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01 Mar 2007
News

…and They Will Come

At HBS this spring, the world-renowned architect A. Eugene Kohn is teaching Design, Construction & Development Risk in Commercial Construction, an MBA elective. Kohn is the founder and chairman of Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF), a firm he has shaped into a world... View Details

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

30 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

New Paths to Success in Asia

explains. "It ties in with my ongoing research on the impact of information technology on industries, markets, and organizations." This interest has also brought Applegate to Singapore, where she... View Details

Keywords: by Alejandro Reyes & Deborah Blagg

01 Jun 2022
News

Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students

furthering the entrepreneurial passions of its students has led to the creation of some 25 courses, research that has informed 1,300 cases, and the growth of a wide range of resources that support innovators both inside and outside of the... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

March 2011 (Revised December 2012)
Case

Demand Media

By: John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld

Google search had helped Demand Media grow to be a $1.9 billion online publisher. Then, social media and smartphone apps began to change the way people navigated the Internet. How should Demand Media respond? The business ran on a radically new model in which a stable... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Information Publishing; Consumer Behavior; Customization and Personalization; Internet and the Web; Publishing Industry

May 2015 (Revised January 2017)
Case

Bharti Infratel: Unlocking Value in Mobile Infrastructure

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Prashant Salwan, Tanya Bijlani and Rachna Tahilyani

Bharti Infratel, a telecom tower company, provides shared telecom infrastructure to mobile operators in India. It is a spin off from Bharti Airtel, India's largest leading mobile services operator. Bharti Infratel partnered with its rivals, Vodafone and Idea Cellular,... View Details

Keywords: Collaboration; Strategic Alliances (Business); Mobile Phone Industry; Mergers and Acquisitions; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Telecommunications Industry; Asia; India

25 Feb 2010
News

E-mail Is Making You Stupid

Keywords: Professor Leslie Perlow; Manufacturing

01 Aug 2001
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

centered on developing more dynamic online resources, including an informative electronic newsletter and searchable, Web-based Class Notes embedded with e-mail hot links. Regarding delivery, the committee felt there should be more... View Details

Keywords: John Hoffman

01 Sep 2004
News

Clay Christensen (MBA 1979)

Clayton M. Christensen is the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration at HBS, where he holds a joint appointment in the Technology and Operations Management and General Management units. He is the author or coauthor of... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

Profile

Luc Sirois

Company in Montreal and Toronto on graduating in 1997, and then in 2002 cofounding Resonant Medical, a medical company that developed 3D ultrasound technology that finds and tracks cancer masses. “Our tool allowed for taking a picture... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Technology; Technology

April 2025
Article

An Anatomy of Crypto-Enabled Cybercrimes

By: Will Cong, Campbell Harvey, Daniel Rabetti and Zong-Yu Wu

The advent of cryptocurrencies and digital assets holds the promise of improving financial systems by offering cheap, quick, and secure transfer of value. However, it also opens up new payment channels for cybercrimes. Assembling a diverse set of public on- and... View Details

Keywords: Cryptocurrency; Crime and Corruption; Technology Adoption; Currency; Policy

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Innovations in Retail Operations: Thirty Years of Lessons from Production and Operations Management

By: Marshall Fisher and Ananth Raman

We review papers published in Production and Operations Management (POM) during its thirty-year history that deal with retail operations issues with an empirical approach. The papers span a range of issues, from traditional ones like forecasting and inventory... View Details

Keywords: RFID; Innovation and Invention; Technology Adoption; Operations; E-commerce; Strategy; Retail Industry

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Annual IT expenditures by industry

Annual reported IT expenditures by U.S. industry and by type of IT expenditure. Information and Communication Technology Survey: Annual survey compiled by the U.S. Census Bureau that breaks out IT spending... View Details

01 Oct 1998
News

Boston HBS Club Announces 1998-99 Program

The Harvard Business School Alumni Association of Boston sponsors approximately thirty events each year for Boston-area alumni and their guests. This year's offerings feature a new Internet Program Series to update HBS alumni on the business implications of the ongoing... View Details

01 Dec 2017
News

@Soldiers Field

Last month, health care executives and clinicians gathered to brainstorm strategies for navigating payment reform for providers, payers, and pharma. Speakers included HBS faculty Leemore Dafny and Robert Huckman, as well as Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Chief Medical... View Details

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Omowale Casselle

What does your work involve? "My official title is director of product management, SAMPLEit, a new venture at redbox. In this role, I'm responsible for leveraging technology across our different product lines—kiosk, mobile, and... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Technology

01 Jun 2013
News

Lesson Plans

Blended learning looks like the vehicle to do a lot of this, but we're thinking of it more as a student-centric system that allows for mastery-based learning. Undergirding that approach with technology is the most scalable way to do it... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 1999
News

Class of 1942 Chair Honors Paul Lawrence, Promotes Leadership

HBS professor Michael Tushman has been named the first incumbent of the Paul R. Lawrence MBA Class of 1942 Professorship of Business Administration. Tushman is internationally recognized for his work on the relations between technological... View Details

February 2002 (Revised April 2011)
Case

The Future of Hybrid Electric Vehicles

By: John T. Gourville, Alice Tzou and David Lane

Set in 2002, this case looks at the potential for hybrid electric vehicles in the United States. Looks at the pressures on the automotive industry to produce a commercially viable, environmentally friendly vehicle and the consumer behavior surrounding purchase of those... View Details

Keywords: Technological Innovation; Marketing Strategy; Consumer Behavior; Environmental Sustainability; Technology Adoption; Auto Industry; United States

March 2014 (Revised January 2015)
Case

Prodigy Network: Democratizing Real Estate Design and Financing

By: Karim R. Lakhani, Katja Hutter and Greta Friar

This case follows Rodrigo Nino, founder and CEO of commercial real estate development company Prodigy Network, as he develops an equity-based crowdfunding model for small investors to access commercial real estate in Colombia, then tries out the model in the U.S. U.S.... View Details