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- 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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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.
- 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.)
- 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
- 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
- 21 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Music Downloads: Pirates—or Customers?
comparing the sales of almost 700 albums as reported by Nielsen SoundScan. Oberholzer and Strumpf concluded that there was almost no relationship between the two. How could this be? The researchers believe that most downloading is done over View Details
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
Education Leveraging Crowdsourced Peer-to-Peer Assessments to Enhance the Case Method of Learning By: Avery, Jill Abstract—Many marketing educators use the case method to help their students strengthen their decision-making skills....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
These Employers Pay Higher Salaries than Necessary
buyer. Now translate the same situation from a brick-and-mortar bazaar to an online peer-to-peer marketplace such as Upwork, which allows businesses to outsource work to freelancers, frequently overseas. “Workers on the market have lots...
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- 02 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Stories 2007
the head, and whose leadership style springs from their fundamental character and values. George discusses his new book True North, co-written with Peter Sims. Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer Apple's iTunes music...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
data indicate an increase in the number of initial export episodes in response to reform. These results suggest that the expansion of multinational activity more than offsets any decline in the imitative activity of indigenous firms. PDF not available. Bandwidth...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business
about $40,000. Lending Club, Prosper, Funding Circle and Fundation are using a peer-to-peer (P2P) model. Backed by individual investors, these companies make loan decisions based on proprietary credit models and typically target mid-prime...
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- 22 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
for FY2019. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/718041-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 718-433 Note on Blockchain and Bitcoin, 2017 Blockchain was a self-sustaining, peer-to-peer ledger technology with an integrated...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
Two Decades Later, is the 'New Economy' Finally Here?
create platforms to automate peer-to-peer engagement, and leverage assets by sharing and renting vs. owning. They emphasize experimentation (“fail fast” without career limiting consequences) versus long-range strategic planning, operate...
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by James Heskett
- 17 Apr 2017
- Research Event
The Most Pressing Issues for Platform Providers in the Sharing Economy
at Harvard Business School who researches the evolution of peer-to-peer online platforms; and Andrei Hagiu, a visiting associate professor of Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management at the MIT Sloan School of...
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- 13 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 13, 2016
Business School Case 316-151 CreditEase: Taking Inclusive Finance Online 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...
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- 20 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Maybe Uber isn't God's Gift to Mankind
lies in the past. As a cautionary tale with a twist of hope for the future, Edelman reminds us of a company that had a lot in common with Uber: It was a celebrated California startup; it offered groundbreaking peer-to-peer technology; it...
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- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49544 November 2015 Annual Review of Economics Peer-to-Peer Markets By: Einav, Liran, Chiara Farronato, and Jonathan Levin Abstract—Peer-to-peer markets such as eBay, Uber,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
more: http://www.blackwellreference.com/public/tocnode?id=g9780631215066_chunk_g978063121506624 Peer-to-Peer File Sharing and the Market for Digital Information Goods Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Andres Hervas-Drane...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
concerns about the unobservable consequences of policy. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51704 Harvard Business School Case 217-007 Disintermediating the Banks: ThinCats and the Peer-to-Peer Lending...
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