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- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Case Study: Welcome Aboard
monitor hydration levels in real time. The disposable patch allowed endurance athletes to avoid the performance or cognitive impairments that dehydration can cause. The initial product was built as an analog system but Cass, who is... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 29 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
Pride Goeth Before a Profit
always like it, but I explained to them that they ought to have pride enough in their jobs to learn about this piece of equipment and what it did." He created a simple analogy to drive home the need for accurate measurement: If you... View Details
Keywords: by Theodore Kinni
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
whether you are doing the right thing. Your decisions are your legacy.” One of Fisher’s favorite analogies is that being in business is like rowing crew. “When the team pulls together, and everybody is at their best, there’s nothing like... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
"I'm very strong, I can handle this." And he said, "Well, you can't make an omelet without breaking eggs." And I thought, "Oh, could you have a more disgusting analogy for a woman who's giving birth?" I was... View Details
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
Source Code
of bits and pieces that we’ve been working on into a coherent scaffold,” says Hawkins. “It helps orient us and helps us think about our research and where to go next.” VP of Research Subutai Ahmad also employs the puzzle analogy to... View Details
- 08 Nov 2024
- Op-Ed
How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis
harder investment concept to explain and perhaps justify, but the return on investment is just as real. US analogies include adding seatbelts in cars to save lives, developing medicines for chronic diseases to avoid illnesses, and... View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
world will have recognized the urgency of the climate change problem. I think the best analogy for the state of the industry, once that realization has set in, is aerospace in the 1960s and the moon shot, where there’s a real problem and... View Details
- 08 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is it Worth a Pay Cut to Work for a Great Manager (Like Bill Belichick)?
they have the highest chance of success. Through training as well as motivations, even average players might become rising superstars. "It pays for firms to invest in hiring and developing great managers" In the corporate world, this is View Details
- 26 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward
with the target? 5. Ask analogous questions about the player(s) at this next-to-final stage: Whom would you ideally like to have onboard to maximize the chances of the most difficult player at this stage saying "yes"? How can... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part One]
than eliminate or relax it. The analogy to the keiretsu system has been widely touted in the Internet era. Companies such as CMGI billed themselves as new economy keiretsu. We are seeing a similar outcome as in Japan. The model turned out... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
latecomers, as we build a technological infrastructure, it will be the newest and most advanced," Sicupira explains. "That has happened in Brazil with our digital cable installation, which surpasses the analog cable that is the core of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Reimagining the MBA
solicit input on the ground, refine, and finally present their completed proposal to their partner organization. Moon draws on a medical school analogy to describe the immersion experience. “For decades medical schools have understood the... View Details
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Entering the Age of Alliances
Association for the Advancement of Science to create analogous Web sites in other disciplines. The resulting coalition creates an educational program that none of the partners could have developed alone. Family-owned businesses also... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
- 20 Jun 2019
- News
Reframing Modern Art
ask them to loan you a painting for an exhibit. I imagine that being challenging. In some ways, you're kind of asking them to release this very valuable baby in their collection to you. Murrell: The process of convincing museums to lend major works of art is very much... View Details
- 11 Sep 2018
- News
Bringing Government Up to Code
analogy that Jen Pahlka who's our executive director here uses, is the house is on fire right now. That means we actually need to run towards it, not away from it. Luna: And how does Code for America work? What are the fires that you're... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
international League of Legends tournament (photo courtesy of Riot Games) Almost everyone relies on traditional sports analogies when discussing esports. “Esports,” like the term “sports,” refers to the entire universe of competitive... View Details
- 19 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 19
explores the changes that have taken place in the consumer television receiver market and the challenges faced by leaders of the analog market, like Sony. It is intended for use with the technical note, "Competency-destroying... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
base. But many ventures simply partition markets based on what is identifiable and accessible via purchased customer lists, SIC codes, LinkedIn, Facebook, or the sheer number of cold calls. Sales may be made, but it's the result of a random-walk process View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation
call center they saw in Houston. Having identified contractors' need for just-in-time delivery, the team reasoned by analogy that emergency response teams faced a similar problem of quickly reacting to urgent requests from unpredictable... View Details
- 02 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019
case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/819043-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 918-413 Gimlet Media: A Podcasting Startup When digital distribution becomes an option for an analog industry, the effects on incumbents can be devastating.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman