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- 25 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #1: Kameale C. Terry
industry. Her seed round raised $2.75M and today, she has 35 employees, including 25 technicians in 11 states repairing the EV charging stations that are critical to the growth of the electric vehicle industry. Terry plans to add eight...
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- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
Medical City Edmondson, Amy C., Sydney Ribot, and Tiona ZuzulHarvard Business School Case 613-022 Describes Lake Nona, a 7,000-acre residential and research cluster in central Florida, and its process and innovation culture, and Lake Nona Institute, the organization...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Fixing the Marketing-CEO Disconnect
collaboration with Harvard Business School's Educational Technology Group. McGovern will be using the product in the Advanced Management Program "Managing for Senior Executives" program in June. The program has been made...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jul 2017
- News
Seeing a Way Forward
improvements and concrete action plans that were designed to improve patient conversion and timelines, from diagnosis to treatment,” Leger explains. “The project led to fewer required patient visits, better management of patient...
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Jennifer Myers
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade
the Service Profit Chain to Work for Unbeatable Competitive Advantage by HBS professors Jim Heskett and W. Earl Sasser and coauthor Joe Wheeler. Updating a Classic: Writing a Great Business Plan Published: October 6, 2008 Harvard Business...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Ilene Lang
the foot if they don’t figure out how to incorporate that talent and experience into leadership. Why? Diverse teams produce better results. A study conducted by the National Center for Women & Information Technology looked at the number...
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- 04 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Your Org Chart Stuck in a Rut? Try a Scientific Experiment
If you want to be awed by the pace of technological advancement over the past few decades, compare the capabilities of a bulky PC from 1984 with those of a sleek smartphone in 2016. You’ll find stark differences. But if you want to be...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
Pincus Ventures. The buyout would rid the division of a "bad" parent and place the division's destiny in its own hands. A recently instituted restructuring plan seemed likely to improve profitability, but the turnaround was in...
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Martha Lagace
- 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...
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- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
hold you back from what you want to become,” Draper tells them earnestly, his hair plastered around his face. That’s a scene from the first episode of Startup U, a reality TV show on ABC Family that follows 10 DU students through the ups and downs of refining their...
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Julia Hanna
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
personnel data for newly hired college graduates within an Indian technology firm. We leverage the fact that the assignment of an employee to one of many production centers within the firm is uncorrelated with observable characteristics...
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- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
said. Crowdsourcing isn’t exactly new. Lakhani, who is the Principal Investigator of the Crowd Innovation Lab and NASA Tournament Lab at the Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science, pointed out that the HBS campus was actually designed through a contest in...
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by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
the HBS Rock Center for Entrepreneurship, Harvard’s MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program, and the Harvard College Technology Innovation Fellows HBS introduced into the curriculum the Startup Bootcamp to give students the opportunity to...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
famously standing up to Steve Jobs’s plan to eliminate Apple’s US warehouses and decentralize distribution. (The details were captured in the 1986 HBS case, “Donna Dubinsky and Apple Computer, Inc.”) She and Hawkins then teamed up to...
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- 01 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
Best Practices for Creating a Successful Virtual Internship
organization and the student interns. Start with Clear Communication Clear communication is essential as companies work to ensure all of their stakeholders are well informed about plans for the future, even if those View Details
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- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
information junkie, but I did generally know every answer to every nit-picking question that the higher-ups threw at me (e.g., the cost of capital at Playboy was 10 percent). I even developed a working knowledge of things as abstruse as the View Details
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Walt Disney Studios
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
when treating the opponent’s campaign plan as given. Our formulation accounts for both the time cost of traveling between districts and the time expended while campaigning within districts. We describe a polynomial-time algorithm that...
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Carmen Nobel
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
information and communication technologies (ICT) to better manage complex urban systems. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-062.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsZespri Jose B. Alvarez and Mary ShelmanHarvard Business...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
processing, storage, and communication costs have long been an important constraint on innovation and a reason for innovative activities to take place inside the boundaries of an organization. However, exponential technological progress...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Apr 2007
- What Do You Think?
Will Market Forces Stop Global Warming?
Summing Up Debate on this month's questions occurred on at least three levels. Is global warming occurring? Do humans (primarily through CO2 emissions) have much to do with it? Should we rely on market forces to provide appropriate responses, or will this require...
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