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- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
Working PapersThe CHAT Dataset Authors:Diego A. Comin and Bart Hobijn NBER Working Paper Series, No. 15319, September 2009 Abstract This note accompanies the Cross-country Historical Adoption of Technology (CHAT) dataset. CHAT is an...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
happening on campus, in particular the arrival of the January cohort and the extraordinary advances in the uses of technology in the School's programs. Most of the January meeting involved working in Alumni Association committees that...
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Cathy Connett
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Tipping Point
distributed through the coffee cooperatives, building more permanent homes to replace mud houses and investing in their daughters’ educations. “They can start planning for the future,” Nyamumbo says. She hopes to expand Kahawa’s approach...
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HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer
increase by about 4 percent from the prior year. The groups plan to drive revenue through new products, market expansion, and technology innovation. The HBS endowment distribution is budgeted to increase 6...
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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Case Study: A Good Fit
corporate wellness market by partnering with health plans and employers, and has expanded into more general health and wellness areas, with apps for people who want to eat better, for instance, or be more fit. After discovering that their...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 21 Jan 2021
- News
New Menu
cheeses, such as Camembert, Gruyere, and feta, from cauliflower. Another is producing a facsimile of traditional pork dumplings from jackfruit, an abundant crop. Ive has the goal of investing in 100 companies over the next four years, and is making View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
A Focus on You
HOME PAGE: Find the latest news, events, and alumni updates. As we plan each issue of the Alumni Bulletin, we scour our files and contacts for information about alumni who match that issue's special "focus" feature or other timely topics....
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Philippe Taieb
Philippe (HBS '99) has been a Coach at HBS since 2006. He has been fortunate to work with scores of MBA Students and Alumni having a wide array of backgrounds (e.g. Investment Management, Consulting, Entrepreneurship, General Management, Healthcare, Private Equity,...
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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle
start-up will be a phone call away, if you have the right idea,” write Senor and Singer. But the IDF experience is not the only reason for Israel’s business success. For one thing, Israel leads the OECD countries in the percentage of GDP earmarked for R&D, creating...
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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Liberal Smarts
talked to Mahindra about higher education, his passion for liberal arts, and his grand plans for an American-style university in India. What gap did you see in education that required this new school? In India, there is an insatiable need...
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- March 2024
- Case
Nomad: A License to Bank
By: Paul A. Gompers and Pedro Levindo
In late 2023, Lucas Vargas, CEO and co-founder of Nomad, a fintech that offered financial services in the United States for Brazilian residents, had to decide what to do to ensure the company’s continued expansion. Nomad launched its first product, a U.S. digital bank...
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Mergers and Acquisitions;
Business Startups;
Customer Satisfaction;
Decision Making;
Entrepreneurship;
Banks and Banking;
Initial Public Offering;
Global Strategy;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Brands and Branding;
Marketing Strategy;
Product Launch;
Organizational Culture;
Going Public;
Ownership Stake;
Innovation and Invention;
Strategic Planning;
Business and Government Relations;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Business Strategy;
Competitive Advantage;
Corporate Strategy;
Diversification;
Expansion;
Vertical Integration;
Leadership;
Law;
Technology Industry;
Technology Industry;
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Brazil;
United States;
North America;
Latin America
- 05 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Venture Capital Goes Boomor Bust?
Energy facility, when he suddenly had a brainstorm that he knew would help him as well as others solve an all-too-common problem. 1 Using the "gopher" technology that had long made the exchange of files and programs across...
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by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Timothy G. Brier: The Price is Right
William Shatner of Star Trek fame starring in a series of quirky radio and TV ads for the company, that decision has proved to be an inspired one. Most recently, Brier has focused on Priceline's plans to expand abroad. Joint ventures,...
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James E. Aisner
- 01 Jun 1996
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New Initiatives in MBA Recruiting
In a three-pronged effort focusing on technology, summer recruiting activities, and fall interviewing, MBA Career Services is launching new services to support MBA students and recruiters in the job search process. Technology Enhances...
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- 07 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Organizational Model for Open Source
of the hacker style of programming with the need to be more predictable and coordinated in managing software releases. Projects that are more closely coupled with commercial firms have experienced direct pressure from firms to communicate better and do more formal...
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by Mallory Stark
- 25 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Harvard Climate Leaders Program
whether it’s national security or immigration or healthcare, all had climate implications and required climate considerations. So, for my next role, I joined the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and worked on a climate...
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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
of the trench and risen above 4,000 meters, the Pressure Drop heard his voice again. As Vescovo descended into the Challenger Deep in April, he encountered another unexpected technological glitch. One of his landers—a homing beacon in the...
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ARD - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
in the development of new technologies and industries during the war, the US government had assumed significant risk," HBS Professor Tom Nicholas asserts. "The fact that several of these risks paid off–in ways that Doriot had seen...
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- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
searches and appropriately rewards their efforts." The result of this dynamic has been one of history's great technology success stories. In a second volume of Design Rules, the authors will examine how the interrelated processes of...
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- 22 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combatting Climate Change
VenturesThis is the most consequential policy for advancing the low-carbon economy that we’ve ever seen. By offering 10 years of policy certainty, the IRA encourages technology innovators to form companies and it reassures larger...
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