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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
An SUV Built for African Roads—by African Workers
create a prototype of an off-road vehicle, recruiting local mechanics and welders in the coastal town of Kilifi. That laid the foundation for the company’s latest model, the Mobius II, a sleek SUV designed and made in Kenya, with rugged... View Details
Keywords: Amy Yee
- 12 Aug 2008
- Op-Ed
Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising
The Subcommittee: My name is Benjamin Edelman. I am an assistant professor at the Harvard Business School, where my research focuses on the design of electronic marketplaces, including designing online... View Details
- 12 Nov 2014
- Op-Ed
A Challenge to the New Congress: Pass Housing Finance Reform
conservatorship, experts from public, private, and academic worlds concurred: housing finance in the United States was mortally flawed. The private sector reaped the gains while the public sector absorbed the risk. In the aftermath of the Great Recession, we needed to... View Details
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
enterprises seem incapable of transformative innovation, it is due to how we design and manage them, rather than anything inherent in their scale. In fact, Creative Construction argues, if used properly, scale can be an asset, rather than... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Making Big Data Fashionable
get designs to consumers in as little as four weeks—and at an affordable price. In 2012, Moon—who has a background in fashion design, investment banking, corporate strategy, and social commerce startups—launched Trendalytics, a visual... View Details
- 17 Sep 2015
- Blog Post
Why We Recruit: Innosight
envisioning and building new platforms for business growth. Our focus on helping clients design and create the future means that you will learn and master skills that blend creativity and analytical rigor... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
- Web
3 Technologies that Will Change the World - Course Catalog
promising a new, unimaginable future where humans capabilities could be enhanced, aging could be reversed, new forms of life created, and new custom designed materials could be grown rather than manufactured. Companies like Verve... View Details
- 30 Jun 2017
- News
Rebuilding the Girl Scouts Brand
“A lot of people know of the Girl Scouts. They know the uniforms or the cookies. Those are great things, but they’re not a true representation of the Girl Scouts as an organization,” Pitter-Armand says. It’s brand relevance that the G.I.R.L. View Details
Keywords: April White
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
world's largest online platform for outsourced contracts, where India is the largest country in terms of contract volume. We use an ethnic name procedure to identify ethnic Indian users of oDesk in other countries around the world. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
Gil Addo
Gil Addo is CEO and Co-founder of RubiconMD, a wholly-owned subsidiary of CVS Health. RubiconMD’s digital health platform empowers primary care clinicians with access to virtual specialist support to improve patient care. Founded in... View Details
Keywords: Digital Health
- 18 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 18, 2007
of two software product platforms through the modeling lens of design structure matrices (DSMs) and design rule theory. Our analysis shows that DSM models and options theory... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Apr 2020
- News
To Build Connection in Quarantine, Clubs Go Virtual
organizations face in designing and implementing effective digital platforms that support a range of functions and stakeholders. “We talked about what it really means to transition to digital operations,”... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 26 Feb 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Airbnb Effect: Cheaper Rooms for Travelers, Less Revenue for Hotels
has grown rapidly at a time when plenty of other industry-disrupting platforms have flourished, including Uber, Craigslist, and Spotify. Airbnb offers listings in 191 countries, and its total number of listings—4 million-—is higher than... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Is AI OK?
use of AI in everything from facial recognition to predictive sentencing. She found it nonetheless. The online rental platform uses its pricing tool to increase host revenues by dynamically adjusting rental prices according to demand.... View Details
- 17 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Why Global Brands Work
distractions including Jaguar, Land Rover, and Volvo will be sold off; they're now meaningless. U.S.-based models like Mercury will be discontinued. Can Ford recover? The answer lies in whether the common vehicle platforms developed for... View Details
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Four Ways to Make The Most of Your Company Events - Recruiting
consider hosting a company event . The key to a successful event is the dialogue between students and recruiters. Company events provide the perfect platform for organizations to engage students in discussion around company values, job... View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
- Blog Post
Reflecting on 24 Years at Harvard
months when Mike Wheeler, who was a professor and mentor of mine at HBS, called to see if I wanted to teach Negotiations on a two-year appointment at HBS. I left McKinsey on a leave-of-absence, fully intending to go back, but the excitement of the classroom, the View Details
- 31 Mar 2022
- News
A Community Hunger Solution with Global Ambitions
community. “Every night, 365 nights a year, he’s out there,” says Neel Ghose (MBA 2019), cofounder of the Robin Hood Army. “For him, it’s his own baby. It’s a platform for goodness.” This platform for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Quantum Leap
thousands of years to compute. More important, the quantum revolution would give us the ability to solve a whole class of problems that digital computers could never touch. In the quest to help us get there, Aliro offers two tools, both in beta for now. The first,... View Details
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Foreword | Baker Library
Foreword Laura Linard Director, Special Collections September 2013 Building the Foundation was originally launched in 2013. The website was migrated to a new platform in 2025 with the guidance of Adam Jacobi and Jennifer Wilson. Baker... View Details