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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Batten’s life and career: how he grew Landmark Communications into a media powerhouse, championed racial equality, gave away more than $400 million to charity, mostly to education, and dealt with losing his vocal cords to cancer. The Art... View Details
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Online AI Course | HBS Online
and why it’s vital to accelerate your AI journey now. Highlights Bratin Saha, Vice President and General Manager of Machine Learning Services, Amazon AI Dr. Gina Neff, Professor of Technology and Society, Oxford Internet Institute and the... View Details
- 05 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
VCs Survey Post-Bubble Opportunities
Venture investing has picked up from the post-dot-bomb era of a few years ago—but does the comeback signal good times ahead or a mini bubble of misguided exuberance? To provoke discussion, HBS professor Bill Sahlman threw down the gauntlet at a discussion on View Details
- 03 Oct 2005
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Future of Globally Organized Labor?
include differences in objectives of various work groups, a concentration on short-term goals, and a leadership gap. "Unionization will be achieved from increased interaction due to the ease of communication through electronic means,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)
thing." Over the past fifteen years, as technology altered the business landscape, another transformation swept the globe. This was a revolution of beans, not bytes, and it changed the way Americans drank coffee, a once-innocuous beverage... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
market and on laundry soap and synthetic detergents, where it had secured a worldwide technological lead in the late 1940s. When Beauty and Health Diverge The ownership of the world beauty industry experienced enormous change between the... View Details
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
original response, no one can decide in advance what that response should be. So the role of a leader of innovation is not to set a vision and motivate others to follow it. It's to create a community that is willing and able to innovate.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
along with tall buildings and department stores. By 1902, electric trolleys were transporting 5 billion passengers a year. Investors in the new technology began to build longer electric lines, called interurbans, to serve traffic between... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
and collaboration. When people are surrounded by constant communication and encouragement, they can find the courage to try, fail, redo, and try again. —GE —Rosabeth Moss Kanter is the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business... View Details
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
April 4, 2019 Palgrave Macmillan Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream: How Technology Is Transforming Lending and Shaping a New Era of Small Business Opportunity By: Mills, Karen G. Abstract—Fintech, Small Business & the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 3
a means of mitigating threats to the natural environment while creating urban living capacity, by combining low carbon and resource-efficient development with the use of information and communication View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
A Summer Internship with the City of Boston
Kiernan Schmitt (MBA 2018) is a 2017 Social Enterprise Summer Fellow working with the City of Boston Department of Innovation and Technology this summer. Imagine if, when it came to delivering city services online, your local government... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
- 09 Jun 2015
- Blog Post
Pursuing Meaning through an HBS/HKS Joint Degree
skills, and to give myself the opportunity to reflect on past experiences and future aspirations. I chose HBS because of the case method, which is a fantastic way of further developing your communication skills. It’s about listening to... View Details
- 23 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
COVID-19 Shines New Light on Working Conditions in Supply Chains
question is: In the wreckage of a collapsed building, whose labels do you find? Often, the activist community will point their fingers at the brands for basically enabling those factories to exist and to persist with very risky working... View Details
- 13 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 13
could the report provide a clearer representation of the organization's strategy and its ability to create and sustain value over the long-term? And finally, how could web-based technologies be used to promote the organization's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
The VC Quandary: Too Much Money
or six companies, and it's very possible they could be competitors with each other" sometimes, he said, simply because it's as important to support the development of the technology. A company does not have to be first to market with a new View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Aisha Fatima Dozie is Igniting Confidence as the Founder of Bossy Cosmetics
who are assertive and strong. Looking ahead, there are more great things on the horizon as Dozie plans to grow her team, raise institutional capital, expand into national retailers, and leverage technology to build a Bossy View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
- 15 May 2012
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First Look: May 15
Distributed Innovation Author:Carliss Y. Baldwin Abstract Systems of distributed innovation-so-called business ecosystems-have become increasingly prevalent in many industries. These entities generally encompass numerous corporations, individuals, and View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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Research in Black and White | Baker Library
Swinger sold for just $19.95. “The photographic trade and technical press appreciated the rapid evolution of Polaroid’s products over a relatively short period of time,” Ronald K. Fierstein writes in A Triumph of Geniu s, “recognizing the commitment of the company to... View Details
- 03 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 3
organizations use incident-reporting systems to encourage employees to communicate about the operational problems they witness. Using data on nearly 7,500 reported incidents, we find that information campaigns encouraging process... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace