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- 15 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 15, 2006
was achieved by these three countries. In Mexico, a strong and dense network replaced for some of the institutions that promoted financial development and growth in Brazil. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
business but also as a determinant of wealth and poverty, they will find a way back to becoming leading participants in the debates over the fundamental question of what makes an economy grow. 2. Innovation. Business historians have long... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
- 05 Dec 2019
- Blog Post
Addressing Unmet Needs in Health Care Using an MBA
students should know about? Today health care is being impacted by technology. Technology is changing every aspect of health care from diagnosis, treatment, care delivery to patient engagement and... View Details
- 24 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Are Assets Only for America’s Wealthy?
nature and delivery of the IDA program could be the answer, he says. Rather than administering IDAs through brick-and-mortar channels—banks, paperwork, and more paperwork—why not use View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- December 1981 (Revised October 1985)
- Case
Computer Retailing at Macy's California
By: Hirotaka Takeuchi
Takeuchi, Hirotaka. "Computer Retailing at Macy's California." Harvard Business School Case 582-079, December 1981. (Revised October 1985.)
- 19 Jan 2021
- In Practice
Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm
issues. This should help big business seeking global markets. At the same time, Biden’s proposals to “build back better—in America” and ensure investment in technology and... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate
innovators alike grapple with both the impacts of climate change and how to build a more sustainable system for the future. Right now there is enormous opportunity (and need!) for strategic thinkers View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Inside the Revolution
plant’s seeds contains its entire genetic code. The plant develops according to that code, with leaves of a certain shape and flowers of specific colors. To his rapt audience, Enriquez declares, “You’re lucky to be in Cambridge. You’ve... View Details
- 08 Aug 2023
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Employee Analytics: Productivity Dream or Micromanagement Nightmare?
With more data available than ever before, why would any executive gamble on a hunch—especially for decisions that involve their own employees? An emerging field that uses data to study human behavior at work, “people analytics” is beginning to transform the workplace... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
loved ones. However, widespread adoption of new medical innovations goes through three phases: Fear, Value, and Acceptance. Patients, physicians, and payers are understandably... View Details
- 02 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Summer Listening - HBS Podcasts to Take to the Beach
After Hours Harvard professors discuss news at the crossroads of business and culture. Facial Recognition Fears and Rihanna + LVMH Youngme, Felix, and Mihir debate the pros... View Details
- 11 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 11, 2008
Kristi Yuthas Periodical:Stanford Social Innovation Review 6, no. 1 (winter 2008) Abstract In the debate over whether microfinance works, few microfinance institutions articulate what, exactly, their ultimate goals are View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Dragging Patent Trolls Into the Light
infringing on technology patents—and win many of them In the past few years, NPEs have sued Apple, Samsung, eHarmony, Martha Stewart Living, and hundreds of other companies, sometimes winning judgments for... View Details
- 19 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate
and innovators alike grapple with both the impacts of climate change and how to build a more sustainable system for the future. Right now there is enormous opportunity (and... View Details
- 10 Aug 2015
- News
Giving Kids Tech Tools to Make an Impact
Amy Kadomatsu (MBA 1998) believes every student can be an innovator and use technology as a force for good. As chair of the board of directors at Mouse, a youth development... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
A New Approach to Health-Care Reform
CHRISTENSEN: “By some estimates, 50 percent of all health care is driven by physician and hospital supply, not by patients’ needs.” An acclaimed author and expert on the development View Details
- March 2011
- Teaching Note
TopCoder (A): Developing Software through Crowdsourcing (TN)
By: Karim R. Lakhani and Eric Lonstein
Teaching Note for 610032. View Details
- 29 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 29, 2015
powerful commercial engine it is today. This book describes how many of the key innovations that made this possible came from entrepreneurs and iconoclasts who were outside the mainstream—and how the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 5
entrepreneurial firms in successive generations. These firms became important drivers of innovation and scale, but they also found solar to be an industry in which achieving a viable business model proved a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017
which finds (a) a shift in the object of observation from organizational outcomes to the detailed individual activities within them; (b) a shift from people observing the technology to technology observing... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel