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- 06 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
7 Tips for a Successful Technology Venture Immersion
business plan for a new venture. Here are my tips for making the experience a success: 7. Get ready to dust off those engineering skills The first half of TVI is dedicated to hardware-focused product design. We kicked off with a whirlwind of ten electrical and View Details
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
decision, to consider whether they are facing a "thinking too much" or "thinking too little" problem and adjust accordingly. Download the paper: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wcs.90/abstract How to Design... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Budgeting Kills Your Company
command-and-control approach to management, remains in place, the newer tools designed to decentralize strategic decision making will never achieve their full potential, Hope and Fraser argue. The solution is not better budgeting... View Details
Keywords: by Loren Gary
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Zone Defense
“Iron Man suit.” The idea seemed absurd—but not because of the comic-book connotations. Tseng, with a background in mechanical engineering and on-the-ground experience in actual conflict zones such as Afghanistan, where the so-called Iron... View Details
- 16 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
When the Internet Runs Out of IP Addresses
we running out of IPv4 addresses? Ben Edelman: In this respect, the Internet is a victim of its own success. The IP address system was never designed for the large, complicated, widely used Internet we enjoy today. We're fortunate in that... View Details
- 31 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
Can a ‘Basic Bundle’ of Health Insurance Cure Coverage Gaps and Spur Innovation?
weigh funding, capacity, and other resource constraints. They would also need to designate an agency or organization to administer plans, and create a system for buying coverage. A key decision would likely involve whether holders should... View Details
- 24 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
How to Get People Addicted to a Good Habit
cardiovascular exercise and hydration. It’s not that we are uninformed, unable, or lazy. It’s that we’re just not in the habit. “The idea is that habits are equivalent to addictions” With that in mind, the researchers designed a field... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 23 May 2018
- News
Claudio L. Haddad, OPM 12, 1987
Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1946 Born, Rio de Janeiro 1969 Earns BS, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Military Institute of Engineering 1974 Earns PhD, Economics, University of Chicago 1974 Named... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Karan Shah (MBA 2016)
mechanical engineer. With no design background, she has integrated her love of design, engineering, travel, and sustainability all into MAYU. We’re really excited to see where this venture goes!” Karan with... View Details
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
develop a body of knowledge and theory comparable to those of the true professions, management differs from these other occupations in lacking a set of institutions designed to certify that its practitioners have a basic mastery of a core... View Details
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Grant uses a combination of laboratory and field experiments to harness consumers' cognitive and affective resources to increase their well-being. Consumers make countless daily decisions in the pursuit of happiness -- whether and how to spend or save their money, what... View Details
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Research & Development, Project Code SX-70 - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
Vectographs, a process that entailed the use of a roller to deposit an image on a film base—similar to the way instant photography would employ rollers in the development of the process. 54 Maxfield Parrish, Jr., the son of the artist Maxfield Parrish, developed the... View Details
- 18 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 18
(b) the organization's traditional approach, which focused primarily on skills training. To confirm causation and explore the mechanisms underlying the effects, we replicated the results in a laboratory experiment. We found that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
business. An eight-year veteran with the prominent New York venture capital firm of J.H. Whitney & Company, he launched his own shop backed by $8 million from the Bass brothers. Seven Honeywell engineers in Boston had come up with a View Details
- 16 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 16
Hypothesis Authors:Alan MacCormack, Carliss Baldwin, and John Rusnak Publication:Research Policy 41, no. 8 (October 2012) Abstract A variety of academic studies argue that a relationship exists between the structure of an organization and the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
issues of econometric and scientific uncertainty. As a result, the basis for the broader legitimacy of the WTO is shifting from questions of representation that have long drawn attention to epistemic issues, especially concerning the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
whether media outlets are favoring their own authors because these are the authors that their readers prefer or simply because they are trying to collude. We provide a test to distinguish between these two potential mechanisms and present... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Power and Influence for Positive Impact | HBS Online
in India Show Hide Details Concepts What Are Power Hierarchies? Why Do Power Hierarchies Persist? Overcoming the Impact of Stereotypes Empowering Smallholder Farmers in India Featured Exercises Identify and describe the mechanisms behind... View Details
- 31 May 2017
- What Do You Think?
Can Amazon Do What Walmart Couldn’t, Stop the 'Wheel of Retailing'?
categories, including those served by Walmart. Amazon’s success raises questions about the future of retailing. Is an “Amazon 2.0” even now in the early stages of design and introduction? Is the wheel of retailing any longer a valid or... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
24 papers in Colorado was structured to keep control in local hands? We set up the Colorado News Conservancy as a public benefit corporation. We earmarked a majority of shares to be eventually fully locally owned. The Conservancy is View Details