William F. Pounds
Professor Emeritus of Management, Professor, Work and Organization Studies and Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management
Professor Emeritus of Management, Professor, Work and Organization Studies and Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management
Senior Research Scientist, Senior Research Scientist; Chairman, Center for Information Systems Research (CISR)
Jay W. Forrester Professor of Management (Emeritus), Professor, Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management, Emeritus
Senior Lecturer, Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management
William Porter (1967) Professor of Entrepreneurship, Associate Dean for Innovation and Inclusion, Co-Director, MIT Innovation Initiative
Senior Lecturer, Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management
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In 2015, when Dan Schulman became CEO of PayPal, a digital payments company, many people thought of it as the button they clicked when paying for online purchases. In 2015, PayPal embarked on a new mission: using technology to democratize financial services. In Schulman’s words, it would “turn the ...
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This case describes how leaders at Mud Bay, a chain of pet products based in Pacific Northwest, changed the way they operated their business from 2014 to 2017. They adopted a framework that included heavy investment in people with operational choices that leverage that investment by increasing produ...