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- 22 Apr 2002
- Lessons from the Classroom
Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught
help people learn. They can learn either at the school of hard knocks or by coming to class and building an understanding. If you presume that the vast majority of our students are opportunity-driven and achievement-oriented, View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
America Innovation Network By: Acemoglu, Daron, Ufuk Akcigit, and William R. Kerr Abstract— Technological progress builds upon itself, with the expansion of invention in one domain propelling future work in linked fields. Our analysis... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
her own life as well from the lives of the most incredible and inspiring women on Mogul. How We Make Stuff Now: Turn Ideas into Products That Build Successful Businesses by Jules Pieri (MBA 1986) McGraw-Hill Education Do you have an idea... View Details
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Where Does Apple Go From Here?
Obviously it will have to get more users. A: Well, what do you mean by "success"? There are at least three different ways in which you can imagine Apple going forward; I'm sure Steve has more. One is to say they're going to View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Sep 2016
- News
MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding
fins and other apex predators. And we published a translation of a paper that showed that there was a build up of neurotoxins in shark fins that were linked to Alzheimer's. And we published that in Mandarin Chinese, to try to help stop... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
that we’re smart in the things we’re attacking, and to try to solve real-world problems that make an impact.” Watson General Manager David Kenny (MBA 1986) adds: “The tech sector tends to reward short-term thinking.” But Watson is... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
together before the season," O'Reilly says. Guided by its extensive customer research, fan polling, and tracking of fan-engagement data across all its platforms, the NFL "gets smarter every day in terms of what our different fan segments want." To View Details
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
their work experience better performance. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51712 Harvard Business School Case 617-007 Building Smart Neighborhoods at Bouygues Can a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
experience? What would you sacrifice to achieve social justice? Lucky, Not Smart By Michael Coles (MBA 1961) Independently published Most people go to Harvard Business School by way of a first-rate undergraduate college. Michael Coles did... View Details
- 23 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 23
to practice and from simple to complex, the present paper builds on that work. It illustrates several classes of practical measures that negotiators can use to advance their own interests by focusing on the other side's Level II... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
expertise in building businesses transferred? Southeast Asian management learning, pre- and post-Asian crisis: Have there been changes in management practice in Southeast Asia in the wake of the Asian economic crisis? Broadband... View Details
- Web
Faculty & Advisors | MBA
Plasmonics, and E25Bio. She has also served as a board director of WEST, a learning community for women in the enterprise of science and technology and serves on the Life Sciences Council of Springboard Enterprises, which focuses on View Details
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
BrightStar. As franchises began to sell, Sun quickly set about building scalable operations and infrastructure, including a centralized technology function and custom software for franchisees. As more and more locations opened around the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Apr 2017
- News
Bringing Markets to Myanmar
was obviously smart and had a great spirit. And he just said, our problem is we have nothing in our brains. We're yearning to be able to dream and to be able to have intelligence and information so that we can do our part in this country.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
“My concern right now is that although there’s an enormous amount of discussion about the $700 billion, the discussion may not be sufficiently sensitive to the need for reasonable oversight of the financial system. ... We have to be serious and View Details
- 05 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
First-Gen Voices: Eric Westphal on Tapping into the Global Alumni Network & Making a Difference Across Borders
At Harvard College, Westphal felt overwhelmed and underprepared at first, and knew he would need to put his head down to keep up. He studied Economics, based on his interest in business and entrepreneurship, and when a lot of smart people... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
both partners write personal finance columns for Reuters’ India Web site and for the Wall Street Journal’s Indian partner, livemint.com. They appear on two TV shows every weekend: Bloomberg UTV’s Smart Money and ET Now’s Investor’s Guide.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
mirrors, writing, lenses, printing, photography, film, television, the smart phone—these tools shaped Western culture and made us who we are. As Far as the Eye Can See traces the history of seeing from the first evolutionary stirrings of... View Details
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
through partner institutions, then chose to also pursue field building roles. KaBoom! reached scale by “giving away” its model online, before shifting its focus to working with municipal governments to expand capacity. Generalizing from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
simply begin with the direction you want to go and take a small step. Thinking alone will never change your life-you must ACT. Then evaluate the lessons you learn from that first step, build on them, and take another step in your desired... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel