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- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Vivek Ranadivé
streamlining the flow of data. When Ranadivé arrived at Goldman Sachs, his first potential client, he was astounded by the complicated assortment of monitors, cable, and wire surrounding each trader — the mix even included strategically... View Details
- 07 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Personalized Entrepreneurial Finance and Other VC Trends
flow in terms of what areas are hot or not. Biotechnology was very hot in the 80s and 90s, and then there was a long profound downturn. In the last 18 months it’s becoming really hot again with bioinformatics, which combines information... View Details
- 19 Nov 2014
- News
Creating solutions for the oil industry
Retired high-tech entrepreneur Thomas Scambos (MBA 1954) started a company that developed additives to make oil flow more efficiently and also help deal with oil spills. (Published November 2014) View Details
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Supply Chain Management - Course Catalog
firms. Educational Objectives Supply Chain Management (SCM) builds on aspects of the first-year Technology and Operations Management (RC TOM) course. However, whereas RC TOM focuses primarily on producing and developing products and... View Details
- 30 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 30, 2008
direct investment (FDI) flows arise endogenously when monitoring is nonverifiable and financial frictions exist. The mechanism generating MNC activity is not the risk of technological expropriation by local... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
'Rooted' In Innovation
products, thereby gaining a foothold in the $1 trillion global health-and-wellness food market. This could yield unprecedented opportunities for the 500 farmers in Cameroon from whom CassVita sources the produce. “I love using technology... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 16 Jun 2016
- Blog Post
Why Entrepreneurs Should Consider Business School
non-entrepreneurial courses. Maybe I'd learn how to discount a cash flow (what was a cash flow, anyway?) or how to read a balance sheet. I wasn't sure how much of "general management" would apply to what I'd done, or what I... View Details
- 11 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Riding the Internet Fast Track
genuine concern, as is the efficiency of using established distribution systems designed for inter-store delivery to also package and ship thousands of small orders to individual consumers. More important, the substantial losses these companies might well incur would... View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
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Managing International Trade and Investment - Course Catalog
sources of fragility for globalization itself by narrating the rise and fall of what is sometimes called the “global liberal order.” Students will understand and evaluate, for example, how China’s entry into the WTO affected international trade and consider whether... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Beyond the Bitcoin Bubble
bitcoin crashed are now starting to do more rigorous analysis.” What got you interested in cryptocurrencies? Deer Isle Group is involved with capital raising. And a few years ago, I saw this new technology suddenly storm onto the radar... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Welcome to the Future
Rose. The highly configurable hives and other areas employ state-of-the-art computer and video technology to enhance learning. Moreover, the building’s carefully crafted lighting, design, and music encourage an outside-the-box mind-set.... View Details
- 17 Nov 2011
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Organizational Design
Questions To Be Answered: What are the best techniques for fostering innovation in multicultural teams? I want my functional experts to influence high-level strategy. How can managers get the best thinking out of support staff? What role does information View Details
Keywords: Re: Ranjay Gulati & Raffaella Sadun
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Curb Your Smartphone Habit
much bigger, which is the amount of time we are “on”—meaning at work or monitoring work remotely. Workaholics are nothing new in the managerial ranks, but technology has made a 24/7 connection to work the norm for many more people than... View Details
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Howard Stevenson on the Lessons of the Internet Era
nice," Stevenson quipped. In the new world order, Stevenson said, here are the keys: Hire great people; take a pass on the mediocre Understand and use technology Think globally Don't believe your own financial PR Happiness is a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 11
people and have implications for the use of technological algorithms. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52499 Global Portfolio Diversification for Long-Horizon Investors By: Viceira, Luis M., Zixuan... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
The Future Is Now: 21st-Century Business Pondered at HBS Forum
of the World Wide Web, closed out the conference. Acknowledging that "we haven't yet made an information sandbox," he said that the Internet is still at a primitive stage where information does not yet flow freely enough, due in part to... View Details
- 03 Apr 2016
- News
The Tampon of the Future
together, it becomes obvious. We have an opportunity every single month to collect blood from women, without needles.” Working with a business partner, Tariyal, who was a 2014 Blavatnik Fellow in Life Science Entrepreneurship, has developed a method for capturing... View Details
- 13 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Paid Search Ads Pay Off for Lesser-Known Restaurants
even with all that money flowing to ads, executives are doing quite a bit of hand-wringing over whether they actually produce sales. Luca and Dai thought they could help answer that question. Besides, previous research measuring impact of... View Details
- 06 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI
investment is seen as a more stable source of foreign savings because it's far less liquid. In the ideal world, it will also bring additional technologies or management skills to the recipient countries. Through regional development... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Democratizing Data to Favor Farmers
recruiting farmers to join the network and then modernizing their technology to facilitate the flow of data. There are still holdouts who are wedded to pen-and-paper, Baron says. But don’t discount the... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg