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- 01 Mar 2004
- News
L. Paul Bremer: In His Own Words
a city on fire, literally. There was no traffic in the streets except for military vehicles of the coalition. There were no shops open. I slept at night in those days with earplugs in my ears because otherwise I was kept awake by the... View Details
- 18 Jul 2014
- News
Team Players
Committee's state partners already had travel and tourism information on their own sites, the Host Committee's website simply included links to those specific resources. The website was also made mobile-friendly, which turned out to be a smart play. On game day, 80... View Details
- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Prosper with Multi-Channel Retailing
channels. Vobejda said that when a retailer launches an Internet channel, "it is seen as a competitor by the store merchants." She said that making store staffers understand that the Internet can send traffic to their stores is... View Details
- 07 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
Video: Harvard Business School at the Kumbh Mela
dealt with the myriad medical issues that occurred over several months among the millions of people in attendance. There will also be a complex data study of cell phone traffic —telecommunications—during the festival. The Graduate School... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Reality to News Biz: Drop Dead
strategically and existentially confused. It’s a mystery wrapped within a paradox wrapped within thousands of billable consultant hours, something M. Night Shyamalan should tackle in his next film. More people are e-mailing and reading articles than ever before,... View Details
- 24 May 2017
- News
John H. McArthur, MBA 1959, DBA 1963
its financial foundation. One of his more tangible legacies is a transformed HBS physical plant. McArthur oversaw renovations of much of the campus, including the Dean’s House, Morgan Hall, Baker Library, and several dorms, and built the Chapel and Shad Hall. By... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 15 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Unspoken Messages of COVID-19 Restrictions
colleagues found striking trends as they looked closer at dining patterns. The team analyzed almost six months of data from the foot traffic analytics firm SafeGraph to gauge how many people were leaving their homes, how often they were... View Details
- 05 Mar 2014
- What Do You Think?
When Will the Next Dot.com Bubble Burst?
Internet (mobile) businesses and users (have) already evaluated the benefits (and) analysts' valuations can be more predictable " Shankar N. Mandapaka added: "The earlier dot.com bubble was due to lack of proper valuation mechanisms to capture View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Vivek Ranadivé
Secretary of the Treasury Robert Rubin, then head of Goldman Sachs equities trading department, hired Ranadivé's newly formed Teknekron Software Systems to consolidate this hodgepodge of data traffic to work within a single desktop... View Details
- 25 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 25
Download the paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=43074 Cases & Course Materials INRIX Lynda M. Applegate and Ryan JohnsonHarvard Business School Case 812-112 Since its founding in 2004, INRIX, a leading global provider of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
railroad track in the U.S. South to standard gauge between May 31 and June 1, 1886 as a large-scale natural experiment in technology standards adoption that instantly integrated the South into the national transportation network. Using route-level freight View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 22 Aug 2019
- News
Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector
and think I'm contributing to pushing the envelope in Africa, and accelerating our progress, that is exciting. On the low side, it is still very much an unstructured environment in many ways. There are laws that aren't fully applied or understood. There is chaos. The... View Details
- 08 Nov 2024
- Op-Ed
How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis
that are now off the road are also not emitting exhaust gases. The hope is that with more people taking the bus rather than their own cars, the remaining traffic will move faster, also reducing tangible air pollution. These benefits... View Details
- 17 Nov 2020
- In Practice
How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other
is well underway. Black Friday has become an idea and not a day. Black Friday sales abound and started right after Halloween. While some regions of the US report mall traffic at 70 percent of last year, it is quite unstable and tenuous.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Case Study: Power Nappy
beyond, to wholesale or retail. Why? The first reason is reach: There is a limit to your own branded website. This is due to the website’s potential traffic (whereas large online retailers have millions of unique visitors) and lack of... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Clicks and Mortar
returns, for example. It’s difficult for Amazon to process all those returns, and Kohl’s saw the fact that this would bring a lot of traffic to their stores as a positive effect, particularly younger people who would not otherwise go into... View Details
- Profile
Marla Malcolm Beck
for being,” she said. “If you run out of money, you don’t get the chance to do that.” The sale to Macy’s validates the fact that Beck shifted the industry and it offers Beck an opportunity to ramp up her company’s growth. The re-designed website is... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Leading Boston and Beyond
bulletin board boasts 60,000 subscribers in Boston, 10 percent of the city’s population. Or maybe they can reach more constituents through Facebook groups like the 3000-member strong East Boston Open Discussion Group. Lockwood says the city is building a partnership... View Details
- 31 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
With Predictive Analytics, Companies Can Tap the Ultimate Opportunity: Customers’ Routines
method to plot when enough bikes are needed to cut congestion or improve bike traffic flow. The next step, Ascarza says, may be to study how people who are traveling as part of a routine would respond differently to policy... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Finding The Right Patient-Provider Match
or a telemedicine appointment with a physician. “We were essential to their ability to direct traffic and get patients to the right services,” says Gardner. By mining the search data on the platform, Gardner and his team could see a... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young