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- 08 Mar 2018
- News
HBSAAA Leads the Way in Celebrating African American Alumni Impact
percent with their newfound investor money, or sit back and tinker and refine further. That created a lively debate, particularly between guests in the tech sector and those representing more traditional industries.” This is the second...
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Margie Kelley
- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Your Customers: Use Them or Lose Them
competition. Comparison Quote is their clever service design that takes advantage of their data analysis superiority. They can get at the true 'riskiness' of a customer in a more refined way than anyone else can, so they know the true...
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by Martha Lagace
- 26 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Clear Eye for Innovation
well. Most successful enterprises are adept at refining their current offerings, but they falter when it comes to pioneering radically new products and services. Kodak and Boeing are just two of the more recent examples of once dominant...
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- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Case Study: Welcome Aboard
issue was widespread, Lerner and Holder founded OnRamp to help SaaS companies guide their customers through the implementation journey. Lerner refined the concept at HBS (and was a runner-up in the New Venture Competition) and has been...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing
execution of tests, and other factors for suboptimal sales. When a product testing method is developed with care and refined on a regular basis, the results can substantially improve forecasts. We helped develop a testing method at one...
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- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Depression or Euphoria? Navigating the Market’s Mood Swings
hammered home the need for companies to return to stressing the basics: hiring good people, producing a good product, delivering it and supporting it. For the first time in history, he said, companies have an unprecedented amount of data at their fingertips that can be...
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by Carrie Levine
- 12 Oct 2016
- Blog Post
Interning as a Software Engineer while at HBS
company in front of 1000+ people. Our classmates and professors helped us refine the business -- and now we are incorporating the company. What advice would you give to prospective students with similar interests? It’s never too late to...
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- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Critical Information: MIS Monitors the Ever-Changing World of IT
information services. He is also exploring how firms use information technology to achieve competitive advantage through further refinement of his "strategic grid" framework. MIS faculty have made technology an integral part of the...
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Elaine Gottlieb
- Web
Innovation & the War Effort - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
especially effective for wartime reconnaissance. Mahler made the first Vectograph for Land in January 1938. Thousands of Vectographs with accompanying records from the corporate archives reveal that the development and refinement of the...
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- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/317039-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 217-011 Qalaa Holdings and the Egyptian Refining Company This case follows Qalaa Holdings, a successful Egypt-based private equity firm, and gives...
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Carmen Nobel
- 14 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Ethics Bots and Other Ways to Move Your Code of Business Conduct Beyond Puffery
actually being used in practice and how it can be further refined and improved. That kind of creativity can help companies stay away from the scrutiny of regulators and avoid negative headlines. “Ultimately, the goal should not simply be...
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by Michael Blanding
- 11 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Smarter Way to Reduce Customer Defections
focused on reducing churn, but we contend the goal should be maximizing profits, rather than only reducing churn. People have been trying to refine and improve the method for the last 10 to 15 years, but many are missing the bigger...
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- 02 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Leading Professional Service Firms
delivering professional services would find this course interesting and useful. EE: Leading Professional Service Firms is fast-paced and intensive. How is the one-week course structured to maximize learning opportunities? Lorsch: We've been View Details
- 04 Dec 2023
- Blog Post
My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service
don’t regret chasing joy. I got to refine my business skills while putting them towards a goal that I cared deeply about. I learned that I thrive in settings that surround me with mission-driven people, and I cannot wait to see how that...
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Nonprofit / Government
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill
the country, which would exchange students every few months, broadening the opportunities for hands-on, community-based learning. O'Neill and others at the school are at work refining its business and educational model to accommodate this...
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Deborah Blagg
- 23 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Open Office Revolution Has Gone Too Far
Technology—in this case specifically, wearable technology—has enabled us to track individual or dyadic interactions at a really refined level. It’s not just “did you do this?” but “you did X, Y, and Z at this particular time with these...
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Re: Ethan S. Bernstein
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
What’s Next
of HBS scholars have identified new perspectives for evaluating complex problems, launching new fields like strategy and new concepts like the balanced scorecard in the process. Research infuses our curriculum, where ideas are tested and View Details
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 18 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 18
mid-2012 Lit Motors had created both engineering and design prototypes and conducted initial customer tests on less than $750,000 of investment. Lit Motors' founder, Daniel Kim, had started the company to design and manufacture an efficient electric 2-wheeled vehicle....
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Anna Secino
- 05 May 2022
- Blog Post
Celebrating Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS
yogurt containers because you never know when you might need them,Speaking exclusively English at school and exclusively Cantonese at home,Having my friends say to me, “You’re basically white,”and my Chinese peers ask if I’m “first gen or second gen.” It also looks...
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