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- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
the potential networking opportunities provided by CIC, formerly known as the Cambridge Innovation Center. CIC is widely considered the center of the Boston entrepreneurial ecosystem. We surveyed 1,334 people working at CIC in three... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
It’s also about a movement of people away from jobs where they’re not sure they are innovating to jobs at startups where they can be entrepreneurial.” -Diane Hessan (MBA 1977), CEO, Startup Institute Daughters of employed mothers are more... View Details
- 23 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
2024 Summer Internships in Business & Environment
What are the career opportunities in business and environment? In Summer 2024, over 100 MBA students found internships at the intersection of business and the environment. This post provides a sample of some of the types of companies that students worked at this summer... View Details
- 19 Apr 2018
- News
One Last Pitch
app allows the user to participate in random drugs tests using a thumbprint, or breath or saliva tests via video. “No more degrading urine tests,” Gastfriend says. Patients are rewarded for meeting goals and staying on the program through... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Case Study: A Souped-Up Strategy
close to home. Today, 75 percent of diners use Bookalokal in their own city, while the remaining 25 percent use it abroad. From Brussels, Bookalokal has grown organically, now including thousands of users and 300-plus hosts in more than... View Details
- 13 Jul 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Meaghan Fitzgerald (MBA 2016)
teams think about their target audience, core user benefits, and which features to build to deliver real value to users—to work that looks more like content programming, where we inform what content we should bring to the platform; to... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
front line of a turnaround. “It was a chance to contribute to my hometown company, which was in great need of young, innovative leaders,” and offered proximity to family as he and his wife, Kristi Jones MBA 2007, started a family. And... View Details
- 05 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
12 Weeks of VC Summer: Remote Edition
Goats and Horses Maverick Ventures is the venture arm of Maverick Capital. The team focuses mainly on investments in tech and healthcare across a variety of different verticals, and my first day with them got off to an unexpected start. During our investment meeting, a... View Details
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”
This confirmed the rationale back in 1970 for PARC's charter as a separate research center. As Robert Adams, then a Xerox senior vice president, recalled, "The laser printer alone paid for all of the other PARC research projects many times over. If some of the... View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
How I Got to Google
and worst part about being a PM? PR: The best part is launching, without a doubt. There is nothing as cool as that first time your product is in users’ hands. But it can also be the worst time, because there are many things that you didn’t realize your View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Status Update
employees to more than 1,000, while its community of users expanded from 300 million to more than a billion. Despite the big-picture scope and pace of her latest role, Levine still finds time to enjoy the small, user-generated moments... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
published field studies of men doing dangerous work, to induce a model of how organizational cultures equip men to "do" and "undo" gender at work. Breakthrough Inventions and the Growth of Innovation Clusters... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
for core innovative activities, frequently through platform-based businesses and ecosystems and by incorporating user innovation. We then examine how this ease of external engagement impacts the organization... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
applications available on it. Our model is based on the observation that even if users prefer application variety, applications often also exhibit direct network effects. When there are direct network effects, View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
New Venture Competition 2022: Business and Environment Ventures
entrants, underscoring the growing level of interest and opportunities to address this critical issue. The winners of both the Tough Tech Prize and Alumni Track had innovative approaches to confronting the climate challenge: Aaron Sabin... View Details
- 04 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why dot.coms Will Rise Again
almost all current Internet, intranet, and extranet applications will disappear "in the dustbin of history" in four or five years, according to McFarlan. And given the undeniable rate of Internet growth in China, for example—10 million View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 May 2003
- What Do You Think?
Is This a Golden Era for Marketing Productivity?
Summing Up Questions raised in this month's column about the possibility of an era of marketing productivity based on innovative research techniques evoked a number of skeptical comments. However, in defense of such techniques, B. V.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
out of Imperial College London that uses magnesium silicates as its base. The silicates don’t contain carbon, and are heated at half the temperature of limestone, using biofuels; in addition, carbon is absorbed through the production process. The company’s View Details
- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
Property Rights Protection, Ownership, and Innovation: Evidence from China By: Fang, Lily, Josh Lerner, and Chaopeng Wu Abstract—Using a difference-in-difference approach, we study how intellectual property right (IPR) protection affects View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Faculty Books Published in 2020
need to hear about their company's fitness to compete, and employees lose trust in those leaders and become less committed to change. In Fit to Compete, Beer presents an antidote to silence—principles and a time-tested innovative process... View Details
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