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  • 01 Sep 2014
  • News

Book Review: Getting Beyond Yes

Sustaining a Successful Enterprise course via the OpenIDEO platform to write “The Capitalist’s Dilemma,” published in Harvard Business Review Illustration by Theispot “It’s a steamy summer night in New... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon; faculty research; faculty books
  • February 2000 (Revised May 2001)
  • Case

eBricks.com

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann
eBricks.com is developing an online marketplace for construction materials. The start-up company faces two decisions: 1) whether to merge with BluelineOnline.com, a firm providing project management solutions for the construction industry; and 2) whether to develop an... View Details
Keywords: Strategic Planning; Digital Platforms; Internet and the Web; Marketplace Matching; Decision Choices and Conditions; Business Startups; Construction Industry
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  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

Providing lessons in financial literacy

very excited for her vision,” Wood says of Morrison. “I thought, given my background, I could come in and make a difference.” Wood, who previously ran traditional and online businesses for Bertelsmann and Pearson Education before... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2020
  • News

Giving Amazon the Boot

Amazon was one of the big beneficiaries: The tech giant’s second quarter revenue was $88.9 billion, up a staggering 40 percent from the same period a year earlier. Amazon is the cornerstone of ecommerce—but are the merchants that offer their goods on the View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade
  • Web

Building the Foundation | Baker Library

at Harvard Business School Methods of Instruction Classroom and Field Work Theory to Practice From Classroom to Workplace Oral Histories Videos Oral Histories Transcripts Research Resources Supported by the de Gaspé Beaubien Family... View Details
  • 28 May 2019
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019

transformation. Through trial and error, observation and interpretation, the new managers learned what it took to become effective business leaders. The Business of Platforms... View Details
  • 17 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 17

platform for local fashion commerce. Oliver Segovia needs to evaluate where AVA should go next and answer some complicated personal questions. The case considers issues related to e-commerce platforms, diaspora-based international... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Nov 2020
  • News

Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint

Gifts to the HBS Fund support a wide range of people and programs like this. HBS’s global outposts—15 research centers and offices spanning five continents—play a critical role in the School’s efforts to build deep expertise in business... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2015
  • News

Ink

Book Review: Learning from Bill, Andy, and Steve The tuxedoed trio looking out from the cover of Harvard Business School Professor David B. Yoffie’s new book on strategy can be seen as the modern-day Mount Rushmore of business. At their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Apple; Microsoft; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services
  • 31 Aug 2016
  • Research & Ideas

One Quarter of Entrepreneurs in the United States Are Immigrants

immigrants are responsible for a lot of great companies,” says William Kerr, the Dmitri V. D’Arbeloff — MBA Class of 1955 Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. “After all, they... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 2007
  • Working Paper

Why Do Intermediaries Divert Search?

By: Andrei Hagiu and Bruno Jullien
We analyze the incentives to divert search for an information intermediary who enables buyers (consumers) to search affiliated sellers (stores). We identify two original motives for diverting search (i.e. inducing consumers to search more than they would like): i)... View Details
Keywords: Demand and Consumers; Motivation and Incentives; Internet and the Web; Digital Platforms; Distribution Channels; Business Strategy; Retail Industry
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  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

Empowering Japan through e-commerce

hundreds of cases, a light clicked on. “It was in an HBS classroom that I first considered starting my own company,” he says. Rakuten operates e-commerce businesses in 13 countries, spearheaded a $100 million investment in Pinterest, and... View Details
  • 02 Jun 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Secrets to a Successful Social Media Strategy

some social media platforms soar while others fizzle, and how business can use them to generate profit. "I have always been fascinated that humans interact online when we can interact offline as we have for... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • July 2011 (Revised January 2013)
  • Case

Digital Microscopy Is Making Me Crazy!

By: Willy Shih
For Carl Zeiss Microimaging, modular hardware and software enabled customers to tailor Zeiss's broad range of microscopy systems hardware and software to meet a wide range of needs from basic scientific research in the biological and medical sciences to clinical... View Details
Keywords: Information Infrastructure; Applications and Software; Corporate Strategy; Disruptive Innovation; Science-Based Business; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Business Conglomerates; Digital Platforms; Opportunities; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Computer Industry
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  • 23 Oct 2019
  • News

An Experiment in Online Education Reaches 50,000 Learners in Five Years

speak with the professor and with each other. In 2014, Harvard Business School launched HBX—an innovative platform that aimed to replicate the unique pedagogy and intensity of an HBS on-campus classroom.... View Details
Keywords: HBS Online; Educational Innovation
  • January 2018 (Revised January 2020)
  • Case

STRIVR: Changing the Game in Virtual Reality

By: Rajiv Lal, Matt Denison, Robert Higgins and Scott Johnson
The CEO of a growing virtual reality company that trains athletes must decide whether or not to stay in sports or expand into other areas. View Details
Keywords: Virtual Reality; Strivr; Internet Of Things; Football; Retail; Training; Startup; Start-up; Start-up Growth; ＂Sports Organizations,; Experiential Marketing; Business Startups; Technological Innovation; Sports; Information Infrastructure; Applications and Software; Digital Platforms; Technology Adoption; Sports Industry; Technology Industry; Retail Industry; United States
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  • 07 Nov 2014
  • News

The First Five Years: Tiffany Pham (MBA 2012)

learning, for change. After graduating from Yale and Harvard Business School, I knew that I had to get into the industry that had impacted me as a young woman, so I could ultimately use media to impact other women like me. “I subsequently... View Details
Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
  • 01 Jun 2014
  • News

What’s Next

Rojie Kisten (GMP 5, 2008), Cape Town, South Africa NN: When I first came to Harvard Business School in the 1980s, excluding the first-year BGIE [Business, Government, and the International Economy] course, there were virtually no global... View Details
Keywords: HBS Campaign; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

    Gil Addo

    Gil Addo is CEO and Co-founder of RubiconMD, a wholly-owned subsidiary of CVS Health. RubiconMD’s digital health platform empowers primary care clinicians with access to virtual specialist support to improve patient care.   Founded in... View Details
    Keywords: Healthcare
    • 18 Jul 2018
    • Blog Post

    Amira Rashad: An Ambidextrous Mind Meets Consumer Needs in the Middle East

    years. Settling in, I was so irritated by not doing much." At a social event, she met a Yahoo! executive managing an Arabic portal the company had recently purchased in the region. Amira came on board with a mandate to shift the platform... View Details