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- 22 Jul 2014
- News
Hungry for Change
crops that otherwise would have gone to waste. The organization distributed a total of 76 million pounds of food in 2012 (26 million of which was perishable), both directly and through a network of nearly 1,000 food pantries and homeless... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Gerald Chertavian, MBA 1992
consulting firm focused on the nascent field of Internet marketing. He spent several years building Conduit into one of Europe’s fastest-growing technology companies, eventually counting 130 employees around the globe and $20 million in... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
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Tariro Goronga
dimension.” His engineering background proved to be the bridge. At British Petroleum, Tariro was assigned to a finance team to bring the engineering perspective they needed. As his colleagues considered potential investments, he evaluated the underlying assets. “How... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy
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A Chronicle of the China Trade. The Papers of Augustine Heard & Co., 1840-1877
Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership Networked Business... View Details
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Confronting Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities
Initiative's Twitter HBS Open Knowledge - This open forum by the HBS Digital Initiative aims to build community and expertise around digital transformation and technology at HBS and beyond. It gathers and shares perspectives from... View Details
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Claire Freidman
interesting positions in New York and Los Angeles and realized that an MBA was a pre-requisite for many of these types of roles. HBS appealed to me in particular because of the vast network of alumni in the media and entertainment... View Details
- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
unavailable at this time. Download the paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=43686 The Spatial Diffusion of Technology Authors:Comin, Diego A., Mikhail Dmitriev, and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg Abstract We empirically study View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
The Western Front
summer, Hendrickson and a colleague opened an office in Silicon Valley called the Defense Innovation Unit Experimental, or DIUx for short. Their mission: discover new technologies that can be useful to the military, and figure out ways... View Details
Keywords: Jason Feifer
- March 2006 (Revised December 2009)
- Compilation
Skype
By: Peter A. Coles and Thomas R. Eisenmann
Presents eBay's rationale for its $2.6 billion acquisition in late 2005 of Skype, a fast growing voice-over-Internet protocol (VoIP) provider. Describes Skype's history, technology, business model, and competition, as well as government regulation of VoIP services. View Details
- 26 Mar 2013
- News
Facebook's other first lady
- 21 Nov 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
forthcoming Journal of Political Economy Internalizing Global Value Chains: A Firm-Level Analysis By: Alfaro, Laura, Pol Antràs, Davin Chor, and Paola Conconi Abstract—In recent decades, advances in information and communication View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade
Networks Published: September 14, 2009 Many business leaders are mystified about how to reach potential customers on social networks such as Facebook. Professor Mikolaj Jan Piskorski provides a fresh look... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2017
- News
Personalizing Women’s Path to Success
child-rearing hiatus. Lisa Skeete Tatum (MBA 1998) has designed what she calls the ideal “playbook” for those situations, and more, with Landit, a technology startup that offers personal brand and network... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 2015
- Working Paper
Online Word of Mouth and Product Review Disagreement
By: Frank Nagle and Christoph Riedl
Studies of online word of mouth have frequently posited―but never systematically conceptualized and explored―that the level of disagreement between existing product reviews can impact the volume and the valence of future reviews. In this study we develop a theoretical... View Details
Keywords: Online Word Of Mouth; Online Communities; Viral Marketing; Online Product Reviews; Quality; Internet and the Web; Consumer Behavior; Marketing Reference Programs; Social and Collaborative Networks; Digital Marketing; Analytics and Data Science
Nagle, Frank, and Christoph Riedl. "Online Word of Mouth and Product Review Disagreement." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 13-091, May 2013. (Revised May 2015, selected for AOM Best Paper Proceedings.)
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf
Use LinkedIn to network with an expert and ask her a question about a critical assumption. Run online surveys using SurveyMonkey.com. Tap into Amazon Mechanical Turk, which offers cost-effective ways to perform mundane tasks." The book... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
1776, by David McCullough In any survey of great American corporations that have left their mark on business history, IBM would always hold a special place. Its origins date back to the late 1880s, when mechanical time recorders and tabulators were the leading View Details
- February 2017
- Case
BlaBlaCar: The Road Ahead...
By: Karim R. Lakhani, Arun Sundararajan, Emilie Billaud and Caroline Caltagirone
In 2017, the co-founders of BlaBlaCar—the world’s largest long-distance carpooling company—reflected on the evolution of their venture and the way forward. BlaBlaCar had reached critical mass and size; yet staying still was not going to be enough to be relevant and... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Transformation; Decision Making; Values and Beliefs; Growth and Development Strategy; Digital Platforms; Network Effects; Strategic Planning; Competitive Strategy; Expansion; Internet and the Web; Transportation Networks; Transportation Industry; Web Services Industry; France; Europe
Lakhani, Karim R., Arun Sundararajan, Emilie Billaud, and Caroline Caltagirone. "BlaBlaCar: The Road Ahead..." Harvard Business School Case 617-050, February 2017.
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How One Center of Innovation Lost its Spark
disentangle two distinct consequences of the geographic co-location of competitors in the same industry. Geographic co-location increases the ease with which "communities of practice" can form, and these tightly interwoven social and professional View Details
- 11 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
ZONE DEFENSE: These self-driving, AI-powered drones do recon so soldiers don’t have to
war zones around the world. Brandon Tseng calls it “self-driving technology for defense.” The long-distance, 2.8-pound quadcopter drones, running on Shield AI’s Hivemind software, can navigate through buildings without a pilot, streaming... View Details
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Introduction - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership View Details