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- 02 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Research and Prospects
outstanding work. Rob Huckman's done a lot of very interesting work on adoption of new medical technology and how competing technologies—how the organization of hospitals influences the uptake of competing... View Details
- 16 Oct 2013
- Op-Ed
Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
With more than 7,500 views and 180-plus tweets, I want to thank everyone for taking the time to read the original HBS Working Knowledge piece, The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking, and, in particular, for sharing your thoughts with one... View Details
- 20 May 2013
- Op-Ed
Making America an Industrial Powerhouse Again
Boston and San Diego. Creating new technology is not enough. If the NNMI can build a first-rate talent pool of scientists, engineers, and workers with deep expertise in manufacturing disciplines, it will go... View Details
- 13 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Venturing: Entrepreneurship on the Inside
Separating The Wheat From The Chaff Scott Stevens, director of new business development at EMC Corporation, said one of the biggest challenges for EMC was figuring out how to interpret changes in the... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
- 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
- 11 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
Guts and Bliss: The Entrepreneur’s Journey
layoffs, though, only one person among the six panelists had retreated to a traditional consultancy in 2001. The rest—who started everything from a women-centric financial services group to a natural products company that grew View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 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
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
viewed as a new asset class that competes with stocks and bonds for investment capital. It earned that newfound status on the strength of market-stabilizing structural changes that took root after the last crash. "Everything we do... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sometimes Success Begins at Failure
Learn How To React When commercializing a new technology requires the resolution of both technical and market uncertainty, one cannot expect to be able to anticipate the best path forward View Details
- 29 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Work 3.0: Redefining Jobs and Companies in the Uber Age
undercutting an era of new opportunity for American workers that I call Work 3.0. Work 1.0 existed through roughly the first half of the twentieth century. Almost any worker who wasn’t self-employed was a company’s employee. Work 2.0, our... View Details
- 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
- 04 Oct 2004
- What Do You Think?
Does Speed Trump Intellectual Property?
create more interesting program choices for audiences." Azeem suggests a more appropriate response, saying, "Speed can trump IP, especially in technology industries. In the time it takes to secure a patent, you ought to have... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future
technologies could leverage their abilities. It is generally agreed that Wal-Mart would have been impossible to manage so efficiently without state of the art, computerized data processing. So Walton authorized investments in it. Wal-Mart... View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow
- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Women Entrepreneurs Use Springboard for Funding
fared financially as a result of the event, stats from the year 2000 are encouraging. Forty percent of the women entrepreneurs in last year's New England forum collectively raised $100 million in equity... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 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
- 03 Oct 2005
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Future of Globally Organized Labor?
competency and its ability to move up the value chain that will allow it to share the positive gains. If labor tries the old tactic of strikes, management will just outsource the staff from somewhere else ... " Globally organized... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 22 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Will the Hot Housing Market Finally Start to Cool?
more densely populated places like San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York City for the countryside early in the pandemic. Some purchased or rented a second house; some stayed at their weekend getaway or... View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 07 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Obama’s Clean Power Plan: Can Nuclear Power Beat the Global Threat of Coal?
This week, President Obama and the Environmental Protection Agency released the final version of the Clean Power Plan, a major set of rules and incentives aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions from America's power plants. The plan requires each state to meet a... View Details
- 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