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- March 2010 (Revised August 2010)
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Systems Infrastructure at Google (A)
By: Linda A. Hill and Emily Stecker
This case describes how a senior vice president of engineering at Google, Bill Coughran, leads a high-performing engineering organization. The case focuses specifically on Coughran's encouraging two teams of engineers to develop competing solutions for application... View Details
Keywords: Independent Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Innovation Leadership; Leadership Development; Product Design; Groups and Teams; Creativity; Motivation and Incentives; Competitive Strategy; Technology Industry; United States
Hill, Linda A., and Emily Stecker. "Systems Infrastructure at Google (A)." Harvard Business School Case 410-110, March 2010. (Revised August 2010.)
- 21 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
Machine Learning and Behavioral Economics
technology is launched externally for small businesses. After a corporate-wide restructuring, Bracaglia moved to Alphabet’s life science firm, Verily, where he worked on Liftware, a counterweighted spoon that maintains stability – a critical aid to people with View Details
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Electricity - Business & Environment
Esema MBA 2014 Vice President, Renewable Energy Finance, Bank of America Merrill Lynch “Investing in clean energy solutions is necessary to address climate change. Deploying renewable energy globally will allow the world to increase... View Details
- 04 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Diversity Boosts Profits in Venture Capital Firms
yuri_arcurs Recent research shows for the first time that diversity in venture capital firms not only spawns creativity and alternative viewpoints, but also improves financial performance. Paul Gompers, Eugene Holman Professor of Business Administration at Harvard... View Details
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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
2006) + More Info – Less Info Can one be a fiduciary and invest sustainably? Are these roles at odds with one another other? What does it mean to be an ESG investor? In this session, we will use a case study on JP Morgan Private Bank to... View Details
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Attract additional Black talent to all parts of the HBS community. - Advancing Racial Equity
recruit, hire, and support a diverse faculty as well as candidates studying race, diversity, inclusion, and inequality. We want to emphasize the particular importance of tenured Black and URM faculty, whether developed internally or hired from outside HBS. Tenured... View Details
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Understanding Entrepreneurial Opportunity in Kazakhstan - Global Activities 2020
Kazakhstan is the largest economy in Central Asia, and a quickly changing one; the GDP in the former Soviet republic has grown six-fold since 2002 and the country serves as a transportation link between China and Western Europe. The case... View Details
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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
: Winner of the 2021 John L. Weinberg/IRRCI Research Paper Award Competition for “The ESG-Innovation Disconnect: Evidence from Green Patenting” with Umit Gurun and Quoc Nguyen. Lauren H. Cohen : Invited to give a keynote address at the launch of the eNaira, Nigeria’s... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
London School of Economics. After stints as a researcher and analyst at investment bank EFG Hermes and the International Finance Corporation, she was recommended for a role at Egypt’s Ministry of Finance in 2010, working in the Macro... View Details
- 01 Oct 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Systemic Risk and the Refinancing Ratchet Effect
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
Wasserman. "They have a lot of senior people at the top and very few junior people below them. Several other industries that started out that way - such as investment banking and consulting - have evolved into big, pyramid-shaped... View Details
- 31 Oct 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Do Measures of Financial Constraints Measure Financial Constraints?
- 02 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Explaining China's Crash
intervene in the currency market. Finally, the Chinese central bank has room for further monetary stimulus; they can lower the reserve requirement for banks from the current 18... View Details
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details on the grant application process, eligibility criteria, and grant amounts, please refer to the Payment & Financial Aid page . What are my payment options? We accept payments via credit card, wire transfer, Western Union, and (when available) View Details
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data processing practices of Harvard Business School or other Harvard University organizations independently of our Websites and Services. Your use of our Services is subject to the HBS Online Terms of Use . Additional terms may apply for... View Details
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
played a central role: many firms proactively shared new safety protocols, gave feedback to each other, and worked hard to make their industry safer. These interactions involved not only suppliers and clients, but sometimes even... View Details
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Scaling Work - Research Computing Services
parallel module . For other environments, or if you have any questions, please contact RCS . GPU Computing About GPU Computing A GPU (graphics processing unit) is a processor that is great at handling specialized computations. We can contrast this to the View Details
- 04 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Are the Big Four Audit Firms Too Big to Fail?
expressed concerns about decreased "reliability" (a key component of "verifiability," auditing's touchstone) in proposed standards. To benchmark the auditors' assessments of decreased accounting reliability, the researchers relied on View Details
- 22 Jul 2019
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How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
interest in the subject was initially stimulated by the explosive growth of the Microsoft Windows operating system. The real value of Windows, we learned, was not about the product, per se, but the applications written by independent... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 26 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
What’s the Value of a Win in College Athletics?
school’s piggy bank in his paper, How Much Is a Win Worth? An Application to Intercollegiate Athletics, forthcoming in Management Science. “Some of the top schools make enormous amounts of money—just extraordinary, close to $200 million,”... View Details