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- 24 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Vulnerabilities of Open Source Software
industry and application security companies, including developer-first security company Snyk and the Synopsys Cybersecurity Research Center (SCRC), the Linux Foundation and LISH were able to combine private usage View Details
- 06 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Innovator’s Battle Plan
technology so it could be useful to Western Union's most profitable real-time long-distance data customers. When an existing firm tries to insert a product or service with disruptive potential into its processes, what comes out the other... View Details
- 01 Oct 2014
- What Do You Think?
Is Too Much Focus a Problem?
"Excess of everything is bad it always relates to the matter in point (for example) getting big data about our customers and focusing too deeply on it will lead to not noticing other important facets However, while finalizing a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
resulting void at the center of the business school curriculum eventually caused business educators to take a second look at the discipline of economics. Economics, in the decades prior to World War II, had occupied a relatively weak... View Details
- 20 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry
Japan's Fujitsu; in 1996 they were two and a half times those of its largest competitors, Japan's Fujitsu and Hewlett-Packard. IBM had, of course, been the dominant enterprise in the data processing industry well before the coming of the... View Details
- 29 Jan 2021
- Op-Ed
How Influencers, Celebrities, and FOMO Can Win Over Vaccine Skeptics
prefer not to take the trouble to protect against it” proved to be effective and led the late majority to vaccinate their children. Since multiple vaccines and data on vaccines may be available by the time the late majority and laggards... View Details
- 03 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Is the Future of MBA Education?
director of research. Garvin, the C. Roland Christensen Professor of Business Administration, teaches courses for MBAs and executives on leadership, general management, and operations. Garvin is also faculty chair of the School's Christensen View Details
- 22 Jul 2013
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Meeting Management Challenges in India
resident—some 1.2 billion people—by 2020. In a new case, Professor Tarun Khanna and HBS India Research Center Executive Director Anjali Raina discuss the complexities of this massive data management project.... View Details
Keywords: Re: Tarun Khanna & Rohit Deshpande
- 18 Oct 2016
- Op-Ed
Why Business Should Invest in Community Health
Center for Community & Population Health Improvement to facilitate the sharing of information and impact data about health improvement efforts among community stakeholders. General Dynamics subsidiary... View Details
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
Business School Case 618-021 Great Lakes Banking Group: Data Management In May 2016, Michael Rechtin, an expert in international data center law, advised global financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments
critical data point and a unique leg up in thinking about the issue. CTrip is one of many companies using experiments to guide decisions, according to Harvard Business School professor Michael Luca. “Executives need to understand when and... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 17 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
Man vs. Machine: Which Makes Better Hires?
who has studied how companies make organizational decisions in industries such as health care and education. “They are figuring out how to use the information of managers and combine it with this new technology.” Testing the testers To come up with an answer, Li... View Details
- 01 Aug 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should CEOs Worry About ‘Too Big to Succeed?’
have been preoccupied with the question of financial institutions becoming too big to fail. But recent data points have me asking whether the relevant question should be whether financial (and other organizations) bear a greater risk of... View Details
- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Venture Capital: Hot Markets and Current Industry Trends
added. Neeraj Agrawal, Senior Associate, Battery Ventures, said he's interested in enterprise software and data center automation, but not so keen on customer relations management or wireless. "The... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 11 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Hackathons Help Decide Platform Winners and Losers
Tommy Pan Fang and University of British Columbia business professor David Clough. Wu’s research centers on strategies used by technology entrepreneurs to achieve scale for competitive advantage. Platforms are prime real estate for such... View Details
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
breakthrough technology. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=606114 Adrian Ivinson at the Harvard Center for Neurodegeneration and Repair Harvard Business School Case 406-111 Adrian Ivinson... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy
rapidly changing. Harvard Business School Senior Associate Dean Matthew Weinzierl’s new research explores the business opportunities hidden among the stars, particularly in data from and through space, but also in tourism, manufacturing,... View Details
- 03 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Healthcare Conference Looks At Ailing Industry
Integration, Not Intellectual Property The "great embarrassment" of twentieth-century medicine, despite its many strides, is that most therapeutics were directed at symptoms, not causes, said Eric S. Lander, a leader of the Human Genome Project and director... View Details
- 13 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Biotech Work as a Business
expressed the frustration that many people in the biotech industry feel as he clicked through the depressing data in gloomy graphs on a big screen. "It's not a very profitable sector of the economy" based on the performance of... View Details
- 09 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 9
there is a paradox inherent in the social imprinting of WISEs: although it directly enhances their social performance, it also indirectly weakens it by negatively affecting economic productivity. Results based on panel data of French... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne