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05 Dec 2016
News

The Dragon’s Tale

forces that will shape China’s economy during the next 20 years? The tension between state-owned and private enterprises is a concern, as is the need for continuous innovation, creativity, and entrepreneurship under a system of government... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

12 Sep 2024
Blog Post

Amager Bakke: I Like This Waste Incinerator in My Backyard!

of power that is relatively low cost, predictable, and sustainable. The exhaust stream also includes carbon dioxide, and Amager Bakke began piloting a carbon capture system in 2021. The current system can... View Details

01 Mar 2023
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The Latest Model

was booming: The price of bitcoin had surged to nearly $20,000; governments were beginning to recognize the cryptocurrency as legal tender; and industries from fintech to pharma were launching blockchain-related projects. (Though best known as the distributed digital... View Details

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

01 Apr 2008
News

“Let Us Now Praise Famous Women”

computer storing the data was not on campus. Doris at the dot-matrix printer, with a Decmate at the right Doris came to Alumni Records in 1979 after two years with the HBS Fund. That was the year HBS records were computerized using the VAX View Details

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

01 Dec 2017
News

Pencils Up: Taking Note of New Courses

students will work on-site with a nonprofit or government client in Boston, New York, or Washington, DC, to analyze a problem and develop recommendations based on behavioral decision research and economics—the idea that we can build behavioral “nudges” into the View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

14 Dec 1999
Research & Ideas

From Spare Change to Real Change: The Social Sector as a Beta Site for Business Innovation

community center. Such projects are good for team building and may augment limited community budgets, even build new relationships, but they don't change the education system or strengthen economic prospects for community residents. In... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

01 Dec 2009
News

Hope for Reform Dims

for claw-backs when investments go sour, and give executives significant equity stakes in their companies. “Two firms with compensation plans like I just described, Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, both failed. So having the right compensation View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

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A-Z List of Tools | Information Technology

Simulations D Dropbox Duo (two-step verification) E EMS/Room Reservation System Endnote G Generative AI Tools at HBS H HarvardKey HBS Poll HUBS (Harvard University Budgeting System) HUIT ServiceNow Hybrid Launch Tool I Ivanti Secure... View Details

16 May 2017
First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16

Tobin’s Q. Collectively, the evidence suggest that current efforts to increase transparency around organizations’ impact on society are effective at improving disclosure quantity and quality as well as corporate value. Effects of an Information Sharing View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

Hernand Behn

In 1920, the Behn brothers, Hernand and Sosthenes, organized International Telephone and Telegraph. They worked jointly with AT&T to lay the telephone cables from Key West, Florida, to Havana, Cuba. As president during the 1920s, Hernand grew the company’s assets... View Details

Keywords: Communications

01 Jun 2008
News

Faculty Books

looks at the emergence of capitalism and democracy as systems of economic and political governance and considers how they may be both mutually supportive and antagonistic. Chapters on the theory and history of these View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Management

24 Apr 2014
News

Revamping the corporate tax code could improve America’s competitiveness and living standards

investments that could raise American productivity and living standards. “A handful of changes would transform the corporate tax system from an obstacle to an asset,” says Desai. He advises creating better incentives for global... View Details

01 Jun 2016
News

Research Brief: The High Cost of Election Expectations

polling stations. For example, the biometric identification systems designed to prevent voter fraud were not working at all polling stations, and systems designed to publicly report real-time results crashed... View Details

Keywords: Erin Peterson

04 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

Start to Measure Your E-commerce Success

arise. Since the choices are different for each company, because the strategies, structures, and systems are different, substantial customization is necessary. Senior managers should consider six initial questions that can lead to the... View Details

Keywords: by Marc J. Epstein

08 Feb 2011
First Look

First Look: Feb. 8

Risk Management: Advanced Disaster Recovery, edited by Simon Woodward. Zürich, Switzerland: Swiss Re Centre for Global Dialogue, 2010 Abstract The world has seen a number of recent events in which major systems came to a standstill, not... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Technical How-To’s & Notes - Research Computing Services

Help Help Technical How-To’s & Notes 15ms Archiving Your Research Files on the HBSGrid Change your Unix command prompt Changing permissions on the HBSGrid Monitoring CPU usage of your jobs on the HBSGrid HBSGrid Project directory space notifications Saving plots and... View Details

24 Apr 2014
News

Student turns family health crisis into online solution

When Shana Hoffman (MBA 2014) and her family tried to navigate the world of health care in the US to help Hoffman’s father with his medical issues, the electrical systems engineer looked at the problem from a distinct perspective. “No... View Details

01 Jun 2016
News

Ears to the Ground

division. When Ralph Clark (MBA 1993) took over as CEO of ShotSpotter in 2010, he inherited a groundbreaking technology and a broken business model. The company uses sensors, strategically placed throughout an urban area, to instantly locate a gunshot and alert... View Details

Keywords: Jason Feifer; photography by Vance Jacobs

16 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?

appropriate. That's one pole of the continuum. At the other pole, you have people who really believe there's something extremely wrong with the barrel. Thus it's not just a matter of a few bad apples; what we really need is a wholesale revamping of the View Details

Keywords: by Kim B. Clark

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IT Strategy: The Future of the Web at HBS | Information Technology

IT Strategy: The Future of the Web at HBS Strategic Initiative: 3.09 Web Content Management System (CMS) Program By Annie Harrison on April 9, 2024 Share via Facebook Share via LinkedIn Print Share via email The Opportunity The project... View Details

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