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- March 2016 (Revised August 2016)
- Case
CreditEase: Taking Inclusive Finance Online
By: Michael Chu, John S. Ji and Nancy Hua Dai
The world’s largest peer-to-peer (P2P) lender annually disbursing over a million loans totaling $10 billion, China’s CreditEase, must decide whether to IPO in the NYSE its online lending platform, Yirendai, before the year-end window closes in 2015. Yirendai sought to...
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Business or Company Management;
Internet and the Web;
Financing and Loans;
Credit;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Financial Services Industry;
China
Chu, Michael, John S. Ji, and Nancy Hua Dai. "CreditEase: Taking Inclusive Finance Online." Harvard Business School Case 316-151, March 2016. (Revised August 2016.)
- June 2001
- Case
AtomFilms
By: Bharat N. Anand and Taslim Pirmohamed
Examines the evolution of AtomFilms--one of the few companies that survived the spate of failures in digital entertainment in 2000--from the time of its founding in 1998 to its merger with Shockwave in December 2000. Within a short period of time, AtomFilms had built...
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Mergers and Acquisitions;
Resource Allocation;
Brands and Branding;
Organizational Structure;
Problems and Challenges;
Alliances;
Strategy;
Entertainment and Recreation Industry
Anand, Bharat N., and Taslim Pirmohamed. "AtomFilms." Harvard Business School Case 701-063, June 2001.
- September 2017 (Revised June 2019)
- Case
Dianrong: Marketplace Lending, Blockchain, and 'The New Finance' in China
By: Christopher J. Malloy, Lauren H. Cohen and Anthony K. Woo
This case examines the strategic positioning of Dianrong, one of the largest online peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platforms in China, in its attempt to become a foundational player in the expansion of the FinTech sector in Asia. Dianrong had recently announced the...
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Financing and Loans;
Internet and the Web;
Supply Chain;
Finance;
Innovation and Invention;
Competition;
Product Positioning;
Strategy;
Financial Services Industry;
China
Malloy, Christopher J., Lauren H. Cohen, and Anthony K. Woo. "Dianrong: Marketplace Lending, Blockchain, and 'The New Finance' in China." Harvard Business School Case 218-043, September 2017. (Revised June 2019.)
- August 2018 (Revised September 2018)
- Case
LendingClub (A): Data Analytic Thinking (Abridged)
By: Srikant M. Datar and Caitlin N. Bowler
LendingClub was founded in 2006 as an alternative, peer-to-peer lending model to connect individual borrowers to individual investor-lenders through an online platform. Since 2014 the company has worked with institutional investors at scale. While the company assigns...
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Keywords:
Data Science;
Data Analytics;
Investing;
Loans;
Investment;
Financing and Loans;
Analytics and Data Science;
Analysis;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Business Model
Datar, Srikant M., and Caitlin N. Bowler. "LendingClub (A): Data Analytic Thinking (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 119-020, August 2018. (Revised September 2018.)
- 05 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 5
School Supplement 811-051 Fox Island Wind Cooperative faces criticism from local residents. Purchase this supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/811051-PDF-ENG Zopa: The Power of Peer-to-Peer Lending Mikołaj Jan Piskorski,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- February 2007
- Case
Update: The Music Industry in 2006
By: John R. Wells and Elizabeth Raabe
The global recorded music industry was undergoing a major transition in 2006. Sales had been declining for a decade, and consumers were buying music in new formats and through different distribution channels. CD sales still accounted for the majority of revenues, but...
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Keywords:
History;
Arts;
Music Entertainment;
Intellectual Property;
Market Timing;
Performance Evaluation;
Trends;
Music Industry
Wells, John R., and Elizabeth Raabe. "Update: The Music Industry in 2006." Harvard Business School Case 707-531, February 2007.
- 21 May 2014
- HBS Seminar
Robert Kraut, Carnegie Mellon
- January 2015 (Revised April 2015)
- Case
Zeal: Launching Personalized and Social Learning
By: John J-H Kim and Christine S. An
Set in 2014, this case follows John Danner and his team at Zeal as they consider their product development strategy. In February 2013, serial entrepreneurs John Danner and Sanjay Noronha co-found Zeal, an education technology start up providing a web-based, mobile...
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurship;
Education Technology;
MVP;
Product Development;
Product Market Fit;
Monetization Strategy;
SaaS Business Models;
Education;
Personalized Learning
Kim, John J-H, and Christine S. An. "Zeal: Launching Personalized and Social Learning." Harvard Business School Case 315-052, January 2015. (Revised April 2015.)
- Web
Rock Summer Fellows - Entrepreneurship
relating to the makeup of the overall cohort. Following the final RSF founder application deadline, we will review all applications for the Rock Founders Forum. Decisions will be communicated by Monday, April 15.As a peer-to-peer learning...
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Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni
simultaneously enhancing learning for all by encouraging a wide range of perspectives that enrich peer-to-peer learning. Lee has been CEO of Prospect Medical Holdings Inc. and was founder of Alta Healthcare System Inc. His experience cuts...
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- 28 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
Forget Cash. Here Are Better Ways to Motivate Employees
creating peer-to-peer recognition programs in which employees are provided monthly reward points that they can give away to colleagues for work-related wins. Employees who earn a certain number of points can redeem them for various perks,...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- Web
How to Create a Psychologically Safe Workplace - Recruiting
groups, cross-functional teams charged with solving problems, peer-to-peer learning, digital suggestion boxes, and organizing staff meetings to leave time for everyone’s input. Responding Proactively A proactive response to feedback and...
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5.1 Information Technology - MBA
about the application of copyright law to peer-to-peer file sharing of music, movies, and other copyrighted works is available from the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Students with questions about copyright or this policy are invited...
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- Web
Digital Millennium Copyright Act | About
The unauthorized distribution of copyrighted material, including unauthorized peer-to-peer file sharing, violates the Copyright Act and may subject you to civil and criminal liabilities. Penalties for copyright infringement include civil...
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Winners & Runners-up - New Venture Competition
Runner-Up Pre Conception genetic risk diagnostic company. MyHappyPlanet.com Karen Ong, Steve Davis, Ethan Laub, Todd Pinkerton, Francois Gagnon Business Track Runner-Up MyHappyPlanet.com provides a fun way to learn languages through View Details
- 16 Aug 2018
- News
Working with a Giver’s Spirit
If you were looking for the perfect candidate to run a nonprofit that fights poverty through entrepreneurship, Manny Ayala (MBA 1992) is just the person you’d want. That was the opinion of Cindy Ko (MBA 2005) in 2013 when she was Asia-Pacific head for Endeavor, the...
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Constantine von Hoffman
- 11 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
Second Life: Reflections on Complementing Success with an Encore Career
program that organizes offsite charitable activities, such as Habitat for Humanity. In addition, Velocity rewards employees with $1,000 cash contributions to their charities of choice and peer-to-peer ‘flash’ awards of Kiva gift cards...
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- 23 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Three-Dimensional Strategy: Winning the Multisided Platform
When start-up thredUP launched its peer-to-peer online exchange for used children's clothes two and a half years ago, its creators were the latest generation of entrepreneurs competing online as multi-sided platforms (MSPs), alongside...
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by Julia Hanna
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
largest fortune belongs to an electric car, space, solar, peer-to-peer finance, and infrastructure entrepreneur. He got there by working on things that matter. Hopefully soon we’ll be saying that she got there by scaling portable nuclear...
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- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Faculty Research Online
investment managers and firms. See http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5648.html. Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer Apple’s iTunes music download service and illegal peer-to-peer (P2P) music...
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