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2016
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Peer-to-Peer Markets

By: Liran Einav, Chiara Farronato and Jonathan Levin

Peer-to-peer markets such as eBay, Uber, and Airbnb allow small suppliers to compete with traditional providers of goods or services. We view the primary function of these markets as making it easy for buyers to find sellers and engage in convenient, trustworthy... View Details

Keywords: Peer-to-peer; Online Platforms; Matching; Innovation; Digital Platforms; Marketplace Matching; Market Design; Internet and the Web; Technology Adoption; Network Effects; Market Entry and Exit

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01 Mar 2012
News

1st-Year MBAs Learn from Global Partners

at their immersion location, students refined their ideas by meeting with potential customers and their sponsor organization. At the end of the week, they presented a final proposal. While focused on students, the FIELD global immersions demonstrated the power of the... View Details

Keywords: Professor Youngme Moon; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

September 2021
Supplement

Telepass: From Tolling to Mobility Platform

By: Chiara Farronato, Stefano Denicolai and Sarah Mehta

This supplementary dataset can be paired with the case entitled “Telepass: From Tolling to Mobility Platform” (case no. 622-011), to allow students the opportunity to analyze data before class. View Details

Keywords: Analysis; Change; Change Management; Transformation; Transition; Innovation and Invention; Strategy; Information Technology; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Transportation; Transportation Networks; Value; Value Creation; Technology Industry; Transportation Industry; Insurance Industry; Europe; Italy; Milan

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22 Feb 2022
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March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

path, clearly illustrating how the traditional power dynamic has inverted and why it matters for business survival. Bines offers six proven models you can use to cultivate and serve highly informed and empowered customers. Influence Is... View Details

24 Jul 2020
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Reimagining Chicago’s Schools

that could better personalize middle and high school education, closing the gap between students who excelled and those who needed support? So, in 2012, Zaikos launched the Intrinsic School—a network of public charter schools with an... View Details

24 Apr 2014
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Training managers in the developing world

Through the Southern African Development Community Business School Network he established with the University of Botswana and the University of Pretoria, Richard America (MBA 1965) is on a mission to help train first-rate managers in the... View Details

01 Sep 2006
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High Adventure

which is thick with “beautiful, huge, old-growth cypress trees lining an incredible creek,” says Beilharz. To avoid damaging the habitat with roads and trails, the Beilharzes built a network of aerial zip-lines — cables that transport... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; ecotourism; Information; Information; Information; Information; Information; Information

01 Jun 2009
News

Murray Named Class of ’08 Fellow

share this transformational experience with others,” says Jennifer Lee, who cochaired the class gift effort with Tricia Glynn (both MBA ’08). Murray was attracted to HBS because of the Healthcare Initiative, the case method, and the School’s View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

25 Apr 2023
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Class of 2022 Startups Sweep Alumni New Venture Competition

network that has a ton of experience and expertise and value to add. There’s a lot of willingness to tap into that network and leverage it. That’s kind of the point of having access to this community. The... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jun 2000
News

Of Dugouts and Sweatshops

America's TV networks prepared to broadcast the inspector's decision, Reich met with a roomful of lawyers. They strongly advised Reich that overturning the decision would endanger his nascent relations with the inspectors. Reich... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

01 Aug 2002
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For Alumni Only: Breakthrough Insights Program Debuts

on Network Associates' efforts to market its encryption software algorithms globally, despite national security concerns raised by the U.S. government. By Tuesday afternoon, participants seemed to have settled back into the classroom... View Details

Keywords: Laura Singleton

06 Jun 2012
What Do You Think?

Is Something Wrong with the Way We Work?

Summing Up Fixing the Way We Work There is a lot wrong with the way we work, but very little of this is due to new networking capabilities or communications technology. Neither can we blame increasing globalization and the demands of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Consulting

25 Jan 2016
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Helping Young African Managers Find Their Way Home

of business in Africa.” That thought led to the launch of Young African MBAs (YAM). “What started off as a small networking group quickly grew to a registered organization with over 2,000 members,” says Igun, who was born in Nigeria and... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

01 Apr 1998
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World Class Learning

network offers help on a range of issues, Walker says, from something as simple as how to buy groceries to something as serious as the emotional stresses of displacement and change in family life. "We also meet often with international... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

25 Apr 2016
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Innovating Education to Create College-Ready Academic Achievers

Ian Rowe (MBA 1993) is navigating a clear path to success for students at Public Prep, a network of tuition-free charter schools in New York City. Like the North Star-shaped model that frames the schools’ mission, Rowe is building a... View Details

21 Sep 2018
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HBS Association of Southern California Boosts Support for Startups

less than $1 million. HBS Club of Charlotte/ Monthly Networking Lunches Sometimes doing nothing together is the best way to get to know each other. That’s what the HBS Club of Charlotte has discovered with its monthly View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

13 Jan 2021
Blog Post

Welcome to the BEI Blog!

connections between students and alumni already working in the field through our alumni mentor program, which promotes networking and idea-sharing on the challenges and opportunities that climate change is currently posing to businesses.... View Details

Fast Answer

Challenges and Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry

private companies; information on investment firms and capital transactions; For a multimedia learning module on Capital IQ check out our Learn... View Details

01 Mar 2005
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Dean’s Conference Call Spotlights HBS Global Initiative

newest addition to the School’s network of research centers and offices in Asia, Latin America, Europe, and California. (Clark visited Mumbai and the Japan Research Office in Tokyo in December. ) The research centers provide an... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

October 2011 (Revised September 2014)
Case

Music and the (Real) World: Thirty Years of MTV

By: Mukti Khaire and Eleanor Kenyon

The case is useful for teaching students the structure of creative industries - especially fashion - and the issues to consider when attempting disruptive innovation and entrepreneurship in these industries. View Details

Keywords: Industry Structures; Entrepreneurship; Disruptive Innovation; Internet and the Web; Networks

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