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- 15 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
In the Virtual Dressing Room Returns Are A Real Problem
electronic commerce than in the B2B segment, since industry standards for characterizing color and fabric are more familiar forms of communication for business partners than for individual consumers.... View Details
- 27 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
Dance to the Music: How Noa Torok Found Her Dream Job at SoundCloud
Noa says, “it was electronic music – techno is my passion!” But how would she connect the dots between her enthusiasm for music and her business ambitions? Noa’s advisor suggested she review the websites of large VC firms to see if they... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
year. These efforts directly affect you as a graduate. The Communications Committee, chaired by Paul Stewart (MBA '87), has already made enormous progress this year. Over the last few months, committee members have been working with the... View Details
- 01 Feb 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is the Next Jobs Crisis Just Ahead?
won’t be lost such as highly personalized services such as child care until I considered that my 2 year-old grandson can operate iPhones, computers, and other electronic devices which means he’ll soon have access to HBX and View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Not a Regular Joe
Wilson was a principled and driven executive who transformed a small company called Haloid in Rochester, New York, into one that became synonymous with photocopying. Ellis, former managing partner of Greenwich Associates, offers a portrait of a business mogul who... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Short Takes
a pioneer - in the process of capturing customer information, mining that information for value, and converting the information into shareable knowledge, which is then communicated among workers through robust View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
employee communication about operational failures. Doing so may result in higher levels of frontline system-improvement efforts and ultimately improved work processes. Cases & Course MaterialsAllianz AG: Becoming a European Company... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
2.1.1 Citing Sources & Plagiarism | MBA
It is a violation of academic honesty, the MBA Honor Code and HBS Community Values to present work developed by others as the student’s own (including ideas and analyses, either written or spoken in class). Students must acknowledge the... View Details
- 25 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
More Than the Sum of Its Parts: The Impact of Modularity on the Computer Industry
1960, electronic data processing as well as information storage and retrieval had made a lasting impression in both the private and the public sectors, and discoveries and improvements in areas such as circuit design and solid-state View Details
- 07 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Organizational Model for Open Source
the open source community are often intrinsically motivated. It is important to realize, however, that hackers are a diverse group. I have interviewed hobbyists, students, academics, software professionals, and government workers who... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 20 Jan 2015
- News
Patient Medical Records, Pocket-sized
Burlington, Vermont. “It is a simple, inexpensive, and straightforward solution to a complex problem.” Despite the fact that MedKaz is being used by patients, Bushkin’s biggest challenge is penetrating medical bureaucracy. Hospitals are busy struggling to meet View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Campaign Ends, Exceeds Expectations
tools that strengthen teaching and learning. Online courses, for example, allow students to learn at their own pace, while electronic case studies introduce rich, multidimensional material into classroom discussions. The HBS experience... View Details
- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Smart Moves
INRIX analytics offer similar benefits to corporate customers, Mistele adds, providing greater efficiencies to company fleet operations, commuting time estimates to realtors and home buyers, hourly traffic patterns to retailers and restaurants, true traffic-volume... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
poverty was held; more conferences and seminars are set for the coming months. Baker Library is building an electronic library of BOP cases, articles, and other materials, the first such comprehensive compilation anywhere. Rangan and... View Details
- 21 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine
the 1990s involved traditional Indian medicine, and many lawsuits ensued. But it was difficult to invalidate the novelty of any given remedy without published proof of prior use. To that end, the Indian government spearheaded an effort in 2001 to create a massive View Details
- 14 Feb 2007
- Op-Ed
Tata-Corus: India’s New Steel Giant
pressure from cut-throat competition in mainland China. Even though TCL was one of the largest Chinese TV manufacturers (even prior to the acquisition of Thomson's assets), commodity TVs and other consumer electronics items were not... View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
Working PapersThe Mirroring Hypothesis: Theory, Evidence and Exceptions Authors:Lyra Colfer and Carliss Y. Baldwin Abstract The mirroring hypothesis asserts that the organizational patterns of a development project (e.g., communication... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Does Democracy Need a Marketing Manager?
advantage of to reach voters? A: Political marketing is evolving in the same way. Grassroots political organizations and interest groups are using digital technology to communicate to targeted segments of citizens, receive input from... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
facilitate electronic communication among classmates while they are on campus and help them to stay in touch with each other and with the School after graduation. (Plans are also under way to provide current... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
even value-destructive practices in order to maintain it or inflate it further? And does anyone really believe that shareholders are the only constituency that matters: not customers, not employees, not the community or the country or... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)