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  • March 1994 (Revised October 1994)
  • Case

Reading Energy

By: Forest L. Reinhardt
Reading Energy builds facilities that produce energy from nontraditional fuels. A privately held, entrepreneurial organization, it has spent six years developing a plan to build a waste-to-energy plant in the town of Robbins, Illinois. The plant would burn municipal... View Details
Keywords: Energy Generation; Wastes and Waste Processing; Business and Community Relations; Business Plan; Agreements and Arrangements; Contracts; Risk and Uncertainty; Government and Politics; Environmental Sustainability; Business Strategy; Energy Industry; Utilities Industry; Illinois
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    "Learning Through Noticing: Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment"

    We consider a model of technological learning under which people "learn through noticing": they choose which input dimensions to attend to and subsequently learn about from available data. Using this model, we show how people with a great deal of experience may... View Details
    • 24 Aug 2021
    • Cold Call Podcast

    Why Did Pet Concierge Startup Baroo Fail?

    Keywords: Re: Thomas R. Eisenmann; Technology; Technology
    • Profile

    Maha Malik

    helping a "small, ten-person team in one of Pakistan's largest telecommunication companies develop the IoT ecosystem in the country. I'll work on a technology roadmap, sourcing of the hardware and software for a product, determining... View Details
    Keywords: Consulting; Financial Services
    • 04 Jan 2024
    • News

    Great Heights

    focuses on helping mid-career women in the technology industry ascend to the next level. Photos by Michael Hanson When Kostova graduated from HBS, she believed that sexism was largely a relic of previous generations. But it didn’t take... View Details
    Keywords: Amy Crawford
    • 2020
    • Working Paper

    Digital Experimentation and Startup Performance: Evidence from A/B Testing

    By: Rembrand Koning, Sharique Hasan and Aaron Chatterji
    Recent work argues that experimentation is the appropriate framework for entrepreneurial strategy. We investigate this proposition by exploiting the time-varying adoption of A/B testing technology, which has drastically reduced the cost of experimentally testing... View Details
    Keywords: Experimentation; A/B Testing; Data-driven Decision-making; Entrepreneurship; Strategy; Business Startups; Information Technology; Performance
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    • September 1998 (Revised May 2002)
    • Case

    Cisco Systems, Inc.: Implementing ERP

    By: Robert D. Austin, Richard L. Nolan and Mark J. Cotteleer
    Reviews Cisco System's approach to implementing Oracle's Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software product. This case chronologically reviews the diverse, critical success factors and obstacles facing Cisco during its implementation. Cisco faced the need for... View Details
    Keywords: Information Technology; Applications and Software; Technology Adoption; Complexity; Information Management
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    • 30 Mar 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    The Future of IT Consulting

    The explosion of "computer-to-computer" communication in the twenty-first century is triggering a growth phase for IT consultants. Harvard Business School professor Richard Nolan and HBS Interactive Senior Vice President Larry Bennigson trace the evolution of... View Details
    Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Consulting
    • Web

    Shad Hall | About

    exercise studios. Shad Hall is also home to the offices for Operations and for Information Technology, as well as the Tennenbaum Technology Operations Center. The roof is “green”—topped with 64 cubic yards of a gravel-like medium allowing... View Details
    • 15 Jul 2020
    • News

    A COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk

    Keywords: COVID-19
    • 15 Oct 2019
    • News

    Bridging Business and Engineering

    in the new joint degree program. (photo by Susan Young) To build on the technology skills he acquired in the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), Erez Perelson (MS/MBA 2020) came to Boston to pursue an AB in engineering at Harvard College, but... View Details
    • January 2020 (Revised March 2020)
    • Case

    Huawei: A Global Tech Giant in the Crossfire of a Digital Cold War

    By: William C. Kirby, Billy Chan and John P. McHugh
    By 2020, Ren Zhengfei, CEO of Huawei, had transformed the small telephone switch manufacturer he founded in 1987 into a $120 billion telecommunications company poised to lead the lucrative rollout of fifth-generation (5G) cellular networks. However, an emerging... View Details
    Keywords: International Strategy; Government And Business; Digital Infrastructure; Political Risk; Information Technology; Infrastructure; Business and Government Relations; Government and Politics; Information Infrastructure; Technology Industry; China; United States
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    • 01 Dec 2019
    • News

    Developing Leaders Who Bridge Business and Engineering

    as Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Revenue and Special Advisor to Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker for technology and innovation competitiveness. Most recently, he was Secretary of the Massachusetts Office of View Details
    • Web

    Recognizing Our Donors - Alumni

    business in that transformation Digital Transformation Leadership Donors Helping HBS harness the latest technology to educate students, conduct real-world research, and provide lifelong learning to alumni Entrepreneurs Promise Signers... View Details
    • 28 Jul 2020
    • News

    Racism and Digital Design: How Online Platforms Can Thwart Racial Discrimination

    Keywords: discrimination; Hospitality
    • 15 Sep 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Looking For a Job? Some LinkedIn Connections Matter More Than Others

    or six years ahead of the job-seeker in a different industry. Where weak ties work best The researchers found that the usefulness of ties varied according to the specific situation. Weak ties are especially helpful, they say, in fast-moving industries such as View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • 27 Feb 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    The Hidden Cost of a Product Recall

    more important than previously thought, says Ariel D. Stern, an assistant professor of business administration at Harvard Business School, where she is the Hellman Faculty Fellow in the Technology and Operations Management Unit. “Product... View Details
    Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Manufacturing; Consumer Products; Auto; Medical Devices & Supplies
    • November 2022 (Revised March 2024)
    • Case

    Replika AI: Monetizing a Chatbot

    By: Julian De Freitas and Nicole Tempest Keller
    In early 2018, Eugenia Kuyda, co-founder and CEO of San Francisco-based chatbot Replika AI, was deciding how to monetize the app she had built. Launched in 2017, Replika was a consumer AI “companion app” developed by a team of AI software engineers originally based in... View Details
    Keywords: Mental Health; Subscriber Models; TAM; Monetization Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Product Marketing; AI and Machine Learning; Applications and Software; Product Positioning; Health Disorders; Technology Industry
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    • 13 Dec 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    The Color of Private Equity: Quantifying the Bias Black Investors Face

    Founders: An Entrepreneur’s Dilemma Fencing Off Silicon Valley: Cross-Border Venture Capital and Technology Spillovers Financial Distancing: How Venture Capital Follows the Economy Down and Curtails Innovation Feedback or ideas to share?... View Details
    Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds; Financial Services
    • Web

    For Alumni - Health Care

    technologies with significant market potential. For more information, please contact blavatnikfellowship@hbs.edu . Recruit As an HBS graduate, you know our students are equipped with the skills to tackle critical business challenges. If... View Details