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30 May 2023
News

Finding PRIDE

found out about the Audiotext hotline. The technology for the hotline was fairly limited, but a person could call in and get prerecorded information about being gay at a time when there was nowhere to go for information. Fortune magazine... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

04 Dec 2019
Book

Creating the Experimentation Organization

simulation and rapid prototyping to optimize product development and R&D. “After that, I thought I was done,” he says. Since then, however, there has been a rise in new technology platforms that allows experimentation to innovate on... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

January 2013 (Revised June 2018)
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Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google 2018

By: John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld

Four businesses had, by 2012, grown to dominate the infrastructure that all firms rely on to reach online customers. Will the balance of power among the four persist, will one take command at the expense of the other three, or are all four more vulnerable than they... View Details

Keywords: Internet and the Web; Competitive Advantage; Infrastructure; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Growth and Development; Service Industry; Retail Industry; United States

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22 Feb 2022
News

New Urban Order

Currently an adjunct associate professor at NYU’s Stern School, where he teaches about commercializing carbon-reduction technologies in the course Disruption, Entrepreneurship, and Social Impact, Carty points to the significant potential... View Details

Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services

07 Feb 2019
Book

How Big Companies Can Outrun Disruption

scale might actually be an advantage for innovation motivated me to write this book. Lagace: As you say, innovation is a broad term. What does it mean to you? Pisano: Innovation means change that creates economic value. Innovations can be about View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

20 Oct 2010
Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

lead to long-term productivity improvements if it leads companies to come and investment in a more advanced capital stock. Government efforts that directly improve productivity through upgrading workforce skills or subsidizing companies more specifically for upgrading... View Details

Keywords: by Christian Ketels

May 2022
Case

TikTok and National Security: Investment in an Age of Data Sovereignty?

By: Jeremy Friedman, Sarah Bauerle Danzman and David Lane

This case covers TikTok’s purchase of Musical.ly and the reaction of the United States government, including the review of the purchase by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) and the reaction of the presidential administration of Donald... View Details

Keywords: Data Security; Mergers and Acquisitions; Cybersecurity; Internet and the Web; International Relations; Laws and Statutes; Globalized Firms and Management

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Hands-on Learning About Global Markets - MBA

Government Health Care / BioTech Manufacturing Private Equity Real Estate Retail Social Enterprise Technology Venture Capital Audiences Audiences FirstGen+ College Diverse Perspectives International LGBTQ+ Military Socioeconomic Inclusion... View Details

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Improving Lives One Data Set at a Time - MBA

Government Health Care / BioTech Manufacturing Private Equity Real Estate Retail Social Enterprise Technology Venture Capital Audiences Audiences FirstGen+ College Diverse Perspectives International LGBTQ+ Military Socioeconomic Inclusion... View Details

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8 Stories from PRIDE for National Coming Out Day - MBA

Government Health Care / BioTech Manufacturing Private Equity Real Estate Retail Social Enterprise Technology Venture Capital Audiences Audiences FirstGen+ College Diverse Perspectives International LGBTQ+ Military Socioeconomic Inclusion... View Details

November 2009
Supplement

Managing a Global Team: Greg James at Sun Microsystems, Inc. (B)

By: Tsedal Neeley

This case updates students on the steps Greg James took to solve the problems that instigated the crisis documented in “Managing a Global Team: Greg James at Sun Microsystems, Inc. (A).” We find out how James solves the process problems involved in his team's breakdown... View Details

Keywords: Customer Satisfaction; Globalized Firms and Management; Crisis Management; Service Delivery; Business Processes; Performance Productivity; Groups and Teams; Technology Industry

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Business, Government & the International Economy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Award for Excellence in Teaching. Gunnar Trumbull : Received the 2016 HBS Student Association Faculty Award for Outstanding Teaching in the Required Curriculum. 2015 Alberto F. Cavallo : Named Douglas Drane Career Development Chair in Information View Details

01 Dec 2004
News

Marquis Jet Takes Off

Allard: a three-year ascent to $240 million in revenues. Photo Courtesy Marquis Jet Marquis Jet may be flying high today, but just three years ago it was far from clear that the New York–based company’s innovative approach to private-jet travel would ever get off the... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Air Transportation; Transportation

Winter 2021
Editorial

Introduction

By: Michael A. Wheeler

This issue of Negotiation Journal is dedicated to the theme of artificial intelligence, technology, and negotiation. It arose from a Program on Negotiation (PON) working conference on that important topic held virtually on May 17–18. The conference was not the... View Details

Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Information Technology; Negotiation; AI and Machine Learning

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January 2022
Case

Fueling a Cleaner Future: ACWA Power and Green Hydrogen

By: Dennis Yao and Alpana Thapar

In January 2020, Paddy Padmanathan, president and CEO of ACWA Power, was reflecting on the company’s sixteen-year record of success and thinking about its future growth plans. Founded in 2004, ACWA Power was a Saudi Arabian developer, owner, and operator of power and... View Details

Keywords: Green Hydrogen; Energy; Climate Change; Supply Chain; Business Model; Growth and Development Strategy; Green Technology; Projects; Alliances; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Energy Industry; Saudi Arabia; Middle East; North Africa

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08 Mar 2022
Blog Post

Recalling My First Cold Call: A Conversation with Second-Year Students

Zealand Club. After graduation she plans to move to Australia, where she will pursue a career in the food tech industry. What do you remember about your first cold call?My first cold call was in a Technology & Operations Management... View Details

15 May 2009
Working Paper Summaries

Barriers to Household Risk Management: Evidence from India

Keywords: by Shawn Cole, Xavier Giné, Jeremy Tobacman, Petia Topalova, Robert Townsend & James Vickery

September 30, 2019
Article

Climate Change and Our Emerging Cultural Shift

By: Andrew J. Hoffman

Today, we have made climate change trivial by making its solutions easy, looking for simple answers that are palatable, generally framing it in the language of commerce. In the long run, it won’t work. There is no technological or political silver bullet to solving our... View Details

Keywords: Culture; Climate Change; Values and Beliefs; Transition

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July–August 2013
Article

Building Sustainable Cities

By: John D. Macomber

By 2050 the number of people living in cities will have nearly doubled, to 6 billion, and the problems created by this rampant urbanization are among the most important challenges of our time. Of all resource-management issues, the author argues, water, electricity,... View Details

Keywords: Growth Management; Urban Development; Entrepreneurship; Infrastructure; City

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