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  • February 2021 (Revised March 2021)
  • Case

AptDeco: Circular Economy Furniture Marketplace

By: Ayelet Israeli and Jamie Merkrebs
AptDeco, a used furniture marketplace, was growing rapidly in the tri-state area. The co-founders were confident that the business model, financial position, and unit economics positioned AptDeco for scaling in the massive $120 billion furniture market, despite its... View Details
Keywords: E-Commerce Strategy; Mobile; Word-of-Mouth; Word-of-mouth Marketing; Word Of Mouth; Internet Marketing; Growth Strategy; Platform; Platforms; Two Sided Markets; Two-sided Market; Two-sided Marketplace; Two-Sided Markets; Two-sided Network; Black Entrepreneurs; Black Leadership; African Americans; Circular; Peer-to-peer Markets; Furniture Industry; Furniture; Growth Hacking; Monetization Strategy; African-American Protagonist; Growth Management; Marketing Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Digital Platforms; Marketing Channels; Digital Marketing; Consumer Behavior; Acquisition; Growth and Development Strategy; Customer Focus and Relationships; E-commerce; Retail Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Technology Industry; Web Services Industry; United States; North America; New York (city, NY); New York (state, US)
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  • 03 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 3, 2006

engineer has invented a breakthrough, but refuses to assign the intellectual property to the firm, despite having agreed to do so in his employment contract. Fogg must choose from a variety of options, including prosecution of a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Jun 2024
  • Blog Post

Finding Alignment to Make Impact: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017)

New Yorker at heart, and a curious and resourceful learner. All of these pieces of her identity have shaped the leader she is today and the impact she makes in her company and community. Plugging into Support to Carve Her Path Born and... View Details
  • 13 May 2013
  • Blog Post

Leveraging the HBS platform to enter social enterprise

spending virtually all of undergrad involved in the public sector, I decided to try something totally different after my graduation in 2011. So, I moved to New York City and began working in Foreign Exchange... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
  • 04 Aug 2010
  • News

A Lonely Crusader

and distort” campaign allegedly motivated by his quest for a big profit if the company faltered. At the firm’s urging, New York attorney general Eliot Spitzer launched an investigation, and the Securities... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; subprime mortgages; Finance; Real Estate
  • 10 Sep 2015
  • Blog Post

Why We Recruit: EF Education First

to take ownership of a piece of our business. You can read more about it in this recent New York Times interview with EF Co-Chairman Philip Hult or in this recent Fast Company article about our “Culture... View Details
  • 03 Apr 2007
  • First Look

First Look: April 3, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407024 St. HOPE Academy: The Expansion Decision Harvard Business School Case 307-080 St. HOPE is faced with a decision concerning whether or not to expand from Sacramento to View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • August 2009 (Revised January 2012)
  • Case

Pandora: Royalties Kill the Web Radio Star? (A)

By: Robert C. Pozen and Alex Curtis Rosenfeld
Joe Kennedy, president and CEO of Pandora, one of the largest and most popular web (Internet) radio broadcasters, had just received bad news. The Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) had announced its decision to increase the royalties required to be paid by the web radio... View Details
Keywords: Profit; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Copyright; Laws and Statutes; Rights; Internet and the Web; Media and Broadcasting Industry
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  • 04 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: December 4

the platform can resolve these problems and create value by limiting the number of applications available. By limiting choice, the platform may create new equilibria (including the allocation that maximizes users' utility); eliminate... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 09 Nov 2022
  • In Practice

COP27: What Can Business Leaders Do to Fight Climate Change Now?

The US government’s newly passed Inflation Reduction Act will direct $370 billion toward advancing renewal energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions—the country's largest investment in fighting climate change so far. As business and government leaders around the... View Details
Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Danielle Kost
  • 27 Jan 2023
  • Op-Ed

Have We Lost Sight of Integrity?

Easterbrook, and Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg. Rife with bravado, New York Congressman Santos campaigned on being the “full embodiment of the American dream.” The only problem was that many of his personal... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
  • 19 Aug 2008
  • First Look

First Look: August 19, 2008

blurring by retailers have generally increased both inventory levels and gross profit dollars across retail segments. Download paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-078.pdf New Framework for Measuring and Managing Macrofinancial Risk... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni

Partnership for New York City in 2011, was appointed by the Obama Administration to serve on the US chapter of the G8 Advisory Board on Impact Investing in 2013, and received the Columbia Business School... View Details
  • 24 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 24, 2006

listed on the Luxemburg exchange, has declined by over 90 percent. Only two months earlier they had been planning a $200 million to $400 million equity and debt offering on the New York Stock Exchange, to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 14

P/E industries, which have a negative valuation change in the year after the investment. 2006 New England Journal of Medicine Leading Clinicians and Clinicians Leading By: Bohmer, Richard M.J. Abstract—More effective models of care... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2023
  • News

Engaging Students More Deeply

and Banking and the Anne and James F. Rothenberg Faculty Fellow. Read more about HBS students hear and see Eva Moskowitz, founder and CEO of Success Academy Charter Schools in New York City, explaining why... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 27 Oct 2015
  • News

Sweet Success

stunning—completely untouched,” says Turner. They named the property Madava Farms after daughters Maddie and Ava. “There were no roads, no houses; just forest, trout streams, and wildlife,” he notes. “We’d walk in the woods and think how... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
  • 17 Oct 2023
  • Blog Post

HBS Section I Celebrates Parents, Mentors, and Partners Day

a potluck with our other professors joining us, where everyone was eager and proud to introduce their guests to one another. I feel so fortunate to have gotten to know my sectionmates more through the eyes of the people who know them best, and at the same time be able... View Details
  • 2024
  • Working Paper

Patent Hunters

By: Lauren Cohen, Umit Gurun, Katie Moon and Paula Suh
Analyzing millions of patents granted by the USPTO between 1976 and 2020, we find a pattern where specific patents only rise to prominence after considerable time has passed. Amongst these late-blooming influential patents, we show that there are key players (patent... View Details
Keywords: Patents; Product Launch; Product; Innovation and Invention
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  • 22 Apr 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Does Spirituality Drive Success?

high point in his journalism career, Schwartz said, having written for such prominent publications as The New York Times, Newsweek, and New York... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace, Sean Silverthorne & Wendy Guild