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19 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

Is Wikipedia More Biased Than Encyclopædia Britannica?

Zhu, an assistant professor in the Technology and Operations Management unit at Harvard Business School, who details the rise and fall of the information giant in a new working paper. "There has been lots of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Publishing

01 Mar 2024
News

On the Radar

million revenue in the third quarter of 2023. McKnight and his team are currently working with 14 countries to develop pathogen-monitoring programs—what Concentric calls a “bioradar” system. The most public aspect of this system is currently on display at nine... View Details

Keywords: Janine White; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government

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The Experience | Predoctoral Researchers

mentorship from HBS faculty, positions researchers to narrow and focus research interests for further exploration in a doctoral program. Researchers will have an opportunity to see first-hand how ideas, projects, research studies, and... View Details

23 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Strategy for Small Fish

or multiple keystones, the heart of technology strategy for a niche player is to continually innovate by integrating technology available from the ecosystem to sharpen the... View Details

Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien

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Shad Hall | About

Shad Hall John S.R. Shad (MBA 1949), 1985 Alumni Achievement Award recipient Shad Hall is named for the Honorable John S.R. Shad (MBA 1949) in honor of his support of ethics and leadership. A striking building that won the prestigious Harleston Parker Medal View Details

21 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

Making Credibility Your Strongest Asset

Lots of people have great ideas for new products and services, but most lack the imagination and doggedness to actually get them launched. Darren Rovell is a notable exception. As a college student, he had a passion for the business of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Wheeler

18 Jul 2022
Research & Ideas

After the 'Crypto Crash,' What's Next for Digital Currencies?

are still out there swinging are getting a lot done and creating a lot of value." Crypto can have that same dynamic. On top of that, it’s more uncertain which technologies are going to be long-run successful. And then, on top of that,... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Technology; Technology

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Our Curriculum - Business History

increasingly industrial, urban, and technologically advanced. The course covers changes in the strategy and structure of institutions, especially corporations, and shifts in the nature of competition between businesses. The development of... View Details

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Towards Efficiencies in Canadian Internet Traffic Exchange

By: Benjamin Edelman and Bill Woodcock

Canadian Internet access is heavily and unnecessarily dependent upon foreign infrastructure, especially U.S. infrastructure. This dependence imposes significant burdens upon Canadian Internet users:

* Service prices are higher than would be the case if... View Details

Keywords: Networks; Canada; Privacy; Technology Networks; Rights; Communication Technology; Internet; Ethics; Telecommunications Industry; Canada

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2017
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Designing an Agile Software Portfolio Architecture: The Impact of Coupling on Performance

By: Alan MacCormack and Robert Lagerstrom

The modern industrial corporation encompasses a myriad of different software applications, each of which must work in concert to deliver functionality to end-users. However, the increasingly complex and dynamic nature of competition in today’s product-markets dictates... View Details

Keywords: Applications and Software; Design; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Effectiveness

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28 Sep 2010
First Look

First Look: September 28, 2010

These changes did not—as often assumed—result in the decline of family businesses but instead gave rise to a different kind of competitive and internationally oriented "Mittelstand." The study integrates approaches from View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf

Why are so many businesses—though seemingly intent on fostering innovation—unable to get new products through their organizations and into the marketplace? Ed Ludwig faced such circumstances as the new... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Beer, Russell Eisenstat & Derek Schrader

01 Sep 2006
News

Marketing Giant Ted Levitt Remembered

Myopia” has sold more than 850,000 reprints, making it one of the best-selling HBR articles of all time. In 1983, Levitt penned another classic with the HBR article “The Globalization of Markets.” Besides popularizing the word “globalization,” he asserted that View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

04 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Smart Cities are Complicated and Costly: Here's How to Build Them

Chombosan Much promotion of smart cities assumes that municipalities will take a proactive, top-down, technology-first approach to urban progress. Thus far, these initiatives look for some forward-thinking city official (or immensely deep-pocketed private investor) to... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction; Green Technology

31 Jul 2023
News

Striving for Imperfection

Experimentation is one of them. You have worked for a long time with Patagonia as a member of the board. Patagonia is a company that was founded by a true experimentalist. I think there’s an example about wetsuits and how they started working with a View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

16 Oct 2019
Research & Ideas

Read Our Most Popular Stories of the Quarter

What stories were readers like you diving into this summer on HBS Working Knowledge? Your interests varied dramatically, everything from how researchers use machine learning technology to predict CEO... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

08 Apr 2008
First Look

First Look: April 8, 2008

Working PapersNone this week Cases & Course MaterialsAT&T v. Microsoft (A): IP Litigation Strategy Harvard Business School Case 608-080 This case examines a hard fought litigation over a patent that originated at Bell Labs. It illustrates the challenges... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 Aug 2019
Blog Post

Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism - Discovering the Business of Storytelling

Snigdha Sur (MBA 2017) is the Founder and CEO of The Juggernaut, a digital media company for South Asian stories. She’s on a mission to diversify storytelling and newsrooms and help challenge existing storylines. Since writing this blog post, Snigdha Sur was... View Details

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Buy Now, Pay Later &mdash Easy Payments: The Rise of Installment Selling

The Rise of Installment Selling Home Finance Cars on Time The Secondary Credit Market The Usurer's Grip Research Links Credits “Why not rent a sewing machine to the housewife and apply the rental fee to the purchase price of the machine?”... View Details

01 May 2020
In Practice

COVID-19’s Hard Lessons Might Prepare Business for Climate Change

The coronavirus pandemic caught the business world by surprise, but the catastrophe might force companies to face a crisis that has been unfolding in plain sight: climate change. We asked faculty members affiliated with the Business and Environment Initiative at... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

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