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07 Apr 2009
First Look

First Look: April 7, 2009

sold by knowledgeable associates, The Home Depot became a destination place for customers in need of anything from shovels to a new kitchen sink or supplies to use in recovering View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

11 Jan 2010
Research & Ideas

Mixing Open Source and Proprietary Software Strategies

growing new firm with an open source business model. In response, IBM in 2005 bought a small firm called Gluecode that sold products in the same market segment as JBoss. IBM then opened the Gluecode product and adopted a mixed source... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Web Services

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Judges - Alumni

Start-up culture and operations · Business model development · Team building and coaching · New business development Industry Consumer Products and Services (B2C), Technology Verticals Beauty, E-Commerce,... View Details

01 Sep 2015
First Look

First Look -- September 1, 2015

the scholarship emanating from this research stream has grown substantially in quantity, quality, and breadth. Likewise, firms across the world have increasingly implemented broad and sophisticated non-market strategies. Within strategy... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

31 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration

engineering, technology and mathematics (STEM), and they have equivalent contributions in outcomes like granted patents and entrepreneurial firm starts. These contributions are increasing, up from 10%-15%... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

06 Jul 2009
What Do You Think?

Are You Ready to Manage in an Irrational World?

new technology . Is (it) irrational (to) place a higher value on their current solution than they do on a future uncertain benefit(?)" What about the impact on management? Nicola Stevens concluded that... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

31 May 2023
News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2023

A. Schwarzman (MBA 1972) Reshma Kewalramani MD, FASN (GMP 18, 2015) CEO and President, Vertex Pharmaceuticals Big move: “I was almost 12 when we flew from Bombay to the United States. My impressions of the West came View Details

Keywords: leadership; management; work-life balance

07 Jun 2016
First Look

June 7, 2016

collaborative projects, most of which focused on software, were not supportive of the hypothesis. We argue that these contradictory results arise because digital technologies make possible new modes of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Strategy & IT - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Technology Three waves of IT-driven competition have radically reshaped competition in the past 50 years. The first wave of IT, during the 1960s and 1970s, automated individual activities in the value chain, ranging View Details

11 May 2022
Blog Post

MoMBAs: The Inspiring Student Mothers of HBS

a mom at HBS? Being away from family and in a new place was hard because your back-up options for child care are more limited. And COVID unfortunately did not help. What advice do you have for prospective... View Details

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The Idea of Instant Photography - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

1965 41 By 1943, Edwin Land began to turn his thoughts to the post-war production efforts of Polaroid. The corporation had significantly expanded its research and engineering division for military activities and would need to focus on a View Details

09 Apr 2021
Blog Post

Reflections on Student Conferences in 2020

year the winner of the competition was Boston Meats, a new startup based in Boston whose mission is to make delicious, nutritious, and affordable alternative meats. A key takeaway from the day was the... View Details

23 Nov 1999
Research & Ideas

The Future of the Venture Capital Cycle

Over the past two decades, there has been a tremendous boom in the venture capital industry. The pool of U.S. venture capital funds has grown from less than $1 billion in 1976 (Charles River Associates 1976) to over $60 billion in 1999.... View Details

Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner; Financial Services

February 2022 (Revised July 2022)
Supplement

InstaDeep: AI Innovation Born in Africa (B)

By: Shikhar Ghosh and Esel Çekin

Karim Beguir and Zohra Slim were the co-founders of InstaDeep, a deep tech startup focusing on artificial intelligence (AI) solutions. Instadeep was one of the few companies globally that were partnering with DeepMind, an AI subsidiary of Google [Alphabet Inc.].... View Details

Keywords: AI; Artificial Intelligence; Entrepreneurship; Operations; Business Subsidiaries; Brands and Branding; Innovation and Invention; Growth and Development Strategy; AI and Machine Learning; Technology Industry; Africa

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12 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

The Untold Story of ‘Green’ Entrepreneurs

from heroic; it comes from governments giving favors to powerful business interests," says Jones. "In the case of China, its industrial policy aims to get a bunch of their companies ahead in a... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

08 Jul 2025
Blog Post

In-Office, Remote, or Hybrid: Strategies for Success

are strengths HBS MBA students bring to the table. Whether managing distributed teams, launching new initiatives from home, or building team culture across time zones, HBS students are trained to lead in... View Details

13 Nov 2007
Research & Ideas

Six Steps for Reinvigorating America

prosperity, with exuberance about the promise of new technology. In the subsequent years, the place of America in the world has changed dramatically. The dot-com boom was followed by a recession, and only recently has the View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Apr 2000
News

Highly Recommended: Leah Modigliani

it to the top." But this key financial strategist ("When She Talks, Stocks Move" a New York Times headline recently proclaimed) has other things on her mind. "Do you think you could get me the recipe for that spicy tomato cocktail they... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

30 May 2007
Research & Ideas

Health Care Under a Research Microscope

The $2 trillion health care system is one of the United States' largest industries—but one of its worst performing by almost any measure other than technological innovation. The problems are painful, including escalating costs, expensive... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health; Biotechnology

29 Oct 2020
Blog Post

Delving Deeper into Development with the MBA/MPA-ID Program – a Q+A with Zainab Raji (MBA/MPA-ID 2022)

in Winter 2019 I joined Deloitte’s Risk Advisory practice in Atlanta shortly after graduating from Emory with the goal of deepening my accounting expertise. At Deloitte, I designed and tested risk controls for leading Enterprise View Details

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