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- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social... View Details
- 16 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
To Fight Climate Change, Should Green Investors Reconsider Big Oil?
co-researchers wanted to find out whether sustainable investment capital is flowing to companies that are in the best position to solve the urgent and complex problems created by climate change. In their new working paper, The... View Details
- 12 Nov 2018
- Research & Ideas
'Always On' Isn't Always Best for Team Decision-Making
But technology has changed all that. “These always-on technologies mean that we’re always in constant interaction with others. We wanted to see if that is a good thing.” They spent a year compiling data... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 02 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Government and Financial Tech Can Fix Cash Woes for Small Businesses
from an increase in new hires and the balance from an increase in earnings. Interestingly, the United Kingdom has followed suit, charging a newly created small business... View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills
- 05 Dec 2013
- Op-Ed
Encourage Breakthrough Health Care by Competing on Products Rather Than Patents
over the distribution of knowledge. To date, they have been far too concerned with the size of their royalties, at the expense of public utility. The fate of discoveries we all rely upon, and the intellectual property that results from... View Details
- 01 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care
in their workflow as well as through patient-reported outcome surveys, which are given periodically to patients to learn, from them, how they are doing. Information Technology Headaches The move toward... View Details
- 07 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
will do a much cheaper, faster job of attacking our energy and environment problems than having politicians and regulators try to solve them by selecting technologies or drafting complex rules and regulations that simply hide the costs... View Details
- 20 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Workshop Encourages Corporate Reporting on Environmental and Social Sustainability
accounting firms to deliver a truly integrated audit? One of the key new themes that emerged at the workshop was the role technology could play in gathering, organizing, and analyzing IR data.... View Details
- 16 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Resolving Patent Disputes that Impede Innovation
billions of dollars annually licensing patents for its code-division multiple access (CDMA) technology, which is the heart of several mobile communication standards. Standards bodies often act as regulators, setting rules in order to prevent the owners of SEPs View Details
- 08 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
Unplugged: What Happened to the Smart Grid?
billion in stimulus money would be directed toward smart grid technologies. This created excitement in the industry, and many utilities and technology companies made the smart grid a top priority. By 2009 venture capitalists had invested... View Details
- 31 Mar 2002
- What Do You Think?
Is This the Decade of the Investor?
investment in technology and related resources? Or are capital inputs in relation to those of labor somewhat less important in boosting productivity in an information economy? Will the U.S. continue to offer such a relatively attractive... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 11 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Riding the Internet Fast Track
own high-speed trains. I could list a dozen market categories where you'll find four, five, or six well-funded, well-organized, and savvy companies all pursuing this nearly identical strategy." While many of those firms are entrepreneurial ventures View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Bank of America Turned Branches into Service-Development Laboratories
configured as "traditional centers," familiar-looking branches that provided conventional banking services, though often supported by new technologies and redesigned processes. The group unveiled... View Details
- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Chance Encounters: What's at Stake in Return-to-Office Decisions
skepticism of that preference comes from other research I’ve done on the metaverse, a vision for a 3D internet, and other digital technologies that allow people to isolate themselves in a digital... View Details
- 12 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
Creating Value Across Borders
heavily from the fact that wireless technology is more developed in Europe than in the U.S. The market correction in April 2000 was global, and it dampened entrepreneurial activity in every continent.—Walter... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 13 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Humblebragging’ is a Bad Strategy, Especially in a Job Interview
If you've spent any time on Twitter, then you're probably familiar with the "humblebrag"—a brag veiled in a complaint, so as to sound less blatantly like a brag. Here's an example from the Twitter account of Ari Fleischer, former White... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 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... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 15 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking E-Leadership
by transforming" the existing business or creating a new one. An effective e-leader, Hargrove continues, must shift from "being a productivity and efficiency junkie to being an opportunity seeker... View Details
Keywords: by Melissa Raffoni
- 20 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers Value Global Brands
breakthrough technologies faster than rivals. Global brands "are very dynamic, always upgrading themselves," said an Indian. An Australian added that global brands "are more exciting because they come up with View Details
- 03 Oct 2012
- What Do You Think?
Can We Bring Back the “Industrial Commons” for Manufacturing?
skills, and engineering capabilities" resulting from the clustering of universities, suppliers, and manufacturers in industries such as biotechnology, electronic components, and semiconductors in which rapidly-developing innovations... View Details