Platform Businesses - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

The Lessons of New-Market Disruption

rewarded with a new line of business that created revenues in excess of $200 million over the next several years. HP backed out of its efforts after two years with multimillion-dollar losses and a considerable amount of bad press. How did... View Details

Keywords: by Clark Gilbert; Technology

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Year in Review | Annual Report 2024

tenure-track professors, visitors, and practitioners—participated in START, a deep-dive orientation to the School that took place in person on campus over three days in July 2023. The program provides an overview of Harvard Business... View Details

04 Dec 2019
News

Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders

takes a lot of time. >Hi, my name is Adriana Herrera (AMP 193, 2017). I think change is about micro-pivots in the ecosystem. You’re fortunate enough to have a great platform not just here, but every time that you speak, you have an... View Details

01 Jun 2018
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Up by the Roots

information technology companies, as well as in complementary areas such as marketing, branding, and design—all of which can help nascent businesses gain a foothold in the marketplace. Plus, the way fintech straddles the broader... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustrations by Dan Page

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Departments | Employment

Harvard Business School (HBS) Online offers a unique and highly engaging way to learn vital business concepts. Our online certificate and credential programs are offered via our innovative online View Details

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Women, Work, and the “M” Word - Blog: Health Supplement

COO of Elektra Health to focus on smashing the menopause taboo. Together with my co-founder Alessandra Henderson and founding physician Dr. Anna Barbieri, an OB/GYN specializing in menopause, we began building Elektra Health as a digital health View Details

28 Aug 2012
First Look

First Look: August 28

a business opportunity from the perspective of a "triple bottom line"-a performance evaluation scheme focused on "people, planet, and profit" that construes success in terms of social benefits, environmental... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Dec 2021
News

New Wave

investors, but it’s really a struggle—especially for early-career entrepreneurs,” says Hiroko Muraki Gottlieb, a senior researcher in Business and Climate Change who co-edited a 2020 report on advancing science for sustainable ocean View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Chris Sorensen

13 Sep 2019
News

Hollywood Ending

also call it an audaciously big bet on an unproven format in an ever-crowded market of streaming content. With an April 6, 2020, launch, Whitman and Katzenberg have 20 months and $1 billion to build the whole thing from scratch—from a full catalog of original content... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photo by Christina Gandolfo

12 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Competition the Cure for Healthcare

Last month HBS Working Knowledge offered an excerpt from Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results, by Harvard Business School professor Michael E. Porter and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg. The U.S. healthcare... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Health

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Program Policies - HBS Online

Strategy Execution Sustainable Business Strategy Sustainable Investing Launching Tech Ventures Leadership, Ethics, and Corporate Accountability Digital Marketing Strategy Business and Climate Change Winning... View Details

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