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- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Global Leadership Initiative's Director Focuses on Technology
incubators at the School experimenting with electronic distance-learning models, the Global Leadership Initiative has already launched a number of key research projects. The first, an interactive Internet survey available on the HBS View Details
- 06 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
Kodak: A Parable of American Competitiveness
line and realized that all the significant pieces used to make Kodak's digital cameras—lens, shutters, electronic screen displays—were manufactured far from the factory floor in Rochester, New York, largely because American companies had... View Details
- 30 Sep 2022
- News
Scaling Hope
scalable social change, is the cofounder of My Child & Addiction, a podcast to educate and support parents of children struggling with addiction. He is also the executive vice president of Shatterproof, where his work has included... View Details
- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Wrapping Your Alliances In a World Wide Web
alliance partners and to enable communities of manufacturers to work in harmony. Point-to-point Links The most obvious intercompany use of the Internet is probably construction of a point-to-point link between two alliance partners. These... View Details
Keywords: by Andrew McAfee
- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
Working PapersThe Rise of Business Forecasting Agencies in the United States Author:Walter A. Friedman Abstract This paper analyzes the rise of business and economic forecasting agencies in the United States. The field was developed by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Dec 2017
- News
A Leveraged Investment
expanded his business almost tenfold since attending the program. Hesham was so enthusiastic about OPM that he convinced his wife, Adlina, that she should attend. Adlina was at a key juncture with her business—a consumer electronics... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
HBS Introduces Global Networking through Technology
You've just been asked to relocate from New York City to work on your firm's new operation in Singapore. You have less than a month before the assignment starts, and part of your job will be to acquire suitable permanent office space. In... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
These Walls Can Talk
(Javier Larrea/Getty Images) Today: Most smart homes connect basic electronic devices such as lights, locks, smoke detectors, security cameras, and thermostats. Tomorrow: Homes will be fully outfitted with smart appliances, which can make... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Start-Ups Make Their Pitch
today goes to telecom, high tech, or software,” said Mahesh, founder and CEO of Sundaram Medical Devices in Chennai. Mahesh trained at Stanford as an engineer and worked for McKinsey and Toyota before attending HBS. He plans to apply... View Details
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Jenny Holzer Selection from Survival: It is in your self-interest… 2015 | About
Holzer printed the statements on electronic signs and aluminum plaques; later she had the texts etched into stone benches. Holzer has had exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Louvre Abu Dhabi, and the Guggenheim Museums in... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Confronting the Challenges that Face Bricks-and-Mortar Stores
that merchandise would no longer carry individual price tags and that shoppers might be overcharged at the register. More recently, customers have expressed concern that electronic shelf labels could be used to raise prices between the... View Details
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
transmitted electronically and interpreted by specialist doctors working in city hospitals. When the time from data collection to treatment can be cut thanks to mobile health care, lives can be saved. Mobile... View Details
- 21 Dec 2015
- Op-Ed
Without Immigrants, We Wouldn't Have Google
Fisher, Jurvetson, can serve as an example. In 1995 he and his partners heard a proposal from two coworkers who aspired to be entrepreneurs, Sabeer Bhatia, a native of India, and Jack Smith. Though lacking any entrepreneurial experience, they had a great idea for a new... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
MBA Program:Rapid Innovation in '96
require three or four years of work experience," says Wheelwright. "In fact, we don't. We're interested in having more students consider coming to HBS directly from college; many of our alumni who did so say the experience helped them... View Details
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Policies | Baker Library
Policies We are a working academic library. Our policies prioritize our users' ability to access our collections and services. Access, Use, & Borrowing Policies Information on how to visit and use Baker Library's spaces and materials.... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Going For The Summit
CANDICE CARPENTER has led some high-profile enterprises - Time Life Video and Television and the electronic retailing enterprise Q2 Inc. among them. But nothing, she says, has prepared her for the rocky terrain of online business better... View Details
Keywords: Caroline Chauncey
- 03 Jul 2017
- Blog Post
4 Ways HBS Alumni Utilize Baker Library
more things Jim thought you should know about how Baker works with alumni. 1.We’re on your team, for life Alumni use Baker Library in a variety of ways. Hundreds call or write each year, thousands use our eBaker remote database access... View Details
- 03 Oct 2017
- News
Can Bezos’s Ties to Boston—and HBS—Seal the Deal?
Harvard Business School in 1997, Bezos has invested in a handful of local companies—and bought others, sometimes pulling their leaders out to Seattle to work with him directly. He has overseen the growth of local Amazon offices, which now... View Details
Keywords: Retail Trade
- 11 Jan 2016
- News
Guiding Students to Out-of-School Programs and Resources
found out that there was no resource. “I started putting a list together of all the summer programs I read about and searched for, and it became a guide, a printed guide. So, for two years, I was a volunteer who did this on the side, while I View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Transforming the IRS
traditional services on the telephones and in local offices, and offered new electronic services for filing, paying, and information. Why did you change the way the IRS measures employee performance? Performance measures have an enormous... View Details