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- 22 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
Murphy, and Jorg L. Spenkuch Abstract—We develop a model of intergenerational resource transmission that emphasizes the link between cross-sectional inequality and intergenerational mobility. By drawing on first principles of human... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Mar 2017
- News
Clare B. Hawthorne (MBA 2012)
thread in my experiences was satisfaction in fixing things that were broken and creating efficiencies and processes.” While at HBS, she talked with alumni, professors, and classmates, and ultimately concluded that human resources aligned... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
One-on-One with Dr. Margaret Chan
Dr. Margaret Chan (PMD 61, 1991) is worried. She believes that a serious human influenza pandemic will almost certainly occur at some time in the near future. Chan is particularly concerned by the avian influenza virus H5N1 that is... View Details
- 29 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Leni Peterson R. (MS/MBA 2023): Solving Big Problems Through Entrepreneurship
Who are you & what are you building? I am Leni Peterson R. (MS/MBA 2023), CEO and cofounder of Celeste. My background is in Mechanical Engineering and Human Centered Design, product leadership, and innovation consulting. I am... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Trade Off
actually not true. There are times when globalization takes a step back. From 1850 to 1914, there was a technological revolution: With the telegraph, suddenly you could communicate from New Zealand to London in seconds, and refrigeration... View Details
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Institute Associates - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Commerce and the High Level Reflection Group on Health Statistics of the OECD. Jens studied medicine at the Universities of Hannover, Bonn, Athens, Patras, and Kiel and received his doctoral degree from Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel. Jens worked as a postgraduate... View Details
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Sebastian Vargas
Why did you choose this path at this point? Before coming to HBS, I worked for five years as an R&D engineer at Procter and Gamble (P&G). I loved my time at P&G because I worked in teams that looked at new-to-the-world View Details
- October 2010
- Teaching Note
From Imitation to Innovation: Zongshen Industrial Group (TN)
By: Willy C. Shih
Teaching Note for 610057. View Details
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
the needs of human beings, not around the needs of the status quo, didn't happen. Consumer-Driven Health Care was another book that I wrote to help change the demand for health care, to get innovation in the insurance industry. That was... View Details
- 27 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Horrible Boss Workarounds
Kanter says. "One member of the team had actually built several successful IT companies and so knew a lot about marketing. But because he had been hired for a technology job, the CEO would listen to him only on View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 20 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Are Company Founders Underpaid?
information technology companies. When I analyzed founder versus non-founder compensation, I found that there is a large "founder discount" (averaging about $30,000 a year), even after controlling for all of the other... View Details
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Innovation and Entrepreneurship - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
humanity in the products he invented and in the endeavors of those who created them. EXPLORE MORE OF THE EXHIBIT EXPLORE x HOME EMERGENCE OF A NEW TECHNOLOGY The Invention of the Polarizer A RESEARCH &... View Details
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
share buy-back campaign after experiencing a sharp fall in its share price following the end of the Dot-com bubble. The case provides a vehicle for exploring the ethical and human rights responsibilities of corporations in the View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
approximately $0.06–$0.08 for conventional coal plants and $0.16 (est.) for coal plants that capture and store CO2. Moreover, renewable technologies offer the ability to produce affordable power. Most promising is concentrating solar... View Details
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Entrepreneurship Outside the Valley - Course Catalog
opportunities that we see across emerging ecosystems. First, digitization and technology can allow certain sectors to be modernized in a way that is different from more mature economies. In areas like fintech, supply chain, and... View Details
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Staff Directory | Baker Library
dkost@hbs.edu Nicholas Lamb Information Research Specialist, Learning Technology Curriculum & Learning Services nlamb@hbs.edu Sally LeGore Nusholtz Metadata & Taxonomy Specialist Metadata & Knowledge Systems slegorenusholtz@hbs.edu Leigh... View Details
- November 2006 (Revised May 2007)
- Case
Hewlett-Packard Company: The War Within
By: Krishna G. Palepu, Jay W. Lorsch, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Eliot Sherman
In September 2006 it was revealed that the Hewlett-Packard Company (HP) had been carrying out an extended investigation of its own employees, board members, and journalists outside the company. The investigation was launched in response to a series of leaks to the... View Details
Keywords: Problems and Challenges; Employee Relationship Management; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Communication Technology; Conflict and Resolution; Newspapers; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry
Palepu, Krishna G., Jay W. Lorsch, Carin-Isabel Knoop, and Eliot Sherman. "Hewlett-Packard Company: The War Within." Harvard Business School Case 107-030, November 2006. (Revised May 2007.)
- 26 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 26
for two completely different reasons. The first is a change in technology that reduces the value of co-location (stickiness). This tends to lead to the decoupling of design and production activities and to a broad geographic diffusion of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- July 2023
- Case
Moderna: Everything, Everywhere, All at Once
By: Satish Tadikonda, Shikhar Ghosh and William Marks
Coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic, Moderna was riding the successes of developing a vaccine in record time and helping stem the tide of the crisis. However, the company had grown at an incredible rate, more than doubled its number of employees, and had to put on hold... View Details
Keywords: Health Pandemics; Selection and Staffing; Growth Management; Management Succession; Retirement; Technological Innovation; Corporate Strategy; Biotechnology Industry
Tadikonda, Satish, Shikhar Ghosh, and William Marks. "Moderna: Everything, Everywhere, All at Once." Harvard Business School Case 824-021, July 2023.
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
Working PapersThe Business of Free Software: Enterprise Incentives, Investment, and Motivation in the Open Source Community Authors:Marco Iansiti and Gregory L. Richards Abstract In this paper, we examine the motivations of large information View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne