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- 12 May 2020
- Blog Post
The Importance of Coordination: Apoorva Pasricha Reflects on Crisis Leadership
be allocated? To which groups? And on what basis?” To integrate operations and reach the public, she also oversaw the launch of SJDigitalInclusion.org, San Jose’s portal for the initiative. Building the website from scratch, along with... View Details
- 28 Apr 2020
- Blog Post
The Importance of Coordination: Apoorva Pasricha Reflects on Crisis Leadership
be allocated? To which groups? And on what basis?” To integrate operations and reach the public, she also oversaw the launch of SJDigitalInclusion.org, San Jose’s portal for the initiative. Building the website from scratch, along with... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Quantum Leap
back then,” he admits. Before that, he was part of a team at Avid Technology that won an Emmy Award for digital video editing—something we take for granted on our phones today, he says, but it was unthinkable at the time. “Granted,... View Details
- 20 Nov 2019
- News
Lifting Fallen Families
In 1989, Sergeant William Delaney Gibbs was in Panama participating in Operation Just Cause, set to remove military dictator Manuel Noriega from power. He was with the Seventh Infantry Division and, during combat five days before the... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 11 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018
thereby contributes to the theory of positive optimal taxation. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54934 Surfacing the Submerged State: Operational Transparency Increases Trust in and Engagement with... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Mar 2020
- News
Making It Rain
to gather weather data in an entirely new way—by extracting information from things like cell phone signals. When wireless signals hit atmospheric conditions like rain, for example, they lose strength. “We can reverse engineer the signal... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Apr 2008
- News
“Let Us Now Praise Famous Women”
precomputer times: on 8x5-inch alphabetized cards, one per alum, filling buckets set in five-foot-long deep trays placed on four revolving shelves, like cars on a very wide, miniature (about 4 ½ feet tall), electrically operated Ferris... View Details
- Web
Winners & Success Stories | New Venture Competition
Krzyzewski, MBA 1997 Kim Moore, MBA 1997 Finale is a full-service, upscale restaurant concept serving desserts and beverages (coffee, tea, wine, and spirits). The business also includes a retail store featuring take-out desserts and signature ingredients. Finale View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
term familiar to every good HBS student. With its relatively low price tag (about $2.8 million) and low operating costs (40 percent less than existing small jets), the twin-engine Mustang and other “very light jets” (VLJs) represent a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
professional network for physicians.) Each year, Rock Health selects about 20 companies from thousands of applications to receive backing in the form of funding (grants up to $20,000 or convertible notes of $100,000) and services (office space, View Details
- 29 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29
consequences of correcting these erroneous beliefs. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53126 Surfacing the Submerged State: Operational Transparency Increases Trust in and Engagement with Government By:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?
you think back before smart phones and tablets, shopping on line was much less convenient. Today online shopping is omnipresent. Now as we have our discussion, I can use my smartphone to order tonight's dinner and a necktie for the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Q&A: Donna Dubinsky
as CEO and president of Palm Computing and a decade as a marketing and logistics executive at Apple and its spin-off Claris, Dubinsky cofounded Handspring. As the company’s CEO, she oversees development, production, and marketing of the Visor, a popular PDA that is... View Details
- 01 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making
enabling detailed coordination among various operating units. Next, they looked at production decisions, which involve figuring out the tasks necessary to meet the goals and deciding how to pace them. These decisions are generally the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 05 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
VCs Survey Post-Bubble Opportunities
Even if you have a great deal of money, the best entrepreneurs won't care—they'll just want a good partner. And that comes by building a reputation over time: "It's all about performance—it's easy for an entrepreneur to make a few View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- News
A Creator in the Era of Disruption
of his native Indonesia. The first iteration of the company was a network of community leaders who sold “top-up”—or these additional cell phone minutes. The top-up industry was not unusual, but the network approach was. Ruma would train... View Details
- 02 Nov 2020
- What Do You Think?
Is Antitrust Just a Quaint Notion in the Digital Age?
consider other constituencies too: e.g., vendors who are stuck operating under the big players’ rules; innovators, who can’t make their better ‘mouse trap’ available to the world without the resources of the big players; citizens, whose... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail; Technology; Telecommunications; Communications; Consumer Products; Service
- 19 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
time. I had worked closely on day-to-day operations with the firm’s founder since 2005, so I was up to speed on most things, including the public offering. But being up to speed on something and owning ultimate responsibility are two... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
The Exchange: The Tech Leader’s Tightrope
Leadership and Corporate Accountability (LCA),” recalls McGee. They ultimately decided to focus on Apple, because of the company’s emphasis on consumer privacy, and their 2016 case, “Apple: Privacy vs. Safety,” addressed the federal government’s attempts to access data... View Details
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Industrial Giant
reach the Internet and request in-car traffic updates, news headlines, weather reports, sports scores, stock quotes, and e-mail." On the face of it, OnStar has huge potential. There is no denying the popularity of cell phones and... View Details