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- 07 Jul 2009
- Research Event
Business Summit: Historical Roots of Globalization
Editor's Note: This is a summary of an HBS Business Summit presentation. View a full summary and video of the event on the HBS Centennial Web... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 21 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Are Crummy Products Your Next Growth Opportunity?
explored how great companies often lose their ability to innovate and eventually fail at the hands of much smaller, "disruptive" competitors. "Basically any stock you wish you have owned... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jul 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: It’s a Bad Idea to Ban Customers From Recording Videos
Consumers delight in using smartphones to record their experiences and surroundings, but for businesses, such devices present tricky challenges. Suppose a customer encounters a hair in her food, a spill in an aisle, or a rude clerk.... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
Chicago press on June 1 in an edited volume entitled Accelerating Innovation: Insights from Multiple Sectors. In detailed histories of agriculture, chemicals, semiconductors, computers, the internet View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Tackling Climate Change Will Cost Less Than We Think
No one knows how much it will cost to keep the risks of significant climate disruption to a reasonable level. One commonly cited estimate puts the cost at roughly 1 percent of world GDP a year, or about $840 billion. This is a large number, but it seems smaller when... View Details
- 20 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
What’s Next for Japan
Japan. "Wireless Internet is a reality in Japan," he said, speculating that broadband, digital content, and semiconductors will all be controlled by Japan by 2005. Vogel commented that finance... View Details
Keywords: by Hilah Geer
- 22 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Businesses Can Respond to AIDS
Harvard AIDS Institute. It was co-sponsored by UNAIDS and the World Economic Forum. The fourth conference in the series will be held in Beijing... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Oct 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Motivate Me, Please
people, but also costly for companies to maintain. Which programs work best? A Little Understanding Motivates Copyright Abusers to Pay Up Many internet users don't give a second thought to copying and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jun 2009
- Research Event
Business Summit: Global Environment-Transformed Organization
Editor's Note: This is a summary of an HBS Business Summit presentation. View a full summary and video of the event on the HBS Centennial Web... View Details
- 21 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Get Buried in Customer Data—Use It
sophisticated database software, and the Internet would enable them to actually deliver on the promise of customized offerings to each individual... View Details
Keywords: by Jean Ayers
- 22 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
When Protestors Knock at Your Door
As globalization trends increase, so does the ability of non-governmental organizations such as Greenpeace, Oxfam International, and the World Wildlife Fund to shape public... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
IT Links for Boundaryless Companies
David Upton's Alumni Conference report on the state of information technology for business-to-business began with a lesson in technology history because, said the HBS professor, "understanding doesn't... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
- 28 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sophisticated Investors May Be Harming Fintech Lending Platforms
fraction of the applicants. Borrowers and platform employees have no personal interactions; no physical meetings, phone interviews, or web chats. View Details
- 07 Jan 2002
- What Do You Think?
Did Consumer Behavior Tracking Come of Age on September 11?
Internet and credit or debit cards. The rapid accumulation of information in data warehouses, as reflected in the value of EMC stock (at least up... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 30 Apr 2001
- What Do You Think?
Dot.Com Shakeout: Chess or Roulette?
kind. That's the consensus among those responding to my recent questions concerning the future of the best and brightest of View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Jan 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
5 Career-Related New Year’s Resolutions (and 5 Tips for Keeping Them)
Red shoes can help you stand out at the office. Credit: iStock Welcome to January, dear readers! We at Harvard Business School Working Knowledge want nothing but the best for you in View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 27 Jul 2019
- Op-Ed
Does Facebook's Business Model Threaten Our Elections?
In the 2012 US presidential election, the Obama campaign deftly used a Facebook app to register voters and have friends message them to get out View Details
Keywords: by George Riedel
- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Enterprising Women
Zipcar, which uses the Internet to "make access to cars as easy as getting money from an ATM" has approximately 1,500 member-users and expects to open in Manhattan in... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 18 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Who Controls Water?
must grow crops even as the available water supply to his operation is curtailed by drought conditions, court decisions, and quotas imposed by government agencies. The case... View Details
- 01 May 2000
- What Do You Think?
Can You Hard-Wire Performance?
outcries from its subscribers, who could calculate their hourly cost of being unable to do business through Internet trading site. Does it make sense for a company to hard-wire its success to that of its products, services, View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett