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- 24 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 24, 2009
system is nearing exhaustion. Existing protocols allow only a finite set of computer numbers ("IP addresses"), and central authorities will soon deplete their supply. I evaluate a series of possible responses to this shortage:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
HBS Creates Life Sciences Fellowship Fund
Next fall’s entering MBA Class of 2010 will include up to ten students who have received $20,000 fellowships based on their academic or professional excellence in the field of life sciences. Financial support from the Life Sciences Fellowship Fund will be awarded to... View Details
- 20 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 20
problems, hence the potential improvements from our framework come at essentially limited extra computational cost. We perform numerical experiments drawn from three di erent application areas (portfolio optimization, inventory... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 11 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
The New International Style of Management
At Dell Beijing, Andy Klump (HBS MBA '03) was excelling at his job—selling computer hardware and services solutions to multinationals—when the company's 360-degree performance-review process underwent a change. As part of the new... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
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Educating Leaders - Georges F. Doriot:Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
publications. For example, "Making the Automatic Factory a Reality," written by a team led by John Diebold (HBS MBA '51), forecasted the role of computers in business and turned into a published classic. "Masers and Lasers," written by a... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
A Conversation with Dean Clark
important initiatives. BULLETIN: There have been a number of obvious manifestations of progress on the technology initiative, including the shift to an Internet-based communications system at the School, the availability of full-motion video in electronic cases, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
At Dell Beijing, Andy Klump (MBA ’03) was excelling at his job — selling computer hardware and services solutions to multinationals — when the company’s 360-degree performance-review process underwent a change. As part of the new... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
of capital, causing them to shrink and possibly exit the market. The strategy was used by Sun Microsystems in the 1980s and Dell Computer in the 1990s. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-063.pdf The Determinants of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
analyses, specifically, to compute net present value (NPV) internal rate of return (IRR) and payback period. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=207121 Vivaldi Food Concepts—The Start-up of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
face-to-face with customers, competitors, and new technologies — quickly and efficiently. In the airline industry, for example, computer technology has fundamentally changed how service is delivered, as well as how decisions are made,... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
The American Dream
LAWSON: Campaigning for Congress, a probusiness entrepreneur who advocates for the middle class. An IBM engineer, Stacey Lawson (MBA 1996) noticed that a number of her colleagues, though surrounded by technology, still used pencil and paper for designing standard... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
New Idea: State of the Art
Photos courtesy of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum On the subject of art’s relevance in the digital age, Scott Belsky (MBA 2008) has never been one to mince words. “Art institutions need to change the way we think about the future, rather than simply inform us... View Details
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Strategy for Small Fish
created. This kind of behavior is made much easier by the emergence of loose coupling for the computing ecosystem. The essence of the argument is that less invasive, "minimalist" interfaces between organizations and technologies... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 20 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively
retail investors much more as being like customers or employees of the company—even using a computer system to track preferences. They have both received awards by IR magazine for good investor relations. So in some ways these cases show... View Details
- 04 Jun 2025
- News
Slice of Life
we had a basement in the apartment we lived in. I would go down there and think, this is where my big startup is going to happen. This is where the inspiration is going to happen. This place is going to be booming with computers and... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
sites and perform other labor-intensive high-tech work. A year later, that company is up and running. CitySoft (www.citysoft.com), which harnesses the computer skills of young adults from low-income Boston neighborhoods, has just... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
her name on the card, and if you got five in a row, you had “bingo.” Variations ensued (“X”, four corners, whole card, etc.). At first, the “free” spot was free. As it evolved (degenerated?), I believe someone used the computer lab’s... View Details
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
attractive to new actors, thereby limiting formation of bridging ties to outside clusters; and (3) fragmentation of the small-world network, or the small-world system's inability to retain current clusters. The study uses data on interorganizational tie formation in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Faculty Books
The Oxford Handbook of Business History edited by Geoffrey Jones and Jonathan Zeitlin (Oxford University Press) This handbook surveys research in business history, a broad area of study generating empirical data that have sometimes confirmed and sometimes contested... View Details
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- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Passion & Purpose
photography by Susan Young See full profiles and more photographs here. In August, five HBS alumni returned to campus to accept the School's highest honor. This year's award recipients have contributed significantly to their companies and communities. They are... View Details