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  • 15 Dec 2023
  • News

Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem

Clubs News Clubs News Webinar illuminates broad array of business opportunities across Africa On December 5th, the HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA) hosted ‘Doing Business in Africa: From Opportunity to Action’, a webinar panel of HBS alumni who shared... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 25 Aug 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Why IT Does Matter

but not nearly as dramatic as a computer produced in 2000, which runs 10 million times faster than a 1960s' computer. Carr's graph on information technology stands as a subject lesson for Darrell Huff's well-known book How to Lie with... View Details
Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan
  • 24 May 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Distance Still Matters in Business, Despite the Internet

distance in some ways, it has grown it in others. As the authors observe, “For example, while information technology may be an effective means of coordinating ongoing projects and collaborations, it may be less effective as a means of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Transportation; Telecommunications; Shipping; Publishing; Technology
  • Web

Help - Research Computing Services

the HBS community, developing and supporting research infrastructure , and providing technology training . Who is eligible for our services? Primarily, we support faculty, and are also happy to provide guidance for doctoral students, RAs,... View Details
  • May 2012
  • Case

BoldFlash: Cross-Functional Challenges in the Mobile Division

By: Michael Beer and Rachel Shelton
Roger Cahill has spent less than a year as head of the Mobile Division of BoldFlash, a flash memory component maker. On the corporate level, BoldFlash has adapted to an evolving and difficult marketplace, but the Mobile Division is struggling. The four groups within... View Details
Keywords: United States; Massachusetts; Morale; Human Resource Management; Technology; Leadership; Opportunities; Organizational Design; Conflict and Resolution; Product Development; Change Management; Information Infrastructure; Business Processes; Manufacturing Industry; Electronics Industry; Massachusetts
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  • 01 Mar 2024
  • News

The Internet's Next Frontier

While the Crypto, Fintech, and Web3 Lab—one of 13 labs contained within Harvard’s Digital Data Design Institute—might not have the Bunsen burners and test tubes found in science and engineering labs, it does share a philosophical construct: it is a sandbox—an... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
  • 23 Jun 2023
  • News

Highlights from the Spring 2023 Alumni Board Meeting

the School, and how that research is tied to practice, continuing to increase affordability and access, establishing a digital infrastructure for the School to complement our physical campus, and exploring and strengthening the role of... View Details
  • September 2005 (Revised May 2006)
  • Case

Teradyne Corporation: The Jaguar Project

By: Francesca Gino and Gary P. Pisano
Teradyne, a leading manufacturer of semiconductor test equipment, embarked on a multiyear effort to improve its product development capabilities and to implement more formalized project management approaches. Examines the development of a new-generation tester that... View Details
Keywords: Projects; Management; Product Development; Information Infrastructure; Applications and Software; Groups and Teams; Business or Company Management; Research and Development; Problems and Challenges; Semiconductor Industry; United States
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  • 23 Mar 2023
  • News

Winners Crowned in 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition

management business aimed at creating the philanthropic infrastructure for public high schools in the US. It aims to raise $30B annually and manage over $300B in assets to support public education. Michael Bor, MBA 2003, CEO Region:... View Details
  • 07 May 2020
  • Research & Ideas

The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation

and information security. Similar considerations also apply to business travel, as firms become smarter at identifying less information-sensitive and interaction-critical trips that teleconferencing can replace. Business and policy... View Details
Keywords: by Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso
  • 23 Mar 2022
  • Blog Post

Learning Curve: The Brother-and-Sister Team Behind a New Edtech Nonprofit

Indian nonprofit devoted to supporting the millions of low-income women who toil in the country’s informal economy. Serving young people and working mothers, brother and sister each came to believe that intervening at the preschool and... View Details
  • 16 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 16

networks of personal relationships: 1) Change agents who were central in the organization's informal network had a clear advantage, regardless of their position in the formal hierarchy. 2) People who bridged disconnected groups or... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 07 Jan 2016
  • Blog Post

Is HBS Too Big?

potential friends, (nearly) perfected infrastructure and resources, clubs for anything you could be interested in, and a massive alumni base. I’ve experienced all of these things so far. It also gives you the benefit of numbers. There are... View Details
  • 05 Jan 2010
  • First Look

First Look: January 5

negative impact on organizational climate while taking action had a positive impact. Results suggest that solving problems as they arise (e.g., Toyota's approach) with intense and substantive actions is more productive than gathering View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

About the Project - U.S. Competitiveness

leaders, especially in business, can take to strengthen the U.S. economy. The research is informed by global surveys of Harvard Business School alumni working in many industries. Project faculty members regularly present the latest... View Details
  • 11 Apr 2024
  • Blog Post

Climate Stories: Water Series - Episode #17: Leni Peterson Redondo (HBS MS/MBA 2023), Founder & CEO of Celeste

no matter how many hours a day it takes. There is no better way to use my education.” – Leni Peterson Redondo The PBS headline is shocking. “Mexico City is running out of water.” The crisis is expected to hit this June and numerous reports blame “geography, growth and... View Details
  • 15 Mar 2016
  • First Look

March 15, 2016

presidential and parliamentary elections shows that voter registration requirements have significant effects on turnout, disproportionately discouraging marginalized citizens. We assigned 20,500 apartments to one control or six treatment groups that received canvassing... View Details
  • 14 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 14

that decays over time, similar to that of advertising. A major challenge is that privacy laws prevent us from observing information about the applicant pool. I overcome this challenge by using order statistic distribution to infer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • March 2017 (Revised September 2017)
  • Case

Facebook Fake News in the Post-Truth World

By: John R. Wells and Carole A. Winkler
In January 2017, Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, was surrounded by controversy. The election of Donald Trump as the next president of the United States in November 2016 had triggered a national storm of protests, and many attributed Trump’s victory to... View Details
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  • 17 Dec 2013
  • First Look

First Look: December 17

activity. Today China has again emerged as a great power. Beijing is once more the capital of a multi-ethnic empire that dominates East Asia. Foreign students flock to China to live, study, and work. New infrastructure of airports,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel