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October 1988 (Revised November 1988)
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30 Aug 2014
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Sandy Sacks and Alan Ferris, the cochairs for the MBA Class of 1966, believe that their fundraising success—currently the class holds 16 participation records—can be attributed to their time at HBS. "My HBS experience was very meaningful, and staying in touch with... View Details

01 Sep 2012
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New Post for Finnegan

HBS Fund Chair Paul Finnegan (MBA 1982) has been elected to the Harvard Corporation, the University’s principal fiduciary governing board. A past president of the Harvard Alumni Association and a current member of the University’s Board of Overseers, Finnegan is the... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

30 Oct 2013
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Managing New York City

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Company or Industry News

Where do I find current news about a company or industry? The following databases aggregate articles from news and trade publications and can be used to search for news on... View Details

24 Nov 2021
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New Faculty Profiles: Edward McFowland III

August 1991
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Managing the New Product Development Process

By: Robert J. Dolan

Describes how the new product development program is most efficiently managed. View Details

Keywords: Product Development; Management

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01 Mar 2013
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Alumni News | Bookshelf

large should initial innovation teams be? (Just a few people, but include seasoned members.) Should new projects be kept close to the core organization or set up shop on the periphery? (Depends if the innovation builds on core products or... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Sep 2009
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New Executive Education Programs

and the economy. Among the new offerings are Building Businesses in Turbulent Times, Opportunities in Mortgage Markets, the Global Energy Seminar, Business Strategy for Partners in Law Firms, and The Global Economic Crisis. For a list of... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

December 2019
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Steemit: A New Social Media?

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Alexander White and Karen Elterman

This case discusses the alternative social media site Steemit, including the principles it was founded on in 2016 and the challenges it faced in 2019. Steemit was a blockchain-based platform that aimed to differentiate itself from other social media companies by... View Details

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June 2023
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How New Ideas Diffuse in Science

By: Mengjie Cheng, Daniel Scott Smith, Xiang Ren, Hancheng Cao, Sanne Smith and Daniel A. McFarland

What conditions help new ideas spread? Can knowledge entrepreneurs’ position and develop new ideas in ways that help them take off? Most innovation research focuses on products and their reference. That focus ignores the ideas themselves and the broader ideational... View Details

Keywords: Innovation Adoption; Natural Language Processing; Knowledge; Science; Innovation and Invention; Knowledge Sharing; Analytics and Data Science

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08 Dec 2021
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New Faculty Profiles: A. Chyei Vinluan

24 Oct 2011
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News Corp. Annual Meeting, Succession Plan

November 2006 (Revised July 2007)
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CNN and the Cable News Wars

By: Bharat N. Anand, Rafael M. Di Tella and Dennis A. Yao

Set in 1996, when ABC, NBC and Microsoft, and Fox all announced that they will challenge Cable News Network's near monopoly position in the 24-hour cable news channel market. The focus is on the interaction of the strategies likely to be adopted by each player given... View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Resource Allocation; Monopoly; Rank and Position; Reputation; Adoption; Competition

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