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- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Opportunities Realized Through Fellowships
Michailidis says. “I studied with incredibly competent people and two of them became my business partners. We founded Pushpins while we were still at HBS.” The Pushpins application enables users to scan items in grocery stores and receive... View Details
Keywords: fellowships
- 20 Jul 2020
- Op-Ed
It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees
their dominance has lulled them into somnolence. Private insurers could compete by reducing the estimated waste in the health care system of $900 billion; experts estimate that at least $250 billion could be saved without diminishing the... View Details
- 15 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Business IT Innovation is so Difficult
innovation," says McElheran. Other ingredients: Organizational understanding. A deep understanding of how the company functions and competes is essential, because IT needs to support essential firm processes, rather than vice versa.... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 03 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 3
negative causal impact on FDI flows. This effect is robust to a broad set of competing accounts, including the effects of other cultural dimensions, various features of the prevailing legal and regulatory regimes, other features of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
From Turf Wars to Learning Curves: How Hospitals Adopt New Technology
hospitals. In the March 3, 2005, story Turf Wars in Coronary Revascularization, Pisano and Huckman looked at competing treatment methods for coronary artery disease and discovered a tough battleground brewing for a new technology called... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Launch Codes
learn more and to watch the final four teams compete for the grand prize. The 2022 finale will take place virtually on March 31. Visit www.hbs.edu/nvc to learn more and to watch the final four teams compete... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Faculty Retirements
books, including Restoring Our Competitive Edge: Competing through Manufacturing; The Uneasy Alliance: Managing the Productivity-Technology Dilemma; Dynamic Manufacturing: Creating the Learning Organization; and Strategic Operations:... View Details
- 11 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Financial Services 24/7
reacting to similar challenges. As trendy financial dot-coms with huge technology and advertising budgets emerge offering everyone an equal—and inexpensive—chance to trade stock, apply for a loan, buy insurance, or pay a bill, traditional financial firms are... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
compete in this brave new world. The transformation ignited by the Internet is creating a new paradigm in the financial services industry, characterized by surprising business structures. "The competitive landscape is changing... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 04 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 4
consists of (1) two firms competing in a vertically differentiated market in which product quality is a mix of public and private components and (2) a market for developers that firms hire after observing signals of their contributions to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
“Some decent-looking pixels and a really excellent vision.” That’s all it took for Russ Wilcox to fall for the technology that would become E Ink, a company supplying the electronic ink for a new world of digital reading devices. Now, as CEO, he prepares to lead the... View Details
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
Bazerman Abstract People often experience tension over certain choices (e.g., they should reduce their gas consumption or increase their savings, but they do not want to). Some posit that this tension arises from the competing interests... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=609018 eHarmony Harvard Business School Case 709-424 eHarmony's CEO needs to decide how to react to imitations of its business model, encroachment by View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Apr 2012
- News
A Military Cornerstone
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
predict the future, with the aim of profiting from their forecasts. This book chronicles the lives and careers of the men who defined this first wave of economic fortune tellers, men such as Roger Babson, Irving Fisher, John Moody, C. J. Bullock, and Warren Persons.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
world with new clarity. If there is one strain of conventional wisdom pervading every company in every industry, it is the importance of competing hard to differentiate yourself from the competition. And yet going head-to-head with the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 17, 2015
right strategy to grow the club. He wondered if the “moneyball” approach—when a smaller team competed with wealthier teams by using statistical analysis to buy undervalued assets and sell overvalued assets—could work in football and if... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Applied Economics Save Homeless Puppies?
will require additional capital. “Outside investment is a possibility,” Exley says. “However, maintaining autonomy is a priority. We know where we can add value, and we are committed to our mission. By moving forward as a for-profit, albeit mission-based business, we... View Details
- 20 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 20
and later New York. The result was a homogenization of beauty ideals throughout the world. Today globalization is changing the beauty industry again; its impact can be seen in a range of competing strategies. Global brands have swept into... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Going Green Makes Good Business Sense
Press in 2000. Reinhardt evaluated current trends and tensions for managers, and outlined tactics that managers use to try to reconcile what at face value seem competing objectives: how to maximize shareholder value while at the same time... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace