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09 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Moving From Bean Counter to Game Changer

describe risk, encouraging a unified organizational view. “The risk management function was getting incorporated into more and more firm-wide debates that were really important for management.” The chief risk director also implemented new... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Banking

02 Oct 2017
What Do You Think?

Do Bitcoin and Digital Currency Have a Future?

in less than 30 seconds. "In one case, $35 million was raised in less than 30 seconds" The most highly developed of the digital currencies is Bitcoin, the product of an ingenious and secretive tech programmer who developed a... View Details

Keywords: by James L. Heskett; Financial Services

22 Feb 2024
News

GCC Crossroads Aims for a Bright Future; Seattle Alumni Talk Leadership in Tech; Italy Preps for European Alumni Summit

Clubs News Clubs News Crossroads Forum Explores Future of Gulf Region More than 1,300 public and private leaders convened in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on January 30 and 31 for the Crossroads GCC Future Impact Forum, co-hosted by the HBS Club of the Gulf Cooperation Council... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

20 Oct 2020
Blog Post

Exploring Technology and Public Impact Through the HBS/HKS Joint Degree Program

If the past two decades have demonstrated technology’s potential, one of the challenges of the next ten years will be defining its boundaries. How can new technologies benefit people and societies in equitable ways? How can companies --... View Details

20 Mar 2012
First Look

First Look: March 20

returns to entering the product market and their profit thresholds. Depending upon the magnitude of these differences, we propose alternative commercialization outcomes. This model helps to explain why user entrepreneurs are likely to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

2013
Working Paper

Visualizing and Measuring Enterprise Application Architecture: An Exploratory Telecom Case

By: Robert Lagerstrom, Carliss Y. Baldwin, Alan MacCormack and Stephan Aier

We test a method for visualizing and measuring enterprise application architectures. The method was designed and previously used to reveal the hidden internal architectural structure of software applications. The focus of this paper is to test if it can also uncover... View Details

Keywords: Communication Technology; Complexity; Applications and Software; Product Design; Telecommunications Industry

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27 Jan 2009
First Look

First Look: January 27, 2009

frontier technology and therefore do not need to attract foreign investment to innovate, so domestic saving does not matter for growth. A cross-country regression shows that lagged savings is positively associated with productivity growth... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Web

HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

expenses increased by $24 million, or 45 percent, from the prior year to $77 million. The largest drivers of the increase were the ramp up in investments by the School’s new digital transformation group; View Details

15 May 2017
Sharpening Your Skills

The Promises and Limitations of Big Data

services firms are using digital information about their customers to offer them a whole new range of customized products under the category of fintech. Cities are using data from Google Street View to guide... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Utilities; Public Administration; Health

01 May 2020
What Do You Think?

Does Remote Work Mix with Organizational Culture?

things’.” Those working remotely expressed their enthusiasm for it. To the extent it fosters loyalty, it may enhance a culture. Betsy Dickson commented on her move to a remote region this way: “ my employer allowed me to transition to work at home The freedom,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

18 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

How Disruptive Innovation Changes Education

theory of disruptive innovation, often applied to a variety of other industries, such as technology and health care. Christensen's theory was first explored in his two New York Times bestsellers, The Innovator's Dilemma (1997) and The... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

11 Feb 2008
Research & Ideas

Does Democracy Need a Marketing Manager?

not less. In their new book, Greater Good: How Good Marketing Makes for Better Democracy, the authors argue that the core benefits of marketing align closely with the requirements of democracy: exchange, consumption, choice, information,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

Web

Electricity - Business & Environment

clean electricity. This requires not only dramatically accelerating clean energy development and adopting new business models, but also reinventing deeply engrained business processes and culture.” Molly Middaugh HBS MBA 2018 View Details

Research Summary

Understanding Customers

In conventional business case studies, protagonists almost never have the option of stepping back to seek a new understanding of the customer. But to be effective in practice, managers need both the self-assurance and ability to initiate and pursue, with rigor and... View Details

08 Jul 2008
First Look

First Look: July 8, 2008

in two major product lines for a large enterprise software vendor to examine the use and success of pricing and product strategies. Regarding pricing, the paper demonstrates that the vendor engages in... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

31 Aug 2020
What Do You Think?

Why Don’t More Organizations Understand the Power of Diversity and Inclusion?

have an edge in their markets. These firms are “more innovative—stronger at anticipating shifts in consumer needs and consumption patterns that make new products and services possible, potentially generating... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

Web

CSV in Practice - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Shared Value in Products & Markets Novo Nordisk developed diabetes training programs for Chinese physicians in partnership with government, NGOs, and opinion leaders to disseminate the latest thinking on diabetes prevention, screening,... View Details

01 Jun 2023
News

Cultivating Prosperity in Afghanistan

find new ways to continue their commitment to service, but that when they started at the School, “we didn’t know how we were going to do that.” Nurturing Breakthrough Ideas READ MORE STORIES Nurturing Breakthrough Ideas READ MORE STORIES... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Jun 2022
News

A Sustainable Solution for Fashion

launching and running their business,” Bussgang says. “I would bet their customers—major retailers who are counting on Syrup’s platform for mission-critical business processes—would be surprised to learn that James and Ferdinand were... View Details

Keywords: April White

28 Jun 2022
Book

The Moral Enterprise: How Two Companies Profit with Purpose

How can government and business work together in this fractious political moment, when finding solutions to pressing problems like inequality and climate change are more urgent than ever? Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University’s John and Natty McArthur University... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

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