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01 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

Crowdfunding a Poor Investment?

Companies If there is hope for crowdfunding, says Nanda, it may be to help local companies, where individuals have a direct connection to the business and are invested in the outcome. "I can imagine View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

March 2021 (Revised February 2025)
Teaching Note

Afterpay U.S.: The Omnichannel Dilemma

By: Antonio Moreno and Anibha Singh

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 519-086. In 2018, Nick Molnar, the founder of the Australia-based online payment service Afterpay began its expansion to the U.S. market. The service had gained a loyal following in Australia by enabling customers to pay for online... View Details

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31 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

A Scholarly Crowd Explores Crowdsourcing

When Clayton Christensen and Derek van Bever prepared to write The Capitalist's Dilemma for the June issue of Harvard Business Review, they took an approach rarely tried on the same scale: They outsourced it with 150 Harvard View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Leadership with purpose: Redefining success and impact with Satpal Singh (SELP—India 4, 2019) - Recruiting

Harvard Business School, I wasn’t entirely sure how it would impact my career. I was already leading Business Transformation at Legrand India and had spent years gaining diverse industry experience across... View Details

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Bringing the Next Pandemic Vaccine to Your Doorstep with MIMIX - Blog: Health Supplement

tag Biotech/pharma Clinical Trials Health Care Entrepreneurship Health Care Innovation Health Care at HBS As an HBS student in Professor Vicki Sato’s Commercializing Science class, I wanted to tackle an unmet global health care need by applying my engineering and View Details

08 Jun 2023
News

Three Alumni Clubs Celebrate Leadership, Community, and History over Dinner

civil engineering, their role in creating Harvard's Environmental Studies program, and their efforts to conserve natural spaces around New York. HBS professor and former Dean Nitin Nohria presented the Business Statesman Award to John B.... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

29 Apr 2022
News

Clean Slate

the full size and development that they need. Dan Morrell: Born and raised in New Delhi, India, Naina Lal Kidwai and her sister lived in a household where business and social issues were important family concerns. When she visited her... View Details

Keywords: Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities

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From the Director | Baker Library

From the Director From Inquiry to Action was originally launched in 2021. The website was migrated to a new platform in 2025 with the guidance of Adam Jacobi and Jennifer Wilson. The first Harvard Business... View Details

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South Asia - Global Activities 2021

the School’s current portfolio of comprehensive general management programs, and attract a new segment of business leaders from exciting companies operating in India.” SELPI’s success, Palepu notes, prompted the School to extend the SELP... View Details

26 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

Evolving for Success [Part One]

A whole new way of working, leading, and living is in store for every human being, thanks to the Internet, according to HBS professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter. But how best can people and businesses make their mark? In her new book Evolve!:... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

18 Apr 2023
Blog Post

HBS Students and Alumni Fostering a Supportive Community

business and sparked his interest in leveraging it to address social issues, which ultimately led him to HBS. Alexxis Isaac (MBA 2020) Mbanusi, who now works for Guild Education, a tech platform that helps... View Details

06 Dec 2021
News

Action Plan: Whole Sale

online platforms such as YouTube or, more recently, TikTok, to discover new products, but digital sales in the category were not on par with other consumer goods. The explanation: “Beauty is a fun purchase for consumers,” observes... View Details

Keywords: April White; ecommerce; bricks and mortar; marketing; beauty

04 Oct 2007
What Do You Think?

Has Managerial Capitalism Peaked?

Internet, it doesn't take a billion dollar R&D platform to discover the next technology platform." Jim Winkelmann agreed, but with a caveat: "The rebirth as always (will) be in the entrepreneurial sector creating... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

01 May 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 1, 2018

Artificial Intelligence and the Machine Learning Revolution in Finance: Cogent Labs and the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) No abstract available. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/218080 Harvard View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Sep 2022
Blog Post

Latina Women in Leadership: Jacqueline Burgos (MBA 2014)

incredible boss and thrived in the HBO culture. While at HBO my team worked on an analysis to understand the Latino demographic in the US and more specifically understand the business opportunity of reaching this audience. This analysis... View Details

28 Oct 2021
News

Capital Considerations for Black Entrepreneurs; Pivoting for Gender Equity

300 applicants and became the largest student-led business plan competition for Black entrepreneurs in the U.S. But as the competition progressed, Foster and Simpson began to identify some biases and frictions in the evaluation and... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

23 Sep 2019
Blog Post

Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training

Every year depression affects one in every five employees and costs American businesses $210 billion in medical bills and lost productivity. In fact, for every worker with a depressive disorder, a company loses an average of 32 productive... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

18 Dec 2012
First Look

First Look: December 18

PublicationsHarder Than I Thought: Adventures of a Twenty-First Century Leader Authors:Austin, Robert D., Richard L. Nolan, and Shannon O'Donnell Publication:Harvard Business Review Press, 2012 Abstract Being a great leader today is... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

25 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments

Should companies let employees keep working remotely after the COVID-19 pandemic ends? Assessing the impact of remote work has involved a lot of guesswork for business leaders, but it doesn’t have to be that way. Consider the Chinese... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

20 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

Maybe Uber isn't God's Gift to Mankind

It’s easy to understand why so many people embrace transportation network companies like Uber and the growing number of other ride-sourcing startups, which enable drivers to make money using their own vehicles. By allowing passengers to hail a ride via a smartphone... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Transportation; Insurance

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