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- 02 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t
Over the past two decades, entire industries have been disrupted by Internet competitors who "unbundled" their content and delivered it to consumers in new ways. Newspapers lost out to Google and Craigslist, record companies to iTunes and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 11 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
ZONE DEFENSE: These self-driving, AI-powered drones do recon so soldiers don’t have to
telling him. Ryan Tseng had already started two successful companies, and where Brandon saw a business opportunity in building AI software to operate unmanned systems for the military, Ryan saw a behemoth defense industry with high... View Details
- 19 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
The Road to Impact
In 2008, the government of Rwanda changed the language of instruction from French to English, which presented a problem, he says, because many of the instructors did not speak English, including the teacher whose class he visited. Yet she was able to use a prerecorded... View Details
- 06 Sep 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Prepare for a World Without Cheap Oil?
Summing Up Is the end of cheap oil a challenge to the world? Yes. Will it affect our standard of living adversely? Not likely. At least that is the verdict of most of the large number of respondents to this month's column who rely on assumed human ingenuity combined... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
presence of strategic interactions between content distributors and content providers. We provide a model of bargaining and price competition within these industries and show that whether or not a piece of content ends up exclusive to one... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Jul 2016
- Blog Post
Advice on Switching Careers While at HBS
merchandiser did or how to execute a strong digital marketing campaign. “Why would anyone already in retail even talk to me?” I wondered. The good news is there are a multitude of ways to get familiar with your desired industry here at... View Details
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
are managed by sophisticated real-time information systems; colleagues working 12 time zones apart can see and hear each other as they work at their desks—or in airport lounges on opposite sides of the planet. Publications, like this one, have abandoned paper. View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2019
- Blog Post
Top-Notch Talent Begets Top-Notch Talent
model into the finance world: it was an industry that had basically no concept of gig or contract workers. “It had never been a field that thought that way, so we had to explain to people why they should think this way,” explains Cheney.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Becoming a VC Insider
industry that is well known but not well understood. Bussgang should know the material: He is general partner at Flybridge Capital Partners in Boston and currently an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at HBS. The book explains the different ways... View Details
- 22 Nov 2019
- Blog Post
Avant Ski Makes Turns in Ski Media Objectivity
resort or one pass.” Bringing a Breath of Fresh Air to a Stodgy Industry When you consider the total cost of ski passes, ski rentals or purchased gear, plus lessons, food, and lodging, the sport of sliding down steep icy peaks on two... View Details
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Once in a Lifetime Opportunities | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
assessors to conduct face-to-face interviews with low-income customers living in rural, hard-to-reach areas. “Today, we can use mobile technology to conduct short phone interviews or SMS (texting) surveys.” Before Kasia’s arrival, Acumen... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
Trade Center, Lhota and the others went to 75 Barclay Street, formerly a Merrill Lynch office, searching for working phone lines - "communications meant everything at that point, and cell View Details
- 06 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI
skills learned in parts of South Africa would be applicable to other parts of Africa. But South African firms have also come up with new products within sub-Saharan Africa outside of South Africa. For example, the cell View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Be an Angel Investor
seminars, learning an industry by working in it; these are all ways to develop expertise that will promote your success in investing. But in both entrepreneurship and angel investing, there is nothing like doing it. Nothing. The... View Details
Keywords: by David Amis & Howard Stevenson
- Web
Improve Decision-Making in Hiring: Common Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them - Recruiting
Insights & Advice 16 Jun 2023 Improve Decision-Making in Hiring: Common Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them Becca Carnahan & Christopher Moore Author HBS Team tag All Industries All Locations Diversity, Inclusion, & Belonging Recruiting Advice... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Inside Executive Search
leading companies in the relevant industry sectors, then works to identify the managers most responsible for the success of the relevant business. We want to learn why a prospect may be an appropriate candidate before making the first... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
explain how we have arrived at this point, he says: Businesses everywhere are short staffed, and call volumes are at record levels, so the human-to-call ratio doesn’t work in the customer’s favor. Plus, with wages as high as they are, staffing the View Details
- 19 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard
to illegally hack into the phones of select individuals. That these hackers seem not to be News of the World employees illustrates the Russian nesting doll model, which contains the seeds of moral hazard, since it allows for the... View Details
- 19 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Analyzing Institutions to Solve Big Problems
does not do anything to destroy the underlying rigor." —Rosabeth Moss Kanter In his introductory remarks, Marquis cited the ever-changing health-care industry as an example of why institutional analysis is important. "It is a... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Anna Secino
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Donald P. Nielsen, MBA 1963
broken were education and medicine," Nielsen recalls. "But education seemed too big a nut to crack." Settling on medicine, Nielsen and Cramer pored over the Seattle phone book to find a research and development company they could buy and... View Details