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    Digital Dark Matter and the Economics of Apache

    Researchers have long hypothesized that research outputs from government, university, and private company R&D contribute to economic growth, but these contributions may be difficult to measure when they take a non-pecuniary form. The growth of networking... View Details
    • May 2020 (Revised December 2022)
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    Soofa: Displaying the Right Path?

    By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Amy Klopfenstein and Amram Migdal
    In November 2019, Sandra Richter, co-founder and CEO of Soofa, a network of advertising-supported digital bulletin boards, must decide between two different fundraising and expansion plans for her company. One plan entails raising $15 million in a Series A round and... View Details
    Keywords: Business Ventures; Business Model; Business Plan; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Decision Making; Decisions; Ethics; Geography; Geopolitical Units; Finance; Investment; Markets; Market Entry and Exit; Demand and Consumers; Network Effects; Media; Society; Urban Development; Sustainable Cities; Information Technology; Information Infrastructure; Digital Platforms; Strategy; Business Strategy; Expansion; Relationships; Partners and Partnerships; Capital; Venture Capital; Advertising Industry; Technology Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; North and Central America; United States; Massachusetts; Cambridge
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    Brice Fodouop

    advance his communication skills and find a network that shared his interests in Africa. “I was looking for a program where I could voice my opinions in front of a group of people,” he says. “How do you present ideas? How do you persuade... View Details
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    Hiring at HBS: How Summer Interns Make an Impact at Bridges Fund Management - Recruiting

    company. The Bridges Fund Management Recruiting Process A key way Bridges connects with prospective MBA interns is through the Turner MBA Impact Investing Network & Training (MIINT) Competition. The competition is a collaboration between... View Details
    • 31 Aug 2010
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    Multinational Firms, Labor Market Discrimination, and the Capture of Competitive Advantage by Exploiting the Social Divide

    Keywords: by Jordan I. Siegel, Lynn Pyun & B.Y. Cheon
    • 27 Aug 2009
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    Measuring and Understanding Hierarchy as an Architectural Element in Industry Sectors

    Keywords: by Jianxi Luo, Daniel E. Whitney, Carliss Y. Baldwin & Christopher L. Magee; Auto
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    Governance and Accountability in Social Sector Organizations

    This research examines governance in two types of organizations: international NGOs and socioeconomic hybrids.

    First, over the past decade, many of the world's most prominent international nongovernmental organizations and networks (INGOs) ... View Details

    • April 2023 (Revised April 2025)
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    Eike Batista: Making or Breaking Brazil

    By: Geoffrey Jones, Pedro Magalhães, Daniel Tong and Marcel Anduiza
    This case explores the meteoric rise and fall of Eike Batista, once Brazil’s richest person and the world’s seventh wealthiest in 2012. Batista began his career by investing in gold mining in the Amazon, using the network his father had built after years serving as... View Details
    Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Entrepreneurship; Investment; Energy Industry; Mining Industry; Brazil
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    • 2012
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    Harder Than I Thought: Adventures of a Twenty-First Century Leader

    By: Robert D. Austin, Richard L. Nolan and Shannon O'Donnell
    Being a great leader today is much harder than you think—meet Jim Barton. He's a newly minted CEO, rising leader of a firm in transition, and manager of massive complexity—thanks to our incredibly networked and increasingly unpredictable world of business. What if you... View Details
    Keywords: Leadership; Complexity; Crisis Management; Problems and Challenges; Volatility
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    • July 2011
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    Kidney Paired Donation

    By: C. Bradley Wallis, Kannan P. Samy, Alvin E. Roth and Michael A. Rees
    Kidney paired donation (KPD) was first suggested in 1986, but it was not until 2000 when the first paired donation transplant was performed in the U.S. In the past decade, KPD has become the fastest growing source of transplantable kidneys, overcoming the barrier faced... View Details
    Keywords: Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Health Care and Treatment; Growth and Development Strategy; Success; Problems and Challenges; Programs; System; United States
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    • March 2004 (Revised June 2006)
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    Journey to Sakhalin: Royal Dutch/Shell in Russia (A)

    By: Rawi E. Abdelal
    Operations of Royal Dutch/Shell in Russia included a strategic alliance with Gazprom, the country's natural gas monopoly, the development of the Salym oil fields in Siberia, and a small retail refilling network in St. Petersburg. Focuses on the Sakhalin II project.... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Making; Energy Generation; Foreign Direct Investment; Lawfulness; Agreements and Arrangements; Alliances; Business and Government Relations; Energy Industry; Russia
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    • April 2002 (Revised June 2003)
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    News Corporation

    By: Bharat N. Anand and Kate Attea
    In 2001, News Corp. is the smallest of the major media and entertainment conglomerates, but it has the broadest global presence. In an effort to establish a major distribution presence in the United States, News Corp. had looked to acquire DirecTV, the largest U.S.... View Details
    Keywords: Acquisition; Business Conglomerates; Globalization; Distribution; Organizational Culture; Family Ownership; Competition; Consolidation; Corporate Strategy; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Journalism and News Industry; United States; Australia
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    • 02 Jul 2013
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    personal connections amongst U.S. politicians have a significant impact on Senate voting behavior. Networks based on alumni connections between politicians are consistent predictors of voting behavior. We estimate sharp measures that... View Details
    Keywords: Anna Secino
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    Doing Business with China: Early American Trading Houses - A Chronicle of the China Trade

    Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership Networked Business... View Details

      Yoonjae Shin

      Yoonjae Shin is a PhD student in the Organizational Behavior Unit at the Harvard Business School. His primary interests are labor market, corporate governance, and social inequality. Prior to beginning his PhD, Yoonjae worked in the project team at Seoul National... View Details
      • May 2009 (Revised January 2011)
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      HubSpot: Inbound Marketing and Web 2.0

      By: Thomas J. Steenburgh, Jill Avery and Naseem Ashraf Dahod
      This case introduces the concept of inbound marketing, pulling customer prospects toward a business through the use of Web 2.0 tools and applications like blogging, search engine optimization, and social media. Students follow the growth of HubSpot, an entrepreneurial... View Details
      Keywords: Customer Relationship Management; Entrepreneurship; Price; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing Communications; Social and Collaborative Networks; Segmentation; Web
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      • 27 Jul 2010
      • First Look

      First Look: July 27

        PublicationsThe Squam Lake Report: Fixing the Financial System Authors include:David S. Scharfstein Publication:Princeton University Press, N.J.: 2010 Abstract In the fall of 2008, fifteen of the world's leading economists—representing the broadest spectrum of... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • 2021
      • Working Paper

      Friends and Family Money: P2P Transfers and Financially Fragile Consumers

      By: Tetyana Balyuk and Emily Williams
      We assess the impact that real time money transfer technology has on consumer outcomes, particularly during periods of financial fragility. We do this by developing a new data set that documents use of Zelle—the most widely used P2P money transfer technology in the... View Details
      Keywords: P2P Money Transfers; Real Time Payments; Fintech; Finance; Information Technology; Personal Finance; Financial Condition
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      • 10 Jan 2012
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      First Look: January 10

      be reinforced in the labor market but do not result in weaker political preferences for redistribution. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-048.pdf Inside the Black Box of the Corporate Staff: An Exploratory Analysis Through the Lens of E-Mail View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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      Independent Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

      Document) Resources for Students MBA Program website on Independent Projects (login required) Independent Projects Postings (login required) Find team members in the Social Enterprise Club , searching class-cards (login required), or View Details