Economics Of Digital Platforms - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2020
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Invest in the New Abnormal

in the current environment has resulted in volatility in purchases and productivity, resulting in a net economic crisis that has not been witnessed by anyone alive today.” To engage customers in this new abnormal, Deshpandé offers the... View Details

01 Dec 2006
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Faculty Books

Invisible Engines by David S. Evans, Andrei Hagiu, and Richard Schmalensee (MIT Press) Assistant Professor Hagiu and his coauthors offer detailed studies of the personal computer, video-game console, PDA, smart mobile phone, and View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

15 Oct 2019
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Engaging More Deeply with Business in Africa

visitors. “We are focusing on initiatives targeted to improve the economic prosperity of the people.” The message resonated with the HBS group, who visited 20 companies in Nairobi and Mombasa, Kenya; and... View Details

01 Dec 2022
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Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change

for tomorrow. The BEI aims to leverage HBS’s unique platform to help move the needle on climate change and accelerate climate solutions. Critical issues such as these are also among the focal points for HBS’s new Institute for the Study... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Sep 2020
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Navigating the Populism Phenomenon

HBS professor Rafael Di Tella says he saw firsthand the downside of populism and the economic hardships of Peronism while growing up in Argentina. The country—and Latin America... View Details

Keywords: April White

07 Sep 2021
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Building New Connections

between the School and its graduates.” In recent years, Foley has presented his research to a number of alumni groups; engaged with alumni and companies for his CFO courses; and chaired the Network and Community track View Details

13 Nov 2020
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Faculty Focus Their Research on COVID-19 Issues

Professor of Business Administration. His interest in expanding the reach of this work drove the launch of the COVID-19 Business Impact Center, an online hub for the School’s... View Details

20 Nov 2014
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Expanding Audiences Through HBX CORe

of three offerings developed for HBX, a unique digital education initiative that enables HBS to extend its signature, case-based learning method to new audiences. The full suite View Details

01 Jun 2025
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Navigating Uncertainty: Dean Datar on HBS’s Path Forward

revenue is an important component of our economic model, we are not as reliant on it for our operating budget as a number of other schools may be. Collectively, though, these... View Details

15 Nov 2020
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Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint

migrant workers. Choudhury will teach the case in his elective course, Managing Global Operations. California Research Center When the pandemic forced people around the world to work remotely, use of the video conferencing View Details

01 Dec 2007
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The Wise Men

Radcliffe student, to Cambridge, where he enrolled at Harvard College. After attending HBS and earning a Ph.D. in agricultural economics from the University of Minnesota, Goldberg joined the HBS faculty in... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna

01 Sep 2024
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Far-Reaching Impact

children by 2030. They want to ensure that every child, regardless of income or background, achieves full brain and body development by age six. The digital platform offers... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

24 Sep 2019
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Connecting Patients and Providers

10 months with her family. And it inspired Jarzabek to create Trustedoctor. The digital healthcare startup “focuses on the first half mile of the patient and provider journey,” explains Jarzabek. Through his... View Details

01 Sep 2013
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High-Level Impact

Beginning this fiscal year, alumni and friends who make an annual commitment at levels of $5,000+, $10,000+, $25,000+, and $100,000+ to the HBS Fund for Leadership and Innovation (formerly known as the Dean's Fund) will be recognized as... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

01 Jun 2020
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Homeschooled

learning and better leverage the skills of teachers and other adults in schools to provide coaching, targeted teaching, and social and emotional development support. The current situation has highlighted inequity in educational resources.... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; online learning; Educational Services

01 Dec 2020
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Quantum Leap

little like the digital computers of the midcentury: enormous, primitive, and unreliable, says Jim Ricotta (MBA 1985), CEO of Aliro Quantum Technologies. We’re also constrained... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Sep 2024
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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Thirteen years ago, Marcelo Claure, founder of wireless services company Brightstar, discussed with a reluctant Steve Jobs the idea of launching a trade-in and recycling program for iPhones. It was a business move that expanded the market and created a new profit... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Meyers

19 Apr 2018
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One Last Pitch

Contestants fidgeted, going over their pitches one last time in their heads as they waited to take the stage. The digital clock in the corner of the big screen on the stage kept time—90 seconds, diving into... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

01 Dec 2014
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These Walls Can Talk

when energy use is lowest; companies will begin to use data to predict and prevent home maintenance issues. Soon: New homes will be wired for connectivity just as they are wired for electricity. “Think about a world where, instead of... View Details