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Student Spotlight: 2023 HCC Co-Presidents Reflect on Their Time at HBS and the Current Health Care Systems - Blog: Health Supplement
health care system delivers innovation, ranging from cell therapies to remote patient monitoring and intervention solutions, to the privileged minority that have access due to care proximity (i.e being near an academic hub such as Boston)... View Details
- 18 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
'Likes' Lead to Nothing—and Other Hard-Learned Lessons of Social Media Marketing
don’t normally like to talk about. Blendtec captured attention and increased sales with a video showing that its blender was so powerful it could crush a cell phone into a pile of powder. “The best defense... View Details
- 30 May 2023
- News
Finding PRIDE
students to connect via an untraceable off-campus phone number. Those founding members launched what would become a decades-long tradition—a community within the community. The group’s name, originally borrowed from a similar group at... View Details
- 11 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 11
transformation and connection are spreading across even the most traditional industrial segments and creating a staggering array of business opportunities and threats. The digitization of tasks and processes has become essential to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2023
- News
Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem
phones in Africa are smartphones and digitalization is growing. “Venture capital, private equity, pharma, fintech are growing so there are incredible opportunities,” says Alam. One major asset, adds Nwuneli, is the people. “People in... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
industry and services. Although each Mubadala investment is supposed to earn large returns, the strategy balances financial against "strategic" returns. ADIA and Mubadala are the institutional architecture to manage the wealth... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Jan 2014
- News
Body, Heal Thyself
molecules responsible for transporting DNA code from a cell's nucleus to the ribosomes that create proteins. mRNA Therapeutics, as the company calls this new drug application, gives patients' cells the code they need to begin creating... View Details
- Web
Alumni Career Guide - Alumni
Volunteer Alumni Career Guide What are Alumni Career Guides? These are alumni who are willing to connect with current students to share industry knowledge and career advice. Career Guides agree to respond to a student's request for... View Details
- 25 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
What CEOs Do, and How They Can Do it Better
15 minutes. Tabulating the data, the researchers discovered that the vast majority of a CEO's time, some 85 percent, was spent working with other people through meetings, phone calls, and public appearances, while only 15 percent was... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Task Force
the hands of consumers. Workers have three options for compensation: mobile phone credit, bank transfers, or digital gift cards for brands including Amazon, Netflix, Starbucks, and Uber. The idea for Zubale evolved over time. One... View Details
- 26 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 26
paper integrates the role of entrepreneurship and firms into debates on why Asia, Latin America, and Africa were slow to catch up with the West following the Industrial Revolution and the advent of modern economic growth. It argues that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Charts & Statistics - Leadership
Influence: Medium-Low 80 1980 s 19 Software industry booms PC use expands in scale and scope CAD/CAM revolutionizes manufacturing Space shuttle Influence: Medium-High 90 1990 s Boom in connectivity Cloning, stem View Details
- 18 Feb 2019
- Book
What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology
tried to prevent customers from showrooming. They considered changing the barcodes on products to make them hard to search for online. The company even tried to use signal jammers, like the ones they use to keep prison inmates from using View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
My First Job
work. I also learned that spending an hour talking to your girlfriend on the company phone when the boss is trying to call in is a quick way to get seriously reprimanded. Kwinters customers had two options: a ready-made steamed dog or a... View Details
- Web
8 Stories from PRIDE for National Coming Out Day - MBA
Sciences Partners & Families Peek SVMP Social Enterprise Student Life Student Loans Student Profile Sustainability Video Blog Industries Industries Architecture Construction Consulting Consumer Packaged... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Generation Next
family-run Indian conglomerate. Kahn, who worked for agrichemical giant Syngenta AG and knew the industry well, agreed to have a look. The subsidiary, Godrej Agrovet, had expanded beyond its core business of animal feed in recent years,... View Details
- 12 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 12
product range and a broad customer base. Kvadrat's internal organization had grown and transformed to support this larger business. Now Kvadrat's management team was focused on a number of key initiatives: expansion into Asia, improved sales trends in its curtain and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Harvard Business School
cell phone and television network business, and started his own phone company. Ed Jones Jr. MBA 1972 In 1973, the Harvard Business Review published Edward Jones's personal... View Details
- 06 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Innovator’s Battle Plan
firm calls an industry "unprofitable" while another firm calls that market "important," asymmetries are at work. For example, in the 1990s, Cisco raced to capture more of the networking equipment market while IBM... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
the risk of flooding.” In addition, a number of seemingly futuristic sustainable technologies are already being deployed commercially, including photovoltaic cells built into the “skin” of buildings and electrochromic windows that darken... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services