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- 9 AM – 10 AM EDT, 03 Apr 2019
- HBS Online
HBS Online Disruptive Strategy
Make innovation a reality with strategies from two-time World's Most Innovative Business Thinker, Clayton Christensen. Program Dates: April 3, 2019 - May 15, 2019
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- 9 AM – 10 AM EST, 23 Jan 2019
- HBS Online
HBS Online Disruptive Strategy
Make innovation a reality with strategies from two-time World's Most Innovative Business Thinker, Clayton Christensen. Program Dates: January 23, 2019 - March 6, 2019
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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Tapping into a sustainable enterprise that provides income for indigenous Mexican families
income for social-enterprise purposes for deserving families, plus industry, and also the environment. It’s a ‘win-win-win’ solution,” says Arias-King. So far, 2,400 hectares have been planted, but the goal is 12,000—a forest about equal to the size of Boston....
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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Democratizing Funding, Diversifying Funders
company like Roomi launches on the crowdfunding platform Republic, all of a sudden anyone with some spare cash can ride the highs and lows of its future performance. Until recently, the only way in for mom-and-pop investors was to wait...
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Sasha Issenberg
- 20 Mar 2017
- Book
Why Companies Are Placing Users at the Core of Their Innovation Strategies
no one has access to their data. Gerdeman: Can you discuss the new methods that are being developed to accommodate the role of users in innovation, including crowdfunding platforms to access funding for innovation? Lakhani: View Details
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 14 May 2013
- Blog Post
MBAxAmerica Update: Week 6, New Orleans
we’re learning from our entrepreneurial summers. We also talked about the challenges and opportunities of building organizations with purpose—such as explaining to investors why, if you’re building a crowdfunding platform for small,...
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Entrepreneurship
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Forecasting ’15
Masses Jules Pieri (MBA 1986) Cofounder and CEO, The Grommet “The maker movement will continue to gather steam. Each of the last three years has been record-breaking in patent issuances. Why? This is what happens when tech platforms like View Details
- 16 Oct 2014
- News
Innovating for International Aid
environmental sustainability, health and wellness, natural and organic consumer products, and business services. He was also a member of the founding team of Upstart, which is pioneering crowdfunding for recent graduates. Wu credits HBS...
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Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Taking Care of Business
$30M (70 percent from international investors) to establish the country’s first post–civil war private equity fund providing capital to small- and medium-sized firms. YSP’s expanded offerings now include consulting, research, and the country’s first View Details
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Big Business of Little Loans
Illustration by Alvaro Dominguez Illustration by Alvaro Dominguez Before launching Funding Societies, a crowdfunding platform for small businesses in Singapore and Indonesia, Kelvin Teo and Reynold Wijaya (both MBA 2016) visited major...
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Nancy Miller
- Profile
Scott Wu
environmental sustainability, health and wellness, natural and organic consumer products, and business services. He was also a member of the founding team of Upstart, which is pioneering crowdfunding for recent graduates. Wu credits HBS...
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- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Case Study: Growing the Family Business
of my industry, but we’d still offer prepay discounts, and a small portion of people will choose that model—even though it’s not our core value proposition. It also gave us cash up front. — Paul Sims (MBA 2002) Have you thought about trying to View Details
- 17 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 17
even rational in making funding decisions. Drawing on a panel of national experts and comprehensive data from the largest crowdfunding site, we examine funding decisions for proposed theater projects, a category where expert and crowd...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jun 2020
- News
Global Centers Broaden Understanding of Business and the Pandemic
director of PVR Cinemas. Latin America—On May 7, the center hosted the first of a series of online events. Nicolas Shea, the founder and board chair of Cumplo.com, a crowdfunding platform in Latin America, spoke to some 120 alumni and...
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- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
people from higher social class countries (as indexed by GDP per capita) had lower levels of internationalism—that is, they made more friendships domestically than abroad. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49862 View Details
- 26 Oct 2017
- News
Can Farming Save the Planet?
participate. If the funding gets big enough, SFP plans to expand from its current focus of farms in Iowa to others across the Midwest. “There are people who want us to be an online platform,” he says, noting the popularity of crowdfunding...
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- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
differs from experts in judging which ideas to fund, and, indeed, whether the crowd is even rational in making funding decisions. Drawing on a panel of national experts and comprehensive data from the largest crowdfunding site, we examine...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Scholars and Students Unpack the Digital Business Revolution
would be a hierarchical, top-down model like venture capital," he says. Companies like Kickstarter-a crowdfunding site that anyone can access and participate in—have changed that view. An additional course focus is digital...
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- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
restaurant Sonic—FirstBuild spent $600 to do a Google survey to gauge interest and then put out a design challenge to the FirstBuild community, collecting 29 ideas. Eventually, they’ll take the winning model to a crowdfunding platform to...
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- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/916044-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 816-003 Jibo: A Social Robot for the Home In January 2015, Jibo Inc. had completed a raise of $25.3 million in Series A financing after a successful 2014 View Details
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Sean Silverthorne