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- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
Design in Online Businesses Peter A. ColesHarvard Business School Note 911-066 "Market Design in Online Businesses" characterizes the challenges entrepreneurs may face in creating a well-functioning ecosystem of users and helps...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2018
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First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
3 leverages proprietary data from a mobile phone application through which residents can submit service requests to Boston government. Users who received photographic evidence that their service requests had been addressed were more...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jun 2024
- Blog Post
The EC Formula: MBA Class of 2024 Looks Back
and be innovative. However, public innovation didn’t seem widespread. Even at that time, I wondered “Why is this the case? When is the right time for the public sector to be innovative? How can innovation be...
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- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
"freemium" business model, which is used by some Internet businesses and smartphone application developers to give users free basic features of a digital product and access to premium functionality for a subscription fee. The...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
missionaries implement analytic approaches without the mandate to make large-scale cultural or structural changes. Here is what some of these missionaries do: Recognize that there are multiple users, each of whom has "veto power" on adopting analytics....
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- 15 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
productive. That’s a missed opportunity. Questioning is a powerful tool for unlocking value in companies: It spurs learning and the exchange of ideas, it fuels innovation and better performance, and it builds trust among team members. And...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
profiles of three innovative courses that may provide the kinds of pedagogical frameworks McFarlan and others are looking for as the School's IT initiative moves forward. Changing the Nature of Case Debate A few years ago, Associate...
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by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
Coast operations and its West Coast computer people would severely affect the company. The focus for much of this division was PARC. In the 1970s, PARC was remarkably successful in developing ingenious products that would fundamentally alter the nature of computing....
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by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
philanthropy and art collecting. But his legacy continues, saving millions of computer users from their worst nightmare. « Back Driven to Serve W. James Hindman (9th OPM) created Jiffy Lube - the nation's first quickie auto fluids change...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
game, but also that they be really learning engagements. I’m not using the word “apprenticeship” because that defines a very specific version of paid work-based learning, which is a terrific vehicle for enhancing a workforce. I’m talking about new, View Details
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
new world. Typical approaches used by legacy players such as using technology to improve efficiency, encouraging business units to do digital experiments, or launching independent units to spur innovation have met with limited success....
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Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
the financial objectives of the business." Thndr seeks to democratize access to financial markets for all, including women. In 2021, realizing the number of female investors was hovering around 5 percent, Thndr's marketing team launched a campaign highlighting View Details
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Julia Hanna;
entrepreneurship;
women;
venture capital;
Egypt;
developing economies;
Finance
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
visitors (both in person and on the Web) the opportunity to view interviews with artists, curators, and critics, while last year's "Transmute" gave Web users a chance to curate their own virtual exhibition using pieces from the MCA's...
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- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
world's largest online platform for outsourced contracts, where India is the largest country in terms of contract volume. We use an ethnic name procedure to identify ethnic Indian users of oDesk in other countries around the world. We...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
of the big issues moving forward on that side that’s really impacting today’s workforce economy. So I was able to really get involved in that and do a lot of really innovative things when it came to independent contractor status, when it...
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Field Study Entrepreneurial Management Lou Shipley Spring2025 Q4 1.5 Field Course: Innovating in Health Care General Management, Technology & Operations Management Regina Herzlinger Spring2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Field Course: View Details
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
these pathways set and do have opportunities for people, why is it that workers either don’t take advantage of those things, or are unaware of them, or whatever? And, when you look at it, basically, a lot of employers are very focused on what we call “UX,” the View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
assets are practicing sustainable development. According to this line of thinking, harvesting trees and using the money generated to build schools would be an example of sustainable development. But others insist that development is sustainable only if natural-resource...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
beyond discriminating against individuals. It can discriminate against whole cities or whole labor markets, because of the data that they have or the lack of data that they have. We really owe it to the users and the world to try the best...
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