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- 20 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Much Is Freedom Worth? For Gig Workers, a Lot.
pointing to the mobile shift-swapping app used by employees of clothing retailer The Gap. The company piloted the app in its Old Navy stores and expanded it to all brands in 2018. The app “creates value,” says Oberholzer-Gee, by helping... View Details
- 06 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower
conducted over twice as many community mobilization meetings, while seeing approximately the same number of patients at the health posts. Both groups spent the same amount of time at each household, meaning the career group wasn't... View Details
- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Lessons from a Nasty Trade Dispute
have already failed, the next most important step is to present a fully articulated case to their government. Vague complaints about "unfair" practices will not mobilize the resources of the government. But presenting a... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 18 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
How Much is Freedom Worth? For Gig Workers, a Lot.
pointing to the mobile shift-swapping app used by employees of clothing retailer The Gap. The company piloted the app in its Old Navy stores and expanded it to all brands in 2018. The app “creates value,” says Oberholzer-Gee, by helping... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products
- 04 Oct 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #10: Amanda Li (MBA 2018): Speeding Climate Change Solutions Through Project Finance Efficiencies
we have to create greater mobility of capital, a liquid marketplace for investors to move in the capital stack. For some investors today, even writing a $50M check is too small and difficult, and that’s a problem.” While bankers and... View Details
- 24 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Finance in Africa: Health, Self-Interest, Avoided Future Cost
funded by the World Bank and the operations are a public private partnership with Meridiam and CETUD, a government agency. Financing Climate Adaptation. Investors, businesses, and global society can mobilize the capital and the scale to... View Details
- 22 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 22
unavailable at this time. Purchase this note:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/412057-PDF-ENG Sephora Direct: Investing in Social Media, Video, and Mobile Elie Ofek and Alison Berkley WagonfeldHarvard Business School Case 511-137... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 20, 2016
countries with higher nominal bond-stock betas have significantly larger nominal bond risk premia and borrow less in local currency. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51643 Android and Competition Law: Exploring and Assessing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 9
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/115009-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 415-034 Micromax: Scaling the Largest Indian Mobile Handset Company It is January 2014 and Rahul Sharma, cofounder of Micromax Informatics (Micromax),... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is Concierge Management an Answer to the “Big Quit”?
have always been highly mobile, with more than 40 million leaving their jobs voluntarily in recent years. That’s roughly twice as many as are fired or leave involuntarily. It’s testimony to a US economy that produces a remarkable number of job opportunities and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 16 Jun 2015
- Blog Post
Military Alumna Reflects on Time at HBS
gentlemen from India who had excelled in mobile payments and was now considering moving in to management consulting. I also met one of my best friends that first week— she heard that I had served in the Marines, in an officer corps that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Program Catalyzes New Streams of Research
racial, and economic justice. BUSINESS AS A FORCE FOR GOOD IN SOCIETY Contributing to a Better Future Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change The Potential of Business to Improve Lives View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 15 Nov 2013
- News
Helping Bright Ideas Shine Again
capital firm he opened in 2004 (and closed in January 2013) that focused on the Internet, software, and mobile spaces. The experience taught him some important lessons, among them the benefits of restricting his number of investments.... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
and useful information to patient, physicians, and researchers. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=709403 Launching Telmore (A) Harvard Business School Case 708-414 When the Danish View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- May 1983 (Revised December 1987)
- Case
Technical Data Corp.
Describes a decision confronting the president of a small company about selling some or all of the shares in his company to another firm. Technical Data Corp. provides analytical services to professional bond market traders over a system of computer terminals operated... View Details
Keywords: Stocks; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Internet and the Web; Information Infrastructure; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Valuation; Negotiation Tactics; Mergers and Acquisitions; Corporate Strategy; Horizontal Integration; Information Industry; Service Industry
Sahlman, William A. "Technical Data Corp." Harvard Business School Case 283-072, May 1983. (Revised December 1987.)
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
change, we need to get to net zero emissions by 2050. Achieving this goal is possible, but it will require nothing less than a national and international mobilization to support economy-wide decarbonization across agriculture, buildings,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2025
entrepreneur.” Taking the plunge: “When I was deciding to leave my corporate career to start MLT, one of the biggest gifts my mother gave me was reminding me that if everything failed, I could always come home to the room I grew up in.” Mission-driven: “MLT accelerates... View Details
- 25 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lean Strategy Not Just for Start-Ups
upgrades, forming hypotheses and conducting experiments with each new version along the way. Intuit adopted such a strategy when developing Fasal, a mobile platform that delivers agricultural market price information to farmers in India.... View Details
- 11 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
ClimateCAP and the Bonus of Climate Educator Collaboration
the audience for engagement, and navigating and aligning the needs of different stakeholders. Helpfully, Katie Kross and Jessica Wingert at Duke’s Fuqua School of Business, who lead ClimateCAP and all of its year-round activities, send summaries and insights to keep... View Details
- 16 Dec 2021
- News
A Global Alumni Response to the Pandemic
wave in April. —Dr. Ganesh Natarajan (AMP 169) chairman, 5F World, Lighthouse Communities Foundation, and Honeywell Automation India. Using an app called Pune Platform for Covid Resonse (PPCR), businesses and community organizations including Lighthouse are able to... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley