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- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Knowledge Coach
organization viable. As they put it, "Deep smarts are the engine of your organization. You cannot progress without them, and you will manage more effectively if you understand what they are, how they are built and cultivated, and the... View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
According to Jill H. Fadule, managing director of MBA Admissions, two international students - one from France and one from China - were among the School's inaugural class of approximately 25. Since that time, thousands of international... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- February 2013
- Article
Digitization, Innovation, and Copyright: What Is the Agenda?
By: Shane Greenstein, Josh Lerner and Scott Stern
This essay discusses the need for research on the consequences of digitization, as well as the impact of alternative policies governing the creation and use of digital information. This agenda focuses on the development of research to investigate the economics of... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Research; Copyright; Information Management; Innovation and Invention
Greenstein, Shane, Josh Lerner, and Scott Stern. "Digitization, Innovation, and Copyright: What Is the Agenda?" Strategic Organization 11, no. 1 (February 2013): 110–121.
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
night and day, / towers rise as if to say / Pollution can be beautiful.” Bach’s final fugue informs all of nature. Villon is admonished by an aging courtesan. Aristotle finds “Demagogues are the insects of politics. / Like water beetles... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
On Credit
be. From outsiders we learn that she is a very industrious & prudent old lady, well meaning & will not bargain for more than she intends to pay for, that she is doing a snug business (which is managed by her son ‘Herman,’ aged 24, who has... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Faculty Books
Designing Care: Aligning the Nature and Management of Health Care by Richard M.J. Bohmer (Harvard Business Press) In this book, Senior Lecturer Bohmer, a medical doctor, explains that health-care professionals provide two different types... View Details
- January 1986 (Revised March 1997)
- Case
Horizon Group
Contains a description of a situation confronting the co-founder of a company planning to produce software for microcomputers. The company has just completed raising money from some wealthy investors by forming an R&D Limited Partnership. Development of the program (an... View Details
Keywords: Business or Company Management; Venture Capital; Partners and Partnerships; Business Plan; Outcome or Result; Research and Development; Financial Strategy; Corporate Finance; Information Technology Industry
Sahlman, William A. "Horizon Group." Harvard Business School Case 286-058, January 1986. (Revised March 1997.)
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Andresen Becomes First European and First Exec. Ed. Graduate to Endow HBS Professorship
I want to show my support for an institution that has made and will continue to make a valuable contribution to management practice all over the world," says Andreas Andresen (69th AMP), a retired German industrialist who recently became... View Details
- December 2022
- Supplement
Freelancer, Ltd. Case Supplement
By: Christopher Stanton, Karim R. Lakhani, Jin Hyun Paik and Nina Cohodes
Over the course of the 2010s, the rapid advancement of mobile technologies and the rise of online freelancing platforms seemed to portend a radical transformation of labor markets into on-demand, flexible talent pools. Even though several Fortune 500 companies,... View Details
Keywords: Labor Markets; Freelancers; Change Management; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Globalized Firms and Management; Human Capital; Employment; Digital Platforms; Global Range; Adoption; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Growth and Development Strategy; Information Industry; Information Industry; Information Industry; Information Industry; Australia; United States; Philippines
Stanton, Christopher, Karim R. Lakhani, Jin Hyun Paik, and Nina Cohodes. "Freelancer, Ltd. Case Supplement." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 823-707, December 2022. (Click here to access this case.)
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
HBS Students Mentor Kids
GOOD BUDDIES: (from left) Todd, Richie, Rory, and William. During his time at HBS, William Pritchett (MBA ’06) learned an enormous amount from his professors and classmates. But he also learned a lot from 13-year-old Rory, a student at the Manville School of the Judge... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
New Releases
noncompetitive technology development while contributing to national economic growth and global competitiveness. In Technology Fountainheads: The Management Challenge of R&D; Consortia, Professor Emeritus Ray Corey examines the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
California Research Center Marks Fifth Year
to James W. Breyer (MBA ’87), managing partner at Accel. Meanwhile, across the Pacific, the Japan Research Office officially opened in Tokyo last December. The office, part of the School’s Global Initiative, provides assistance for... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Short Takes
Managing Development Flexibility in Uncertain Environments," the authors assert that increasing flexibility during the product development cycle can enable a firm to adjust to unanticipated circumstances so opportunely and cost... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Caroline Chauncey
- 17 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
The Reputation Risks of Sharing Fake News
As partisan vitriol flies in the final month before the US presidential election, a new study offers insight into the question of why people share political misinformation. Even when a news article would flatter their political party, people tend to expect that sharing... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
School Ties
When Jan Rivkin talks about what the US educational system must deliver, he lays out the challenge in stark terms. "For young Americans to succeed in today's workforce, they must out-innovate and out-produce the world's best," declares Rivkin, the Bruce V. Rauner... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
New Releases
Bradach explores the inner dynamics of chains. "As a microcosm of the industry," writes Bradach, "these organizations serve as a window through which the problems and opportunities of chain management may be more fully understood." He... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Ideas: Faculty Research Online
What Drives Supply Chain Behavior? Surprise! Managers are not always rational decision-makers. In this interview, Assistant Professor Noel Watson and Rogelio Oliva discuss how human behavior affects supply chain coordination. Health Care... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Faculty Research Online
directly to consumers. Do physicians take notice? Professor Emeritus Alvin Silk and Harvard’s Joel Weissman discuss a recent study. The Changing Roles of Doctors and Patients Richard Bohmer, a physician as well as an HBS assistant professor, says doctors are becoming... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Increasing Access and Expanding Opportunity
considered. In the following conversation, Chad Losee (MBA 2013), managing director of MBA Admissions and Financial Aid, and Susan Gilbert, director of MBA Financial Aid, discuss the “MBAid Journey”—the financial assistance given to those... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie