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- 10 Dec 2007
- HBS Case
One Laptop per Child
evolution of "action pricing"—setting an audacious price goal and endeavoring to meet it. The laptop typifies technological breakthroughs that influence the mainstream in ways that could have large potential impact. The... View Details
- 15 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Black Swans and Big Trends Can Ruin Anyone's Internet Prediction
anticipate that blogging and user-generated video would become mainstream phenomena within a few years. Because it turned a blind eye to these black swans and big trends, Speed Trap assumed that market shares would remain stable in key... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Ron Shaich’s Café Society
cookies? Fresh out of HBS I opened a cookie shop in downtown Boston. Every morning I watched thousands of people walk by; no one bought cookies before noon. So I added fresh croissants and baguettes, two items that were not in the View Details
- 09 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Learning Curve
advocate for their own educational needs, in preparation for a return to mainstream schooling. About 10 percent of the students—those, like Katie, with greater challenges—stay on at the Joy School for longer. Those early years were a... View Details
- 23 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
The First Five Years: '30 under 30' Edition
great privilege and pleasure.” Gandhi: “I think when you’re doing things as an entrepreneur and activist, you can often feel solo in your journey or that you are operating on the periphery of mainstream culture. So being recognized with... View Details
- 17 Jan 2019
- News
The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
doing things as an entrepreneur and activist, you can often feel solo in your journey or that you are operating on the periphery of mainstream culture. So being recognized with such a prestigious accolade alongside many leaders of the... View Details
- 10 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
Has Entered the Mainstream By: Chatterji, Aaron K., and Michael W. Toffel Abstract—Leaders in all sectors, from business to sports to education, are increasingly wading into controversial political and social issues. Based on interviews... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
From Turf Wars to Learning Curves: How Hospitals Adopt New Technology
technologies, thereby leading to the development of a constituency of physicians around each technology. For example, when angioplasty entered mainstream use in the 1980s, most hospitals that already had cardiac surgery programs felt that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
to privatization to the commercial Internet we know today. This is a story of innovation from the edges. Greenstein shows how mainstream service providers, traditionally the leaders in the old-market economy, became threatened by... View Details
- Web
Harvard Business School
American Business . New York: McGraw-Hill, 1978. Davis, George, and Glegg Watson. Black Life in Corporate America: Swimming in the Mainstream . Garden City, NY: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1982. Delton, Jennifer A. Racial Integration in... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)
It's Climate Week in New York City. The schedule features a UN Climate Summit, a People's Climate March, the Clinton Global Initiative, substantial criticism of the whole endeavor, and plenty of agitated interaction. There is a lot of noise here. How can businesses cut... View Details
- 02 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Curse of Double-Digit Growth
committed to a double-digit expansion rate but its economic team seeks to create as much "broad-based" growth as it can, so that the benefits of growth accrue to mainstream citizens. Werker, who has visited Liberia and other... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Is Private Equity Blockchain’s Killer App?
they need. “It’s all about who gives the other person access to what is essentially their ‘page,’ ” says O’Grady. These days, though, O’Grady rarely needs to shorthand blockchain. Its most famous application, bitcoin, has become an increasingly View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 19 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
The First Five Years: '30 Under 30' Edition
are operating on the periphery of mainstream culture. So being recognized with such a prestigious accolade alongside many leaders of the mainstream music industry today made all of the hard work of the past... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 09 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Manager in Red Sneakers
have a few implications for companies. For one thing, brands should take note that the way in which consumers signal status has changed in the last century, and many people these days applaud original products over mainstream choices.... View Details
- 06 Dec 2004
- What Do You Think?
Why Do Managers Fail to Act on Their Predictions?
prepare don't come true. What can be done about this challenge? Maree Conway has one prescription: "...organizations have no mainstream way of thinking about the future of their organization, and then acting upon their insights....... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Good Odds
Behn says. “In the food manufacturing world, a lot of the waste is kept private. Major foodmakers won’t tell you how much they waste in the manufacturing process.” Instead the Imperfect team visited mainstream retailers, looked at the... View Details
- 29 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 29, 2015
traces the evolution of the Internet from government ownership to privatization to the commercial Internet we know today. This is a story of innovation from the edges. Greenstein shows how mainstream service providers that had... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?
skills for our students. We’re fully convinced this is going to be fundamental mainstream investing in 20 years. Vikram Gandhi: One key driver is investor demand.If you look at the big pools of capital—family offices, pension plans,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 05 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 5, 2016
of press. Proponents hail them as "flat" environments that foster flexibility, engagement, productivity, and efficiency. Critics say they're naive, unrealistic experiments. We argue, using evidence from a multi-year research agenda at several View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne