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- 11 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Free Trade Needs Nurturing—and Other Lessons from History
that’s actually not true. There are times when globalization takes a step back. From 1850 to 1914, there was a technological revolution: With the telegraph, suddenly you could communicate from New Zealand to London in seconds, and... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Auto; Aerospace; Chemical; Consumer Products; Electronics; Energy; Industrial Products; Manufacturing; Shipping; Transportation
- 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
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Combating Climate Change
If global temperatures rise by 6 degrees celsius by 2050—as they are on track to do—officials at the International Energy Agency say the changes would bring “devastating consequences for the planet.” And those consequences will extend to business: Storm-lashed... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Health Care’s New Frontier
athenahealth was operating 13 practices and achieving 50 percent revenue growth. The only snag was cash flow. “It was almost impossible to get claims paid reliably or to keep track of the basic information flow among practitioners, labs,... View Details
- 26 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Neuroscience Tells Us About Consumer Desire
the surface of your head, so you're never going to get to the deep areas of the brain with EEG," Karmarkar explains. The fMRI uses a giant magnet, often 3 Teslas strong, to track the blood flow throughout the brain as test subjects... View Details
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Caught in the Cogs: When Manufacturing and IT Meet
Manufacturing and information technology these days go together like bread and butter. But it wasn't always so. As Professor David Upton pointed out in a Global Alumni Conference panel titled "E-Commerce and the New Operations,"... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 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
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Q & A: Bain & Company's Thomas J. Tierney
to give our clients immediate access to cutting-edge solutions and technologies in the field. How must organizations change to remain competitive in the new economy? Organizations need to transform themselves in several ways, and they... View Details
- 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
- 16 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16
Flows By: Horton, John, William R. Kerr, and Christopher Stanton Abstract—Digital labor markets are rapidly expanding and connecting companies and contractors on a global basis. We review the environment in which these markets take root,... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 06 Mar 2013
- What Do You Think?
Who Should Manage Our Work Time?
CRM and voicemail systems Technology can scale human efficiency, but only up to a point." Ganesh Ramakrishnan added, "The technologies to communicate, collaborate and access infinite information... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Additional alumni books for your consideration.
where the nature of work is more virtual, collaborative, and transparent, information flows every which way, careers zig and zag, and work is what you do, not where you go. A Call for Judgment: Sensible Finance for a Dynamic Economy by... View Details
- 25 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Can China Lead?’
rule this system of parallel governance limits rather than enhances the flow of ideas.) Few party secretaries—like few presidents of American universities—look favorably on the prospect of unbridled faculty governance of universities. But... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Farming for Fuel
Education programs. “One objective of the case is a greater understanding of the way materials and energy flow in the modern American agricultural system. As our economy becomes more information-driven, it’s good to remind ourselves that... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
better. When the HBSA of Northern California first proposed the conference and its technology-related theme in late 1993, no one could have imagined the magnitude of change that would occur in the technology market and at the School in... View Details
Keywords: Cathy Connett
- Fast Answer
Government data and information sources for public entrepreneurship
information technology, government, and the public. Focused on how policies affect government information flows and the availability of government information; the use of technology to create and provide... View Details
- 14 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society
utilize technology to ensure individual privacy. In this world, the system works in favor of privacy, not against it. The distributed imperative we describe recognizes that all value is located in individual end consumers and all cash... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 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
- 20 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 20
Institutions: Crisis and Choice in the International Financial Architecture Author:Laura Alfaro Publication:World Scientific Publishing Company, in press Abstract All managers face a business environment in which international and macroeconomic phenomena matter.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- October 2019 (Revised January 2020)
- Supplement
Dulcie Madden (B)—A Difficult Choice
By: Shikhar Ghosh and Shweta Bagai
This is part of a three-case series that follows Dulcie Madden's journey as a founder over five years. Case (A) is about managing growth and cash flow; Case (B) is about the exit decision and conditions on a sale; Case (C) shows Madden dealing with adversity and the... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurial Management; Family; Family Conflicts; Founders' Agreements; Growth And Development; Hardware; VC; Scaling; Start-up; Female Ceo; Risk Assessment; Entrepreneurship; Growth Management; Cash Flow; Equity; Success; Failure; Acquisition; Business Model; Information Technology; Valuation; Family and Family Relationships; Information Infrastructure
Ghosh, Shikhar, and Shweta Bagai. "Dulcie Madden (B)—A Difficult Choice." Harvard Business School Supplement 820-053, October 2019. (Revised January 2020.)