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- 01 Apr 2011
- News
My First HBS Class
(On Piskorski, see also here.) The day’s case, written by Jeff Bussgang (MBA ’95C) and Professors Piskorski and Tom Eisenmann, was about foursquare, a location-based social networking game. (For Bussgang’s... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: Auto Pilot
London’s congestion fee, for example, might be waived for shared rides. We know that consumers care about the price, but we’re also finding that once passengers get into a shared ride they actually enjoy meeting new people and being the View Details
- 01 Aug 2013
- News
A Cure for Cold Storage
$100,000 in seed funding. "We wouldn't exist without that start-up money," says Schrader, who notes that Vaxess has also relied on the Harvard Innovation Lab (i-lab) for meeting space as well as a network of HBS professors to guide them... View Details
- 17 Nov 2011
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Organizational Design
organization? What Are The Best Techniques For Fostering Innovation In Multicultural Teams? Innovating at the World's Crossroads: How Multicultural Networks Promote Creativity HBS professor Roy Y.J. Chua proposes that cultivating a... View Details
Keywords: Re: Ranjay Gulati & Raffaella Sadun
- 04 Apr 2018
- News
Rebuilding the Girl Scouts Brand
Scouts debuted a new PSA: “I’m Prepared . . . to Lead Like a Girl Scout.” The 30-second spot, with a catchy new anthem, will air on cable networks in 2017. But Pitter-Armand knows she has an even more powerful View Details
- 25 May 2016
- Blog Post
Meet the Africa Business Club
community with Harvard Business School. MISSION The HBS Africa Business Club, founded on November 12, 1997, is dedicated to increasing the awareness of business opportunities on the African continent. Our activities are professional, educational and View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Crowdfunding capital for small business
Callaghan (MBA 1984). iCrowd connects entrepreneurs, mentors, peers, and experts for advice and support, and also provides investors with social networking tools that are key to investment crowd funding.... View Details
- 21 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Program for Women Targets Subtle Promotion Biases
a nuanced understanding of second-generation bias and how it may impact their own career development and the career development of other women in their firms. Create a holding environment to support women's identity work. The programs create a safe environment and peer... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 23 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: How Wikipedia Works (or Doesn’t)
"There is always a tendency in communities or in any social organization to have this boundary and say in or out," Lakhani says. "This might be happening in isolated places inside Wikipedia. The tension that they need to deal with is how... View Details
- Career Coach
Kartik Sahni
brainstorming, creating a professional narrative, identifying their unique pathway to impact; 2) Sectors: unpacking impact investing, social enterprise and/or impact-oriented roles in private companies; 3) Organizations: narrowing focus... View Details
- Profile
Andrew Goldin
says. "And the depth of the Social Enterprise Initiative – the courses it supports, the trips and extracurricular activities – really drew me in. At HBS, social enterprise is a true priority – not just... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Uniting business, industry, and governments to save the planet
Carter Roberts (MBA 1988) took over as president and CEO of World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the largest network of international conservation organizations on the planet, in 2005. Since then, he has been working to bring leaders in business,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
with Urban Water Partners RelayRides explanatory video FashionStake-Reuters story An online shipping platform that uses social networks and smartphones. Low-cost medical care and monitoring that helps... View Details
- 10 Apr 2019
- HBS Case
How Entrepreneurs Can Turn Lead Into Gold
financial capital is important, generating human capital and social capital can be just as important, if not more so, and often gets short shrift. “We think there should be a ‘demo day’ for hiring employees or developing View Details
- 02 Nov 2015
- Blog Post
Harvard Arab Weekend (HAW) 2015
covering most pressing topics across 12 political, business and social issues Career Fair: The largest MENA career fair in North America with 20+ companies represented Start-up Pitch: A Start-up pitch featuring 10 pre-selected MENA... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- Student-Profile
Mengjie "Magie" Cheng
Magie Cheng (she/her) worked for a social network company in their machine learning group and spent much of her time analyzing user behavior for a wide range of social View Details
- January 2011 (Revised April 2011)
- Case
TripAdvisor
By: Sunil Gupta and Kerry Herman
By 2010, TripAdvisor was the largest travel site in the world operating in 24 countries and 16 languages, with listings for 455,000 hotels, 92,000 attractions and 564,000 restaurants in over 71,000 destinations worldwide. It had over 40 million reviews from 35 million... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Growth and Development Strategy; Social and Collaborative Networks; Internet; Service Industry; Travel Industry
Gupta, Sunil, and Kerry Herman. "TripAdvisor." Harvard Business School Case 511-004, January 2011. (Revised April 2011.)
- 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
Piskorski, Mikolaj Jan, Isabel Fernandez-Mateo, and David Chen. "Zopa: The Power of Peer-to-Peer Lending." Harvard Business School Case 709-469, March 2009. (Revised September 2011.)
- 18 Nov 2021
- News
Strength in Numbers
small administrative team, and a network of experts have focused on 15 candidates for consideration in the first round of funding. The nonprofit expects to award grants to three to five organizations when it launches in 2022. In addition... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 31 Oct 2019
- News
Business Success Means Community Success in Wisconsin; GNN Roundup
of Wisconsin scholarships for nonprofit leaders to attend Social Enterprise Executive Education programs at the Harvard Business School. Global Networking Night: One night, 74 chances to connect worldwide In... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley