economics Of Digital Platforms; Business Ventures; Reputation; Price; Consumer Behavior; Analysis
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  • March 2009 (Revised September 2011)
  • Case

Zopa: The Power of Peer-to-Peer Lending

By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski, Isabel Fernandez-Mateo and David Chen
Zopa, a U.K.-based peer-to-peer lending company, connected individual lenders and borrowers via an online interface. The company charged a small fee for completed loan transactions but has not turned a profit. Zopa offered two platforms, Markets and Listings. Markets... View Details
Keywords: Financing and Loans; Personal Finance; Market Participation; Digital Platforms; Social and Collaborative Networks; Financial Services Industry; United Kingdom
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  • Program

Agribusiness Seminar

Adapt internal processes, cultures, and communication strategies to attract the next generation of innovators and leaders Expand your personal and professional network Extend your network by connecting and... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture; Agriculture
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Aligning Strategy and Sales

marketplace Expand your personal and professional network Extend your network by living and working with accomplished executives from various backgrounds, industries, and countries across the globe Build... View Details

    Jerry R. Green

    Jerry R. Green

    David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy

    John Leverett Professor in the University

    Harvard University

     

    Jerry Green is the John Leverett Professor in the University and the David A. Wells... View Details

    Keywords: aerospace; education industry; insurance industry; professional services
    • 2022
    • Working Paper

    Do Startups Benefit from Their Investors' Reputation? Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

    By: Shai Benjamin Bernstein, Kunal Mehta, Richard Townsend and Ting Xu
    We analyze a field experiment conducted on AngelList Talent, a large online search platform for startup jobs. In the experiment, AngelList randomly informed job seekers of whether a startup was funded by a top-tier investor and/or was funded recently. We find that the... View Details
    Keywords: Startup Labor Market; Investors; Randomized Field Experiment; Certification Effect; Venture Capital; Business Startups; Human Capital; Job Search; Reputation
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    • 2007
    • Other Unpublished Work

    Positions of Power and Status: Reciprocity in the Venture Capital Industry

    By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski
    This paper proposes a straightforward way of differentiating between central network positions that confer power from those that confer status. I argue that actors achieve high status by receiving numerous exchanges from actors who receive numerous exchanges from... View Details
    Keywords: Venture Capital; Power and Influence; Opportunities; Status and Position
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    Making Markets Work: An Executive Education Program for Africa

    By: Debora L. Spar
    In the last decades of the 20th century economic growth was distributed unevenly across the world. While some countries experienced sustained and unprecedented prosperity, others fell further and further behind. This widening gap was particularly evident in Africa,... View Details
    • 08 Aug 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Black Employees Not Only Earn Less, But Deal with Bad Bosses and Poor Conditions

    that perpetuate the privileges of certain racial groups. “A lot of hiring comes through referrals, and people’s networks tend to be pretty racially segregated. So it’s possible that referrals will reinforce some of these disparities,”... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding