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Climate Impact - Business & Environment
carbon removal by 2040 and improving food and economic security for >200,000+ smallholder farmers.” Todd Brix MBA 1997 | Co-Founder & CEO, OCOchem “OCOchem has developed the world’s largest CO2 electrolyzer which converts CO2, water and electricity into a View Details
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Ahmed Alimi
business model diamond - value proposition, route-to-market, technology & operations model, and cash flow formula – all in just five days." Though Ahmed dropped off the team after the Bootcamp, it provided the seed for a new idea: "an View Details
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
solutions in the form of software and hardware platforms, Intel Corporation, a leading semiconductor manufacturer in the United States, introduces a pilot project in India for testing a new platform that allows monitoring and demand...
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Carmen Nobel
- January 2021 (Revised March 2021)
- Case
Jumia's Path to Profitability
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Pippa Tubman Armerding and Gamze Yucaoglu
The case opens in September 2019 as Sacha Poignonnec and Jeremy Hodara, co-founders and co-CEOs of Jumia, the leading Pan-African e-commerce platform, are contemplating the company’s path to profitability in the aftermath of a fragile investor sentiment, as the company...
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Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, Pippa Tubman Armerding, and Gamze Yucaoglu. "Jumia's Path to Profitability." Harvard Business School Case 721-355, January 2021. (Revised March 2021.)
- 02 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Careers: Cloud Kitchens Are Now Serving
work, typically through online delivery companies such as Uber Eats, Postmates, Grubhub, and DoorDash. (Delivery services are not new, of course. In 2018, American consumers used third-party delivery services to place $10.2 billion in...
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Social Enterprise Tools - New Venture Competition
Social Enterprise Business Plan FEB 2013 Examples of Past Entries Note that full business plans are no longer submitted for the NVC, but are shared here for you to see more detailed information on the ventures. AppSuccess 2011 Finalist A collaborative web-based View Details
- 02 Aug 2020
- What Do You Think?
Is the 'Experimentation Organization' Becoming the Competitive Gold Standard?
beginning of an experimental revolution,” fueled by data, that has become more available using online platforms that make randomization cheaper and easier. These have fueled a greater appreciation for how...
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Industry Information - Alumni
Pitchbook News News and industry analysis covering private equity and venture capital markets. Pitchbook also offers a paid research and data platform that is used in the creation of the news and analysis offered. Crunchbase News An View Details
- 02 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 2
historical context and suggesting that scholars move past unconditional acceptance of the causal power of "socialist legacies" and instead attend to the importance of changes in the post-Mao administrative hierarchy. Working Papers Expectations and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
Did Pandemic Stimulus Funds Spur the Rise of 'Meme Stocks'?
the authors write. Platforms like Robinhood made online trading accessible, inexpensive, and fun. "Our evidence would suggest that there's a channel by which some of the dollars literally go into the stock...
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- 01 Sep 2023
- News
The Exchange: Where Ethics Meet Economics
What are you doing, and how are you training these people who are creating these disasters? MORE Hear Professor Luca discuss how platform companies like Airbnb can reduce bias online in this episode of Cold...
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- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
the mobile platform for the bank's various businesses without creating confusion or increasing complexity for the consumers. Recognizing the potential impact mobile technology could have on the entire banking industry, they also had to...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
accuracy of daily sales forecasts. We collaborated with an online apparel retailer to assemble a dataset that combines (1) detailed internal operational information, including data on sales, advertising, and promotions, as well as (2)...
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Dina Gerdeman
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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
generated record revenue in fiscal 2021. Revenue (in millions) 800 FY17 856 FY18 925 FY19 861 FY20 805 FY21 Revenue Components 34% Publishing 30% Endowment Distribution & Current 14% MBA Tuition & Fees 10% Executive Education Tuition 9% HBS View Details
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Retail & Luxury Goods | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
of Fashion (BoF) https://www.library.hbs.edu/find/databases/business-of-fashion-bof London-based platform that provides multimedia news, analysis, career postings, and advice on the global fashion and beauty industries. 49 90236 Business...
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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
no guarantee of continued success. After all, the same factors that help an online platform expand quickly—such as the low cost of adding new customers—work for challengers too. What then allows View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993
owners of small businesses, as well as Japanese society as a whole, Mikitani began working on a web-based shopping mall. “At the time, the Internet was at an early stage,” he notes. “No one was buying things online in Japan.” Working with...
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- 05 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
Exploring the Beauty Industry through an Independent Project
respondents, respectively. This was consistent with findings that, among information sources, third-party product reviews are most trusted and company advertisements are least trusted. I learned that beauty brands must be deliberate about sharing content on multiple...
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- 23 Jun 2022
- Research & Ideas
All Those Zoom Meetings May Boost Connection and Curb Loneliness
Americans are lonelier than ever—a problem the COVID-19 pandemic may have exacerbated. Could interactions on platforms like Zoom and Twitch come close to replicating the real-life contact people crave? New research suggests that’s more...
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by Michael Blanding
- 01 Dec 2022
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Future Vision
Illustration by PJ Loughron Illustration by PJ Loughron How has your experience as Dean of the School differed from your experience as a member of the faculty? Being on campus and engaging with faculty, staff, and students is something I have done for many years, and...
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