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Launching Tech Ventures | HBS Online
or investors.” Roman IgnatenkoLaunching Tech Ventures Participant Equip yourself with the skills to join an early- or growth-stage startup in a product management, business development, sales, or marketing role. "As someone who’s worked...
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- 02 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Once a Castle, Home is Now a Debtors’ Prison
"rental" real estate will unshackle the occupant from the house. When the owner-turned-tenant makes his monthly payment, he will not be seeing a Sisyphean gap. If the rent is too high, the occupant will move. If the rent is low enough, he will stay. The...
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- 03 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 3, 2007
Working PapersCan Higher Prices Stimulate Product Use? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Zambia Authors:Nava Ashraf, James Berry, and Jesse M. Shapiro Abstract The pricing of health products in the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2022
- HBS Case
Peloton Changed the Exercise Game. Can the Company Push Through the Pain?
product line. Everybody can understand it,” says Harvard Business School Professor Robert J. Dolan. “Then it got incredibly complicated.” In May, Peloton reported its biggest quarterly loss since its 2019 initial public offering and said...
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- 23 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
It’s Called ‘Price Coherence,’ and It’s Surprisingly Bad for Consumers
restaurant versus on Grubhub.com, or paying cash versus using a credit card. In many cases, consumers pay the same price for a given product or service, whether buying it directly from its source or through an intermediary. Economists...
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Curriculum - MBA
MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Curriculum MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences students complete degree requirements in four semesters over two years, augmented by coursework during August at the beginning of the program and during both January terms. Students have the summer...
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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...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership
Technology Corporation, 1971–1983 Hans W. BechererDeere & Company, 1989–2000 Stephen D. BechtelBetchel Corporation, 1935–1960 Garner A. BeckettAmerican Cement Corporation, 1936–1957 Arnold O. BeckmanBeckman Instruments, 1935–1982 Edward T. BedfordCorn View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- Blog Post
Working in Tech 4Dev
After spending the first half of my internship in Nairobi, I am now wrapping up the summer at Ushahidi’s San Francisco office, where I’ve been working in a business development capacity to develop a new mapping platform. Lately, I’ve been doing a lot of View Details
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- 14 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Breaking the Smartphone Addiction
concerted effort to disconnect from their devices for a few predetermined hours every week—and how they became more productive as a result. The following excerpt from the book describes how the scheduled disconnecting process, dubbed...
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by Leslie A. Perlow
- December 2019
- Case
Steemit: A New Social Media?
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Alexander White and Karen Elterman
This case discusses the alternative social media site Steemit, including the principles it was founded on in 2016 and the challenges it faced in 2019. Steemit was a blockchain-based platform that aimed to differentiate itself from other social media companies by...
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Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, Alexander White, and Karen Elterman. "Steemit: A New Social Media?" Harvard Business School Case 720-428, December 2019.
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Global Business Course | HBS Online
Immigration Energy and Sustainability Peace and War Featured Exercises Absolute vs. Comparative Advantage, the Production Possibilities Frontier, and Trade Free E-Book How to Be a Purpose-Driven, Global...
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- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
of firm entry and exit, output, and R&D. Taxing the continued operation of incumbents can lead to sizable gains (of the order of 1.4% improvement in welfare) by encouraging exit of less productive firms and View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
‘Intrinsic Joy’ Sparks Ideas Better than Cash
People use crowdsourcing to solve problems, raise money, and share AI breakthroughs, the authors write. Open source software—such as the popular content management system WordPress or the operating system Linux—gives users free access to...
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- 19 Sep 2023
- HBS Case
How Will the Tech Titans Behind ChatGPT, Bard, and LLaMA Make Money?
of computing we've lived through in the past. The key insight is that the variable cost of delivering generative AI to an end user is not zero which means we can't necessarily be handing out future software-as-a-service applications containing generative AI for View Details
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
theorists differ as to whether exploitation undermines or enhances exploration. The debate reflects a gap—the missing theoretical mechanism by which organizations break free of old routines and discover new ones. We propose that the...
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Martha Lagace
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Podcast - Business & Environment
AddictTuneInPandoraAudacyDeezerJioSaavn 22 May 2024 Climate Rising H2 Green Steel: Decarbonizing Steel Production with Green Hydrogen This episode is a part of our series on decarbonizing the roots of value chains, where we’re looking...
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- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
Tufts that is based at the Harvard Law School. Summaries of several of Koh's negotiations are presented in order to stimulate further research and analysis. Among numerous other activities, the episodes described include his leadership in forging the United...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jun 2023
- HBS Case
This Company Lets Employees Take Charge—Even with Life and Death Decisions
care teams after experiencing firsthand as a nurse, and then a decade as a senior leader of two large health care organizations, how the health care system managed quality and productivity in ways that required counterproductive layers of...
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- 26 Jun 2023
- Research & Ideas
Want to Leave a Lasting Impression on Customers? Don't Forget the (Proverbial) Fireworks
Boots: The Last Wish, and registering their enjoyment in real time as they watched. They were then asked to rate how much they wanted to see the movie on a scale of 1 to 100, and which movie they’d watch if they could win a free ticket in...
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