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- 04 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
Finding My Passion in the Startup Space
With a vision to make people feel at home wherever they choose to live, Blueground offers fully-furnished and thoughtfully equipped apartments for a month, a year or even longer. Essentially, Blueground is transforming the way people... View Details
- 02 Apr 2014
- What Do You Think?
Has the Post-Capitalist Economy Finally Arrived?
able to manufacture many of the things we need on our 3-D printers with recycled materials? Will the Internet of Things and "collaborative commons" enable even greater productivity and efficiency... View Details
- 31 Dec 2018
- News
Independent bookstores are thriving, but a threat looms
- 16 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
Finding my Passion in the Startup Space
to live, Blueground offers fully-furnished and thoughtfully equipped apartments for a month, a year or even longer. Essentially, Blueground is transforming the way people rent apartments globally. After... View Details
- 19 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Affordable Housing: Israel and the United States
the government could discount land prices, tying the discount to a developer's provision of affordable units. We do that here. The government could raise density, allowing... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Philip L. Yeo: The Next Big Thing
of nature, he describes himself simply as an "organizer by instinct." As a high-school student, for example, he rallied his classmates to raise money to build a private chemistry lab — the lab at school had limited hours —by showing View Details
Keywords: Government
- 18 Jul 2019
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Internet of Things Needs a Business Model. Here It Is
changed its business model from selling copiers to renting copiers and charging by the number of copies made, IoT-based companies may need to innovate on how they charge for their products, selling assets,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
A Jolt for the African Coffee Industry
of them from Rwanda. A local Nigerian factory, Kaldi Africa, roasts the beans to produce a stronger brew than what Starbucks pours. Many of the other barriers to developing a coffeehouse culture that Dozie... View Details
- Web
Buy Now, Pay Later &mdash Easy Payments: The Rise of Installment Selling
The Rise of Installment Selling Home Finance Cars on Time The Secondary Credit Market The Usurer's Grip Research Links Credits “Why not rent a... View Details
- 17 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Who is Boss in the Sharing Economy?
When is a company not a company? A modern-day Zen koan, maybe, but the evidence is all around us—Airbnb, Elance-oDesk, Handy, HourlyNerd, TaskRabbit, Uber. These businesses seem much more like conglomerations of independent professionals... View Details
- January 2012 (Revised April 2012)
- Case
Killing Craigslist: Entrepreneurship in the Online Apartment Rental Market
Keywords: Business Model; Internet and the Web; Renting or Rental; Internet and the Web; Entrepreneurship; Web Services Industry
Coles, Peter, Joshua Gans, and Wei-Yuan Yu. "Killing Craigslist: Entrepreneurship in the Online Apartment Rental Market." Harvard Business School Case 912-009, January 2012. (Revised April 2012.)
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Road Taken: One Family's Worldly Adventure
someone else, you'd make room in your work to do that," he reasons. "It's the same with a trip like this. You have to organize your life to make it happen. By far the hardest part is making a commitment."... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
Airbnb Plans To Fight Racism With Diversity. But Will It Be Enough?
- June 2013
- Case
Olympic Rent-A-Car U.S.: Customer Loyalty Battles
By: John Deighton and James T. Kindley
The marketing and operations managers for Olympic Rent-A-Car meet to decide how to respond to changes in the loyalty rewards program at the market-leading competitor. The competitor's program gives awards based on dollars spent instead of days rented and eliminates... View Details
Keywords: Customer Relationship Management; Competitive Strategy; Marketing; Operations; Auto Industry; Service Industry
Deighton, John, and James T. Kindley. "Olympic Rent-A-Car U.S.: Customer Loyalty Battles." Harvard Business School Brief Case 913-568, June 2013.
- 15 Jun 2018
- News
Skydeck Live: The Science of a Meaningful Life
got it, I'm flying a Cessna, and then turns off the radio. And his copilots like lose it, right? And they're getting closer and closer. And they come up to the longest runway... View Details
- 2016
- Working Paper
An Evaluation of Compensation Benchmarking Peer Groups Based on Mutual Peer-Designating Behaviors
By: Jee Eun Shin
In this paper, I argue that firms mutually recognizing each other as compensation benchmarking peers constitute viable competitors in the same CEO labor market, and that non-mutual peer relationships can serve as a tool to evaluate firms’ executive compensation... View Details
Keywords: Executive Compensation
Shin, Jee Eun. "An Evaluation of Compensation Benchmarking Peer Groups Based on Mutual Peer-Designating Behaviors." Working Paper, December 2016.
- 29 Jul 2011
- News
Debt Ceiling Battle Will Cost Homeowners Big Time
- 22 May 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
A Luxury Industry Veteran Teaches the Importance of Aesthetics to Budding Business Leaders
experience. Seeing an experiential opportunity, the team pitched “truescape,” which would let guests rent a localized wardrobe—fleece for Denver, cowboy boots for Dallas; connect with locals via a dedicated... View Details
- 20 Apr 2020
- Book
Why COVID-19 Raises the Stakes for Healthy Buildings
enhance cognitive performance. “Offices with the premier health story will get the premium rent and get the tenants, and View Details
- 15 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Health is Wealth | The Path to Creating a Venture
network is really important.” Rachel immersed herself in the opportunities that the HBS alumni network provided her – leveraging it to better educate herself on key things like fundraising as a female... View Details