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IT Strategy: Improving Service to Support Innovation | Information Technology
HBS community. Service tickets were going unanswered, users’ laptops were old and breaking down, TSS techs weren’t always easy to reach, and, due to knowledge not being democratized, techs didn’t have equitable know-how or a place to find... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Himalayan Journey
Travel in still-developing Bhutan requires flexibility — flights may be delayed (there is only one airline and one airstrip), and the power sometimes goes out. No matter — a few candlelit evenings only added... View Details
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1.18 Field Global Capstone | MBA
personal health insurance coverage, which includes verifying the details of benefits, the claims submission process, and potential out-of-pocket costs while traveling. Insurance (Travel) Purchasing travel insurance is encouraged, as GEO is not able to assist in the... View Details
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BiGS Fellows | Institute for Business in Global Society
Asensio Associate professor in the School of Public Policy; director of the Data Science and Policy Lab, Georgia Institute of Technology Using AI to ensure an equitable distribution of EV infrastructure As the United States prioritizes... View Details
- 11 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure
Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many agree that the need for infrastructure change is... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
Photograph Courtesy Blink On June 10, 2008, two years and two days after receiving their HBS diplomas, Peter Leiman and Cameron Ogden (both MBA ’06) watched a Cessna Citation Mustang with four passengers taxi down the runway at London’s Farnborough Airport for a short... View Details
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1.19 Immersive Field Courses (IFC) | MBA
(Travel) Purchasing travel/trip insurance is encouraged, as HBS is not able to assist in the event of flight delays or cancellations due to extreme weather or other extenuating circumstances. Students are... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- What Do You Think?
Is Apple’s Real Privacy Challenge Technology Innovation Itself?
application for commercial credit and other data points (is) right there on the first page of the Apple user contract--there for all to see. It would seem that this privacy gate is down for the FBI alone.” Slcharles proposed that, “It seems that an View Details
- 13 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Can We Get To Where We Need To Go?
Summit attendees worked on identifying "bottlenecks and pain points" while devising potential solutions to the country's infrastructure woes. Many of the problems have a direct impact on business. For example, airline flight... View Details
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
making, and practice. We discuss important implications and offer suggestions for further research. Read the paper: http://dx.doi.org/10.1287/orsc.1100.0618 Equitable and Efficient Coordination in Traffic Flow Management Authors:Cynthia... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 21, 2015
longer than follow-on entrants in regulatory approval. Back-of-the-envelope calculations suggest that the cost of this delay is upwards of 7% of the cost of bringing a new high-risk device to market. Considering potential explanations, I... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 8
management friendly provisions, we identify the economic determinants of the resulting trade-offs for shareholder value. Consistent with the theory, our empirical analysis shows that provisions that allow managers to delay takeovers have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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1.5 Attendance | MBA
using the event or obligation as the reason for their absence. If a student misses a class because they are traveling with no other obligations on that day or because their travel arrangements were delayed or disrupted, the absence should... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Massport, Back on Course
meetings. Thousands of people have participated. And there have been a number of court cases. The judges who have reviewed the evidence have all essentially come to the same conclusion: The new runway is necessary to fix the delay... View Details
- 20 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Markets or Communities? The Best Ways to Manage Outside Innovation
manufactuer's 787 Dreamliner, designed and built using more than 100 outside partners, is perhaps the most-watched example of the use of innovation networks. But already almost two years late, the project was dealt another blow last month when Boeing again View Details
- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
reliable, branded beauty services in office parks and hotels, but she focused first on the high-visibility airport market, where customers in transit needed the services she could provide—and might relish them as an alternative to waiting for View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 26 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Best Practices of Global Innovators
worth using. But today, says Harvard Business School professor Alan MacCormack and his research collaborators, "not invented here" is becoming a badge of honor—and more than that, a source of competitive advantage. To design the 787 "Dreamliner," now scheduled for its... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
and hugging us. It was an incredible moment. Odom on the flight deck Courtesy Brett Odom A 1992 graduate of Annapolis and the U.S. Navy’s Fighter Weapons (“Top Gun”) School for the top 1 percent of Navy and Marine Corps pilots, Lieutenant... View Details
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
forthcoming New York: Dey Street Books Rebel Talent: Why It Pays to Break the Rules at Work and Life By: Gino, F. Abstract—The world’s best chef. An airline captain who brought his flight to safety in a daring water landing. A magician... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Mar 2018
- News
Leadership Lessons from the “Lone Survivor” Mission
right now. And the weather and the terrain are an increasingly dangerous factor. And so I had to make the very heart-wrenching decision to delay for 24 hours and let the sun rise again and set again before we attempted to rescue people... View Details