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SMS Terms - HBS Online

Privacy Notice SMS Terms Terms of Use FERPA Community Values & Honor Code Trademark Notice Cookies The following terms apply if you have opted in to receive information from HBS Online using automated dialing technology to call or text... View Details
  • 20 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: September 20

  PublicationsSpanning the Institutional Abyss: The Intergovernmental Network and the Governance of Foreign Direct Investment Authors:Juan Alcácer and Paul Ingram Publication:American Journal of Sociology (forthcoming). Abstract Global... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Oct 2010
  • First Look

First Look: October 26, 2010

behavior of U.S. politicians. We exploit a unique database linking politicians to other politicians, and linking politicians to firms, and find both channels to be influential. Networks based on alumni connections between politicians, as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • September 2015
  • Technical Note

The On-Demand Economy

By: Cynthia A. Montgomery, James Weber and Elizabeth Anne Watkins
This note describes the emerging on-demand economy, also referred to as the sharing economy. The note highlights several companies including Uber and Airbnb that exemplify this new mode of competition, a model that threatens to disrupt traditional firms. Uber provides... View Details
Keywords: Regulation; Reform; Disruption; Disruptive Innovation; Strategy; Technological Innovation; Labor; Employment; Working Conditions; Human Capital; Rights; Organizational Design; Social and Collaborative Networks; Service Industry
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  • January 2011
  • Case

Aardvark

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann, Alison Berkley Wagonfeld and Lauren Barley
Aardvark is an online social search service that allows users to pose questions and receive answers from other users in their extended social network. The case explores the process that Aardvark's founders used to design and develop their product based on intensive... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Satisfaction; Entrepreneurship; Product Design; Product Development; Social and Collaborative Networks; Internet and the Web
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  • 08 Nov 2016
  • First Look

November 8, 2016

work in linked fields. Our analysis uses 1.8 million U.S. patents and their citation properties to map the innovation network and its strength. Past innovation network structures are calculated using... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jan 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The Value of a ‘Portable’ Career

performance-oriented. Moreover, success in professional sports is thought to be especially dependent on the talent of individual performers, since there is no special product technology or other long-lived advantages on which the team can... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Sports
  • Profile

Abena Nyantekyi-Owusu

Abena’s top choice. “It’s a super-global brand, especially in Africa; its network and available support in the region is unequalled.” The case method also appealed to her. “You can get more and go further than with traditional learning.... View Details
  • 24 Jul 2007
  • First Look

First Look: July 24, 2007

ecosystems, and the associated interdependencies among firms, make traditional antitrust market analysis difficult. The information technology (IT) industry today consists of a rapidly evolving and massively interconnected View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Oct 2023
  • Blog Post

New Venture Competition 2023: Business and Environment Ventures

manufacturing approach. Concentro - Inigo Rengifo Melia (MBA 2023) - Concentro aims to become a tech-enabled marketplace for tax credits (starting with renewables' ITCs), providing the technology to allow tax credits' transfers and a... View Details
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Visionary, Innovator, Educator - 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
  • 01 Jun 2016
  • News

Case Study: On the Table

vans because back in the 1960s and ’70s—and still now—there was no way to reach the consumer who shopped at mom-and-pop stores. Today their distribution networks are formidable barriers to entry for most competitors in their segments.... View Details
  • 29 Apr 2021
  • News

Equal Partner

for food manufacturers, founded by Zuleyka Strasner, who is a trans Black and Latinx woman, and Hemster, which connects users to on-demand services provided by an Uber-style network of tailors from marginalized communities, founded by... View Details
Keywords: Diversity; Inclusion
  • 01 Oct 1999
  • News

Eight Among Many: Kenneth A. Goldman

Excite@Home's acquisitions and partnerings with the many cable, computer, and media companies necessary to create its new platinum-paved info highway, Goldman has been heading some of the most interesting high-tech dealmaking going on today. Last May, to cite one... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
  • 31 Oct 2019
  • Blog Post

5 Things on My Mind in the Second Year of the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program

ambiguity, form an opinion, and defend it with while keeping an open mind when listening to others.  In the second year of the program, we choose electives based on our interests. I am particularly enjoying my Strategy and Technology... View Details
  • 01 May 2012
  • First Look

First Look: May 1

creative destruction. Dominant incumbent firms, long successful in an existing technology, are often much less successful in new technological eras. This is puzzling, since a cursory analysis would suggest that incumbent firms have the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Jun 2011
  • News

New Venture Winner Mines E-Waste

brought to the competition,” said HBS professor Lynda Applegate, head of the Entrepreneurial Management Unit. “We are pleased that the contest not only is helping to identify promising new business ventures among our alumni but also is acting as a formal mechanism to... View Details
Keywords: contests; awards; Mining (except Oil and Gas); Mining
  • 10 Mar 2021
  • News

Chasing the Silver Tsunami

software to coordinate care with one another, now processes some 30 percent of patient transitions out of hospitals. In October 2020, CarePort was bought by health technology company WellSky for $1.35 billion. CEO Hu says that one reason... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov; illustration by Dan Page; Nursing and Residential Care Facilities; Health, Social Assistance
  • 02 Oct 2013
  • What Do You Think?

Is Leadership an Increasingly Difficult Balancing Act?

one with fewer answers? Those were the questions implied by this month's column. The predominance of responses suggested that the answers to the questions are "yes, yes, and maybe." Adam Hartung commented that "As View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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Departments | Employment

future information and knowledge management needs and staying abreast of state-of-the art technologies and practices to best meet them. Business & Environment Initiative The Business and Environment Initiative, launched in 2010, seeks to... View Details