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01 Sep 2008
News

When You Speak, This Group Listens

level of programs and services for alumni worldwide. At our meetings three times each year, we are also kept informed of major issues and opportunities facing HBS, and we provide feedback on those that... View Details

Keywords: Saquib Shirazi; Educational Services; Educational Services

13 May 2014
Op-Ed

The Alibaba Effect

great online giants. “Alibaba's only limits are those imposed by the speed at which these enterprises continue to grow” Still largely unknown in the West, Alibaba dominates China's Internet and logistics space with over 600 million... View Details

Keywords: by Bill Kirby & Warren McFarlan; Retail

01 Feb 2001
News

HBSi Combines HBS Content with State-of-the-Art Technology

reflects Harvard Business School's tradition of providing transformational educational experiences for managers and leaders at every level of an enterprise." HBSi aims to be the world's premier source for custom executive education... View Details

Keywords: HBSi; HBS Interactive; e-learning; Educational Services; Educational Services

14 Aug 2012
First Look

First Look: August 14

performance. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/13-011.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsBuro Happold (Abridged) Robert G. Eccles and Ryan JohnsonHarvard Business School Case 412-123 In 1996, Ted Happold, the founder of the engineering View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

January 2012 (Revised April 2012)
Case

Killing Craigslist: Entrepreneurship in the Online Apartment Rental Market

Keywords: Business Model; Internet and the Web; Renting or Rental; Internet and the Web; Entrepreneurship; Web Services Industry

Citation

Educators

Purchase

05 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Reinventing the Dowdy Savings Bond

exclude customers without Internet access or a bank account. That strikes me as a relatively small investment to make for a relatively large number of individuals. Tufano suggests a few adjustments to "reinvent" the savings bond... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services; Financial Services

Profile

Rebecca Greenbaum

Duxbury, Massachusetts, gave her a lifelong love of the sea. The Naval Academy became the choice that felt "closest to home." Rebecca's service record became a series of escalating responsibilities. On the USS Decatur, a guided... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services

24 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Global Brands: Connecting With Consumers Across Boundaries

Wedgwood to Dell. Before leading a wide-ranging discussion that dipped into topics such as cultural literacy, the impact of the Internet, and the continuing importance of traditional communications channels, Koehn provided an historical... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner

05 Jun 2006
Research & Ideas

Using Competition to Reform Healthcare

business of providing services to patients. (Those who are uncomfortable with the notion of businesses in health care can substitute the term service lines.) The question... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health

01 Sep 2016
News

The Taxi Wars of Jakarta

McKinsey. Although the company provided a car and driver, Makarim, who had lived in Indonesia as a child, preferred to use the ubiquitous motorcycle taxis. Known as “ojek,” the two-wheelers were informally organized. Most neighborhoods... View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey Hutton; Illustrations by Josh Cochran

01 Jun 2015
News

Ink

Cusumano, who previously teamed up to write Competing on Internet Time. “They were determined to have an impact.” The good news, according to the authors, is that most successful executives can learn over time how to think more... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Apple; Microsoft; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Computer Systems Design and Related Services

26 Apr 2011
News

BioMine Strikes Gold

Fellowship winner. The organization is based in New Delhi, India, where it provides economically viable housing solutions for under-served populations, starting with India and for communities around the world. (Watch Mehra explain how... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services

01 Dec 2021
What Do You Think?

How Will the Metaverse Affect Productivity?

company’s well-publicized problems. After all, Google can now provide an Oxford dictionary definition of the Metaverse as “a virtual reality space in which users can interact with a computer-generated environment and other users.” It has... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Sep 2014
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014

source of America’s economic decline and fading international power and provide an action plan for restoring “true” democracy, in which politicians provide only the services... View Details

Keywords: faculty research; Alumni Research

27 Aug 2007
Op-Ed

Mattel: Getting a Toy Recall Right

word out about the recall. Among other methods, the company is using bold red ads on high-traffic Internet sites such as Yahoo.com to find owners of the affected products and drive them to the Mattel Web site for more recall information.... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Consumer Products

01 Dec 2022
News

Road to Recovery

addiction treatment alone, but administering a program that tracks an individual’s healthy behaviors, and provides incremental rewards along the way, was difficult in traditional treatment settings. From those conversations came... View Details

Keywords: April White; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services

01 Jun 2004
News

Download This

Downloading music from the Internet doesn’t kill CD sales after all, concludes a surprising new study by HBS associate professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Associate Professor Koleman Strumpf of the University of North Carolina at Chapel... View Details

Keywords: file sharing; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

01 Mar 2005
News

Better Care at Lower Cost

company called MinuteClinic, with locations in Minneapolis/St. Paul and Baltimore, operates a number of facilities where a nurse-practitioner or physician’s assistant provides an array of basic medical services, from diagnosing and... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services

05 Sep 2000
What Do You Think?

Whither the Information Economy?

"person-to-person" basis, with or even without an Internet intermediary. Cleveland provided one of the first theoretic explanations for the New Economy. Because of information technology, we can... View Details