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- September 2011 (Revised March 2014)
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Airbnb
By: Joseph B. Lassiter III and Evan W. Richardson
Brian Chesky, Joe Gebbia, and Nathan Blecharczyk, the three founders of Airbnb, an online private accommodation rental market, stared at each other across the kitchen table in their San Francisco apartment. It was March of 2009. A single sheet of paper sat on the table...
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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work
Ryan Barr Research Associate Ryan Barr is a research associate for the Project on Managing the Future of Work and the Project on U.S. Competitiveness, co-chaired by Professor Michael E. Porter and Professor Jan W. Rivkin. He graduated from the University of Southern...
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Accounting & Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
a W. Edward and Kay M. Hastings Graduate Scholarship, 2012 and 2015. Eugene F. Soltes: Winner of the Best Paper Award at the 2015 California Corporate Finance Conference for “Being Surprised by the Unsurprising: Earnings Seasonality and...
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- 23 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
8 Strategies to Sustain Business Innovation
strategy may be to pitch it as something both familiar and novel. McDonald likes to tell the story of how West Coast restaurants introduced exotic Japanese sushi to diners by promoting the California roll, which made the dish seem both...
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by Lane Lambert
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround
changes greatly reduced the canal's economic value to the United States: the dieselization of the railroads, the Interstate Highway System, and the rise of California as a market for its own natural resources. The first two meant that by...
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- August 2020
- Case
Zoom Video Communications: Eric Yuan's Leadership During COVID-19
In the first half of 2020, worldwide lockdowns caused by the COVID-19 pandemic brought explosive growth to the Zoom Video Communications platform, as people replaced in-person work and social events with videoconferencing. Months into the pandemic, CEO Eric Yuan...
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Transformation;
Communication Technology;
Customer Value and Value Chain;
Values and Beliefs;
Technological Innovation;
Leadership;
Crisis Management;
Organizational Culture;
Working Conditions;
Strategy;
Information Technology;
Applications and Software;
Technology Adoption;
Health Pandemics;
Technology Industry;
United States;
California
Kominers, Scott Duke, Christopher Stanton, Andy Wu, and George Gonzalez. "Zoom Video Communications: Eric Yuan's Leadership During COVID-19." Harvard Business School Case 821-014, August 2020.
- 25 Oct 2010
- HBS Case
Tesco’s Stumble into the US Market
preselected assortment. Q: The company did a serious amount of homework before entering the United States, including sending 50 British executives to live with California families. But it seems the advance team didn't learn all that it...
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- September 2019 (Revised December 2019)
- Case
Google: To TVC or Not to TVC?
By: William R. Kerr and Carl Kreitzberg
In late 2018, evidence emerged that many of Google’s temporary help agency workers, vendors, and independent contractors (“TVCs”) were unhappy with the company. TVCs, who reportedly made up 49.95% of Google’s 170,000-person global workforce, had raised concerns of...
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Workforce;
Independent Contractors;
Talent Management;
Silicon Valley;
Google;
Employee Attitude;
Employee Compensation;
Employee Engagement;
Future Of Work;
Innovation;
Innovation And Strategy;
Inequality;
Talent Acquisition;
Labor;
Talent and Talent Management;
Strategy;
Technological Innovation;
Employees;
Attitudes;
Innovation and Management;
Human Resources;
Equality and Inequality;
Information Technology Industry;
United States;
San Francisco
Kerr, William R., and Carl Kreitzberg. "Google: To TVC or Not to TVC?" Harvard Business School Case 820-048, September 2019. (Revised December 2019.)
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Great Negotiator Study Initiative
What can be legitimately be learned from closely studying great negotiators at work? Since 2000, the Program on Negotiation (PON)—an active inter-university consortium mainly comprised of numerous faculty from across... View Details
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Faculty & Advisors - MBA
Triangulate. He has also worked at Bain & Company, Cisco, and Microsoft. Sunil is current Co-Chair of the NextGen Partners as well as the NextGen Board of the Computer History Museum. He also serves on the board of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, the Harvard...
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- 31 Jan 2023
- Op-Ed
Can Insurance Technology Solve the Uninsured Driver Problem?
insurance at a time and only pay for coverage on the days they actually drive. The high cost of the uninsured While 13 percent of drivers nationwide are uninsured, the problem is even worse in some states like California (17 percent),...
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- January 2011 (Revised October 2014)
- Case
Dropbox: 'It Just Works'
By: Thomas R. Eisenmann, Michael Pao and Lauren Barley
Dropbox is a venture-backed Silicon Valley startup, founded in 2006, that provides online storage and backup services to millions of customers using a "freemium" (free + premium offers) business model. The case recounts Dropbox's history from conception through...
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Business Model;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Management Practices and Processes;
Distribution;
Product Design;
Product Development;
Internet;
Service Industry;
California
Eisenmann, Thomas R., Michael Pao, and Lauren Barley. "Dropbox: 'It Just Works'." Harvard Business School Case 811-065, January 2011. (Revised October 2014.)
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Teacher Profiles - Case Method Project
Katie Randall Beloit Memorial High SchoolBeloit, WI WI Ben Rangel Cristo Rey Jesuit High School MilwaukeeMilwaukee, WI NY Diana Rayappa Archbishop Molloy High SchoolNew York, NY ID Richard Raynor New Vision High SchoolPost Falls, ID Subjects:U.S. Government, Government...
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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship
From January 1992 to September 1998 he served as the Richard A. Auhll Professor and Dean of Engineering, as well as Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He was Vice President of...
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- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
the case “Nestlé: The World’s Largest Food Company Confronts Climate Change” to explore how the company is striving to achieve its sustainability objectives without sacrificing short- term performance and shareholder value. The event was sponsored by the center and HBS...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Roger W. Sant, MBA 1960
Cofounder and Chairman Emeritus, The AES Corporation Download Sant profile Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1931 Born, Los Angeles, California 1955 Earns BS, Business Management, Brigham Young University 1955...
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Susan Young
- 15 Aug 2022
- Book
University of the Future: Finding the Next World Leaders in Higher Ed
universities. It is an ongoing tragedy when even the states most historically supportive of public higher education, such as California and Michigan, fail to reinvest in their extraordinary flagship institutions. As the New York Times...
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- 23 Mar 2023
- News
Winners Crowned in 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition
is based in the Northeastern US/Boston region. The virtual audience for the annual event also selected Tilden as the Crowd Favorite. Tilden, cofounded by Mariah Hilton Wood and Vanessa Royle (both MBA 2022) from the Western US/Southern View Details
- January 2023 (Revised June 2023)
- Case
Replika: Embodying AI
By: Shikhar Ghosh, Shweta Bagai and Marilyn Morgan Westner
Replika was a virtual AI companion that provided a way for people to process their emotions, build connections in a safe environment, and get through periods of loneliness. The chatbot fulfilled a user's need for a friend, romantic partner, or purely an emotional...
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Ghosh, Shikhar, Shweta Bagai, and Marilyn Morgan Westner. "Replika: Embodying AI." Harvard Business School Case 823-090, January 2023. (Revised June 2023.)
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Nonprofit Strategy & Governance | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Zig-Zagging Your Way to Transformative Impact By: V. Kasturi Rangan & Tricia Gregg Jan 2018 | Harward Business School Working Paper, No. 18-062 What Impact? A Framework for Measuring the Scale & Scope of Social Performance (pdf) By: Alnoor Ebrahim & V. Kasturi Rangan...
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