Science And Technology Studies - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2016
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Starting Lineup: Upturning Travel

“discover, buy, and sell authentic tour experiences.” Zhang, the founder of travel firm WildChina which serves foreign visitors, launched NewUGo to connect the rapidly growing domestic Chinese travel market to off-the-beaten-path tourism... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Jun 2007
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New Program for Science-Based Businesses

HBS has launched a new Executive Education program designed to help leaders of science-based businesses meet the many distinctive challenges found in their industry. Leading Science-Based Enterprises, to be held on campus June 26–29, will focus on strategies for... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Oct 2000
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After the Revolution: Putting the Internet in Perspective

paramount. "When you went to Harvard Business School, we really knew what we were talking about," he told alumni. "But in the new economy, just about everything we accepted about business is being questioned." Nolan, an expert on general management View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jun 2014
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The Digital Deck

As a professor in the Strategy Unit, Bharat Anand has studied how media companies move a traditional product into the online space. Some have managed that transition well, he says, and others have not. In... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Mar 2023
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The Latest Model

Prysm Group Cofounders Hurder (left) and Barrera: bringing an industry-agnostic approach to helping business leverage emerging technologies Prysm Group cofounders Hurder (left) View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; blockchain; cryptocurrency; economic models; innovation; consulting; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services

01 Sep 2008
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Mara Aspinall

of personalized medicine into clinical practice. Why does it seem that science is often so far ahead of practice in the medical field? Science has moved especially quickly in the last five years with the... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Aug 1998
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High Honors

education." McDermott hasn't slowed down in retirement, concentrating his energy and vision on an array of community-related projects. Among them is the Texas Research and View Details

01 Apr 2001
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Edwin Yu: Bidding on the Future

Raised in Seoul, Yu came to the United States when he was 13. After majoring in computer science in college and following a stint as an engineer, he returned home and reclaimed... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes; Telecommunications; Information

21 Nov 2017
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Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy

economy is rooted in a technology of scarcity, like fossil fuels, and there’s not enough, you get what we have today, namely, impoverished outcomes for most of humanity. If you want a society of abundance,... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; solar power; wind power

01 Sep 2004
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Promise & Perils

Events: Dancing dragons greeted alumni at the closing gala inside the new Science and Technology Museum. Photos by Philip Chau Standing before nearly 1,000 HBS alumni, faculty,... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

01 Dec 2009
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The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle

start-up will be a phone call away, if you have the right idea,” write Senor and Singer. But the IDF experience is not the only reason for Israel’s business success. For one thing, Israel leads the OECD countries in the percentage of GDP... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; National Security and International Affairs; National Security and International Affairs

13 May 2013
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Alex Popa, MBA 2007

long-held passion. “I was deeply involved in the sciences in high school and at Stanford, and I truly believe genomics is the business field that will lead to the fastest rate... View Details

01 Jun 2014
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Liberal Smarts

experience influence this decision to focus on liberal arts? I majored in visual and environmental studies and specialized in filmmaking, and I... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

01 Sep 2003
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Books

Technologies for Innovation, Thomke argues that many companies are not yet making the best use of breakthrough technologies for experimentation — including simulation and... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg; Margie Kelley; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

01 Oct 1996
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"Service-Profit Chain" Links Members of Service Management Unit

service, at HBS and beyond. Members of the unit have written case studies not only for the Service Management elective but also for other units, such as Technology View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Apr 2001
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HBS Press Books in Brief

Performance, by Brian Becker, Mark Huselid, and Dave Ulrich, is an ongoing study of nearly three thousand firms that describes a seven-step process for embedding HR systems within the firm’s overall strategy... View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

01 Dec 2010
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Eight Join HBS Faculty

interface of technology and marketing and has studied how marketing is impacted by technology that enables firms... View Details

01 Mar 2018
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Money (Actually) Can Buy Happiness

Professor Michael Norton and Assistant Professor Ashley Whillans (image by John Ritter) People aren’t very good at predicting what will make them happy, say Professor Michael Norton and Assistant Professor... View Details