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Miami’s Climate Tech Potential (A): The State of Play

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone

Miami-Dade County led the work to get South Florida designated a national climate resilience tech hub, the only one of 31 focused on climate change, an urgent major issue for the region in light of global warming and sea level rise. Venture capitalists saw the... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Climate; Entrepreneur; Development; Startup; Climate Change; Venture Capital; Investment; Entrepreneurship; Green Technology; Government Administration; City; Miami

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Educators

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21 Jul 2015
Blog Post

3 Things Women Need to Know About Business School

In 2013, HBS celebrated 50 years of women in the MBA program. Eight women joined the Class of 1965 – and this year 383 View Details

10 Mar 2016
News

Obama’s legacy of tech innovation

18 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

Tech Investment the Wise Way

Excerpted with permission from "The Dual Edged Role of the Business Model in Leveraging Corporate Technology Investments," in Taking Technical Risks: How Innovators, Executives, and Investors... View Details

Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough & Richard S. Rosenbloom

14 Dec 2014
News

Why U.S. Women Are Leaving Jobs Behind

26 Feb 2020
News

Do Women And Men Have A Confidence Gap?

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Women Leading Business: A New Kind of Conversation

For high-powered executive women, the HBS program Women Leading Business: An Executive Forum offers a unique opportunity to discuss strategy, examine problems, and explore solutions. Below Professor Myra Hart shares her vision of the... View Details

Keywords: Re: Myra M. Hart & Cynthia A. Montgomery

18 May 2012
News

Facebook IPO creates tech giant

21 Feb 2012
News

Leadership Program for Women Targets Subtle Promotion Biases

12 Aug 2020
News

Women in Science May Suffer Lasting Career Damage from COVID-19

16 Dec 2019
News

6 Books That Top Tech Execs Recommend Reading Now

March 2020
Case

Sizmek Chapter 11: Surviving Walled Gardens in Their Ad Tech Empire

By: Ayelet Israeli, Danilo Tauro and Sarah Gulick

This case provides a post-mortem of the advertising technology (adtech) company Sizmek. Sizmek grew via multiple acquisitions, with the vision of becoming an integrated adtech company that could leverage AI to buy digital media, while creating and serving display and... View Details

Keywords: Digital Marketing; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Mergers and Acquisitions; Applications and Software; Internet and the Web; Competition; Marketing; Advertising Industry; Web Services Industry; United States; Europe

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Educators

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04 Jan 2013
News

The Age of Insourcing: How Tech Helps Megacompanies Rope Us In

06 Feb 2016
News

We blame women for not taking the lead in the workplace. Here’s why that’s wrong.

01 Jun 2003
News

400 and Counting: Surge in HBS Cases with Women Protagonists

What do Joanne Hilferty of Morgan Memorial Goodwill Industries, Abby Cohen of Goldman Sachs, Robin Chase of Zipcar, and Nanci Mackenzie of U.S. Gas Transportation have in common? Each is a protagonist in a... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

19 Jun 2018
News

Ellen Pao: The Perverse Incentives that Help Incels Thrive in Tech

25 Apr 2014
News

A role model for women in corporate leadership and boards

Martha Goss (MBA 1978) serves as a role model for women in corporate leadership and boards. (Published April 2014) View Details

23 Nov 2019
News

Big Tech and Data Privacy

23 Oct 2018
News

Why women fall into the negative feedback trap

03 Apr 2013
What Do You Think?

Will Women Leaders Influence the Way We Work?

Summing Up How Important is Leadership Gender in Influencing the Way We Work? Any attempt to describe behaviors on the basis of gender runs the risk of stereotyping, generalizing, and generally oversimplifying. As Susan Chipman said View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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