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- 01 Mar 2019
- News
INK: The Lessons of Blitzscaling
wanted to know how some companies could grow so big so fast. “The answers we got were unsatisfying,” Yeh says. People cited the Valley’s concentration of smarts or its access to venture capital—which is useful for growing companies, “but... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Robots to the Rescue
warehouse. The bots rely on a Wi-Fi network and a grid of 2-D barcodes on the floor to navigate. Products are delivered to the human operators, who pick and pack the items and send them to shipping. “When I started out, companies were... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The View from the Pit
been a series of interwoven threads. Coming back to HBS has been an opportunity to tie them together," says Senior Lecturer Diana Barrett. The most recent of the three to return to HBS, Barrett joined the faculty in 1998, drawn by her love of teaching, the School's... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Latest Model
former consultants and ex-investment bankers). The company handles projects for startups and enterprise clients alike. It also offers online certificate courses through the Wharton School on the economics of blockchain and business in the... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Tapping into more effective water technologies
market opportunities." Shenkar is seeing early leaders in water-quality monitoring, filtration, disinfection, and desalination. Smart grid water systems are spotting leaks and saving water as well as energy,... View Details
- 03 Feb 2021
- News
Power Play
distributor, to fund large-scale battery storage and solar power in New York City as it works to reduce fossil-fuel pollution, upgrade aging infrastructure and systems, and move its electric grid to between 70 percent and 80 percent... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Rediscovering America
traditional American strengths you talk about in the book, and you link it to “kaleidoscope thinking.” What is that? If you look back in history, we’ve never been the lowest-cost producer of goods and services, but we have been smart... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
complexity of pulling together idea, sound, and movement into a unified whole. The squirrel skitters to the edge of our path, thinks better of it, and darts back to safety—a smart decision, since Langford never saw it. Which isn’t to say... View Details
- 15 Jun 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020
Business School professors Joseph Bower, Herman Leonard, and Lynn Paine argue that while robust governments must play a role, leadership by business is essential. For enterprising companies—whether large multinationals, established... View Details
- 21 Nov 2013
- News
Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins
BlackBerry Messenger limit his market? Was the decision to release a touch-screen version before the phone with a physical keyboard—a favorite of the business class—a strategic error? Should he have re-focused on enterprise users? Willy... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
traditional products are transforming into smart connected products and ecosystem platforms at a rate much faster than most organizations think. Schaeffer andSovie show how this reinvention is made possible: by AI and digital... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Charged Up
driven by the automotive industry, followed by smart grid stabilization solutions that provide “fill-in” power when customer demand outstrips supply. Given the technology’s potential applications and finite... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Estonia, Incorporated
Illustration by Peter and Maria Hoey In June, Aman Kumar (MBA 2014) was appointed the first-ever special advisor to the CIO of the Republic of Estonia. Kumar has a day job, too, working in the New York office of enterprise software giant... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
HBS and SEAS Explore Opportunities for Innovative Thinking
the two schools would take shape in the next decade with Allston’s emergence as an enterprise zone. “There’s an energy here we want to keep fueling,” said SEAS Dean Frank Doyle, speaking about possibilities for collaboration in the areas... View Details
- 19 Jan 2016
- News
Electric Avenues
particularly excited about is smart lighting—a kind of responsive lighting for city streetlights. “Let’s say you’re on 5th Avenue in New York at 7 p.m. on a weeknight. Do you need the lighting grid to be... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Monaco's Digital Transformation
the budget, and the people needed to have a coherent and consistent vision,” says Genta. Another key asset is the country’s cohesiveness as noted by Prince Albert when he established the Extended Monaco, Smart Principality program that... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
William Fung: E-Commerce and Efficiency
Ask fund managers covering the Hong Kong market about smart technology plays in these days of crashing dot-coms and you’re likely to hear one company name repeated often. Li & Fung has become the firm to watch for post-frenzy investors.... View Details
- 12 Apr 2012
- News
HBS Welcomes Eleven Alumni Startups
4 months. southeastern us Merlin Mobility offers an SaaS platform that enables enterprises to create and deliver Augmented Reality-based instructions to smart devices, helping customers and employees... View Details
- 20 Feb 2014
- News
Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
successes have been nothing short of extraordinary. Goodwin encouraged Marriott to build a hotel in Haiti following the 2010 earthquake. The hotel—which Goodwin calls both an astute business decision and smart social one—is scheduled to... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 04 Feb 2020
- News
In Harmony
the hot career path at the time. “I loved the intellectual challenge in working with really smart people,” recalls Weinstein. “What I didn’t enjoy very much was that I didn’t actually care whether or not Shell Oil of Canada made an extra... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon