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- January 2022
- Case
Tomorrow.io Goes to Space
By: Joshua Lev Krieger, Abhishek Nagaraj and James Barnett
This case study explores the evolution of Tomorrow.io, a weather forecasting technology company, as it pivoted toward building and launching space-based weather radar satellites. This strategic shift was driven by the company's ambition to overcome data limitations in... View Details
Keywords: Communication; Competency and Skills; Engineering; Globalization; Innovation and Invention; Performance; Information Technology; Aerospace Industry
Krieger, Joshua Lev, Abhishek Nagaraj, and James Barnett. "Tomorrow.io Goes to Space." Harvard Business School Case 822-005, January 2022.
- August 31, 2017
- Article
CEOs Should Get Personally Involved in Talent Development
By: Frank V. Cespedes, Jay Galeota and Michael Wong
Estimates indicate that, globally, human capital has a value about 2.3 times that of physical capital. This difference is likely to widen in increasingly service-driven economies. Yet, most companies maintain their equipment better than their people. The issue is not... View Details
Cespedes, Frank V., Jay Galeota, and Michael Wong. "CEOs Should Get Personally Involved in Talent Development." ChiefExecutive.net (August 31, 2017).
- 2012
- Chapter
Knowledge-based Innovation: Emergence and Embedding of New Practice Areas in Management Consulting Firms
By: Heidi K. Gardner, N. Anand and Tim Morris
How do innovative knowledge-based structures emerge and become embedded in organizations? We drew on theories of knowledge-intensive firms, communities of practice, and professional service firms to analyze multiple cases of new practice area creation in management... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Rich Wilson
Wilson Illustration by Jeffrey Smith After 121 days at sea, Rich Wilson (MBA 1982) sailed his 60-foot, single-hull sloop Great American III across the finish line in France last March, completing the 2008–09 Vendée Globe around-the-world yacht race. A single-handed,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Northern California Initiative Reaches Out to Women, Girls
Schwartz and Thompson-Verga: addressing women's issues in the Bay Area. Photo courtesy Brooke Schwartz For the past seven years, the Women’s Initiative, a group of HBS alumnae in the Bay Area, has been creating networking opportunities for alumnae, reaching out to... View Details
- 07 Dec 2016
- Blog Post
Marketing Reimagined: A Recap of the 2016 Marketing Innovation Conference
competition. Twenty-two teams from over 15 MBA programs competed for a grand prize of $2,500 plus bragging rights. The top two teams, Michigan’s Ross School of Business and Boston University’s Questrom School of Business, presented in... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports
- 10 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
Founding a Company at the Intersection of Medicine and Technology
feedback I received from the judges of the New Venture Competition and the flood of alumni interest that came from winning the grand prize. Although it was odd to compete and present remotely during the early weeks of COVID-19, this... View Details
- 18 Sep 2017
- Blog Post
Applying HBS Lessons in an African Context
team spent several days in Casablanca interviewing local consumers about their furniture shopping experience and helped the client create a strategy to compete against IKEA in Morocco. This experience allowed me to learn about the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Speak English, Please!
companies will have no alternative but to confront the language issue as they extend their global reach. “If they don’t have a language strategy, they’ll regret it,” she says. “One of the most powerful ways to compete globally is to make... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Wake-Up Call: Farewell to the American Dream?
seeking cheaper labor, at home and abroad, is corporate America shooting itself in the foot? Never before has America competed on the basis of having a low-paid workforce. American workers' purchasing power is now lower than that of... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Short Takes
achieve the company's goals at the same time they are competing to enhance their careers. In a working paper titled "Cloaking Self-Interest with High-Minded Principle," HBS doctoral student Justine Fenwick and Assistant Professor Robert... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Time to Vote in University Elections
and to the institutional excellence to which Harvard aspires; to provide advice to the Corporation; to give formal consent to major initiatives as referred by the Corporation and to appointments; and to bring a long-range perspective to Harvard affairs through the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Courting the Poor
2004. “When it comes to services, a fundamental question is whether you are competing with a new idea or building a better mousetrap,” Frei says. “Magazine Luiza is indeed a better mousetrap.” The store sells a mix of furniture, consumer... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Making a Difference
motive, pure and simple,” she notes. “At the museum, it's more complicated. There's a legacy to think about, multiple constituencies, and competing priorities. Everything has an impact on everything else. They have to work in an... View Details
- 24 May 2018
- Blog Post
Win/Win Board Assignments: Expert Advice from Board Recruiter Julie Norris
says. On the other hand, interviewers will be watching your behavior. "Humility goes a long way," says Norris. "Demonstrate it by not talking all the time. If you find that you're dominating the conversation, stop and listen. They don't want to feel they'll be View Details
- 18 Mar 2020
- News
Leading Change
of Business Administration at HBS, and Karim Lakhani, Charles E. Wilson Professor of Business Administration at HBS, who gave a talk entitled, Competing in the Age of AI. Iansiti is head of the HBS Technology and Operations Management... View Details
- October 2023
- Supplement
Making Progress at Progress Software (B)
By: Katherine Coffman, Hannah Riley Bowles and Alexis Lefort
In this case, the Human Capital team at Progress Software has identified that some employees have a hard time understanding how to advance within Progress. This realization leads the team to develop several major people-process innovations: the introduction of... View Details
Keywords: Leading Change; Negotiation; Organizational Culture; Performance Evaluation; Prejudice and Bias; Talent and Talent Management; Employees; Technology Industry; United States; Bulgaria
Coffman, Katherine, Hannah Riley Bowles, and Alexis Lefort. "Making Progress at Progress Software (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 924-011, October 2023.
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
What Happened to Leadership?
IMMELT: A prescription to fix failures at the top. Sgt. Vincent Fusco/Usma For a speech on “Reviving American Leadership,” General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt (MBA ’82) chose a discerning audience: the corps of cadets at the U.S. Military Academy. Citing the military as a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Post-Office
Image by John Ritter On March 8, in the early days of the global COVID-19 pandemic, Stack Overflow, the world’s largest online community for software developers and technologists, announced that its nearly 250-employee workforce would be going all-remote. It was a... View Details
- 03 Nov 2010
- News