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- 12 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?
high-speed Internet access over a short distance of a few hundred feet. A portable computer or PDA equipped with a Wi-Fi card can tap into the hot spot and jump onto the Net for wireless surfing. Although the hot-spot phenomenon is big... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
Baker asked Christensen, whose courses were perennially oversubscribed and universally praised, to cochair a program that would help other HBS professors improve their case-method teaching capabilities. With roots at Harvard Law School,... View Details
- 24 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 24, 2007
compute pairwise coagglomeration measurements for U.S. manufacturing industries. Industry attributes are used to construct measures of the relevance of each of Marshall's three theories of industry agglomeration to each industry pair: (1)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
High Honors
companies, primarily in the computer and health-care realm. In the four decades since, Johnson has helped build the biotech industry and earned a reputation as a thoughtful investor, trusted adviser, and generous philanthropist. Among his... View Details
- 21 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Gender and Competition: What Companies Need to Know
Programs at Harvard Business School. She and Bohnet, a professor at the Harvard Kennedy School who serves as director of its Women and Public Policy Program, have extensively studied gender gaps and inequality in the workplace. Their... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 16 Jul 2013
- News
Embracing Chaos
Cummins, he helped establish India's first college of engineering for women, and at Microsoft, he helped create a computer literacy program that has trained 35 million children and nearly a million teachers... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Getting the Message
years and currently serves as faculty chair for the Managing Brand Meaning program in the Executive Education curriculum. He believes the future of Internet advertising depends on improvements in technology. "We won't really understand... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
HBS Releases 2003 Financial Report
2001. However, combined revenues for these two business units increased 2.6 percent from fiscal 2002 and represented 54 percent of total revenues. In addition, endowment income rose 6 percent to $53 million, and MBA Program revenues rose... View Details
- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
and reach new markets. In particular, the show is poised to expand to Africa, yet there are significant questions about how to tailor a program designed to capture the attention of a unique demographic within China to new cultural... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
Cash and the Woman-Owned Business
businesses are also becoming more accessible. Financing through government-sponsored lending programs such as the 7(a) General Business Loan Guaranty program, the Certified Development Company (504) loan program, and the Microloan View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Inside the Revolution
we can think of, on a floppy disk or CD. And by tapping on your computer keyboard and rearranging the order and number of these ones and zeroes, you can send an e-mail, write an English paper, or transmit a photograph.” Enriquez then... View Details
- 11 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 11, 2008
a program (PACT) in Boston to bring care to AIDS and TB patients who were not well served by existing care delivery systems. Describes PIH's programs in the developing world and the way in which lessons... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
A Conversation with Dean Clark
important initiatives. BULLETIN: There have been a number of obvious manifestations of progress on the technology initiative, including the shift to an Internet-based communications system at the School, the availability of full-motion video in electronic cases, and... View Details
- 08 Mar 2013
- News
The Accidental Innovator
at Wohl Capital, a hedge fund. At night, I’d call her, and using Yahoo! Doodle as a shared notepad, I’d tutor her in math via computer and telephone. Other cousins and their schoolmates soon wanted help, too. It was getting crazy.... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues
annual conference, organized by the HBS Women’s Student Association, attracted participants from 24 other schools as well. New to the program this year was the honoring of HBS alumnae for their work in technology, “special services,”... View Details
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan
consumers. Webvan was perhaps unrealistically imagined to be such a channel. The difference between Dell and Proctor & Gamble is that Dell can supply all your computing needs, but Proctor & Gamble can never aspire to supplying all... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
50 Years & Counting
they've been in the same field for a while." Crossroads is a program for company presidents/owners contemplating career or life changes. In family dynamics—which women weigh heavily in career decisions—the ripple effect of a business... View Details
- 09 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices
The widespread use of pricing algorithms is reshaping the nature of competition in online markets and potentially driving up the prices of retail goods, according to recent research. These automated, price-adjusting software programs may... View Details
- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
Trading Initiative's Base Code, Nike's code of conduct, and Fair Trade. We then describe several key elements of program evaluation that are becoming standard practice in other domains, which we believe should be incorporated in future... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
One-on-One with Grover Norquist
computer or a piece of equipment, it doesn’t depreciate it over a number of years. Year four, extend all tax cuts scheduled to expire in the next ten years. Isn’t getting the federal deficit under control more important than enacting more... View Details
Keywords: Government