Economics Of Digital Platforms - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 Feb 2014
News

A Capital Idea for Small Business

businesses to get funding. A number of crowd-funding platforms had appeared, but none were really set up to serve small businesses. I wondered if there was an opportunity there, and I called John to discuss... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; crowd-funding; online communities; Finance; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

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HBS - From The Dean

digital transformation, which means creating a digital research infrastructure and a delivery platform where we can scale our impact exponentially. The third engine is... View Details

Rudina Seseri

with 2,500 technology innovators and digital executives. Her philanthropic work includes serving on the Philanthropy Board for Boston Children’s Hospital as Vice-Chairwoman. Rudina has been named one of... View Details

Keywords: Software/App;#75;#Venture Capital

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DEC - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

computer startups and the eventual rise of the personal computer. "[Doriot's] investment in Digital Equipment Corporation... was a daring one," Gupta notes, "not simply because it was contrarian, but because... View Details

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2016 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

two books, she works as a columnist for the New York Times Sunday Book Review and as the editorial director of the digital and cable company Fusion. She lives in New York. Bryonn Bain Bryonn Bain is... View Details

22 Jul 2008
First Look

First Look: July 22, 2008

Argentina: A Historical Exploration of Information Sharing Mechanisms in Credit Markets, 1892-c.1935 Authors:Andrea M. Lluch Publication:Investigaciones de Historia Económica (forthcoming in fall 2008) Abstract During the last decades,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

28 May 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019

HarperBusiness The Business of Platforms explores the strategic, economic, and technology management challenges of digital View Details

27 Jan 2016
Blog Post

A Summer Internship in the Music Industry

working in the iTunes group. For many years, it was the most important digital release platform in the music industry. Yet we were disconnected from the creative part of the... View Details

Eric Boutin

Longwood Fund, a life sciences venture capital fund, where he led early-stage biotech deals and founded Flex Pharma, a neuromuscular sports performance company, which went on to IPO (NASDAQ: FLKS). Eric holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a B.A. in View Details

Keywords: Healthcare

01 Sep 2018
News

September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

1998) CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform Jadhav recommends writing a daily health journal as a way to inpire oneself to improve oneself. The mere fact that one is concentrating on some part of... View Details

01 Mar 2011
News

Making Their Way

could well be a case study about an American manufacturer’s adaptation to the forces of globalization. Back in the 1990s, when the U.S. economy was in a high-tech, dot-com frenzy and China’s experiment with export-driven market View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Rail Transportation; Transportation

December 2018 (Revised February 2020)
Case

Fishbowl: Scaling Up

By: Leslie K. John

Fishbowl is a social media app that allows professionals to connect with other relevant professionals both within their company and across industry. Unlike many other social media apps, on which users typically present idealized portraits of themselves, on Fishbowl,... View Details

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28 May 2019
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Case Study: Building the Base

Illustration by Edmon de Haro Illustration by Edmon de Haro The idea for the Portland, Oregon–based digital media startup News Bling was born out of the late-night hours of... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Jun 2019
News

Case Study: Mind the Gap

platform, signing partnerships with software houses (70 and counting), and creating a digital fingerprint for each engineer—incorporating a mix of professional competencies and a person’s psychometric... View Details

Keywords: Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Professional Services

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Photographs & Prints | Baker Library

cards, posters, and paper currency. Many of the photographs and prints have been digitized and are available in HOLLIS Images , Harvard Library's dedicated image catalog. Highlights Industrial Life... View Details

10 Dec 2007
HBS Case

One Laptop per Child

Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. It was proposed by Nicholas Negroponte, co-founder and chairman emeritus of the MIT Media Lab. The time seemed ripe: The One Laptop per Child (OLPC) Foundation quickly... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Computer

03 Nov 2016
Op-Ed

Forget About Making College Affordable; Make it a Good Investment

Donald Trump has not issued an official platform on student debt, although he has referenced reducing college costs and lowering interest rates on student loans. Hillary Clinton has offered a variety of... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Fuller; Education

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Imagining Pre-Industrial Credit

Economy: The Rise of Credit Reporting Credit in a Consumer Society Research Links Credits Woodcuts, engravings, and other prints reveal the ways in which credit was imagined in the pre-industrial Western world. Images View Details

12 Nov 2014
Op-Ed

A Challenge to the New Congress: Pass Housing Finance Reform

mortgage should continue as the backbone of the new system. It helps keep monthly payments low, and protects consumers from interest-rate volatility. Given the recent extreme economic stress, Uncle Sam must... View Details

Keywords: by Nicolas Retsinas & Rob Couch; Construction; Real Estate

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Faculty & Advisors | MBA

Data, and Design (D^3) Institute at Harvard, and a core faculty member in the new MS/MBA joint degree program. He is an expert in the management of innovation and new product development, with a focus on the design and deployment View Details

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