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26 Feb 2021
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Latinx on Boards; High-Tech Reforestation

more than 30 years of experience in VC, worldwide streaming channel development, digital media, and consumer products. “This is about using science and technology to address the climate crisis, in this case, using drones to reforest in a... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

19 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy

faculty co-chair of the Harvard Business School Digital Initiative, who has studied academic influence on policy. The more important factor is being willing to weigh in when the time comes. “It’s a privilege—that’s exactly the right... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Supplemental Financial Information II - Annual Report 2019

in fiscal 2019 as circulation continued to grow. These costs also include strategic investments in digital infrastructure and content designed to extend the group’s record of consistent growth at a time of significant change in the way... View Details

19 Jan 2011
First Look

First Look: Jan. 18

Garvin and Carin-Isabel KnoopHarvard Business School Case 311-008 In late spring 2009, Stroz Friedberg co-presidents Edward Stroz and Eric Friedberg had to set growth targets for 2010. The leading global consulting firm they had built specialized in managing View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

November 2019 (Revised February 2022)
Teaching Note

Innovation at Uber: The Launch of Express POOL

By: Chiara Farronato and Sarah Mehta

Teaching Note for HBS No. 619-003. Set in March 2018, the Case follows ride-sharing company Uber as it develops and launches a new product called Express POOL. The Teaching Note offers guidance for instructors who wish to use the case either with or without its dataset... View Details

Keywords: Innovation and Management; Innovation Leadership; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Information Technology; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Applications and Software; Digital Platforms; Decision Making; Technology Industry; California; San Francisco

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01 Jun 2014
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Feedback

THE DIGITAL BULLETIN For a few years now, we've been asking how you like to read your Bulletin, and unsurprisingly, many of you have told us you'd love to have a tablet edition. We've listened to your comments and are excited to announce... View Details

03 Sep 2024
Research & Ideas

Is It Even Possible to Dam the Flow of Misleading Content Online?

Memes: NFTs Could Be the Next Gen Deed for a Digital World How Transparency Sped Innovation in a $13 Billion Wireless Sector Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace? Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Information Technology; Technology

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Management Training Program - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School

Accounts Harvard Business Review Harvard Business School Jobs MBA Recruiting Rock Center: Entrepreneurship Social Enterprise Initiative HBS Working Knoweldge Harvard Business School Executive Education More HBS YouTube: Executive Education Harvard Business Review... View Details

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Manuscript Collections - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School

Massachusetts, until the 1950s. The collection includes treasurers’, directors’ and stockholders’ records; employee records include wage books, payrolls, and time books documenting productivity per worker. Collection Guide Copyright © Presidents and Fellows of Harvard... View Details

21 Nov 2013
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Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins

keyboard on smart devices (just like Polaroid believed consumers needed to instantly print their digital photos—when was the last time you printed a photo!). They kept their platform closed, avoiding the design and distribution of public... View Details

Keywords: Telecommunications; Information; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

September 2023 (Revised December 2023)
Case

TetraScience: Noise and Signal

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Tom Quinn

In 2019, TetraScience CEO “Spin” Wang needed advice. Five years earlier, he had cofounded a startup that saw early success with a hardware product designed to help laboratory scientists in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical spaces more easily collect data from... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Organization; Restructuring; Forecasting and Prediction; Digital Platforms; Analytics and Data Science; AI and Machine Learning; Organizational Structure; Network Effects; Competitive Strategy; Biotechnology Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States; Boston

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26 Jul 2016
Research & Ideas

Where will Pokémon Go with Your Personal Information?

app’s success has striking implications for a number of industries. Willy Shih is the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Management Practice in Business Administration at Harvard Business School and spent 28 years in industry at IBM, View Details

Keywords: Re: Willy C. Shih; Video Game; Entertainment & Recreation

02 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Stuck in Gear: Why Managers Don’t Act

pronounce your company as outstanding. Another potential jinx. Look what happened to Digital Equipment, Kodak, and Wang Laboratories, once lauded by business academics. You build monuments to your success. Resist the urge to construct... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2018
News

The True Value of a Tweet

will actually say something, and the rest is the silent majority. So if you’re an executive, how do you pin a value to this tool? LJ: There has to be a more careful study of that. But all of these digital tools are amazing for marketers... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

26 May 2003
Research & Ideas

What Your Competition is Telling You

and do it more efficiently, over time. Richard E. Beville should know. The chief operating officer of Lamont Digital Systems, a Greenwich, Conn., provider of digital telecommunications services, Beville... View Details

Keywords: by David Stauffer

27 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement

crowd-sourcing platform, while it transitioned away from traditional screen printing to a digital print-on-demand model. The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 accelerated the company’s transition, triggering the sale of Threadless’s... View Details

13 Apr 2016
Research Event

What Does 'Diversity' Really Mean?

'diversity' really mean? Keynote speaker Anna Holmes—founder of Jezebel.com, columnist for the New York Times Sunday Book Review, and editorial director of the digital company Fusion—recalled an event from a decade ago, while she was... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

21 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine

art. By 2005, the Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL) spanned more than 34 million pages of Indian literature, including herbal formulations from the Unani, Yoga, Ayurveda, and Siddha medical systems. Texts that spanned centuries... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Legal Services; Biotechnology

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Betty J. Diener Oral History - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School

Business Review Harvard Business School Jobs MBA Recruiting Rock Center: Entrepreneurship Social Enterprise Initiative HBS Working Knoweldge Harvard Business School Executive Education More HBS YouTube: Executive Education Harvard Business Review Harvard Business... View Details

01 Dec 2013
News

Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits

and I just didn't see it happening. So I have been investigating market trends ever since. And in fact, there's now overwhelming evidence suggesting that despite digital technology really catching on, we see demand moving more to the... View Details

Keywords: Patrick Kirchner; Arts, Entertainment; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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