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- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
sexy. He has called in plenty of favors from friends and staffed up by cobbling together a team of freelancers spread across Turkey, India, Greece, the United States, and the Philippines. But like Unger and Lin, he believes it can lay the...
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Alexander Gelfand
- 20 May 2020
- Blog Post
Jeff Surette and Mike Peters: A Winning Team at TB12
weeks later Surette was connected with TB12, a brand new company at the time, through a fellow HBS alum. He joined the company as a freelance consultant to help establish the business plan and grow the impact of TB12 over time, including...
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- 10 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017
negative outcomes, or as a rejuvenating experience, with positive post-break consequences. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52074 Harvard Business School Case 316-134 HourlyNerd HourlyNerd, a two-sided marketplace platform for...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New News
with gross margins of 75 percent. Right now, we’re basically gross profitable, and we hit a gross margin of about 50 percent at one point before we chose to reinvest in editorial. Now I’m hiring two to three editors and more premium View Details
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Research - Managing the Future of Work
and freelancers now qualify for bigger PPP loans Re: Karen Mills The rule change is a great and long-overdue correction to provide PPP support to sole proprietorships, which represent 24 million of America’s 30 million small businesses,”...
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- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
detail on the design strategy for the Watson system. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/616025-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 616-027 Upwork: Reimagining the Future of Work Upwork, the world's largest View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 24
note. Flattening can lead to exactly the opposite effects from what it promises to do. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-087.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsThe Freelancers Union (B) Michel Anteby and Erin...
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Carmen Nobel
- 27 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 27
http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/910009-PDF-ENG Eden McCallum: A Network-Based Consulting Firm Heidi K. Gardner and Robert G. EcclesHarvard Business School Case 410-056 Eden McCallum pioneered the network-based ("virtual") consulting firm model in the...
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Martha Lagace
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Research - Managing the Future of Work
2010s, the rapid advancement of mobile technologies and the rise of online freelancing platforms seemed to portend a radical transformation of labor markets into on-demand, flexible talent pools. Even though several Fortune 500......
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- 26 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
New Winners and Losers in the Internet Economy
were produced by small self-starter companies. Together, smaller firms contributed 375,000 full-time equivalent jobs of the 2 million Internet-related jobs, and this work included people selling products on Amazon, eBay, and Etsy as well as self-employed web designers,...
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- 01 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #3: Keith Kinch, BlocPower
“A good job is a great way to lift people up.” And that’s been the experience of some who have participated in the training program. As Jevon Rock told BlocPower: “Before I started working at BlocPower, I was freelancing and doing...
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- 07 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 7
respond? The business ran on a radically new model in which a stable of 10,000 freelance contributors supplied content, the Internet's search engines brought it 75 million readers each month, and advertising generated revenue. It took the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
Curtis, an American journalist held for nearly two years by an al-Qaeda–linked group in Syria. Bradley’s involvement in the hostage issue began in 2011 as an ad hoc response to an overheard conversation between editors about Clare Morgana Gillis, a View Details
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/917413-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 718-402 Upwork: Creating the Human Cloud Stephane Kasriel, the new CEO of Upwork, the leading platform for freelance labor, needs to decide on how to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 May 2021
- Book
Launching a Career in the COVID Economy? Here Are 5 Tips.
matters, the more you will matter." Says Ng, “The better you understand what matters to those who matter, the more you’ll be able to align yourself with work that matters. And the more you do work that matters, the more you will matter.” About the Author Carolyn...
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by Carolyn DiPaolo
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
that he was in that day — and ready to talk about teaching. — Deborah Blagg is a freelance writer and former HBS Alumni Bulletin editor. Related Links Reflections on the “Artistry” of Teaching HBS Career Highlights
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- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
there and never knowing what’s around the corner.” Speaking of gold, the financial reward an independent producer can expect to see from a project varies greatly, with up-front freelance fees ranging from $150,000 to as high as $5 million...
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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
key shipping routes, making it nearly impossible for the West and the Middle East to transport oil. With nothing less than oil futures and the global economy at stake, one man slips out of the shadows to stop Gorshkov’s maniacal plans: Dan Reilly, a View Details
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
operational performance. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-062.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsFreelancers Union Michel Anteby and Erin McFeeHarvard Business School Case 412-056 Sara Horowitz faces a major strategic decision. Founder and CEO of...
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Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
also valuable. So there’s a job matching component between profiles and postings that can parse out the interesting tidbits. And then there’s another component—data enrichment. So we see a lot of data around profiles and postings and sentiment and layoffs and View Details