Digital Transition - Publications - Faculty & Research

26 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

How Electronic Patient Records Can Slow Doctor Productivity

Digital record-keeping is slowly but inevitably replacing paper records everywhere from the pilot's cockpit to the registry of motor vehicles. But if implemented without proper consideration of how work gets done, the results can make... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health

27 Jan 2023
News

Turning Up the Volume

team were immediately inspired by LEDA’s mission and eager to help it with PR and digital strategy. This was a win-win, helping advance LEDA's communication objectives by creating space for my team to use their skills and support an... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

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Student Spotlight: From Nigeria to HBS: Reigniting My Passion for Healthcare Innovation - Blog: Health Supplement

Practitioners Topics Topics Biotech/pharma Care Delivery Clinical Trials Digital Health Global Health Health Care Entrepreneurship Health Care Innovation Health Care Investment Health Care at HBS Insurance/payor Medical... View Details

08 Dec 2015
First Look

December 8, 2015

Harvard Business School Case 716-408 Turkish Airlines: Widen Your World This case tracks Turkish Airlines' transition from regional player to global powerhouse. With an order for 212 aircraft in the first half of 2013, the airline had... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Oct 2020
Blog Post

Exploring Technology and Public Impact Through the HBS/HKS Joint Degree Program

undergraduate degree. I spent my first couple of years at the company in the San Francisco Bay area and London in roles across the Marketing organization, including working on brand, reputation, and social responsibility initiatives. In my last several years at Google,... View Details

01 Dec 2015
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015

(Palgrave Macmillan) Rossetti helps readers understand transition and presents a step-by-step roadmap women can use to make transition positive, optimistic, and approachable throughout their lives. Rossetti... View Details

17 Jul 2023
Blog Post

From the Panelists: Toward a Decarbonized Future: Who Pays? Who Profits?

learned during the conference. Scott Jacobs, CEO of Generate Capital, a leading sustainable infrastructure platform, offered several surprisingly upbeat messages. Jacobs wrote: “Solving the Net Zero challenge is a physical problem, not a View Details

24 May 2023
Blog Post

Innovating, Funding, and Scaling Climate Solutions at Harvard Business School: Day Three of Harvard Climate Action Week

Capital, drew applause for challenging the notion that digital apps, instead of skilled people, could solve climate problems. “We don’t need more digital solutions to save the world, we need more physical... View Details

27 Aug 2019
Blog Post

Meet the PRIDE Club

Miami, Florida. Prior to HBS, she worked in digital and multicultural marketing across the consumer products and media industries. She will be transitioning to e-commerce management after HBS. When she's not... View Details

02 Jan 2008
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Stories 2007

2.0" turned up on the online encyclopedia one day—and was recommended for deletion—McAfee and colleague Karim R. Lakhani knew they had the makings of an insightful case study on collaboration and governance in the digital world.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

28 May 2019
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019

happiness by tweaking minor behaviors and dealing with emotional impulses to accentuate their positive impact. Reinventing the Product: How to Transform your Business and Create Value in the Digital Age by Erik Schaeffer and David Sovie... View Details

01 Jun 2020
News

Staying the Course

opportunity amid countless obstacles. The sale of ed tech products has been on the rise in recent years—with an estimated $150 billion in global expenditures on digital learning in 2018, a number predicted, pre-pandemic, to double by... View Details

Keywords: April White; online education

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Navigating Your Worth: AI, Negotiations, and the Nature of Expertise - Course Catalog

following: in today’s environment, your expertise can be codified. Consider the new Tom Hank’s film Here (2024), where an AI model of Tom’s acting expertise can be used to face-swap and de-age him. Using similar technology, the emails, presentations and View Details

23 Sep 2024
Blog Post

2024 Summer Internships in Business & Environment

in wind and solar power generation and is committed to driving the transition to a decarbonized energy future. As one of the top five largest capital deployers in the U.S., NextEra has been a driving force behind significant investments... View Details

30 Oct 2012
First Look

First Look: October 30

had built specialized in managing digital risk and uncovering digital evidence and had grown very rapidly. With the firm's CFO, they believed that the firm could grow from $58 million to $72 million, a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Jun 2021
News

The Path Ahead

offerings? —Trevor O’Hoy (AMP 157, 1999) I refer to COVID as the passage to HBS's future. In just a few months, the School made transitions that would ordinarily have taken us years to realize. The hybrid classroom we developed—with the... View Details

01 Sep 2020
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020

victim of foul play. Digital Goddess: The Unfiltered Lessons of a Female Entrepreneur by Victoria R. Montgomery-Brown (MBA 2003) HarperCollins Leadership With women leading only 24 Fortune 500 companies, female founders receiving only 2.2... View Details

01 Dec 2022
News

Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change

Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration George Serafeim’s research increasingly focuses on the intersection between sustainability and digital transformation. Over the years his research has spanned four main areas:... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

20 Aug 2024
Book

Why Competing With Tech Giants Requires Finding Your Own Edge

The following is an excerpt that was adapted and lightly edited from chapter nine of Smart Rivals: How Innovative Companies Play Games That Tech Giants Can't Win, written by Feng Zhu and Bonnie Yining Cao and published August 20, 2024. In today's global View Details

Keywords: by Feng Zhu; Technology; Information Technology

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Harvard Business School and Polaroid - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

all, no matter the particular field of our endeavor." 92 The Polaroid Corporation as a developing enterprise represented a natural research subject for HBS. The expansion of Polaroid during the war years, followed by the difficult View Details

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