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- 13 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 13, 2007
Enterprise Capital Markets Harvard Business School Case 307-078 Seeking to impact global poverty and philanthropy, eBay founder Pierre Omidyar donates $100 million to Tufts University for a trust restricted to investment in microfinance.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 11
move into high-volume production. But the changing environment for patent enforcement, in particular the use of injunctions post eBay v. MercExchange, has brought new challenges to the company's licensing model. "Patent... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Aug 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Built for Global Competition from the Start
discussed German incubator Rocket Internet, which clones successful business models and sites like eBay and Groupon around the world. Rocket Internet, a buzz company on campus that has attracted a number of HBS students as employees, is... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
took a job at Stride Rite. By the time eBay came along, I was at Hasbro in Rhode Island. Fortunately, my husband was game to move back to California. What was your first reaction when a recruiter asked you to consider interviewing at... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
services of a fleet of vehicles to aid the recovery effort.Creativity and business savvy were apparent in the responses of many HBS graduates. eBay CEO Meg Whitman (MBA '79), for example, launched an effort to raise $100 million in one... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 16 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 16, 2010
embeddedness. Purchase this note:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/311055-PDF-ENG Gazelle in 2010 Andrei Hagiu and James WeberHarvard Business School Case 711-446 Gazelle has pioneered a reCommerce intermediation model: it buys used electronics from consumers and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
light? How would TTIP change the rules of world trade? Who would benefit and who would lose if an agreement were finally reached? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/716026-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 717-417 View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Uncovering Racial Discrimination in the ‘Sharing Economy’
pictures in online marketplaces were the inspiration for the research. "In the early days of the Internet, online marketplaces like eBay were relatively anonymous," says Luca, an assistant professor in the Negotiation, Organizations &... View Details
- 21 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 21
Download working paper: http://people.hbs.edu/mluca/InformationDisclosure.pdf Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 715-412 Nasty Gals Do It Better In 2006, Sophia Amoruso started Nasty Gal, an eBay boutique selling... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
- 25 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Has Occupational Licensing Outlived Its Usefulness?
on consumers, platform managers, and policymakers. Martha Lagace: What piqued your interest in this research? Chiara Farronato: I study market design choices of online platforms from eBay to Airbnb. Online platforms help match many... View Details
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
http://hbr.org/2014/01/can-a-strong-culture-be-too-strong/ar/1 January 2014 MIT Sloan Management Review Strategic Decisions for Multisided Platforms By: Hagiu, Andrei Abstract—Multisided platforms such as eBay and Facebook create value by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
Pincus set up shop, the general impression of private equity matured. SUVIR SUJAN first thought of returning to India when consulting work brought him home in 1999. Since then he's sold a start-up to eBay and recently launched a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 22 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 22, 2015
model. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/716405-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 416-006 Srivathsan Canchi at eBay Inc. No abstract available. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
company. “They shifted their model in the middle of our contract negotiation and told me, ‘We’re going after the phone companies, are you still in?’ Absolutely. I knew that was an example of an interesting market and technology coming together.” When View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 11 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 11
Foundation & the Joslin Vision Network-Venezuela No abstract available. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/morella-mendoza-de-grossmann-foundation-the-joslin-vision-network-venezuela/an/314035-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 914-016 View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
come from discovering a new market, finding a new need, and meeting that for the first time. That's what Amazon did, that's what eBay did, and I think that's what we've done. Sahlman: So there are big payoffs, and there are little... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2
about the students today. And very, very helpful. John Donahoe, who's CEO of Nike, when I retired from GE, and he was leaving Ebay at the same time. He said, "I want to work with young people in the next part of my life because it keeps... View Details