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  • 24 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 24

itself, can obscure meaningful variation in individual use patterns, we investigate how the concentration of use within a team (the extent to which use is limited to a few members versus more evenly distributed within the team) affects performance. Using archival data... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Aug 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels

form it will take is the democratizing of design—expanding access to more users who couldn’t afford to produce such high quality work before. It used to take a company with a lot of resources to do sophisticated engineering designs, but... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing; Electronics
  • 08 Jul 2024
  • Research & Ideas

The Critical Computer Science Principles Every Strategic Leader Needs to Know

early method that today’s engineers can understand thinking abstractly. The computer would convert the punch cards into a series of zeros and ones that it could understand. Over time, punch cards gave way to the command line, allowing... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand; Technology; Information Technology
  • 01 Jun 2011
  • News

Mr. Start-Up

could stray from an assignment to write market assessments and instead create a start-up business plan. “The professor was Walt Salmon, and fortunately he was all for it,” recalls Cassidy, who eventually made good on the plan to launch Stylus Innovation, a computer... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
  • 27 Sep 2019
  • Blog Post

Learning the Language of Product at Duolingo

problem, and speak with users to understand the challenges from a more human point of view. I collaborated with designers and software engineers to develop solutions, which I then presented to the CEO, Head... View Details
Keywords: Technology
  • 17 Feb 2009
  • Research & Ideas

What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking

Imagine two software engineers with similar technical training, both vying for recognition. One is located in London and the other in Bangalore. Both likely do similar work and may experience... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jun 2012
  • News

What Industrial Policy?

services are becoming more tradable, and that creates opportunities for the United States. But let’s not kid ourselves. These services will also find themselves in a run for their lives. Indian companies, for instance, are already doing quite well exporting services... View Details
Keywords: Gary P. Pisano; Agriculture; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance; Health, Social Assistance; Manufacturing
  • 10 Oct 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor

employees on company time, with company material and/or tools. The origin of the term is unclear but probably refers to the fact that these artifacts are brought home. In the French aeronautics plant I studied, cutlery, toys, and decorative artifacts (such as View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing
  • 04 Mar 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Is E-commerce at Risk in Apple's Security Dispute with the FBI?

aspect. But as Tim Cook wrote in his letter, jeopardizing customer security is a slippery slope. Q: So is the cost not just to Apple but to the e-commerce industry prohibitive here? A: It’s a strange situation from Apple’s point of view. They’ve told their View Details
Keywords: Re: Sunil Gupta; Technology
  • 22 Aug 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity

you to raise money, and that would be a big deal." In modern terms, you can observe the same phenomenon in the basement programmer who designs open-source software as a calling card or the blogger who wants to establish herself as an... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 01 Dec 2016
  • News

Alumni Leading Change

anywhere. A little serendipity, a passion for making a difference, and degrees in computer science, math, and engineering (plus his MBA) brought him to this point. After HBS, Khan was working as a hedge fund analyst in Boston when a young... View Details
  • 07 Feb 2012
  • First Look

First Look: February 7

survey a sampling of the research questions these data help to answer. Advertising Disclosures: Measuring Labeling Alternatives in Internet Search Engines Authors:Benjamin G. Edelman and Duncan S. Gilchrist Publication:Information... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Aug 2014
  • First Look

First Look: August 12

late 2009, Marisa worked in acquisitions at Douglas Private Equity Advisors. During the first year Marisa spent a lot of her time reviewing documents, making site visits, and running numbers, using a sophisticated software program called... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2003
  • News

Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?

company’s engineers integrated a sensor into the bearings used on light trucks that would not only serve the friction reduction purpose of the bearing, but also be the sensor for the antilock braking system. As a result of this added... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Manufacturing
  • 12 Jul 2019
  • News

The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster

know one of the things which we realized as we were looking at the shift from again on premise hardware and software that you buy to services in the cloud that you rent is that inherent in that transition is a massive market expansion. If... View Details
  • 14 Feb 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The World in Your Palm?

browsing, address and date book, and wireless e-mail. Oh, and you can also make phone calls on them. And video will be introduced on next-generation phones in the U.S. this year. "The phone is the key device," said Mike Kelley, vice president of View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2003
  • News

Naina Lal Kidwai

more familiar legal and judiciary system, better protection for intellectual property, and strong English language and engineering skills. The Indian banking system is improving and has a much lower percentage of nonperforming loans than... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance
  • 11 May 2020
  • Op-Ed

Immigration Policies Threaten American Competitiveness

It is no secret that immigration has reshaped American innovation. Immigrants are the backbone of America’s most innovative industries, provide a quarter of our patent applications, and are numerous among our science and engineering... View Details
Keywords: by William R. Kerr
  • 08 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 8

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1939494   Working Papers Competing Ad Auctions By: Ashlagi, Itai, Benjamin Edelman, and Hoan Soo Lee Abstract—We present a two-stage model of competing ad auctions. Search engines attract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Dec 2021
  • News

HBS Curricula Explore the Complexities of Innovation

degrees in mechanical engineering and economics at Yale and then worked in tech investments at Morgan Stanley and as a project manager at Microsoft. But what Hopkins hoped to learn from the course taught by Shane Greenstein, the Martin... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
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