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Eisenmann Designing Technology Ventures Technology & Operations Management Fall 2024 Q1Q2 3.0 Field Course: Foundry AI Lab Entrepreneurial Management Fall 2024 Q1 1.5 Anita Elberse The Business of Entertainment, Media, and Sports General... View Details

29 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 29

research as well as economic, organizational, and cross-disciplinary methodologies. The innovative process is broadly considered here, as well as the technologies that result from it, including business model innovation, service-level innovation, and View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 May 2009
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First Look: May 19, 2009

"fallacies" that sometimes enter into discussions of art in relation to money. This, in turn, leads us to propose a framework to support more productive discussion and to describe a direction for management research that might... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

25 Sep 2000
Research & Ideas

Cyber-Marketing: Scouting the Digital Communications Frontier

scale in the United States and is being introduced in many other countries as well. While transmitting digitally offers many significant advantages over the current analog method, it also requires specially designed broadcast equipment... View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs

16 Nov 2020
Blog Post

Flatiron School: Reflections from Summer 2020

program was designed for students with basic technical background, and culminated with a two-week, capstone project for which students worked directly with clients on a real-world, high-impact issue. We connected with some of the boot... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

16 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History

Healthcare, and Leadership. "The Initiative designation is meant to acknowledge a new phase of activity: one that we hope will engage the faculty, students, staff, and alumni in enhancing and extending both knowledge creation and... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman

25 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]

airports come at a premium, however; securing space depended on financing, a credible design for Polished's stores, and leasing managers' belief in Rhyne's ability to hire people and satisfy customers—neither of which was possible, of... View Details

Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg

31 May 2016
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May 31, 2016

functional proximity over base proximity when locating preventive health services. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51094 forthcoming Production and Operations Management Multi-Echelon Inventory Management... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From

While managers feared that all the top talent would leave, instead Recruit grew to become a $20 billion tech company (roughly the equivalent of Salesforce) that employs 50,000 people globally. They have created a suite of products... View Details

Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta

24 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Want People to Save More? Send a Text

safety net for emergencies, but also would reduce financial stress and improve their quality of life. "In the private sector, a lot of startups fail, and the market provides a signal about whether the product is viable," says... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

22 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist

the federal Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, which was designed to protect competition by outlawing monopolistic business practices. This fear of monopoly power made Americans leery of business agreements that smacked of price-fixing. Yet... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail; Health; Legal Services

19 Feb 2019
Blog Post

The First Five Years: '30 Under 30' Edition

work we have been doing here at Troy Capital. I’d like to think it doesn’t only highlight my individual accomplishments, but more so what we have all done as a team. Personally, I hope it serves as an example for others. Any success that I have had has been the View Details

Keywords: All Industries

23 Jun 2020
Book

Beginning America Over Again with a New Electoral System

all are created equal. Whether they were a single voice in a town hall or a chanting chorus on the National Mall, citizens have rallied to make America anew, time and again. The product of our making is—in the stirring words of John... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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DEC - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Library Visionary, Innovator, Educator A ccording to business journalist Udayan Gupta, "[ARD] was an attempt to design a tool that would finance business development, especially in the unchartered waters of high technology–without... View Details

08 Mar 2018
News

HBSAAA Leads the Way in Celebrating African American Alumni Impact

Professor Leonard A. Schlesinger. Approximately 115 people attended the sold-out networking night, where Schlesinger presented a case on Rent the Runway, an online designer dress rental business cofounded by HBS alumnae Jennifer Hyman... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

31 Mar 2023
News

How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we're going to highlight another one of the great podcasts here at HBS: Managing the Future of Work, hosted by professor and visiting fellow at the... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

07 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders

career imprints, different career paths. Finally, if we look at the kinds of decisions these newly minted leaders made post their time at Baxter and at Abbott, we can see how some of their early design choices as leaders of young biotech... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

10 Mar 2021
News

Next Normal

people in real life and laughing with them. The virtual world is here to stay, but nothing replaces the beauty of communal physical spaces.” —Aishetu Fatima Dozie (MBA 2002) “I’ve learned that it’s doable and productive but doesn’t feel... View Details

09 May 2021
Blog Post

Meet the MoMBAs – Persisting Through a Difficult Year

Student Status: RC Where are you from? Domestic: from all over! Professional pathway pre-HBS: I went to college in the Midwest and I was in undergrad when I had my son. After graduating, I worked in user experience designing software for... View Details

06 Dec 2021
News

New Wave

has yet to be realized. A report by Ocean Energy Systems, an offshoot of the International Energy Agency, found that between 2009 and 2019, global energy production from wave and tidal sources increased from 5 to 45 gigawatt-hours, or... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Chris Sorensen

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