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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?
20th century at best, if not the first half of the 20th century,” Eykher says. To address the issue of trust, the Open Mineral team verifies the identity of every member and only accepts companies with a good history; they require... View Details
Keywords: Nicole Torres
- 03 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa
From Tunisia to Egypt, Bahrain to Yemen, as a number of nations in North Africa and the Middle East go through cataclysmic changes, the world watches and wonders what the future may hold as myriad protestors risk their lives for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
ultracompetitive business world, the difference between success and failure lies in the ability to get every employee to think and behave like a strategist. This book helps business leaders expand strategic thinking from the purview of “the elite few” into the whole... View Details
- 05 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 5
to Hong Kong. The company was highly successful in Singapore and Hong Kong and then pursued rapid global expansion. Lacking frameworks for deciding upon countries to enter and services to deliver in each country, Exline used gut instinct.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
to survive in new economy. The Metail Economy provides innovative methods for connecting with the Me-centric consumer and shows how to thrive in this consumer revolution. Joel Bines provides examples of companies that have failed to... View Details
- 09 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
For Better Ideas, Bring the Right People to the Brainstorm
Conversely, says Koning, an introvert could also hold back vital feedback about a bad idea. “You can have crazy bad ideas, and, with a more introverted person, you don’t have someone to say, ‘that doesn’t make sense.’” In general: Open... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
of its major holdings in joint venture companies, which would generate the financial capacity for M&A activities again in later years. In the meantime, Sijbesma wanted the company to prove it could grow... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
Cornell works for Blue Origin, where she is head of astronaut strategy and sales and supports engine sales for the space exploration company. Along with a few dozen fellow employees, all dressed in royal blue company polo shirts—including... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Career Transitions, Continuing Education Focus of Washington, D.C., Club
- a staple of the club's schedule that features speakers from the high-tech sector - both welcome graduates from other prominent business schools. "Including alumni beyond HBS gives us a chance to meet new people, to ask questions, and to be exposed to an extensive... View Details
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Entrepreneurship Outside the Valley - Course Catalog
sector is dominated by large family-owned banks that can become a barrier to market access. Many emerging markets also have very inefficient supply chains that dramatically hinder the efficiency of a variety of industries. By investing in... View Details
- 14 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Pay-for-Performance Doesn’t Always Pay Off
What better way to drive people to work harder and more efficiently, you may ask, than to offer them a special carrot: more money for hitting specific company targets? The idea seems perfect. Managers want their employees to pull out the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Feb 2013
- News
Thanking Veterans Online
Veterans Affairs benefits, Hall and fellow Army Ranger Matthew Thompson (MBA 2010) sought to create a business that would help veterans receive the benefits they deserve. The result was TroopSwap, an online source for discounts and other goodies that View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace
workforce. They have to produce clear policies when the COVID-19 threat diminishes precipitously. A related issue that I am hearing about from companies is centered on how to think about real estate holdings... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”
level of the proprietary Xerox system—at one-fifth the cost. 42 This price performance breakthrough gave Xerox a strategic benefit, reducing the costs of its high-end printers. Subsequently, in January 1991, one and a half years after AWP was incorporated, Xerox bought... View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Is AI OK?
Illustrations by Dan Bejar Illustrations by Dan Bejar When she began investigating Airbnb’s smart-pricing algorithm several years ago, Assistant Professor Shunyuan Zhang wasn’t looking for evidence that it generated discriminatory outcomes, a problem known as... View Details
- 26 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Power of the Noncompete Clause
Marx—who holds six patents—spent ten years as an inventor and executive in the field of speech recognition. In this e-mail interview, he discusses the impact of noncompetes for inventors and those who would tie their hands. Martha Lagace:... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
repurchasers to shed light on characteristic-related mispricing. When issuing firms are large relative to repurchasing firms, for example, we find that large firms subsequently underperform. This holds true even when we restrict attention... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Finding The Right Patient-Provider Match
their clients. Interestingly, he says, “COVID-related searches never exceeded 10 percent of our traffic, which helped us anticipate the pent-up demand for other health issues that were being put on hold because of the pandemic.” Kyruus... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 10 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
Celebrating 'The Men and Women of the Corporation' 40 Years Later
faculty chair of the HBS Gender Initiative, discusses with Kanter the genesis, key insights, and influence of the book—as well as its relevance in the #MeToo era. Kanter holds the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professorship at HBS. —Zeenat Potia... View Details
Keywords: by Robin J. Ely
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
who is invested in keeping it that way. The book presents a new vision of how health care could work if it were truly designed to meet consumer needs, creating a call to action on how to demand and help create such a system. A wake-up call to an industry tenuously... View Details