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- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Reimagining the MBA
entrepreneurial. And they are less hierarchical, with flatter management structures. Service and knowledge industries have overtaken traditional manufacturing businesses as the engines of growth in the West, while China and other... View Details
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?
it), the development cycle is significantly shorter. Proponents of OSS claim that if this demand-side learning (as we call it) is sufficiently strong, OSS will oust traditional software. In addition, software engineers claim that the... View Details
- 24 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Building ’Brandtopias’—How Top Brands Tap into Society
was premised on an allegory about hillbillies, which working class people outside America's cities found valuable at a time when American ideology was all about engineering life and technological progress. Holt describes the geographical... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
New Venture Competition 2022: Business and Environment Ventures
sustainable food future. We’re engineering microalgae to be sustainable and cost-efficient substitutes for palm oils. TROVEMarketCaroline Walton, MBA 2023; Andrew Morgan, MBA 2023The packaged food industry wastes $30-50 billion worth of... View Details
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Research in Black and White | Baker Library
physics, optics, and photography in the company’s impressive library. (7) Mary McCann, who joined Polaroid in 1960 after receiving a BS in chemical engineering from Tufts University, first worked with Howard Rogers, director of Polaroid... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
would put them on and start shouting expletives because the sound quality was so incredible. Our engineers and designers strive for that reaction. What’s one of your latest audio technologies? We just launched headphones with Supreme... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
Shaky Ground Senior Lecturer John Macomber Because of a housing shortage in Williston, oil worker Glenn Robinson, from Missouri, sleeps in his car, staying warm by idling the engine and using a fan heater connected to the car battery.... View Details
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
engineer this real-time environment, and that takes a lot of depth, so we have some real geeks. It's just they're not in my chair. Sahlman: An interesting thing we have observed is that some very successful people have come out of more... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
have the market we desire.” Days 6–9: Monterrey TOM, REAL TIME: Students quiz executives at Nemak, a leading manufacturer of aluminum auto engine heads and blocks. Nemak is one of four business groups that make up ALFA, a $10 billion... View Details
- 13 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Paid Search Ads Pay Off for Lesser-Known Restaurants
whether they are a sound investment. An influential study involving eBay showed that search engine ads—especially on brand keywords—were ineffective for the website. After the eBay study came out, the market saw a dip in large-businesses... View Details
- 12 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 12
transaction costs and supplier hold-up. The (A) case closes with the question of what GM should do about supplier Fisher Body. The (B) case summarizes the shift to all-steel body stamping and engine manufacturing as the core technologies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Gurus in the Garage
performance are being carried down to next-generation entrepreneurs. Helping former employees is part of that legacy and culture. Senior mentor capitalists describe how Bill Hewlett encouraged them when they left HP and how HP engineers... View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
and also broadening the circumstances in which they arise. We discuss applications to travel reservation systems, payment card systems, marketplaces, rebate services, search engine advertising, and various types of brokers and agencies.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2007
engineers is undergoing a significant transformation. This study applies an ethnic-name database to individual patent records granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office to document these trends with greater detail than... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
do since I was a little kid. When I was younger, I thought engineering, math, and science were most important and that the rest didn’t matter. Now I realize exactly the opposite is true. Engineering is important if you want to make... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
cumulatively millions of largely men—but by no means completely men—with engineering talent and interest and ambition that say, where do I want to be? Morrell: So Silicon Valley became a talent magnet. And historically, when these big... View Details
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
future at the same time. It is like changing the engine of a plane while it is flying. Based on almost ten years of research, this book provides a framework for companies to reimagine their business. Using rich case studies and rigorous... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
what I mean by teamwork is actually integrated diversity of thought across many domains.” An engineer may see one answer, a business executive another, a marketer or lawyer still others, she explains. “But if you can hold all those... View Details
- 11 Aug 2016
- Cold Call Podcast
Why College Rankings Keep Deans Awake at Night
science and engineering and applied science but in social science as well. Sometimes it ranks education to the degree that it can on faculty-student ratios. Some of them take a very specific number of journals and these are the only ones... View Details
- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707008 South African Airways (A) Harvard Business School Case 407-014 Amid efforts to engineer a turnaround at South African Airways (SAA), the CEO confronts an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace