Geography Of Innovation - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Oct 2002
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Amy S. Langer

organization's top spot, she transformed NABCO over the next decade. Under her leadership, NABCO has used an innovative program of corporate partnerships in cause-related marketing campaigns, linking breast... View Details

01 Dec 2017
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Ask the Expert: Human Intelligence

data mining to coding. Eventually, there will be industries that are fully automated and certain jobs will go away, but new ones will be created in that process. From Baker Library: Not surprisingly, high tech and telecom firms are the earliest adopters and View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Feb 2001
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HBS and Stanford in Online Collaboration

His counterpart at Stanford Business School, Dean Robert Joss, added, "The worldwide need for management skills has never been greater, and the demand for innovative approaches to management education is high. The partnership will offer... View Details

Keywords: HBS Interactive; e-learning; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Apr 1997
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HBS Duo Offers Personalized Career Assessment

Considering a new career or an exciting but daunting job opportunity? Wondering if you need to change direction in your professional life? From the newly minted MBA to the seasoned executive, HBS graduates can now explore these questions in an View Details

Keywords: Bob Binstock

31 Jan 2023
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Female Founders' Dilemmas; UK Tech Startups

Clubs News Clubs News The HBS Association of Boston (HBSAB) recently presented a virtual panel discussion exploring the unique challenges that women entrepreneurs encounter when founding their companies. The conversation, titled “The... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

15 Feb 2023
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Grand Ambitions in the Great Plains

Photo credits: Meghan Kenny and Jonas Lee Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Meghan Kenny: Our prototype is called Hobbes. All of our major pieces of equipment are named after... View Details

01 Mar 2023
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Clearing the Air

MORE For a deeper dive, check out our three-part Skydeck podcast series on carbon capture. Skydeck podcast MORE For a deeper dive, check out our three-part Skydeck podcast series on carbon capture. Skydeck podcast When the United States Congress passed the Inflation... View Details

Keywords: April White and Dan Morrell; Illustrations by Richard Borge

01 Jun 1996
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1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"

dramatically. In a talk on March 20 titled "HBS @ the Frontier: The Future of Management Education," Dean Kim B. Clark brought conference-goers up-to-date on HBS's newest innovations in the use View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

01 Jun 1998
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Diversity and Community

Associate Professor David Thomas: workforce diversity and community involvement as elements of organizational innovation and competitive advantage. (photograph by Brooks Kraft) HBS Associate Professor David... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Sep 2018
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Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods

Image by Edmon de Haro The US Postal Service prides itself on delivering through rain, sleet, and snow—but what about serious debt? After 11 straight years of losses and declining first-class mail volumes, the USPS saw one glimmer View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Dec 2016
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Ask the Expert: Energy’s Next Era

is the kind of question that RMI is tackling as a member of the Energy Transitions Commission—a global coalition of energy companies, nonprofits, academics, and View Details

15 May 2012
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Finally Finding the Right Fit

in the transformative power of education, Heffernan has remained active as a fundraising volunteer since graduating from HBS. For his 5th Reunion, he made a gift to support the work of the Harvard View Details

Keywords: fashion; apparel; Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Oct 2021
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Helping Leaders Chart an Ethical Path

Hsieh’s “gray area.” Could he best help the country by taking a stand against corruption or by cleaning up its streets? Hsieh, who is now course head for Leadership and Corporate Accountability, wrote the case “Cedar Environmental: View Details

14 Oct 2020
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Sewn with Love

In the midst of a global pandemic and widespread protests against racial injustice, the fashion industry can seem pretty frivolous. Fashion-industry leader Kikka Hanazawa (MBA 2002), CEO of VPL, a women’s... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

27 Aug 2019
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A Shot at Success

of role model.” Trey Athletes was recently accepted into the United Way Social Innovation Accelerator, which, along with philanthropic investment and corporate partnerships, will help the fledgling social... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Jun 1996
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New Releases

Engines of Innovation edited by Richard S. Rosenbloom and William J. Spencer (HBS Press) In past decades, industrial laboratories such as AT&T's Bell Labs and the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center were... View Details

25 Apr 2016
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Trail Blazer

Photography by Alexander Rubin Chuck McMinn (MBA 1978) has worked at enough in startups to know that the only guarantee in technology is that today’s hot product will eventually be replaced by more innovative technology. That’s why... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade; Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation; Transportation

02 Jun 2015
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Pointing the Way to a Better World

“As a journalist. I can’t be an advocate,” insists Sheryl WuDunn (MBA 1986) about the subject matter of her latest book, A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity, which she coauthored last year with her husband, New York... View Details