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- 07 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
A Summer Internship with the City of Boston
pondering the best way to spend the summer between my first and second years, I decided early-on that I wanted to see what life was like with a .gov email address. Further, I wanted to find a job that would similarly combine big strategic... View Details
- 12 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
‘Hybrid’ Organizations a Difficult Bet for Entrepreneurs
Consider two organizations with the same noble purpose: to solve the problem of poor eyesight in developing countries. The first, the Centre for Vision in the Developing World, follows a traditional nonprofit model, soliciting donations that fund the View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 14 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 14
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/13-010.pdf IP Modularity: Profiting from Innovation by Aligning Product Architecture with Intellectual Property Authors:Joachim Henkel, Carliss Y. Baldwin, and Willy C. Shih Abstract Distributed value View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
Enterprising Women—a History
professor Nancy Koehn, pointing out that women played key roles in the early American economy through the development of cottage industries and in the organization and work of benevolent societies. The exhibit does a wonderful job in... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- 06 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
Kodak: A Parable of American Competitiveness
process often sparks ideas that lead to creation of innovative new products, Shih explains. So when American companies allow the production of high-tech products like televisions and memory chips to disappear from the local landscape,... View Details
- 23 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Oil Price Fallout: What Happens Next?
The last six years have proved just how fluid the international oil market is. And if recent support of the Keystone Pipeline by the U.S. House of Representatives and the Nebraska Supreme Court (which approved the pipeline's path through that state) are any indication,... View Details
- 27 May 2014
- News
Crowdsourcing the Capitalist's Dilemma
discussion of "The Capitalist's Dilemma"—the challenges of innovating for long-term growth and job creation—in the Harvard Business Review. The team of more than 150 people (see below) collaborated using the OI Engine platform developed... View Details
- 30 May 2018
- What Do You Think?
Should Intellectual Property be Protected in International Trade?
the US, for example, travel and creation of intellectual property provide massive positive trade balances. Innovation, and the intellectual property that it creates, provide the lifeblood for the world’s centers of creativity. Regulating... View Details
- Profile
Philipp Schäelli
knew that I wanted to work in a larger Private Equity firm to get a great on the job training and education opportunity and a fast start into this industry. After an intensive recruiting process in which I used all the HBS resources and... View Details
- 10 May 2022
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2022
tools and on-demand video, it’s possible.” Job perk: “Selfishly, I like to geek out. Being a hedge-fund analyst was pretty intellectual work, but it was still so much fun to talk with my cousins about kinematics and photosynthesis. Video... View Details
- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Something Ventured, Something Gained: A European View of Venture Capital
1946, when the late Georges Doriot, a long-time and legendary member of the HBS faculty, founded American Research and Development as a willing and able source of financing for the new ventures that were coming to life just after World War II. "Banks simply... View Details
- 19 Feb 2020
- News
Running a Decathlon
organization while keeping his day job as a vice president at Honeywell Corporation. He and the leadership team, which included Peterson and fellow former Olympic committee member Phil Bardos, put together a board of directors and started... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
VC Luminary John Doerr: Education Reform Critical to Success of New Economy
with start-ups such as Amazon.com, drugstore.com, Netscape, Excite, and Sun Microsystems. Through the years, Doerr and his partners have invested more than $1.3 billion in 250 technology ventures in the United States, creating companies that have generated more than... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
New Fitzhugh Professorship Celebrated
advancement of African Americans in the business world. "Being the first Fitzhugh professor is a particular honor," Thomas noted during a recent interview. "He spent much of his life trying to facilitate the creation of a more diverse and... View Details
- 23 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2007
entrepreneurs. Designed for entrepreneurial and international business courses. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807075 Bill Gates and Steve Jobs Harvard Business School Case 407-028 Bill... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- June 2024
- Teaching Note
Beamery: Using Skills and AI to Modernize HR
By: Boris Groysberg, David Lane, Susan Pinckney and Alexis Lefort
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 424-004. Unicorn human relationships startup Beamery evaluates it growth versus depth strategy as its strategic partners and customers could become future competitors in a quickly changing AI based human resources and talent management... View Details
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DEC - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
silk-screened our printed circuit boards with real silk on wooden frames...; [we] made our own tools; we swept the floors." 44 In their 1957 plan, Olsen and Anderson outlined the steps toward the creation of a computer whose "capacity and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards
it made us understand what you have to do and the persistence that you have to find inside yourself to really be successful. My first job at Fidelity was the summer after I got out of high school in a place called the Wire Room, where you... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
identify and develop solutions to student concerns. One result of Dobron's team-oriented approach was the creation of the first student-led case, "HBS Student Association 1995-1996 (A): The Soul of an Old Machine." Conceived and written... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
success. So You Want to Be a CEO: The Path from Middle Management to the Top Job by Thomas F. Faught Jr. (MBA 1953) (Fortis Publishing) Based on over 40 years of global management experience, including more than a decade as a CEO, Faugh... View Details