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- 06 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
What We Learned from Reading Jeff Bezos’ Patents
answer is yes. The founder’s early fascination with innovation proved key because he remains an active inventor with many patents to his name. Bezos has been known to view Amazon as “a technology company pioneering e-commerce, not a... View Details
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Founder - Entrepreneurship
Challenge Take more great EC Courses (i.e. Entrepreneurial Sales) Building Web 3 Businesses Entrepreneurial Sales 102 Field Y Scaling Technology Ventures Startup Operations Studio (provides funding) Tough... View Details
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Career Re-Entry & Flexible Work - Alumni
and/or specific companies or functions. Stay current Address concerns up front about your ability to stay current in both technology and in industry trends and developments. Your up-to-date knowledge and skills not only assure potential... View Details
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
reality technology to treat amblyopia (more commonly called “lazy eye”), the single biggest cause of visual disorders among children. By February 2017, the three founders had raised $950,000 in angel funding and developed a prototype of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Rounding the Bend
Illustration by Fernando Cobelo To help people visualize what a circular economy could look like and bring the challenges down to a closet-sized scale, Emily Bolon (MBA/MPA 2007) recommends the following exercise. First, make a mental tally of the number of garments... View Details
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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research
from 2009 to 2021. Scaling the concept of racially salient events, we quantify the close co-movement of minority funding gaps in crowd-funding to inflamed political rhetoric surrounding migration. The funding gap for minorities more than... View Details
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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work
consultancy now called Monitor-Deloitte. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Business School and a director of PVH Corporation, Aera Technology and Helios Consulting, a trustee of Western Governors University and a Senior... View Details
- 15 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 15, 2008
results are stronger in environments with less public information flow, suggesting that the shorting market is an important mechanism for private information revelation. Lobbies and Technology Diffusion Authors:Diego Comin and Bart Hobijn... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Past Issues - Alumni
of Contents March 2023 Clearing the Air Faculty and alumni on the opportunity—and necessity—of carbon capture technology Free Spirits With celebrity backers, splashy investments, and a bevy of tasty new products, the non-alcoholic drink... View Details
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Events - Business & Environment
seeing you at the 21st Annual Climate Symposium, Climate Renaissance: Confronting Reality, Celebrating Innovation. We want to focus on both exploring the challenges ahead in deploying and scaling climate solutions while celebrating the... View Details
- 16 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
When the Internet Runs Out of IP Addresses
and ultimately make the Internet less useful than it could be. Another important challenge is that if networks can't get new IP addresses, it will be harder to enter many technology businesses. Want to start a new ISP? Or run a service... View Details
- 13 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
The Color of Private Equity: Quantifying the Bias Black Investors Face
exit, they do just as well as the majority groups,” says Lerner. “And if anything, they seem to be more conservative in valuing things.” Additionally, the minority groups were able to scale up staffing when necessary and were not doing... View Details
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Restoring a Global Economy, 1950–1980
industries. Europe and Japan had to spend the immediate postwar decade undergoing extensive reconstruction, heavily dependent on official aid from the United States, yet over time Europe and Japan closed the technological and productivity... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
are also shown to be actors in periodic deglobalization waves. This was because their function was to reinforce the gaps in wealth and income rather than disrupt them. Business enterprises proved disappointing institutions for knowledge and View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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Recent Insights from HBS Podcasts
isn’t your thing, you can still take advantage of them, as many of our podcasts provide full transcripts as well. Managing Electricity to Meet Net Zero Targets In this episode of Climate Rising, hosted by HBS professor Mike Toffel, two experts in energy policy and... View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Bridging Business and Engineering
in the new joint degree program. (photo by Susan Young) To build on the technology skills he acquired in the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), Erez Perelson (MS/MBA 2020) came to Boston to pursue an AB in engineering at Harvard College, but... View Details
- 01 Feb 2022
- Book
Innovation Isn’t Just for Startups: How Big Companies Can Succeed
runs), and scaling (the development of a full-fledged new product or service). "Becoming a corporate explorer is not a route to a safe or easy career." The authors share the stories of influential explorers, such as retired IBM manager... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 06 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
Does Hybrid Work Actually Work? Insights from 30,000 Emails
rated the productivity of workers on a seven-point scale from “unsatisfactory” to “excellent” in categories such as ability, cooperation, job knowledge, creativity, productivity, and quality of work. Hybrid is the right balance In all... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
- 04 Jan 2024
- News
Great Heights
In 2019, after more than a decade scaling the heights of product management in Silicon Valley, Lisa Kostova (MBA 2009) decided to take on a different kind of climb. Over a sabbatical year, Kostova trained for and summited Denali, which,... View Details
Keywords: Amy Crawford
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African American Student Union Spotlight on Joint Degrees - MBA
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