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- 24 Aug 2021
- News
The 10 New Leadership Books to Wrap Up Summer and Kick Off Fall
- September 2019
- Article
Technology Reemergence: Creating New Value for Old Technologies in Swiss Mechanical Watchmaking, 1970-2008
By: Ryan Raffaelli
In 1983, 14 years after the introduction of the battery-powered quartz watch, mechanical watches and the Swiss watchmakers who built them were predicted to be obsolete (Landes, 1983). Unexpectedly, however, by 2008 the Swiss mechanical watchmaking industry had... View Details
Keywords: Technology Reemergence; Technology Cycles; Cognition And Market Redefinition; Legacy Technology Trajectories; Information Technology; Demand and Consumers; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Identity; Change; Consumer Products Industry; Switzerland
Raffaelli, Ryan. "Technology Reemergence: Creating New Value for Old Technologies in Swiss Mechanical Watchmaking, 1970-2008." Administrative Science Quarterly 64, no. 3 (September 2019): 576–618.
- 2015
- Book
How the Internet Became Commercial: Innovation, Privatization, and the Birth of a New Network
By: Shane Greenstein
In less than a decade, the Internet went from being a series of loosely connected networks used by universities and the military to the powerful commercial engine it is today. This book describes how many of the key innovations that made this possible came from... View Details
Greenstein, Shane. How the Internet Became Commercial: Innovation, Privatization, and the Birth of a New Network. Princeton University Press, 2015.
- July 2019
- Article
'Forward Flow': A New Measure to Quantify Free Thought and Predict Creativity
By: Kurt Gray, Stephen Anderson, Eric Evan Chen, John Michael Kelly, Michael S. Christian, John Patrick, Laura Huang, Yoed N. Kenett and Kevin Lewis
When the human mind is free to roam, its subjective experience is characterized by a continuously evolving stream of thought. Although there is a technique that captures people’s streams of free thought—free association—its utility for scientific research is undermined... View Details
Gray, Kurt, Stephen Anderson, Eric Evan Chen, John Michael Kelly, Michael S. Christian, John Patrick, Laura Huang, Yoed N. Kenett, and Kevin Lewis. "'Forward Flow': A New Measure to Quantify Free Thought and Predict Creativity." American Psychologist 74, no. 5 (July 2019): 539–554.
- 23 Aug 2021
- News
New Chair of 205-Year-Old Swire Looks to China for Growth
- 09 May 2023
- Blog Post
Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS (part 1)
realized that I can’t resent a person for not understanding a culture they had never been exposed to. It wasn’t until I began working that I realized that my ethnicity might cause others to have different expectations of me. And so, guided View Details
- 25 Jun 2014
- News
Giving millions of students a new path to learning
mission of providing a free, world-class education for anyone anywhere. “What that is today, it’s a website and software and several thousand videos on anything from basic arithmetic all the way up to college-level calculus and physics and art history and history. It’s... View Details
- 24 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Is the MBA Worth It? Hear What Recent HBS Grads Have to Say (Part 2)
2019) is the Director of Government Commercialization at Solugen If you were to describe your HBS experience in 3 words what would they be? Revealing, useful, and fun. Was an HBS MBA worth it? The standard... View Details
- 02 Mar 2011
- News
HBS Faculty on Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa
Clear and Present Danger: Planning and New Venture Survival amid Political and Civil Violence
Although entrepreneurs constitute a key economic driving force for many countries, they often face unstable environments due to violence and civil unrest. Yet, we know very little about how environments characterized by high levels of political and civil violence... View Details
- 18 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
Where Morals and Profits Meet: The Corporate Value Shift
Harvard Business School professor Lynn S. Paine's new book, Value Shift, argues that companies can't consider themselves amoral or apart from society anymore—that the relationship between companies and society at large necessitates... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 22 Mar 2022
- News
Clubs Mark a Milestone and the Lunar New Year
Clubs News Clubs News Houston Alumni celebrate 75 Years of Connection, Learning and Service The HBS Club of Houston marked its 75th anniversary on February 26 with a cocktail... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 04 Aug 2016
Harvard Graduate School Information Session in New York City
This event is designed for prospective applicants to learn more about Harvard Business School, Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Law School. Candidates with an interest in pursuing a joint degree between two of these schools are particularly encouraged to attend. The... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Inside Story of the New American Writers Museum
Mark Twain in front of his childhood home in Hannibal, Missouri (photos courtesy of American Writers Museum) Before he arrived at HBS, Jay Hammer (MBA 1979) was pursuing a PhD in literature at Johns Hopkins. Daunted by the increasingly... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 14 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
Clay Christensen’s Milkshake Marketing
Updated to clarify a failure rate figure included in an earlier version. When planning new products, companies often start by segmenting their markets and positioning their merchandise accordingly. This... View Details
- December 2010
- Article
Changing Landscapes: The Construction of Meaning and Value in a New Market Category Modern Indian Art
By: Mukti Khaire and R. Daniel Wadhwani
Stable category meanings act as institutions that facilitate market exchange by providing bases for comparison and valuation. Yet little is known about meaning construction in new categories or how meaning translates into valuation criteria. We address this gap in a... View Details
Keywords: Change; Valuation; Auctions; Market Transactions; Arts; Agreements and Arrangements; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; India
Khaire, Mukti, and R. Daniel Wadhwani. "Changing Landscapes: The Construction of Meaning and Value in a New Market Category Modern Indian Art." Academy of Management Journal 53, no. 6 (December 2010). (Special Issue on Organizations and Their Institutional Environments: Bringing Meaning, Culture, and Values Back In.)
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Elevator Pitch: Good Vibrations
Illustration by Drue Wagner Illustration by Drue Wagner Bone Health Technologies Laura Yecies (MBA 1988), CEO Concept: OsteoBoost, a wearable vibration belt that is designed to treat osteopenia and prevent... View Details